Necromunda’s House Van Saar Gets A Technological Upgrade
November 23, 2020 by brennon
Necromunda's House Van Saar is the next faction to get themselves a new book to help expand upon their options in this grimdark skirmish game by Games Workshop. House Of Artifice will provide new unit options, weapons and more for this rather advanced Underhive gang.
House Of Artifice // Necromunda
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As well as being a new well of knowledge concerning the background of House Van Saar, you'll also find new ways to use these fighters in your games of Necromunda.
This means unique and bizarre new technological advancements, gang-specific strategies which make them play akin to the lore and the option for new gang members like the Archeoteks and Neoteks.
Neoteks // Necromunda
Neoteks are essentially your new Juves for use alongside House Van Saar. They might have mastered a few of the technological options available to their gang but they like to spend most of their time on their grav-cutters, avoiding the dangerous confines of the Underhive as they zoom about in the sky.
By comparison, you've also got the more learned Archeoteks who are now able to bring to bear some of the most sophisticated and devastating kit available to Van Saar.
Archeoteks // Necromunda
I think the new models we're seeing here certainly take things in a different direction for Necromunda. This ain't no nuts n' bolts Goliath gang you're facing! There is a real sense of the High Sci-Fi about these particular additions to the Necromunda range and I like that it sets them apart from the other gangs so distinctly.
Archeoteks & Neoteks // Necromunda
The new models won't be for everyone but if you're looking for a faction to play which is focused on being sleek and deadly as opposed to heavy and thuggish then this might be the set for you. I know a few people who have really enjoyed seeing the different options that Van Saar have to play with and there are plenty of excellently painted gangs out there too.
What do you make of these new options for House Van Saar?
"I know a few people who have really enjoyed seeing the different options that Van Saar have to play with..."
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Hmm…. that flyer reminds me of something…. Green Goblin? 😉
Cool minis…but…sorry that no is necromunda,they looks like xenos
More dirty outcast gangs less freak out nosense ideas
If they’re anything like the previous Van Saar models, kitbashing them with some GSC bits would give them a bit of that gritty underhive look, and the Neoteks can be easily separated from their hoverboards with a hobby knife and kitted out with kitbashed jetpacks.
They did hint around in the new lore about how Van Saar has discovered an STC that’s letting them build all this stuff while giving them radiation poisoning; there could be some xenos or even man of iron tomfoolery in the background that justifies their weird look.
Of course, always we can use our friendly cutter, but the problem is the general visual design of necro, with that things the feeling of rusted, criminal and urban poor warfare is lost, and taht make me sad, necro is 40k like gorkamorka but necro and gorkamorka arent be kill team or inquisitor…. that is the point, more option is cool but with respect about a worked design
Van Saar are my gang of choice but finding it hard to warm to these guys. There doesn’t seem to be a gritty Necromunda feel to them. VS always had the best gear but it was just better versions of what the other Gangs had access to, not super tech.
I don’t hate them though, so maybe with some weathering and grime they can be dragged back to the Underhive.
these guys are out-teching the Spyrers it’s a bit mental
Not a fan of the hoverboards, hopefully tho the Juve models look like they could be an easy conversion to put them back on two feet as “normal” Juves. The “Archeoteks, I dunno? They aren’t exactly inspiring as some sort of Van Saar heavy (if thats what they are). The whole Van Saar look is still a bit too “manga” for my liking, was thinking about doing a kitbash with Genestealer Cultist bodies with a headswap for the unhelmeted Van Saar heads (make them look a lot more like the orginal Van Saar back in the 90s (after all they… Read more »
…and you better be at the keyboards at 10am when the gang cards go live. The Escher cards sold out in 10 mins, the Van Saar are going to sell out even faster than a Playstation 5. If I was running a book on it, I’d estimate 3 mins. It’s going to fund many a scalpers Xmas this time around (the Escher Cards RRP was £9.50, it was selling on Ebay (before they’d even shipped em, as if you get an order through on the GW store it’s usually good as they sell out when GW have sold all their… Read more »
Those are really nice.
I love those multi-eye masks, but not so much on these minis. They feel more ad mech than underhive to me.
I doubt they are big fans of spiderman an dredd with the hover board’s?
Highlander 3…?
The archoteks don’t fit, they look like a cross between Dark Eldar and Necrons. I also have to ask why you need a box of
4 hoverboards, seems a like probably twice as many as you would likely ever need for a gang. That said, there’s potential there for a set of alternative Imperial Guard Rough Riders using those boards.