God I loved this game. When this expansion came out with the new gangs and terrain, my tiny teenager brain exploded with possibilities. Me any my mates had all night session playing this game. Good times!
Ratskins played a major role in the novel "Kal Jerico; Sinner's Bounty" that came out in 2019 so they are still around in the fluff. I wouldn't be surprised if they got a Newcromunda version at some point. Probably with a bit of a reimagening but that wouldn't be unique to them. Cawdor went from "dudes in hoods" to "human candelabras" and Van Saar changed from "beards and boilersuits" into full on cyberpunk (probably tech-heresy if you ask me). Anyway, I'm sticking with retromunda minis. Coincidentally I just started painting a ratskin gang. They've been sneaking around the back of the painting table for a while so I thought it was time to get them done.
Yeah. Agreed. I think we'll get Ratskins, but they won't be as obviously Native American inspired - maybe more of an archaeotech-nomad look or something.
Sweet to hear you still have them. At the moment I only have an old redemptionist and a squat miner gang. I haven't read the Kal Jerico novel yet. I do remember the Ratskins from the Redeemer graphic novels. Ratskins, Redemptionists, Scavvies and Squat Miner gangs are my favourite retromunda gangs
@@ArbitorIan i do hope the ratskins come back in some form. agree that the "native americans but in spaaaace" thing was at least very clumsily done if not outright racist (intentionally or not), but the concept of an entire society living apart from "civilised" hive existence, that is habituated to all the weird underhive flora and fauna and maybe with a technopaganic reverence to forgotten machines, is cool. ofc, they'd need to reintroduce underhive flora and fauna, too (i've seen some new creatures that can be recruited as "pets" for different gangs, and there are _some_ rules for environmental hazards… but they need to bring back rubber moss, brain leaves, and wire weed!
Man O War yes please! This game was far and away the most popular amongst my friends and gaming group. Was simple and appealed to everyone, easy to assemble a fleet and didn't need to amass (and paint!) a huge army of models like with Warhammer and 40K.
yeah when I finally started reading Judge Dredd comics from the 1970's and 1980's it dawned me how much the "look and feel" of the WH40K universe's less glamourous parts (e. g. Necromunda) is lifted from there
So many pop culture sci-fi tropes and ideas went into 40k. As the years went by newer players didn't pick up on them the same. It's funny how zealot GW are about IP when most of their stuff is ripped right out other franchises. Dune was a big influence on 40k
Back in the day, Outlanders seemed like a bit of a 'drink from the fire hose' in expanding the world of Necromunda. I don't recall my gaming group using anything but the new gangs back then. I would like to include elements from it if I can convince a few friends to join in a classic Necro' campaign. I've picked up a copy of the hardbound rulebook that contained both the original setting and rulebook and Outlanders in one.
Excellent series, especially as someone who grew up with GW, but never got into this particular game. Would love to see similar treatments for other specialist games like mordheim, blood bowl, battle fleet gothic, man o war, etc!
Our group started out in 2nd edition 40K, but mainly painting and collecting, rarely playing, but hit our stride with Necromunda. We went in deep and played for years solidly. My first Van Saar gang is still running, but punctuated by multiple Spyrer hunts. One mate played Ratskins, another Redemptionists. My brother in law went full cheese with the outlaw rules, hitting a Guilder caravan and intentionally killed everyone, getting his Escher permanently outlawed, where they went from strength to strength. A huge rich gang, the first to retire well north of four and a half thousand points gang rating. Still love to play when we get the chance.
I'm deeply annoyed at myself that somehow I left my Necromunda box at a friends house & all I have left from it is one whippy stick. For some reason we mostly played it at his, & carting the big box from my house to his was annoying & then at some point we just stopped & I never went to get it back & then we all grew up & it got forgotten about until today. Wonderful video series, absolutely overflowing with memories from watching the 3 videos on Necromunda.
I played in a Necromunda league at my LGS when I was a teenager. Outlanders had JUST come out before the league started. I played a Scavvies gang and it ended up being myself and a Spyre player in the finals. Since we weren't going to need our credits going forward I blew all mine on zombies for the final fight. I think I fielded like 60 zombies? Luckily I played undead in WH Fantasy, so it wasn't an issue finding minis. Anyways, he almost won because all his Spyres had ridiculous saves and it took me wailing on his gang every round with 10s of zombies to break through their armor. Probably the best time I had wargaming as a kid.
It would be super cool to actually watch you take a gang through a full campaign from this edition. Easily my favorite Necromunda. Excellent episodes, keep it up!
I just found your channel through the UA-cam algorithm, and binged all your videos. I don't know much about warhammer and your videos have been super informative! I can't wait for you to post more, keep up the good work.
Really enjoying this series. I played Necromunda extensively when it originally came out, missed the 2nd edition, but got engaged with the 2017 release and have been going at it off and on for the last few years. Keep the videos coming!
Our campaign had a very cagey Scavvie player that was a terror to play against; they generally got to select the scenario so we'd have the dubious honor/job of being guards in the "escort the Guilder" mission. He'd recruit/toss bait and recruit plague zombies while using the rest of his gang (minimally equipped gangers and scalies with heavy weapons) and usually overrun the defenders; it wasn't clear in the rules but our organizer ruled that if the opposing gang bottled, the winning gang held the field, so could get models off the board to kill guiders and recover loot. One of his scalies named Toto had a 7000 credit bounty, since every time you killed a Guilder your bounty doubled. OP/broken would be a good way to describe that gang. Spyers were a popular choice (we had several teams in our campaign) but they lost the majority of their games (no big deal) and we had a several of them killed in a span of a couple weeks; combination of clever deployment and setting counter ambushes and unlucky die rolls dropped them. One team had a pretty scary Yeld that could run, shoot it's lasers (S4 with 2 sustained fire dice) and hide. I had a Ratskin gang and ignoring hive quakes and other trecherous conditions was fun, except there were a couple that didn't benefit the Ratskins, "Long Shadows" being a main culprit. I captured a ganger and we took his stuff (the Rescue Mission says the victim is stripped of equipment except for cybernetics, so thanks for the chainsword and bolter), so that went to Fire in His Eyes (a ganger with BS6) but lead to some disagreements because bolt guns weren't on the ratskin equipement list (but were on the outlaw trade table as a basic weapon) so it was OK'd. Best was a brave that was 'chosen' to have the Icrotic (sp?) slime smeared on him, giving him all sorts of bonuses; with just a pair of axes he carved up four opposing gangers in hand to hand (which was really tricky to do in that edition) before their leader set him on fire with a hotshot round from a shotgun. He spent the rest of the game running around while on fire and fell off a couple gantries but with the immune to pinning and increased toughness he laughed at it and ended up getting enough skill points to become a full-fledged ganger and earned his blindsnake pouch (because I only bought the pouches for gangers, not juves). Also had a Brakar figure but someone stole it after a game. Better days/times, that's for sure.
