Necromunda!

[Adam]

Awwwright! Let's get a campaign thread going. I'll start. I finally got round to naming my gangers; as it transpires, putting this off until a couple of games in is quite a good idea, because now most of them have some character built up. Without further ado, I introduce to you the Swashraiders, the most fearsome bunch of hive pirates this side of Skullbeard the Black!

Scarred Jenny The leader, and the only one anyone's ever heard of. Packs a fearsome reputation. Likes shouting orrrrrders; dislikes running away.
Comes with: sword, plasma pistol, a bubble of Leadership 8
Miniature: Epic Skarre

Broadsides Bart A bile thrall mutant who likes to tinker with whatever random junk he can find, and occasionally builds something neat. Sensitive about his weight. Enjoys providing fire support and would probably like walking in the woods if he'd ever seen a real tree.
Comes with: heavy stubber, Inventor
Miniature: slightly converted (read: currently broken) Bile Thrall

Caustus The biggest, fattest, scariest and most self-important bile thrall in the Underhive, or at least the parts of it he's been to. His internal acids are so potent (and radioactive) that he's somehow turned his stomach into a nuclear reactor and uses it to power a rapid-firing laser gun the size of a pistol.
Comes with: another heavy stubber, as of late
Miniature: heavily converted Bile Thrall

Black Penny Scarred Jenny's younger sister, hungry for some infamy of her own, but not particularly good at generating it.
Comes with: sword and pistol
Miniature: Lilith from Wyrd Miniatures, plus some horns

Sirene o' the Jagged Rocks The competent one, provably capable of decapitating three enemy gangers in one swing. Murphy's law says she'll never manage it again, of course.
Comes with: sword, pistol, WS5
Miniature: Warwitch Siren

Esmerelda She just really, really likes pirates. Was a bit disappointed when she found out they didn't actually own a ship.
Comes with: sword, pistol, Toughness 4 for some reason
Miniature: Deneghra

Brains A little more undead than he prefers to admit, Brains is a decent shot, but ruins it all by refusing to aim for anything other than the head.
Comes with: lasgun, Escape Artist, infra-red sight (Belly's gonna get cha!)
Miniature: Bile Thrall

Meat Boy Blessed with an indomitable spirit, cursed with absolutely everything else. Uses his lame leg, lack of skin and hideous bloated form to disguise himself as a beggar, hiding in plain sight from the many, many people he owes money to.
Comes with: lasgun, Infiltration, a leg wound
Miniature: Bile Thrall (in fetching red)

Mad Norman, a.k.a. Pipistrelle Man Sometimes thinking he's a superhero, always completely insane, Mad Norman swoops around on his asbestos cape throwing frag grenades and singing happily. Has been known to nyan for an entire battle.
Comes with: frag grenades, bludgeon'n'knife, Catfall, Leap, a right arm held together with rusty staples
Miniature: Gorman diWulfe

Carnis Scutum, Manducat Plumbum, and Humana Murum People richer than Scarred Jenny who she seduced, killed and/or exhumed and turned into undead slaves. Carnis was an Arbites Captain and seems to get cleverer each time he dies. Manducat was a Spyrer from uphive and not a very nice person; his original killer left a machete-shaped hole in his head that doesn't do much for his already-poor personality. Humana used her friendly-housewife demeanour to disguise being the head of an enormous crime syndicate. Between them, they serve little purpose beyond getting in the way of projectiles, a task they are well-suited to performing.
Comes with: very little. Carnis earned himself a bludgeon recently.
Miniature: various Mechanithralls

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So yeah, that's my gang! Of course, now that I've gone and written them all up nicely (I have a Word document with their stats and fluff and everything), I bet 3 of them die in the next game, including at least one of my favourite ones. That's Necromunda for you. At least it was a fun way to waste a Monday

[Paroecia]

I'll do my own thread later, how about pictures?
And battle reports?

[Adam]

Good idea, if you have them!

[Adam]

Shall we treat Disarm as destroying a weapon for the duration of a battle, rather than permanently? Only I've just gained two gangers with it, and I don't want to be depriving people of their hard-earned weapons considering how expensive everything is in this game. We can assume that if the disarmed person survives, they'll be able to fetch their stuff at some point.

