Why Games Workshop Should Leave MORDHEIM Alone
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Published 2024-06-14
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All Comments (21)
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The main problem is "classic Mordheim" community grew with a mentality that goes against current GW practicies: DIY tutorials, "cheap" models, kitbashing, conversions, ¡free downloadable content at the end! And in this last twenty years fans have made revisions, updates, shared everything... I'm even practicing to make a wiki app for Mordheim! Yeah, they could sell new things but the community is beyond GW at this point. And that's a good thing.
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Not going to lie... I kind of just screamed out in joy! Thank you so much! Also huge fan! 👍😅 13:18
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The oddest think one encounters, and realizes, that some of the best games in the tabletop hobby are the dead games no one is in control over and messing with.
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Boromir said it best: Mordheim has no GW. Mordheim needs no GW. 😂
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I loved Mordheim back in the day. I had a Skaven band in which my Rat Ogre and Assassin were painted as Pinky and Brain.
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Honestly print on demand for older black library books would also be great for them. Especially because they seem to only care about hard back specail editions. GW is massive and yet leave so Much money on the table.
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Mordheim was released in 1999 making this year its 25th Anniversary. It would make business sense for GeeDubs to release Mordheim as a Made to Order basis. No risk for them. Major nostalgia for their customers.
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It`s so enlightening when all you want from the creators of your favourite game is for them to stay away from it, forget about its existence and let it dead so we can enjoy it.
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That "get a junior designer to scan in the rulebook" idea's something I know they've done before - Louise Sugden's talked about how they had her do that with the original Slaves to Darkness book, but they only sell those (StD, Lost and the Damned and Rogue Trader) as hardcovers that you can only get at their events or Warhammer World, so I don't know if they'd relinquish the publishing to a Print on Demand service.
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GW should just add all their old books to Drivethrurpg. I mean they won't, but it would be awesome.
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If you look online, it takes minutes to find updated Mordheim rules & resources. Get a 3D printer (or find suitable minis) online and it will be a lot cheaper than getting into a mythical GW remake with all the current 'issues' they love to pre-load their games with nowadays.
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For great buildings, ruined or otherwise, do remember the manufacturers of laser cut mdf, life TTCombat and Sarissa Precision among many others.
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To tell how fine the community is doing - in my country where we have certain legal freedoms a group of people translated and printed Mordheim books unofficially. Hard cover, nice gloss paper. Sold quite well from what I can tell
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Mordheim came out in 99, I got it on my 14th birthday and it’s to date the best birthday present I’ve ever gotten. It’s such a brilliant game, and some on the balance issues can make it ever more fun at times. The setting is great. The artwork is great. The community is greater. I agree all we need is the book to be reprintable so new players can get in on the action. That being said I’d love some GW plastic terrain for it cos I’m a self confessed GW fanboy for life, 25 years and counting.
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100% on board with this. Print on demand Black Library as well please
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Shhhhhh, don’t make noise. The gw zombie lawyers will hear, and come for us. Let us enjoy our old games in peace.
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Devs&Dice is phenomenal and the intros are pure gold. I love the main content but always laugh along with the intros. I hope they never change. 😃
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My friends and I just spent 5 days playing Mordheim for its 25th anniversary. We are all from Memphis and a few of them are former GW employees. We got together to celebrate one friend's recent marriage and played games in an ABnB. We used scratch built, 3d printed, and GW terrain and models. We had a blast playing Mordheim because we love its simple yet fun gameplay and after action minigame.
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I do not look forward to the prospect of another avenue GW would take to try and sell me another $4-500 worth of books. They did that with the new Necromunda....and I immediately started running it with GrimDark Fire Fight from OPR. GW relaunching a "dead" (but alive) game is like directors making a "new" version of their classic works - with changes nobody asked for. The POD version of the book is a genius idea. They get the money but otherwise keep their hands off of it.
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I feel like this video is secretly "Why GW should leave miniature wargaming alone", but I'm here for it! I'm into sci-fi at the moment, but Rangers of Shadow Deep, Frostgrave, Mordheim and Deth Wizards certainly make fantasy skirmish games seem very appealing!
