Pit Slaves
Pit Slaves
Pit Slaves
SPECIAL RULES
Pit Slaves are gang ghters or underhivers who have strayed from the normal day-to-day life on Necromunda or have been captured and sold as slaves or have had the Enforcers deem them unt for citizenry and locked them away for their crimes. The Adeptus Mechanicus uses servitors to do all their hard labor and Pit Slaves are Necromundas own version of ghting servitors. Guilders tend to sort their slaves by usefulness and Pit Slaves are not only useful, but are also very protable. Those that show an aptitude for combat will be allowed to absolve themselves as pit ghters in the various legitimate (and illegal) ghting arenas through out Necromunda. Guilders tend to wave false hopes of riches and freedom to those that bring them the most credits. Guilders notoriously augment those pit ghters that show the best ghting skills or better yet, are the luckiest. Plugs and connectors mark their esh. The more Outlaws: Pit Slave Gangs are outlaws and follow all the rules for outlaws as presented in Fanatic Magazine 5 and 6 except as noted. Territory: Pit Slave Gangs start with one random territory chosen from the Pit Slave Territory Chart. This is the Pit Slave Gangs base camp. Pit Slave Gangs cannot hold more than one territory. If they gain another territory then they have the choice of moving their base camp to the new territory or they may loot the new territory. In addition, Pit Slave Gangs may opt to move their base camp during the post game sequence, but this must be specied prior to rolling for income. Roll once on the Pit Slave Territory Chart to determine the Pit Slave Gangs new base camp. Income: Pit Slaves collect income from their one territory if they send a ghter to work it. Any other ghters may scavenge for d6-1 credits. What do you expect? All that
clanging and creaking from the mechanical parts tends to scare off the wildlife. You may elect to work your territory before determining who is scavenging. If the Pit Slave Chief scavenges or works the territory then he may not go to the Outlaw Trading Post. Also, any ghters that do not scavenge and did not go out-of-action may accompany the Pit Slave Chief to the Outlaw Trading Post. These ghters will add a +1 to the number of items that the Pit Slave Chief is offered. Income: Pit Slave Gangs always roll on the Outlaw Trading Post in Fanatic Magazine 5. The only exception is that any items created by the Techno Skill Inventor are rolled for on the Rare trade Chart on page 97 of the Necromunda LRB. Hired Guns: Pit Slave Gangs can hire any hired guns that they can afford. Since Pit Slaves are always Outlaws Bounty Hunters will not work for Pit Slave Gangs. Starvation: Pit Slave Gangs suffer the effects of starvation just like any other outlaw gang. However, because Pit Slaves are partially made of metal, servitors, gearboxes, and power conduits they require fewer nutrients to sustain life. Each Pit Slave only requires 2 credits worth of upkeep to avoid the effects of starvation. Bounty: Pit Slaves are considered troublesome and dangerous by the Guilders. The Guilders have set a standard bounty on all Pit Slaves equal to their total cost plus equipment just like any other outlaw. Capture: Since Pit Slaves are mostly escape convicts and
slaves they all have the Stealth Skill Escape Artist. If this skill is rolled roll another Stealth Skill instead of choosing one of your choice. Opponents captured by Pit Slave can be rescued or ransomed back to their gangs. Scenarios: Pit Slave Gangs roll on the Outlaw Scenario Table in Fanatic Magazine 6. If the Pit Slave Gang is allowed to choose which scenario to play they may choose any scenario they want. Injuries: If a Pit Slave suffers a permanent injury to a location that he has already replaced with a bionic implant or Pit Slave Weapon the implant or weapon is destroyed with no further effect to the Pit Slave. Damaged bionics and weapons can be replaced at the standard cost shown below. A Pit Slave Gang that has a Pit Slave Techno can instead repair bionics and weapons per the Pit Slave Techno Rules. Weapons: Pit Slave Gangs are only trained with a nite number of weapons. Pit Slaves cannot use any weapons other then those found on their weapons list, those rare weapons offered to Pit Slave Chiefs during trading sessions, and those invented by the Pit Slaves with the Techno Skill Inventor.
