[Mordheim] Campaign 2014-2015 (FINISHED)

[Varapalmus]

Aw, come on, I just wanted some last turn exp :( What's a little treachery between allies?

Besides, it all turned out pretty well: Your dude got some exp for taking the backstabber down, and mine rolled a 66 on the injury table, so she got some as well :D

[HeresyBrush]

OK, only for this time, Sigmar approves :p

[Salsa]

You're way too kind to betrayers. Might turn to be your end....
Sorry for not being to able that I couldn't participate at last Monday's game. I'll try to get in next week tough. :D

[Varapalmus]

I just learned something new and interesting! There are no soft or hard cover rules in Mordheim, only cover. So no matter how well you're hidden, you only get the benefit of soft cover! And, even more interestingly, if the shooter misses a target that benefits from cover by 1, the shot hits the cover instead. So hiding someone behind another model can actually lead to the warrior in front getting shot! Not going to come up often due to the rules about shooting the closest target, but it's good to know if I ever get my hands on a Lochland rifle.

[Gilaelin]

So, who's making a scenario for Monday?

[HeresyBrush]

Whoever wants :D

[Salsa]

I'll make one for out of boredom.

[Varapalmus]

Edit: Oh dear, Salsa posted while I was writing :D

Since he posted first, lets play the scenario he makes, and save this one for later.

#OccupyMordheim

This scenario takes place in a part of Mordheim where the buildings are bursting with shards of wyrdstone and other wealth. Taking and holding these buildings means that your warband gains rich pickings. Unfortunately, your opponents have the same idea.

Terrain
Each player takes it in turn to place a piece of terrain that counts as a building, and the players roll off. The ones with the highest results place additional buildings on the table, to a maximum of 7.

Warbands
Players roll a D6. The player with the highest score decides which warband sets up first. The first player chooses the table edge he wants to set up on, and places all his warriors within 8" of it. This is repeated for each starting point.

Starting the game
Players roll a D6. The player with the higher score takes the first turn.

Special rules
The objective is to capture 7 of the buildings on the tabletop. Mark these buildings, starting with the one closest to the centre of the table, working your way outwards to the next nearest building. A building is occupied if at least one of your standing models is inside and no enemy models are inside the building.

Loot: At the end of the game, each player rolls a d6 for every building they occupy. The results of these rolls can be substituted for any of the dice rolled in the exploration phase.

Ending the game
The game lasts a maximum of six turns, and doesn't end when a player routs. At the end of the last turn, the player who has occupied the most buildings wins the game.

Experience
+1 Survives. If a Hero or a Henchman group survives they gain +1 Experience.
+1 Winning Leader. The leader of the warband who controls the highest number of buildings at the end of the battle gains +1 Experience. If any two players occupy the same number of buildings, then the battle is considered to be a draw and neither leader gains this bonus.
+1 Per Enemy Out of Action. Any Hero earns +1 Experience for each enemy he puts out of action.

[Salsa]

Treasure Hunt, and way how it's f***ed up
"By the Sigmar! Who the hell called other warbands here?"

Terrain:
For this scenario, it's recommended to create thick town square in center of the map with large number of buildings and ruins as possible. Try keep equal distance to town center from each deployment zone.

Deployment
Place Marker inside of your deployment zone, representing the Drop-off point of your warband.

Scenario Rules:
In this scenario warbands are searching a hidden treasure, rumoured to be hidden in town square.
Whenever you occupy a building, model can after his movement (if he haven't done run move) search the building to look for Treasure by rolling D6 during shooting phase. Model who's searching the building cannot shoot or cast spells on that turn. You can find the treasure by rolling 6 from dice, lowering the required result by one from each failed attempt for all warbands. Warbands can try to look for Treasure only once per turn and only once from same building. Also dice roll of 1 is always failed search attempt, unless building you're searching is the final one.

Whenever you find treasure, the model who did the search immediately grabs the Treasure. Model holding the Treasure can act normally expect cannot shoot or casts spells. In addition model can always give treasure to another model by moving base contact with it.
Model who carries the Treasure and manages to move to drop-off point results the game-end immediately.

Winning Warband may open the chest for following loot:
3D6 Gold
Sword
And following from 2D6 Table:
2: Garlic
3: Lantern
4: Net
5: Mad Cap Mushroom
6: 2 Pieces of Wyrdstone
7: Crossbow
8: Lucky Charm
9: Crimson Shade
10: Halfing Cookbook
11: Hunting Arrows
12: Healing Herbs

Game Duration and Victory Condition:
Game lasts up to 7 turns or when Treasure has been delivered succesfully. Alternatively, if all warbands, controlled by players routs before Treasure has been transported out of action, no one gets the winning reward.

