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Someone could easily reskin and redevelop the game using Madden's engine to make it far more interesting. Like how about a game of medieval football

Something like this (unofficial page) or this (official page)?

Exactly why I play Mordheim. One of GW's finest (and least known) games, with a minimal collection of miniatures req'd for a 'warband' (between 12-20 figures) it's not going to break the bank getting together a playable force.

The downloadable rulebook is also available online from 'Specialist Games' here: http://www.specialist-games.com/mordheim/

The only downside to Mordheim is that it requires a fair amount of terrain...of course to the fanatic tabletop modeller that's actually an UPside...

My 2c.

you may want to take a look at the tabletop game, Blood Bowl. I've played it for years, and it's a real hoot. http://www.specialist-games.com/bloodbowl/default. htm

Mordheim is a fun tabletop game from Fanatic Games (part of Games Workshop), set in a ruined town in the Warhammer Fantasy world. Each player takes up the control of a warband of a few models (4 to 8, usually) and starts battling each other through scenarios, earning experience points (for levels), gold, skills, and all sorts of unexpected things (especially when dying).
The basic rules are much like those in Warhammer, with the same kind of stats, but with a few additions to make it more fit for skirmish.

All you need is a few buildings, some models, and some pens and sheets, and then you will be ready for playing.


And best of all, the rules are freely avaible on Mordheim's website

This is not exactly untrodden ground. I seem to recall a Sega Genesis game that covered this kind of territory, and there was the Games Workshops Blood Bowl tabletop game, now semi-retired. Someone should pick that license up and run with it.

They should grab the BloodBowl license from Games Workshop. I play in two leagues with my Necromatic team and its actually surprising the number of people that have gotten into it since GW re-released it a couple years ago. i mean, Mutant league was clearly inspired by BloodBowl it only make sense for them to go for a license that a lot of gamers already know.

I know it's not a videogame, but a perfect example of Tolkien-esque fantasy football is Blood Bowl, by Games Workshop. And there's always a chance that Games Workshop will convince someone to make a videogame based on Blood Bowl. I'm sure the developers at GW would love to see something like that.