The 41st Millennium is full of vital jobs that need doing. From digging through irradiated wastelands in search of ore to grinding up a steady supply of delicious corpse starch, there’s no end to the undervalued and underpaid employment on offer. Now, with the release of Necromunda: The Ash Wastes, we can add long-distance trucking to that list of perilous professions.
It might be a dead planet poisoned by millennia of toxic industry, but Necromunda remains an industrial powerhouse, its towering, smog-wreathed hives manufacturing unfathomable quantities of materiel for the Imperial war machine. Lots of cargo means lots of shipping, and – with relatively few spaceports – lots of shipping means lots of haulage. Enter the Cargo-8 Ridgehauler.
Necromunda is interwoven with trade routes plied by these great land trains – and though they’re a tremendously juicy target for raiders, scavengers, and dune pirates, they’re also a tough nut to crack. Owned and operated by the Mercator Gelt – the Guild of Coin – a Ridgehauler train is usually protected by underhive gangs hired for the purpose.
Any gang* can purchase a Cargo-8 Ridgehauler, and hitch it with up to four trailers. Pick some cargo, hire a crew from the Guild of Coin, and you’re good to go. You can use more than ridealong dune buggies to defend your train – the Ridgehauler is endlessly customisable, with a daunting array of weapons and wargear in the upcoming Book of the Outlands.
A fully loaded Cargo-8 Ridgehauler has five cargo bays, weighing in at 26 Hull Points and bristling with weapon hardpoints. Throw in some smoke launchers, tyre claws, or booby-trapped fuel tanks, and this is a rolling wastelands fortress – any gang of would-be hijackers better hope they remembered to bring along a lascannon…
The Cargo-8 is the tip of a very large iceberg of vehicular carnage bearing down on Necromunda. The Book of the Outlands will be out soon, with comprehensive rules for vehicles of all shapes and sizes.** The Ridgehauler is also on its way, alongside separate cargo trailers and weapon packs.
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* Aside from Ash Wastes Nomads, who’ve yet to find a bug big enough to pull one...
** Anything smaller than a Baneblade or Imperial Knight, anyway.