Death of a Leader

Hi there, I've recently started running a large Mordheim campaign and we've just had the first death of a leader to deal with. The leader in question was a Witch Hunter Captain, now as per the rules the Warrior Priest became the new leader, however, it places the warband in a spott of bother, as the rules say you cannot hire a new leader the warband now only has 4 heros and cannot gain another until some rolls a 12 on the henchman advance table. Is this correct? or can the player hire a new Witchhunter captain but one who is subservient to the Warrior Priest

Hey Tom!
Welcome to the forums! My condolences to the Witch Hunters. My warband has had 3 different leaders in 12 weeks of campaigning. It is indeed a bit of a bother.

The rules state you may only have one captain and you may not hire another. Thus the warband must suffer on with 4 heroes until the Lads got Talent roll happens. Note that this happens on a 10+ not just a 12 (check your rule books).

As an alternate strategy the warband can disband and start over with all new members.


js

Ah grand, I thought as much.

I thought it was time I sign up here as I've been lurking about looking for campaign inspiration

You've come to the right place!

Another thing, remember to put all your henchmen in different henchmen groups. This way you get to roll many more times on the henchmen advance table, thus increasing your chances of Lad's got talent a lot.

Some gaming groups disallow this. Check with yours.

Just to throw in a complete tangent, was your Tom o' Bedlam username inspired by The Invisibles comics?

Just curious.

Chad wrote:

Some gaming groups disallow this. Check with yours.

Well, folketsfiende suggest nothing "unusual" - just very basic usage of the henchman system (which does have its disadvatanges as well since if you lose your one henchmen with +1 S and +1 A then the group is lost and you cannot re-hire any new members for it) so it really shouldn't be forbidden. What I mean is that you shouldn't feel like having to ask whether you may apply the normal rules. What's next? No two hand-weapons at all?

Von Kurst wrote:

Hey Tom!
Welcome to the forums! My condolences to the Witch Hunters. My warband has had 3 different leaders in 12 weeks of campaigning. It is indeed a bit of a bother.

The rules state you may only have one captain and you may not hire another. Thus the warband must suffer on with 4 heroes until the Lads got Talent roll happens. Note that this happens on a 10+ not just a 12 (check your rule books).

As an alternate strategy the warband can disband and start over with all new members.


js

Is it possible to get 2 Lad's Got Talent heroes in order to achieve the maximum of 6 heroes then?

Svenn wrote:

Is it possible to get 2 Lad's Got Talent heroes in order to achieve the maximum of 6 heroes then?

Yes, you can have more than one. You can end up with all your six Heroes being former Henchmen..

The only resctriction (aside from the 6 Hero limit) that there is is that one henchman group can only breed one LGT per after-battle-phase, so if you - HOW EVER - gain like 6 or 7 XP for one henchman group in one battle so that you are granted two increases and the second is also a LGT then you need to re-roll that. Not like that would ever happen though...

cianty wrote:

Chad wrote:

Some gaming groups disallow this. Check with yours.

Well, folketsfiende suggest nothing "unusual" - just very basic usage of the henchman system (which does have its disadvatanges as well since if you lose your one henchmen with +1 S and +1 A then the group is lost and you cannot re-hire any new members for it) so it really shouldn't be forbidden. What I mean is that you shouldn't feel like having to ask whether you may apply the normal rules. What's next? No two hand-weapons at all?

Hey, I didn't say it makes sense. But it's true, I've met people who make groups compulsory.

Weirdos

Actually, I think there are benefits to insisting that identically equipped henchman form groups. It's simpler for you and, more importantly, for your opponent.

Compare and contrast the situation of three identically equipped henchman with one advance in one man groups with having them all in one group. In the former case, you could quite feasibly have one with +S, one with +1A. one with +1T. A potential nightmare to keep track of and a situation I have seen unscrupulous players try to play to their advantage.

The death of a leader is quet a bummer. Our group came up with the "faith point" rule. It really cool and I think it works great! I'll make a new treath for it

catferret wrote:

Just to throw in a complete tangent, was your Tom o' Bedlam username inspired by The Invisibles comics?

Just curious.

It is indeed

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The death of a leader is quet a bummer. Our
group came up with the "faith point" rule. It really cool and I think
it works great! I'll make a new treath for it

sounds interesting. what is it?

