Meerkat Madness campaign log

Nice ongoing campaign meerkat.

Get at it with some of them boxes your using and turn them into proper card ruins! . The other terrain is looking really good, do I spot a Hero quest sarcofagus there?

Thanks! Hopefully, the building situation will improve soon.

Yes, it's a heroquest tomb. And the battlemasters tower!

Game 7: Undead

The undead have a lower rating, and roll the scenario. It's 'breakthrough,' and they choose to attack.



The witch hunter crossbow squad and the infamous Van Halfling (Mark II) set up in the central tower. The others lurk around elsewhere.




The undead hide-and-seek their way across the table. The vampire charges a dog and kills it. One of the other dogs stays to intercept if the vampire tries to charge the witch hunter captain, and the other charges a ghoul. Everyone shoots the vampire, and he loses a wound.

The vampire darts off towards the board edge, and the two dogs fail to kill the ghouls. The vampire returns to finish off the dogs.




And then Van Halfling shoots him and takes him out of action!




Not much happens on the other side of the board. Two ghouls get through, and the undead win.

Nevertheless, the witch hunters do well in the exploration phase.

The vampire survives, but loses one point of toughness permanently!

The legend of Van Halfling continues.


Game 8: possessed

It's a 'treasure hunt.' I'm suffering from second game syndrome, and don't play well.



Two sprinting possessed find the chest and run for it. You can't see that in this picture, but it probably happened anyway.




The possessed don't want to play, and move off once the chest is on its way.



Egeus Schelling Witch hunter captain with sword, mace, pistol and crossbow pistol (+1 ballistic skill)
Erasmus von Miltitz Warrior priest with hammer, staff and lucky charm
Martin Volker Witch hunter with two maces and crossbow (step aside)
Johann von Eck Witch hunter with mace, blunderbuss, long bow and hunting arrows (quick shot)
Titus van Marnix Witch hunter with two maces and crossbow (+1 initiative)
Albrecht Flagellant Hero with flail (resilient)
Istvan Flagellant (+1 attack)
Hermann Zealot with mace and short bow (+1 attack)
Philipp, Joost, Oskar, Titus and Sturm Five warhounds
Van Halfling Halfling scout (+1 attack)
Aldarion Elf ranger

I won the hunting arrows on the exploration table, by the way.

Thanks to the wonderful Duce, I now have a nice set of Mordheim buildings!








They will be used for the first time in my next game, against the orcs. Proper terrain at last!

CONGRATULATIONS on ALL the COOL new terrain...VERY NICELY DONE! ALL the buildings will add to your already FINE reports WONDEFULLY.

Thanks! Duce made them, and they are awesome.

Here, in fact, is the first report using them:


Game 9: orcs

The orcs are in a bit of a sorry state after losing some members, and qualify for extra experience against the witch hunters. They are also outnumbered fifteen to twelve.



It's a wyrdstone hunt, and there are three blocks of chaos rock on the top floors of three ruined buildings.




The witch hunters chose sides, and then use the tactician skill to effectively deploy second anyway. They also start 12" on, and one witch hunter starts on the top floor of a high building, near a wyrdstone shard. Most of the others are ready to go for the central shard.




The orcs go first and head forward. Apart from one goblin, who decided not to bother thanks to animosity. The witch hunters advance to the centre.




The elf claims the wyrdstone shard, while the dogs charge! One takes on the orc hero as a diversion, while the other four take on the shaman. But the dogs fail, and the orc hero stuns the one fighting him.

Meanwhile, a witch hunter shoots the orc leader with his crossbow and takes him out of action.




One goblin charges another and takes him out of action!




This is just the same turn from another angle.




A squig goes crazy, and in the absence of a scatter dice we use a d12 and a clock. It's much better than a scatter dice, and I expect future warhammer box sets to come complete with a large clock.




The orc hero finishes off the dog. The other dogs finish off the shaman.




Everyone charges the orc hero. It's the dogs, having a higher initiative than the priest and flagellants, that take him out.




The witch hunters shoot squigs, stunning them en masse.




Two of the stunned squigs are taken out. The orcs decide to flee, taking the last shard of wyrdstone with them.


The witch hunters roll 'returning a favour' on the exploration chart (with a little help from the elf), and win an ogre (because it's the most expensive choice).

Egeus Schelling Witch hunter captain with sword, mace, pistol and crossbow pistol (+1 wound! He has three!)
Erasmus von Miltitz Warrior priest with hammer, staff and lucky charm (skill - mighty blow? Mind focus?)
Martin Volker Witch hunter with two maces and crossbow
Johann von Eck Witch hunter with mace, blunderbuss, long bow and hunting arrows
Titus van Marnix Witch hunter with two maces and crossbow (skill - step aside?)
Albrecht Flagellant Hero with flail (skill - not sure what)
Istvan Flagellant
Hermann Zealot with mace and short bow
Philipp, Joost, Oskar, Titus and Sturm Five warhounds
Van Halfling Halfling scout
Aldarion Elf ranger (skill - maybe quick shot?)


