The team behind Necromunda recently revealed the new release roadmap for the game. This will come as welcome news to all of us who have been playing during the lockdown. Variety, or so they say, is the spice of life!
Necromunda is a tabletop skirmish game set in the same universe as Warhammer 40,000. The forerunner to Necromunda was published in the pages of White Dwarf back in the early 1990s. Then known as Confrontation, this ultimately culminated with the first rulebook to bare the Necromunda name releasing in 1995. It had a line of citadel miniatures that supported the ruleset. However, support waned over the years, and by the early 2000s, Games Workshop had stopped producing miniatures for it. Thankfully, this was all set to change in 2017. Following the success of Shadow War: Armageddon (a game using a similar rule-set), GW announced that a new version of Necromunda would be released.
Necromunda plays out on the hive world of the same name and focuses on small groups, or gangs made up of the prominent houses in the Necromunda Underworld. Players navigate the mishmash of tight alleyways and seek to eliminate other. The game has a nostalgic ’80s feel and you can tell that it draws in elements from Bladerunner and Judge Dredd to create a dark Sci-Fi classic.
The Roadmap for Necromunda reveals additional houses to be released over the next year. We have already seen the release of House of Chains earlier this year, and the previously announced House of Blades due in Q3. The new gangs (House of Iron and House of Artifice) are still under wraps, so no firm details have been provided other than their names and roadmap images. House of Iron is scheduled for Q4 and it looks like we’ll have a biker theme. House of Artifice does not have a release date as of yet, but the avatar hints at a more advanced-tech cyberpunk theme, possibly with augmentations?
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