Mordheim was and still is a thing of beauty. A love-letter to the grimmest, darkest corners of the Warhammer setting. I played with friends and in store during the whole playtest portion of development, but I never got to play after release due to being a poor teenager that had already invested in other game systems and I couldn't stretch to yet another boxed game. I did manage to get a second hand copy many years later and I thoroughly enjoy reading the book and coming up with ideas for potential conversions and warbands, it's a game I would still love to play as I am a lover of the more detailed and narrative skirmish games of the Warhammer settings. This was a very enjoyable video to watch, thanks for another quality piece of entertainment Jordan. Carry on being awesome and take care.
Mordheim was always so inspirational to me (by the way: 'Mord' translates to 'Murder' in German and 'Heim' losely to 'Town' and in Germany the game was released as 'MorTheim'). Back in the day I kitbashed several just-for-fun gangs, including a fallen Witch Hunter-Gang (the enemy within), a Sleepy Hollow-inspired Undead-Gang (the headless (horse)man acting as a Vampire and Lady van Tessel as the necromancer...) and of cause a Skaven-Gang (always felt that huge armies didn't fit the Skaven-background at all but in Mordheim they were perfect). Thanks for another interesting video!
Circa 2000-2006, we start with Necromunda, but Mordheim have the préférence. We play 3 Mordheim campains in my club in France, one with the original rules, the second in a neighborhood of my invention with suburbs, the dungeon rooms plans, making a vampire lair, chaos portal for a scenario in another dimension, demonic tree, skavens lair etc ... the third in Eastern Koss (old caverns of the dead box) with empire in flames rules, 10 players separate in a good/bad alliance, many non players bands in the sites of the map ... and a final epic battle with all the players in a large table, the good side win finally !
@@jeremiahsafford1389in the south-east of mordheim somewhere between the mootland and sylvania i think , it's an old map in the old dungeon floor plans box "caverns of the dead" , of course it's my choice ... in parallel warhammer world
Mordheim is one of my favourite games along with Heroquest, I have created a whole city diorama for Mordheim, and is amazing playing this game. Thank you, Jordan, for another wonderful video.
There was a comic book about two villains Marquand volker and ulli letepold I missed out on it and the art work is so maxing in it but it’s so rare to find one copy
What a game. Only discovered Mordheim back in 2012 with two friends. We had so much fun with it that we managed to bring in a bunch of other mates who had never even touched wargaming before purely from the stories we would tell about what happened during our campaigns. Still play a massive campaign together every summer
Excellent video about a legendary game! Instant subscribe. Managed to get my hands on a rulebook and have been slowly gathering bits here and there for warband projects. Looking forward to exploring your channel, Mr Sorcery!
Back in the days i played dozens of games of Mordheim! My wicth hunters have spilled rivers of blood in the name of Sigmar (and plunder)! Thanks man for the great memories this video brought back to me!!
Mordheim is the only GW game that I actively collect. I have almost all the warbands and books, and the rulebook together with Empire in Flames and Town Cryer are just magical to read. The whole project is demented genius. Also, along with Heroquest and Full Tilt, it's the only tabletop game that actually gets played in my house.
Great stuff. I'm still in love with Mordhem after all these years. One thing, I think you'll find that Trish was Carden before she was Morrison, that she's now Carden again and still knocking it out of the park.
Thanks for this! I've had the pleasure of seeing the original cover art painting at the Finnish Museum of Games in Tampere, where it was lent to by Tuomas Pirinen. I have to say the real life painting is more awesome still than any reproduction. The colours just jump out like crazy. Great game and a really nice designer too.
Hey, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this. I've been really interested in the history of tabletop games, both wargames and rpgs so it has been so awesome to have a lot of these questions answered so thoroughly! Please keep up the excellent work Mr. Historian!
I met Toumas in Italy, nice guy and I got a sign in my original super old / used Mordheim Book! I will sell it for a soul, a firstborn and maybe castle -- with Peach of course No Mario or Bowser needed
Great stuff, Jordan! While I’m familiar with the lore and love the aesthetic, I haven’t ever played Mordheim or even read the rules, but I consistently hear people say things like “It’s the best game GW ever made!” Your video tempts me to go and spend a ridiculous amount of money on a starter set. At the very least, I need to download and read the rules and play a game with a proxy warband.
