Necromunda Gameplay Discussion

[Tom]

Bulging biceps is pretty much compulsory on a guy with a Krumper.

The leader skill that lets you double activate a guy seems hard to pass up. Especially with the way it works with group activations allowing to make a guy take 4 actions.

Not sure what to take for my combat champion. +1A on a charge is solid if a little dull and probably overkill. There's one to take a test not to be pinned when shot, that's probably very helpful when closing distance.

[JAC]

I like trick shot and the one that allows you to shoot as a simple action for Van Saar.

[Dave]

How are people interpreting the two pistols in close combat rules?

The way I am reading it is you count up the number of attacks, for the sake of this example we shall say the model has 1 base attack, has charged(+1) and has two pistols (+1) for a total of 3 attacks. You can assign one of those attacks to ONE of your pistols with the remaining attacks (in this case 2) counting as unarmed.

I am seeing people interpret it as being able to assign 1 attack dice to each pistol and then the third being unarmed.

Thoughts?

[Tom]

The word of the rules definitely say only one attack can be assigned to pistols even if you have two (though the second one still counts for giving you an extra attack).

As is often the way, I don't think that's what they intended them to say though. I think they were just badly trying to articulate that having 3+ attack dice and two pistols may be another reason you have to assign some attacks to unarmed.

I can certainly see no harm in one attack per pistol if you use two.

[Dave]

The rule as written is clear to me which is why I couldn't understand the other interpretation even occurring so just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing anything.

FAQ due early in the new year apparently.

[Dave]

Reading the rules in prep for Tuesday.

Page 61: Injuries

I don’t think this is necessarily controversial but I know I played it wrong (assuming what I’m about to say is right!)

Example:
I shoot your two wound leader with my damage 2 plasma pistol, let’s assume I hit and wound him causing two damage to take his wounds to 0. How many injury dice do I roll? I’m understanding it as two.

Previously I played it, in the scenario above, as only generating one injury dice.

Cheers,
Dave

[Tom]

Yup, rules seem pretty clear that you always roll the weapon’s full dmg stat number of dice.

[Tom]

Sabotage Scenario. The defender picks 5 random fighters... but can designate any number of his gang as ineligible to be picked. So he can pick any 5 he likes effectively!

[Dave]

Sabotage Scenario. The defender picks 5 random fighters... but can designate any number of his gang as ineligible to be picked. So he can pick any 5 he likes effectively!

Yeah that is a bit pointless.

[Tom]

Not an issue we've come across so far but it has been noted that the current rules for template weapons ignore the closest target priority rules.

I'd suggest it would make sense for both fluff and crunch if your initial template placement still needed to be touching the closest enemy (unless cool test etc). What do you reckon?