tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53551727416922133492024-03-18T02:48:52.093-07:00Tales of a Frozen PlanetA war gaming blog, covering Malifaux and 40k, and just slightly obsessing on models with fur hatsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-9868072503297104672018-05-26T08:30:00.001-07:002018-05-26T08:30:19.707-07:00Do people even blog anymore?<br /><br />This is like visiting my old livejournal. <br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-36503434387763114822015-07-10T19:28:00.001-07:002015-07-10T19:28:27.472-07:00Nova Terrain Day Tomorrow!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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DO YOU LIKE PINK FOAM?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-75827852693463945112015-07-10T15:08:00.004-07:002015-07-10T19:01:40.277-07:00Welcome to Malifaux!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, refugees from the Age of Sigmar. I know, I know, it's cold out there for those that love tactical combat, combat that depends on position and out-maneuver. You're lost, you feel alone and abandoned, and just plain scared. Well, may I suggest you take shelter in a little place called Malifaux?<br />
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Yes, Malifaux doesn't have those serried ranks that you love so much, and perhaps it seems that a skirmish game can't really replace that. How can 7-12 models replace those 100's of models that you've lovingly painted? How can a single master replace your lord on a griffon and his trusty mage companion, or your giant Nasgash figure? I'm here to tell you it can't.<br />
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I'm not going to lie to you. Malifaux isn't that game. It can't replace those giant ranks of men and huge centerpiece models, at least not in the way you think. The giant ranks and flanks game is Mantic's bag. They're your option for giant model mashes, full of pageantry. And, to be honest, Kings of War looks like a fine game. Go try it, and let me know how it goes. Genuinely, please. I'd love to know. But we were talking Malifaux, and what it brings -pun intended- to the table. What Malifaux does like no other game that I know is combine balance, complexity, simplicity, and probability in ways that should make other gamers salivate.<br />
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Simplicity and complexity in the same game? It seems contradictory, I know. But to someone like yourself, who is used to 3-4 dice rolls to resolve a single combat action, Malifaux's duel mechanic will seem refreshingly simple. A model attacks another model by flipping a poker card and adding its attack value; the enemy model resists the attack by flipping a card from its poker deck, and adding that model's defensive value. Whoever gets the higher number wins, and ties go to the attacker. The attacker increases the chances of getting high damage by winning big. It's a really simple yet elegant mechanic. There are no buckets of dice rolled three times, it's one and done.<br />
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Given that the duel mechanic is simple, where does the complexity come in? Much like the old Warhammer Fantasy game, complexity is found in the units involved and their rules. Each model has a variety of abilities and actions to take, some offensive, some defensive, and others meant to win the game/buff or debuff friends and foes. Each unit has a different feel, from the gibbering horror of the Insidious Madness to the unsubtle face smashing of the Ice Golem. Models support each other through themed characteristic traits, and thematic crews tend to be playable at higher levels. Remember that simple card duel from a paragraph ago? Those duel results can be modified by triggers, which means that in the right condition, if the right card suit shows up in your duel, you get a bonus rule applied to the duel's result, like extra damage, being set on fire, or any other effect. It's just another small layer of mechanics, but it adds so much depth to the game.<br />
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But what about positioning, you ask? Where a unit moved to in Warhammer, and how it moved was crucial. In Malifaux, the majority of scenarios and objectives are position based, and movement tricks are more likely to win you a game than sheer killing power. Position and maneuver might be even more important in Malifaux than it was in WHFB, as Malifaux units often have auras of buffs and debuffs that can make a mistake in placement quite costly. And unlike WHFB, where the large nature of the game forced a side to move/shoot/cast/fight, in Malifaux, the turns have a back and forth chess feel, as players activate a model, finish its actions, and then have the opponent do like-wise., There's a much greater back and forth, and the decision to choose who activates which first can be crucial. There's a great deal of tactical thought that goes into who goes first in a round, and poor choices can put you on the back foot.<br />