I used to play so much Necromunda in my teen years 2008-2010. I think we had like 10 players. GW had released the rules for free on their website and plastic kits were relatively cheap so most players converted their gangs from them. One guy played scavvies, another played redemptionists and those had problems, since their lists were released but not the other rules from this book, so we had to improvise. Thankfully I found all 3 books for 2€, so we finally could see how it's supposed to go.
Absolutely loving this channel dude! If you had a Patreon I'd be supporting you : D Please do Man O'War next, that'd be awesome. p.s. I think your link to the theme tune isn't working on the later videos !
Ratskin gangs were a powerhouse for a simple reason : they would get a +1 on their scounging rolls ( where every ganger rolls a die to scounge, needing 3 creds to feed themselves) . Because of this, the more guys you had in your gang, the more money you would make... which would allow you to get more juves, who made you more money, etc etc. In our campaign my ratskin gang eventually became the fattest in terms of gang rating and bodycount, getting close to 30 guys towards the end.
I had mine go to 15, because that's all I had the models for :D We had a couple oddball things like a brave that would roll doubles on an advance and (of course) I'd pick a techno skill; some you couldn't get because they were restricted to heavies or gangers but I rolled up a weapon reload. So you're thinking "ok, you crafted ammo, that's nice". Nope, my brave somehow played with some broken stuff and managed to make a reload for a lascannon. At half the cost of the weapon with no reduction (since you just made it, not considered loot counters or income) that was a nice 200 credit boon. He also make a one in a million boltgun that was given to my BS6 ganger. I forgot how the breakdowns worked as far as income, IIRC there was some sort of diminishing returns but our campaign only ran a few months then we'd play 40k or fantasy before doing another Necromunda campaign.
Whilst I love these old school history gane vids... I They also remind me that when I was a wee teenage lad playing these games,most of my gaming group were just being conceived.... 🤣 awesome stuff man. Hope you keep up. Quite frankly you've been quite the refreshing change I've been looking for. 🤘🤘🤘
I have so many memories with the "outlaw/deputy" mechanic... had a series of games against the same gang ran by a friend and eventually we had a bit of a rivalry going and eventually he decided to report me to the watchmen. I rolled... deputize. And in turn I reported his gang... HE ended up Outlaw. That affected his gang so much he had to disband after 3 more games - after that my gaming group agreed to not use the "reporting" rules
Yeah, some of the rules are fun for laughs but if it causes someone to drop out of the game and you lose a player over it, then your ruling makes sense. We had a guy running Redempiionsts that ambush my Goliaths and ended up killing half my gang, including my leader and a heavy; just bad luck on the recovery chart but the guy's M.O. was always selecting Ambush if he was able (he was a dick and got justifiable hate from most of the other players). The organizer told me to restart my gang and I said f-ck it, I'll keep running them until I get wiped. So with two gangers and two juves I building them back up after ten or so games by using uncharistic Goliath street smarts by choosing Hit and Run, Raid and Scavergers...because the scenario table usually favored the player with the lower gang rating. I eventually built my gang back up to a dozen and those four survivors became absolute beasts; a running hipshooting heavy with a flamer and a juve turned champion with a boltgun, BS6 with fast shot and a slew of other skills (but still only LD 7, he was still kinda skittish).
I loved this expansion. The biggest ratskin advantage was always requesting to play with the hazardous conditions. Both players could choose to play without them, but theg were used if even one wanted to, they were used.. Ratskins were immune, and this often was a HUGE advantage. Loving this series!
No way bro, it was the availability of those blind Snake Pouches that made them a real pain in the ass. They could run through all your over-watch cross fires in a Caravan raid and bag a Guilder before you could score any pins.
@@ericmoveon No doubt, pouches were great! The threat of them often changed the way the opponent played, which sometimes was better than the 4+ roll reality. The hazards sometimes were nothing, but some great memorable games when no one could be on the ground / pitch black/ falling dome and the like - with ratskins running around without a worry!
@@orangejosiah One of the two shortest games our group had was a hive quake that took five opposing gangers out of action and they failed their bottle roll (the second was my former friends Delaque heavy shoot a frag missile and it scattered on a group with the opposing leader and a few gangers, forcing a bottle test and failing). I can't recall the hazardous conditions but IIRC a couple didn't give a boost to the Ratskins, Long Shadows being the main culprit.
The Ratskins were my second gang (after Delaque). I liked their position as underdogs, using less advanced weaponry, and I guess it showed my increasing attraction to the extremes, as my third gang were the Spyrers - I really loved Necromunda. We followed the recommendation that was in White Dwarf, or the rulebook, somewhere to write an underhive newsletter about the events of our games - mysterious shootouts, raids and counter-raids, desperate rescue missions.
Could you do another timeline video on the recent big changes in Lore, like Robot Jellyman waking up etc. I love dipping back into the 40k universe now and again, but haven't found a concise summary of the new lore!
Yep, my Goliaths were on the receiving end of an Ambush and bottled without firing a shot. They were so hated in our campaign that other players would put bounties on them; I offered 10 credits for each one killed. Was kinda funny when we were working out the paperwork post-game and he'd lose one and a few other players would say "ok, 10 from me" so we'd get 30-40 credits from other players...the look on the player's face and the organizer chuckling was priceless.
@@cjanquart Oh, outlanders were often outright banned. Funnily enough my experience with the redemption prove to me that flame weapons were the most powerful effects in the game. So in the last league we had i played Cawdor gang all gang members had a flaming pistol and I won the 3 games I played by such a lrge margin that each time i got to stole a territory. Flaming weapons were mentals.
I honestly found my introduction to Spyrers to be Gordon Rennie's survival horror piece "Rite of Passage" in Status:Deadzone" it made them out as absolutely terrifying. His book execution hour i also really enjoyed, and had some cool arbites characters in it if it interests you.
The Ratskins could definitely have been handled in a more respectful and engaging way, yes. Though I think they might have a place in modern 40K/Necromunda. I could see a Ratskin as an alternative protagonist for the Hired Gun game, a renegade out to get revenge on the upper-level invaders who slaughtered their people. Forgoing the flashy guns and equipment for a stealthy approach, centered on silent weapons, parkour, and setting traps or exploiting environmental hazards.
I've got (most of, I think) a Man O' War starter set that I picked up years ago at a car boot sale, though the box got crushed in a move... I enjoyed it though! I never really got into Necromunda, beyond Kal Jericho and The Redeemer, but this series is making me consider picking up the new box...
