Mordheim: City of the Godamnit

Hello blog? *solemn bell tolls.....tumbleweed.....wind howls...*

Things have been a bit quiet on here lately, so thought it was time to give 'Yo Dawg....' a kick to see if it's still moving.

At the weekend a group of us met up to play Mordheim again in Oxford, taking orcs and goblins, beastmen, the possessed, ogres, the carnival of chaos and skaven to the streets.

Some choice highlights:

Two heroes out of action? Ah well, anything but a one....anything but a one....oh sh-

 Let’s do the subplots rules! -2 modifier to all shooting because of a gale? FFFFFUUUUU-

 Just hit! HIT HIM!

 Only need to wound....ahhh a one again.

 I can see him! I CAN SEE! It’s short range, three’s to hit, come on....one. Well, to be expected.

 Two more heroes out of action....surely I won’t roll another lot of ones, right? Ah I see, I CAN!

 A goblin’s got experience! Anything but lads got talent...anything but lads got talent....cheers 11. *removes goblin from roster sheet.*

Quite frankly, I’ve never rolled such appalling dice in all my life. It even beats the time I rolled 5 ones out of 7 dice when making armour saves for my chaos terminators against a dark reaper squad 10 years ago (yes, it’s still fresh in my mind, some things never leave you!)

I would talk of dice being weighted and how everyone is a cheating bastard (Jason) but it seems luck had gone on holiday for me.

At the end of three games (I didn’t have a warband to actually play anyone) I had lost:

My orc boss
My shaman (TWICE!)
Both Big ‘Uns (one of them twice also)
Both squigs
Both goblins armed with spears

My remaining force consisted of:

A goblin armed with a club and short bow
An orc boy
A newly purchased big ‘un from the end of the second game.
And 9 gold coins in the bank.
Yeah liquidate that.

Despite this horrendous display of how NOT to play Mordheim, it was great fun all in all. Some other players suffered also, with Marc’s beastmen being whittled down to only 7 models and a newly hired centagor getting an old war-wound in his first battle; Jason’s possessed brethren lost 2 of their number in the first game and Oly’s newly-formed ogre warband were thoroughly play-tested.

On the other hand, Rion’s skaven seem unstoppable at the moment and Prakash’s nurglings are absolutely lethal little ankle biters – ones to watch.

But beware, for there’s been a change in the air, a sinister figure has appeared...the corpses of these poor-dead goblins and blooded orcs will perhaps have some use...