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Massive score on the Mordheim front.

I already have ~20 of the original Sisters miniatures.
Bought a Sisters warband of another 14 models online because it had the variant Matriarch with steel whip, and the blister-pack only Sister Superior with the twin Morningstar flail.

Set arrived with 15 models because it also included the rare and expensive Bertha Bestraufrung hired sword model. Wasn’t listed on the ad, but was very glad to find it upon opening the package.
 
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SITHRAK! said:
Broheim.net has everything you need. There’s plenty of Mordheim content on YouTube if you want to watch some introductory stuff.
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How accurate the videogame is to the rules these days? Still good for an introductory peek?
 
Best damn Mordheim story I've read was where this guy was running a gang of Beastman. There was some kind of mishap up on some platform and the big boss goat got accidentally pushed off by one of the junior goatboys, hit the ground and went out of action. When rolling for injury effects in the after action phase, boss goat got Hatred against the one who injured him - one of his own henchmen. Amazing and perfectly in-character for beastmen.
 
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I'm wondering if there's a STL group out there for Mordheim. Or good proxies.
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There are heaps of proxies from people like Vae Victis, Punga, Tiny Furniture, Bombshell Miniatures, Old World Miniatures, Dogs of War Studio, NJLSculpts, Reptilian Overlords and Vinciminiatures. Gay’s Wokeslop still sells the original Mordheim mercenary plastics as Free Company Militia for The Old World.

Kane Lives said:
How accurate the videogame is to the rules these days? Still good for an introductory peek?
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Very similar in aesthetic feel (I have a few hours in the game):
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but a completely different playing experience. The vidya has a lot of poorly explained combat mechanics that lead people to expectations of probability that don’t pan out. This, plus the lack of ability to save scum, along with what some consider a brutal learning curve meant it wasn’t super popular.

My assessment is that the vidya is for people who love the tabletop game and want a fix without the hassle of setting up a time and place, but I wouldn’t recommend it as an intro to the tabletop game. Still, if you can get it for $5 and you’re willing to learn the underlying mechanics, you may enjoy it on its own merits. The Steam forums for it are a great place to learn the ropes, look for posts by a guy named Paranoia. He’s a modding genius (modded the game even though it wasn’t designed to be modded) and probably knows it better than the designers now.
 
Ghostse said:
The 50 new rulessets have weird schroedinger's blessing from OPR as well - they aren't put out by OPR or tested by them but are part of a community drop. So its not even as simple as saying "no 3rd party splats" or "This book is off limits", there's now pretty much more community content than official content, and its not created or controlled by OPR but uses their system so now when you go to try find a game good fucking luck as That Guy pulls out his special trans* liberation army.

Anyway, this is why I told you faggots we don't suffer the furry to live and maybe next time you'll listen.
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It's potentially sillier than that, since they've already got their "creator books" section in their army builder which has "Official Partners", "Star Creators", and "Compatible Creators" already as categories. Are official partners official content? It says official. What the fuck is a star creator? Who the fuck knows.

But yes, this is how you turn your game product into a homebrew shit show.
 
SITHRAK! said:
There are heaps of proxies from people like Vae Victis, Punga, Tiny Furniture, Bombshell Miniatures, Old World Miniatures, Dogs of War Studio, NJLSculpts, Reptilian Overlords and Vinciminiatures. Gay’s Wokeslop still sells the original Mordheim mercenary plastics as Free Company Militia for The Old World.


Very similar in aesthetic feel (I have a few hours in the game):
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but a completely different playing experience. The vidya has a lot of poorly explained combat mechanics that lead people to expectations of probability that don’t pan out. This, plus the lack of ability to save scum, along with what some consider a brutal learning curve meant it wasn’t super popular.

My assessment is that the vidya is for people who love the tabletop game and want a fix without the hassle of setting up a time and place, but I wouldn’t recommend it as an intro to the tabletop game. Still, if you can get it for $5 and you’re willing to learn the underlying mechanics, you may enjoy it on its own merits. The Steam forums for it are a great place to learn the ropes, look for posts by a guy named Paranoia. He’s a modding genius (modded the game even though it wasn’t designed to be modded) and probably knows it better than the designers now.
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Thanks. I got a fair few hours myself, so I'm not exactly fresh meat (Mordheim is how I discovered Blood Bowl later). I was curious however how much of my game knowledge would transfer to the actual tabletop lol.
 
