Scenario idea - help me develop this!

I love the idea!

Why have a restriciton of 8 turns though?

I agree with Ronin - it's a very characterful scenario! I, too, am baffled by the 8-turn limit.

Also, I'd recommend not allowing Sisters of Sigmar, Witch Hunters, etc. to read the scrolls (I can't see them reading heretical texts, after all) but get something out of the scrolls instead - either extra experience for destroying them, gold crowns for sending them to the Rock/Grand Theogonist, or something else.

Very good stuff!

CygnusMaximus wrote:

Also, I'd recommend not allowing Sisters of Sigmar, Witch Hunters, etc. to read the scrolls (I can't see them reading heretical texts, after all) but get something out of the scrolls instead - either extra experience for destroying them, gold crowns for sending them to the Rock/Grand Theogonist, or something else.

Very good stuff!

He already added that, see:

folketsfiende wrote:

+1 Per Magic Scroll. A magic hating warband (and only such a warband) like the Witch Hunters, gains an amount of Experience points equal to the amount of Magic Scrolls they possess after the battle is over. These points can be distributed as the player wishes among the Heroes, and represent the destroying of these wicked scrolls.

Ah, sure enough - I just glanced at it and assumed that it was the typical "+1 Experience for carrying X". My mistake.

This very much reminds me of a watered-down Enter the Necromancer's Tower (from the Nemesis Crown supplement), however the backstory is definitely different enough to stand on its own. Very cool!

My opinions:

Make it more clear that the wizard gets away at the end of 8 turns (two readers have already missed that).

If you're keen on the idea of warbands possibly helping the poor wizard, check The Bodyguards (Town Cryer 25). You'd need to give the wizard stats, and he would automatically come out and join his "rescuers" when they reach the door, and give them a monetary reward for getting off the board. However, I don't see this wizard trusting any of the scoundrels in Mordheim, and prefer the cleaner design of all the warbands just going for his scrolls.

A real issue to me is the scrolls. My opinions:
1. Give +1 XP per scroll found regardless of warband.
2. While the scrolls can be redistributed just after this scenario, further trading/looting of them should not be allowed.
3. Selling should be allowed, netting 25+2D6 per scroll (same as the Dispel Scroll from The Wizard's Mansion, and less than the Wand of Phyrros from The Item Lost (TC 25). This can represent any magic haters' reward, along with any who cannot/don't want to use them.
4. Only allow spellcasters and models with access to Academic skills to use them (simulating the need to be able to read), and take away the movement differences (hard to remember and note down).
5. Casting should require a normal casting roll, with +2 to the roll (same as the Scribe skill).

Don't say "the game is a draw." If no warband wins by the eighth turn, they all lose!

One addition: to keep this from being an "I win" scenario for the Beastmen, and to get its reward more in line with its danger, put some traps around: there are 1D3 traps per warband playing. Every time a model ends his movement within 12" of the tower, roll 1D6. On a 3+, he has triggered one of the traps, resulting in an automatic S4 hit.

Have you playtested this scenario? It seems to me with the hostile warbands maneuvering against each other, sniping at each other, etc., that it is unlikely anyone will break the door down in 8 turns. Of course, that may be your point - that it is very difficult to "win" the scenario. It does sound interesting.

When the door is down and you decide to randomize scrolls, do you randomize between all friendly warbandmembers or every model? If so... I would just stand right next to the tower and wait for someone to kick in the door.

This scenario reminds me of another scenerio including a sorcerer and a tower.

Thanks for your input everyone! I will take some time to digest all your ideas and criticism, and return with a slightly revamped version.

In the meantime: some answers.

No, it's not playtested. I wanted your views about the general idea first so I could make it better.

It is indeed hard to get into the tower, that was the idea. But perhaps it's too difficult? Would the scenario be more interesting if it were easier? I thought that the scrolls would be interesting enough to get hold of to warrant a serious attempt to knock down even the sturdiest door, but I may be wrong...

The trap idea is nice, but my general experience with traps in Mordheim-like games, is that they are either easy to move around, this can of course be partly solved with a trap radius of say 3", or that you just send out some cannon fodder to clear them. Perhaps if they were magic traps that can be springed over and over, and fewer...