The Mordheimer website is a fantastic rules resource (linked in the description) as it has so much good information. It does lack the artistic magic though, and that’s such a factor in elevating the game! Just make sure you have plenty of Blanche pieces on your mood board!
What with both the old world and epic on the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised to see mordheim re-released at some point. Nice to see Mira popping up, would love to see a colab with, say, Jordan and arbiter Ian when old world drops!
I think there is a place for Mordheim after Old world will be released - Mordheim will be like Necromunda for 40k (they still have the Kill Team, which is like Warcry).
Great game and great video. GW should hire you to make the much needed deep-dive documentary of their games and company! Also, anyone savvy how to get a Mordheim rulebook these days? Or am I stuck paying eBay prices? I've got a PDF, but a physical copy would be nice.
I'm just waiting for GW to send up the Sorcery signal over the skies of Mordheim! I've occasionally seen bound copies of the 'living' Mordheim rulebook floating around on the secondary market at reasonable prices, but I'm not sure where to find them now unfortunately
The model's for Mordheim were really something special, I bought a few to add character to my Empire army in the late 2000s, like the pack of civilians. I loved the Shadow of the Horned Rat reference in the video too!
@@jordansorcery I remember reading the first White Dwarf article to feature Tuomas. It was about Warhammer Fantasy and it was "Tactics" with sub-headings such as "Squish 'Em" and "Spike 'Em" and so on... instantly knew this guy was one to watch! And some years later: Mordheim! The Zenith of GW imho. The original 80s as per your Warhammer series had the most creativity but Mordheim pooled everything good about GW into one game system: The creativity and the experience.
The old art for the rulebooks back in the day was always wonderful to look at. I compare it to more recent rulebooks released by gamesworkshop and the more recent ones have gaping wide holes and wasted space on the margins. With every page looking much like the rest so you can't tell at a glance where the important parts of the book are. Older rulebooks had so much unique art and design that you could always keep it in your head which page was related to which concept because they had a really good sense of design and uniqueness to each section that makes it fun to read through.
Thanks for explaining the Box Cover art. In all honesty, when it came out, I was not that fond of it as it was very "messy"/chaotic but I did love the fact it was more horror-based, grim, RPG/Fantasy-RP and a sullied world of humans probably going to lose out to greater forces eg that whole Millennial Pessimism (eg the Millenium bug in computers!) and having a joke about it. But after you explained that the artists were capturing the style and ideas of Bosch, it all suddenly makes total sense! I only knew about this artist from the brilliant tv series called Bosch on A-Prime! "The Closed Door" method explains a lot: I fully believe in that kind of world-building where the world is created and with it lots of mysteries that are either never or partly explained as well as some explained. That's how to build a world for sure. A brilliant video up there with some of your other ones. As for Mordheim? Definitely GW's best. Small Skirmish with more characterization of each miniature and then adding RPG-Campaign elements to the Gothic/Grimdark theme, itself taking inspiration from "the times" it was made. Just great art and creativity and a lot of talented people behind it. All to the good that people still enjoy this game in greater numbers.
only recently discovered your channel Jordan - devoured it and was hungry for more, so thankyou, love your smarts and mellifluous tones, a needed dose of nostalgia!
Great to discover the development and all the stories behind the scenes of this brilliant Game. I am surprised how big the Community of Morheim still is.
Another excellent video. I missed this at the time, it was during a period I wasn’t gaming, in retrospect I think I maybe missed a period that would have been my favourite, I absolutely love the grim dark of 6th edition and Mordheim.
Lovel the enthusiasm & the structure of the episode. I missed playing M so actually getting an explanation & a look at what is what was sooo much better then ppl saying “it’s a skirmish game”. Thanks
This is still one of my favorites games along side Heroquest. The book is one of the most beautiful ilustrated rule book i ever seen, reminds me of the old figthing fantasy books. A the moment one of my many projects is making a halfling warband/merchants driving a kind of snakeoil vendor wagon to sell potions and food to other warbands...(...''they're realy good potions and food...we're no snakeoil merchants''... words from Merchant Master Sharnad Smoothfinger.)
Love the sound of that warband! That’s a good shout about the loose similarity to the classic FF books. There’s definitely a shared commitment to dark and immersive world building in the art
What a great summary of the games history! I like how the city is based on Nottingham. I got the PDF's a few months back, but haven't read through them yet as I don't know if I'll find anyone mad enough to play with me. Though it seems like it may be a worthwhile read for the lore alone!