The only thing GW has ever released where one of the designers said afterwards to take a pair of scissors to one of the cards it was that much of a bad idea in retrospect.
@@stryke-jn3kv wait, which card? i'm guessing it was something horribly broken (like the hydra sword in whfb… each attack is actually d6 attacks! and this was back when "frenzy" _doubled_ a model's attack stat, too. chaos lords of khorne throwing 10d6 attacks every combat round, WOOF)
@@soupalex Virus Bomb, it could wipe out a significant portion of an ork or imperial guard army before turn 1 even started. It was theoretically possible to be entirely wiped out before you even got to play if you rolled really badly. It was very, very silly.
@@ArbitorIan Sweet,, thank you! Sadly I only have Gang War #4 (ordered recently, awaiting delivery), it does have some gems like the Sonic Cleanser, Rock Drill or ChainJack. Do you have Gang War #1? It should contain the stats and rules for the Pit Slave version of the Rock Drill. Where (most) of the other weapons have one or more segments of lore along with rules and a small stat chart,, #4 only offers it's listing among special weapons for 55 points, and this bit of lore: This is a two handed version of the Pit Slave weapon, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other weapons except for pistols. Fortunately for Miners, this type of Rock Drill is not surgically attached. Use the weapon's profile listed in the Pit Slave Weapon section for this weapon. Weirdly the shovel got enough love to make a Kriegsman blush. It would cost no points, and came with some extra lines of text explaining additional rules: The Miner's shovel can also be useful as a weapon. It also must be used with two hands. However a Miner, trained in the 'Art of Shovel', is able to parry attacks, as if wielding a sword. The shovel is not a good weapon however, so a Miner attacks at -1 strength.
You could have taken an hour on Outlanders and it wouldn't have been long enough. Just that bestiary and all the possibilities it opened up could have gone for 15 min. Eldar Scouts, Chaos Marines, Orks, Brood Brothers, Beastmen, Deamons; It opened the possibilities for a system built around the lowest common denominator troops (grounded in contemporary light infantry tactics) into the whole galaxy of 40K.
It also made sense once you thought about the "what the hell would an ork, eldar scout or chaos space marine be doing on Necromunda?" Funny bit was we had a battle where a beastman attempted to jump into hand to hand with one of my goliaths but botched the inititiave check and was summarily scragged.
Its often hilarious when marines try to face off against gangs in Necromunda. The hubris they suffer always leads them into perilous situations. Its like they forget that a melta-gun or flamer can ruin your day no matter who you are. I've seen a heavy stubber wipe out three marines in as many turns. And there is always a chance that piling on in hand to hand will be worth it. Realistically a leader armed with two swords has a good chance against a marine toe to toe. All things considered when I played marines against a gang, used cover liberally, and used conservative tactics to counter being outnumbered, the marines were incredibly difficult to dislodge. This once again proves that Necromunda is a game built on tabletop tactics and dynamic terrain. All the criticism comes from immature weebs that aren't interested in tactical simulation and will criticize balanced rules whenever their poor judgement leads them to lose. 40K has done a great job of distilling down the type of player who can't handle a clear loss and has made rule that leave you with an ambiguous mediocrity of mutual slaughter every game. You play an army list in 40K, not a table top tactical game.
This series is really interesting. I never got to play Necromunda back in the days, but I did play Mordheim, and it's fun to hear about all the little things that set Necromunda apart (and honestly, I now wish my group would have gone with Necromunda rather than Mordheim)
Very nice undeed. I came to the 40k fun a bit too late for this edition of Necromunda, so it's awesome to visit it through the eyes of a fan and a real afficionado, thanks for that! However, do you, perchance, have any plans to do a similar series on Battlefleet Gothic, perhaps? To me, BFG is probably what Necromunda was for you, the brilliant vision of facets beyond regular 40k battlefields where the incredible world-building was inextricably baked into fun rules designs. Would be great to hear your take on that retrospective!
Just found the channel, mentioned my boi Pred'tor Parker the Malcadon, and along comes this vid! Is it the Emprah's blessing, or some Chaotic coincidence? The psyker's mind boggles...
Necromunda is the best, I sincerely hope that you talk about the commuities love for the game being so strong that we created our own version of the rulebook that became the standard for so many years, that being NCE.
Recently found your videos. Among the lore / info providers your level of quality, clarity, depth, and coordinated script is top notch. I look forward to your content. Do you have other social media or plans to do polls for video suggestions?
Thanks! I'm on twitter as a general hobby bod, and I'm slowly posting years of model photos to Instagram (both links in the description)! I've got a shortlist im working through at the moment, but totally up for polls when I start thinning it out!
i noticed that too! went back and checked my hardback reprint of the biiiig book (rules + sourcebook + outlanders… think i picked it up at a games day in the 00s, shortly before 'munda got the aesthetic refresh from fanatic/specialist games). the misprint is still there lol
I've been looking at Corpse Grinders from new line as khorne bezerkers/cultists in addtion to running them in Necromunda I just realized I must have ordered those wings back when GW sold bits online and I stuck them a CSM raptor champion
I never really knew much about this part of Retromunda, so it's cool learning about it. Seems like they just folded the Redemptionists into Cawdor wholesale for Numunda. Hearing about the plague zombies in Scavvy gangs makes me hope that Poxwalkers get added in. The guy who got me into Warhammer always used to talk about Retromunda, and I'd thought the Ratskins were a despised Ratling gang. Did Venators absorb some of the lore for the old Spyrers? The Purge scenario sounds really awesome, and looks like it would be a great opportunity to use my extensive collection of 40K models in another game.
Hey Ian, I love your videos and especially this Necromunda series. It's one the most fun games I ever played, second only to Risk ;) Is there a chance you will continue the series? I can't wait to hear what you have to say about 2nd edition and Newcromunda. Cheers!
I've just started collecting the older models got a squad of the old hand on hips goliaths, 2 metal esher leaders with different weapons and a esher ganger
I remember there was a big push on Necromunda at my local GW when I was growing up, I ended up buying a Spyre Hunter gang and wrote up a list for them... and then promptly never played a game as I was worried that they'd end up taking some terrible injuries and not be effective. Suffice to say, I didn't really get the game at the time.
Spyers were a difficult gang to run; I enjoyed playing them but I had much more fun and success with my Ratskins or Goliaths. In our campaign they just died like dogs, mainly because most people in our group hated one of the players that ran them and we were gunning for him but mostly because they whiffed post-battle recovery rolls.
Ian, what is your professional background? (If it's not too personal) Its very unusual for such a new UA-camr to have such great production values and scripting right off the bat.
