In Necromunda, can I climb up and down ladders at the same rate?
Yes, as stated in the terrain section of the rules, ladders are treated as clear terrain, so each 1″ you move up or down a ladder costs 1″ of your move (it’s assumed that gangers, having spent all their lives in the Underhive, can scamper up or down ladders with equal speed). As most ladders are 3″ long this generally means it cost 3″ of movement to go up or down. At the Studio we have a house rule that a model that can’t get to the top or bottom of ladder in one go isn’t allowed to use it, but this isn’t official and is just the way we play. Alternatively, you can note down where-abouts on the ladder a model is on a piece of paper, or show its position with a lump of blu-tac.
