Necromunda!

I'm going to start a few posts to introduce people to what is easily the best game GW have ever made, Necromunda!

What the hell is Necromunda anyway?

It’s the 41^st Millenium, the Imperium of Mankind holds a million worlds throughout the galaxy, such a massive empire requires lots of sacrifices to be made, whole planets devoted to growing crops, factory worlds and more.

 Necromunda is a Hive World, it has a population of over 100 billion, all cramped in to huge Hive Cities, towering structures that stretch miles into the air and back down into the depths of the planet. The population manufactures mostly weapons, all natural resources long since depleted, they process millions of tons of resources from other worlds and recycle the waste of previous millennia into useable material.

At the top of each of the Hive Cities the richest and most power live, amongst the Spires above the pollution, they live in relative luxury and decadence, far away from the riff raff, below there is the Hive City itself, the countless billions live and work in the factories and recyc-plants, working for the Noble Houses making weapons to meet the ceaseless need of the Departmento Munitorum, scraping out a life as one of the untold cogs working themselves to death for the good of the Imperium.

Then, there are those to whom this life of unceasing work is an unreachable luxury, those who survive in the Under Hive, this is where life is cheap and disposable, people survive by bartering with the Merchant Guilds, scavenging among the refuse piles for a bit of useable tech or material that could be sold on and by grouping together in gangs. Gang warfare is common, gangs align themselves with the Noble Houses, working to do their dirty work in return for patronage and the promise of one day moving up in to the Hive City proper, or perhaps hoping to hit it reach with an archeotech hoard that will raise them up to the Spires.

Ok, so Necromunda is a planet, but isn't it a game?

In the game of Necromunda, you take on the role of one such gang in the Capital Hive City of the eponymous planet, Hive Primus, your gang is usually aligned to the Houses Cawdor, Delaque, Escher, Goliath, Orlock or Van Saar, each have their own history and predilections, from the more technologically advanced Van Saar to the near barbarian House Goliath and each will begin to affect how you play.

The game is designed to be ran as a campaign, with ongoing experience, with your gangers getting better the more they fight, earning credits to buy better weapons and equipment but risking injury and ruin at the same time. You’re aiming to become the biggest and badest gang around but a few bad decisions and luck not going your way will see you plummeting into the Sump with nothing but a rusty autopistol to your name.