Necromunda: Underhive Wars A Ganger’s Guide to the Underhive

This section is all about fighters and how to gear and level them up!

ClassesBrawler class is a melee combat focused expert.
Role: Melee-focused combatant
Default weapon: Massive axe
Signature Skill: Death from Above – 30 AP; jumps from an elevated height and crashes down on opponents; causes stun effect; can be a little wonky since the command might no longer be there on your next turn
Career Perk 1: Armguards – 45% protection against all damage to both arms
Career Perk 2: Vigilant – -5 AP cost for ambush (the melee-version of overwatch)Deadeye class is a ranged focused class and plays the role of a sniper.
Role: Sniper
Default weapon: Lasgun
Signature Skill: Ascension – 15 AP; uses the grapnel to reach higher areas on the battlefield; does not trigger ambush or overwatch.
Career Skill 1: Grapnel Armor – +65% protection against all damage to the left arm.
Career Skill 2: Mono-sight: -5 AP cost for overwatch.

Heavy class is ranged fire support and can blow up barricades.
Role: Fire support and barricade destruction
Default weapon: Autocannon
Signature Skill: Heavy Barrage – 30 AP; an overwatch-type skill where you lay down fire on all enemies that move for three meters within the affected zone
Career Perk 1: Heavy Ordnance – +200% damage vs. destructible elements (i.e., barricades)
Career Perk 2: Weapons Expert – -5 AP cost for Field Repair (fixes jammed weapons)

Lay-Mechanic class is a support and can construct barricades and other helpful items.
Role: Utility support and constructor
Default weapon: Rivet Cannon
Signature Skill: Tinker – 10 AP; repair health dispensers and ziplines; permanently shut down sabotaged control stations
Career Perk 1: Servo-Arm – +45% protection against all damage to the left arm
Career Perk 2: Strongarm – -5 AP cost for disengage

Saboteur class focuses on using flamers, laying traps and sabotaging ziplines and elevators.
Role: Sabotages environment and lays traps
Default weapon: Dual Flamers
Signature Skill: Sabotage – 10 AP; can disable ziplines and health dispensers; can rig a control station to create a hazard zone/trap
Career Perk 1: Explosive Bracing – +10% protection against impact damage to the torso, arms, and legs
Career Perk 2: Carrier – -5 AP cost for carrying objects

Traits

When you create a new fighter you can select traits from each major group.

There are three major groups: Physical, Mental, and Martial each has multiple options within them that will impact your fighter and ultimately your play style with that fighter.

Physical

A) Resilient provides +3 toughness/max toughness
B) Athletic provides +3 strength/max strength
C) Healthy provides +1 agility/max agility, +1 strength/max strength, and +1 toughness/max toughness
D) Agile provides +3 agility/max agility

Mental

A) Clever provides +3 intelligence/max intelligence
B) Curious provides +1 willpower/max willpower, +1 intelligence/max intelligence, +1 alertness/max alertness
C) Observant provides +3 alertness/max alertness
D) Stoic provides +3 willpower/max willpower

Martial

A) Calculated provides +3 accuracy/max accuracy
B) Disciplined provides +3 melee prowess/max melee prowess
C) Focused provides +3 ranged aptitude/max ranged aptitude
D) Protean provides +1 melee prowess/max melee prowess, +1 ranged aptitude/max ranged aptitude, +1 accuracy/max accuracy

As you can see each trait helps focus the fighter in different directions. For example, if you choose the Brawler class you’ll want to focus on melee combat and select athletic or resilient and observant and disciplined. Alternatively, if you select Deadeye you’ll want to focus on ranged combat and pick agile or resilient and clever and focused.

I highly recommend you start your Necromunda experience by playing through the story line campaign which will teach you the basics. The story is written by a gaming and Warhammer author, Andy Chambers and follows three gang leaders from each respective house available to play at launch.

WARNING: The following includes SPOILERS to the main story line!

Chapter 1 Hive Quake

In the first mission, we take control of two Escher fighters, Kyra (Saboteur) and Vex (Heavy) who are on their way to meet their gang leader Tessera (Deadeye). This mission shows us the introductory controls and movement and allows us to get our hands dirty by taking on two enemies.