I usually play evil warbands, but I've noticed that the guy playing Witch Hunters always loses his Leader first, every time. Damn, use the Zealots for the zealotry.

haha thats what i do with CoC. I've given my Master weapon master and a crossbow. BS 6 doesn't hurt either I like the Fate Points idea, I think I'll implement it.

Regarding the death of a leader, I adopt a 'get out of jail free card' type policy. In the opening few rounds of campaign play, the first time one of my players has their leader die, I let them re-roll the dice until the result lets them cheat death!

Starting over is always going to be demoralising. It's really just something I prefer to do to keep the story in motion as the campaign sets up.

In my last campaign, both Chaos Dwarf warbands managed to kill off their Sorcerer's in round 1 of the campaign!! Then the Undead player had his Vamp staked in round 2 or 3, so his interest in the narrative was secured by my awarding him a free pass.

It should go without saying that these special exceptions are never applied to Skaven warbands.

Regards,

Werekin.

B-)

I believe I have some medic rules back at home which also allow some extra "saves" but I never used them... I shall see if I can figure them out or post them here... they seemed like a fun addition...

We gave armor the ability to grant a "save" against the serious injury roll. You get a save equal to your AS. It destroys the armor int he process. We find that lots of leaders sprout armor fairly early on, though not at creation.

I usually start many of my henchmen in "single" groups. Though, I don't with "crappy henchmen."

Zealots in Witchhunters bands. Nope, don't want those as lads. I'll take 2 hero Flagellants please. Possesed get only beastmen if I can swing it until I get my one lad out of them. Beardlings in dwarf bands are always stuck together, I'd rather have my clansmen or thunderers lad. You get the idea.

I don't consider the loss of a Vampire to be that bad. He is replaceable. Unlike other leaders.

Hi from Finland, Im new in here!
did not find any good place to put my questions so here they are...

We playd The Soul to keep campaign and my marauder leader turn in to a Spawn...So Cool, the ultimate gift from the Gods!!
so,
1. Her equipment is lost, thats ok!
2. does my spawn/ex leader have exp? spawn cant get any "more" exp?
(i mean that she had exp, but those she/it have still count in gang rating?)
or does she loose exp allso.
3. She got m-blow & sprint, does my spawn have those skills or are skills lost allso? in rules there is ONLY!! His equipment is lost!

SPECIAL RULES
Special Attacks: Roll at the beginning of each Close Combat phase to determine the spawn’s number of Attacks for that phase.

Special Movement: The Spawn moves 2D6" straight on in each of its Movement phases. Before it does so it’s player may turn it to give the direction. It does not double its movement for charging, instead if its
movement takes it into contact with a model it counts as charging and engages that model in close combat.

"Sprint. The warrior may triple his Movement rate
when he runs or charges, rather than doubling it as
normal."

Psychology: Spawns are mindless creatures, knowing
no fear of pain or death. Spawns automatically pass
any Leadership based test they are required to make.

No Brain: Spawns of Chaos are crazed creatures and
therefore gain no experience.

To me... It can keep skills but not spells or any skill that needs "brains", but Sprint is hardone, would that be cool to turn 2D6 in to 3D6, its not sprint, but she used to run fast...

Or she/It will loose all skills,mutations, equipment & exp, that would be easy but boring.

Please let me know what you think!

Hello and welcome to TBMF!

Won Rotterburg wrote:

2. does my spawn/ex leader have exp? spawn cant get any "more" exp?
(i mean that she had exp, but those she/it have still count in gang rating?)
or does she loose exp allso.

Yes, the Experience points are lost (and thus do not count for the warband rating).

Won Rotterburg wrote:

3. She got m-blow & sprint, does my spawn have those skills or are skills lost allso? in rules there is ONLY!! His equipment is lost!

The skills are lost just like the equipment. Treat the Spawn just as the one from the henchman section. So no to sprinting Spawns, sorry.

what I find amazing is that everyone agrees that this rule is a bother, yet nobody proposes to just remove it


(bet you didnt see that comming - especially not from Asp )

though seriously - the leader starts with 20 xp, more than he is worth in terms of advances, if people want to buy him back there is no harm in allowing that

Asp wrote:

(bet you didnt see that comming - especially not from Asp )

LOL

Asp wrote:

though seriously - the leader starts with 20 xp, more than he is worth in terms of advances, if people want to buy him back there is no harm in allowing that

True.