Wait wait wait, is Jordan Sorcery a play on sword and sorcery and I’ve only just now realized?! Thank you so much for these trips down memory lane. Playing warhammer fantasy and mordheim in the late 90s was such a great time to be in the game and it’s wonderful to have these look-backs and understand the history and context behind it all.
And I'm finally caught up! Ahhh, regrets. I really wish, looking back, that I'd got into Mordheim properly, but I was obsessed with building my Chaos army. It's too bad, as I've said before, this was a game that would have genuinely appealed to me in a huge way. And still does. Excellent video as always, sir, and I can't wait for the next one.
I was so invested in my Vampire Counts army back then, I never got into this game. I regret it now because I would have loved it. If they reprinted this box and accompanying models, AS IS, it would be extremely popular. Why not? Maybe we don't need that, but it would be really nice to have. I don't want to contemplate the price of a complete set today.
The small comfort is that the rules are all available pretty readily now so it’s possible to proxy minis and give it a go quite easily. Of course that misses the ineffable magic that is the art and writing in the rulebook. That’s definitely hard to recreate
I was delighted as Undead and Skaven were 2 of my favourites and Mordheim included these 2 as warbands! In the end I opted for Skaven: In both cases the "expendability" is the the theme of both warbands, event the Vampire leader is an underling of Vlad Von Carstein and no doubt on "the make" or the ambitious young assassins of Clan Eshin are eager to prove their prowess to the Night Lord... Half the fun is the RPG/Story informing the mechanics of the rules and results!
I hear a warhammer shadow of the horned rat reference :D Ahhhhh warpstone ❤ played it back in the days, was epic to play it with fritids. Best memory was a beserker that had to charge... he was on the second level of a building. With to axes he leaped down towards his foe! And died without doping any damage, alternativt the battle he was dead for good. Many laugh that time :)
It’s very much alive and more accessible than ever with all of the rules available online for free and the freedom to use any miniatures you want. In the UK we have multiple events drawing people from all over the country and there are groups playing regularly up and down the nation!
Not sure I'd trust them to these days, sadly would probably end up like new necromunda, a dozen or supplements and the full rules split into multiple boxed sets.
So good I need to watch it twice. Always loved Mordheim despite barely playing it. The atmosphere that Mordheim holds is absolutely brilliant. It feels as though there's truly endless stories to be told. Only thing I'd love to see is alternate activation turns be brought in similar to Necromunda and Infinity. Great work shining the light on a fantastic game. Gorkamorka next?!?
Still have my chaos warband. Need me another copy of the book and start off a game with me ladz. Thy chaos possessed was just goppin’ I also remember my local shop doing a contest. The person that bought their box, created, documented, built a painted a basic warband by close of business the Sunday of release weekend, won a metal set of their chosen warband. Buddy you best KNOW I went for it and made my first speed painting attempt.
19:10 I think the absence of a second Mordheim boxed set might have more to its story than just its inclusion in Fanatic. Goonhammer did a two-part article series not long ago, talking about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans surrounding Gorka Morka. To be brief, that game underperformed to a point it lost GW tons of money. (Not underperforming by normal standards - it sold perfectly well - it just didn't make up for the _overproduction_ of Gorka Morka boxes and the resulting mass refunds demanded by distributors in continental Europe.). The money lost on that venture was so bad, it seems to have prompted a dramatic change in how GW operated going forward. Including de-emphasizing specialist products and focusing on GW's core. I highly recommend reading those Goonhammer articles if you haven't already. It was...enlightening.
That Goonhammer article is really interesting. I had a similar thought regarding Gorkamorka’s impact, so I posed that question to Tuomas Pirinen and he didn’t feel that there was a direct relationship. What is clear though is that Fanatic probably wouldn’t have existed without the Gorka Morka failure and it was Fanatic taking over Mordheim that changed the release strategy. Definitely seems a causal relationship, but not a direct one.
Bloody brilliant work on this video!! Sad I missed this game when it was out because much like the 40kBadcast podcast hooking me on Necromunda, it's vids like this that hook me completely on the game & wishing that now with War Cry/Warhammer Underworlds being out, they should reprint the game books for it & put in a guide on using both the existing minis plus the War Cry minis as proxy minis. There's a ton of gray plastic out now for GW that people can use plus the Old World came back recently so why not the skirmish game for it. It seems that both War Cry and Kill Team currently lack that narrative edge which this game has in spades, plus there's a big enough demand for it that GW would make a bunch of money off it.
