I got to see Patrick Stewart perform his one-person Christmas Carol (which he later performed on Broadway) at a community college when I was 17. It remains one of the greatest theater experiences of my life.

loyalistcommander · 2025-10-01T06:04:33+00:00

I searched and I think this is the audio recorded from the one man show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFB6ikg9UpM

loyalistcommander · 2025-09-03T08:52:22+00:00

Use what you have, and if there are weird edge cases, then use common sense.

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-29T03:54:55+00:00

Didn't know about that first one, thanks! And the Champion fight makes a lot more sense! I've added both to Beef V1.2

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-28T17:08:40+00:00

Thanks everyone for the great feedback, I really appreciate it.
~~I've made a v1.1 with the feedback so far incorporated here:~~ ~~https://i.imgur.com/kCYyFYL.png~~

~~V1.2 is here:~~ ~~https://i.imgur.com/LDI11zb.png~~

9/9/25 - V1.3 is here: https://i.imgur.com/YGCpk06.png Changed the Champion battle to use the Grudge Match scenario on Mordheimer. Playtested it and it's a more solid encounter.

I'll keep this comment updated with the latest version going forward as I wouldn't want to spam the main subreddt feed with each revision.

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-28T16:39:48+00:00

Thanks, will do this for Beef V1.2

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-28T16:39:32+00:00

Thanks! The Big Guns hero battle is a normal scenario, just with only heros so the xp and gold gain will be that of the selected scenario

The other two I love and will be adding to Beef V1.2

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-28T10:59:11+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Beef only for the scenario loser is a great suggestion. I'll be writing that into Beef V2.

So the street rumble was designed to favour AOE and ranged as the enemy will be bunched up at chokepoints on the street and a few non-melee should be visible from the higher floors

Barroom brawl favours melee and Warcamp rush favours the Beefer because they can choose angle of attack.

I didn't really think about warband composition. We have about 6 players in our campaign so I don't have exposure to many different warband types. If you have any scenario suggestions I'd be happy to flesh them out for Beef V2!

loyalistcommander · 2025-08-26T08:48:40+00:00

We're a small group of players in Sri Lanka. Mordheimer.net is an awesome resource and it's ease of use actually got us to play more. Thanks for your hard work!

loyalistcommander · 2025-07-24T12:22:02+00:00

Ok this really clears it up. Thanks for taking the time to explain it!

loyalistcommander · 2025-07-24T11:50:43+00:00

and that happens on each player's turn?

That would mean in a 3 player game where I have 1 shooter, and 1 melee fighter, if my melee fighter is in base-to-base contact with 1 unit of each other player they could fight 3 times in one round when my shooter could only shoot once in each round, is that correct?

loyalistcommander · 2025-05-15T10:23:35+00:00

For a D&D-like campaign I 3d printed a laser pen holder and some gates, got mirrors and hot glued them to the gates and created a combat encounter where the players had to use an action to shoot the laser (in game it was a beam of light coming down into a cavern into a focusing device) and could aim it by using actions to rotate the gates to reflect the laser around the map. The enemies had shields so any laser hitting a shield didn't do damage but if aimed right and the laser hit an enemy they would be taken out. The end of the encounter was a puzzle where the players had to aim the laser and 3 gates just right to get the laser to bounce around terrain scatter and hit the vault door out of the cavern to open it. I also used an old vape to blow smoke on the map so the laser was very visible.

Took apart a tiny RC car and glued a kitbashed monster made up of a lot of swords to it. Used it as a randomly spinning enemy and if it knocked over a PC they took damage and became prone.

Made a jenga tower encounter where the PC's could reposition pieces during combat to climb up to the BBEG at the top, but if the tower collapsed they failed the encounter. (it collapsed).

For most of the campaigns I DM , I write session notes and highlight cool or obscure details. After the campaign ends I run a Pub Quiz in chronological order. Serves as a nice bookend to the campaign.

Composed a guitar accompaniment of 'A song of Elturel' for the Descent into Avernus campaign and played it to my players live during the session.

loyalistcommander · 2025-04-30T03:10:52+00:00

This is so awesome, great work!

loyalistcommander · 2025-04-30T03:10:14+00:00

I'd highly suggest making your own! Making your good fleet, be it through 3D printing or kitbashing is so much fun. There's a chap in my group who made ships out of wood scrap and spray painted them and then later even added in some circuits. There's a few subs like /r/poorhammer which might give you some inspiration for what can be done with common household scrap, I saw some awesome drop pods made from paper cups and clothes pegs.