[Paroecia]

I can't see anyone complaining - after all it will only be to their benefit.

[Adam]

Awesomely, Scarred Jenny actually has Horrible Scars now. This also makes her cause fear, which is pretty awesome because out of all my gang she's the only one anyone's ever heard of and has quite the scary reputation. Fluffwise, that is; she's only ever killed like one person in-game, despite getting involved in a shootout while carrying TWO plasma weapons (damn 1s to wound!). To contrast, Sirene's averaging 2-3 kills per game.

[Adam]

I thought I'd best collect all the house rules and conventions we seem to have adopted (at least from my viewpoint). Feel free to add more - I'm bound to have forgotten some - or tell me I'm wrong, but these seem about right:

- A model may take a Ld test to avoid being pinned if the wound roll is failed. (Regardless of whether there's anyone within 2", etc.)
- The 90 degree arc of sight rule is being ignored; all models can see 360 degrees. (We don't seem to be paying attention to this rule, and I'm fine with that; you can exploit it to abuse the targeting rules, which is all well and good in Warmachine but doesn't feel right in Necromunda.)
- A model may not be affected twice by the same skill or special rule, whether on itself or another model. So, for instance, a model can't have Parry twice, re-roll a serious injury result twice due to two Medics, make two Inventor rolls, benefit from two Armourers, etc. (This should *really* be in the rulebook, but I don't think it is.)
- Skills which multiply a characteristic each grant a bonus based on the character's base characteristic, and are not applied one after the other. For instance, a model with Berserk Charge (x2 attacks on the charge) which is frenzying (x2 attacks on the charge) who has 3 Attacks gains +3 from Berserk and +3 from frenzy, not +6, so that one dude Chris has gets 10 attacks on the charge rather than 13 (he has two hand weapons as well!). Likewise, Steve's uber lasgun action hero with Rapid Fire and Fast Shot fires three times, not four. The idea is that each such upgrade increases your modifier to x2, x3, x4, etc, rather than x2, x4, x8... (This is another thing that should really *really* be in the book! The reason I suggest this slightly odd interpretation is because you can argue either way - it's also possible to read the rules as implying that they don't stack at all. This allows characters to get their epic bonuses, but limits the sheer obscenity of it all.)

[James]

Just one point: the only time 'arcs of vision' ever become important is when dealing with sentries. Because then it's just entertaining.

[Paroecia]

On the subject of house rulings, as I invented (rather than brought) a weapon reload, and assuming that I choose the type of weapon it works for, does it have to be a type of weapon the gang owns. i.e. can I declare it to be a Lascannon reload (Lascannons being the most expensive weapons) and then immediately sell it for 100 credits?
(The Smiley is supposedly cheesy)
And yes, if it does, I'm probably going to do that, putting the credits towards the 'Heavy weapons for Heavies' fund.
(R.S'Aar is more than happy to accept donations from Scarred Jenny, Mad Norman, Ridley, or any other (non-)friendly local gang members)

[Adam]

Ah yeah, sentries. Fair enough. It also sort of matters for whatshisname, Phanta Claws, but only in that it makes him even more unfair, so we'd better ignore that.

I did remember a couple more of our house rules recently:
- When you roll to wound in close combat, and you're dual-wielding, just make all the wound rolls with whichever weapon you choose (but you don't get the bonuses from both, i.e. if your offhand weapon's a sword and your main's a bludgeon you don't get S4 and Parry; buy a chainsword, you cheapskate).
- The Disarm rule, where it only disables the weapon for the length of the game, not permanently.

[Adam]

Ok, what's everyone's Gang Rating by this point? Mine's somehow become 2721...

[Paroecia]

The Black Chamber is at 3083 - and yes, I still need to update my thread.
I blame Phanta Claws, a good income result after that battle, and that Lascannon power pack - they financed the Heavy Plasma gun, which is of course 285 on its own. Mind you one set of explosive crackers isn't included, but the infra-red goggles for the same cost are -> infra-red goggles + initiative 5 = super-sentry (assuming he doesn't moonwalk into a raider).