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But what about the dice? Yes, that's a point of pain for many of us, reared on dice in games since we were wee lads and ladies, and it's tough to embrace that change, I know. Believe me, I understand. We all love our dice. But we also know our dice can betray us. They are fickle masters. There are always more ones to be rolled, my friends. And that's the beauty of Malifaux using a poker deck with a hand of cards. You draw six cards a turn. If you don't like your flip, you can (once a duel) replace the card flipped from your deck with a card from your hand, discarding the card you didn't want and replacing it with the card from your hand. There are only four ones in the deck. There's only once negative trump card. You can manage your luck in ways which Warhammer and 40k players can only dream about. <br />
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Malifaux isn't a total replacement for ranks and flanks, but it is a game that scratches the need for a balanced, tactical, thinking person's game.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-85565484905826943292015-07-01T19:20:00.001-07:002015-07-02T08:02:56.744-07:00Upcoming Malifaux Events<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Terrain Building and shenanigans at the Brandt World Headquarters at<br />
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Come drink cold beverages and have lunch with the terrain masters of the Nova Open, and paint, paint, paint your way to terrain mastery. RSVP at NovaOpen@gmail.com<br />
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DATE: July 18, 2015<br />
PLACE: McLean, Virginia.<br />
SPACES: Limited and first come/first serve: First 32 40K players &
First 16 Malifaux players guaranteed. After that, we’ll start a wait
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It's food, music, and wargaming fun in the spirit of the original pre-Nova event. I know we're running out of space, so go to novaopenfoundation.org to reserve your space today. <br />
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<b>July 25th - Bel Air Games Nova Open Prep tournament!</b></h3>
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Yes, there's a lot of Nova Open to this update, but it's a tournament that will be running the first three rounds of the Nova's schemes and strats. If you want to get some practice in before the big event, this is the ideal time to do so. Fabulous prizes await!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-33346681583765593052015-02-25T08:09:00.000-08:002015-02-25T08:09:04.625-08:00Tournament at Bel Air Games rescheduledJust a note, we're holding the new Tournament on 3/7/15. <br /><br />Sorry about that, but the weather couldn't be helped. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-73954073689979515752015-02-20T10:38:00.001-08:002015-02-20T10:39:23.694-08:00Just a reminder: Tomorrow is Bel Air Game's 50ss Gaining Ground Tournament.<br />
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Bel Air Games<br />
1202 Agora Drive, Suite B<br />
Bel Air, MD 21014<br />
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Doors open at noon. Cards start flipping at 12:30pm. We'll be playing for three rounds.<br />
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There will be a Miss Ery as part of the top prize! There will be a prize for the best painted crew, but painting is optional! Beginners are welcome!<br />
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The store phone number is: 410-776-3491<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-30099452224757124982015-02-17T11:23:00.000-08:002015-02-17T11:23:55.678-08:00Game Four of Templecon will never be written about.I realize that I'm never going to really write a battle report of Templecon game four, not because I lost or anything, but merely because enough time has passed that I've forgotten all the salient details. It's the perils of having a mind like a steel trap: rusted, broken, and catching nothing. And I have no pictures of the game, so it's kind of a moot point. <br />
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Suffice to say that Corey and I had a great game, I ended up winning by a decent margin, and I took 6th in the tournament, which is the best placement I've had at an event so far. I'm fairly pleased, and that placing brought me back into the top ten in the US Malifaux Rankings. <br />
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But all that's a moot point, because time and tide wait for no man, woman, or nephelim of indeterminate gender! And I'm running a tournament! And not the Nova Open, but one held locally! It's this weekend, in fact!<br /><br><br /><br><br />
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The last two games were playing a master which with I wasn’t
familiar: Jack Daw. But the tables I was to play on featured something I don’t
usually encounter, namely Hazardous Terrain. And as Joe Girard mentioned in
this month’s Wyrd Chronicles (out today!), Hazardous Terrain adds a whole new
