Hi there,
So people have been trying to get me out of the Flat a bit more, and part of that has been getting back into Necromunda, and will be doing so with someone else. I've taken it upon myself to do all the hard bits (i.e: glue, paint and write up the lists) for them since I know how much of a wallet drain the hobby can be, but the area I'm having some head scratching over is the lists, and perhaps more pertinently, our gang choices.
I haven't played Necromunda in about fifteen years (and they haven't played a Tabletop Wargame at all in their lives, so it's blind leading the blind over here), so I went with the Gang I used to play - that is to say, Van Saar. Unfortunately, we went though and picked out a gang for them to use yesterday, and they picked out Orlock.
Suffice it to say, I am very aware of how brutal Van Saar shooting can be, and I am distinctly worried about completely crushing them. I'd try to avoid a one sided, wholesale slaughter of them as much as possible, and I am trying to write the lists in such a manner. The problem of course is that it doesn't change that I am more than likely going to horribly, brutally murder their gang in a string of very one sided skirmishes.
So I'm here to ask for advice on this. A prototype of the Orlock Gang has been written up here, while I am going to type out the Van Saar list so far below. I'm open to suggestions and toning down the lists if possible, or I may have to go with another gang. The only problem on that front is of the main six house gangs, the others that interest me are Orlock (which are taken) Delaque and Cawdor (who are going to be a total curbstomp in the opposite direction until Q3 next year). That said, the Van Saar List looks like this right now:
Leader
Combi-Pistol (Laspistol/Plasma Gun), Servo-Claw, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Archeotek Champion
Rad-Beamer, Servo-Claw, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove, Vascular Cyberteknika (Alpha)
Augmek Champion
Master Crafted Lasgun, Power Knife, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Ganger Specialist
Lasgun, Shock Stave, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Ganger
Lasgun, Shock Stave, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Juve
Las Sub-Carbine, Mesh Armor, Shock Stave, Armoured Bodyglove
Current round of ideas include dropping the Shock Staves on the two Gangers and replacing them with Laspistols, switching the Rad-Beamer on the Archeotek for the Spider Rig (and converting the model to give it proper Doc Oc arms) and the Leader's loadout is in a bit of a flux right now.
EDIT - Quick Jump to the revised Orlock Gang List post.
EDIT #2 - Quick Jump to the revised Van Saar Gang List post.
So people have been trying to get me out of the Flat a bit more, and part of that has been getting back into Necromunda, and will be doing so with someone else. I've taken it upon myself to do all the hard bits (i.e: glue, paint and write up the lists) for them since I know how much of a wallet drain the hobby can be, but the area I'm having some head scratching over is the lists, and perhaps more pertinently, our gang choices.
I haven't played Necromunda in about fifteen years (and they haven't played a Tabletop Wargame at all in their lives, so it's blind leading the blind over here), so I went with the Gang I used to play - that is to say, Van Saar. Unfortunately, we went though and picked out a gang for them to use yesterday, and they picked out Orlock.
Suffice it to say, I am very aware of how brutal Van Saar shooting can be, and I am distinctly worried about completely crushing them. I'd try to avoid a one sided, wholesale slaughter of them as much as possible, and I am trying to write the lists in such a manner. The problem of course is that it doesn't change that I am more than likely going to horribly, brutally murder their gang in a string of very one sided skirmishes.
So I'm here to ask for advice on this. A prototype of the Orlock Gang has been written up here, while I am going to type out the Van Saar list so far below. I'm open to suggestions and toning down the lists if possible, or I may have to go with another gang. The only problem on that front is of the main six house gangs, the others that interest me are Orlock (which are taken) Delaque and Cawdor (who are going to be a total curbstomp in the opposite direction until Q3 next year). That said, the Van Saar List looks like this right now:
Leader
Combi-Pistol (Laspistol/Plasma Gun), Servo-Claw, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Archeotek Champion
Rad-Beamer, Servo-Claw, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove, Vascular Cyberteknika (Alpha)
Augmek Champion
Master Crafted Lasgun, Power Knife, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Ganger Specialist
Lasgun, Shock Stave, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Ganger
Lasgun, Shock Stave, Mesh Armor, Armoured Bodyglove
Juve
Las Sub-Carbine, Mesh Armor, Shock Stave, Armoured Bodyglove
Current round of ideas include dropping the Shock Staves on the two Gangers and replacing them with Laspistols, switching the Rad-Beamer on the Archeotek for the Spider Rig (and converting the model to give it proper Doc Oc arms) and the Leader's loadout is in a bit of a flux right now.
EDIT - Quick Jump to the revised Orlock Gang List post.
EDIT #2 - Quick Jump to the revised Van Saar Gang List post.
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