An awesome game, miss having a group to play it. You start your Marienburg warband start here to get glory and treasures to give your story a little more depth
I really hope the'd bring Mordheim back. I mean, the whole Old World is returning (well. kind of ), Squats are back, even Primarchs are found under rocks nowadays.
The video game was pretty fun. Wish someone would make an updated one. With a lot of the other Warbands and even custom ones. Slight change of gameplay, stats, limits, and rules but for fun. CO-OP Warbands.
I'd forgotten just how good Mordheim was! Great to see Tuomas talking about the game - took me back ;)
It's a wonderful piece of work; Tuomas, you, and the team should be rightfully proud!
It was a great time to be in GW.
It was a great game- was great
There are plenty of us still playing! Still has a big following, and multiple annual events worldwide.
I am tempted to jump into this game
The bottle with the birds refers to the 3 stages of alchemy: Nigredo (black), Albedo (white) and Rubedo (Red).
Oh that’s fantastic, thanks for this!
Mordheim was and still is a thing of beauty. A love-letter to the grimmest, darkest corners of the Warhammer setting.
I played with friends and in store during the whole playtest portion of development, but I never got to play after release due to being a poor teenager that had already invested in other game systems and I couldn't stretch to yet another boxed game.
I did manage to get a second hand copy many years later and I thoroughly enjoy reading the book and coming up with ideas for potential conversions and warbands, it's a game I would still love to play as I am a lover of the more detailed and narrative skirmish games of the Warhammer settings.
This was a very enjoyable video to watch, thanks for another quality piece of entertainment Jordan.
Carry on being awesome and take care.
Well deserved pick of the week on Warhammer Weekly. Very wholesome.
Mordheim was always so inspirational to me (by the way: 'Mord' translates to 'Murder' in German and 'Heim' losely to 'Town' and in Germany the game was released as 'MorTheim').
Back in the day I kitbashed several just-for-fun gangs, including a fallen Witch Hunter-Gang (the enemy within), a Sleepy Hollow-inspired Undead-Gang (the headless (horse)man acting as a Vampire and Lady van Tessel as the necromancer...) and of cause a Skaven-Gang (always felt that huge armies didn't fit the Skaven-background at all but in Mordheim they were perfect).
Thanks for another interesting video!
Circa 2000-2006, we start with Necromunda, but Mordheim have the préférence. We play 3 Mordheim campains in my club in France, one with the original rules, the second in a neighborhood of my invention with suburbs, the dungeon rooms plans, making a vampire lair, chaos portal for a scenario in another dimension, demonic tree, skavens lair etc ... the third in Eastern Koss (old caverns of the dead box) with empire in flames rules, 10 players separate in a good/bad alliance, many non players bands in the sites of the map ... and a final epic battle with all the players in a large table, the good side win finally !
Where did you put Eastern Koss in the Warhammer World?
@@jeremiahsafford1389in the south-east of mordheim somewhere between the mootland and sylvania i think , it's an old map in the old dungeon floor plans box "caverns of the dead" , of course it's my choice ... in parallel warhammer world
Thanks so much for the include and the tag! :) Tuomas is the best!
Thanks again, Mira. And I couldn’t agree more!
Mordheim is one of my favourite games along with Heroquest, I have created a whole city diorama for Mordheim, and is amazing playing this game. Thank you, Jordan, for another wonderful video.
How you morphed into Mira Manga during one of the interview clips reminded me of the gorilla paw from Monty Python 😂👍🎉
We changed seats after every question!
😂
Freelance Knight is one of my favourite miniatures
Oh man, I absolutely love that mounted old guy! He has such a perfect Don Quixote vibe
'We can't make the world end'....If only, if only...
I sometimes see people complaining in twitter replies about wanting this game to be released again, now I understand why! Great video!
Thank you!
There was a comic book about two villains Marquand volker and ulli letepold I missed out on it and the art work is so maxing in it but it’s so rare to find one copy
Still waiting for the best edition of Warhammer Fantasy to be discussed, please bring on the video for 6th edition
Idk, 6th edition felt like the most professional, but the Army Books for 5th are my favourite.
