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Scenario 093 -
Sigmar Had No Sisters!
By The Mordheimer.
This is a special scenario to be played with 2+ players, and
an arbiter. The players should be divided in two groups, Witch Hunters and
Sisters of Sigmar. The arbiter (or a 3rd player) may take the roll of Jezebeth -
the demon of falsehoods. Most of the story should be kept secret among players,
for game enjoyment. The surprise will get them! Read the following to each
player.
Background Witch Hunters: After dealing with heretics and infidels in the accursed
city of Mordheim, a weary warband of Witch Hunters approached the Temple of
Sigmar for some sanctuary. Once there they discover that the Sisters of Sigmar
have taken over the Temple. Not only these groups of women dare to call His Holy
Name in vane, by pretending to be direct descendants of His Holy Lineage, but it
is obvious to the Witch Hunters that the rumors are true; these women have
indeed sealed demonic packs to remain in power! Their main abbey, The Rock,
survived the cataclysm and now they, with the pretext of helping the innocent
victims of the Wrath of Sigmar are amassing an army of mutant chaos spawn within
the Temple itself to be later unleashed upon the world. This heresy must be
stopped!
Instead of engaging the so-called holy women directly, the
Witch Hunter Captain makes camp outside the Temple to assist those who
Sigmar-fearing men, women and children who were denied assistance within the
Holy House. Besides providing humanitarian aid, the Witch Hunters preached the
Healing Word of Sigmar and understanding the people’s anger against the infidel
women, commenced to recruit any able body to retake the Holy Land. Some of the
Mordheimers offer assistance as they have been outside the Temple for days, and
know the lay of the land. They are willing to forfeit their lives, to guarantee
the safety of their families and loved ones.
Sisters of Sigmar: In reality, the good Sisters have
been taking under their care every refugee who has asked for help… without
question and without any kind of remuneration. Being the only location on east
Mordheim where any honest and free assistance (clothes, food, shelter, healing,
prayers, etc) is being offered, the Temple has been flooded with everyone who
needs help, and many who does not. The Temple is full to capacity.
The fact that the Sisters have started to screen those who
they can help and have been forced to deny entry to many (few that were beyond
help and many scam artists who wish to rob the Temple) has angered many of the
locals. In the mass confusion of wails, pain, suffering, frustration and anger,
many rumors of treasure, human sacrifice, bribery and corruption grow by the
hour and spread like wild fire.
Some of the refugees have, to the surprise of everyone,
started to exhibit mutations probably caused by exposure to wyrdstone. Many of
them have been well known devotees of Sigmar and thus the Sisters, in mists of
anger and frustration, do their best to console and help these poor unfortunate
souls. Those Mordheimers who are within the Temple know this, and are glad that
the Sisters do not discriminate among social classes… and are even blind to
those who seem to have fallen out of Sigmar’s favor. Their tight community lies
in shambles, and they are willing to fight anyone to save it for the sake of
their families.
Arbiter (Jezebeth): The Pit has brought forward a minor
demon, Jezebeth - the demon of falsehoods. Seeing the destruction of the city,
he has been busy designing a plan to invoke further chaos and destruction. He
had started the process to mutate the survivors of the holocaust by poisoning
the local well near the Temple of Sigmar with shards of wyrdstone. Jezebeth
needs more time to complete his plans, and knows that is a matter of time until
the Sisters figure out what happens. In a brilliant move, the demon has
manipulated a series of minor events and encounters to bring a warband of Witch
Hunters to the Temple. Knowing how they think, he is sure that an armed conflict
would arise, and the Witch Hunters (needing little incentives) will go to war
against the Sisters.
Jezebeth plans to joins the melee and destroy both rivals in
their greatest moment of weakness by using a magical ward that will accelerate
the Mordheimer’s mutations and place them under his direct control. Once
everyone has died, he plans to take the rest of the refugees and transform them
into Chaos Spawn, and declare a War of Chaos against any living entity he finds.
The destruction of the Empire will soon be imminent.
Terrain
The terrain for this scenario should have a main building (the Temple of Sigmar)
which is somewhat still standing, near a table edge. The building should be
large enough to accommodate all warbands inside, while still having enough space
to allow players to fight outside if so they wish. In the opposite table edge,
there should be a small encampment, where the Witch Hunters made camp earlier.