By the way, Hermann the zealot has participated in three games now, and he has done absolutely nothing of any consequence. Also, I forgot that Johann had quick shot. Also also, I love my elf ranger. Also also also, the new building make the game a billion times better.

Looks great. Nice report. Good thinking on the clock for scatter. I like the new buildings, far better than regiment boxes . Your tables still look a little scarce on terrain, by no fault of your own, of course. I would love to run a shooty warband in that campaign. I'd probably run Da Mob with lots of bows.

Buildings! Duce is the best! Much better. Now about the way ya treated da poor orces...

LOOKIN' GOOD! Duce is a FINE fellow...crazy as a loon, but fine nonetheless. I see the Orcs were using their famed "lulling dem into a false sense of security" tactic...it ain't easy being green. ANOTHER COOL REPORT!
The clock is an EXCELLENT idea. The local group uses a spinner thingy like the ones that come in childrens' games.

nice battle rep and great terrain! qucik shot is always a nice skill for dem shooty gitz and for the skill for your priest what spell does he have, cause if i were you i'd keep rolling for spells till you got soulfire and maybe healing hand, and what is mind focus? is that like sorcery for prayer users? anyway keep the bat reps comin!

Thanks for the comments! The new terrain is great.

[b]JAFisher44[/b] wrote:

Your tables still look a little scarce on terrain

Really? Oh. How much is normal for mordheim - twice as much?

[b]Von Kurst[/b] wrote:

Now about the way ya treated da poor orces

I know, it was mean. They were in a bad way to begin with.

Two of the orc heroes came very close to dying after the game, rolling '16' and suffering multiple injuries.

[b]DeafNala[/b] wrote:

it ain't easy being green

That's very true. They seem to have a lot of disadvantages as a warband, what with animosty and their general inability to climb well.

Poor orcs.

AFKzombie wrote:

for the skill for your priest what spell does he have, cause if i were you i'd keep rolling for spells till you got soulfire and maybe healing hand, and what is mind focus? is that like sorcery for prayer users?

He's currently got hammer of Sigmar (which I like a lot) and soulfire (which I have never successfully used). Mind focus is an academic skill from the mordheim annual, and lets you reroll one of the dice any time you cast a spell or prayer. I think having that would make my current prayers more reliable (soulfire is almost unuseable at the moment).

o wow, yeah mind focus sounds great i'd go for that.

meerkat wrote:

Really? Oh. How much is normal for mordheim - twice as much?

However much you & your group feel comfortable with/enjoy is THE RIGHT amount of terrain. The group I do the Mordheim boards for like tall, dense & complicated; SO...they have a LOT of buildings on the board.

meerkat wrote:

That's very true. They seem to have a lot of disadvantages as a warband, what with animosty and their general inability to climb well.
Poor orcs.

Orcs & Goblins are PERFECT for someone with a STRANGE twisted sense of humor & a STRONG feeling for the absurd to whom winning or losing isn't even a secondary consideration...someone like moi.

indead, you ned a good sense of humor to play orcs and goblins, just the other day i was playing my forest goblin warband and i had three shooty goblins up in a tower and it seemed each turn one of um' swore he heard one of dem other gits talking trash behind his back; until the only one on the third story of the building decided that he would show um' waz wut and leapt off the top floor, falling, surviving, and becoming a hero after the game. good times.

I'm definitely not the sort of person who would enjoy using an orc warband!

[b]AFKzombie[/b] wrote:

i had three shooty goblins up in a tower and it seemed each turn one of
um' swore he heard one of dem other gits talking trash behind his back;
until the only one on the third story of the building decided that he
would show um' waz wut and leapt off the top floor, falling, surviving,
and becoming a hero after the game.

That's funny though!

DeafNala wrote:

However much you & your group feel comfortable with/enjoy is THE RIGHT amount of terrain.

We aren't very experienced at Mordheim yet (or indeed, experienced with having proper terrain!) so it's hard to really know what's best. I thought the amount we used in the last game was pretty good, though I say that from the perspective of someone with a lot of missile weapons...



Anyway, skill-wise I'm thinking mind focus for the priest and quick shot for the elf. I think I might take dodge for the witch hunter, since he tries to stay away from combat anyway and is more likely to be shot. For the flagellant, I think either step aside or strongman.

meerkat wrote:

DeafNala wrote:

However much you & your group feel comfortable with/enjoy is THE RIGHT amount of terrain.

We aren't very experienced at Mordheim yet (or indeed, experienced with having proper terrain!) so it's hard to really know what's best. I thought the amount we used in the last game was pretty good, though I say that from the perspective of someone with a lot of missile weapons.

