Necromunda – The Saxon Violets, One Year Later
Thunder’s Wayback Series continues, and Mordheim just wrapped up, which means the second season of Necromunda is upon us! While we had the option of continuing with our gangs from last year, the starting gang rating this year is about 1300-1400 on average and my gang wrapped the last season in second place at almost 2000. Most of us that played last season opted to make new gangs so that we’d be starting out at about the same level as the fresh players. I think only one player kept his old gang and his availability is so infrequent that he’ll probably be pretty evenly paced to everybody within a session or two.
For my part I’ve rebuilt the Saxon Violets with some familiar faces and some new recruits. Starting gang spend is 1000 credits, and every gang member gets some extra experience and an upgrade (a Juve ruling a 5 or 6 on their bonus xp can potentially get 2 upgrades).
So,what do the Saxon Violets look like one year later?
The ‘Retired’:
Brynja Spearhavok (Former Gang Leader): Brynja always struggled with leading the Violets. A skilled combatant, she was often distracted by the pressures of leadership, and suffered numerous injuries during hand to hand confrontations; her head wound eventually made it difficult to keep up with her leadership responsibilities. She retired a few months ago, and hopes to live out her remaining days in relative obscurity.
Elise ‘Cutter’ Cottrell (Former Ganger): Elise’s old battle wound grew more troublesome over time; it never really healed and she found herself losing more and more time dealing with it. The hard and active lifestyle of a Thunderhive ganger just made things worse, until she was out more days than she was up. Eventually she decided she was tired of making the Saxon Violets carry her, and she moved on. She polishes swords for a living now.
Bettie Rage (Former Juve/Ganger): Bettie’s intensity made her a terrifying opponent, but did little to keep her out of harm’s way. After quickly climbing through the ranks from Juve to Ganger, she disappeared defending the Lusty Bucket (one of the Violets’ drinking holes) from a hostile takeover. Things went south when the rival gang started using grenades and missiles on the cluttered block, and the Bucket was lost, along with the young and reckless Bettie Rage.
Patricia (Former Juve): Patricia was expected to be the next Polly ‘Pulper’ Pershon, and in a way she almost was. While she wasn’t killed outright, there has been no indication that she will ever come out of the coma, she is currently in the care of what little family she has.
Mack (Former Juve): Mack just wasn’t cut out for the Saxon Violets. She put forth a good effort in her first couple of skirmishes, but she didn’t get the thrill out of it that many of the girls do, and left to pursue other options before her first month was up. Mack was pretty reserved for a juve, and none of the other Violets even managed to learn her real name in the little time they had.
Skitterbritches (Former Ratskin Scout): Skitterbritches performed admirably for the rest of his time with the Saxon Violets. He was called away on personal business, and parted on excellent terms, providing the names of several available scouts that he felt had particular potential.
Next time, the Saxon Violets’ current roster!
rats east 