dimension to your games. It was a dimension that dear old Jack is more than
interested to explore, as he is a master of positioning and pushing, with the
ability to maneuver his and his enemy’s models via Writhing Torment.<br />
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The first game put me up against a Leviticus crew in a game of Headhunter, one
of the 2015 Gaining Grounds scenarios. Essentially, every significant model
that dies due to enemy action drops a head marker, and a (1) interact picks
that head up. There are other rules, but the nitty-gritty doesn’t matter, and I
trust you, gentle reader, to be capable of the research needed to delve into
the strategy’s finer details. Needless to say, engagement ranges factor into
your ability to interact, and it’s tough to collect scalps when a Teddy is
trying to eat your face. Speaking of Teddy, I was facing a finely tuned
Leviticus crew being run by “Jesus Ian.” Our battleground was a town square <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with large buildings on the flanks, a central
gallows, and hazardous terrain in the form of choking smoke. <br />
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I took Daw with Writhing Torment, Betrayer, and all the Curses, Ama no Zako
with Oathkeeper, Lady Liegia, 2 Drowned, 2 Crooked Men, and, last, but not
least, Jaakuna Ubume. <br />
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Ian brought Levi, with Pariah of Iron, Rusty Alyce, two Waifs, Abominations, a
Teddy, and possibly more, but since I have no pictures (round times were
short), I don’t recall. <br />
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It was Standard Deployment, Head Hunter, and I took Breakthrough (undeclared)
along with a declared Plant Evidence. Ian took Line in the Sand declared, and
Breakthrough undeclared. As for my choice of schemes, it seemed to make sense.
I know Daw isn’t that kill-oriented, but is the great wall of frustration.
Crooked Men are great at protecting and accomplishing schemes, and with
Hazardous terrain built into the board, Drowned seem ideal. It was my plan to
hook left with Daw and the main crew, and send a Crooked Man and Ama on the
right flank to accomplish schemes as a team. To that end, I moved most of my
models hard left at first, drawing Ian towards that side. When it came to my
second to last model, I activated Daw, cursing Ama with the Guillotine curse.
That, of course, does nothing to a Henchmen like Ama, but it does provide her
with a permanent Tormented Characteristic. So, she was able to push an
additional 3 inches on her initial movement, moving her an amazing 15 inches on
the first turn. Ian played Levi brilliantly, using the Teddy with its Regen 2
as a card draw engine and using the soon to be disposable aboms for the same
actions. Second turn saw Ian with a summoned Desolation Engine, and ready to
tear the heart out of my crew. I had gotten lucky with some lures, and I ended
up killing off Alyce before she became too great a threat, but with a Teddy and
a Desolation Engine in my face, with a Drowned and Jaakuna already dead, things
were looking grim. <br />
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It was at that point that I realized that Lady L is amazing. She does so much
by denying the enemy the ability to cheat. Terrifying goes from being an
annoyance to being an actual threat. Card drawing doesn’t really matter. Lady L
and Jack’s terrifying shut down the Desolation Engine and Teddy both. It was
great. I was able to get the Firing Squad curse off on the Engine, and I was
able to push him around, mostly into the hazardous terrain and out of combat. Levi
moved to my right to attempt to kill Ama, but I was saving high cards, and she
escaped wounded, but otherwise functional. The Crooked Man on the right also
was dropping and protecting markers with his zero, as was the crooked Man on
the left, who was sneaking around a building and was unable to be assailed. The
Lady/Daw bubble just absorbed a ton of flips, and kept upright because of the
no cheating lock down. Because of Daw’s and the remaining Drowned’s melee
range, Ian had no way of picking up heads, and I was able to push out of
combat, after forcing the Engine to abandon ideas of killing me. I picked up a
head marker with a Drowned, dropped scheme markers enough to get my six, and
had enough movement with Daw to kill one of his scheme markers for Line in the
Sand, denying him the points. <br />
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So, I'm back from Templecon, held every year right outside Providence in Warwick, RI. At six hours away, it was quite the haul. Trish and I went together, and it worked out well. Having a SO to go back to at the end of the evening made it a far different experience, for sure.<br />
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A variety of henchmen ran the events, with people trading off so that everyone could play in their favorite events.<br />
