Intro to Necromunda Part 3: Choosing Your Gang

[@CommanderCheapSkate]

Keep spreading the good word!

[@anarchistkobold4375]

I just got into 40k, wanted to make a really punk rock army, so went GsC with alot of Escher models and bits to make it unique - and now looking to play Necromunda. Thanks for such amazing content! Your passion is infectious

[@kayraurkmez2032]

Yeah genestealer cults are a great way to start! You can play normal 40k, kill team, necromunda with just one army. I think thats pretty awesome

[@CastironWhisky]

Both your video and make up are top tier!

[@crimson_oracle]

Thank you 😊

[@stuartbanana5083]

Banana Rampage is Here for this! Been doing the Hyper Fixation game with Necromunda these past two years and lDome Runners” has been a big part of that! Haven’t had the pleasure of playing a single game yet, but shoot, hoping I can Shanghai my brother and friends into spilling some blood in the Underhive soon. Thank you for the continued content Crimson Oracle! Your hard work and time are appreciated!!

[@crimson_oracle]

It’s well worth deep diving, there’s so much to build and convert and so many ways to approach it, I think I have 20ish gangs at this point 😂

[@nickmartin1882]

Now the best Necromunda podcast has a KZbin channel! Keep up the good work!

[@99Blocks]

Complete newbie to the game with no idea which gang to play but this video has helped answer a ton of my questions. Thanks!

[@nickfulwood6384]

Super glad to have found a lefty 40k channel!

[@crimson_oracle]

Haha yeah we’re not as common but we exist!

[@nickfulwood6384]

@@crimson_oracle I feel like there should be more, given the origins of the setting, but it looks like we'll need to wait like a Genestealer Cult instead lol

[@allconsuminghat-]

@@crimson_oracle Eyy. I was pretty sure since you were using a bunch of Marxist terminology (which happens to be the most useful at accurately describing this stuff), but nice to have it confirmed.

[@jakubburzynski4497]

Great video! That’s true necromunda can be overwhelming. I’m just getting into you, videos like yours helps a lot, thank you!

[@sizenmass6777]

having recently played necromunda I'm hooked! much appreciate the in depth guide to the gangs very helpful to a noob like me ...

[@verityverri6506]

Came for the Necromunda lore, stayed for the flag, subscribed for the COMRADERY!

[@crimson_oracle]

✊

[@robertspears8301]

Great video. I appreciate the overview of the gangs. My son and I are going to start playing. Looking forward to more! Subb'ed

[@TejrnarG]

I am planning the same! Just bought some Necromunda books and two gangs. My son is 2 months old now, so I have some time to paint them. ; )))

[@bramdelorijn8460]

Good informative video, just started Necromunda myself.

[@henry36786]

300 subs! Congratulations!

[@crimson_oracle]

Yes! I love hitting milestones

[@cymrodave]

Just getting in to necromunda and loving your channel 😁👍🏻

[@crimson_oracle]

Thanks! If you ever have any specific questions, don’t be afraid to ask

[@josefmoran20]

Glad I found this channel. Coming from the podcasts it’s great to put a face to the voice. Love your content keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@janklevaivancic4263]

Nice content, keep it up ;) About Goliaths: while it is true that Goliaths 'base stats' and skills lean heavily into making them into CC tanks, Gene-smithing does enable Goliaths to 'customise' their stats and skill access (specifically Unborns and Natborn Adaptive mind/Alpha lineage upgrades) as much as Venator gangs, which means if you want, you can make a very competent 'elite shooty Goliath gang' (use Natborn Prime specimen upgrade on normal gangers to make them BS 3+ at creation and give them Grenade launchers, Shotguns and Bolters), but your main drawback will be that you are usually outnumbered (if you lean on Gene-smithing your starting 1000 creds gang will usually top at 6-7 fighters-those gene-upgrades stack up costs very fast, especially if you go for an 'all Natborn' gang). Also if you wanted to lose friends fast, they are the gang that can 'spam' Overseer (not on your Forge tyrant) the most: Natborn Forge bosses with either Alpha lineage or Adaptive mind can choose Overseer at creation (freeing up the Tyrant to go all in for 'killy-ness') or if you're more of the forward planning type, you can simply get Natborn Bullies/Prospects with Alpha lineage and choose Overseer as soon as they gain 9 XPs. Alternatively if you are more of a 'role player' Gene-smithing does allow you to adapt your gang to almost any 'back ground' you may think of and represent in-game Sqats (all Vatborns with Doc's experiment +1T -1M), Orks (all Vatborns with Dermal hardening), Scavvies/muties (all Vatborns with assorted + and - stat modification upgrades), Ratskins (make them all Unborn with cunning), ecc... Overall I agree with your assessment that Goliaths need proper forethought, but that makes them a great gang for experienced players, since you can explore many different play-style or role play archetypes with the proper Gene upgrades. Cheers:)

