"Mordheim 1/72" Topic

Hello fellows
As a GW heretic (self-supporting student?!) I came across the living rulebook for this game. Played Necromunda in the past and enjoyed that, looking over this book it seems to have all the GW Specialist Games traits of an awesome game (left to gather rust, of course…)

A little out of personal politics and a little out of dear old cheapness (actually inspired by looking over Plastic Soldier Review for Gladiator figures – which led me to find Pit Fighter rules…which led to Morheim…) my next project will be to put together some warbands and terrain for this ruleset. In 20mm-1/72…the rules should be adaptable maybe changing inches to cm…but I'll find out along the way…
Seen the other 20mm post on here and it was helpful for Empire and Kislev.
I'm posting the lists below here to remind myself of what I chose as I order the boxes (already ordered the first two..and Caesar Orcs aren't on here as being painted at the moment) and also because maybe someone among you budding plastic aficionados can help me fill the gaps of these early warband ideas, please?

Or Mordheim players who have some tips about other races/warbands they came up with?

CULT OF THE POSSESSED
No idea for these guys. Need figures with pointy hoods (the mutations I can add singly)

UNDEAD
Legion of Nightmare (Pirate set)
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Caesar Undead
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WITCH HUNTERS
Who'd make suitable Van Helsing style figures?

MIDDENMEIM
Landskechts
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REIKLANDERS
Jacobite Highlanders
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SISTERS OF SIGMAR
I am so stuck here it's not even funny!

SKAVEN
Via a strange process of mental association these guys were going to be depicted as
Samurai
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KISLEV
Ukranian Cossacks (with two free cannons in the box to boot…what will they dream up next?!?)
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CATHAY
Dismounted Mongols
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DWARVES
Yer old Caesars
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ELVES
As above

RANDOM MERCENARIES
Adventurers box from the above link
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NATIVE INDIAN THEMED WARRIORS
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ARABY
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MARIEBURG
Janissaries
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ALTDORF
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SARTOSA PIRATE SUPPLEMENT
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Use Splintered Light's Kobold's as Skaven. See my blog for comparison photos of SL stuf with 1/72. ordinarygaming.blogspot.com

I'd use the SL dwarves. Heck, anything in their Splintered Lands line. Can I have a Big Bunny warband? :-)

Tons of stuff for Kislev out there.

I would say you have the reiklanders and middenheimers switched around. Reikland is the wealthiest of the imperial provinces so you should use landsknechts for them.

Big Bunnies?
Ummm….what I love most about GW is their specialist games lines. And given I can't afford (query is…would I IF I could?!) their immoral prices, still recognize their SG rulesets were very awesome. Epic, Blood Bowl, Warmaster..IMHO they outdo the biggies in so many ways by miles..which is probably why they're not mainstream.
So yeah…bring on Warbands galore!
May open in a blog in a few months when I've some scenery and minis done. Thanks for the heads up on the Skaven!

Probably did switch them…
Thanks (don't know much about Warhammer…)
:)

My top choices for the Witch Hunters warband (although for the first two sets only a few figures from each would probably be appropriate):
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Living Rulebook?

The nice thing about buying a box of 1/72 for only a few figures, which still is cheaper than one Mordheim figure, is that you can use them for historical games. Hey, use them for 1/72 Warmaster! (This is what I'm doing.) WM is free as well.

Don't count out smaller 28mm figures from Reaper and others. You can use LotR plastic Goblins as Orcs in 1/72. Be creative.

BTW I'd help out more, but I'm at work.

Also, you mentioned the Caeser Orcs-don't forget the Orion/Dark Alliance Orcs also available:

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arcanelegions.com

I've been looking at Arcane Legions as well. I think they are 1/72? I haven't seen them in person to comment on quality. My local store has them discounted. The undead can be used as Khemri, which is what I was thinking for Warmaster at least.

@ wargamer1972
Living Rulebooks are online versions of GW Specialist Games rulebooks. Among them are Necromunda, Warmaster, Blood Bowl etc…
You go on the GW site, browse to Specialist Games and onto the Resources section for your game of choice. In there are the pdf rulebooks (which, if updated, are instantly so on the GWSG site…LIVING rulebooks!)

Thanks to everyone for heads up.
Think Empire, Kislev, Orcs and Undead will be done up first. As well as terrain (all scratch built, obviously)
Good to have these lists on TMP for future reference, too…
And thank goodness for PSR!
Ciao!

Personally, I don't rate mordheim as being very good.
Tried them for some time but there's rules aren't worth having and missing rules, plus the turn sequence is rubbish for small scale skirmish.

I modified my what ho carruthers rules.
Never got round to completing the project and writing them up.
I notice a few other people have used "deathville" as a name for stuff since then.

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I had just been thinking on this but wanted double duty for rules.

I think Mordheim is okay as a game set. I prefer Chaos in Carpathia, though since I like the dice mechanic and overall rules.