Mordheim: City of the Damned

Not a fan, for a good couple of reasons. Firstly... Not a lot of variety. While you can feasibly twist characters to fit a niche they're not designed for, it's inefficient and not really doable with a new warband. There also isn't much in the way of character variety as far as the base 'classes' go. Each warband has merely a handful of units to mess around with... And only ONE kind of leader for each warband. You have no choice in that, at all. Secondly, permadeath of characters in a warband... The dumbest bloody feature ever conceived. We get it, y'all thought the idea of characters in that Necromunda:Underhive game was neat. I didn't. Still don't. I think swapping limbs for mechanical prosthetics and such is cool, a permanent debuff with minor upsides and a nice aesthetic... But outright killing a character, for good? You've wasted all the time I put into selecting their gear, their abilities, their outfit's color coordination... You sicken me. I'm tired of these sorts of 'features'. Thirdly, spells... They suck. They suck hard. They do very little in most situations at best and, at worst, literally kill your characters and their nearby allies. Worst of all they have a default failure rate of 15% without any modifiers applied, which means even in your skivvies you're still gonna be rocking some nasty odds of spellcasting gone horribly wrong: From stunning your character, debuffing them, silencing their casting temporarily and so on... All the way up to suicide ala miscasting. ...And for what? A minor movement boost? A 15-20% damage increase if your buffed ally lands a hit? It's a joke. A bad one. You know what's even worse though, the most awful thing about the magic system? Spells, when you're selecting them in-mission to cast, do not tell you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about what they do. There's no short lil blurb, no simplified listed effects, just the NAME OF THE SPELL you're selecting and the target/area for its casting. That's it. So either you read the effects after they've been applied to a character or you memorize what the effect for specifically-named spells are from prior castings or your character customization menus. And finally, the 'git gud' part of the review... This game is brutally difficult in the early portion which can last for several, SEVERAL HOURS. Even ignoring spellcasting being insultingly trashy and characters dying permanently and needing to be replaced, re-equipped, re-colored and re-leveled from scratch... The enemies are often better equipped than you, more numerous and positioned better than you simply because the nature of missions typically placing you into a disadvantageous position. And my gods, the traps. There so many. So, SO many traps. Barely visible, some you wouldn't guess were traps at all as they're part of various buildings and appear to be mere fictures. On a rare occasion it might buff you slightly. In most, it'll hurt or debuff you and reduce your movement, possibly halting you in place if you were mid-charge. Overall... I feel the magic needs a rework to be more reliable; less suicidal. There ought to be a setting to disable characters dying in your warband... And the starting point of warbands ought to be less of a frustrating RNG-heavy ordeal. I've found a massive part of whether I was able to endure early warband development relied heavily upon whether the shop's initial offerings were actually decent or not. ...Though it sucked when even after finding decent gear you'd get one character falling within a mission, only to discover they've perma-died... FR, hate that ♥♥♥♥. I really wish I could refund. This game has caused me nothing but strife and the perma-death mechanic alone, it's ability to wipe clean all development of a character and force me to waste yet more time on making a new one... I despise it.