What a game. Only discovered Mordheim back in 2012 with two friends. We had so much fun with it that we managed to bring in a bunch of other mates who had never even touched wargaming before purely from the stories we would tell about what happened during our campaigns.
Still play a massive campaign together every summer
It’s still great fun even after all these years, a true classic
Still have my book, still have that card! Now I just need some people to play it with!
Excellent video about a legendary game! Instant subscribe. Managed to get my hands on a rulebook and have been slowly gathering bits here and there for warband projects. Looking forward to exploring your channel, Mr Sorcery!
Back in the days i played dozens of games of Mordheim! My wicth hunters have spilled rivers of blood in the name of Sigmar (and plunder)! Thanks man for the great memories this video brought back to me!!
22:46 There's a fine line between madness and genius. Mordheim got it right all the way.
It ain't a line - it's a Venn diagram. Mordheim is where they overlap.
Mordheim is the only GW game that I actively collect. I have almost all the warbands and books, and the rulebook together with Empire in Flames and Town Cryer are just magical to read. The whole project is demented genius. Also, along with Heroquest and Full Tilt, it's the only tabletop game that actually gets played in my house.
Full tilt! Now there’s a callback!
I never knew about the nemesis crown supplemnt for Mordheim. Ive found a pdf and I'll get straight to reading it. Thanks!
My pleasure!
Great stuff. I'm still in love with Mordhem after all these years. One thing, I think you'll find that Trish was Carden before she was Morrison, that she's now Carden again and still knocking it out of the park.
You are quite right on all counts. Will correct myself for future videos!
Thanks for this! I've had the pleasure of seeing the original cover art painting at the Finnish Museum of Games in Tampere, where it was lent to by Tuomas Pirinen. I have to say the real life painting is more awesome still than any reproduction. The colours just jump out like crazy. Great game and a really nice designer too.
Hey, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this. I've been really interested in the history of tabletop games, both wargames and rpgs so it has been so awesome to have a lot of these questions answered so thoroughly! Please keep up the excellent work Mr. Historian!
I'm very glad that you liked it!
nice! this reminded me of how much I loved Mordheim. I have many fond memories of playing this, GorkaMorka, Necromunda, and Battlefleet Gothic.
A classic array of games there!
I met Toumas in Italy, nice guy and I got a sign in my original super old / used Mordheim Book!
I will sell it for a soul, a firstborn and maybe castle -- with Peach of course
No Mario or Bowser needed
Fantastic! He’s such a joy to talk to about all his wonderful games!
Great stuff, Jordan! While I’m familiar with the lore and love the aesthetic, I haven’t ever played Mordheim or even read the rules, but I consistently hear people say things like “It’s the best game GW ever made!” Your video tempts me to go and spend a ridiculous amount of money on a starter set. At the very least, I need to download and read the rules and play a game with a proxy warband.
The Mordheimer website is a fantastic rules resource (linked in the description) as it has so much good information. It does lack the artistic magic though, and that’s such a factor in elevating the game!
Just make sure you have plenty of Blanche pieces on your mood board!
I was playing the computer game while listening. I wish I had gotten that boxed set back in the day.
Im really excited for this video!
Thank you, you really made a tough day much much better!😊
What with both the old world and epic on the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised to see mordheim re-released at some point. Nice to see Mira popping up, would love to see a colab with, say, Jordan and arbiter Ian when old world drops!
i doubt we will ever get another mordheim. it would come into conflict with both cursed city and warcry. hurting sales in those areas.
I think there is a place for Mordheim after Old world will be released - Mordheim will be like Necromunda for 40k (they still have the Kill Team, which is like Warcry).
Great game and great video. GW should hire you to make the much needed deep-dive documentary of their games and company! Also, anyone savvy how to get a Mordheim rulebook these days? Or am I stuck paying eBay prices? I've got a PDF, but a physical copy would be nice.
I'm just waiting for GW to send up the Sorcery signal over the skies of Mordheim!
I've occasionally seen bound copies of the 'living' Mordheim rulebook floating around on the secondary market at reasonable prices, but I'm not sure where to find them now unfortunately
I just joined up with a Mordheim group at my gaming club and it's been awesome! Brilliant game, the most fun I've had playing a GW game in years
What a FANTASTIC video. Instant sub! 😊😊
Cheers Duncan, glad you enjoyed it!
