Cult Warhammer Game Mordheim Resurrects on the PC

[The White Hunter]

Sometimes I really wish I'd found the time to get more into warhammer back when I first tried all those years ago

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Ohhh, does that mean we'll see other 'speciallist' games come to PC as well like Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda?

Lets hope this is good and not another Storm of Vengeance.

 

[Feraswondervahnn]

This is fantastic news! Our group still plays Mordheim and I've got to say it's my favourite Games Workshop game! I'd buy this happily the moment it came out!

 

[Ouroboros0977]

I hope they give a lot of attention to gang customization. That was always my favorite part of Mordheim/Necromunda/Gorkamorka.

Ah the fun of extensive remodelling dark eldar to make spyrers in Necromunda (1 Jakara turned hunt leader, 2 Yeld). Or if you are referring to item choice, my scavvie gang (ALL THE WING MUTATION SNIPERS!)

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I'll be that guy.

With the success of Team Fortress, Titanfall, and to the lower end Chivalry MW... Why is it so hard to make a decent team vs team Third Person objective action game? Either 40k or Fantasy.

You have so many units for each faction, so many factions. So much loot, so much lore, So many powers... It's a no brainer. Done well, in my mind, it could even topple DOTA.

Hell, if you want a titanfall experience with magic and insane weapons, the 40k version will got you covered. If you want to wield a great hammer while smiting the blasphemers against the emperor, go to the Fantasy side of things.

 

[Mangod]

Ohhh, does that mean we'll see other 'speciallist' games come to PC as well like Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda?

Lets hope this is good and not another Storm of Vengeance.

I sincerely hope that this'll be good as well... but then I remember what happens when you're optimistic and the game turns out to be shit. Cynicism is the safer bet, one suspects.

Maybe it's just me, but I hope that they'll make a Necromunda game soon. Let Firaxis or Harebrained Schemes handle it and we'll be golden.

 

[rcs619]

I'll be that guy.

With the success of Team Fortress, Titanfall, and to the lower end Chivalry MW... Why is it so hard to make a decent team vs team Third Person objective action game? Either 40k or Fantasy.

You have so many units for each faction, so many factions. So much loot, so much lore, So many powers... It's a no brainer. Done well, in my mind, it could even topple DOTA.

Hell, if you want a titanfall experience with magic and insane weapons, the 40k version will got you covered. If you want to wield a great hammer while smiting the blasphemers against the emperor, go to the Fantasy side of things.

It really could, but that would take work and Games Workshop is run by moderately-trained chimps at the best of times.

I think a team-based action/shooter could be cool. You have all these different factions and groups, and considering the difference in power levels, you even have a chance for an asymmetric shooter experience too. I'm not sure how you'd do it though. Maybe the Imperial Guard team spawns a bunch of bots to support the player characters. Or maybe the team just has a higher player cap than say, the Space Marine team. Either way, I think it could be pretty fun. Take a page out of titanfall and be able to spawn in Lemun Russ tanks, Dreadnoughts, Crisis suits and such to support the team.

The Warhammer 40,0000: Space Marine multiplayer was pretty fun, but space marine vs chaos space marine got really dull. The Horde mode was really enjoyable. Even some kind of Mass Effect-style objective-based horde mode where you could play different factions would be fun. The Blood Angels have allied with the freaking Necron when both their asses were on the line, someone could come up with a scenario for that cooperative shooter to work.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

I would actually be really into this, except that I've by now long been fed up with Games Workshop and all their retarded, greed-driven stupidity so I'm resolved not to give them any more of my money. When I boycott a company I don't leave little footnotes attached saying "except for that product Iactually want of course" at the bottom. So Mordheim can, in the immortal words of Yahtzee, eat a dick pavlova.

 

[Megalodon]

This sounds interesting and all, but can I play the lizardmen?

I don't think the Lizardmen were ever in Mordheim. Most of them stay on the New World continent of Lustria, with only the occasional expedition to the Old World when the Slann get antsy.

There was a New World alternate setting for Mordheim that was published in Town Cryer, and I think it had a Lizardmen Warband. But we're unlikely to see them if the game keeps to the classic city setting.

Edit: Damn, ninga'd.

On topic: I really, really hope this doesn't suck and does Mordheim justice. The game was excellent and it has the potential to be an amazing video game.

 

[Uratoh]

If they showed up for the football game then they can show up for this.

To be fair, the Slaan and foreseen the rise of Blood Bowl millennia ago, and had been training generations of players for the day it would eventually rise. They were *READY*.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

It really could, but that would take work and Games Workshop is run by moderately-trained chimps at the best of times.

