I’ve been working on some extended campaign rules for Mordheim recently, and a first draft is complete. It’s a map-based campaign where player warbands will move through the areas of Mordheim attempting to collect a set of very powerful wyrdstone shards before Skaven NPC warbands beat them to it.
The campaign rules can be found here. The map above (click to see full size) was published by GW, but I have edited it for map-based campaign play.
In preparation for a Mordheim campaign, I’ve finished a couple of new scenarios. I have them over on google docs at the moment, as WordPress does not seem to like multi-column content in its pages very much.
The first scenario, The Rat Race, is a chase after a pack of giant rats that have run off with a pile of loot in a very, um, gastronomical way.
The second scenario, A Stake in Time Saves Ryan, is an affair involving a cocky priest, a bag of stakes, a bunch of vampires, a secret door, and general chaos.
Neither of these has been playtested yet! Hope to do so soon.
In addition, my friend Michael Stamps has a very deadly looking new scenario called Bug Hunt that involves warbands searching the area for aliens from a crashed vessel. If comets can hit Mordheim, why not a flying saucer or two? This scenario would be a great opportunity to use GW Tyranid or Starship Trooper miniatures.
Usually when I play Mordheim, I just get in a few days worth of games on holidays or weekends with gaming friends. This year I hope to run an extended Mordheim campaign for my friends. We mostly play cooperatively against monsters, so this campaign will be skewed towards that play style.
The basic idea will be a race to recover fragments of a particularly powerful wyrdstone node. The player warbands will be competing against four Skaven warbands, one for each clan. Of all the Warhammer races the Skaven are probably my favorite. I think it goes back to the Lankhmar novella with the underground city of the rats.
Here are the four assembled Skaven warbands, along with spare models to throw in as they recruit during the campaign. Lots of painting to do here; we’ll probably start playing before I get much done on that front.
