Weekly Progress: A relaxing drive through the Underhive, Necromunda bystanders, Escher Enforcers based

So, who wants to take a caravan through the underhive? Anyone?

This board was initially setup to play the caravan mission, but turned out to be pretty well set up for other games too. At the time of playing, I've still not had the opportunity to get an actual Caravan mission game in, as the gangs have been fighting over the ambush site itself.

My cheap and lazy rivets Tutorial

So every scratch builder has their own way of doing things, and all work differently. My take on these is below, and my results are here and the easiest process to do them quickly too.

So I had a batch of stuff scratchbuilt and wanted the ability to make them have some texture, without always relying on material like PVA/greenstuff/Modelling clays etc to do so.

Necromunda scratch Terrain and GW bits

Height is what the Underhive needs, for all its low down, sump-slicking goodness, there's a whole world of pylons and vertical scariness for bullets to explore. Its a long way down from the high points too!

House Escher Enforcers

Well the sprue was just lying around...

These are Lyrae 55, Escher sub-faction seconded to the Adeptus Sororitas.

Starting a Chaos Cultist Gang Guide 3/3; Mission analysis

Last of the three part look into the Necromunda Cultists is the juicy one, here is an overview of each mission of 24 (thanks book 4) missions at time of going to press that will benefit you as the Chaos gang loving-sinisters the most....

Ultimately don't be afraid to give those I've noted as 'poor' choice a chance, as once the bullets get flying its all to play for! Based on how I run the gang (cheap horde) this is my interpretation of how each would go.

Starting a Chaos Cults Gang Guide 2/3; Gang pros and cons

Whilst the Chaos Cult choice may seem like an easy leap from 40k-Necromunda, do they have any strengths in Campaigns? Skirmishes?

So, building a gang. First things first lets look at the base stats and options for what they can offer.

Starting a Chaos Cult Gang Guide 1/3: Collecting, converting, painting

The downtrodden, the knives in the dark, the ruination of the Imperium. The blood-flecked-sweaty-toothed-insane-hiveman you thought you knew. Chaos Cultists!

Starting a Goliath Gang Guide 3/3; Mission analysis

So, last part of the guide, is a look into how the Goliaths perform in different missions.
If you get the option, here are some of the 18 (at time of going to press) missions that will benefit you the most. I’ve tried to think ahead to how the above will benefit you in these missions.

Sneak preview - Goliath get a bit of a raw deal here.

Starting a Goliath Gang Guide 2/3; Gang pros and cons

So, building and painting a gang;done. Now onto playing them, well how do they play? What are their strengths? Weaknesses? Don't worry, I've got you covered with a tips list below! 

Lets cover The Good, the Bad, The ugly, Tactics cards, hangers-on, Skill upgrades, and gear options.

First things first lets look at the base Goliath gang stats and options for what they can offer.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Starting a Necromunda Goliath Gang Guide 1/3; Collecting, Converting, Painting

The biggies, the bruisers, the forge-frenzied-gene-packed-gunning-for-your-guts boys in (mostly) red. The Goliaths!

These were a great poster child for the newest edition of Necromunda, if you wanted something to grab you, then this was definitely the right choice.

Necromunda configurable boards

Mixed up Mortalis and Necromunda.

Combine them people, combine them now! So I’ve been able to play a few games on this terrain and its getting better each time.

Necromunda Chaos Cultists conversions

I fundamentally cannot paint and play armies for good. Dark Mechanicus, Traitor Sons of Horus, Sons of Sek. Crazy Goliaths are the closest to 'good'. So I figured I'd go for some Cultists to even it out!

These boys are rolling up in your sump, right now.

Weather me up - more Necromunda terrain!

Bring on the oils! You can't go wrong with some decent weathering. 

Sons of Horus Reavers

Finally got some of these guys painted, and they are an interesting bunch, boys in black.

Gang hideout

So after starting a gang I realised I needed some more terrain in the urban space! So I had a decent amount to kit out a ZM, but themed stuff would be better. I decided that I wanted somewhere that I could defend in a Campaign setting.

Goliath Gang; Dead Forge

I managed to get these guys painted up and completed, love em!

Weekly progress: Necromunda Shanty and Mortalis 'joiners'

Not so much weekly progress but pretty much the only thing I've been able to attempt to get completed for a good month or so. Blame the family I say!

This was a Antenocitis gift from the missus when I thought I might enjoy Infinity (which, it turns out I did not). These flat packed buildings normally form three similarly sized stackable blocks, and they can be built quite easily. 

Unless you're me. I don't know why I think that force is a good way to get these MDF lasercut buildings to go together, but it really doesn't work. 

DIY Necromunda Mortalis floor tiles

So I made some tiles. Some pitted Mortalis tiles.  I'd wanted to expand my board, but not my debt, so I chose to use some of the out of the box Necromunda tiles into some filler ones for the battlefield.
With some Polyfilla and a bit of PVA mix and a press mould, I made some more flat surfaces for my terrain to sit on.

Necromunda Goliath Gangers

Oh yeah, I'm sold on these boys indeed. Start of my Necromunda gang; The Dead Forge.

Weathering makes me moist...

Necromunda Terrain goodness!

Nothing brings a piece to life like great examples of natural elements (or unnatural elements) enhancing the paint process. If anything its also a great way to get some really weird colours added in.