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    Default Profiting from Necromunda

    Recently I've gotten pumped about the idea of Necromunda.

    I think it will be difficult for Games Workshop to produce Necromunda the same way it was produced back in the day. For one, they no longer make pewter miniatures, and the resin ranges are disappearing. These means of production suit smaller scaled range of miniatures. The company is now geared towards large scale miniature production, many mens and big machines. It would be difficult producing the variety of gang sets that once graced the hives of Necromunda.

    If a customer buys in to a certain gang, it means there are several different gangs they will not be buying. The smaller size of gangs (compared to full armies) means that customers are also buying less models. There’s also the problem of scenery. Necromunda traditionally uses multi-level scenery and all of the Specialty Games of late are supplied with 2D boards.

    An Introductory box set for Necromunda has got to feature models without gang affiliations (like betrayal at Calth was wise enough to do), and a variety of outfitting options. It would be so cool if the gang models had terrain pieces included on the same sprue. Necromunda needs cool terrain. Asking gamers to make it all themselves steals time away from hobbying, and is a missed opportunity to make money. It amps the size of sets that would contain relatively small amount of models. Customers can not avoid acquiring the scenery needed to make the game fun and engaging.

    The coolest thing they could do is change the sprue so that all the gates (paths plastic is poured through) looks like terrain junk. People often use the excess plastic left over in the sprue to make terrain, but what if that excess stuff came already looking like ladders and I-beam and cables and pipes. There are resin model companies out there already doing this.

    Forge World is best geared to producing the individual models we used to buy in pewter. I think whatever happens when Blood Bowl is released will give hints of what to expect with Necromunda.

    If we only get Human and Ork teams then perhaps we should expect something similar for Necromunda… BUT if Forge World steps up and supplies addition factions, then perhaps they too will be the major supporters of Necromunda.

    I totally understand if GW decides to make all of its Specialist Games 'one off' box sets that never need additional support. After throwing so much support behind the Lord of the Rings line, they received very little payoff.

    Necromunda is the perfect game for growing the hobby. It only requires a small purchase to get into, its easy to travel with, less competitive but to be done right it certainly requires a great deal of support on the part of GW, so if they want to make it just a one off thing, I'd rather they simply not do it at all.
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    Isn't Malifaux all plastic these days though? And thats a similarly scaled game with ten miniatures or so. They could also go the clampack route for expansions, with new characters (or generic heroes) to use for existing gangs. It will be very interesting to see what they do as this kind of niche is really taken over by other companies these days (Infinity, the aforementioned Malifaux and a dozen more...)
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    GW has shown an increased efficiency on how how they produce plastic miniatures of late, I see no reason why they couldn't manage Necromunda. It might be monopose like we've seen in 40K/WFB/AoS starter sets or most of the board game releases. It seems do able though.
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    I spoke with Andy Hoare at an event about Necromunda. He said they were currently looking at it being most likely FW Resin for the gangs (all but the 2 starter teams for Blood Bowl will be resin too, if there is the demand for them, current firm plans at the time were only for the Orcs and Humans in plastic, they had 4 more teams lined up for resin)

    The hard part for Necromunda is definitely the terrain, its probably the most important part of the set up for Necromunda and something GW has no way of providing cheaply to starter sets unless they went down the cardboard ways of the original, which they won't want to because it looks pretty naff.

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    Didn't they try using cheaper Aluminium moulds for making some of the standard scenery fairly recently? Could make it possible? Necromunda needs the scenery to work though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by grimmas View Post
    Didn't they try using cheaper Aluminium moulds for making some of the standard scenery fairly recently? Could make it possible? Necromunda needs the scenery to work though.
    They did, the results were mixed though! I've had a few dodgy kits out of that experiment. Its also still not particularly cheap.

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    Ah ok. I must confess I've not bought scenery since the card and plastic bulkhead days. I found it cheaper and easier to make my own. We've seen quite a lot of card board sections in the GW board game releases we might see them go old school of this one. 2 gangs of 10 and a couple of sprues of bulkheads would be in line with current releases really.
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    I disagree.

    Look at the GW boardgames like Deathwatch and Assassins. Heck, look at any box of space marines these days - it's 10 guys with a ton of options and I imagine that's how most gangs will be sold, perhaps with a couple of clampacks of characters.

    If any company knows how to maximize profits and make minis more efficiently it's GW; even on a small scale.
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    A mold for a box of Space Marines will sell hundreds of thousands of units of the course of its usable life, an individual necromunda gang, given that uniqueness of each gang is important visually, might not, its a risk and not one they're likely to take.

    And, as stated, I've spoken with the head of the Specialist Games team about this and everything I've said above is stuff he's told me.

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