Mordheim: City of the Damned

Answer me this: If an attacker has a 80 % hit chance and the defender has a 40 % chance to parry. How high is the chance, that the attacker misses 3 conscutive times? Here is a hint: a) About 10 % b) About 2 % c) About 20% d) About 15 % e) About 5 % The answer is at the end. Most negative reviews have their origin from a simple circumstance. Human brains suck at probability assumptions. We do not memorize all the results and we focus on outliers. This happens to all games that use a RNG (Battle Brothers, X-Com, Blood Bowl etc. etc. etc.) "How can it happen, that i miss all the time with an 80 % to hit chance and the AI gets one crit after the other?". The RNG in this game works as intended and you, if you play it smart, will soon have no problem winning same level encounters without a single loss. The games fault is, that it is overloaded with unintuitive and unexplained mechanics (this makes it only 4 stars out of 5). *************** Answer = c) Chance to hit something = 80 % Chance to miss = 20 % Chance to NOT get parried = 60 % Chance to hit the enemy is: 0.8 * 0.6 = 0.48 So the chance to miss is 52 % Chance to miss the three times in a row is: 0.52 * 0.52 * 0.52 = 0.14 In a random encounter with 10 vs 10 there will be a lot of hitting and missing (even though the enemy gets usually just 1 parry.) But 3 misses in a row will happen sometimes in nearly every or every second encounter. So, should you get this game? Only if you neglected EVERY answer and chose: F) For "F" you with your stupid mathematics. I SHALL TAKE MY MIGHTY WAR HAMMER AND SMASH THE HERETIC AND PURGE THE ABOMINATION! FOR THE EMPEROR !! Congratulations, you are a complete nerd and have everything what it takes to master this game.

10/10 when you play the random encounters. 1/10 when you play the scripted scenarios. If you love turn-based RNG team combat, and if you are zen enough to wait on a locked screen while enemies you can't see play their turn slower than you do, then hellish Mordheim will be your cruel paradise.

I wasn't familiar with tabletop original. So decided to give it a go just judging by screenshots and general description. In the end this game is amazing: * the setting of lost city * tons of tactical decisions to make. From warband composition to fights and looting. * injury system adds some tension each time your fighter is taken out of combat. At first there was some grudge against RNG but as I progressed and learned mechanics it's totally manageable. First warband was a sacrifice to learning: lots of dead skaven and those who survived ended up somewhat messed up(both in abilities and body parts) .

As a huge tabletop fan of Mordheim, I bought this game years ago on Steam. It's not good. The controls are super janky and it's hard to see where you need to go or what you need to collect. It doesn't capture the feel of the tabletop game at all. And as a turn based game, it's not nearly as good as the grid based games like X-Com. Turns consist of trial and error trying to figure where you can move, and where you can't. Back up, move forward, back up, move forward. And trying to find wyrdstone is an exercise in frustration as well.