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About time! I ordered mine from the Outpost back in May (when they were still in stock at GW) and they haven't received any stock yet. Fingers crossed they get some this time around..

Necromunda Apocrypha – Fight Off (or Command) a Tide of Mutants Boiling From Beneath the Underhive

Well it ain't Scavvies, but it's a start...

Now THAT is a serious Apocrypha!

The mutations take it to a whole new level!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well it ain't Scavvies, but it's a start...

I'm just worried it's a stop, too.

Got the email that the Core Rulebook was back in stock (US webstore).

Finally got it on order!

Necromunda? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

 nels1031 wrote:
Got the email that the Core Rulebook was back in stock (US webstore).

Oooooo! Thanks for the heads up.

Annnd,
The core rulebook is out of stock again (in the US store anyway).

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Necromunda? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Yes, a bit worrisome. For a few years we've had constant, not regular, but constant releases. Other than the surprise rule book, what was the last model announced and delivered? The surprise rule book might not been a surprise after the release of Van Saar and Delaque ash wastes 'upgrades'. So what's happening? Did the one guy working on Necromunda get promoted to janitor? Has GW realized that making a game hard to buy doesn't do wonders for making money? Or is hope indeed the first towards disappointment.

Most likely the delays and release of the new Epic has the specialist team devoted to that and Necromunda has the short straw right now. I hope that once Epic is out and in the wild we'll then see them have release slots and return to Neromunda and see some new vehicles for other factions and hopefully expand the vehicle side more so.

It will probably never happen but I would love to see conversion kits and crew for the GSC Ridgerunners and Jackal Bikes. Even if it s just generic.

zombie_sky_diver wrote:
It will probably never happen but I would love to see conversion kits and crew for the GSC Ridgerunners and Jackal Bikes. Even if it s just generic.

That would be fantastic. I am always psyched for anything they release for Necromunda as a plastic kit.

 Overread wrote:
Most likely the delays and release of the new Epic has the specialist team devoted to that and Necromunda has the short straw right now. I hope that once Epic is out and in the wild we'll then see them have release slots and return to Neromunda and see some new vehicles for other factions and hopefully expand the vehicle side more so.

The rumour I've heard is that they only had one person actively creating new resin designs for the game and he quit a few months ago. Apparently he still has a few sculpts unreleased, but that's it. Not sure how that would impact plastics.

Eh, GW ain't no Valve. If they want to fill a release spot with a Necro resin miniature, they'll find someone to design it.

Yeah. I can believe that perhaps the lead person on the project might have moved on; but GW has a massive talent pool and many sculptors who would work for them and a a huge amount of internal concept art and material.

If they lose a designer but want a game to keep going they 100% can find someone to replace them.

The big risk is internal politics killing things where someone was running it as a pet project and then moved on which results in no one fighting for the game to get production slots and resources which leads to slow or sudden death.

That's the big risk in my view - that internal politics kills it or internal processes. The one after that is lack of effective sales; which I'd argue was much more of a risk during the Kirby days when everything had to make maximum profit. GW today seems to be a bit more sane in realising that there's value in things that don't make "space marine return on investments" levels of profits. So as long as Necro was selling well they should be able to keep making more.

I could be completely wrong but "selling well" could be the problem. I wonder if Ash Wastes didn't do so good. You can find that box set for as low as $160. However, I have no idea.

Overall, I think GW is just behind. They have a new 40K edition that just hit and now a big new game release of Epic... that has also been delayed... around the corner. The newest Necromunda book shows they're clearly having a hard time producing enough for new releases l let alone restock. Same goes for the Enforcer bots that went direct only and sold out instantly.

Plastic Arachni-rigs Bound Across the Ash Wastes in the Aranthian Succession: Ruins of Jardlan

Oh wow, those plastic rigs look much better than the awkward resin one. I could actually find a use for these.

This looks like a very good release.
Is the Bird and keeper plastic too or Forge World?

 manic _miner wrote:
This looks like a very good release.
Is the Bird and keeper plastic too or Forge World?

Almost guaranteed resin, or they would have shown it in the video with the book, suits, and bundle box

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 manic _miner wrote:
This looks like a very good release.
Is the Bird and keeper plastic too or Forge World?

Almost guaranteed resin, or they would have shown it in the video with the book, suits, and bundle box

Or she was originally intended to be revealed on her own.

Yessir I like it!

Hey they remembered Necromunda exists. I was wondering if we'd ever get that third book.

But this third book confirms a fourth, unless they're just going to ignore the not-Delaques.

The terrain box is... tempting.

Also, note that these are a variant of the standard Arachnirig.

That's awesome! Just when we thought it was forgotten.

Yeah, I am gonna need those mech suits for sure. And I am really enjoying this campaign, so I am all in for a 4th book. I hope we eventually get a plastic Aranthus kit.

Speak of the devil...

Nice rig, albeit I really wish everyone got normal vehicles that people can embark and disembark from.

Lady and the birb are pretty wicked.

Terrain box... even with the bundle discount might not be a reasonable purchase given the absolute bonkers base price of those pieces. But I suppose they did make Fronteris affordable at some point after a bonkers initial price, so here's hoping.

do actually quite like the Ash Wastes terrain, generic enough to be usable in other Sci-Fi stuff too, quite easy to build and I was surprised by just how large the stuff is

the terrain is great, but these dreadnoughts are not what I want to see in necromunda....