We heard the screaming, then they got very quiet. Nothing except the smell of death.
Peter checks out Necromunda: Hive Secundus and finds some good stuff – but some frustrating stuff too!
It’s getting a little long in the tooth mechanics-wise these days, but Necromunda can still be a lot of fun and very cinematic. Sure, you sometimes have to tunnel through heaps of random tables and rolls fistfuls of dice, but when it works, it works. This new boxed ‘starter’ set, Necromunda: Hive Secundus, is set in a far more ruined hive than we’re used to, and leans on the creepy dungeon-crawling vibes with the help of the monstrous ‘malstrain’, a breed of mutated genestealers. There’s some very nice things here, but there’s also a worrying tendency towards cheap materials and cost-cutting – and not that nice kind of cost-cutting that leads to us all saving money. Let’s have a look and see if we can’t work out where the problems lie, shall we?