"Do You Play Mordheim?" Topic

Do you still play these rules?

No. I never played them.

Not for a while but I will…

Not since it was released, but I have been making plans to start back again, hopefully later this year.

I was just recently looking to see what other official / semi-official factions might have come along in the years since.

My group and I have been playing since it came out.
Great game.

That said, we've recently swapped over to frost grave as it gives a new twist on fantasy skirmish gaming, and IMHO the scenarios are more exciting.

Have played quite a few campaigns and one of my favorite games.

Nope

Never played them.

No

Yes. Good rules.

Never played them.

Just the setting using Frostgrave rules.

No.
The concept was interesting but the rules were very poor.

No. No interest.

love but havn't played in years

Did for a while and enjoyed them, then the guy running the game moved on. Great fun and a good concept, would be worth GW re-issuing it I would have thought.

Never liked the rules. The idea of hit, wound, then knock down doesn't do it for me.

Played at Origins. Great terrain, unpainted, non GW miniaures. I had a Warband of 6 Dwarves who didn't have the movement to engage the enemy. When they moved to me, 3 times I hit, wounded…but only knocked the opponent down. They then stood up and killed me.

At game end, I had gotten wiped out without actually hurting any of the enemy. Bad die rolling yes, but I still didn't care for the rules…..

I enjoyed playing a Mordheim campaign with my kids when it came out & I used the rules for several Convention Border Reiver, Montague vs Capulet, & John Carter games since I think it works well for sword & pistol, minimal armor, warband + Heroes skirmishes (Magic & Monsters are optional). I also adapted it to a phased semi-simultaneous turn sequence to minimize the problem noted by PzGeneral.

Enjoyed it for a time (I started playing when they released the rules in White Dwarf, before the actual boxed game). But the thing is, once a game is discontinued, new players don't join in, and as the old group moves away, it ends up joining the games on shelves I used to play.

Was a pretty good game though.

Played them once when they first came out but didn't hurry to get a second game.

Too many better games available.

I would if the rules were released in an easier repackage to acquire. Currently burning through the hours playing Mordheim, City of the Damned on my Computer.

We did, but as the factions advance, ranged combat always wins out, we found. Frostgrave has the same flavour, and is FAR better balanced, we think.

Yes, numerous campaigns.

I did back in the 90's I had the box set and a few blisters. My group preferred Necromunda, Epic, 40K and Fantasy. At that time I was collecting for multiple different GW games with the intention of eventually getting everything for each game system but I was on a tight budget. Then GW killed Mordheim and nobody wanted to play a "dead system". I sold my Mordheim collection. Now I would like to get back into it now that I can afford to buy it but I refuse to pay EBAY prices.

The reason my group did not care for it was a lack of terrain resulting in shooting combat dominating the game. Now with hindsight I would have filled the table with ruins. Each of us owned a Necromunda boxed set and we would each bring our terrain on game night. I was the only one with a Mordheim box set.

Sorry never played them.

Played it for a few years. Great game system.

Dragon Gunner has it right. Too little terrain results in a shooting advantage.

Never heard of them.

a lack of terrain resulting in shooting combat dominating the game

Yup, and this is a key factor in most 40K games as well.

You need a table top that has enough Terrain on it so that shooting is limited to around 12" – 15".

Make it so that each side has to moved their troops and not just turtle in one corner and blast everything.

Umm…

You all had necromunda boxes? Why not use that terrain?

As for a revamp. Six limbed night goblins (war hammer quest redo), anyone? Perhaps best left alone.

Almost finished building a table:
TMP link
I will have my first couple of games on it on Saturday. As I have only played about twice since I bought the rules over a decade ago this is fairly exciting!