Faber&Calopide's Ambitious Mordheim Project - UPDATE! 13-03-2012

[DeafNala]

VERY WELL DONE! The Captain, his Cohorts, & their bases look FANTASTIC...good Zombie hunting.
Cool Mini or Not has started producing the Rackham line, although in resin; keep an eye on their site for a possible re-release of the dogs.

[Mason]

Thanks for the info, Faber.
Will have a look for some.

Thanks for the CMON tip, DeafNala!

[Faber]

thanks Deafnala! It was very funny to paint them and I'm pretty happy with the result
I've seen on CMON they started a rackham line...waiting for some old glory I did not bought when Rackham was still healty! 
and...personally I like resin miniatures. Best for painting&converting and painting&converting is my main purpose.

[Argonor]

We bought Pike&Shotte&zombies and Plague City supplement, intending to run a fantasy version. So we need: 1) fantasy survivors! 2) fantasy zeds!

Exactly what I'm going to do, too 

I intend to write up some racial traits and run some Warhammer: Extinction games, where participants can bring one or more models from their army and then just sit in on a game....

[Faber]

Exactly what I'm going to do, too 

I intend to write up some racial traits and run some Warhammer: Extinction games, where participants can bring one or more models from their army and then just sit in on a game....

did you buy a copy of P&S&Z? I've finished to "study" the rules and I'm about to run the "tutorial" scenario... It seems a very funny game. Anyway, I like the background but I prefer fantasy At the moment I'm happy with rules for human figures but it would be great to have the choice beetween some wfb races If you write down something please share it! waiting for a thread Argonor!

[Lowtardog]

lOVELY MINIS 

[Faber]

lOVELY MINIS 

many thanks Lowtardog
more survivors to come soon... and zeds are on the way too

[Argonor]

did you buy a copy of P&S&Z? I've finished to "study" the rules and I'm about to run the "tutorial" scenario... It seems a very funny game. Anyway, I like the background but I prefer fantasy At the moment I'm happy with rules for human figures but it would be great to have the choice beetween some wfb races If you write down something please share it! waiting for a thread Argonor!

Yes, I have indeed bought a copy.

Only thing that bugs me are 1) it's a little bit too rules-heavy - but as I'm going to lure Warhamste players with it, that's probably a good thing..  , and 2) the totally idiotic random zed movement 'roll a dice and move the zeds towards where it lands'. I'm definitely going to use another solution - maybe a template or so, to still maintain some level of control over the direction, but allowing for some unpredictability. Theres NO way I'm going to roll a die on my painted gaming table amongst my painted minis. Period.

But I also think the game should be entertaining - I just need to get some Mantic zeds at some point... Nicest and cheapest solution, I think.

[Faber]

yep, Argonor, maybe too  rules-heavy but very flavoured! eg. "I have a zombie on my spear" rule  very funny one
Totally agree about the zeds movement. I think that the dice solution is a bit silly. I have to try some different solution to see which one is more effective (Bloodbowl ball direction template maybe?)
BTW I have mantic zeds now! Very cheap and pretty nice...not wonderful (only 3 different legs, 3 upper body) but nice poses and after all, perfect stuff for the horde you need I've assembled 6/30... when I finish to build them I'll share some pics.

[Lowtardog]

BTW I have mantic zeds now! Very cheap and pretty nice...not wonderful (only 3 different legs, 3 upper body) but nice poses and after all, perfect stuff for the horde you need I've assembled 6/30... when I finish to build them I'll share some pics.

Its worth getting their ghouls too as then you can mix and match with those to get a lot more combinations

[Argonor]

(Bloodbowl ball direction template maybe?)

Yes, something on that line, but maybe a cone of, say 90 degrees split on some dice results (on a d10, for instance, 0,10,20...90 degrees), or 6 arrows with a given angle between them to just use a d6  - or maybe just a scatter die where the result is reversed if it deviates more than 90 degrees from the intended direction (latter solution then, of course, allows up to a 180 degrees of outcomes, which may bee too much - after all, there IS some control of direction in rolling a dice where you want the shamblers to go).

[zizi666]

Its worth getting their ghouls too as then you can mix and match with those to get a lot more combinations

What he said. 

[Argonor]

Yes, I have their free ghoul sprue from back then, and those are nice models, too - good for 'runners', I think 

[Faber]

Its worth getting their ghouls too as then you can mix and match with those to get a lot more combinations

yeah... it's true. I will buy them. Really good for runner zombies as said by Argonor. About scary zeds I think I'm going to buy heresy ghouls gorgeous minis

[Mason]

About scary zeds I think I'm going to buy heresy ghouls gorgeous minis

I agree with you on that one, Faber.
Heresy Ghouls are lovely!
I only went with GW myself as I already had the models, (picked up cheap on ebay, I refuse to pay their prices!)
I like Heresy Ghouls so much that I have convinced our new Mordheim player to take Undead and use them.....