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GUILDERSby TOM MERRIGAN & WARWICK KINRADE

Hiue Primus alone is ricber and more productiue tban most planets in tbe llnperiurn.Tbe Hiue is a manufactudng potaerbouse. Goods moae constantly tbrougbout tbeHiue. Imports and sorne rAw rnaterials go dounwards, otber raut material corneuputards from Underbiue, and manufactured goods traael up into tbe Spire and offplanet. Tbe Merchant Guild controls all traffic between tbe Houses, and consequentlyis as populous, uealthy and as important as any of tbe Noble Houses tbemselues. The

families tbat comprise tbe Mercbant Guild are called Guilders. Guilders are closelybound people, intensely loyal to tbeir outn kind and insular in tradition. Tbey aresecretiue about rnany aspects of tbeir dealings and way of rya Tb otber Hiuers tbeirstyle of dress and babits are strange and incomprebensible. Amongst tbemselues tbeyspeak a secret language quite unlike tbe cornmon tongue of tbe Hiue.

Not all Guilders are equally

At the other end of the spectrum are thelone speculators who trade in theUnderhive, ever hopeful of discoveringsome new load of iron slag or a hoard ofarcheotech.

These adventurous individuals are oftenencountered deep in the Hive accompaniedby hired guides and mercenaries to protectthem from outlaws and mutants. It is thesesame Guilders that provide Underhiverswith the only secure way of storing largequantities of money. This they do by keepingmoney secure as Guild credit, a form ofdeposit account that all Guilders honour.Guilders also supply physical curenry inthe form of Guild bonds and Guild tokens.Bonds are large denominations, oblongchips of ceramite bearing an indelibleimprint of value. Smaller token chips arecarried as loose change and are used withinthe settlements as everyday currency. TheseGuild tokens are often referred to simply ascredits.

Guilder gangs make an interestingalternative to the 6 house gangs. They arenot Outlaws, but rely on thei-r creds andhired help to survive. For modelers Guildersallows you to customise a gang, with somuch hired help no two gang members will

be dressed or armed alike. This gives youthe oppornrnity to make areally unique andindividual gang.

SPECIAL RULESI-{W ABIDING GANG: Guilder gangs arelaw abiding and follow all the rules (exceptwhere noted below) given for the sixstandard gangs in the NecromundaSourcebook.

TERRITORY Guilders have no territory in

the Hive. They live wherever their businesstakes them, sometimes basing themselves inthe domain of a single House but more oftenwandering from one place to another.Because of this a Guilder gang may neverown any piece of territory. Instead, they basetheir operations out of the varioussettlements in the Underhive, which includeall manner of warehouses and trade posts.Any teffitories that a Guilder gang capturesmust be looted. This represents the gangstripping the site of all valuablecommodities that can be sold for creds. Ingame terms a Guilder g rLg has noterritories, it gains it's income through othermeans, see below.

INCOME: As they are unable to hold anyterritory Guilder gangs do not generateincome in the same way as other gangs.Instead, Guilders gangs gain cash frominvestments made by the gangs leader andfrom money owed to him by various tradepartners and the like. The larger and morerenown the gang the more contacts andinvestments it will have to draw on. Todetermine the income generated by thegang divide the gangs Gang Rating by 10,rounding any fractions down to the nearestwhole number. The gang must still spend aproportion of its income on basic necessitiessuch as food, drink, ammunition andgeneral weapons maintenance and so thisamount is cross-referenced with the numberof models in the gang, using the standardtable in the Necromunda Sourceboo\ todetermine the profit made. This profit isadded to the gang's stash.

TRADING: Guilder gangs may only visitNon-Oudaw settlements. They'd be shot ifthey tried to enter an Outlaw settlement ortown.

IIATRED: Outlaw gangs hate Guildersbecause it is the Guilders that exiled themand stop them living free lives. Because ofthis all Outlaw gangs suffer the effects ofHatred when fighting against a Guilder gang.

HIRED GUNS: Guilder gangs may make useof the following hired guns: BountyHunters, Underhive Scum, OgrynBodyguards and Assassins.

SCENARIOS: Guilder gangs roll on thestandard scenario table like all other non-outlaw gangs.

