House Escher Miniatures & Journal Lead New Edition Of Necromunda

With the new Necromunda Core Set available to pre-order, Games Workshop have been setting out its plans for what comes next to support the new edition. House Escher are first out of the blocks with new miniatures and an expansion book, giving you more options for the House of Blades.

Escher Gang Queen & Phyrr Cat // Necromunda

We start with some great character miniatures for Escher, which come in plastic, marking Games Workshop's step away from a lot of the Forge World resin range that supported the last edition of the game. This set comes with plenty of components to make Escher Matriarchs with a variety of different weapons.

Escher Matriarchs // Necromunda

You'll find options for power axes, plasma weaponry, deadly needle weaponry that House Escher is known for and more. This means some great ways to expand the opening salvo of options from Games Workshop, either from the Core Set or perhaps one of the big gang boxes which give you the core of your collection in Necromunda.

Escher Matriarchs // Necromunda

I appreciate that the new Escher for this edition are a little less on the spindly side of things. There's a bit more substance to them, which is going to make assembling and painting them a lot easier. Essentially, the set gives you enough to build a Gang Queen and a set of five Gang Matriarchs alongside their snarling Phyrr Cat. But, as anyone who plays Necromunda knows, all of these components and miniatures can be used to make whatever you need for your gang.

Escher Matriarchs // Necromunda

These new miniatures can be used with the standard House Gang rules found within the main books for Necromunda that went up for pre-order but you will also find more options presented within the new Underhive Journal, Escher - The House of Blades.

Underhive Journal: Escher - The House of Blades // Necromunda

Whilst not required to run Escher in your games of Necromunda, the new Journal (familiar to folks who play Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Warhammer: The Old World or Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game) introduces some more ways to play Escher with specialised gangs like the Wyld Hunt and the Chymist Cult. These alternative lists give Escher a unique spin and open up different rosters and equipment lists that, whilst restricted, are specialised to each style of Escher gang.

Escher - The House of Blades - Contents // Necromunda

You will also find gang-specific content for use in campaigns. This means new territory options for you to slot into play with your friends, side jobs themed to Eschers (adding to those in the main rules) and a bunch of new gang tactics.

One of the nice things about Necromunda is that it's a game very often played by groups of friends who aren't interested in " the meta". That means any expansions and such for the game aren't seen as MUST-HAVE commodities for you to stay up to date with everyone else. I've yet to have a look inside the new edition, but if Games Workshop have done their job right (which in the case of a lot of the specialist games, they have), it should be perfectly fine for a gang without a Journal to have as much fun as one running from the base books.

A major plus is that these Journals are always paperback and that means cheaper than the big books you had in the last edition. They were nice but this is much more gamer-friendly!

Could you be tempted to snap this up for House Escher?