Year of the Rat - Campaign Update

Necromunda – Necromunda can be a brutal game. Part of the fun is seeing your guys get better over time and/or your enemies get worse. Most of the time things even out over the course of a campaign particularly if you’re playing enough games in a cycle to generate income and experience. With a good number of games under you’re belt losing a model hurts but you can typically play catch up with most of the houses as they get the Settlement to recruit Juves from.

One of the Necromunda Campaigns I’m taking part in is a Dominion Campaign that meets once a month to play 1-2 games. For that campaign I opted to play Enforcers against a Van Saar, Healot Cult and Corpse Grinder Cult. The first month things went ok and we worked out the kinks with a multi=player game.

This month however things took a dramatic turn for me. We played a three-player “Tunnel FIght” on multi level board. We house-ruled a triangular deployment so everyone had relatively the same distance between them, and infiltrators had plenty of options. The game seemed to be going well with my Enforcer teams working together to take out a few models. That was until the Corpse Grinder Leader joined the fray. Some nasty combats saw my leader and one of my champs in need of medical care and one of my patrolmen in recovery. During the post-game sequence I had to pay out all my credits to visit the Doc who couldn’t save either model. So essentially my gang was gutted.

In a normal duration campaign I could probably come back from this. Because they died at the Doc I keep their equipment and get a single Rookie that I could gear up, and my remaining champ could take on the leader role. It wouldn’t be easy but I might be able to keep myself in the game.

However since we’re only getting together once a month and this was only the second game, I’m retiring this gang and starting over. With the infrequency that we’re playing I’ll struggle to catch up and won’t have much fun in the campaign, So instead I’m going to found a new gang. I’ll be tw games behind, but the odds are better that I could catch up from the baseline rather than being down 1/3 of my crew.