Voluntarily Routing.pdf

Voluntarily routing

By Tuomas Pirinen

Greetings all,

I have followed the discussions about Mordheim games where one side only plays to Voluntarily

Rout in the earliest possible opportunity. I can see how frustrating this can be if you want to play

games and not just put your scenery and miniatures on table for 5 minutes. This was a less of a

problem in our Dark Moon Campaign, as the only way to advance in the storyline was to WIN

games, not to run away. Not to mention that such players would have been laughed out of the

Design Studio. :)

I am sure that you all see why the voluntary Rout rule is in place: You might have lost 2/3 of your

warband while your opponent is still at the full strength, but you keep on passing your Rout tests.

In such circumstances it is only fair you can retreat voluntarily. But it certainly was NOT written to

allow cowards to try to get lots of experience as quickly as possible. Of course this tactic does not

always work. Your opponent might have to play a Surprise attack, for example, where his heroes

will be at risk. But even at it’s best such playing style is irritating.

Perhaps these guidelines below can be helpful if your campaign is detoriorating because of

cowardly players whose only mission in Mordheim is to run away as quickly as possible. If you

are running a campaign, you might want to try these to make people playing Mordheim, instead of

acting like frightened rabbits. These rules are probably too harsh in the long run, but should force

people to try their best when playing.

Number of models in a

warband

Minimum no. of Warriors out of action for Voluntary

Rout

3-6

7-8

9-11

12-14

15-18

19+

Lastly, it is good to remember that if someone wants to play a game in an unsportsman-like

fashion, there is little you can do to stop it. Even in a games of chess (where the rules allow you

no room for ‘gittishness’) you can still be impolite and rude to your opponent. In such case the

only way to enjoy your games is to find new opponents. Unfortunately.

Tuomas (who is very pleased with this list -it is great to see how the players adopt the character

of each warband)