Columns and Walls for Necromunda
In my fourth week of the Woehammer ‘How to Paint’ series, we are keeping with Necromunda … again. – it’s what I’m playing at the moment so it’s what I’m painting.
Necromunda
Quite simply, a superb game of skirmish warfare set in a Hive City in the Warhammer 40k universe, where there are no ‘good guys/girls’. It also has a campaign mode, which is really the only way to play once the rules have been learnt.
Columns & Walls
In Necromunda, you fight over a condensed battlefield with (hopefully) lots of scenery, but line of sight blocking is important and what better way to do that than use columns, walls and doors from the Zone Mortalis – Columns & Walls set?
Pictures
How do they play?
If there’s one thing I have learnt playing Necromunda as Van Saar it is that terrain and places to hide are essential. No-one wants to be pinned by cheap las-weapons when they could be ripping a Juve apart in combat. This kit helps solve that problem by giving players columns and walls they need to hide behind.
The kit also fits very nicely onto the Zone Mortalis board, although the columns only fit perfectly on the four grills – which is odd.
Paints Used
Starting with a Black undercoat, most of the set was drybrushed Leadbelcher to cover the metal areas, and provide highlights for the raised sections.
Then I reverted to the technique used for the Zone Mortalis tiles to pull them together when on the battlefield.
So I picked out details with Mephiston Red (Khorne Red works as well), Kantor Blue, Rakarth Flesh and Mechanicus Standard Grey. All drenched in Nuln Oil.
The doors had more Balthasar gold on them to break up the space and the crates in the picture below are Mephiston Red & Kantor Blue.
Buying a Box… but should you?
These are available everywhere, so try your local FLGS first – or ask them to order in for you. If you don’t have a local FLGS then Woehammer has an affiliate link with Element Games which gives us a small kickback to buy more toys. But, this is an expensive kit and it is difficult to see why – it will cost £61.50 RRP.
This is a nice kit – with some clever connections to the stairs & platform set – but it doesn’t include nearly enough walls. There are 6 columns, and whilst I would have preferred 8, there are only 5 walls — barely enough to cover a single Zone Mortalis sector board. And it you want to go vertical it’s even worse! To compensate a little I made a large door and a small door blockaded so they will be walls also. But who in the design studio thought 5 walls and 4 doors was a good mix… have they never seen the inside of a building.
There are a lot of ways of getting the equivalent much cheaper from Etsy and other manufacturers and if you don’t intend to play at Warhammer World or enter ‘Armies on Parade’ it is difficult to recommend this kit at this price point.
— Declan and Eeyore