Thanks! And no worries - a few people have asked the same thing! I make theatre and live events. Specifically, I design the bits of live events that involve animation, LED walls, projection mapping or any other sort of visuals. So while I only started doing THIS a few months ago, I've been using Adobe Suite for editing/composting for years, and my job involves working with performers, scripts, and occasionally giving lectures. All stuff that's useful for this sort of thing. There have been some new learning curves though - getting the tone right for a UA-cam video, grading for skintone, mics and audio editing are all new to me! 😂
A gamer and a techie! I feel like I’ve known you my whole life already. Necromunda is my absolute all time favourite miniatures game and has been since its original release. These videos are fantastic. Thanks for all your work in putting the channel out there.
Granted the old theme of Ratskins is shaded by early 90's mentalities, I contend that GW could/can/will re-introduce them as a proud and fierce faction of the underhive. I'd love for the sculptors of the Shadeshire Godsworn Hunt to have a go at the models.
" _Spyre Hunting, or, "what I did during my gap year"…_ " (By the way, a suggestion for the future: if you do video-in-video again, like you did in the Laserburn aside in this video, maybe mute the embedded video..? I know it's only a few seconds long, but it's kind of confusing to have you talking over Snipe and Wib..! :)
Yeah. They're just too boring. When everything in 40k is turned up to 75, you need the Judge Dredd-ian super fascist cops that were the Arbites. It's just sad that they were never really a playable, working gang (meant as an arbitrator component in 1st and kind of weird and only semi-playable in 2nd).
@@ScooterinAB Come to think of it, a few of the gangs in the current edition look like they could have been swapped in from any other sci-fi skirmish game. Delaque, for instance.
@@jamesgordley5000 God, how I hate the new Delaque models. They nailed just about every other game, to the point that even Orlocks are cool. But then they went and ruined the best gang ever and make them boring and generic looking.
Our organizer allowed a player to field them but they were incredibly unbalanced with the rules at the time, especially the "we get special equipment for certain missions because we can" rule, so the guy would have stummers or silencers most of the time. Funny thing was he got a few of his guys captured and while those players played out the Rescue Mission, I just opted for something more characterful and Goliath-y; strip him of everything, put a sock over his man-bits, paint a happy face on his buttocks and "Pansy" on his chest and send him back uphive. The player said I couldn't keep the equipment but the organizer ruled that once I failed an ammo roll, the Executioner rounds were gone, but I really like the silenced bolt pistol more.
Is it bad I see nothing wrong with Ratskins being based on native Americans. These games always have armies/gangs based on archetypes, it is a fantasy setting after all and not real life
The gameplay is model/unit activation, the advancement and equipment is faction-specific, so it's completely different. There's parts I like and don't like but the don't like parts are mainly because I played a ton of the older game and accustomed to the old rules.
I have still got my spyres they were a clearly an idea springing from the predator movie, I never bothered the ratskins no real reason why just they didn't do anything for me I had the two best ratskin miniatures "whistling Pete" and "old Tom" I used the redemtionists as chaos cultists but my favourite gang by far was the scavies which I never used the actual models I used skaven giant human rats would fit in perfectly in necromunda I thought there were some with flamers but I did away with the slaves carrying the barrels and just used them as shotguns the there were the jezzails which I used as auto guns I added various pistols and I used skaven slaves as zombies and rat ogres as scalie stand ins, the only mission they would play is hunting for food anyone captured would be eaten ( I have some pictures on my 40k video if you care to look)...cheers now
Even more terrifiying was when Scavvies got to a certain size it was more cost-effective to simply hire a new scavvie and throw him in the pot. I can't recall but I think there was an FAQ that captured gangers could only feed a certain number of your gang. Even worse was being the attacker in the loot the guiders mission and if you got models off the board and killed a guilder, you made a ton of credits (was easy for our scavvie players to do once they were able to recruit 3D6 or more zombies).
Did you use to do radio or VO work? Ian has such a natural finesse with words and delivery. This channel's production quality is so far beyond its current sub count.
7:37 We haven'T seen the Ratskins in these days, cause nobody has balls anymore! What made GW Big was their dark and gritty balls! and now they do some waterdown stuff....buuuut....well! Spyre hunters....omg!
God I loved this game. When this expansion came out with the new gangs and terrain, my tiny teenager brain exploded with possibilities. Me any my mates had all night session playing this game. Good times!
My response exactly
I've just started a task - collecting EVERY Man O War fleet!
Great channel! Not just lore but history of the games is so great! Thank you for sharing your interests with us and hope you are doing good!
I love your retrospectives Ian! Thank you for making them, I imagine it’s a lot of effort. Wish I was around for the launch of these things.
Thanks! I wish I'd had disposable income for the launch of these things but alas, I was about 14 at the time!
Ratskins played a major role in the novel "Kal Jerico; Sinner's Bounty" that came out in 2019 so they are still around in the fluff. I wouldn't be surprised if they got a Newcromunda version at some point. Probably with a bit of a reimagening but that wouldn't be unique to them. Cawdor went from "dudes in hoods" to "human candelabras" and Van Saar changed from "beards and boilersuits" into full on cyberpunk (probably tech-heresy if you ask me).
Anyway, I'm sticking with retromunda minis. Coincidentally I just started painting a ratskin gang. They've been sneaking around the back of the painting table for a while so I thought it was time to get them done.
Yeah. Agreed. I think we'll get Ratskins, but they won't be as obviously Native American inspired - maybe more of an archaeotech-nomad look or something.
Sweet to hear you still have them. At the moment I only have an old redemptionist and a squat miner gang. I haven't read the Kal Jerico novel yet. I do remember the Ratskins from the Redeemer graphic novels. Ratskins, Redemptionists, Scavvies and Squat Miner gangs are my favourite retromunda gangs
@@ArbitorIan i do hope the ratskins come back in some form. agree that the "native americans but in spaaaace" thing was at least very clumsily done if not outright racist (intentionally or not), but the concept of an entire society living apart from "civilised" hive existence, that is habituated to all the weird underhive flora and fauna and maybe with a technopaganic reverence to forgotten machines, is cool.
ofc, they'd need to reintroduce underhive flora and fauna, too (i've seen some new creatures that can be recruited as "pets" for different gangs, and there are _some_ rules for environmental hazards… but they need to bring back rubber moss, brain leaves, and wire weed!
I hope they bring back Ratskins and keep it Native AMerican influence. Culturally based armies are may favorite
Man O War yes please! This game was far and away the most popular amongst my friends and gaming group. Was simple and appealed to everyone, easy to assemble a fleet and didn't need to amass (and paint!) a huge army of models like with Warhammer and 40K.
I am just sayin'.... When I see a notification that there is a new video of Ian, I become so freaking excited.
