Barricades & Objectives for Necromunda

In my third week of the Woehammer ‘How to Paint’ series, we are keeping with Necromunda – 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.

Barricades and Objectives

In Necromunda, you fight over a condensed battlefield with (hopefully) lots of scenery, but once the scenery is placed you and your opponent can place barricades – my advice is to place lots of them and this is why I bought two boxes of Barricades and Objectives over the Christmas break.

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 the opportunity to place barricades after the main scenery is placed.

Having played more Necromunda recently my advice would be to use lots of these – a bit like Garlic – more is never the wrong answer.

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 (I also used Khorne Red for a few, but don’t tell Sanguinius), Kantor Blue, Rakarth Flesh and Mechanicus Standard Grey. All drenched in Nuln Oil

The extra pieces had more colour so I used Mephiston Red, Kantor Blue and Mechanicus Standard Grey for the ammo crates, and Orruk Flesh for the tentacles.

To add a bit of variety to the metals I also used Balthasar Gold for the bronze items.

You can do as much or as little as you like here – I think mine are perfect as a backdrop to the game, but I may add some Nihilx Oxide, Ratling Grime and rust techniques if I want to add some detail in the future.

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. This is an essential kit, and it is available in some starter sets so you may not need it. If you do it will cost £29 RRP.

I bought two just to ensure we have enough barricades (I often play with friends at a campaign weekend where there are 2 or 3 games at once so more is definitely good). However one pack of this should suffice for a normal game of Necromunda.

— Declan and Eeyore