Necromunda rulebook - Games Workshop

NECROMUNDA
TERRAIN
Battles mostly take part in open areas where
movement is easiest. Obviously high walls and
other constructions will block your progress,
but the ground level and raised surfaces are
reasonably solid. However, should you find
yourself struggling over shifting ash wastes or up
to your elbows in marshes of bubbling pollutant,
your progress will be impeded as indicated
below.
OPEN GROUND
The tabletop surface, building floors, connecting
walkways and ladders are all considered to be
open ground which does not affect your
movement. You can also move through doors or
hatches without slowing your speed.
DIFFICULT GROUND
Difficult ground includes steep or treacherous
slopes, dense stands of hive foliage such as giant
fungi, pools of pollutant liquid or effluvia, and
thick or sodden hive dust. Models move over
difficult ground at half speed or half rate, so 1"
of movement counts as 2". For example, to cross
a 1 1/2" wide pool of bubbling algal slime you
must expend 3" of your move. Similarly, if
moving over a steep mound of ash waste you’ll
move at 2" per turn rather than 4".
A fighter who is running is slowed down by
difficult ground. He will run at 4" rather than 8"
over steep slopes for example, because all
models move at half speed over difficult terrain.
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VERY DIFFICULT GROUND
This is the really nasty stuff you wouldn’t want to
go near. It includes tar pits, deep or noxious
pools of liquid wastes, and narrow crawlholes
through the rubble. Models move over very
difficult ground at a quarter rate, so each 1" of
movement counts as 4".
IMPASSABLE GROUND
Much of the Underhive is simply impossible to
move over or through, such as deep or corrosive
pools, enveloping layers of soft hive dust, and,
of course, solid walls, collapsed tunnels and the
like.
WALLS AND BARRIERS
Walls, pipelines, small heaps of debris, and other
low obstacles form barriers that you can either
go around or leap over. A model can leap over a
barrier less than 1" high and no more than 1"
wide without impeding its movement at all. A
barrier between 1" and 2" high, and no more
than 1" wide, can still be crossed by climbing
over but you must give up half of your total
move that turn to do so. For example, if you
would otherwise move 4" then you must give up
2". A barrier higher than 2" is too tall to climb
over and is effectively impassable.