Kane Lives said:
Thanks. I got a fair few hours myself, so I'm not exactly fresh meat (Mordheim is how I discovered Blood Bowl later). I was curious however how much of my game knowledge would transfer to the actual tabletop lol.
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Basically none, sadly. At least the dice mechanics in the tabletop game are pretty straightforward.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
I'm wondering if there's a STL group out there for Mordheim. Or good proxies.
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OTOH, as far as buy-now plastic/metal with some amount of resin goes

Box of Perry Mercs or War of the Roses infantry but the downside is that there isn't a whole lot of one handed items, but plenty of bodies with both plate and gambeson on.
Wargames Atlantic's conquistadors have plenty of 15th century Gubbins for human warbands, they also have a dedicated fantasy guard set that can work well.
Ghost archipiélago as part of the frostgrave line also has various men in more 15th century shirts for human warbands.
SITHRAK! said:
YMMV but Frostgrave are more ‘fantasy’ fantasy than Mordheim’s Renaissance-inspired low fantasy. They’re affordable but the aesthetic doesn’t work for me.
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Some of them like the cultists and demons would work wonders for the cult of the possessed, same for the gnolls for beastmen. Theres a couple of undead and skeleton heads for an undead warband too. Oathmark also has goblin wolf riders you can use for dire wolf units in undead warbands.
Avatars of War has options for dwarves with very GW inspired sculpts and options, if you don't mind a very different aesthetic, Oathmark has varied boxes, but most of those are a very 6th to 9th century more classic Tolkien esque sculpts more meant for rank and flanking than individual personalization.
Sisters of Sigmar is where it gets harder, Frostgrave has a dedicated female only box for both soldiers and cultists, Wargames Atlantic has female options in its guards set, mantic has a couple female troops and fancy commanders in its Basilean set, but none of them really fit the aesthetic 1:1 since its so specific. Resin is your best bet.
I think Reaper still has a lot of witchunter types of sculpts kicking around for dirt cheap as far as characters go and you could use regular Perry soldiers for troops and characters, Basileans from Mantic have a couple warrior priests, could kitbash Frostgrave cultists with more normal weapons of the soldiers set. Oathmark also has regular humans with the aforementioned more early medieval aesthetic that can work for more poorer zealot types (Oathmark and Frostgrave are from the same company and thus, fully compatible with no scale mismatches or gaps)

If you have access to a resin 3d printer then the world is your oyster, Vae Victis more or less has done extremely modular releases of almost every warband to the grade "1a" section of mordheimer, Monstrous Encounters has very 80s to 90s themed sculpts that inevitably include some mordheim warbands

Any suggestions welcome
 
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SITHRAK! said:
There are heaps of proxies from people like Vae Victis, Punga, Tiny Furniture, Bombshell Miniatures, Old World Miniatures, Dogs of War Studio, NJLSculpts, Reptilian Overlords and Vinciminiatures. Gay’s Wokeslop still sells the original Mordheim mercenary plastics as Free Company Militia for The Old World.
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Wargames Atlantic, who I'll ween for at every op, has some possibilities. Their Conquistadors are spot on for Empire mercs, the only flaw being a lack of bowmen. Baron's War got everything you need for Bret's or more medieval looking mercs. West Wind's Vampire Wars line has good witch hunters and zealots and I used more of them than official GW's.
 
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Wargames Atlantic, who I'll ween for at every op, has some possibilities. Their Conquistadors are spot on for Empire mercs, the only flaw being a lack of bowmen. Baron's War got everything you need for Bret's or more medieval looking mercs. West Wind's Vampire Wars line has good witch hunters and zealots and I used more of them than official GW's.
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I bought some WGA WW1 Russians for another game and was disappointed by their scale/size. I find them too small.
 
SITHRAK! said:
I bought some WGA WW1 Russians for another game and was disappointed by their scale/size. I find them too small.
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Their WW1/2 lines seem to be small and spindly, their sci fi and medieval lines seem to be more in line with heroic scales and GW figures. The conquistadores are a line from 2021 or 2022, maybe a bit older so apparently from the same time period
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I'd say that the biggest lolcow in the tabletop miniature gaming world is Bill Armintrout and his The Miniatures Page, a mid 1997-era shithole website even worse than Something Awful, modded by Filipino trannies and frequented by mentally ill boomers of the human spambot variety.
 
I think I have chud fatigue when it comes to Warhammer 40k stuff on youtube. Like is most of this stuff wrong? Not really but when you have a low IQ retard like nellop it just feels like controlled opposition at this rate


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