Some mega Judge Dredd vibes with this and the whole Wasteland outside Mega City One. Which isn't surprising how influential 2000 AD and GW is.
yeah when I finally started reading Judge Dredd comics from the 1970's and 1980's it dawned me how much the "look and feel" of the WH40K universe's less glamourous parts (e. g. Necromunda) is lifted from there
So many pop culture sci-fi tropes and ideas went into 40k. As the years went by newer players didn't pick up on them the same. It's funny how zealot GW are about IP when most of their stuff is ripped right out other franchises. Dune was a big influence on 40k
YES! A Man O War video please, that game was amazing.
Back in the day, Outlanders seemed like a bit of a 'drink from the fire hose' in expanding the world of Necromunda. I don't recall my gaming group using anything but the new gangs back then. I would like to include elements from it if I can convince a few friends to join in a classic Necro' campaign. I've picked up a copy of the hardbound rulebook that contained both the original setting and rulebook and Outlanders in one.
Excellent series, especially as someone who grew up with GW, but never got into this particular game. Would love to see similar treatments for other specialist games like mordheim, blood bowl, battle fleet gothic, man o war, etc!
Our group started out in 2nd edition 40K, but mainly painting and collecting, rarely playing, but hit our stride with Necromunda. We went in deep and played for years solidly. My first Van Saar gang is still running, but punctuated by multiple Spyrer hunts. One mate played Ratskins, another Redemptionists. My brother in law went full cheese with the outlaw rules, hitting a Guilder caravan and intentionally killed everyone, getting his Escher permanently outlawed, where they went from strength to strength. A huge rich gang, the first to retire well north of four and a half thousand points gang rating. Still love to play when we get the chance.
I'm deeply annoyed at myself that somehow I left my Necromunda box at a friends house & all I have left from it is one whippy stick. For some reason we mostly played it at his, & carting the big box from my house to his was annoying & then at some point we just stopped & I never went to get it back & then we all grew up & it got forgotten about until today.
Wonderful video series, absolutely overflowing with memories from watching the 3 videos on Necromunda.
I played in a Necromunda league at my LGS when I was a teenager. Outlanders had JUST come out before the league started. I played a Scavvies gang and it ended up being myself and a Spyre player in the finals. Since we weren't going to need our credits going forward I blew all mine on zombies for the final fight. I think I fielded like 60 zombies? Luckily I played undead in WH Fantasy, so it wasn't an issue finding minis. Anyways, he almost won because all his Spyres had ridiculous saves and it took me wailing on his gang every round with 10s of zombies to break through their armor. Probably the best time I had wargaming as a kid.
It would be super cool to actually watch you take a gang through a full campaign from this edition. Easily my favorite Necromunda. Excellent episodes, keep it up!
Love the bison in the background! A favorite when I was young :) Cheers!
I would LOVE a video on Manowar!
Would love to see the continuation of this series, and would be very interested in a video on Man O' War! Great content, enjoy everything you put out
I just found your channel through the UA-cam algorithm, and binged all your videos. I don't know much about warhammer and your videos have been super informative! I can't wait for you to post more, keep up the good work.
Really enjoying this series. I played Necromunda extensively when it originally came out, missed the 2nd edition, but got engaged with the 2017 release and have been going at it off and on for the last few years. Keep the videos coming!
It's cool to see origins of certain gangs how they developed over time. Awesome video as always
Good timing! I just watched ep 1&2 yesterday.
Thank you!
Ah Man'o'War! I had a Dwarf fleet for that. They were awesome.
Our campaign had a very cagey Scavvie player that was a terror to play against; they generally got to select the scenario so we'd have the dubious honor/job of being guards in the "escort the Guilder" mission. He'd recruit/toss bait and recruit plague zombies while using the rest of his gang (minimally equipped gangers and scalies with heavy weapons) and usually overrun the defenders; it wasn't clear in the rules but our organizer ruled that if the opposing gang bottled, the winning gang held the field, so could get models off the board to kill guiders and recover loot. One of his scalies named Toto had a 7000 credit bounty, since every time you killed a Guilder your bounty doubled. OP/broken would be a good way to describe that gang.
Spyers were a popular choice (we had several teams in our campaign) but they lost the majority of their games (no big deal) and we had a several of them killed in a span of a couple weeks; combination of clever deployment and setting counter ambushes and unlucky die rolls dropped them. One team had a pretty scary Yeld that could run, shoot it's lasers (S4 with 2 sustained fire dice) and hide.
I had a Ratskin gang and ignoring hive quakes and other trecherous conditions was fun, except there were a couple that didn't benefit the Ratskins, "Long Shadows" being a main culprit. I captured a ganger and we took his stuff (the Rescue Mission says the victim is stripped of equipment except for cybernetics, so thanks for the chainsword and bolter), so that went to Fire in His Eyes (a ganger with BS6) but lead to some disagreements because bolt guns weren't on the ratskin equipement list (but were on the outlaw trade table as a basic weapon) so it was OK'd. Best was a brave that was 'chosen' to have the Icrotic (sp?) slime smeared on him, giving him all sorts of bonuses; with just a pair of axes he carved up four opposing gangers in hand to hand (which was really tricky to do in that edition) before their leader set him on fire with a hotshot round from a shotgun. He spent the rest of the game running around while on fire and fell off a couple gantries but with the immune to pinning and increased toughness he laughed at it and ended up getting enough skill points to become a full-fledged ganger and earned his blindsnake pouch (because I only bought the pouches for gangers, not juves). Also had a Brakar figure but someone stole it after a game.
Better days/times, that's for sure.
Ratskins hate those damn "Donhivers" haha classic misprint
*Donwhivers
I used to play so much Necromunda in my teen years 2008-2010. I think we had like 10 players. GW had released the rules for free on their website and plastic kits were relatively cheap so most players converted their gangs from them. One guy played scavvies, another played redemptionists and those had problems, since their lists were released but not the other rules from this book, so we had to improvise. Thankfully I found all 3 books for 2€, so we finally could see how it's supposed to go.
Absolutely loving this channel dude! If you had a Patreon I'd be supporting you : D
Please do Man O'War next, that'd be awesome.
p.s. I think your link to the theme tune isn't working on the later videos !
Ratskin gangs were a powerhouse for a simple reason : they would get a +1 on their scounging rolls ( where every ganger rolls a die to scounge, needing 3 creds to feed themselves) . Because of this, the more guys you had in your gang, the more money you would make... which would allow you to get more juves, who made you more money, etc etc. In our campaign my ratskin gang eventually became the fattest in terms of gang rating and bodycount, getting close to 30 guys towards the end.
