Some folks in the club started talking about Necromunda again, and I love that game so I got involved. Once again though, I have the choice between my Orlocks (who have been my first love) and my Cawdor (who I never loved, but who look way better). I sent out a link to my last old models post, to give people an idea of what my Orlocks actually looked like. Someone was disappointed that there were actually no photos of Orlocks in that link, so in order to procrastinate painting some more I thought I’d take some photos! I don’t remember exactly when I painted these. It was after the Dark Elves for sure, but before I worked at GW and learned a lot about thinning paints. 🙂
After I finished painting them, these 4 juves were in every gang list I made. They were cheap, and as long as you didn’t get into close combat they were almost as effective as a ganger. I tended to run them in pairs so they could support each other if they got into combat. I also really love the models!
Gangers have always felt kind of interchangeable to me. Sure, these guys all have different weapons, but in the end you just put them on the table and hope that the weapon you’re holding is good enough to hurt the person standing across from you.
I love this leader model too, although I’m disappointed that the new Community Edition rules don’t allow his meltagun in the initial gang. If I run Orlocks, I’m going to convert something I think. Boltgun/sword is a good combo for a leader. I’m surprised to find the stubber merely primed, since the rest of the gang is actually painted and I ran him in every list I made until I picked up a plasma gun (see further down).
These guys have a variety of stories. The pit slave on the left is likely a model that doesn’t belong to me, I think it’s actually Gavin’s. The dude next from the left is a conversion I made from a tank commander body and some plastic legs and a bolt pistol and flamer and I used him either as a scum or mercenary (I forget which). Gavin had the exact same conversion and I thought it was so cool I made my own. The next model in is a pyromancer, whenever I ran him he didn’t do to much. And lastly the guy on the far right I think ran as a telekinetic because I thought they seemed cool. He’s just an Empire wizard model from that era, I think.
After a large number of games, I got tired of running the same weapons over and over again and bought some Catachans to get some more weapons. I don’t really like them as Orlock replacements, as the Orlock models are a lot less “beefy”. Still, they aren’t bad.
Lastly, and this is also disappointing, two special edition models I grabbed at some point. It’s Scabs from the Kal Jericho comics and a PDF trooper, I think. The disappointing part is that I can’t find Kal!! Likely he was at Gavin’s at some point and now he has my Kal and I have his pit slave. Poor trade. 😛
As for the photography, there’s something missing from these photos. They don’t have the “luminescent” quality that I think they should have. Possibly my lights were poorly angled or not strong enough. I like the last photo, but not the other five.
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Muskie
January 6, 2020 at 10:43 pmI always played Escher. They were one of the last core gangs to come out in metal so Necromunda is one of the only games i played with proxy unpainted figs. I eventually converted my gang including grenader Juves which was a tactic I used to use, I still remember they were 65 points, 25 for the juve and I guess 40 for frag grenades. Now the online experts seem to imply you shouldn’t go for random skills and it seems like you can buy core statistics and better guns rather than relying on luck. They also have optimal armaments recommended. I doubt I’m going to reconvert the old metal models but I bought new ones which are likely bigger so I can try the new gear. There are so many more plastic kits and bits you can use to convert your gang, but hopefully gangers live longer. Gorka was always better that way. Too often in Bloodbowl and Necro you’d get a good guy going, you’d convert them and paint them and the next game your opponent would just stomp that one model into the dirt, one of my original Night Runner’s suffered that fate, Shifty. I think I was more careful with my Necro gangers, a lot of the old game was using cover and not running away. Bloodbowl was the worst for spending an entire half getting pummelled, to combat that I invented my famous lie down defence, because you can only foul one guy a turn, so why bother even standing up. The other big problem was the league folding as people losing stopped playing…