[Mordheim] Campaign 2014-2015 (FINISHED)

[HeresyBrush]

Hi,



If everything is right, we should start a new campaign next Monday. What do you think?

At the moment we are four players (well, I think so :P): Salsa, sutenööri, Varapalmus and me. Anyone else is interested? Anyway whoever is interested can join us at any moment (the difference between warband ratios equalizes the game after a couple of games).

Recycling the old Jarva´s openning message, general rules are:

- The campaign games are held on every Monday at 16.00-19.00 in Joensuu's Fantasiapelit. The campaign starts at November 24th, that´s next week. If we consider excesive to have games every week we can play every two weeks.

- The campaign uses ”Revisions” house rule set (you can download the package (including rules and warbands) from this link). Ignore this part of the house rules: “Never may more than 2/3 of the warriors of a warband carry a missile weapon with range more than 12". So check it out before you start your warband! Any warband that are commonly accepted are ok to play. Ask if you are unsure. Or we can use http://www.coreheim.com. You decided!

- If everybody agree we can use secondary mission cards (you can find the original idea here). After my Christmas holidays I will properly print them in a card printer, let me know if you are interested.

[Salsa]

I would gladly stick with rules what we have already kept using, those have been working really well for us, as we haven't looked for seriously competitive experience either. I'm just having fun and teasing everyone with fact that I have the blunderbuss. :P

[HeresyBrush]

I have the blunderbuss. :P

Not anymore :P

OK, for me is fine :)

[Varapalmus]

Hokay, roster written and warband ready, aside from an Ulfwerenar, which should be coming in the mail any day now.

Now to see if I can manage to get everyone killed in the very first match :)

[HeresyBrush]

Hi,

Nice!, my new warband is also ready (although it's not painted yet :( ).

Let's go and burn some heretics :D

Ah, first scenario should be a normal wyrdstone hunting (players + 1D3 shards).

[Salsa]

Heretics?
I only see bastards from everywhere interfering in my turf.

:P

[HeresyBrush]

Hahahaha, everyone is an heretic to my eyes :P

So are we three or four today?, Juha?

[Sutenööri]

Oh yeah, sorry, ofc I will be coming, just wondering if Jere will be playing possessed/carnival so I wont be bringing the same warbands, maybe i'll just make a list for both so I can swap incase theres the same bands!

-Juha-

[Gilaelin]

Hi!

Seems like I would be having more spare time as the Christmas is approaching, so that I too, could hop into this new campaign if there is still room for one more. =) I was not able to attend today but I would be glad to join you next Monday. I guess I would be playing either mercenaries or shadow warriors.

[Salsa]

Did nothing, got rewarded.
Maybe Marienburgers know better how it works! :P

[HeresyBrush]

:O

I have something for you. You will see (or suffer) next battle :P

Gilaelin, you are welcome :)

BTW; remember to take into account the shard we got during the battle!! (I totally forgot it and now I have more money muhahah)

[Sutenööri]

:O

I have something for you. You will see (or suffer) next battle :P

Gilaelin, you are welcome :)

BTW; remember to take into account the shard we got during the battle!! (I totally forgot it and now I have more money muhahah)

Oh yeah! Mah shards!

-Juha-

[Varapalmus]

I'm considering building another warband, in case I'll ever feel like switching from my Norse, if they ever die, or if having more variety in a match seems like a good idea.

Battle Monks of Cathay seems like a fun choice, and there's a lot of models for kung-fu monks, samurais and peasants around the net.

[HeresyBrush]

That's up to you, although I would say that is better to play always with the same warband (if not you will be in troubles, because the ratio of your warbands will be always lower).

[HeresyBrush]

Who wanna to prepare the new scenerio? In case, I have prepared one.

[Salsa]

Juha, Jere and I have just struggled out from Ostium. So I suppose it would be fine to let you present the scenario. :)

[HeresyBrush]

Oh, you never stop! :P how was?

Here is the scenario:

THE LOST PRINCE

Street artists often tell stories of the dammed city, and as a result the children of the privileged classes often see the city of Mordheim as the opportunity to live romantic adventures. Sometimes one of them runs away from home to join a band of mercenaries with the intention to make a name. These individuals often die before they can even reach the city; but occasionally one is lucky enough to get to it. Family may be glad to be rid of him, but sometimes a wealthy merchant or nobleman is able to pay a considerable sum if someone would return his son safe and sound, ripping his inevitable fate in Mordheim.

Special rules

The prince: The young prince who has run away from home should initially be placed in the center of the table with 4 bodyguards (normal humans with WS4, sword and shield). They form a square surrounding the prince at 4 inches. During NPC´s turn, the prince moves 1D6 UM in a random direction until someone makes contact. Bodyguards follow the prince everywhere.

