Captain Idaho

I tell you what I just thought of, a multi-headed snake thing as a big beasty for the Delaque. So a chunky, metal accosted body with 3 snake heads sticking out. Cawdor... a big rat based dog sized creature. Van Saar... year spiders is easy enough. Cor it writes itself.

Lots of crocs in the Goliaths, cats in the Escher... makes me think we'll see an extension of Cyber Mastiffs for Orlocks and probably an extension on an animal for each of the main gangs now. What animals scream Cawdor, Van Saar and Delaque?

Yeah I'm down for Unborn females, but the majority is a lame change to 51-49% style? They were all brutish males vs the elegant females in the dynamic opposition of Goliaths and Escher. No longer. Not that they look very female:

Yep, smashed all of them. GW have been knocking the Orks out of the park as of late.

No, the last edition was firmly explaining that: So in much the same way Escher do have males, their inclusion is a wild exception rather than just another miniature to add to the collection.

Excited for another journal release so soon. Orlocks for me by my birthday October come on! *** Good models here, interesting twist on gang list variants. I suppose the variant of wannabe Goliaths who get surgery to be just like them is the reason for the female models? As otherwise Goliaths are like Escher and supposed to be gender specific and that's a "meh" change.

Loving the little tweak to weapons for rebalancing. Maintaining a little thought for us goes a long way to feel supported. And my double Sunfury plasma annihilator and paired laser blasters has a total of 14 high powered shots now! Get in!

Ooo looking forward to this with the updated rules (I don't envy the work needed to do that) so thank you. I'm not a fan of New Recruit because the UI is just awful, so this is much needed.

Amazing change too for my Warlord. An extra bit of range with the Sunfury plasma annihilator but critically an extra shot. So my Warlord now has 8 Sunfury shots and 6 Turbo Laser shots a turn!

My initial distress isn't so bad as I've only lost a single starting gang member, the aforementioned Wrecker with dual plasma pistols. Spoiler below on how to potentially get round things: I'm happy to be wrong if Necromunda is indeed still cool as I think it is and not ruined. I do still dislike the cover saves mechanic over negative modifiers, but it's the least problematic change. Does harken back to 3rd 40K in some feelings actually.

You know, I didn't notice they got left out of all discussion. I wonder if GW is pushing them away? They not in one of the gang books to start at least?

Yeah I'm happier getting Orlocks only rather than everyone's rules I'll never use. Having to wait is annoying. I want my toys noooooooow.

Just caught up with the news. I'm down with the Journals being an essential extra to the base rules, simply to add much needed flavour... ...I'm surprised it's going to be drip fed to us though. I've got friends who enjoy a campaign but if a bunch of us haven't got a Journal whilst some do, it'll be a difficult sell to start the campaign. After all, why play with the base gang of Cawdor whilst the Escher gang gets new skills, weapons and even variant gang lists? Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect GW to release the 6 Houses simultaneously, though I think a mulit-million dollar company can and should do such things. After engaging with Magic the Gathering, we can see what a quality release schedule is and how it is kept to. The Final Fantasy commander decks weren't released one at a time, they ALL came out simultaneously alongside the starter boxes and ALL the booster support cards. A complete and total release. Anyways... I'm happy with the content of the Journals, going by what appears to be in them with the contents page teaser. I wonder just what Orlocks will get as their variant gangs. Lots of explosives, but that's already a thing surely? So maybe a heavy augmented theme since they're working as miners, so some sort of variant servo harness rules perhaps? The 2nd variant for Orlocks? Likely a Wrecker theme with gang leaders and champions? Tempting as a principle and likely.

Been thinking about the leaks... maybe I can use a Wrecker, level him up BS early and then get the 2 plasma pistols after like 3 or 4 games? Like an upgrade.

Leaks seems to be assuaging to my worries which is good. I like most rebalancing efforts in the weapons. I really like that even power weapons have flat strength of user, which means a T4 model is really useful now. Like my Arms Master. Who I might give a Full Servo harness for T5! Only things I'm upset about is my Wrecker with dual plasma pistol is illegal unless I pay at the trading post, which wouldn't be awful if it wasn't for the fact they're rarer AND the Wrecker only hits on a 5+ instead of 4+. This is fairly terminal for what I considered a well painted model too RIP