[@crimson_oracle]

It's true, the gene smithing really is a fantastic system, if dense, I like what you're thinking there with using them as kind of a toolkit to make other stuff, I've long wanted to use the various gang specific abilities from the House of books to make a sort of mega character creator for Inquisitor 28 that combines all the various genetic manipulation, augmentics, toxins, faith powers, psychic powers etc into a way to make a small, elite team for inquisitorial missions, maybe throw them against hordes of basic cultists or zombies in a kind of PVE game

[@tofathi195]

Love your channel i have never played but i have assembled and painted all gangs according the box i wonder if i should get another box of each team along with the weapons

[@crimson_oracle]

In general 2 boxes of the core gang + weapons pack and 1 pack of the expansion will give you just about everything you could ever want to play with, it’s definitely not mandatory though

[@tofathi195]

@@crimson_oracle I guess so, fomo is a factor though, i do not want when i start to play not to be able to have them. I would like to ask you if i should get the books, for lore and gameplay and if we expect a new edition and a reboot.

[@crimson_oracle]

@@tofathi195 since it’s GW, I never say never with reboots, but the current campaign books are still heavily expanding on the existing rules and we still don’t have house vehicles for half of the houses, so I suspect they’ll continue to iterate on the existing ruleset. I know a lot of us would be very weary of starting over after all the work they’ve done to build a ruleset

[@crimson_oracle]

@@tofathi195 since it’s GW, I never say never with reboots, but the current campaign books are still heavily expanding on the existing rules and we still don’t have house vehicles for half of the houses, so I suspect they’ll continue to iterate on the existing ruleset. I know a lot of us would be very weary of starting over after all the work they’ve done to build a ruleset

[@RobertBobNolan]

Great video!! Happy Friday!

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

I do hope somewhere in future we see some of the House improvements to gangs given to the sidegangs like Venators or those of Book of Ruin. Many of these subgangs lack things like Gang Tactics to call their own minus the GW free printout tactics, and I can picture some interesting ideas for Brute models involving Helot, Corpse Grinder or Genestealer Cult addons using the pre-existing lines. Maybe it'll be something addressed for the gangs during some of the content related to Ash Waste? I dunno, but I can dream, even if it winds up as just like Corpse Grinders and Palentines that get the bulk of it.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

I will add that putting down GSC for lack of Dark Ritual is also a bit odd personally, as GSC seems more overall solid as a general fighting outlaw gang than helots are, and the ritual bonuses while nice don't really tend to add too much in the shortterm compared to things like extra arm, being able to hire your special fighter (abberants) directly with no limits, and some of the nasty industrial/heavy weapon options (though their psyker limited based on leader choice is kinda eh). Then again I've mostly just got the books and haven't put stuff to practice yet with either my Van Saars or my handful of cultist models so maybe I'm the asshole here.

[@crimson_oracle]

Agreed. While I definitely want new rules for the rest of the gangs that haven’t been released yet (scavies etc) I do hope they find a way to work in new lists for existing gangs who haven’t been updated post “House of”, maybe in white dwarf or something. And I should be clear I don’t think lack of dark ritual or mutation mechanics etc make GSC worse than helots, just that their rules overall are a little more generic than the Chaos cults got

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

@@crimson_oracle I suppose that's fair, GSC flair mostly comes in Third Arm and Abberants, or maybe rolling house favor for a Purestrain, which quickly loses it's points when a house gang can just get the Secundus look themselves for most of those benefits. 100% calling they'll add Jackals or maybe even the Ridgerunner for Ash Wastes at least regarding GSC, that should help some of the flavor.

