Ending a Campaign

Subject: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 0:01

Hey Guys,
I've read alot of threads about Mordheim and none of them discuss on how to finish a campaign....so how do you guys do it?

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 0:47

Earlier or later, our group loses the interest in playing Mordheim. That's how our campaigns end.
Sad but true.

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 1:01

Yeah I mean, obviously you can't play Mordheim 7/7 days. You need to take breaks. For our group, Mordheim is more like a 2x per year thing. When we get together, we play a few games and then we put the table, the miniatures and the dice away until the next holidays.

I'm your dreams, make it real, I'm your eyes when you must steal, I'm your pain when you can't feel... sad but true Wink

But usually we try to "finish what we started". And I wouldn't say that we so much "lose interest" but rather that we usually like to "call it a day" when we feel like we've done our share of gaming Smile

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 7:39

Use the Border Town Burning campaign rules where every warband has its individual goal throughout the campaign and can achieve that or lose in the end. Very Happy

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 12:01

That's a nice idea cianty. I'll see that I use something like this in our next campaign(when ever that will be).

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 13:11

We agree a finish date when we start a campaign. That way everyone is racing to have the highest Warband Rating (and win-ratio to decide a tied WR score) at the end, so they can claim they won!

We always try to write a story of the campaign and wrap up the tale at the end.
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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 18:30

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 20 Dec 2007 - 19:04

I think one week is definatly too short. In my opinion 2 months are a good time(at least after that time my group loses the interest).

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sat 22 Dec 2007 - 16:36

I think Mordheim is a special event, you shouldnt play it every day just in vacation so it keeps being intresting Smile

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sat 22 Dec 2007 - 20:02

@WarbossKurgan

That is freaking awesome. I wish I lived near you Very Happy

Did you make up the story as you went along or all before hand?

Freaking awesome Ideas.
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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 27 Dec 2007 - 18:20

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 3 Jan 2008 - 2:18

@warboss
Dude, that's some hardcore gaming Very Happy

Personnaly, I only have one opponent so when we play, after 10 games or so, one of us becomes too powerful and the campaign starts to get boring. So we wrap it up and stop playing for 6 months and then we start again.

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sat 19 Jan 2008 - 3:38

My mates and I just keep playing. There is no end to a campaign. If you want to keep a warband going then do it. People who start one fresh just get underdog bonuses and level up quickly (which is more fun in my opinion.) We get to play a lot of games, so we kinda just keep rotating who starts again which keeps our 'campaign' going forever.

Cheers ~ Steve

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sat 19 Jan 2008 - 10:28

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sun 20 Jan 2008 - 23:37

once me and my friends made a end game kinda turnament with this scenario

http://mordheimer.com/scenarios/001-020/015-grudge_match.htm

instead of champions in the middle it was the leader

with groups of 1vs1, 1vs1, 1vs1, 1vs1 winners would advance to next round of
1vs1, 1vs1.. and then grand finale went down between the 2 most hardest and notorius leaders (and warbands) Razz

All warband leaders became Dramatis personae for our next campaign

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sun 17 Feb 2008 - 0:34

With the group we play with, it's more or less until every warband maxes out... everyone is from 300-500 rating, and little tired of their warband. So everyone gravitates from the old warband to the new (though there is at least one game of the 300 ratings vs. the 50ratings... talk about underdog bonus!) So if you want to end it, instigate a reboot... someone else will probably follow.

Hold on to the warband lists for later, just in case you feel nostalgic.

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sun 17 Feb 2008 - 1:04

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 13 Mar 2008 - 17:25

You could employee a mechanism in your campaign that will foreshadow how the game will end.

I designed a several critters based on the Cthulu mythos, including a minor and a major avatar of Cthulu. (However for GW website reference, it will be called "Ik-Thul-Tu".) Then these critters will be used in an invasion effort.

In game 3 of the new campaign. A lone Brine Witch (a half woman-half fish spell caster) came out of the eastern sea.

THe players thought it was just a random Sartosan event and they just ignored or attacked the critter.

Well as the campaign progresses, the critters will become more numerous and stronger/varied.

So in our 5th game, a Brine Witch and a Deep One (A half-man,half-fish warrior) will show up.

In our 8th game 2 Brine Witches, and 2 Deep Ones will show up. (We'll only use these in a multiplayer game of 5+ folks.)

Then in game 11, 1 Brine Witch, 1 Deep One,3 Cultists (treated as Possessed Brethern), and a minor Avatar of "Ik-thul-Tu".

Then in game 15, 3 Brine Witches and 3 Deep Ones.

Then in game 20, 3 Brine Witches, 3 Deep Ones, 3 Cultists, the Great "Ik-Thul-Tu" will appear after a successful summoning. If Ik-Thul-Tu is summoned and the players don't destroy it, then their Mordheim campaign is OVER. If they succeed in slaying him then the slaying warband gets to start the next campaign with an advance on all of their starting heroes.

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 13 Mar 2008 - 18:01

Sartosa campaign? Fishmen?

I think I like you!

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 13 Mar 2008 - 18:32

That's a pretty cool idea. I like that idea a lot. So instead of just random fighting of each other there is a third party which is unknowingly connected to the end of the game. My only problem with that is there'd have to be someone running the thrid party... and thus not get his own warband Sad

But I guess you can fix this by making the "end game" scenario/rules known to all.

But I like. Wink

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Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Thu 13 Mar 2008 - 22:00

Actually, the way we are running it is the "monsters" get their own turn, and they attack knocked down, stunned, and wounded folks first.

Because in the Cthulu mythos, ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE, ergo; the weak die first.

So they sort of run them selves, by showing up on the same table side or summoning area every time, and then they just kill those that are already suffering.

Or, in case the warbands are too timid and no one is knocked down, stunned, or otherwise injured, the Ik-thul-Tu monsters move in a random direction or towards the fighting, so they can "muck in" sooner.

Would guys like me to post the stats?

-Dr R.

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Sat 15 Mar 2008 - 22:05

Right, but you said:

Subject: Re: Ending a Campaign Tue 22 Apr 2008 - 17:00

As a fellow cthulhu cultist I say post them stats! What models did you use for deep ones? I havn't seen any good fish monster models ever!

Edit: Except for the fismen of Saratosa but those are technically Orks, but very well done!