The model's for Mordheim were really something special, I bought a few to add character to my Empire army in the late 2000s, like the pack of civilians.
I loved the Shadow of the Horned Rat reference in the video too!
Getting to add an interview with Toumas was a fantastic touch. Excellent work sir!
I was lucky Tuomas was so generous, it was a great opportunity!
@@jordansorcery I remember reading the first White Dwarf article to feature Tuomas. It was about Warhammer Fantasy and it was "Tactics" with sub-headings such as "Squish 'Em" and "Spike 'Em" and so on... instantly knew this guy was one to watch! And some years later: Mordheim! The Zenith of GW imho. The original 80s as per your Warhammer series had the most creativity but Mordheim pooled everything good about GW into one game system: The creativity and the experience.
The old art for the rulebooks back in the day was always wonderful to look at. I compare it to more recent rulebooks released by gamesworkshop and the more recent ones have gaping wide holes and wasted space on the margins. With every page looking much like the rest so you can't tell at a glance where the important parts of the book are.
Older rulebooks had so much unique art and design that you could always keep it in your head which page was related to which concept because they had a really good sense of design and uniqueness to each section that makes it fun to read through.
The Mordheim book is a genuine work of art, just incredible to spend time with
Excellent video. Brings back memories of obsessively reading the Mordheim lore!
Thanks for explaining the Box Cover art. In all honesty, when it came out, I was not that fond of it as it was very "messy"/chaotic but I did love the fact it was more horror-based, grim, RPG/Fantasy-RP and a sullied world of humans probably going to lose out to greater forces eg that whole Millennial Pessimism (eg the Millenium bug in computers!) and having a joke about it. But after you explained that the artists were capturing the style and ideas of Bosch, it all suddenly makes total sense! I only knew about this artist from the brilliant tv series called Bosch on A-Prime!
"The Closed Door" method explains a lot: I fully believe in that kind of world-building where the world is created and with it lots of mysteries that are either never or partly explained as well as some explained. That's how to build a world for sure.
A brilliant video up there with some of your other ones. As for Mordheim? Definitely GW's best. Small Skirmish with more characterization of each miniature and then adding RPG-Campaign elements to the Gothic/Grimdark theme, itself taking inspiration from "the times" it was made. Just great art and creativity and a lot of talented people behind it. All to the good that people still enjoy this game in greater numbers.
only recently discovered your channel Jordan - devoured it and was hungry for more, so thankyou, love your smarts and mellifluous tones, a needed dose of nostalgia!
Very nice of you to say, glad you’ve enjoyed the videos so far!
I remember as a youngster having to cover up the box art so I could get to sleep, it scared me so much! Truly amazing stuff.
They really captured the vivid chaos of the place!
Jordan, thank you for producing yet another exceptional mini documentary of gaming history. 👏
Thank you for watching!
Great to discover the development and all the stories behind the scenes of this brilliant Game. I am surprised how big the Community of Morheim still is.
Another excellent video.
I missed this at the time, it was during a period I wasn’t gaming, in retrospect I think I maybe missed a period that would have been my favourite, I absolutely love the grim dark of 6th edition and Mordheim.
Your intro music is so classy, and soothing. Well chosen!
Thank you! Composed and performed for the channel by the tremendous Joylin Music!
Greatest tabletop fantasy game of all time. If you want an even more insane experience go play the Mutiny in Marianburg expansion from Broheim...
Marienburg! Now that is something I will definitely be checking out!
My absolute FAVORITE GW product, nay, wargame. Absolutely adore Mordheim.
Lovel the enthusiasm & the structure of the episode.
I missed playing M so actually getting an explanation & a look at what is what was sooo much better then ppl saying “it’s a skirmish game”.
Thanks
Cheers!
This is still one of my favorites games along side Heroquest. The book is one of the most beautiful ilustrated rule book i ever seen, reminds me of the old figthing fantasy books. A the moment one of my many projects is making a halfling warband/merchants driving a kind of snakeoil vendor wagon to sell potions and food to other warbands...(...''they're realy good potions and food...we're no snakeoil merchants''... words from Merchant Master Sharnad Smoothfinger.)
Love the sound of that warband! That’s a good shout about the loose similarity to the classic FF books. There’s definitely a shared commitment to dark and immersive world building in the art
Bring back Tuomas for future videos!
I would love to!