0-2 Servitors
Cost to recruit: 80 credits Staring Experience: 50+d6 Servitors are usually escaped Imperial Servitors or Imperial Guard Sentries. They are basically walking gun platforms. Prole Servitor M WS BS 4 3 3 S 3 T W 3 1 I 3 A 1 Ld 6
Equipment: A Servitor may be equipped with Armor Plates for 20 credits each. Weapons: A Servitor must be given one weapon from the Heavy weapon list and may be given one other weapon from the Pit Slave, Close Combat, Pistol, or Basic weapons lists. Shotgun shells may be taken from the Grenades and Shells list if a shotgun is selected from the basic weapon list but Servitors cannot use grenades. Once a heavy weapon is selected for a Servitor it will be the only weapon that the Servitor will be able to use. This means that you cannot switch out heavy weapons but may replace destroyed weapons with the same weapon. If a Servitor is not given a weapon that they can use in handto-hand combat then they will ght with their base attack characteristic, their base weapon skill, and their base strength value. All other hand-to-hand combat modiers still apply. Skills: All Servitors have the Muscle Skill Bulging Biceps. Special Rules: Pit Slave Techno: A Pit Slave Gang must have a Pit Slave Techno to recruit Servitors. If the gang looses its Pit Slave Techno once it has Servitor then no more Servitors can be recruited until another Pit Slave Techno is recruited. Weapon Link: A Servitor always has a heavy weapon cybernetically grafted to him in the same manner as a Pit Slave Weapon. This weapon will encumber the Servitor in hand-to-hand combat like any other heavy weapon. As a side effect to this weapons link a Servitor will not benet from any gun sights. Not Free Thinkers: A Servitor is not meant to be able to think for itself. It is typically programmed before each battle but this is the Underhive and things are done differently down here. As a result, Servitors may not run or charge. Servitors may not hide. In scenarios that require a Servitor to set-up in hiding the Servitor is instead placed out of sight. Servitors may not use or utilize over-watch. Servitors cannot work scavenge or work territories. Finally, since a Servitors mind is blank he is totally immune to all forms and sources of fear and terror, but does not cause fear or terror when recruited. Programming: Servitors are lobotomized souls whose only existence is to take direction from their programmers.
Equipment: A Pit Slave Chief may be equipped with Armor Plates for 20 credits each. Weapons: A Pit Slave Chief may be given any weapons from the Pit Slave, Close Combat, Pistol, Special, and Grenades and Shells weapon lists. Special Rules: Leadership: A Pit Slave Chief has earned the respect of his fellow Pit Slaves. His skills have enabled him to survive in the hostile environment of Necromunda. Any Pit Slaves within 6 of the Pit Slave Chief may use his leadership value instead of their own when they are required to take leadership based tests. A Pit Slave Chief can always attempt to escape pinning, even if there are no friendly ghters within 2 of him. Experienced: A Pit Slave Chief will already be hardened by his combat experiences. You may roll one random advance on the Pit Slave Advance Chart. Many Arms: A Pit Slave Chief commonly acquires extra implants. Because of his obsession with implants a Pit Slave Chief may choose an additional arm. This additional arm may be a second Pit Slave Weapon. A Pit Slave Chief with the extra arm will gain an extra attack and may choose to resolve hits in close combat using either of the weapons used. This means that the Pit Slave Chief will be able to use three pistols in hand-to-hand combat if he has three arms and gains an additional d6 in hand-to-hand combat if all three arms have hand-to-hand weapons. All skills that say with each hand/arm apply to all three arms of the Pit Slave Chief. The prime example of this is if a Pit Slave Chief takes the third arm option, has three pistols, and has gunghter. In this case the Pit Slave Chief could re three pistols. An example in hand-to-hand combat with a Pit Slave Chief with three arms, equipped with nothing but hand-to-hand combat weapons and an attack characteristic of 2 would roll 2+1+1=4 dice. 2 for his attack characteristic, 1 for the rst extra arm, and a second 1 for the second extra arm.
When rst recruited and before each game the Pit Slave player may choose to re-program the Servitor or use the programming from the last battle. This is done by rolling a d6 on the Servitor Programming Chart. A Servitor may be re-programmed before each battle but can only ever have a single program at a time.
