Mordheim: City of the Damned

I never write reviews, but I have to give other players like me the chance to read this: If you can forgive some of the more dated looks and mechanics of the game, it easily should be on your list of games right alongside titles like XCOM or Darkest Dungeon. You would think the repetitive maps and combat would get stale quickly, but in my opinion the RNG is well balanced in terms of mission details and combat dynamics. You can easily misjudge a normal mission's difficulty in terms of positioning and environmental factors, leading to the untimely death of a character you invested a 1/4 of your resources into. I haven't even finished the game and this is how I feel so far, so I will leave the rest to your imagination. IT'S ON SALE for 2 BUCKS AS I WRITE THIS, WHAT DO YA GOTTA LOSE?

Designed for those who enjoy fighting uphill. No difficulty adjustment if you want to play casually. That's fine if it's what you like, but definitely not for everyone.

Steaming garbage, WAY too difficult for a new player. Just pisses the player off to keep dying and dying and having to deal with injuries and being stuck in a loop of death and battle loss for most of the time.

I really loved playing this game! It's quite similar to the table-top game that inspired it, but without all the accounting and arguing over measuring tape and line-of-sight. Something that I love about this game is the warband progression system, which allows you to gradually build epic heroes over some number of matches. This works especially well if you have a group of regular players who want to hold a league/tournament over multiple sessions!

Controls and interface are easily some of the worst I've ever experienced

To all the reviews complaining about the game doing a poor job explaining its mechanics or lack of features like battlefield map - DO THE TUTORIALS! The game does a fantastic job of explaining everything essential from in mission gameplay to squad / warband management. And showcasing all of its features. I've had an absolute blast figuring this game out and seeing my dudes improve or get hurt along my adventures (both of which can reflect visually on your character as well as in gameplay). It's a very exciting and rewarding experience, if you're willing to MAKE MISTAKES and ADAPT to learn. Other reviews mentioning how the AI cheats and is too opressive, while it may be true, It's hard to say I've played only a little, it rarely seems to vary from its strategy of - get wyrdstone>discover player>bumrush no matter what. It's super easy to exploit, [spoiler] since the AI rushes you not in formation, but however enemies happen to be positioned, sometimes suicide rushing you with just their squad leader, since those can move really far per turn [/spoiler] and with time I learned to spank highest difficulty missions with sometimes a single casualty or none at all. There's luck to it too, good and bad. There are some things I would change like some of the side missions feeling impractical to do, since for example, you need to spare a person to steal the enemy banner from their wagon / base and bring it all the way to yours. It puts your other squaddies in jeopardy due to being outnumbered. But then again, it feels intentional, since the xp rewards for completing side objectives are amazing and apply to the whole group on mission. I don't often make reviews, but the juxtaposition of how [i] good [/i] my experience with this game was, (especially for 1.99€ on summer sale), and the absolute brainlet goofball gluesniffer takes in steam reviews I had to chip in.

When I first started playing, I played Chaos, but it wasn't working out, and I thought the game was garbage. Then I played Witch Hunters and realized — the game is garbage 0 out of 10