The prince is afraid of unknown people (yes, and he is in Mordheim...), and therefore if there is any model within 8 UM, he has to pass a leadership test (L7). If not, he runs away in the opposite direction followed by his bodyguards.

If a miniature without animal feature is placed in contact with the Prince (cannot be charged, do not get hurt!), the boy will join the Warrior (place it at 1 UM or in base contact) and will follow this miniature everywhere. Bodyguards can be normally charged, but you don´t really need to kill them to capture the prince. However, bodyguards will try to defend the prince. During NPC´s turn bodyguards will charge any enemy model in charging range.

If the warrior wearing the prince gets stunned, knocked down or is put out of action by a range weapon, the young prince will randomly move around during NPC´s turn. If the warrior is stunned, knocked down or put out of action in close combat, the prince will follow the victorious enemy model. The Prince will not follow models leaving the combat for any reason; rather he will immediately follow his opponent.

Finishing the game

6 turns
or
the warband that gets out of the table with the prince is the winner (by his own deployment area)

Experience

+1 survives
+1 winner captain
+1 putting out of action a bodyguard
+1 saving the prince

Reward

The father of the creature will give you the following treasures if you give back the prince:
5d6 co (automatic)
1d3 axes (+4)
1d3 swords (+4)
Light armour (+4)
Shiled (+4)
helmet (+4)
Heavy armour (+5)
1d3 gems (10co each one) (+5)

If you capture the prince but you cannot get out of the table, you can sell the prince in the slave´s market by 6d6 co (you are not going to lose your time when there are too many wyrdstone shards waiting for you in Mordheim!).

[Varapalmus]

So as I said, I'll be restarting with a different warband. I'm pretty sure I'd have done that anyway at some point, but the death of the Jarl gave me a good excuse to do it now, before I'd actually suffer exp/gold-wise.

This is mostly because I realized (a bit too late) that Mordheim is so much more than just running at the closest enemy and butting heads. Chasing objectives seems a lot more fun anyway, as I realized while fleeing with the prince in tow. (or wearing him, as the scenario described. Prince-hat.) So with that in mind, I'm going to be trying to build a bit more balanced list, with less alliance-ruining Frenzy. Something to add variety to the game, anyway.

After some thought, I'm trying to decide between Possessed, Sisters of Sigmar and Battle Monks. Each are interesting in their own way, but I think Battle Monks would really be the way to go here. We already have tough, scary Chaos-huggers, and Empire zealots after all...But the Sisters are pretty damn cool. At any rate, I'll try to decide before saturday.

TL;DR: I'm not a quitter, I swear. Just short-sighted.

[Varapalmus]

Double post because rules.

So as I was wondering what henchmen groups mean, I went through the rules and browsed the internet for a while more, and figured out that I should check here if I've understood this right.

When buying henchmen, you place them into groups, and these groups gain advancements as a single unit. So when you buy additional henchmen, you can put them into their own group, or place them in an already existing one, but to do so, the henchman must be bought all of the same equipment the other members of the group have, BUT they also gain any advancements that the group has already gained. Is this correct?

So if I have groups A and B, both with two henchmen, and roll +1S for the first group, and +1LD for the other, I could then place as many henchmen of the same type into group B as their limit allows, and all those new henchmen would benefit from +1S.

Alternatively, I could fire the group that got +1LD, and replace them with group C, hoping that they gain a better advancement when their time comes. This is actually a pretty neat system.

[Sutenööri]

Double post because rules.

So as I was wondering what henchmen groups mean, I went through the rules and browsed the internet for a while more, and figured out that I should check here if I've understood this right.

When buying henchmen, you place them into groups, and these groups gain advancements as a single unit. So when you buy additional henchmen, you can put them into their own group, or place them in an already existing one, but to do so, the henchman must be bought all of the same equipment the other members of the group have, BUT they also gain any advancements that the group has already gained. Is this correct?

So if I have groups A and B, both with two henchmen, and roll +1S for the first group, and +1LD for the other, I could then place as many henchmen of the same type into group B as their limit allows, and all those new henchmen would benefit from +1S.

Alternatively, I could fire the group that got +1LD, and replace them with group C, hoping that they gain a better advancement when their time comes. This is actually a pretty neat system.

When buying new henchman for allready existing groups, you have to check the experience of the available hires, to do this you roll 2D6.

So lets say you have Henchman groups A and B

A has 7 Experience
B has 3 Experience

You roll for available hires and get an 8, so you could add 1 hire to the A group and have 1 Exp left over, or you could add 2 to group B and have 2 Exp over

New recruits is detailed more on the page 102 of the mordheim rulebook.

-Juha-