The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[mcfonz]

Cool.

As things stand all of the freebie gangs need updating to fit with the campaign system they have gone with in the main book. We had been playing turf war. Now it's Dominion. Dominion seems closer to the old campaign system so I'm not fussed, but I need to work out if you can just keep repeating steps in it to run the campaign for as long as you like. Obviously, as things stand you have to treat them as one of the house gangs for boons.

I'm currently working it so that the venator player in our campaign earns creds still as their rules dictate but they have been hired by otherwise occupied powers from uphive who just want to see as much of the sector under the control of their purse as possible. So their main play is to take territories to deny other gangs their boons.

As for Ratskins - I hope they are just as cool as the used to be. I used to love having a ratskin scout as a hired gun. I now have a load of the old ratskins waiting to get unleashed again.

[AWu]

Heve you seen Ash waste nomans concepts ?

Blurry but very cool looking.

Ratskins were climatic and very powerful (immunity to treacherous conditions was major thing) but line suffered from being re purposed from musket wielding historical Indians.

I would like to see some models for one of my all time favorites Pit Slaves

[3 fingers]

Heve you seen Ash waste nomans concepts ?

Blurry but very cool looking.

Ratskins were climatic and very powerful (immunity to treacherous conditions was major thing) but line suffered from being re purposed from musket wielding historical Indians.

I would like to see some models for one of my all time favorites Pit Slaves

Yes I never got the Native American vibe ,when it could been fur clad techno barbarians for example.

[mcfonz]

Not sure they were repurposed, it was their fluff, although it had maybe gone a bit far. They were supposed to be tribal, I'm guessing a bit like some of the Mad Max / 2000ad characters etc.

[AWu]

Yeah but srsly wooden muskets from XVIII century is just poor design choice if they were thought like that. Low tech underhive scrap muskets would be much better thing.. some of the sculpts could be used in historical gaming of French Indian war (with goblin green basing convention of the time you wouldnt notice them being from the future at all..)
IMHO if they were made from scratch they would have some sort of orky styled crude tech like in Gorka morka few years later.

[3 fingers]

I wonder if the Cawdor weaponry would be better idea ?

[AWu]

Anything not seen in the movie The Last of the Mohicans...

 

[FionaWhite]

Living in miniature chaos helps 

That's still nice and orderly. Now if you could see my table... 

[AWu]

Bear in mind you are not seeing my work table just miniatures swarming around my table (i used to fast comparison

Working space starts right of the plastic lid

[mcfonz]

Well you have to remember those at the bottom of the hive are very much those that time has forgotten. They were an outlanders gang, so outlaws. They didn't have the access to steady supply streams from up hive houses. They had autoguns, lasguns, shotguns etc as well. It was mainly the juves that had the lesser weapons.

I quite like that they were improvised. Much in the same way as scavvies who had the speargun along with blunderbusses and other less reliable weapons.

It was all about flavour.

[Westfalia Chris]

Heve you seen Ash waste nomans concepts ?

Blurry but very cool looking.

Ratskins were climatic and very powerful (immunity to treacherous conditions was major thing) but line suffered from being re purposed from musket wielding historical Indians.

I would like to see some models for one of my all time favorites Pit Slaves

Are we thinking of the same range? I admit they had a bit of an Indian vibe but were stylistically very much in line with the other Necromunda stuff, and I don't recall a single musket-armed one.

[mcfonz]

These?

[Westfalia Chris]

Right until proven wrong! 

Still, I'd say the theme is more "savages with guns" than "underhive Amerindians".

[RAD]

Here comes a ratskin scout:


https://artelw.com/#w--ul-id-570-2/Wildling-Scout/p/130615661/category=0--w

[mcfonz]

They were also originally dogskins weren't they?



For me it's very easy to see Mad Max/2000AD influences in there. From the wastes, fur pelts being their groups recognised 'thing'.

I think the Perry's took it to the more 1st nation look and house painters took it further. But if you painted them with regular clothes and pelts and more mixtures of ethnicities I think you could see something more different. I recently had a go at painting my shaman to be like Depp in the Lone Ranger though . . .