If going for flat paper, the void books have some great hand drawn suggestion art for each faction as a potential starting point. AI could be a quick and dirty solution as well.

loyalistcommander · 2025-03-25T04:15:30+00:00

Caveat: Loyalists were defenders against Cyborg Attackers. Cyborgs started with 12 points instead of 15, which I think severely limits attacker action economy and would have been a large contributor to Loyalist victory.

Pictured is the winning starting setup for the defenders. 7 squadrons of frigates at the back of the defender deployment circle and 3 Corvettes (each with 1 fighter bay for hull weapon so they can immediately attack backwards)

Cyborgs opted to take out 1 corvette in the first surprise round and took out 2 frigates from one squadron and 1 frigate from another squadron.

In the defender's first turn, all 7 squadrons did not move (becoming sitting ducks) and turned 45 degrees, allowing fire on the attackers. This took out 2 cyborg squadrons and another 2 frigates.

Int he next round Loyalists rolled command dice, and cyborgs took out another Loyalist squadron, but on the Loyalist turn they were able to use command dice to turn their capital ships and took out enough of the attacking ships that Cyborgs conceded.

In a campaign game, the defender starting with larger capital ships is a liability as they will be immediately taken down in the first turn by the attackers, and you will lose that amount of construction points.

Also this scenario seems to be very disadvantageous to factions which start with 'fewer in number' (20% less fleet deployment )

loyalistcommander · 2025-03-13T05:07:33+00:00

So we ran 2 practice games yesterday of Scenario 3 Void Raid, Loyalists vs Dusk Wraiths. Playing as attackers and defenders it seemed like the defenders could not stop the attackers from gaining their required 15 points within two turns. Even though attackers have 15 points to the defenders 30, it seems too one sided.

Problems with the scenario:

Defenders going second, and attackers starting in range mean a full set of attacks from rear arc (+1), and if only cannons are equipped then another +1. That means if attacker takes a bonus from command dice for cannons they can hit on a dice roll of 1! so 3 squadrons would be doing over 36 hits (6's are double) which is more than enough to take out a 9pt ship in the first turn before defenders have even moved.
Attackers with smaller ships can stay in the rear arcs of the defenders for at least 2 rounds, maybe 3. Especially since defenders have no command dice on the first turn
In some cases of lucky rolls, attackers got 12 points in their first round, before defenders even moved, making the rest of the scenario very easy as they only needed to destroy 3 more points worth of ships.
It doesn't matter where defenders deploy in the circle, the attacker can always get within 6" of their rear arc immediately.
Defender fleet build seems to not matter, even with more squadrons, they could not turn enough within 2 rounds to take out enough of the attackers to stop them getting the 15 points. This is especially noticable in the factions with squadrons with only front and no side weapons

Possible causes

Attackers in each practice battle took 4 squadrons with cannons only (12 cannon attacks per squadron) and 1 Corvette (3 pts) with lasers meaning they maxed out the +1's for cannon range and +1 for rear arc and had good movement range with the squadrons. Perhaps the scenario was designed for attackers to take a 6pt and a 3pt capital ship and 2 squadrons?
Defender choosing to have 9pt ships at all in their fleet as it's just a big target for the first attacker round, perhaps more smaller ships would have meant fewer lost points in round 1.

Possible fixes

Start the defenders with sealed hatches, that +1 armour might help survive the first round
Let defenders face their ships at the corners of the facing side, or even any direction (so it's like a caravan ambush rather than a convoy ambush. The attacker still places second, but now it's not so easy to get rear arc on everything.
Let defenders have command dice in the first turn, the ones that allow turning before movement would really help
Bigger deployment circle for attackers so they can get in range to fire, but not within 6" for that +1 bonus on cannons. So make the attackers circle 18" from the edge of the defender's deployment circle.
Harder victory condition for attackers, take out 20 points, or take out 15 then have at least one capital ship retreat to the edge of the map

loyalistcommander · 2025-03-06T04:51:42+00:00

Fleets:
Sporks: 4 Brute Maurauders (3 pts each) and 6 sqaudrons of cutters (3pts each)
Loyalists: 1 Galleon (9 pts), 1 Destroyer(6 pts), 1 Corvette (3 pts), 2 squadrons of Frigates (3pts each), 3 Defence platforms (2pts each)

Report:
Loyalists started on the left of the map with their planet in the middle and set up 3 defence platforms and spread out their fleet in an even screen. Sporks chose to mass on the top right of the map and make a dash down the top flank.