Setup
The Sisters of Sigmar group setup first, inside the Temple and up to 2” outside
from it. The Witch Hunters may deploy within 8” on their encampment. Players
take turns to place 2D6 innocent bystanders, City Folk as described above. The
arbiter may move (walk) them away of combat at the beginning of every turn.
Special Rules Mordheimer Fanatics:
Each player will also control a small group of Mordheimer Fanatics, who upon the
promise of safety have agreed to join each side. Each player gets, at no cost a
group of Mordheim Fanatics (see
Experimental Warbands for details) reinforcements that do not count towards
the warband’s maximum size, but their numbers do add towards the calculation of
Rout Tests. The reinforcements are as follows:
1 Lunatics
No one knows what the effects of long exposure to wyrdstone are. Mutation is
commonly seen. So is death. Sometimes though, men are driven into frothing
madness and psychosis. But what if he were already mad? Some of the criminals of
Mordheim managed to escape death or starvation in the dungeons of the city. Now
they wander the streets of the city, the effects of the wyrdstone simply
enhancing their violent and sociopath behavior. Driven to the very extreme of
insanity, they will attack anyone the Prophet points them towards.
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Weapons/Armor:
The Lunatic
for this scenario is equipped with a flail and a shield.
Special Rules:
Frenzy: Lunatics are subject to all the rules for frenzy as
described in the Mordheim Rulebook.
3 City Folk
Merchants, peddlers, bouncers and scholars; all social classes became
irrelevant when the Hammer fell on Mordheim. Rich traders rub shoulders with
thieves and dockworkers in the bands of the Mordheimers. Brought together by the
Prophet and his promise of their homes and lives restored, they fight with
fanatical vigor.
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Weapons/Armor:
City Folks
for this scenario are equipped with a club, a dagger, and a shield.
3 Maimed Ones; (in 2 groups of 3
individuals)
Beggars and cripples, Maimed Ones are those left infirm by the fall of the
Hammer. Missing legs, eyes, hands or arms are common sights in the blasted
apocalyptic nightmare of the city. Most join the Prophet more out of fear than
because they believe in his cause. It is better to have the protection of madmen
than to be dragged screaming into the perpetual twilight.
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Weapons/Armor:
Maimed Ones
for this scenario are equipped with an axe, a dagger and a shield.
Special Rules:
Maimed: Every member of a Maimed Ones group is crippled in some
way. This could be impractical to represent individually, as henchmen must
operate as groups. When a group of Maimed Ones is created, roll D6 on the
following chart and adjust their profile accordingly. Maimed Ones with
similar injuries tend to stick together, to receive sympathy from those who
know their pain.
Bad legs/Back/Etc.: Movement and Initiative are reduced by 1.
Missing Arms: Weapon Skill reduced by 1. May not use two weapons or
weapons and shields.
Bad Vision/Blindness: Ballistic Skill reduced by 1.
Infirm: Toughness reduced by 1.
Wyrdstone Weakness: Strength reduced by 1.
Head Injuries: Unless within 6” of a hero, these henchmen are
subject to the rules for Stupidity as described in the Mordheim
Rulebook.
Jezebeth: After the 3rd turn, roll a D6 on each player turn. On a roll
of 4+ Jezebeth enters in play. Ask a player to place a token in any place in the
board where no model can see, but that is advantageous and close enough for a
surprise attack. Once both tokens are on the board, randomly decide where to
place the demon. Jezebeth is quick, and will be in play at every player’s turn!
His job is to offset the balance of power and attempt to have both enemies as
weaken as possible.
Jezebeth
Jezebeth, also known as the demon of falsehoods, is a small
reddish demon determined to climb up the ranks of the Demon Hierarchy by
spreading lies, chaos and destruction. He is very quick and agile, but not very
powerful in hand to hand combat.
Profile
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Weapons/Armor: Jezebeth’s tough
hide grants him an un-modifiable save of 5+. He is armed with a Daemon Weapon,
Jezebeth’s Mighty Hammer. This weapon, which contains an entrapped minor demonic
entity inside, grants +1 to all his "To Hit" and "To Wound" rolls (already
calculated on his profile above), but does not concede any of the special
abilities a normal hammer would grant. After all, the physical form of a Demon
Weapon is not relevant.
