Necromunda rulebook - Games Workshop

The multiple levels and gantries of the Underhive
afford fighters ample opportunity to fall from a great
height.
TEST TO FALL
If a fighter is pinned or goes down within 1" of an
edge there is a chance he will slip and fall off. To
determine this roll a D6. If the score is more than the
fighter’s Initiative characteristic then he falls over the
edge to the ground.
If a fighter is engaged in hand-to-hand fighting within
1" of an edge then he may fall off if he loses the
combat. Roll a D6. If the score is more than the
fighter’s Initiative characteristic, or a 6, then he falls
over the edge to the ground.
DAMAGE
A fighter who falls sustains an automatic hit at a
strength equal to the height of the fall in inches.
Where a wound is suffered a fall of up to 3" will inflict
1 wound, and a fall of more than 3" will inflict D6
wounds. Although the scenery supplied in the game
does not scale to such dizzy heights, a fall of more
than 12" is assumed to take the fighter out of action
with no dice rolls required.
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NECROMUNDA
ADVANCED RULES
This section includes a variety of new rules which add further detail and complexity to the game.
They are not necessary in order to play, and for this reason the rules have been gathered together at
the end here to avoid potential confusion.
We recommend that new players ignore this section to start with, or at least until they are familiar
with the way the game works. If you consider yourself to be an experienced games player then you’ll
have no problem introducing these more complex elements as you go along.
FALLING
Armour saves do apply to wounds sustained by falling.
Save modifiers are the same as for hand-to-hand
combat hits from combatants with high strengths. So
S4 counts -1, S5 -2, S6 -3 and so forth. See the Handto-Hand
Combat section for the full chart.
A model which falls without going down or out of
action is automatically pinned as if hit by enemy fire.
FALLING ONTO ANOTHER MODEL
In the unlikely event that someone else lies directly in
the path of a plummeting fighter then he may also be
hurt. The hapless individual is hit on a D6 roll of a 4,
5 or 6. He sustains the same strength hit as the faller,
suffering 1 or D6 wounds depending on the distance
of fall.
If struck by the falling fighter, and assuming he
doesn’t go down or out of action, the victim is pinned
as if hit by a shot.
Assuming the faller and victim survive, position the
models 1" apart to make it clear they are not in handto-hand
combat.
JUMPING
A model may jump down from a higher level to
another. If the height is 3” or less then take an
initiative test, a failure means you fell, a success means
you have landed safely but may not move further and
a roll of one means you have landed and may take the
remainder of your move if applicable. A vertical jump
over 3” is treated as a deliberate fall and uses the rules
in the above damage section as normal. You may
deliberately 'charge' another model who is below your
model should you wish to, in which case use the rules
for falling onto another model as described above.
A model may also attempt to jump across a horizontal
gap from one side to the other. He does this instead
of a normal move and jumps D6". If he fails to cover
the gap the fighter plummets down as per a fall.
A model may attempt a jump by way of a charge in
order to engage an enemy, but still jumps only D6".
A jumping model counts as moving and will otherwise
fight as normal.