Return to Kosaczev.. Necromunda 2017 Downtown Dust up

Whole band of civilians used, despite stray shots rules only singular civilian was gunned down this game.

 I am having a lot of fun painting Hangers on and strange personas for Necromunda. Over the years I've built quite some of them and featured them heavily on this blog. Recently I got my few Forge world resin ones. As I've added 5 more since January this year  I decided its time to use them at the dawn of the new edition (or dusk of 2017). We played the Downtown Dust up  a scenario I've been eying for a some time. It comes from older Main Rulebook - First Hard cover one that replaced original 2017 box rulebook and was removed from current (for another two weeks as we speak) hardcover and following softcover rulebooks. As we speak Necromunda 2017 have 3 hardcover and 3 softcover rulebooks despite having virtually same rules in them, just updated with new material like vehicles and specific campaign material. What is unique in Downtown Dust up - its singular scenario using NPC civilian miniatures as scenario element and not extra arbitrator tools. And I wanted to play it for some time as I love scenarios with neutral creatures from Frostgrave/Stargrave styled games. There are rules to how civilians will react to violence around them, they can either decide to ignore it as kind of norm in the Hive, they can break in fear and run for cover or they can produce their gun and shot closest model in the back (which happened quite often and they smoked few holes in the Eschers and The Cawdors).
Fantastic scenario.


 I've made only few photos of the actual game itself as I had somewhat unfinished Escher gang and fought against undercoated Cawdors but I took some photos of the civilians themselves in group and in natural habitat.

Oldest civilian Ive made (Goliath worker girl made from OG plastic Goliath around 2005 with spud jacker replacing her inferior worktool in 2017) and a FW Relicmonger Ive painted in 2026

Unpainted Bonanza, I spare you black Cawdors.

Singular Cawdor seen :)

Peaceful Kosaczev, Underhive hub of commerce.

WIP of local soup kitchen (I have to made some terrain extras for it)
And a Local legitimate gun dealer, pillar of community.

Whole happy group. I love those models. My problem is I want to paint them and not my Eschers. I hope I will get the second wind thanks to new models and some actual gaming with them. I built6 new Eschers after this game.. now to paint them will be more gruelling work :D

Gellerpox Mutants

 Long overdue finished rest of the Gellerpox Infected (big guys and some gribbles left. I hope to finish whole group soon as they were gathering dust in semi colored state since I got them in 2018...

With kiddies from previous post

And some in action shots with models lying around

Lars Croft ambushed

Van Saars cleanup operation

Restart 24 some Munda

 Lets put some photos here for 2024 reactivation attempt.

I've finished some Van Saar models lately

More photos in next post but here is leader as a teaser. I am quite happy how he ended.

And some Gellerpox finished long time ago but photographed to motivate me to finish some more

Squid just want to Squidgame you!

Grimdarkish terrain

 I like to get Kill team boxes when I can. As they are quite expensive I am buying those boxes that I want to play with both warbands. Mix of small warbands (my favorite project type lately) and great multi purpose terrain is a perfect mix. and if you want all of the contenta thanks to terrain value ts not that prohibitive. I've finished my Kill team: Moroch box terrain ahead of the miniatures. Funnily I am yet to finish any Kill Team warband out of the box (I am closest with beautiful Ork Kommando team from second edition Opening set Ostarius. So here are my Moroch pieces which consist of Imperial bunker, landing pad, radar station, radio antena (hardly visible) and walls, plus some random pipes (GW pipes fit most of their sci fi terrain) to spice things up and look more natural (I love my terrain to look like it has a purpose - not standing randomly)

First batch is with (almost) finished Ork Kommandos I have with various stages of WIP but those two are almost ready to be called finished.

The terrain itself is very fun and easy to paint project. Easy to paint paint, not many skull ornaments so very universal and easy to put together. ANd most importantly sturdy. Highly recommend if you can pay the price.

Second batch is really first photo shot of my Kill team type cultists - but those guys are really from Blackstone Fortress (that explain the bases). Only some of them are usable in Kill Team as a basic lasgun cultist plus grenadier, sergeant and Commisar.. Ive build all specialist types but they are still grey plastic. 13 more plus beastmen. Only Ogre is almost finished. They will return when I finaly will finish him.

Yay - Comm tower in the background.!

I really like this terrain pieces- Will show you Bunker next time - That will be  frontier outpost in my games of any sci fi  type. SO far they served as a base of Necromunda gaming.