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I arrived late Thursday, and barring a 5 am fire alarm at my hotel (pro-tip to the person smoking at the pool at that time of the morning: those fire alarms are no joke), it was a good night's sleep. The next day (Friday), I rolled in at 11 for the Story Encounter, were I was blasted off the table in most instances. I just couldn't gain any traction at the event, but I still had a good time. The stories were interesting and varied, and played to an attacker/defender role that I'd like to incorporate into the Nova's Malifaux narrative.<br />
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Friday's Henchman Hardcore was great. We abandoned the 4 minimum rule, and so I played Ten Thunders Filth: Kang leading Ama w/Recalled Training and Izamu for Great Justice!<br />
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We did three rounds with me tying in rounds one and two (though I should have won two, but I was stupid). Ama was a star player in all three rounds, and should have won me round two (I "Promising whisper"ed a model to move to be killed by Kang, rather than telling it to go off out of the turf war area). Ama definitely won me round three by doing that exact same thing to the other player's Teddy. It's not often you can win Hardcore with just Strat points, but I did it. <br />
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On Saturday, we had a single model shootout called the Quick and the Dead. You could take any model, as long as it had an SH projectile attack. I was a bastard, and took Tara. Little did I know exactly how awfully good Tara was at a single model vs single model competition. As she was a master with six AP and a bury attack trigger, as soon as she hit you, and you failed that WP flip, you were buried. She was like an assassin. I felt awful, but I also won, so... Yeah. <br />
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After that, there was some lull time between that and the Gaining Grounds tournament at four. Someone wanted to play a practice game, and I got to pull out my Kirai crew. It was fun spirit slinging again, and I'm glad to see that I hadn't lost the zen of playing her. I barely needed to look at her cards, which was comforting. Sadly, we had to call the game to start the tournament. <br />
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The GG had 24 preregistered, 2 on the wait-list, and finally, 20 participants, so I'd be pretty pleased as a Tournament Organizer. <br />
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Round one was Extraction. I took Von Schill, as the player I was playing against was relatively new, and was using Guild. I assumed there would be a lot of shooting, but it seemed she was using models that her friends were letting her borrow, so it was somewhat of a hodgepodge list.<br />
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Ali was using Lady J, Sadir, a watcher, some death marshals, a stalker, and an austringer, I think.<br />
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I took VS w/ Shirt, Survivalist, and I Pay Better, Libby with Oathkeeper, Strongarm Suit with Oathkeeper, 2 Trappers, and Two Friekorpmen.<br />
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I took Assassinate and Frame for Murder on the Strongarm Suit. I placed my Trappers out on the flanks, where they had clear shots on everything (not much cover on the board), and formed up the Freibubble in the center to take the marker. Ali set her stuff up on the flanks, and kind of hesitated on coming in to the center. She got two models up there, so she starting gaining points, but I ended up picking people off pretty quickly. She moved Lady J up aggressively, but I was able to Strong Arm Suit her off the board, leaving me with just Sadir as an option to kill the Suit for full points. Sadly, it was not meant to be, and the Suit survived. 6-5, my favor.<br />
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Round Two took me up against Raul in Reckoning against Marcus. He also took a Cerberus, Joss, two Waldgeists, and a Soulstone Miner.<br />
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My list was Levi with Pariah of Iron, Unnatural Wasting, and two Waifs, a Deso Engine, Miss Step, Rusty with From Aether and Desolate Soul, and a Trapper. Assassinate was on Marcus and Frame for Murder was on Miss Step.<br />
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Raul moved his Cerberus right up on my right flank, threatening a next turn assault, or so I thought. The rest of his crew played cagily, and moved center with Miranda in the center, giving + flips to def to most of them.<br />
