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My interest is piqued. Two people were preparing to play Mordheim when I visited gameday! I did a little research and found that several versions of the living rulebook, including an expansion by Wyrd Wars http://www.wyrdwars.com. They have added 14 expansion warbands. I salivate at the modelling opportunities. Has anyone tried these rules? Anyone interested in trying this?

How many people currently have warbands?

That game you saw with me and Primarch, was the first Mordheim game we've had in years and years. We did have a regular campaign going, the odd half dozen warbands and fairly regular (for us) games. Mordheim is a pretty old ruleset and I think recently these Warcry/Underworlds games are filling the Mordheim niche with those sexy new GW kits.

The "Living Rulebook" is the original rules with only a couple of errata updates. It's nothing like the epic labor of love re-write the Necromunda LIving Rulebook is. The game does need a few tweaks to make it work and there are lots of fixes. I'll have to dig up the "House Rules of the Damned" we were using. I personally love the game, along with all old GW skirmish games. I'd always be up for a game should anyone want to try it out.

While I clearly have minis for a Mordheim warband, as Konrad says, we hadn't played in a long time. The only reason we played last month was because I mentioned that I had been playing the Mordheim PC game and Konrad suggested dusting the original off and playing a game.

Nostalgia value aside, I can't see myself getting back into it. It's ok, but it doesn't quite fit my rather picky* tastes as far as rules go.

In terms of what is played locally, alternatives to Mordheim are:
Warhammer Underworlds
Warhammer Warcry
and the more model agnostic:
Frostgrave
Rangers of Shadow Deep
and on the same skirmishy level:
Malifaux

That isn't to say that people won't play if given the chance to do so, just that people haven't been playing so far. There is always a certain element of give and take between which systems get played, so if you are willing to try someone else's favourite game, they may be willing to try yours.


* Some would say overly critical.

I was about to say we should probably have a "play everyone's favourite skirmish game" round robin!

If a low model count defines a skirmish game, does that make Adeptus Titanicus and Battletech skirmish games?

Karantu wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:34 pm

If a low model count defines a skirmish game, does that make Adeptus Titanicus and Battletech skirmish games?

Low model count - Check
In depth/granular rules - Check
Represent small forces meeting during a larger conflict - Check

Yep, I'd say that they are both Skirmish games.

(I mean, technically/pedantically, every game we play is pretty much a skirmish. Real battles are usually fought between armed forces numbering in the thousands and up).

Titanicus is certainly a skirmish game - the designers are on record as seeing it as such. I'd say it's my favorite too, but mostly because Underworlds (my favorite miniatures game), despite its low model count, is a lot more a boardgame than a skirmish game in the sense we usually mean it as wargamers.

Jye Nicolson wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:52 am

I was about to say we should probably have a "play everyone's favourite skirmish game" round robin!

That's not a bad idea.