Necromunda- Ash Wastes Vehicle Rules.pdf

VEHICLE RULES

by Chris Ward and Stuart Witter

The ash deserts of Necromunda and the gangs who

may be found there were described in last months

Necromunda Magazine, along with ideas for

converting your gang’s vehicles. This month the

rules for vehicles in your battles in the Ash Wastes are

presented in full. Next issue we’ll talk more about

adding vehicles to your gang roster, but for the time

being we’ve included a section at the end of the rules

with the cost for different types of vehicles so you

can start playing with them straight away!

VEHICLE TYPES

The vast Ash Waste of Necromunda is different in

every way to the hive cities scattered over its surface.

For the most part sweeping plains and shifting dunes

cover the planets surface, although large oceans and

lakes of sludge still exist, often so thick they cannot

be navigated by ships at all. The wastes are desolate

and seemingly lifeless places, yet life does somehow

still manage to survive, in the form of mutated

creatures. . . and the gangs of Nomads, Shanty

Dwellers and other gangs that constantly scour the

planet’s surface looking for mineral deposits, buried

wreckages and convoys to ambush.

The gangs in the Ash Wastes use a variety of vehicles

when moving through the wastes, some simple

wheeled buggies or bikes, some bizarre walking

contraptions that stride over obstacles with ease.

There are four different vehicle types; bikes, light

vehicles, armoured vehicles and heavy armoured

vehicles. These may be one of five motive types;

wheeled, tracked, walker, crawler, or skimmer. The

Vehicle Types table illustrates the possible

combinations of these vehicles. When making your

model it should fit into one of these types.

VEHICLE TYPES TABLE

Bike Light Armoured Heavy Arm’ed

Wheeled Ye s Ye s

Ye s

Tracked No No

Yes

Walker

N o

Ye s

Crawler No No

Yes

Skimmer No Yes

Yes

ASH WASTES

Some vehicles may be made to transport several

models; others are designed for just the driver. A

vehicle may be described as Single Seater which can

only carry the driver, 5-Man which can transport 5

models (including the driver), or Transport, which

can carry an entire gang. For now it is important to

know only that these vehicle types exist; the rules

for buying these vehicles are covered later.

The most important factor when deciding what type

of vehicle a gang has is simply this; it must be

represented by a WYSIWYG model. If you do not

have a model to represent your vehicle then you

must make one. There are no exceptions. Even if

both players agree to use a cardboard template to

represent ‘Johnny’s Walking Death Behemoth’ you

may not do it. Never. Ever. You have to make one,

that’s half the fun!

MOTIVE TYPES

Wheeled Vehicles

These are the most abundant vehicles of the Ash

Wastes. They are simple to make and maintain, and

easy to drive. No special rules apply to wheeled

vehicles.

Tracked Vehicles

Tracked vehicles can be very useful in the desert.

They can find grip where a wheeled vehicle might

fail, and are able to easily travel over rough terrain.

However, they are harder to maintain and are

slower. Tracked vehicles are always more heavily

armoured; the very nature of the tracks makes them

harder to damage.

Tracked vehicles may move over difficult terrain

without penalty, and may move over very difficult

ground, at slow speed only, without penalty.

Walkers

Walkers are a technological nightmare. Hard to fix,

near impossible to find parts for and tricky to pilot,

they are nevertheless of great use in uneven ground,

where they can stroll over most rough terrain with

no problems.

Walkers may move with no penalty over difficult and

very difficult ground, and may cross many obstacles

that the model itself could reasonably cross. See the

terrain section for more details.

Crawlers

Crawlers are gargantuan slow moving

platforms that roll perpetually forwards,

crushing all in their path. A variety of special

rules apply to crawlers. Read the rest of the

rules to see how these special abilities come

into play.

1. Crawlers do not move at the same speed

as other vehicles. Instead they move at a

crawl. Crawlers may move up to 3" a turn and

make up to one 45-degree turn.

2. Crawlers never ram other vehicles. If they move

into other vehicles they simply push them aside

with no damage to either the crawler or the other

vehicle.

3. Crawlers can move over any terrain without

penalty. The only things that they cannot simply

move through are buildings or other large

structures. If they move over obstacles such as

barrels or rocks they are destroyed; remove the

scenery from the table.

4. Models may fire move or fire weapons from a

moving crawler as long as the fighter himself hasn’t

moved.

5. Models on foot automatically dodge a crawler if it

moves into them; there is no need to take an

initiative test. Models that are down that a crawler

moves over are automatically taken out of action.

Skimmers

Skimmers are slow hovering platforms that float

from a few inches to waist height above the ground.

Massive turbines or jets propel the skimmer along

over ash, rubble, liquid or whatever. Skimmers

aren’t very popular amongst the gangs roaming the

wastes; they are hard to maintain and use a large

amount of fuel. This inefficiency usually limits their

users to guilders and house prospector teams,

although richer Nomads have been known to keep

skimmers for unusual missions.

