We teased the Ash Wastes at the Las Vegas Open. We revealed a Nomad Warrior earlier this week. Now it’s finally time to leave the underhive, step into the blistering sunlight, and get a look at the biggest thing to happen to Necromunda since the game’s relaunch in 2017.
Sick of fighting to survive in the claustrophobic confines of the underhive? Want to roam free from busybody Enforcers? Done with a diet of corpse starch and recycled water? Set off into the great outdoors with Necromunda: Ash Wastes, a new boxed set that brings ruthless gang warfare to the barren wild. Contend with howling winds that’ll strip the flesh from your bones, radzones hot enough to cook your blood in seconds, and locals who’ll eat you as soon as look at you. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather stay inside?
This is a brand new, high-speed way of playing Necromunda, with rules for vehicles, mounted fighters, and the lethal weather conditions that you can find out in the Ash Wastes. Along with new ways to play, the box is stuffed full of incredible new miniatures.
The box features House Orlock prospectors duking it out with the Ash Wastes Nomads – a brand new gang native to the hazardous plains beyond the Hive walls. We’ve already glimpsed one of these mysterious desert dwellers, and now it’s time to get a first look at every member of the new gang.
Those thick robes and well-used rebreathers protect the People of the Ash from the harsh environment in which they live – but nothing can protect their enemies when these Nomads launch their attacks. After ambushing brutish intruders or rumbling supply trains, they disappear back into the dunes like a band of wraiths.
This is the first time we’ve ever been outdoors on Necromunda, and the wide-open spaces allow for a completely different type of fighting. The box includes a full gang from the House of Iron, and they’re accompanied by a whole new breed of ganger – time to finally break out the dune buggies!
These Outrider Quads are impressive, but what of the Ash Wastes Nomads? Surely they won’t be left in the (radioactive) dust by their hiver adversaries? Who needs little buggies… when you have big bug-guys?
Saddle up and skitter across the plains on giant fleas! The Dustback Helamites are dynamic creatures who provide an Ash Wastes Nomad gang with speed and tactical flexibility, and their riders hit like a truck (or a truck-sized flea, anyway) with their vicious chain lances – as you’d expect from a spear with a built-in chainsword!
The boxed set also includes a wastelands playing mat and suitably desert-themed scenery for the two gangs to fight over. You can use a variety of weather-worn hab modules and platforms with connecting walkways to create your own modular settlement out in the Ash Wastes.
As anyone who’s ever played Necromunda will tell you, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as shooting an enemy ganger off a raised platform!
On top of a hardback rulebook containing updated core rules and brand new mechanics for battling in the barren lands, you’ll also get all the tokens, templates, cards, and dice (including the new location, damage, and control dice for your vehicles) that you need to play Necromunda: Ash Wastes.
If you thought the underhive was dangerous, you ain’t seen nothing yet! And Necromunda’s not the only game getting some big reveals – check out everything else we’ve shown off at this year’s AdeptiCon.
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