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I'm thinking either this fine young "lady"

Or whatever valuables may rest within these arcane, strangely marked treasure chests will work for me

There is absolutely nothing that could go wrong with trying to infiltrate and extract these things... nothing at all...

The Data Stack kit does have a couple potential gotchas in the assembly if you're not following the directions closely, but it's a nice little kit once built. I also magnetized the data cores to their cradles so the whole thing will be less fiddly during play, super easy to do and makes a big difference.

Dysartes wrote:Do you think the separate data stack set is worthwhile, Jadenim?

They’re a neat extra thing to populate a ZM map and they do come with a couple of extra stacks that you can use…somewhere. Not great value, but I like them.

Prometheum5 wrote:The Data Stack kit does have a couple potential gotchas in the assembly if you're not following the directions closely, but it's a nice little kit once built. I also magnetized the data cores to their cradles so the whole thing will be less fiddly during play, super easy to do and makes a big difference.

I was debating about this. Might see how stable they are after undercoating.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/08/11/sunday-preview-don-your-hunting-rig-and-enter-hive-secundus/

Wow, did not take long at all for those models to be released separately. No upgrade sprue for the Malstrain GSCs tho?

Honestly I'm tempted to build 1 40 squad of those genestealer mutants. Depending on the price they end up at.

 GaroRobe wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/08/11/sunday-preview-don-your-hunting-rig-and-enter-hive-secundus/

Wow, did not take long at all for those models to be released separately. No upgrade sprue for the Malstrain GSCs tho?

The heads for the Brood scum are on the sprue. You have to buy the Hive scum or any other models you want for them separately.

The Genestealers are great, no denying there. The rest of the new line is fairly forgettable so far.

Tek-hunters would not look out of place in Infinity. I really like them.

Notable - potentially these are all going to go OOP? Could just be someone hitting the wrong button on the website, obviously.

https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/necromunda-van-saar-ash-wastes-upgrades-2023

I quite like the Tek Hunters, but it seems to me the Necromunda range for Van Saars (and presumably whomever else gets new models out of this) is starting to get large and varied enough to work for platoon level indie games. Delaque's lack of a bespoke vehicle is a bit of a bummer in this regard, and I wonder if in this cycle one or more of the six houses will not receive a new kit.

Longstrider wrote:
I quite like the Tek Hunters, but it seems to me the Necromunda range for Van Saars (and presumably whomever else gets new models out of this) is starting to get large and varied enough to work for platoon level indie games. Delaque's lack of a bespoke vehicle is a bit of a bummer in this regard, and I wonder if in this cycle one or more of the six houses will not receive a new kit.

Cawdor cant even afford shoes, much less bespoke adventuring equipment I would say

twoseventwo wrote:
Notable - potentially these are all going to go OOP? Could just be someone hitting the wrong button on the website, obviously.

https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/necromunda-van-saar-ash-wastes-upgrades-2023

Could be that they didn't hit their target numbers and aren't worth restocking. If I was culling the Necromunda range, the Forgeworld Ash Wastes sets would be pretty high on the list.

When it comes to FW resin models right now its a wild west.

Some stuff seem to get culled almost at random.

I kind of get a feeling that they've got X number of machines and production slots but more demand than they've slots and not enough investment/space to add more. 40K has lost a bunch of models recently too and some of them had nothing wrong with them at all or were reasonably recent.

Isn't that usually the sign that a mold needs to replaced at a TBD point in the future or such?

Additionally, have you seen anyone actually use the Van Saar set? The heads are nice but the backpacks look terrible on the figures.

Those heads are basically what you get in the new Tek Hunters set. If the backpacks are t selling, Definately makes enable to cull them.

It's not terribly surprising if these didn't really sell, agreed. It's not like anything in there has rules and a collector's mentality towards Necromunda heads is probably a minority mindset. (Which I have, but anyway...)

I do hope that they'd tell us if something with actual rules was going OOP, though.

Now would be a good time to re-introduce ratskins. They hated Van Saar and saw it as their sacred task to hoard and hide away Archeotech. As natrual survivors, they should be waiting down there with their crossbows and ghost dancing.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/08/14/sow-terror-in-the-underhive-with-a-fully-tooled-up-spyrer-hunting-party/

They actually sound kind of interesting! One of my long standing grumps with Spyrer Gangs was the fact they just didn’t really take part in the post-game sequence.

Here, it’s sounding like they have their own version, including suit glitches which could force one or more into retirement.

Terror Level also seems to encourage aggressive play to start ramping it up, which I’m in favour of.

I was gonna get the book anyway, because of course I was. But now I’m pretty enthused for it,

I really hope the typo in the Power Boost table is only on the graphic for this article - "...providing greater +15 credits protection to the Spyrer."

It could be like the old Spyrers, where as well as buying bodies, you could spend Credits at recruitment to give them advances.

I'll note that the same graphic on the article has a second column relating to costs, Doc.

If its in the book, then it would be stupid, but at least it is so egregious a typo that there is no argument about what it might mean or if it impacts the actual rules

It’s the same as when a ganger’s value goes up as they gain skills/stat boosts. Each +1 save is another 15 creds to add to the total gang value.

Combined with the Terror Point total allowing you to recruit a new team member for max 30o or 400 points? I think I can happily extrapolate you will be able to purchase upgrades at the point of recruitment.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s the same as when a ganger’s value goes up as they gain skills/stat boosts. Each +1 save is another 15 creds to add to the total gang value.

Just to be clear what I'm referring to:

The "+15 credits" in the middle of a sentence for Thickened Armour is what I hope isn't in the actual book.

Ohhhh!

Yeah. That’s a typo and a half!

It's annoying but at least it doesn't affect functionality, I remember we had a statline that had just an uppercase I instead of a number one time.

 Flinty wrote:
If its in the book, then it would be stupid, but at least it is so egregious a typo that there is no argument about what it might mean or if it impacts the actual rules

Some rules lawyer: "Challenge Accepted!"

Better keep some petty cash on hand so that you can top up the armour when you take a hit!