Skimmers can ignore the effects of all terrain except

obstacles and certain types of impassable ground.

See the terrain section for more details on this.

MOVEMENT

TERRAIN TYPES

In the Ash Wastes, just as in the Underhive of

Necromunda’s Hive Primus, terrain may be divided

into four types; open ground, difficult ground, very

difficult ground and walls/obstacles.

Open Ground

This ranges from flat ash plains to rolling dunes and

shallow mounds of ash. Open ground may be

moved over as in Necromunda for models on foot.

Vehicles move over open ground with no penalty.

Difficult Ground

Including steep slopes and loose ash.

Models on foot move over difficult

ground as in the Underhive (i.e. half

rate). Vehicles moving at slow speed

suffer no penalty. Vehicles moving at

combat or fast speed must roll a D6

and consult the difficult terrain table,

adding a +1 to the roll, unless the

driver can first roll equal to or under

his initiative on a D6. Tracked

vehicles, skimmers, walkers and

crawlers may move over difficult

ground with no penalty.

Very Difficult Ground

This consists of sludgy ground, deep

ash, shallow pools of chemicals or

effluent, or thick rubble. Models on

foot move over difficult ground as in the Underhive

(i.e. quarter move). Vehicles moving through very

difficult ground must roll a D6 and consult the

difficult terrain table unless the driver can first pass

an initiative test by rolling equal to or under his

initiative on a D6. Tracked vehicles may move

through very difficult ground at slow speed with no

penalty. Walkers, Skimmers and Crawlers may all

cross very difficult ground with no penalty.

Impassable Ground

Terrain such as steep rocky cliffs, rivers of sludge

and deep pools of acid cannot be crossed by either

models on foot or vehicles. Skimmers may cross

pools or rivers of any depth, but any models that fall

off and land in the liquid are taken immediately out

of action. Buildings and other man made structures

are also considered impassable ground for vehicles;

models on foot may well be able to enter.

Walls/Obstacles

Included in this category are any obstacles over 1"

high, or that could reasonably prevent a vehicle

from crossing. Models on foot cross obstacles as in

the Underhive (i.e. they give up half their move).

Vehicles may not attempt to cross obstacles. A little

common sense is required here; if the vehicle looks

as if it could reasonably shove aside or break

through the obstacle with no ill effects (e.g. a flimsy

fence), then it should be able to do so. Decide

before the game which obstacles prevent vehicle

movement, depending on the terrain in your

collection.

DIFFICULT TERRAIN TABLE

Speed

Slow

Combat Fast

1-2

The driver loses control and the vehicle swerves before

spinning wildly out of control. Roll a D6 to see which

way the vehicle swerves; 1-3 it swerves 45 degrees left,

4-6 it swerves 45 degrees to the right. The vehicle then

moves forward D6" before coming to halt facing a

random direction. Roll a scatter dice to see which way

the vehicle ends facing. The vehicles move ends here.

Any models on board may not shoot this turn and may

not dismount from the vehicle. If models on board are

fighting in a boarding action continue as normal.

1-3

2-4

3-5

The driver wrestles with the vehicle’s steering before

bringing it under control. The vehicle swerves. Roll a

D6 to determine which direction it swerves; 1-3 it

swerves 45 degrees to the left, 4-6 it swerves 45 degrees

to the right. Following the swerve the model may

continue to move as normal. Models on board may not

shoot this turn, but may dismount or fight in boarding

actions as normal.

The driver negotiates the terrain superbly. The vehicle

may continue its move as normal

Walkers may cross an obstacle if the model could

conceivably step over it, again more common sense

is needed here. Skimmers may not cross obstacles

as they float barely off the ground. Crawlers are

special. They move forwards crushing anything in

their path with their broad tracks or massive

wheels. As such, any walls or obstacles that a

crawler moves over are destroyed – remove the

scenery piece from the board. Remember, obstacles

and walls does not include buildings and larger

structures, just decide before the game which of

your scenery counts as obstacles and which is

impassable.

MOVING

SPEEDS

As mentioned above, all vehicles have a motive type

that governs their maximum speed. This will

determine whether the top speed of your vehicle is

slow, combat or fast speed. Some vehicles, such as

heavily armoured trucks or similar may only be able

to move at slow speed, whereas light bikes, quad

buggies or comparable vehicles may be able to

move at fast speed. See the max speed table to find

out the maximum speed of your vehicle.

In the movement phase of your turn you may move

any of your vehicles that are currently in action (not

disabled or destroyed). Before moving each vehicle

decide how fast you will move it; slow, combat or

fast speed. The characteristics of each vehicle

dictate its top speed, you may not declare a speed

faster than that allowed for the relevant vehicle type

in the table below. Note that you should declare

how fast you intend to move at the beginning of

each vehicles move. It may be worth using some

kind of coloured counter or marker to remind

players the speed that each vehicle is moving.