The two boxes people love most, mordhiem and warhammer quest two things we will never get reprints of haha
Loving all the content right now. One of my favourite content producers right now!
Thank you
What a great summary of the games history! I like how the city is based on Nottingham. I got the PDF's a few months back, but haven't read through them yet as I don't know if I'll find anyone mad enough to play with me. Though it seems like it may be a worthwhile read for the lore alone!
It’s a terrific book in its own right, so definitely worth a read even without a game in sight. That said, it’s terrific fun to play too!
Mordheim ranks among the best wargaming experiences I've had ever. Great video!
Nice one. As we all, I love this game :)
Wait wait wait, is Jordan Sorcery a play on sword and sorcery and I’ve only just now realized?!
Thank you so much for these trips down memory lane. Playing warhammer fantasy and mordheim in the late 90s was such a great time to be in the game and it’s wonderful to have these look-backs and understand the history and context behind it all.
It was a fantastic time, I think we were lucky to be in the hobby then!
Your lighting is fantastic.
Fantastic episode. I so love Mordheim.
Now, After Pirinen, Is necessary a interview with Ansell and Priestley. The questions to Ask are infinites.
I would love to do those interviews!
It’s amazing. I wish I could use the paranoia mod
This is really good
Mixing in the the creators is great
Thank you!
And I'm finally caught up!
Ahhh, regrets. I really wish, looking back, that I'd got into Mordheim properly, but I was obsessed with building my Chaos army. It's too bad, as I've said before, this was a game that would have genuinely appealed to me in a huge way. And still does.
Excellent video as always, sir, and I can't wait for the next one.
Thanks for getting through everything!
Thank you for another epic overview 😀 Squeak-squeak! 🤩🐀🌠
Another great video. Really makes me want to get my hands on that beautiful rule book.
It’s a genuine treat to spend time with!
In my local club we are starting a campaign! We are so excited 😆 best time ever. We combine with 40K, 6th Fantasy and TOW
and just like that, our local gaming group has started scrambling together a Mordheim campaign. More great content!
Well worth it!
What a treat to end the week on!
Great video! I recently started playing the game and it has been a ton of fun
Yes, Mordheim
Such a great video about history of a brilliant game!
Thank you!
As a mainly rpg guy Mordheim has always been my fauvorite gw game
amazing content, i had no idea mordheim was based on nottingham
I was so invested in my Vampire Counts army back then, I never got into this game. I regret it now because I would have loved it. If they reprinted this box and accompanying models, AS IS, it would be extremely popular. Why not? Maybe we don't need that, but it would be really nice to have. I don't want to contemplate the price of a complete set today.
The small comfort is that the rules are all available pretty readily now so it’s possible to proxy minis and give it a go quite easily.
Of course that misses the ineffable magic that is the art and writing in the rulebook. That’s definitely hard to recreate
I was delighted as Undead and Skaven were 2 of my favourites and Mordheim included these 2 as warbands! In the end I opted for Skaven: In both cases the "expendability" is the the theme of both warbands, event the Vampire leader is an underling of Vlad Von Carstein and no doubt on "the make" or the ambitious young assassins of Clan Eshin are eager to prove their prowess to the Night Lord... Half the fun is the RPG/Story informing the mechanics of the rules and results!
I come here just for the "...hello" intro.
Been waiting on this one. Thank you
Mordheim 😊 my Riekland warband was such fun it spiraled into an empire army.
That’s the way to do it!
I hear a warhammer shadow of the horned rat reference :D Ahhhhh warpstone ❤ played it back in the days, was epic to play it with fritids. Best memory was a beserker that had to charge... he was on the second level of a building. With to axes he leaped down towards his foe! And died without doping any damage, alternativt the battle he was dead for good. Many laugh that time :)
I finally have a PC again so can revisit the Horned Rat. Greatly looking forward to it!
Let's hope so, it's entirely possible that GW will bring Mordheim back to life. I can't wait.
It’s very much alive and more accessible than ever with all of the rules available online for free and the freedom to use any miniatures you want. In the UK we have multiple events drawing people from all over the country and there are groups playing regularly up and down the nation!
Not sure I'd trust them to these days, sadly would probably end up like new necromunda, a dozen or supplements and the full rules split into multiple boxed sets.
Great episode!
Awesome video, thanks! And that last joke provoked a full belly laugh, terrible and brilliant at the same time!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! I think that joke is the true horror of Mordheim!
