Hello everyone !!

Huge interview with Andy about the Necromunda box and the future of the game:

Andy Hoare:

Project manager,

Specialist Games Team of seven - started last year with Blood Bowl.

They were working on Necromunda since a long time.

Favorite game of Andy, still plays it.

When all the plastic terrain was ready he asked his boss to do a new Necromunda and they said Yes!

They are talking about Underhive no the 3D campaign today - next week is about the Supplement book.

Background:

First version was Confrontation in WD.

Then 1995 classic boxset, played since then.

Revisited in 2000 by the old fanatic studio.

Dedicated groups are still playing the old version today.

Andy Hoare group plays it, house rules it, amends it, created new stuff.

Models:

Duplicate sprues but 10 different models can be made!

2 for each gang.

Objectives and tentacle sprue,

traps (used with gang tactic cards)

Priority marker.

Hatches and doors: designed to fit with zone mortalis and other FW scenery.

Rules book: you need it, even if you want to do 3D only. Underhive is a complete game.

9 tiles same size as Zone Mortalis tiles.

Andy says:

They played Necromunda so much on mortalis that the 2D tiles weren't a compromise.

Beta tester really liked the game in 2D, and it didn’t felt like a starter set used to learn the game.

Even if you see square on the tiles you still use inches in game, so it’s really necromunda on tiles.

Punch counter:

-Ready and pinned counter are recto verso

-Pre generated gangs are on cards to get started super fast.

-Fire is back in the game,

-You can go prone and remove fire.

-Vision arcs: because models have facing (like warmachine)

-place a duct between walls to go through it - you can even launch a grenade, fire through it etc.

-Lot of skills allow you to by pass overwatch, backstab ppl.

Custom dice:

-2 sets

-Gang specific dice. (adding pics soon)

Cards:

22 blank cards

Are already laminated !!!! so you can erase

Gang tactics: Generics, esher, goliath. Future gang will get future cards.

They have extra set of gang tactics cards ready to sell, not the same in the box, they are extension cards.

Differentiation:

Andy Hoare plays rogue trader all the time !! so he added the old stat (int and all) to grant a lot of different options/

Stat line of different gangs set them apart and with gangs tactic’s they play really different.

Zone Mortalis bases, designed to match the tiles of the boards but also with details of mechanicus

terrain.

Book:

Can’t buy the rulebook on it’s own. Because dice needed, but good values.

LEGACY RULES:

PDF on the web site, live on the game release date, for orlock, van sar, etc.. but only for the weapons the original metal models got. So don’t get too hyped.

Future

Orlocks are next year.

One plastic team every quarter +possible few wd, pdf article.

Brand new gangs are hyped.

John blanche made a book a of 80pages of fluff but the book went missing. And then new archivist of GW TIM found this book for andy. SO LOT OF inspiration.

Box set available in: eng, fren, german.

They have stock of the box - don't be scared, you should get your box if you pre-order.

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Rules:

Total rewrite of the rules for underhive. Gang war 3D, is built on the underhive rule set.

It’s a "I go, you go": “interleave turn” system. So you can active more than 1 models (no details on how).

Gang tactics:

All scenario use them in a different way : choose, drawn at random, weak side can draw more or choose. There is a lot of granularity with these.

Dice:

Fire power dice : Each time you roll to hit, you roll 1+ fire power dice (depending on the weapon). Work as a sustained fire dice and ammo dice.

Red tiles: The box is a necromunda loading dock. It’s a training room at start and will be used for multiplayers 3+ (pit fight style) or future scenario.

Lvl up:

Gangs are more than the 15 players you used to have in necromunda classic.

Now you can select a crew before each scenario.

Specialist, juvie and champion get skills, gangers can’t but can be promoted to champ or specialist.

Rules for juvie will be in gangs war book, with a lot of importance. If the juvie survive a few games it became the star of the gang(no more details but lot of hype around the juvie.)

WW preparing a map of underspire in 3D.

Gang war games use a 4by4 size table.

Support class: doc, ratling cook, ….(4 planned)

FW upgrade are already on the way to new weapons, iconic item …

House weapons blitzer will be made with rules to them !

They want to make rules for everything possible to allow kitbashing a goliath with a driller !

Champions are the new heavy !

Genestealer and Chaos Cults will get rules down the line. Maybe quite early via online or WD!!

All the Genestealer Cult weapons are usable by all other gangs too, so have fun kit-bashing stuff!

/cheers.

bob.