[@crimson_oracle]

@@gratuitouslurking8610 that’s my hope too, I used bikes with modified grav cutter rules in the last game I arbitrated and they were a lot of fun

[@amsfountain8792]

How many miniatures you need to form a gang? There are 10 miniatures per box and I dont know if they are enough. Do i need to buy two boxes?

[@crimson_oracle]

Most starting gangs are under 10 models, that said many gangs have 2 boxes and it’s generally a good idea to get both eventually as it gives you more options. What gang were you looking at?

[@aniek4851]

Super helpful video for someone shopping around for their first gang like I am. After reading the short story 'the birth of hunger' by David Annandale I've been super keep on the corpse grinder guild and now i have a better understanding of how they would play on the table top. Thank you =)

[@crimson_oracle]

Glad to help! I have a podcast episode where we talked more in depth about playing them on the tabletop if you ever want to do a deeper dive: domerunners.buzzsprout.com/791084/9474557-episode-45-corpse-grinders-pt-2

[@claas3781]

Nice videos, thanks a lot!

[@adamr8319]

My main is Escher and my 2nd is Palanite Enforcers but I probably would have picked a different gang for my 2nd instead of the Palanite Enforcers after this vid :P

[@nicholassawyer6023]

Sinned for more necromunda

[@nicholassawyer6023]

Subbed lol

[@kallathor3863]

Great vid, could not find the link for parts 1 and 2… keep up

[@crimson_oracle]

Good call, I added those to the episode description and I’ve linked them here: Intro to Necromunda Pt. 1: What is Necromunda kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIS3poSChNaIntU Intro to Necromunda Pt. 2: Stats & Turn Structure kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJTXdoqIa9OnnsU

[@cammo1397]

Thanks. Good intro

[@karalas]

House cawdor fire heavy cross bow at point blank and maniacally laugh while praying to the scatter dice gods

[@gamerpro8854]

If I want to make my own custom gang, I'm guessing i got for Venator gang option? I'm making it to where its future western gang look.

[@crimson_oracle]

Yeah venators and outcasts both work for that, venators If you want more flexibility in how you equip everyone and outcasts if you wanted to have a very customizable leader and more basic, less customizable gangers

[@gamerpro8854]

@@crimson_oracle thanks man wanted to do that since I played red dead redemption 2 a lot and have future space cowboys.

[@zombieheadsyndicate]

I seriously want to play this, but lack people locally. Any way of playing this online?

[@crimson_oracle]

There is a discord community for playing on Tabletop Simulator called Necromunda Online

[@jammyydodgeruwu2083]

spread warhammer propaganda throughout your community

[@TheCamolegs]

Love your content bro - keep it up!! Idea for a video: monsters of the ash wastes and proxy models? Again, love your work dude

[@crimson_oracle]

Definitely something I want to tackle, I’ve been working on a few beasts so my ash wastes nomad player has some options for counts as vehicles, definitely trying to decide what to use for their brute rn

[@forthebowies]

"...as with any kind of subversion." UGH!

[@digitalwastrel]

Good stuff, very comprehensive breakdown of the many many gang options for this great game! To do a bit of uncouth self promotion I did my own video on the Goliath Genesmithing options: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5SZlnmQfMefrck The amount of customization can be a bit overwhelming but it's a really fun system and really lets you create some interesting fighters!

[@verityverri6506]

Me and my husband (both trans) were about to start a Necromunda game (opr rules but who cares?) and I was looking for a summary of the gangs. I found your channel and show them the profile picture. We were both like "yeah. Yeah, found the channel."

[@crimson_oracle]

Glad to have you!

[@oreoteabaggins6184]

not that I couldn't understand but I think you tad over-explain things with unorthodox words kinda takes away from what your trying to say just some friendly critique.

[@messergabel]

Are you wearing Make-up?

[@ja37d-34]

I wanr Orks..

[@crimson_oracle]

Agreed, I have them on my list of home-brew projects so, stick around!

[@ja37d-34]

@@crimson_oracle Ah yeah?? ;:) Would love that.