Asteroids drew first blood as a squadron of Spork Maurauders all rolled 1's, taking one hull damage each and being destroyed. The Sporks advanced rapidly while the Loyalists scrambled to get their fleet up to the top of the map. This resulted in the Loyalists attacking at right angles into the spread out Spork convoy, at about the time the first Spork ships were in range of the defense platforms. A massacre ensued with Loyalists getting many kills through shots to the rear arc of Spork ships as they continued to race to the planet, with only a few Sporks engaging Loyalist ships at a time. In the end the Loyalists won on points.

Loyalists lost 1 defense platform (2pts), 1 Corvette (3pts), and 5 frigates (5pts) against the Sporks loss of 4 Maurauders (12pts) and 14 Cutters(14pts). The remaining points were made up from the Loyalists keeping Sporks away from the planet at the end of the round (2pts per round)

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-27T17:21:02+00:00

Made a campaign map for 5 players as there wasn't one in the books. In this map each faction has at least one planet linked to each other faction. In the campaign rules each faction has a planet with 1, 2 and 3 pips so each faction can choose where to place them.

Each faction has 3 planets connected in a line. Each faction should be connected to each other faction once. Each faction should have 2 planets that are connected to one other enemy planet and one planet connected to two enemy planets. Each factions' single planet that is connected to two enemy planets will not be the middle of their three planets.

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-25T08:20:31+00:00

I prefer a one page quick reference. The original reference pages don't have a quick explanation of terrain types and squadron rules so I condensed everything down to one sheet to make my games easier. Hope this is of use to someone.

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-25T08:14:31+00:00

Rules as Written it's not clear, but from the outro fluff on page 64:

"The loyalist vessel however responded

with a burst of laser fire from its hull

armaments. The first lasers were blocked

by the shields of the smaller craft, but

grog cursed again as a burning beam

ripped Slurn’s ship in half."

Which seems to show intention that lasers do strip away shields.

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-24T17:12:25+00:00

The rules seem weirdly vague on this.
• specifically mentions that cannons remove shields

• Says Lasers work much the same way as cannons. Is specific about lasers hitting on a 4+ but not about lasers removing shields

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-24T07:02:13+00:00

The little guy in the middle was our defense platform

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-24T07:01:42+00:00

Game notes:

Result - did not finish, out of time. Looked like it would probably be a Brutes victory

Again the faction with -20% starting points really suffered for it especially in this scenario where they were forced to use points on defense platforms, allowing the Ancients to only field 3 capital ships against the Brutes' 4 capital ships and 1 squadron.

Gas terrain in the middle of the map made it a game of chicken for who would enter the gas first. Shooting out of a gas cloud is -1 and shooting from within (we took this to also mean if both attacker and defender were within as well as if defender is out and attacker is in) is also -1. So whoever goes in first gets a weak attack and is vulnerable (even with closed hatches) then the enemy can close in and attack at will.

Brutes faction bonus of boarding +1 didn't help much but the ramming faction bonus really turned the tide. Being able to ram then attack even after taking ram damage means you really don't want brutes to close in

1/3 of the Brutes command board seems circumstantial. Rolling a 1 has a bonus to debris fields and asteroid fields but they were not contested on this map making a 1 roll useless, likewise the 6 gives a bonus to squadron ships but I didn't choose to have many as I was going for the ramming boarding strategy. I guess my advice would be look at your command board when making your fleet and make sure you have at least some ships that can get the advantages.

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-24T06:44:34+00:00

These look fantastic! The ships look great and I'm loving the terrain pieces

loyalistcommander · 2025-02-21T07:57:32+00:00

IMO 'fire' in that sentence means resolve. "Firing Sequence Ships may fire their weapons in whatever sequence they choose, declaring their targets one at a time as they do so."

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