Platform & Stairs for Necromunda

In my fifth 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. Next week I’ll be back to models, but it’s the last of the terrain for a few weeks at least… let’s climb those stairs.

Necromunda

If you’ve never played Necromunda, then grab a small gang and give it a go — although finding someone who already plays is definitely the easiest and cheapest option — this game can be cheap, but if you don’t have anyone to share the book costs with – it’ll get expensive!

Platforms & Stairs

In the last few weeks, we’ve painted an Underhive Market, Barricades, and Columns for Necromunda – our last piece of scenery (for a while) is Platforms and Stairs.

Are your games of Necromunda a bit 2D?; do your long-lases have nowhere to go and still shoot over that 24″ range into long?; do you need the peril of falling to a horrible death to keep your gangers honest?… If the answer to all these questions in YES you need height in your Necromunda games.

Enter – Platform & Stairs kit.

Pictures

How do they play?

If there’s one thing I have learnt playing Necromunda as Van Saar it is that height is your friend – and not just your friend it is great for anyone with a long range gun like the Long-Las… so that’s almost any gang who isn’t Corpse Grinders. Height allows you to see enemy gangers, possibly negating their cover… but beware if you are shot – a failed initiative roll will see you falling – and taking lots of extra damage.

This kit works very well to add height to a game of Necromunda although it you want to use it properly you definitely need a ‘Columns & Walls’ set which I helpfully painted last week.

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.

Buying a Box?

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. Whilst this kit isn’t as cheap as an Underhive market, I still think the value is there as you get a lot of platforms and two staircases – you can even make a ‘half-height’ platform to get more use from those stairs. The box retails at £47.50 RRP.

This is a nice kit – with some clever connections to the columns & walls sets (but see our review of that last week to see the problems). You probably need 2 of these sets if you want to go higher than one level and like a drug the higher you go, the higher you want to go – be careful and stay clear of the upper spire.

— Declan and Eeyore