Hi everyone, so today we're taking a look at Mordheim, City of the Damned. This is an
early access title currently available for PC and on Steam. Now Mordheim City of the
Damned is a computerised version of the Warhammer table top game from Games Workshop. Now this is
a title that's been around for many many years within the Games Workshop family but we've
never really had it brought into a digital realm before. So what are they offering? Well,
they're offering three war bands currently as part of the early access. A war band management
system so you can add weaponry and equip your various characters within your war band, two
procedurally generated maps and two unique maps. The battle for victory which is basically
a classic death match last man standing kind of stuff and four tutorials that go over those
core game mechanics. Now within the war bands, the three that they've added so far are the
Sisters of Sigma, the Human Mercenaries from the Empire which are basically Reiklanders and
then the Skaven. Now anyone who's ever played Mordheim City of the Damned you'll be familiar
with these particular factions. There are some other factions to add, I would expect
The Chaos to be added in there as well. Now this is a turn-based strategy game where you'll
have to move around the map strategically keeping one eye out for your opponent and
making sure you position all of your characters in just the right way to hopefully either
defend or support each other whilst you're making your attacks, or being attacked themselves.
Now there's a great deal of variety here within the archetypes within each team. You've got everything
from your spellcasting wizards to your hand-to-hand combat specialists and even giant ogres. All
of this is very much in the vein of World of Warcraft and they've done a really good
job, even during this early access to have all of these characters feeling like they
meet the Games Workshop classic archetypes. Even the silhouette of the models feels like
just something you could pick up in a Games Workshop store and then paint yourself for
instance. Now this is really early days for this early access title, there's an awful
lot missing, the tuning's not particularly great and it is absolutely riddled with bugs.
But this is some of the most fun I've had in a strategy game of this type for quite
a while. Actually since Xcom. This game does share an awful lot of similarities with the
XCom games. Obviously XCom was a game of the year in 2012 and so copying its lineage would
certainly not be a bad thing for any developer. But they've managed to infuse it with the
Games Workshop world and vice-versa in many respects and together it's starting to feel
like a pretty good combination. City of The Damned is a great table-top game and now mixed
with the game mechanics they've come up with here to kind of recreate that feel of the
physical board game. We've got something that really does feel quite special. We'll have
to see how City of the Damned expands over this next six month period or so but, things
do look good for this game. Certainly it will be one well worth checking out if either a
you like XCom style games, b you're a fan of Games Workshop and c you kind of like to
see how those two things were brought together. Mordheim City of the Damned is looking really
good so far and I honestly think this could be next year's big strategy game and certainly
one that I think will really enthuse the Games Workshop fans. We have had some pretty dire
Games Workshop games over the years. Things do seem to be turning a corner for 2015 where
we'll actually have some pretty good titles out there. Thanks for watching. Don't forget
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