Hi, just putting up a quick (all that I remember) rundown of a recent mordheim campaign I had. Sadly no local mordheim groups where I am, but my wife plays, so we each took two warbands and ran a botch-job campaign with them. We used the Heroes of Mordheim settings and exploration charts (underground, wizard's garden or lustria, towers and ruins), the encampment rules and an epic final battle.
My warbands were a crossbow and spear heavy dwarf huddle and a frothing group of norse. My wife picked Lizardmen (many, many saurus including a hero advance by the end) and Sisters of Sigmar.
The main campaign went smoothly enough with various interesting injuries/deaths involved. My naked trollslayer was taken out of action in the first battle by a novice with a sling shot at 15", the crossbow dwarves inflicted a total of three wounds in the entire campaign (not including the final battle), one of the norse was bitten by the "thing in the woods" and went into frenzied wolf mode underground ( leading to a lot of hiding in narrow corridors for both warbands involved), the augur from SoS got an initiative boost every time she advanced (and enough head wounds to keep her at three) and the dwarf leader and kroxigor went into mutual extinction with a five turn duel.
The final battle was a two parter. Firstly was "Mordheim's burning" with a four way fight, random happenings every turn and flames leaping from the buildings. The battle was going pretty well , everyone locked in combat, when it started to rain acid, injuring nearly everyone on the board bar the dwarves, and they managed to kill off enough unconscious enemies to win with 10 of the 13 dwarves alive. They then fled back to the settlement with their loot as Mordheim collapsed behind them, preventing anyone from getting wyrdstone from there again.
The second part of the battle was a meat grinder to the death. The winners got a more or less intact house in the settlement, then got swarmed by a multitude of newbie "1 hero and 5 henchmen" groups (and the ten survivors from the other three warbands), all after the last ever wyrdstone haul. Pirates with guns, orcs with twin axes, beastmen, archers, flagellants and undead all charged in and got killed. In the end the crossbow dwarves were shot off the tower/roofs where they were sniping, the two remaining spear dwarves were munched on by zombies and the trollslayer (with two dwarf axes, pitfighter, master of blades, mighty blow and step aside) was finally swarmed by flagellants and skaven after taking out 18 enemies by himself. In the end nine of the sixty attackers survived, but the dwarves were well and truly dead.
Of course, this now leads into the new campaign. Pirates and Beastmen for my wife, Orcs and Undead for me. Should be interesting...