1 GUILDERcost to recruit: 140 credits.

A Guilder is the central figure of the gang.He is an official representative of theMerchants Guild, a powerful and rich manraised to this position through the blzantineinner workings of the Guild. It is he wholeads his band of followers around theUnderhive, bartering and trading, buyingand selling, enforcing Guild law.

If anybody can be said to rule the Underhivethen it is the Guild. They allow little to standin the way of trade, business and profit.Those who break the rules are outlawed,hunted down and killed, either by theGuilders themselves or by gangs employedto do the dirty work.

Those employed by the Guild can expectgood pay, and this attracts many hired guns,but should the Guild be crossed they willstop at nothing for fevenge. MostUnderhivers obey Guild members throughfear of the consequences, but few like them.

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Weapons. A Guilder may be givenequipment chosen from the Close Combat,Pistol, Basic, Special, and Grenade andShotgun Shell weapon lists.

Special RulesPII\IIING: A Guilder is unlike the rest of thegang in that he can fight efficiently even onhis own. He alwal's counts as having a friendwithin 2", regardless of whether this is thecase or not. This means he can always test toavoid being pinned in place.

LEADERSHIP: Any fighters within 6" of aGuilder may use his Leadershipcharacteristic when taking any Leadershiptest. This benefit applies so long as theGuilder isn't down or broken himself.

TRADER: Guilders are experts at hagglingfor prices and for securing the best deal forany equipment they purchase or sell. Torepresent this, a Guilder gang always paysthe fixed cost component for rare items thatthey purchase and may sell second hand

weapons at their full cost (instead of halftheir cost as is normally the case). Inaddition a Guilder is always offered D6 itemsinstead of only D3 when he visits the tradingpost.

DEATH: If a Guilder should die, his debts,accounts and other business arrangementspass to his successor. In this case theGuilders successor will be the fighter in thegang that has the highest total value (costplus experience). The fighter who succeedsthe Guilder will gain his Leadership abilitiesand his Trader abil it ies.

O.4 PIT SLAVESCost to recruit: 8O credits.

Guilders make wide use of slaves, buyngand selling in Necromunda's busy slavemarkets. From this human livestock theGuild pick the strongest specimens tobecome pit slaves. Another source of pitslaves is criminals (real or innocent).Individuals can be condemned in GuilderCourts to the pit fights. Those unforfirnateenough to face this sentence are surgicallyaltered into monsterous fighting machines,half man, half machine. Those not employedin the fighting arenas serve the Guild asbodyguards and strong arm enforcers.

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'Weapons. A Pit Slave rnay be given

equipment chosen from the Pit Slave, Handto Hand, Pistol and Grenade and ShotgunShell weapon lists.

Equipment. A Pit Slave may be equippedwith armour plates for 20 creds each-

Special Rules.

Pit Slaves often fashion armour plates forthemselves from scrap debris found in thehive bottom. Whilst these give effectiveprotection, they are heary and cumbersome.A Pit Slave may be protected by up to amaximum of three armour plates, giving himan affnour saving throw but reducing hisinitiative characteristic as shown below.

The initiative modifiers for armour plateswill reduce a Pit Slaves initiative to aminimum value of 1.

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Modelling tip: You can use all sorts ofindustrial bits and plasti-card to

represent tbe etctra armour on your pitslaae models.

O.2 HEAVIESCost to recruit: 60 credits

Heavies are physically fit, heavily builtmercenaries, chosen for the task of luggingaround healy weapons. They provide theGuilder gang with heary fire support againstwell equipped gangs and Outlaws. Likeother gang heavies they will have technicalskills to maintain and repair their weapons.

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Weapons. Heavies may be given equipmentchosen from the Hand to Hand. Pistols.Basic, Special, Heavy Weapons and Grenadeslists.

MERCENARIESCost to recruit: 50 credits.

Mercenaries is catch all term for the hiredguns employed by the Guild. Well paid fortheir services they are experienced,competent men. Some are off worlders,others are former gang membefs, some areslaves who have proved themselves loyalover long years o[ service.

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'Weapons. Mercenaries may be given

equipment chosen from the Close Combat,Pistol, Basic and Grenade and Shotgun Shellweapon lists.