I had mine go to 15, because that's all I had the models for :D
We had a couple oddball things like a brave that would roll doubles on an advance and (of course) I'd pick a techno skill; some you couldn't get because they were restricted to heavies or gangers but I rolled up a weapon reload. So you're thinking "ok, you crafted ammo, that's nice". Nope, my brave somehow played with some broken stuff and managed to make a reload for a lascannon. At half the cost of the weapon with no reduction (since you just made it, not considered loot counters or income) that was a nice 200 credit boon. He also make a one in a million boltgun that was given to my BS6 ganger.
I forgot how the breakdowns worked as far as income, IIRC there was some sort of diminishing returns but our campaign only ran a few months then we'd play 40k or fantasy before doing another Necromunda campaign.
Still have mine. My favorite! Redemption for the win!! Looking forward to Book of Faith!
Whilst I love these old school history gane vids... I
They also remind me that when I was a wee teenage lad playing these games,most of my gaming group were just being conceived.... 🤣 awesome stuff man. Hope you keep up. Quite frankly you've been quite the refreshing change I've been looking for. 🤘🤘🤘
I have so many memories with the "outlaw/deputy" mechanic... had a series of games against the same gang ran by a friend and eventually we had a bit of a rivalry going and eventually he decided to report me to the watchmen. I rolled... deputize. And in turn I reported his gang... HE ended up Outlaw. That affected his gang so much he had to disband after 3 more games - after that my gaming group agreed to not use the "reporting" rules
Yeah, some of the rules are fun for laughs but if it causes someone to drop out of the game and you lose a player over it, then your ruling makes sense.
We had a guy running Redempiionsts that ambush my Goliaths and ended up killing half my gang, including my leader and a heavy; just bad luck on the recovery chart but the guy's M.O. was always selecting Ambush if he was able (he was a dick and got justifiable hate from most of the other players). The organizer told me to restart my gang and I said f-ck it, I'll keep running them until I get wiped. So with two gangers and two juves I building them back up after ten or so games by using uncharistic Goliath street smarts by choosing Hit and Run, Raid and Scavergers...because the scenario table usually favored the player with the lower gang rating. I eventually built my gang back up to a dozen and those four survivors became absolute beasts; a running hipshooting heavy with a flamer and a juve turned champion with a boltgun, BS6 with fast shot and a slew of other skills (but still only LD 7, he was still kinda skittish).
I loved this expansion.
The biggest ratskin advantage was always requesting to play with the hazardous conditions. Both players could choose to play without them, but theg were used if even one wanted to, they were used..
Ratskins were immune, and this often was a HUGE advantage.
Loving this series!
No way bro, it was the availability of those blind Snake Pouches that made them a real pain in the ass. They could run through all your over-watch cross fires in a Caravan raid and bag a Guilder before you could score any pins.
@@ericmoveon No doubt, pouches were great! The threat of them often changed the way the opponent played, which sometimes was better than the 4+ roll reality.
The hazards sometimes were nothing, but some great memorable games when no one could be on the ground / pitch black/ falling dome and the like - with ratskins running around without a worry!
@@orangejosiah One of the two shortest games our group had was a hive quake that took five opposing gangers out of action and they failed their bottle roll (the second was my former friends Delaque heavy shoot a frag missile and it scattered on a group with the opposing leader and a few gangers, forcing a bottle test and failing).
I can't recall the hazardous conditions but IIRC a couple didn't give a boost to the Ratskins, Long Shadows being the main culprit.
The Ratskins were my second gang (after Delaque). I liked their position as underdogs, using less advanced weaponry, and I guess it showed my increasing attraction to the extremes, as my third gang were the Spyrers - I really loved Necromunda. We followed the recommendation that was in White Dwarf, or the rulebook, somewhere to write an underhive newsletter about the events of our games - mysterious shootouts, raids and counter-raids, desperate rescue missions.
Loving your Necromunda histories. Yess Man O’War video too please!!!
Great videos, on a side note your intro is perfect. Killer music, short and enticing. It's awesome.
Could you do another timeline video on the recent big changes in Lore, like Robot Jellyman waking up etc. I love dipping back into the 40k universe now and again, but haven't found a concise summary of the new lore!
Those mutants were pretty lit. Great memories.
Another great video, lookin forward to the next one! But as a side note, Man O War? Hell yes!!! I loved that game!
I miss playing the redemption with their completely OP Exterminator. Nothing beats having ten 1-shot flamethrower.
Yep, my Goliaths were on the receiving end of an Ambush and bottled without firing a shot.
They were so hated in our campaign that other players would put bounties on them; I offered 10 credits for each one killed. Was kinda funny when we were working out the paperwork post-game and he'd lose one and a few other players would say "ok, 10 from me" so we'd get 30-40 credits from other players...the look on the player's face and the organizer chuckling was priceless.
@@cjanquart Oh, outlanders were often outright banned. Funnily enough my experience with the redemption prove to me that flame weapons were the most powerful effects in the game. So in the last league we had i played Cawdor gang all gang members had a flaming pistol and I won the 3 games I played by such a lrge margin that each time i got to stole a territory. Flaming weapons were mentals.
This is the exact type of content I’m looking for! Thanks so much!
Need more! Getting into Necromunda now and need your knowledge before I buy anything!! XOXOXO
I honestly found my introduction to Spyrers to be Gordon Rennie's survival horror piece "Rite of Passage" in Status:Deadzone" it made them out as absolutely terrifying. His book execution hour i also really enjoyed, and had some cool arbites characters in it if it interests you.
10:17 Those Underhive Scum minis are excellent.
11:51 Is that Cam Kennedy artwork for the Ashwastes Nomads?
Really enjoying this series. Thanks for these
The Ratskins could definitely have been handled in a more respectful and engaging way, yes. Though I think they might have a place in modern 40K/Necromunda. I could see a Ratskin as an alternative protagonist for the Hired Gun game, a renegade out to get revenge on the upper-level invaders who slaughtered their people. Forgoing the flashy guns and equipment for a stealthy approach, centered on silent weapons, parkour, and setting traps or exploiting environmental hazards.
Except if your name is Brakar :D
I've got (most of, I think) a Man O' War starter set that I picked up years ago at a car boot sale, though the box got crushed in a move... I enjoyed it though! I never really got into Necromunda, beyond Kal Jericho and The Redeemer, but this series is making me consider picking up the new box...
I'd love to see a video on Dark Millennium, I always wanted it as a kid
The only thing GW has ever released where one of the designers said afterwards to take a pair of scissors to one of the cards it was that much of a bad idea in retrospect.