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Equipment: A Pit Slave Techno may be equipped with Armor Plates for 20 credits each. Weapons: A Pit Slave Techno may be given any weapons from the Close Combat, Pistol, Special, and Grenades and Shells weapon lists. Special Rules: Tinker: A Pit Slave Techno can repair bionics, create new ones, graft on armor plates, and do various other duties for the Pit Slave Gang as described below. Captured Bionics: If a Pit Slave Gang captures an opponent who has any bionic parts and the ghter is not rescued, ransomed, or otherwise returned to his gang then the Pit Slave Techno may remove them and re-attach them to any member of the Pit Slave Gang. If this is done the opponents ghter is returned to his gang without his bionics and any other equipment the Pit Slave player wants to keep, per the standard rules for captured ghters and will have his original injuries that the bionics replaced again. Capturing Bionics cannot be done if the Pit Slave Techno went out-ofaction in the last game. Captured bionics may be placed in the stash until used or sold. Damaged Bionics/Pit Slave Weapons/Servitor Heavy Weapons: If a Pit Slave has a bionic part or Pit Slave Weapon or Servitors heavy weapon and it is damaged or destroyed during a game then it will act as a club until the end of the game. The damaged item acts like a club because the Pit Slave will be still have the pieces and parts grafted to it. After the game, if the Pit Slave Techno did not go out-of-action then he may work on the damaged item. Roll a d6. On a result of 6 the item is repaired. On any other result the item is damaged and neuronetic connections are damaged beyond repair and the item crossed of the roster. If the Pit Slave Gang has a workshop then the repair result will become a5 or 6.
Experience: A Servitor will not collect any more experience once starting experience is determined and any experience that is awarded to him will simply be lost. Do not add or track any more experience given to a Servitor. Repairing Servitors: Since Servitors do not gain experience there is no way for them to overcome serious injury results. However, since Servitors are more machine then man anyway a Pit Slave Techno can repair serious injury results by doing nothing but diagnose and repair the Servitor in a post battle sequence that they did not go out of action in by spending 50 credits per injury. Once the credits are spent the injuries are removed. Note: you do not have to repair injuries in the next post battle sequence but can wait until the Pit Slave Techno can repair the servitor.
Equipment: A Pit Slave may be equipped with Armor Plates for 20 credits each. Weapons: A Pit Slave may be given any weapons from the Pit Slave, Close Combat, Pistol, and Grenades and Shells weapon lists. Special Rules: Experienced: A Pit Slave will already be hardened by his combat experiences. You may roll one random advance on the Pit Slave Advance Chart.
Close Combat Weapons Cost Chain / Flail 10 credits Club / Maul / Bludgeon 10 credits Knife Free/* *1st free then 5 credits Each Additional Knife Pistol Weapons Cost Auto Pistol Bolt Pistol Las Pistol Stub Gun Ammo Roll 15 credits 4+ 20 credits 6+ 15 credits 2+ 10 credits 4+ Ammo Roll 4+ 6+ 4+ Auto 2+ 4+ 4+ 4+ Ammo Roll 4+ 6+ 4+ 4+ Ammo Roll 6+ Auto Auto 6+ Auto 4+
Initiative Modier +0 -1 -2
ARMOR PLATES
Pit Slaves often fashion armor plates for themselves from scrap metal found almost anywhere in the Underhive and the wastes. With the technical know-how of the Pit Slave Technos the metals can be grafted onto Pit Slaves to be used as armor. Although grafted armor is effective protection it is also cumbersome. A Pit Slave may be protected by a maximum of three armor plates. Each plate will increase the armor saving throw by +1 and each armor plate after the rst will reduce the Pit Slaves initiative characteristic by 1 to a minimum initiative of 1. Note: If armor plates and initiative injuries are applied to the same ghter then remember that the minimum initiative is always 1. If the Pit Slave Chief is offered armor from the trading post, a Pit Slave with the Techno Skill Inventor invents armor, or the Pit Slave Chief acquires armor from any other source then a Pit Slave Techno can incorporate it into Armor Plates. Flak Armor will yield enough materials for one armor plate. Mesh Armor will yield enough materials for two armor plates. Carapace Armor yields enough materials for three armor plates. These plates may be split up however you choose and may be added to ghters that already have armor plates but no in excess of three total per ghter. These extra armor plates can also be placed in your stash. Alternately, a Pit Slave without armor plates may use a set of armor per the armors rules but in no way can armor plates and armor be combined for added protection.
