necromunda

[Vampifan]

I suspect that a number of their games will invariably be limited runs in reality. Kill Team is OOP for example. And that was one I was tempted to pick up.

Not tempted to buy a not-Necromunda Necromunda game however. Really disapointed if this is what they meant by their intention to release Necromunda.

The rules were good but it's more than the rules, it was the fact that you were gaming in a part of the 40k universe that wasn't dominated by space marines etc and felt that bit darker, one step removed, the very edges of humanity beneath all of that tech, scrabbling in the dirt trying to eek out some sort of living whilst fending off rivals. All whilst trying to climb the hive ladder to safety and wealth.

Glad I still have the old rules and enough gangs to keep me happy.

These are my feelings exactly. Well said, McFonz.

[Mr Papafakis]

Yeah, I'm with you Mcfonz

Don't see the need to endlessly update games. Once I've found a setting and/or rule system that suits me then that's it. If there's anything in particular in either setting and/or rules that I don't like then I'll change it.....simple.

[Deckard009]

I hear about this game from the sold out news 

The only thing I hear in the first comments was that GW plans to sell the rules book as PDF or ebook, but hadnt hear anymore about that point.

would be interesting to get a chance to buy the rules. 

[rwwin]

Not tempted to buy a not-Necromunda Necromunda game however. Really disapointed if this is what they meant by their intention to release Necromunda.

To be fair I think the association for Necromunda has been by nostalgic fans not GW.  All the press I've seen was pretty clear this was a 40K skirmish game.

Either way, I hope there's a way to pick up the rules stand alone in the future.  I'm interested but am not going to pay $130 for rules, some terrain and tired old scout and ork models.  (Which I'm pretty sure I've got already).  I haven't played a game of 40k in almost a decade but I probably still have enough old models boxed up to field a half dozen skirmish armies.  There's definitely an appeal to being able to dust off old models and give them some new life.

[Wachaza]

The rules are apparently more or less the last version of Necromunda. The limited runs on games are just to protect them from massive print runs not selling out and leaving piles of excess stock. Gorkamorka's massive multilanguage production runs nearly finished them off as a going concern. I bought about five copies at £5 each when they liquidated them. Since then they've been very careful to underproduce big box games to make sure they sell them all. Someone clearly underestimated demand on this.

They'll release the rules as an ebook and sell the 40k killteams and terrain normally. The game is Shadow War Armageddon. Hopefully we'll see Forgeworld do Shadow War Necromunda with some new Necromunda figs and gang rules.

[audrey]

Well I look at Shadow War as a gateway game. If you like Shadow War, you'll love Necromunda. Local players are talking about running a SW campaign and after that ends switching to a Necromunda campaign.

-A

[Andrew May]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that necromunda was going to be a FW redux like BB (which apparently got dropped on them by the studio).

[mcfonz]

To be fair I think the association for Necromunda has been by nostalgic fans not GW.  All the press I've seen was pretty clear this was a 40K skirmish game.

Nope. When GW announced they would be revisiting the old specialist games Necromunda was one of the specific names along with Blood Bowl and others.

[rwwin]

Ah,

Don't follow GW that closely any more so all I saw was what's been announced since the game was revealed and didn't see any references to Necromunda or the old gangs.

[Elbows]

I'd imagine a load of actual old school Necromunda players will also be jumping on it simply for terrain...win-win.

Also, GW kinda threw chum in the water when they announced the product and openly stated the rules were "basically Necromunda".  That set a ton of people off on rants/expectations, etc.

[The_Beast]

Well it sold. 
It sold out, in 3 minutes in North America. 

I'm going to try to get a copy from my FLGS on Saturday. 

The GW rep told our manager it was seven minutes, but that fast, and it's hard to be sure.

We ordered a dozen, and will get two. We have a heck of a lot more folk who put down their interest in our order book. I am suggesting a drawing.

I'll be surprised if your FLGS will have any on Sat, but best of luck. We tend to get shut out of a lot of stuff. 

Doug

[Dr Mathias]

I scored a copy from the GW site, I have no idea how. I was at my kid's soccer game, hauled ass to the computer the second I got into the house, and even frittered away some time moving some other terrain into and out of the cart before I checked out. St. Celestine must have been smiling down upon me

[The_Beast]

Well, have to admit it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Which is, well, too bad, because I'd LIKE to be able to hold a proper grudge. 

Doug

[eilif]

Count me in as one more person who is going to try and find the shadow war rules apart from the game.  I'd love to do some skirmishing (inquisumunda anyone?) with my old 40k figs, and it appears that all the lists you need are  all in one book or online for free..  I refuse to get back into the big rulebook and multiple codex malarky.

Is there any solid info on whether this is the necro they've been talking about or if that is to come?  I remember the initial info that necro would be coming, but I don't think I've heard anything since then.

I still play Necro from time to time with the "Necromunda Community Edition" (NCE) from yaktribe. There are some dated mechanics, but it's still a great game that plays reasonably quickly.

For those that are interested, here's the link to the Shadowars free force downloads from GW covering a number of races.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/04/01/shadow-war-armageddon-pre-order-and-downloads/

They look exactly like Necromunda statlines and info. I may just give a couple of these lists a go with the NCE rules.

[Major_Gilbear]

Just to note that GW will apparently be selling the SWA rules digitally at the very least.
They may decide to do a printed run given the apparent popularity, but they've not announced as much (yet).