Experience
+1 Survives. If a Hero or a Henchman group survives they gain +1 Experience.
+1 Winning. Leader of a winning warband receives extra experience point.
+1 Per Enemy Out of Action. Any Hero earns +1 Experience for each enemy he puts out of action.
+1 Per completed Secondary Objective. Hero who completes a secondary mission at any point of the match receives experience point in addition to any other reward.

[Varapalmus]

Well, that was a game among games! The vampire and elves fought their own war in one end of the table, while the humans waged an all-out war in the other. I have to say, Salsa definitely went out with a bang, if this was to be his last game. It was both painful and glorious to just watch pretty much every combat end up with someone taken OoA. And all that backstabbing and scheming finally paid off for the leader of my warband, who got +8 experience from the match and is now a more dangerous shooter than most elves :D

P.S: I accidentally grabbed two measuring tapes with me. I think the other one belongs to Salsa.

P.P.S: What was HB's warband rating anyway? I need to check if I really qualified for the underdog bonus.

P.P.P.S: If I seem overly emotional at times, that's because I just like reacting to things in an overblown manner.

[HeresyBrush]

¬¬

Two games, two backstabs. Never trust you again! :P

My ratio was 197.

Thank you very much for the game; and I think I have never said, but thank you very much for playing in English! :) On Friday I'm going to Spain (finally I could feel the sun again!!!!!!!). I'm coming back on 12th January. As I said, I don't have any problem if you decide to continue playing in my absence. It's up to you :D Hyvää Joulua!

In case you are interested, when I come back probably I will bring the final version of the secondary mission cards, after collecting some feedback from almost ten battles here in Joensuu. For example, the mission about take control of a random building was rephrased and other ones were eliminated (i.e. get out of the table some figures, because these missions are a bit ridiculous specially playing multiplayer games).

And my brother and I have been working on another two complements: JOKERS (red and black, influenced by Malifaux) and "initiative cards" (cards with numbers/colors, then we can use them instead Magics). If you have time, take a look at the JOKER card texts. In case you see something weird, let me know! [the huge JOKER illustration is from Shev14th).

[Salsa]

Praise the sun!

[Rune]

Praise the sun!

Sun is a lie.

Weathercast says continuous darkness for the rest of the week. Most likely rest of our lives if this keeps up...

Some proof reading:

Red Joker

The new owner of the this card --

Super cool consept! I'm really liking what you're doing here, everyone. :)

Maybe I'll even have some time in the spring period to have a game or few in... I think there was an undead lich warband variant somewhere which looked really fun and more than balanced. Now that I really might start working on a necromancer led Vampire Counts army for FB.

Thank YOU Heresy Brush for participating so enthusiastically in envigoration of the town's miniature scene. The world needs more people like you who can keep up with their enthusiasm and get things done and people excited. Hopefully you won't die out of sunlack though. :D Finland can be like that just before Christmas. It usually gets better around January.

[Sutenööri]

Do you guys wanna play next monday 22.12, some of us won't be able to make it but I think we have few players who are able to participate? We even have a scenario ready!

-Juha-

[Varapalmus]

I'm game. My warband is technically two games behind anyway.

[HeresyBrush]

Hei guys, how is it going? Happy new year ;)

Thanks Rune for your words, although I have been so lucky finding this fantastic player group :D

I have already sent to print the Mordheim card decks. And if you are interested, you can download them following this link:

http://modelbrush.com/mordheim-secondar ... ard-decks/

Unfortunatelly we have detected the first errors related with the translation. It seems that I was working on the wrong excel file because some errors were already fixed :(. If you detect something more, let me now ;). We are working on the version 2.0! We have also included a "critical hits" deck. I have use the reviewed tables we use in our games. So we don't need to stop the game and check the meaning after every critical hit. Just draw a card and read the effect :D

See you next week!.

[Varapalmus]

Return of the HB!

Wait, sundays always confuse me...Does the 'next week' mean tomorrow?

[Sutenööri]

Anyhow, people up for a game tomorrow?

Would there be more than 2 able to play?

-Juha-

[HeresyBrush]

Hi,

Sorry, I'm coming back on 12th Jan :)

[Gilaelin]

I too, am unable to attend tomorrow, but next week would be fine. =)