A game of small wars.

The shape of battle

A game of Morsdei follows individual fighters rather than blocks of troops. Players alternate activations, use terrain as a real tactical resource and pursue visible scenario objectives while protecting goals the opponent may not yet understand.

The intended scale is roughly six to twelve miniatures per side. A normal fighter is currently built around two actions in an activation. Movement, shooting, close combat, aiming, prepared reactions and scenario interactions form the working action language. The game uses six-sided dice.

A settlement cannot replace every person it sends beyond the walls. A warband is not ammunition.

What is fixed

Your models, your warband

Morsdei is not being designed around a mandatory catalogue of official miniatures. A warband is assembled from archetypes, traits, equipment and other game elements. The aim is to let players use appropriate models they already own, convert their own fighters and make the history of an expedition visible on the table.

Campaigns are planned at several lengths. Fighters and settlements should be able to carry consequences from one battle to the next, but progression, injuries, mutations and campaign economy are not yet final rules.

Still in development

Reactions, stress, specific injury states, initiative choices, the exact cost of actions and the final structure of the warband limit are active design questions. They are not presented here as finished rules.