Lamp lighter Kaas - Look out hanger on

I finally finished my last year built of Kaas the lamp lighter. protagonist of Necromunda novel Junktion. Grim and down to earth character whose day job was maintaining lightning system around underhive shanty town of Juntion and roads leading to it. hard job for hardy people. I started to built him in January  IIRC. Soon rules for hangers on were released so he will not by just random citizen with lamp but playable character. Gang look out give bonus to gangs in scenarios using sentries - surely due to good lighting of the premises watched over..
I love idea of those Hangers on. They are not normally deployed during the games but could be cached loitering around when gang home turf is attacked. GW haven't released models for any hangers on yet (but some were previewed) but IMHO its much more interesting to built your own. Additionality to being hanger on he will be member of my Hive dwellers usable in some scenarios when Gangs fight inside of settlement.

 

 He started life as Perry plastic XV century mercenary, but equipped with Victrix Napoleonic backpack, lamp (using his original pike :) ) and portable ladder Ive built from plasticard he is ready to light the lamps in the underhive.

IIRC head is from Frostgrave cultist sprue.

And whole bunch of Hive dwellers I built (some of them still WIP - they take me a loong time :)

Left to right: Old pro - pit slave emeritus (originally member of my trade caravan), pair of Goliath workers off duty (I built them ages ago to test what can I do with old Necromunda plastics), water seller servitor, Kaas and some poor fella that fought the law but the law won (originally slave from the same trader caravan that old pro came) I need mor of them..
40k civilians are really useful for any narrative scenario but hard to come by.

Beton update 1

Ive finished very simple (crude would be right word) conversion of Goliaths Heavy Stubber for my gang)

I have not planned to built him before Boltgun guys and some CC but Ive rolled insanely good Old pro help from House favors and was presented with free champion witch 150 creds of Equipment.. Oh joy and curse.
I wanted to use this model as i love the looks of the nail gun its just soo suxy it would be not only waste of points but also uselessness would make me sad.. so I invented this Idea and this was born.

It would work better with stubber barrel probably but this crude orc barrel fits Goliaths aesthetic quite Ok.

I think
it will work nicely

Beton again (at 1600 gang rating after first full Turf War)

Beton
Surprisingly hard to photograph decently..
We no girly models, we are ruthlezz killerz :)

Beton in last setup, before Juve Źelbet temporarily left to reduce rating for newTurf war

Pan Beton - Leader
I want Mad Max Joe with him - and that makes him really hard to photograph in a good light, but I like that bastard. He scored Wounds advance last game (or will scre before next game because NeoMunda works strangely with it)
his job is to stand and Overseer but when he charged last game he crushed Escher sentry and Leader and then some of the Tech piece to be sabotages but finished with 4 flesh wounds due to drugs overdose.. technically he is responsible for around 70% of a game against gang 900 rating higher

Champions

From the left Azbest - he did nothing so far, Middle Kafar- new addition after ultra lucky double sixroll on the hous support table - Champion with 8 xp and 150 creds in equipment - was a huge boost to the rating but is yet to do anything meaningful (he was shooting 3 times at pointblank enemy champion and missed atwice and got chopped.. And on the right Pustak - my best ganger on the field (he accumulated 20 Xp - 15 of are for killing and damaging at sabotage) Real killer.

Kafar started as this cool miniature but I swiched to nail gun guy I will add barrel and pretend its nail stubber (until I will paint that badass bastard)

4 gangers (well 3 gangers and a specialist Two middle guys scored advances after some lucly kills, left one is specialist, sm,oker will be +1 T before next game)

And their entry in LPL

Necromunda 2017 looks to be a great year for GW

After 20 years GW decided to go full Necromunda..
Shadow War Armageddon was great game despite being splash sale product to fund terrain tooling :)
But Whole new Necromunda Edition with new miniatures ? Hell yess..

While models themselves seam to be painted and photographed to a lover standard than GW used to do.. I love them

Starter set will have Escher and Goliath gangs.. Escher are my first gang and all time favorite.. I hated Goliath - mostly because of silly over muscling and bad models in original starter set bot later learned to appreciate their campiness..  Those Eschers fits nice style vise with Jess Goodwin masterpieces but Goliath are much more brutish and serious than Glam bodybuilders wasteland nomads of the 80 ties - of the past. I like them very much and they will fund myriad of uses in Inquisimunda.

And promo flyer as extra bonus

Game itself will be based on 8 edition but with full stat line.
That means simplified close combat. Unnecessary IMHO.
One thing they mention that is interesting is Model based activation.
IGOUGO is worst element of Necromunda - unattractive in skirmish gaming. Vague info about activation roll and Leader making activating easier (either influencing the roll or allowing multiple activation Frostgrave style) is not enough to decide if it will make game better or worse.. But activation is one thing I am experimenting with houserules (lately with card activation).

Time will show.

Anyway.. If the game itself will be unfunny.. We will play my beloved Necromunda. Either Original first or Community. But the miniatures will make wonders for Necromunda renaissance!