Necromunda
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Necromunda is a tabletop skirmish war game produced by Games Workshop. In Necromunda, players control rival gangs battling each other in the Underhive, a place of anarchy and violence in the depths below Hive City. Necromunda is the world that the games occurs on and is the same world from the Warhammer 40,000 universe and likewise the play centers on 28mm scale models (approximately 1:65). The board is set up like a heavily polluted cityscape and the players control gangs of usually no more than a dozen models. You also have the ability to hire other individuals such as bounty hunters or special characters such as Kal Jerico, if you have the cash to do it. Unlike Warhammer 40,000, Necromunda focuses on how your gang develops and grows in campaign style play. Rules-wise, the game draws heavily from second-edition Warhammer 40,000, and the ruleset is commonly considered to be better-suited for the type of skirmish games Necromunda encourages.
Necromunda stands out from other games by Games Workshop by the way the table is laid out. In most Games Workshop games the table is mostly flat, with the only terrain features being a few hills, trees, and maybe a bridge or a building. However in Necromunda you can play in large buildings which may have many floors, as well as have bridges and walkways connecting the buildings together. There are other terrains such as chemical wastelands, barrels, watch towers, abandoned factories, and other dystopian environments that add a large amount of variety in playing areas.
Games Workshop's Specialist Games division occasionally publishes new rules on their [website]. They also recently published the full rules for the game for download (as a PDF file), referred to as the [Necromunda Living Rulebook]. As is implicit in the name, this document is often updated and rewritten, based largely on the work of avid volunteers and playtesters in the official Specialist Games forums.
Necromunda: Confrontation
Necromunda in its earliest forms from Games Workshop was a more heavily RPG game called Confrontation. There were several articles published in White Dwarf, an official GW publication, regarding it as Confrontation before it evolved into the current game of Necromunda.There is a Wiki project created to amass official and unofficial information for Necromunda: Confrontation at a Rpg.net Wiki Project [here].
References
External links
Official Sites
- [Specialist Games - Necromunda] - Official Necromunda Website.
- [Specialist Games - Forums] - Official Specialist Games Forums.
General Sites
- [iNecro] - Large collection of fan rules from multiple sources, official rules, and many links to other Necromunda websites.
- [Necromunda Reference] - The big multilingual site on necromunda (more than 160 articles), also a community driven site allowing users to add articles.
- [Necromundicon] - The most impressive terrain for Necromunda you will ever see.
- [Project: Necromunda] - Has extensive directories that cover tactics, fluff, battle reports, Necromunda RPG, finding opponents, forums, gang sheets, and links to non-English Necromunda websites; has Wiki projects for Necromunda names and gang rosters, and is also home of the Necromunda WebRing.
- [Robert's Gameland] - A site devoted to wargaming including a large section for Necromunda.
- [Stephane.info] - Articles and galleries.
Community Sites
- [Eastern Fringe] - Unofficial Necromunda and Warhammer 2nd Edition forums (recommended by the Official Specialist Games Forums).
- [Necrocards] - The concept behind the Necromunda Card Game is to supplement the rules and gameplay of Necromunda by adding a card game element. These cards can be played during the standard Necromunda turn sequence, and have an immediate effect on the game.
- [Necromunda Yahoo Group] - Necromunda discussions, polls, images and file upload facilities.
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