I'm proud to say : I like the joke at the end
*whispering* me too
So good I need to watch it twice. Always loved Mordheim despite barely playing it.
The atmosphere that Mordheim holds is absolutely brilliant. It feels as though there's truly endless stories to be told.
Only thing I'd love to see is alternate activation turns be brought in similar to Necromunda and Infinity.
Great work shining the light on a fantastic game.
Gorkamorka next?!?
Glad you enjoyed it! Gorka Morka is definitely on the list, though probably not next!
Still have my chaos warband. Need me another copy of the book and start off a game with me ladz. Thy chaos possessed was just goppin’
I also remember my local shop doing a contest. The person that bought their box, created, documented, built a painted a basic warband by close of business the Sunday of release weekend, won a metal set of their chosen warband. Buddy you best KNOW I went for it and made my first speed painting attempt.
Did you win?!
Uhhhh …. No… 🤣
😂 Perfect ending to the video!
Awesome video. Amazing game. Gorgeous art.
Thanks! Absolutely agree!
Woot. One of the GW IPs I know the least about, thx for making these Jordan.
My pleasure!
19:10 I think the absence of a second Mordheim boxed set might have more to its story than just its inclusion in Fanatic. Goonhammer did a two-part article series not long ago, talking about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans surrounding Gorka Morka.
To be brief, that game underperformed to a point it lost GW tons of money. (Not underperforming by normal standards - it sold perfectly well - it just didn't make up for the _overproduction_ of Gorka Morka boxes and the resulting mass refunds demanded by distributors in continental Europe.). The money lost on that venture was so bad, it seems to have prompted a dramatic change in how GW operated going forward. Including de-emphasizing specialist products and focusing on GW's core.
I highly recommend reading those Goonhammer articles if you haven't already. It was...enlightening.
That Goonhammer article is really interesting. I had a similar thought regarding Gorkamorka’s impact, so I posed that question to Tuomas Pirinen and he didn’t feel that there was a direct relationship.
What is clear though is that Fanatic probably wouldn’t have existed without the Gorka Morka failure and it was Fanatic taking over Mordheim that changed the release strategy. Definitely seems a causal relationship, but not a direct one.
This was a great video. Thank you
Thanks for watching!
And what a fine pun to end the video.
Bloody brilliant work on this video!! Sad I missed this game when it was out because much like the 40kBadcast podcast hooking me on Necromunda, it's vids like this that hook me completely on the game & wishing that now with War Cry/Warhammer Underworlds being out, they should reprint the game books for it & put in a guide on using both the existing minis plus the War Cry minis as proxy minis.
There's a ton of gray plastic out now for GW that people can use plus the Old World came back recently so why not the skirmish game for it. It seems that both War Cry and Kill Team currently lack that narrative edge which this game has in spades, plus there's a big enough demand for it that GW would make a bunch of money off it.
I bought White Dwarf mags just for the additional Mordheim content
Excellent video!
Excellent video for me this was Warhammers best game ever IMHO
Another great video! Loved this one 👏
I’m glad, thanks!
An awesome game, miss having a group to play it.
You start your Marienburg warband start here to get glory and treasures to give your story a little more depth
This is such a great idea, maybe the ancestor of a Marienburg mercenary dynasty might play a role!
@@jordansorcery that’s a great idea, an ideal for your leader to aspire to his ancestor’s former glory?
@@jordansorcery Just how _did_ they make their fortune anyhow...
need More Time with Mord Heim
I have the box set still I punched and on sprue. I still play on Xbox and it’s pretty damn accurate. Love this game. Rerelease please
Cool video.
That game was an impressive work. I sadly didn't get to play as much of it as I'd have liked but it was a great source of ideas for rpgs.
It’s a very inspiring work, as you say. They definitely captured a lot of character in it
I really hope the'd bring Mordheim back.
I mean, the whole Old World is returning (well. kind of ), Squats are back, even Primarchs are found under rocks nowadays.
Total mistake: primarchs don't "return"; primarchs invade 40k from Horse Here eresy turning grimdark Galaxy into Santa Barbrara soup opera.
Great video !
The video game was pretty fun. Wish someone would make an updated one. With a lot of the other Warbands and even custom ones. Slight change of gameplay, stats, limits, and rules but for fun. CO-OP Warbands.