@@stryke-jn3kv wait, which card? i'm guessing it was something horribly broken (like the hydra sword in whfb… each attack is actually d6 attacks! and this was back when "frenzy" _doubled_ a model's attack stat, too. chaos lords of khorne throwing 10d6 attacks every combat round, WOOF)
@@soupalex Virus Bomb, it could wipe out a significant portion of an ork or imperial guard army before turn 1 even started. It was theoretically possible to be entirely wiped out before you even got to play if you rolled really badly. It was very, very silly.
Thanks for your videos! Looking forward to the Gang War issue 4 episode, which contains the Squat Miner gang
The squat miner gang is DEFINITELY getting featured!
@@ArbitorIan Sweet,, thank you! Sadly I only have Gang War #4 (ordered recently, awaiting delivery), it does have some gems like the Sonic Cleanser, Rock Drill or ChainJack.
Do you have Gang War #1? It should contain the stats and rules for the Pit Slave version of the Rock Drill. Where (most) of the other weapons have one or more segments of lore along with rules and a small stat chart,, #4 only offers it's listing among special weapons for 55 points, and this bit of lore:
This is a two handed version of the Pit Slave weapon, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other weapons except for pistols. Fortunately for Miners, this type of Rock Drill is not surgically attached. Use the weapon's profile listed in the Pit Slave Weapon section for this weapon.
Weirdly the shovel got enough love to make a Kriegsman blush. It would cost no points, and came with some extra lines of text explaining additional rules:
The Miner's shovel can also be useful as a weapon. It also must be used with two hands. However a Miner, trained in the 'Art of Shovel', is able to parry attacks, as if wielding a sword. The shovel is not a good weapon however, so a Miner attacks at -1 strength.
You could have taken an hour on Outlanders and it wouldn't have been long enough. Just that bestiary and all the possibilities it opened up could have gone for 15 min. Eldar Scouts, Chaos Marines, Orks, Brood Brothers, Beastmen, Deamons; It opened the possibilities for a system built around the lowest common denominator troops (grounded in contemporary light infantry tactics) into the whole galaxy of 40K.
It also made sense once you thought about the "what the hell would an ork, eldar scout or chaos space marine be doing on Necromunda?" Funny bit was we had a battle where a beastman attempted to jump into hand to hand with one of my goliaths but botched the inititiave check and was summarily scragged.
Its often hilarious when marines try to face off against gangs in Necromunda. The hubris they suffer always leads them into perilous situations. Its like they forget that a melta-gun or flamer can ruin your day no matter who you are. I've seen a heavy stubber wipe out three marines in as many turns. And there is always a chance that piling on in hand to hand will be worth it. Realistically a leader armed with two swords has a good chance against a marine toe to toe.
All things considered when I played marines against a gang, used cover liberally, and used conservative tactics to counter being outnumbered, the marines were incredibly difficult to dislodge. This once again proves that Necromunda is a game built on tabletop tactics and dynamic terrain. All the criticism comes from immature weebs that aren't interested in tactical simulation and will criticize balanced rules whenever their poor judgement leads them to lose.
40K has done a great job of distilling down the type of player who can't handle a clear loss and has made rule that leave you with an ambiguous mediocrity of mutual slaughter every game. You play an army list in 40K, not a table top tactical game.
Superb video. Subscribed for all the future Munda content.
This series is really interesting. I never got to play Necromunda back in the days, but I did play Mordheim, and it's fun to hear about all the little things that set Necromunda apart (and honestly, I now wish my group would have gone with Necromunda rather than Mordheim)
Very nice undeed. I came to the 40k fun a bit too late for this edition of Necromunda, so it's awesome to visit it through the eyes of a fan and a real afficionado, thanks for that!
However, do you, perchance, have any plans to do a similar series on Battlefleet Gothic, perhaps? To me, BFG is probably what Necromunda was for you, the brilliant vision of facets beyond regular 40k battlefields where the incredible world-building was inextricably baked into fun rules designs. Would be great to hear your take on that retrospective!
Yes, many many Man o’ War videos please!
Very happy the algo led me to your channel!
the Spyrers appear to be a futuristic take on the Crypteia of ancient Sparta
Just found the channel, mentioned my boi Pred'tor Parker the Malcadon, and along comes this vid! Is it the Emprah's blessing, or some Chaotic coincidence? The psyker's mind boggles...
Necromunda is the best, I sincerely hope that you talk about the commuities love for the game being so strong that we created our own version of the rulebook that became the standard for so many years, that being NCE.
Recently found your videos. Among the lore / info providers your level of quality, clarity, depth, and coordinated script is top notch. I look forward to your content. Do you have other social media or plans to do polls for video suggestions?
Thanks! I'm on twitter as a general hobby bod, and I'm slowly posting years of model photos to Instagram (both links in the description)! I've got a shortlist im working through at the moment, but totally up for polls when I start thinning it out!
>Scavvies, ghoulish outlaws who's life is a living hell filled with mutations and backstabbing
"They're the comedic faction". Only in 40k lmao
The fact it's taken 25 years for me to realise donwhiver was a typo is slightly embarrassing.
i noticed that too! went back and checked my hardback reprint of the biiiig book (rules + sourcebook + outlanders… think i picked it up at a games day in the 00s, shortly before 'munda got the aesthetic refresh from fanatic/specialist games). the misprint is still there lol
loving this series!
I've been looking at Corpse Grinders from new line as khorne bezerkers/cultists in addtion to running them in Necromunda
I just realized I must have ordered those wings back when GW sold bits online and I stuck them a CSM raptor champion
I wonder if the corpse grinders were named after the metal band?
I never really knew much about this part of Retromunda, so it's cool learning about it. Seems like they just folded the Redemptionists into Cawdor wholesale for Numunda. Hearing about the plague zombies in Scavvy gangs makes me hope that Poxwalkers get added in.
The guy who got me into Warhammer always used to talk about Retromunda, and I'd thought the Ratskins were a despised Ratling gang.
Did Venators absorb some of the lore for the old Spyrers?
The Purge scenario sounds really awesome, and looks like it would be a great opportunity to use my extensive collection of 40K models in another game.
Thank you again for a comprenhensive and good summary
Hey Ian, I love your videos and especially this Necromunda series. It's one the most fun games I ever played, second only to Risk ;)
Is there a chance you will continue the series? I can't wait to hear what you have to say about 2nd edition and Newcromunda. Cheers!
I've just started collecting the older models got a squad of the old hand on hips goliaths, 2 metal esher leaders with different weapons and a esher ganger
I used to play that, great video.
I remember there was a big push on Necromunda at my local GW when I was growing up, I ended up buying a Spyre Hunter gang and wrote up a list for them... and then promptly never played a game as I was worried that they'd end up taking some terrible injuries and not be effective.
Suffice to say, I didn't really get the game at the time.
Do you still have the minis?