Special Weapons Cost Autogun 20 credits Boltgun 35 credits Flamer 40 credits Grenade Launcher** 130 credits Lasgun 25 credits Melta-gun 95 credits Plasma Gun 70 credits Shotgun w/ Solid Shot & Scatter Shotgun Shells 20 credits ** Cost of Grenades is extra Heavy Weapons Autocannon Heavy Bolter Heavy Plasma Cannon Heavy Stubber Grenades and Shells Cost 300 180 285 120 Cost
Bolt Shotgun Shells 15 credits Dum Dum Bullets 5 credits Frag Grenades 30 credits Hot Shot Shotgun Shells 5 credits Krak Grenades 50 credits Manstopper Shotgun Shells 5 credits
No. of Plates 1 2 3 Armor Save 6 5+ 4+
Chainsaw
Chainsaws are a popular choice of weaponry for Pit Slaves. The most well known advocate and wielder of the chainsaw is the slave leader Bull Gorg. A chainsaw is usually mounted on the stump of a wrist or in place of a forearm, but the most infamous Pit Slave named Harkan Vore actually had a chainsaw which replaced his lower jaw. Because a chainsaw is long, jagged, edged, and comparatively easy to wield the Pit Slave may use it to parry an opponent in handto-hand combat. Str 4 Dam 1 Save -1 Ammo Category Pit Slave Special Rules: Any opponent in hand-to-hand combat with a hammer wielding Pit Slave has its weapon skill halved (rounding down) unless it can roll under its Initiative on a d6 at the start of each hand-to-hand combat phase..
Claw
A claw or big grabber is used in a variety of mining and loading jobs. Str 4 Dam 1 Save -1 Ammo Category Pit Slave
Rock Drill
Mining slaves are commonly modied to carry a massive drill for boring through slag, minerals, and rock. The rock drill makes a fearsome weapon in hand-to-hand combat when used by a Pit Slave. Str 4 Dam 1 Save -3 Ammo Category Pit Slave
Special Rules: A Pit Slave armed with a claw may pick up and hurl his opponent if he wins a round of hand-to-hand combat. This hurl is in addition to hitting his opponent. A hurled opponent is thrown D6 in a direction chosen by the Pit Slave player and suffers a single hit at the strength equal to half the distance hurled (round up). If the hurled opponent strikes a wall or other obstacle he will stop there. If the hurled opponent hits another ghter then both ghters take a single hit with a strength equal to half the distance hurled. If the hurled opponent is pitched off a building use the Advanced Rules for Falling found on page 27 of the Necromunda LRB.
Special Rules: If the Pit Slave inicts two or more hints in hand-to-hand combat then he may exchange all the hits for a single hit with an increased strength and damage as he drills though his opponents body. The bonus equals +1 Strength and +1 Damage for each hit after the rst, so you exchange two hits for a single S5 hit causing two wounds, three hits for a single S6 hit causing three wounds and so on.
Shears
Huge shears are tted to Pit Slaves for harvesting fungus groves, scrap metal, and other similar things. The sharp blades of the shears are quite capable of snipping bits off a human as well. Str 4 Dam 1 Save -1 Ammo Category Pit Slave
Hammer
Giant hammers are tted to mining and foundry slaves. The pile driver force of a pneumatically driven hammer is so great that opponents in hand-to-hand combat may be knocked senseless and beaten to their knees before they have a chance to ght back. Str 4 Dam 1 Save -1 Ammo Category Pit Slave
Special Rules: If the Pit Slave hits an opponent in handto-hand combat with a roll a 6 to wound roll a further d6. If the second result is also a 6 then the Pit Slave has
STARTING EXPERIENCE
When recruiting a Pit Slave Gang the ghters will already have some experience in how to ght. The table below shows how much experience the various Pit Slaves will begin the game with: Pit Slave Chief Servitor Pit Slave Techno Pit Slave 80+d6 50+d6 40+d6 30+d6
21-25 26
0 0
31-36
Rad Zone
0/2d6x5
41-46
Sludge Sea
51-55
Sump Spillage
10
56
Special
61-63 65-65 66
10 10 D6x10
This territory makes ground fertile enough to farm, but just barely. One ghter may be sent to cultivate this territory. This will earn the gang 10 credits worth of edible food to sell. One ghter may be sent to check the Power Cable Tap. Roll a d6. On a result of 1-5 this territory yields 10 credits worth of power. On a result of 6 this territory yields 2d6x5 credits worth of power. In addition, each pit slave in the game adds +1 to their initiative the rst time they are required to make an initiative test. None None See Necromunda LRB page 95. In addition, if the Pit Slave Techno is sent to work this territory the Pit Slave Gang will gain an additional d6x10 income.