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Just curious as time is not going to be something in abundance for me, how long on average does it take to setup, play, and tear down a Necromunda game?

Thanks in advance!

SG

Boardgame or Gang Wars?
The scenery for the 3d game took a good 30 minutes to set up for a game we had, but that was with ladders and scatter terrain.
Using GW scenery and large items, less time to set up. Also, being GW plastic, it'd be easier to pack away, than the home-made buildings and such we used.

The game was around 2 hours for 1000 points, but we were looking up a lot of the rules.

2 hours is about right. They are scenarios with less models which are A lot quicker.

It depends on the expertise of the players, scenario and the number of gangers in recovery. Minimum one hour for a 2D game.

It used to depend on the leadership of your leader and how fast you need to take bottle tests

2D games are quick easy to set up and take down. Gangs start closer together, and the action is fast and furious. Two hours at the most for 1000pt. games. As little as an hour if both players are familiar with the rules.

I've had games run much faster than that, if one or both sides only have a few fighters.

With Sector Mechanicus games, I tend to leave the table set up and choose different starting points if I'm going to be playing more than one game at a time.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
I've had games run much faster than that, if one or both sides only have a few fighters.

With Sector Mechanicus games, I tend to leave the table set up and choose different starting points if I'm going to be playing more than one game at a time.

We had a couple of 2d games end in 30 mins, due to bottle rolls.

We can't leave stuff out for later games Church halls have a thing against taking up space used by kiddies groups. Stuff gets broken if left out.

Same here, but our club session is 4 hours. If the game ends in an hour, then why would we not have another game? We usually swap ends, move some walkways and scatter terrain around.

Again, for a well-developed game with a lot of accessories and on-going support, Necro can be fast playing. So far, the added material in the Gang War supplements, and other additions, like new tiles with new rules, has not added bloat, or appreciably added to play time. Instead, it's a drip-drip approach to fleshing out the game to its original proportions (plus the entirely new 2D Zone Mortalis setting). Granted, the pace and extra cost of this design and marketing approach is NOT popular with everyone.

If you don't have a rules compilation, I would imagine it could take some time finding the right pages in the different books. Also weapon stats change between books and are even different in the same book...

I play with a friend and we mostly do sector mechanicus and we did a weekend of games, we got about 7 games in from a Friday evening to midday on Sunday.

We set the table up and just moved the terrain around between games, we have a couple of gangs each (Orlock, Van Saar, Genestealer cult and chaos) so there was some variety.

The most fun games where between Orlocks and GS as they are both the most successful gangs so far and had about 10+ per side and they where straight up gang fights. They both lasted over 2 hours as we where taking our time and not rushing. Some of the missions where very fast and done in under and hour, due to smaller gang sizes so turns happened a lot faster. A four man Van Saar team ambushed 8 or 9 GS cult and that went 7+ turns before GS cult bottled out, that game was under an hour and played very fast indeed.

We mainly found that what sped up game times was the familiarity with the rules for example what the weapon traits did or if someone wanted to jump a gap, the stuff that isn't in every game or just once a game that needs looking up.

I played my first game a couple weeks ago, but spent a lot of time looking in the book. It took over an hour, but less than two. I didn't really bother keeping track of time, but I know it didn't go past 2 hours. But we intentionally tried to simplify things by using the most basic scenario and dropping from 6 gangers per side to 4, and using the less intricate weapons.

I had a lot of fun playing it, my Escher failed their bottle roll but it was a good first time playing.

It should be mentioned that if one has any familiarity with 40K (any version) or Warhammer Fantasy, the Necro's hit/wound/save combat system is second nature. And, even easier than before. So are most fighter's stats, and most weapons stats and traits.

I just played my first "proper terrain" game and it took about two hours. Really satisfying though - I was very pleased with the level of deadliness overall and the balance between range and melee, as well as the amount that maneuver really mattered.

Our league games usually take an hour. Though terrain is always set up by the Arbitrator ahead of time, our club has four Necro tables so there is plenty of variety on Necro nights. Last months apotheosis culminated in a 10v10 game with no bottle allowed and 19 models out of action and the last one standing down to 1T. That game went about 2.5 hours but was obviously hard fought and not the norm.

Next turf war starts up on the 18th...

 dracpanzer wrote:
Though terrain is always set up by the Arbitrator ahead of time,

Hail to the Arbitrator! Long live the Arbitrator!