I'm not sure, I remember I had misplaced the Yeld's wings at one point... They might still be in a box somewhere
Spyers were a difficult gang to run; I enjoyed playing them but I had much more fun and success with my Ratskins or Goliaths.
In our campaign they just died like dogs, mainly because most people in our group hated one of the players that ran them and we were gunning for him but mostly because they whiffed post-battle recovery rolls.
Yes please do Ram-o-war!!!
Hell yeah, Ash Waste Nomads!
Did you build yours from Talarian Desert troops?
@@cjanquart Oh no, I was a Goliath player... I was out of the actual game before I learned about the Nomads, but I *love* the lore.
Ian, what is your professional background? (If it's not too personal)
Its very unusual for such a new UA-camr to have such great production values and scripting right off the bat.
Thanks! And no worries - a few people have asked the same thing! I make theatre and live events. Specifically, I design the bits of live events that involve animation, LED walls, projection mapping or any other sort of visuals.
So while I only started doing THIS a few months ago, I've been using Adobe Suite for editing/composting for years, and my job involves working with performers, scripts, and occasionally giving lectures. All stuff that's useful for this sort of thing.
There have been some new learning curves though - getting the tone right for a UA-cam video, grading for skintone, mics and audio editing are all new to me! 😂
A gamer and a techie! I feel like I’ve known you my whole life already. Necromunda is my absolute all time favourite miniatures game and has been since its original release. These videos are fantastic. Thanks for all your work in putting the channel out there.
Please do Man o War. It's truly one of GW's best ever games
I need you to narrate my life, or at least read me bed-time stories. :D Loving your videos!
Granted the old theme of Ratskins is shaded by early 90's mentalities, I contend that GW could/can/will re-introduce them as a proud and fierce faction of the underhive. I'd love for the sculptors of the Shadeshire Godsworn Hunt to have a go at the models.
Thank you for your amazing videos!
Were there rules to run AdMechs in Necromunda?
would love to see a video of you talking about blood bowl, keep it up mate
Will you be doing a video on the ash waste nomads and necromunda vehicles?
Thanks! Great vid!
" _Spyre Hunting, or, "what I did during my gap year"…_ "
(By the way, a suggestion for the future: if you do video-in-video again, like you did in the Laserburn aside in this video, maybe mute the embedded video..? I know it's only a few seconds long, but it's kind of confusing to have you talking over Snipe and Wib..! :)
Thanks for the video
Your channel is great! Congrats!
These are really well done :)
I miss the Arbites as a faction. Palanite enforcers are so generic, you can't tell they're 40k.
Yeah. They're just too boring. When everything in 40k is turned up to 75, you need the Judge Dredd-ian super fascist cops that were the Arbites. It's just sad that they were never really a playable, working gang (meant as an arbitrator component in 1st and kind of weird and only semi-playable in 2nd).
@@ScooterinAB
Come to think of it, a few of the gangs in the current edition look like they could have been swapped in from any other sci-fi skirmish game. Delaque, for instance.
@@jamesgordley5000 God, how I hate the new Delaque models. They nailed just about every other game, to the point that even Orlocks are cool. But then they went and ruined the best gang ever and make them boring and generic looking.
Our organizer allowed a player to field them but they were incredibly unbalanced with the rules at the time, especially the "we get special equipment for certain missions because we can" rule, so the guy would have stummers or silencers most of the time. Funny thing was he got a few of his guys captured and while those players played out the Rescue Mission, I just opted for something more characterful and Goliath-y; strip him of everything, put a sock over his man-bits, paint a happy face on his buttocks and "Pansy" on his chest and send him back uphive. The player said I couldn't keep the equipment but the organizer ruled that once I failed an ammo roll, the Executioner rounds were gone, but I really like the silenced bolt pistol more.
Please do Man-O-War! In fact, do all the specialist games lol
Love to see some videos on heroquest, one of the best games or even gorkamorka
*puts on beard* HEROQUEST IS THE BEST GAME EVER
@@ArbitorIan ::looks out open front door:: Look, Mormons! ::places Heroquest door in front door::
Is it bad I see nothing wrong with Ratskins being based on native Americans. These games always have armies/gangs based on archetypes, it is a fantasy setting after all and not real life
Good Stuff, I would love to see a video on how the new edition differs from the original.
The gameplay is model/unit activation, the advancement and equipment is faction-specific, so it's completely different. There's parts I like and don't like but the don't like parts are mainly because I played a ton of the older game and accustomed to the old rules.
I have still got my spyres they were a clearly an idea springing from the predator movie, I never bothered the ratskins no real reason why just they didn't do anything for me I had the two best ratskin miniatures "whistling Pete" and "old Tom" I used the redemtionists as chaos cultists but my favourite gang by far was the scavies which I never used the actual models I used skaven giant human rats would fit in perfectly in necromunda I thought there were some with flamers but I did away with the slaves carrying the barrels and just used them as shotguns the there were the jezzails which I used as auto guns I added various pistols and I used skaven slaves as zombies and rat ogres as scalie stand ins, the only mission they would play is hunting for food anyone captured would be eaten ( I have some pictures on my 40k video if you care to look)...cheers now
Even more terrifiying was when Scavvies got to a certain size it was more cost-effective to simply hire a new scavvie and throw him in the pot. I can't recall but I think there was an FAQ that captured gangers could only feed a certain number of your gang.
Even worse was being the attacker in the loot the guiders mission and if you got models off the board and killed a guilder, you made a ton of credits (was easy for our scavvie players to do once they were able to recruit 3D6 or more zombies).
Did you use to do radio or VO work? Ian has such a natural finesse with words and delivery.
This channel's production quality is so far beyond its current sub count.
Thanks! I'm not a performer myself, but my job does involve making theatre and animation/editing, so there's a fair bit of crossover!
One day we'll get the Man O' War video
"Quiet" religious contemplation. lol
Man-o-war? Please do that! Please!
I am 100% full blooded First Nations or " Native American " and I would love if Ratskins came back! Re imagined but traditional
7:37 We haven'T seen the Ratskins in these days, cause nobody has balls anymore! What made GW Big was their dark and gritty balls! and now they do some waterdown stuff....buuuut....well!
Spyre hunters....omg!
Would love to see the scavvies and spirers in the new edition
Wait no part 4? I'm just finding theses and still no part 4?
Never heard of Man o War so a vid would be cool
Another great boxed game from (my opinion) GW's heyday of fun games.
It was a Warhammer Fantasy ship combat game that was really fun. I had a great Dark Elf fleet. Rules were very precursor to Battlefleet Gothic.
Im still waiting for The Nostraman Version of Necromunda
Man O' War! please do that video
What frames are those you have the White Dwarfs in?