Bit of a blast from the past, but i'm doing a diversion into an oldie but goldie - Mordheim.
http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned_25.html (http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned_25.html)
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Great stuff!
I have some of the metals lying about, still not painted :'(
These days i always say the same when i see stuff online, i have it but unpainted lol
One of the best games out there in my opinion despite where it came from and the fact they ditched it!
We're just coming to the end of a campaign for this in our group, one more game to go next month and we'll see who is victorious.
Nice work
I like those ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Great game and funnily enough I saw my old warbands this morning whilst tidying some stuff up.
The project progresses. We spent the weekend building some terrain.
http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-2.html (http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-2.html)
Now, that.....I can't wait to see finished !
Cheers - Phil.
Can you still get hold of the rules?
Sure you could pick them up on ebay but these seem to be what a lot of people are starting to use now
http://www.coreheim.com/
We're using this: http://www.hong-crewet.dk/links/mordheim/ (http://www.hong-crewet.dk/links/mordheim/)
Cheers fella
Quote from: Genom on 25 June 2014, 09:15:56 PM
One of the best games out there in my opinion despite where it came from and the fact they ditched it!
We're just coming to the end of a campaign for this in our group, one more game to go next month and we'll see who is victorious.
So many of their best games ditched in favour of some pretty dire stuff, essentially still stuck in the 70s. Funny that WAB died a death amongst historical gamers. (In Britain we call this sarcasm, ie not surprising at all!
I dunno, it seemed to do alright - made fourteen years worth of print and support?! Although it never hit the competition treadmill, I s'pose. I suspect its death had more to do with GW marketing than with player base. That said, it's not really my cup of tea, and definitely isn't now!
I found it weird having to take kicking horses into account in a melee. It seemed to be going back to the 70s/80s thing of having far too many variables so that wargaming essentially became a number crunching exercise. If I hadn't enjoyed the painting and collecting side of the hobby I would probably have jacked it in in the early 80s.
It's a very old school set of rules, for sure. Wasn't greatly my cup of tea at the time, as although I don't object to buckets of dice it didn't seem very apt for the real world, was a bit too finicky and Iwasn't a fan of figure removal for casualties for "big unit, big scale" rules. And all that is magnified now, so it's even less of a draw for me!
For me Mordheim, Necromunda, Epic and Warmaster worked well because the game mechanisms worked at an appropriate level for the actions they claimed to represent.
Warhammer Fantasy, 40K and WAB on the other hand were a dog's breakfast of mismatched mechanisms leading to games that couldn't decide if they were "big battle" or skirmish.
Not to say that people didn't or shouldn't enjoy Warhammer just that I found it profoundly unsatisfactory
That pretty much sums it up, I think.
I do like the original "white box" & Rogue Trader ethos where it was definitevly a "not-quite an RPG-skirmish game", but I don't the rules scaled up past that even with constant "revision"...
The skirmish level sets were awesome though, many happy hours spent on Necromunda, and whilst Warmaster still leaves me a bit cold in places there's only minor tweaks needed to make it excellent :D
Isn't that Black Powder et al? Must admit I do enjoy those and have had some excellent C18th and C19th games with them.
Painting the terrain begins...
http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-2.html (http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-2.html)
Looks really good, already. I like the walkway / bridge idea, and the platform on the roof of the tower.
Coming along very nicely indeed.
What are the black bits you used for rocks?
OO-gauge railway modelling coal.
Quote from: Luddite on 01 July 2014, 11:49:55 PM
OO-gauge railway modelling coal.
And here I was thinking it was all scratch built ;D ;D ;D
Now that's looking cracking.... BTW I see 4Ground are releasing some fantasy houses in 28mm that have a tres "Empire" theme ;)
Yeah I saw those. 4ground are excellent. We recently bought some of their lovely Japanese buildings for an upcoming Ronin campaign we're doing.
I also have a bunch of their csrts and wagons. Very nice.
I've a variety of their cheaper bits & bobs too (some fencing, out houses, Russian steppe houses in 15mm), and I do fancy their big 28mm kits but sadly lack of need and lack of money say no ;)
All very tasty.
Interesting :)
In issues 4 and 6 of my magazine I am looking at "Dead Games". :-\
Nice to see I am not the only one with some sense of nostalgia.
You have a magazine? Do you need contributors?
Things are progressing steadily (but slower than expected this week as i had to spend some time in the foul cesspit that is London this week for work).
Here's the latest report on the buildings and terrain http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-3.html (http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/mordheim-city-of-damned-part-3.html)
Nice work.
Copper roof, very useful for keeping deities wrath at bay!
On the inn, why is the loo on the roof?!
Its not, it's in the yard. The little hut on the roof covers the spiral stairs up.
;)
Nice scenery - very tasty!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 05 July 2014, 09:38:06 PM
Nice scenery - very tasty!
Particularly the "Pringles" tower ;D ;D ;D
Looking good, Luddite. I love Mordheim 8)
It's also how I met SteveJ :)
Yep, Nik and I met at a fellow gamers shed a good few years ago now. Many great games had over the years, especially at the Specialist Games event in Nottingham.
Quote from: Steve J on 28 July 2014, 11:15:35 AM
Yep, Nik and I met at a fellow gamers shed a good few years ago now. Many great games had over the years, especially at the Specialist Games event in Nottingham.
I have wondered how many of the pseudonyms here mask people I've met. I met Nik at a Specialist Games event at GW Lenton when he'd transferred from the Warmaster competition to the Mordheim one ... heresy! IIRC it made numbers even or brought the Mordheim numbers up to the minimum required for a GW event or some such excuse. Still, one less opponent in a competition has its upsides :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 July 2014, 03:42:33 PM
I have wondered how many of the pseudonyms here mask people I've met. I met Nik at a Specialist Games event at GW Lenton when he'd transferred from the Warmaster competition to the Mordheim one ... heresy! IIRC it made numbers even or brought the Mordheim numbers up to the minimum required for a GW event or some such excuse. Still, one less opponent in a competition has its upsides :D
That's a good point - I've no idea how many real people I know / have met over the years!
I'm a shocker when it comes to heresy - total crowd pleaser ;)
IIRC, though, that switch went pretty well...think I won a prize and stuff 8)