What Necromunda Needs!

I play several table top games, still today my favourite are the small skirmish games. Like Wild West exodus, Dead zone, and of course Necromunda. The smaller scope means games are shorter and you also deliver a great narrative too.

However there is something games workshop can learn from both mantic and warcradle, that is their starting kits. These are not the starter boxes, such showdown at retribution and the dead zone equilivent. But a starter kit that in cludes all you need to to play the game, with out the models. In the dead zone version you get the core rules book, the force list book, and the counter sheet. In the wild west exodus one you get, the rule book, action card deck, adventure card deck, template set, tokens, counters, and the dice. Mantic also does this for Firefight, as warcradle does with dystopian wars and mythos games.

As mentioned before they do have their starter sets, but what if don't want the factions in these boxes. Mantic for kings of war, do a whole range of boxes with different forces. It is why I got the war in the holds box. I like the goblins and ratkin. Where as the showdown in retribution box, I'm not a fan of either the union or enlightened, the new models look great. They just aren't my choices to start with, lawmen and warrior nations, just incase you were wondering. Necromunda I only like cawdor. So unless you want to start with delaque or escher, you are still going to be paying the same amount as hive war. If you get everything separately. I literally had to guess £15 for the templates, but lets go through it. Gang £28, rule book £37.50, dice £24. We are at £89.50. There is no reason to go down this route and means starting is going to be cheaper (barely) just to get the hive war box.

Deadzone, starter set is £90. Rulebooks and counter £30, force £25, dice £10, Another £5 for 8 sided dice as mantic don't do them we are £20 less than the starter set. So it would be £5 more if you wish to you two forces. Wild west exodus Showdown at retribution is £85, rules and gubbins box £25, posse £35, For this I chose tribal retribution as I love that box and its is the average price too. So £60 in all, £10 more if you wish to pick two posses.

Now if games workshop did this it would be not only a saving for new players but a great way to get new players in aswell. They don't have to do the faction rules either, make them free online.

Sets like wild west exodus' rules and gubbins give so much freedom to players who do not wish to use the factions included. When you have so much choice in factions why shoe horn players into certain ones, or force them to pay the same amount as a starter set just to go with the ones they want to use.