Special Rules

At least half the gang must be made up of acombination of Mercenaries or Pack Slaves.

PACK SLAVESCost to recruit: 25 credits.

Pack slaves are the dregs. The lowest of thelow in Underhive society. They are nothingmore than human cattle, bought by theGuild and used as workers. There lives areworth very little, and there existence isusuallv mercifullv short.

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'Weapons. Pack Slaves may be given

equipment chosen from the Close Combatand Pistol weapon lists.

Special Rules

At least haH the gang must be made up of acombination of Pack Slaves or Mercenaries.

WEAPONSEach fighter you recruit can be armed withone or more of the weapons from thestandard weapons list under GangRecruitment in the Necromunda sourcebook(page 102-103 of the hardback edition). AHealy can carry only one healy weapon -eg, he can carry a healy stubgun or alascannon, but not both.

He can have any number of other weapons.The model is always assumed to be using theweapons depicted in his hands unless theplayer declares otherwise. Remember,additional weapons must be identifiable onthe model itself.

RECRUITMENTA Guilder gang isrecruited just like anyother gang. You have1000 Guilder creds tospend recruiting andarming your gang.

Slave (starting level ofPack Slaves)

Slave

Slave

Mercenary Scum(starting level ofMercenaries and PitSlaves)

Mercenary ScumMercenary Scum

Mercenary Scum

MercenaryChampion (startinglevel of Guilders andHeavies)

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Champion

Mercenary Hero

Mercenary Hero

Mercenary Hero

Mercenary Hero

Mercenary Hero

Mighty Hero

Guilder gangs use the Advance Rolltable detailed in the Necromunda

Sourcebook.

37-4047-50

5t-60

61-80

81-100

to7-r20

72r-740

r4t-160

161-180

181-200

20r-240

241-280

287-320

32L-360

36t-400

40t+

V{hen you recruited a Guilder gang thefighters will already have someexperience in how to fight. The level ofexperience a f he gang. The table belowshows how much experience the differenttypes of fighters have to begin with. Youshould record each fighters ExperiencePoints on your gang roster.

Type Starring Experience Points

P a c k S l a v e . . . . . . . . 0

M e r c e n a r y . . . . . 2 O + 1 D 6

P i t S l a v e . . . . . . 2 O + 1 D 6

Heary .60 + 1D6

G u i l d e r . . . . . . 6 0 + 1 D 6

FOR GI.IILDERS, HEAVIES,MERCENARIES AND PACK SIAVES

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FOR PIT FIGHTERS

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When a Guild ganger gains enoughexperience to get an Advance, roll on thestandard gang Advance Roll Table in theNecromunda sourcebook.

Agfity Combat Ferocity Muscle Shooting Stealth Techno

Pack Slaves

Mercenaries

Pit Slaves

Heavies

Guilder

UNOFFICIAL HOUSE RULESJust for fun, these are not part of the gamesystem.

NEW GANGS

Genestealers Cults

Orks in da Hive

Ultra-Violent- Vampires

RULES

House Specialties

Hive Ken skills

Trading Skills* BitU - Battles in the Underhive

Gang W'ar 1

Gang.War 2

Gang Var 3

GangVat 2

GangVar I

Gang $V'ar 5

NECRO MAG 1ERRATTA

GUILDER GANGSWeapons: Pit Slaves can be armed withweapons of the standard weapons lists inthe Necromunda sourcebook and from thePit Slaves weapons list in Gang l7'ar 1.Maximum Stats: These are wrong on page30 of Necro Mag 1. They should read:For Guilders, Heavies, Mercenaries andPack Slaves

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OGRYN BODYGUARDSVounds: The line about Ogryn not havingmore than 4 wounds should be removed.There is no way for an Ogryn to gain morewounds on the Advance Chart, making theline irrelevant.

INCURSIONDefence Force Costs:The cost of the troops for the defence forceis confusing. The cost is as given plus thecost of the weapons listed below Theseshould have been listed as

Commissar: + 80 pts for weaponsTroopers: -l 25 pts for weaponsSpecialists: * 130 pts for grenade launcher

-|50 pts for comms link

4 6 5For Pit Slaves

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