I think a team-based action/shooter could be cool. You have all these different factions and groups, and considering the difference in power levels, you even have a chance for an asymmetric shooter experience too. I'm not sure how you'd do it though. Maybe the Imperial Guard team spawns a bunch of bots to support the player characters. Or maybe the team just has a higher player cap than say, the Space Marine team. Either way, I think it could be pretty fun. Take a page out of titanfall and be able to spawn in Lemun Russ tanks, Dreadnoughts, Crisis suits and such to support the team.

The Warhammer 40,0000: Space Marine multiplayer was pretty fun, but space marine vs chaos space marine got really dull. The Horde mode was really enjoyable. Even some kind of Mass Effect-style objective-based horde mode where you could play different factions would be fun. The Blood Angels have allied with the freaking Necron when both their asses were on the line, someone could come up with a scenario for that cooperative shooter to work.

I'm liking how your mind works.

Like, the imperial guard could all be HQs in the army. Players could control A Sarge, a Commissar, A TechPriest, A lord General, and say... a Psyker.

They could all have special guardsmen assigned to them taking place of two gear slots (because of course this game should have upgrade gear and weapons) instead of the regular guard. Say the Sarge gets Catachans, and the Lord General can get Set up Heavy Bolter Squads. You can send your squads to hold positions so you can make flanking maneuvers using your character as bait. If your Character Dies, your squad should freak out and run away.

I WOULD say it should be the same for the 'Nids, but Higher Level HQs for 'Nids are already frightening. So maybe you couldn't tell the lower 'Nids where to go, but they just swarm around you and fight constantly. Taking you down makes the lower 'Nids rabid and attack everything in sight.

Ooh, the Ork faction could complete for the WarBoss status. Like, on top of whatever class they pick. Say if you get something like... ten kills in a row without dying, it builds up your WAAAAUUGGHHH until you are seen as the warboss, giving your entire team a passive buff. Of course, the same can happen for other players. If two people have enough WAAAUUGGHHHH for warboss status, the buff is halved. And the two warbosses can slug it out for the dominating Warboss. The winner gets stronger statwise, and the buff for the team is 25% higher. But the loser becomes a grot for like five respawns. So you just don't abuse the tactic as that will probably hurt the team too (but that's Ork mentality. Who cares about the team, I want to be da best!)

Damnit, if I was only a designer. so many ideas...

 

[ForumSafari]

Ohhh, does that mean we'll see other 'speciallist' games come to PC as well like Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda?

I'd love a Battlefleet Gothic game but realistically it'd probably need to be an RTS.

 

[Cerebrawl]

I think a team-based action/shooter could be cool. You have all these different factions and groups, and considering the difference in power levels, you even have a chance for an asymmetric shooter experience too. I'm not sure how you'd do it though. Maybe the Imperial Guard team spawns a bunch of bots to support the player characters. Or maybe the team just has a higher player cap than say, the Space Marine team. Either way, I think it could be pretty fun. Take a page out of titanfall and be able to spawn in Lemun Russ tanks, Dreadnoughts, Crisis suits and such to support the team.

Have you by any chance played Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy?

It's a squad based tactic RTS, it straddles a fine line between the book and the movie, you start out as movie-style grunts and gradually move up to better armor and eventually your entire squad is sporting kick-ass power armor with dual weapons, shoulder-mounted rocketlaunchers and jump packs. (Basically you transition from movie style marines to book style marines*).

*sorry, mobile infantry. But bear in mind that WH40K marines are heavily inspired by the mobile infantry of that book.

 

[ThreeName]

Ohhh, does that mean we'll see other 'speciallist' games come to PC as well like Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda?

Necromunda would be sexy. Om nom nom

 

[The Forces of Chaos]

So, my choices are: Some grimy soldiers worshipping a guy who was basically militant Hercules, possessed fools who have sold their souls to the dark gods, some mercenaries... Or the Skaven.

The Skaven. No contest. At least they're honest about the fact that they are planning to stab you in the back.

They'll stab you in the back when you're too focused on how they stabbed you in the front. I love the skaven! My wife took on the pseudonym "Ten Crowns" because the leader of her Skaven warband had that bit of coin left in his pocket when she built her very first list. ON an unrelated note, falling in love with a nerd-girl is the best possible thing.

Could you Be any one of the great clans ? And could you have accesses to Grey seers ? By the Horned One I'm going to name my Grey Seer Thanquol with Boneripper Rat ogre. Hopefully Marks and mutations for Chaos as well.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I hope they give a lot of attention to gang customization. That was always my favorite part of Mordheim/Necromunda/Gorkamorka.

I was just thinking that a Necromunda game would be cool. Back in the 90s, there was a fan conversion game for Necromunda being made on the original half life engine, but they got a cease & desist from GW.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Ohhh, does that mean we'll see other 'speciallist' games come to PC as well like Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda?

I'd love a Battlefleet Gothic game but realistically it'd probably need to be an RTS.

Oh anything BFG would be nice, as long as its good.

Because who doesn't love space cathedrals with guns?