BACKGROUND: I absolutely adore the setting of Mordheim & the nostalgea and fantasy skirmish games, and have played seveal kinds on the tabletop so already this game floats my boat. Also, it seems I'm one of few reviewers to have played the Android equivilant (of sorts) "Mordheim Warband Skirmish" which had good gameplay but got erased from existence and you can't even download it to access your purchases! THIS GAME: Sadly there seems to be a CLEAR disconnect with the development & maybe GW's motives, because I did not find the RNG to be sincere, and heavily suspect that being purposefully to drive DLC purchases. Heeaaavvvily. I've thought about this: the controls may be the worst controls of any game I've ever played when combined with the obligatory super-long waits to even play. I WANT to love this game, but it was mostly disbelief at how (seeming purposefully?) crooked the RNG is- all the reviews you hear (about it being broken) are true- and there's zero saves so dozens of hours can disappear in the twinkling of an eye. Not just if you make a very slight error in executing commands awkward controlled commands, but even if you don't- the AI seems to have magic dice, and you don't. If you can get past all of this, there's a game underneath to love. But I will end by reiterating the fate of the semi-beloved App version- if that got 'disappeared' from existence, I can't fathom how this game exists because it's sadly worse as far as my play experience,. They are basically giving it away for a reason, sad to say. Most of all everything I have said is in the shadow of Games Workshop being notoriously profit-driven at times, and that's frankly (and sadly) the only way I can make sense of what ended up in front of me on the screen. I am really, really sad to write this review. I hope they take this clearly underdeveloped game- fix some fundamental issues, and another developer with more than a brief period of time develops this game.
