GW has revealed the Necromunda: Ash Wastes Cargo-8 Ridgehauler which looks to be quite customizable- check out the new vehicle!
Back at AdeptiCon, GW revealed the new starter box for the Ash Wastes, but obviously, that’s not everything that will be coming out for the game! If you were hoping for some ramshackle vehicle combat, then this is going to be right up your alley. As it almost looks like something the Orks would make.
Warhammer Community unveiled the new vehicle along with some of what to expect in terms of options for the new addition. Let’s first check out all the rumors for this and what else will be going down with the game, then get into the new stuff!
What We’ve Seen so Far
The final entry in the LVO preview is Necromunda, and it explores the inhospitable region of the Ash Wastes. Nothing in the way of miniatures were revealed, but the video associated with this release is done in a comic book style, and according to the Preview Team, may have some hints about possible miniatures to come.
So great are the distances between hives that even the most athletic gang won’t get far on foot, so what vehicles can be scraped together will serve your gangers well in the trials to come
Get ready to leave the hive behind… soon!
RUMORS: New Necromunda Ash Wastes Truck Spotted!
The Reddit post is about how the Genestealer Cults could take over the vehicle. Obviously, by the name of the expansion from GW, it’s all about the gangs that control the Ash Wastes. Still, if it’s a new fast-moving vehicle, it could easily be for GSC or might even have some cross-over rules for 40k. However, it’s looking more human for now, but who knows what rules they will add in the future.
We also know GW does not like to make art if there aren’t minis, the pic on the left is from a recent Rumor Engine, and the pic on the right is from the recent trailer. They match up pretty perfectly, and from the looks of it, the model will be really close to the artwork.
Then from another pic, it looks like the armored containers kit from GW will actually fit on the back. That makes us believe this is going to be some kind of flatbed trailer and that looks to be an option in the new kit!
This would be really cool if you could kitbash it like this, or maybe there will be a container from the Ash Wastes set made specifically for this. Again, it looks like our hopes have come true.
A New Setting
Necromunda: Underhive hit the streets back in 2017, with the action focusing on the “classic” setting – the tunnels and domes of the lower reaches of Necromunda’s miles-high hive cities. Two years later the biggest boxed game we’d ever done came along in the form of Necromunda: Dark Uprising, taking the action into the hellish guts of a cannibal rebellion – just another day in the underhive! These were both followed by the Necromunda: Hive War box just last year.
And now we head to the Ash Wastes – the biggest thing to happen to Necromunda since the 2017 relaunch.
That’s a big statement! We’ll have to wait and see some more reveals, but just that statement alone means this is going to be huge. Let’s hope the boxset doesn’t disappoint with that in mind.
This toxic, rad-scoured landscape is too expansive to fit into a single book. In fact, the wastes are so vast we’re introducing them with a massive new boxed set, which will be followed soon after by a whole series of books exploring the factions that battle across the wastes.
If you were hoping for more true underhivers soon, well, it looks like you won’t be getting them anytime soon. From the looks of the graphic, we’ll be seeing at least three books and another box here sometime in 2022 or possibly 2023.
Necromunda: Ash Wastes Cargo-8 Ridgehauler Revealed!
And now the big reveal, behold the Necromunda: Ash Wastes Cargo-8 Ridgehauler!
So why head outside at all? Simple – there’s plunder to be had. The surface of Necromunda is criss-crossed with trade routes between all the various hives, spaceports, bastions, and trade centres. Goods from the hive manufactories are ferried across the poisoned wastes on great land trains. There’s money to be made from protecting the Guild of Coin’s Cargo-8 Ridgehaulers, which are juicy targets both for the nomadic denizens of the Ash Wastes and for gangs of underhive bandits.
This could make for some super fun raids and we can only imagine how important the cargo inside is to take this risk! Plus, the kit just looks really fun!
Yes, that is a Munitorum Armoured Container in the back. And yes, there are rules for upgrades, armaments, and various common cargos. In fact, this is just the cab – Ridgehaulers are highly customisable, and can be fitted out with up to four trailers bristling with heavy weaponry, extra armour, and other defensive boondoggles to your gang’s own specifications (and the depth of its pockets). You can build your own custom train!
It would be awesome to see one of these with four trailers and a whole gang trying to take it out and plunder everything!
Crucially, Ridgehaulers are owned and operated by the Guild of Coin – those are their hoodlums manning the gun turrets, who must be hired as specialist drivers and crew. However, any gang can hire them – except Ash Waste Nomads, who prefer to rob them than ride them. And as the campaign proceeds, you can trick your Ridgehauler further with things like nitro burners, all-wheel steering, crash cages, and lots and lots of guns.
That’s cool every gang can take them, the only downside is GW mentioned the coming months when talking about the kit. so this might still be quite a way off from hitting shelves…
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