MAXIMUM SPEED TABLE

Bike Light Armoured Heavy Arm’ed

Wheeled Fast Fast

Combat

Slow

Tracked N/A N/A

Combat

Slow

Walker

N/A Combat

Slow

Crawler N/A N/A

N/A

Crawl

Skimmer N/A Slow

Slow

SLOW SPEED

All vehicles (with the exception of crawlers – see

Vehicle Types) are able to move at slow speed. At

slow speed you may move your vehicle up to 6" in

the movement phase and make up to four 45-

degree turns. Turns may be combined in any way

you choose; for example you could make two 90-

degree turns or one 180-degree turn. Turns may be

made at any point during the vehicles move. At slow

speed a vehicle may also use a portion or its entire

move in reverse gear, to manoeuvre in a tricky

situation or run down models behind the vehicle

for example. Treat any moves in reverse just as you

would for slow speed, but move the vehicle

backwards.

COMBAT SPEED

Some vehicles are able to move at combat speed. At

combat speed you may move your vehicle up to 12"

in the movement phase and make up to two 45-

degree turns (or combinations).

FAST SPEED

A few vehicles, such as bikes and light vehicles can

move at fast speed. At this speed vehicles move 12"

(no more or less) in the movement phase and may

make up to one 45-degree turn. However, this is

not all. Immediately following

the shooting phase any fast

vehicles may move additionally –

up to a further 12". If the vehicle

did not use its turn earlier it may

make up to one 45-degree turn.

This means that in total the

vehicle may be moved between

12" and 24" and turn once up to

45-degrees. Note that this move

is an extra phase – it takes place

after shooting and before hand-

to-hand combat.

TURNING

It is important to note at this

point that vehicles are always

pivoted about their midpoint

when moving. This prevents

really picky (and beardy!) players

from moving unfairly.

In addition note that vehicles in

extreme circumstances do not

have to be turned exactly 45-

degrees and combinations are permitted. For

example, when weaving through rocks or debris a

vehicle may turn once 20-degrees and then 25-

degrees, even at fast speed. This is because

movement in real life is a fluid motion, vehicles do

not stop, pivot and turn; the rules just try to cover

this in the most realistic way possible.

VEHICLES WITHOUT A DRIVER AND OUT OF

CONTROL VEHICLES

If a vehicle is in the unfortunate situation that it has

no driver, either because he is pinned, down, out,

thrown out of the vehicle or whatever the vehicle is

referred to as Out of Control. Out of Control

vehicles are moved at the start of the movement

TAILING

By ending the movement of one of your vehicles

in your turn within 2" of the rear of an opposing

vehicle you may declare you are going to tail. You

may move to this 2" tailing position either during

the movement phase or the special phase for fast

vehicles. Note that to tail an opposing vehicle you

must finish your move facing roughly the same

way as it, in other words you must have your nose

to their tail. A tailing vehicle cannot make turns

unless the lead vehicle makes one to follow, so a

tail cannot be initiated if the chasing vehicle is at

an angle to the other, it would be instantly shook

off. Once in this position you may move the

tailing vehicle in your opponents move as well as

your own. This is done as follows:

As your opponent moves the vehicle you are

tailing, move your vehicle to keep within 2".

However, each time your opponent turns you

must roll 2D6 and get equal to or lower than your

drivers Ld (i.e. take a Ld test). If you pass then you

continue to tail, turn your vehicle to move behind

your opponents as before. If you fail then your

opponent has shaken you off; you are no longer

moved within 2" of the back of his vehicle. Instead

your move ends where your opponent turned

and lost you.

If you attempt to tail a faster vehicle then you are

automatically shaken off as soon as it moves

further than your move would normally allow. For

example if you can only move at slow speed and

your opponent moves 12" (combat or fast speed),

then you move 6" in your opponents turn,

following his vehicle, and your bonus move ends.

Tailers Shooting

If the tailing vehicle keeps with the enemy, they

have them in their sights and take the perfect

opportunity to pour fire into them. Everybody on

board can shoot in the enemies current shooting

phase as well as their own. This extra salvo can

only be directed at the vehicle being tailed

(nobody else at all ever), these shots are taken

before the enemies to boot! Fast vehicles can

keep tailing after the shooting phase, in order to

keep up with another fast vehicle.

Life After Tailing

A vehicle that ends the enemy players turn, still in

a tailing position is now free to move as it wishes.

A vehicle doesn’t have to move at all and can tail

again in the next enemy turn, for shooting

purposes next turn it will count as the speed it

tails at. In practice, however, it is usual to shunt

the vehicle being tailed!

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