Special Rules:
Lightning Speed: Jezebeth’s speed is uncanny. He
can move, charge and take any action in every turn. Due to his demonic
speed, he always declare charges or moves first. Hand to Hand combat is
resolved as normal, but chances are that Jezebeth will strike first due to
his high initiative (unless engaged versus an opponent who wields a spear or
any other item that grants first strike.
Trigger Mutation: By concentrating (not moving,
nor fighting, etc) for 2 of his turns (1 standard game turn), Jezebeth can
trigger a dormant mutation one anyone who is within 24” of him (in direct
line of sight) and has been previously infected with a special mutagenic
concoction, including the innocent bystanders. Treat the mutated model as a
Mutant, from the warband Cult of the Possessed. For this scenario, all
Mordheimer’s Fanatics have been poisoned, so Jezebeth will choose anyone who
may cause the greatest damage and chaos. Roll a random mutation from the
appropriate table.
Mutants Mutants are revered as the favored ones of the Dark gods, their physical
disfigurements marking out the vileness of their soul. They come in many shapes
and sizes, each more bizarre than the next.
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Special Rules:
Mutations:
Upon the creation of the
Mutant, please roll 2D6 and determine the mutations based on the table
below.
2D6
Results
2
Roll
Twice: Ignore further rolls of 2’s.
3-4
Great
Claw: One of the mutant’s arms ends in a great, crab-like claw.
He may carry no weapons in this arm, but gains an extra attack in
hand-to-hand combat with a +1 Strength bonus.
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Tentacles: Both of the mutant’s arms ends in a tentacle. He may
either grapple one of his opponents in close combat to suffocate him
(normal hit roll, victim makes a Strength check -1 to avoid) or two
opponents to reduce their attacks by -1, down to a minimum of 1. The
mutant may decide which attack his opponent loses.
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Blackblood: If the model loses a wound in close combat, anyone
in base contact with the model suffers a Strength 3 hit (no critical
hits) from the spurting corrosive blood.
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Spines:
Any model in base contact with the mutant suffers an automatic
Strength 1 hit at the beginning of each close combat phase. Spines
will never cause critical hits.
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Scorpion Tail: The mutant grows a long barbed tail with a venom
tip, allowing him to make an extra Strength 5 attack in each
hand-to-hand combat phase. If the model hit by the tail is immune to
poison, the Strength of the hit is reduced to 2.
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Extra
Arm: The mutant will pick up another single-handed weapon in the
extra arm, giving him +1 attack when fighting in hand-to-hand
combat.
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Hideous:
The mutant causes Fear.
Starting the Game
Both players roll a D6, the highest scoring player takes the first turn.
Ending the Game
When one of the warbands manages to either eliminate the other, a warband fails
its Rout Test or Jezebeth is killed the game ends.
Experience
+1 Survives: If a Hero or Henchman group survives they gain +1 experience.
+1 Winning Leader: The Leader of the winning warband gains +1 experience.
+1 per Enemy Out Of Action: A Hero earns +1 experience point for each enemy he
puts Out Of Action.
+1 per Mutant Out Of Action: A Hero earns an additional +1 experience point for
each Mutant he puts Out Of Action.
+2 For Killing Jezebeth: A Hero earns an additional +2 experience point for
killing Jezebeth, and revealing his plan.
Conclusion
If the Witch Hunters win the battle, the Temple of Sigmar will be taken under
custody and all its evil treasure returned to the Order, and all humanitarian
aid will stop… after all the people here are evil and are turning to mutants!
Let the bonfires burn high and illuminate the perpetual darkness!
If the Sisters of Sigmar manage to guard the Temple, the
Matriarch will reward their efforts handsomely. Humanitarian aid will stop, and
from now on will be strictly dispatched in case by case basis. The new
bureaucratic process will take a heavy toll in human life and suffering.
No matter what happens, Jezebeth will be pleased. No matter
what, he will be summoned back to his home plane, as his labor of Chaos is now
complete. His reward… en eternity of suffering at the hands of Mutant
Magistrates!