The was a PRETTY vaque answer on my part. To be somewhat more precise, the initial board I did for Monkey Head Mac had 16 buildings to which a couple were added later. Since then three more boards have been completed, &, when I finish the four buildings I have underway for him, he'll have 100 buildings including St Vollar's Cemetery & Cathedral AND the Steinhardt Memorial Gardens. That represents three years of off & on work...AND STILL NO END IN SIGHT or photos for that matter.

Mordheim=terrain. I just noticed from the photos that all the incidental pieces were missing. Low walls, rubble, all those statues you have. Checkout Flame On's stuff or my threads and you should see a higher density of terrain, especially toward the middle of the table. (Unless its a jungle ambush or Playtable's new bridge table...)

I am finding the orcs to be a riot! In a good way.

DeafNala wrote:

the initial board I did for Monkey Head Mac had 16 buildings to which a couple were added later. Since then three more boards have been completed, &, when I finish the four buildings I have underway for him, he'll have 100 buildings including St Vollar's Cemetery & Cathedral AND the Steinhardt Memorial Gardens. That represents three years of off & on work...AND STILL NO END IN SIGHT or photos for that matter.

That's a lot of terrain!

Von Kurst wrote:

I just noticed from the photos that all the incidental pieces were missing. Low walls, rubble, all those statues you have.

That's right - I was so excited by the new buildings that I forgot to bring any of that stuff.


So we do need more buildings then. Maybe the other members of my group will supply some soon!

No clock this time...

Game 10: Skaven

The Skaven had a rating of more than three hundred, but not enough to allow the witch hunters to gain extra experience. But it was higher, so the witch hunters rolled for scenario: they were able to chose, and picked 'surprise attack.'

Also, the skaven had apparently looted a graveyard after a previous game, and thus were hated by the witch hunters.



The witch hunters set up in a group, as far forward as possible.




On the skaven side, almost no one had shown up for the game... the sorcerer and his rats, a minor hero, and a hired warlock.




The witch hunters advanced. The elf stayed where he was and attempted to climb, but failed. He didn't actually succeed until his third attempt, which was quite an achievement considering he only failed on a 'six.'




Both sides tried some shooting, but no one achieved much.




Three skaven henchmen show up, and are charged by dogs and ogres. The other dogs charge a group of rats hiding out in a ruin. The skaven sorcerer and his good friend the warlock are knocked down by shooting, but sadly don't fall out of the windows. Another skaven hero also arrives, but runs away from the action.




Two more groups of henchmen arrive, very late. The leader and the other two heroes don't bother to show up at all.




The warrior priest is hit by the 'gnawdoom' spell, and almost taken out. His rabbit's foot saves him by changing the result to 'stunned.' The three rats and the three slingers are all defeated. The witch hunter captain shoots the warlock with his crossbow pistol and takes him out. Johann the witch hunter takes out the skaven sorcerer thanks to his hunting arrows.

The skaven decide to rout.

The victorious witch hunters recover six shards of wyrdstone, and roll 'returning a favor' yet again. So they have another hired sword to choose... perhaps the freelancer?


Egeus Schelling Witch hunter captain with sword, mace, pistol, crossbow pistol and lucky charm
Erasmus von Miltitz Warrior priest with hammer, staff, rabbit's foot and lucky charm
Martin Volker Witch hunter with two maces, crossbow, and lucky charm
Johann von Eck Witch hunter with mace, blunderbuss, long bow, hunting arrows and lucky charm (+1 I)
Titus van Marnix Witch hunter with two maces and crossbow
Albrecht Flagellant Hero with flail and lucky charm
Istvan Flagellant (+1 WS)
Hermann Zealot with mace and short bow
Philipp, Joost, Oskar, Titus and Sturm Five warhounds
Van Halfling Halfling scout
Aldarion Elf ranger
Grolsch Ogre Bodyguard

HOORAY! The Blessed Forces of Holy Sigmar defeat the Vile Vermin from HELL!

It's only the second game he's lost!

Good old surprise attack!

This is ace reading! Play more games!

On a more serious note, the terrain is good and I feel that all you really need is a bit more of it. Perhaps combine what you started with, Duce's terrain, and anything else you can get your hands on (books to put underneath buildings, or pringles tubes as towers, that sort of thing) to up the density of terrain.

Like Necromunda, Mordheim is best played with a LOT of terrain. But there's no rush - build your collection as you go and most of all, have fun (and give Van Halfling a stake).

Thanks!

Our group find it a bit hard to arrange games regularly, so that's why the campaign is a bit slow-paced.

Thanks for the advice on terrain. We've still got all those boxes from before, plus my statues and walls. Maybe if we combine all of that we'll be closer to the proper Mordheim situation.