{"id":8762,"date":"2020-12-08T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2020-12-16T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T16:11:35","slug":"mordheim-city-of-the-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/mordheim-city-of-the-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Mordheim: City of the Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whereas Warhammer proper<\/a> has you building armies to face off against one another, Mordheim<\/a> narrows the focus down to skirmishes between two groups of 10 individuals or less.<\/p>\n

Visually, it’s pretty dire. Mechanically… it’s not much better.<\/p>\n

The concept of building\/managing a warband is solid and the roguelike elements (Veteran achievements give bonuses across all warbands) are decent enough. The integration between the combat and exploration aspects however is sorely lacking; you basically have<\/em> to focus on killing the enemy (since numerical superiority is essential) which means you won’t have time to loot anything notable from the battlefield. It’s almost like you’re being punished for success. The winning warband getting to loot everything in their direct line of sight or receiving an extra turn or two after a win to loot would’ve worked far better.<\/p>\n

The other, more significant, issue is that the combat isn’t any fun. Since all offensive actions draw from the same resource pool most of the time you end up standing in place trading basic attacks until someone misses once too often (which is often just once due to the similarity between enemy and ally health\/damage totals). It’s incredibly dull and the spellcasting system being actively antagonistic certainly doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

In a sense the game is reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon<\/a> in that you probably have to be a masochist to get any significant amount of enjoyment out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whereas Warhammer proper has you building armies to face off against one another, Mordheim narrows the focus down to skirmishes between two groups of 10 individuals or less. Visually, it’s pretty dire. Mechanically… it’s not much better. The concept of building\/managing a warband is solid and the roguelike elements (Veteran achievements give bonuses across all warbands) are decent enough. The integration between the combat and exploration aspects however is sorely lacking; you basically have to focus on killing the enemy (since numerical superiority is essential) which means you won’t have time to loot anything notable from the battlefield. It’s almost like you’re being punished for success. The winning warband getting to loot everything in their direct line of sight or receiving an extra turn or two after a win to loot would’ve worked far better. The other, more significant, issue is that the combat isn’t any fun. Since all offensive actions draw from the same resource pool most of the time you end up standing in place trading basic attacks until someone misses once too often (which is often just once due to the similarity between enemy and ally health\/damage totals). It’s incredibly dull and the spellcasting system being actively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[28,452,121,120,473,494],"class_list":["post-8762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-fantasy","tag-roguelike","tag-rpg","tag-tactical-rpg","tag-third-person-perspective","tag-warhammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t