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I moved towards the lower center, and waited for him to blink, but to my surprise, Raul brought Marcus down to Alpha the Cerberus, and take on the Deso engine for a Murder Protege run. It was all going so well for Raul, until he forgot the Cerberus got + flips to damage as well. By the time he realized it, it was already into the next activation, and so the Deso engine lived on to slaughter the Cerberus and regain some lost health. I hit Miss Step and Rust with Levi's shooting cast to move them into position to take on Marcus after all his stuff had activated, so I was able to hit Marcus with the flurry from Miss Step. Sadly, the effects alll passed along to Waldgeists, and I had to hit Miss Step with Rusty's reactivate and wiffed against Marcus for that due to his ++def flips from Defensive and Miranda. As I got initiative, I flurried against the other waldgeist and I took that down quickly, leaving only Henchmen and Masters on the board, and Miss Step at 1 wound. Raul activated Miranda, she did her thing and shape changed into a Cerberus. I took Rusty's turn and gave Miss Step Reactivate again. The Cerberus leapt and took her down, giving me two more points, not the full three I was hoping for. Marcus activated, punched Joss, made him a beast and Alpha'ed Joss. Joss took the Alpha Turn, and moved next to Rusty. He then took his normal turn, and punched her dead. I then charged Joss with the Deso Engine, and took him down to one wound. Then, Joss got reactivate (since Alpha isn't a reactivate), and punched and paralyzed the Deso engine. I had some activation screw ups the next turn, but it came down to Joss taking down the Deso engine for three VP, and me killing him for Frame for Murder, and all in all, netting Raul six to my five VP, even though I had Marcus right next to Levi, and all I needed was for it to go into one more turn to get assassinate. Oh, well. 5-6, Raul's favor.<br />
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I'll finish this up tomorrow.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-5083681710137670422015-01-28T05:25:00.001-08:002015-01-28T11:47:00.545-08:00Painting and a Tournament!I've gotten more than a few models ready in the past few days:
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All these have been for Templecon and Adepticon after that. I'm nervous, as I haven't practiced enough with the majority of my Outcasts to truly get a feel for them. I might just work with the ones I do know (Tara and Von Schill) so that I can feel comfortable/be in the Zen of playing. In other words, I'll play with what I know well so that I can be thinking about the game/strats/schemes, rather than how my models work. Levi might see table time, but that depends on my mood.<br />
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In other news, I'm the henchman for <a href="http://belairgames.com/">Bel Air Games</a>, going on for six months now. I've run a league there, but I've never run a single day event/tournament. Well, as of 2/21/15, that's about to change. We're going to have a three round, 50ss <a href="http://wyrd-games.net/community/files/file/52-gaining-grounds/">Gaining Ground</a> Tournament.
We're relaxing the painting requirement, due to this being a new store/group and all, but the terrain should be awesome, the place is well stocked, and a Miss Ery is up for the prize pool for the top placer.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/371891592990142/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming">Here's a FB event notice for you if you'd want to join in!</a><br />
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Templecon is coming in 13 days, and I've got Levi, 3 Hollow Waifs, and a Desolation Engine to finish up before then. Wish me luck!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-25880926897995304932014-12-26T08:38:00.003-08:002014-12-26T08:38:37.927-08:00I graduated, and that means...... Malifaux is back on the menu!
I haven't been doing much related to gaming this past month or so. I have painted at least nine tiles from Tablescapes, so that's fun. My Black Friday order came in, though my Levi crew was missing Rusty Alyce's gun arm. :( Oh, well. I can still play with them, but I'll have to wait for the arm to fully commit to painting them.
So, following along with Cheatfates Joe and Adam, I've committed in 2015 to playing less Resurrectionist games in lieu of another faction. They both chose to learn Neverborn, and while I love my Pandora, I had another faction that I had a bit more complete...
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When I play for a competitive environment, I like limit my self to 2-3 masters from a faction at a time, because you really can't be in best practice mode unless you're concentrating and practicing a select set of masters. I'm also of the mind that if you can't find a solution for a particular scheme/strat combo from 2-3 masters, it's because you're not looking hard enough. So that being said, I'm looking at the following three Outcast masters as my start-up:
My First Choice: Leviticus
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Not a surprise here, considering the plastics just came out. The man who will not die is a huge monkey wrench to have to deal with, and he's also a summoner, a reliable damage source, and is just out and out flexible with his Pariah upgrades. If there's a crew you want to play, he can play it, and I have a ton of undead, constructs, and undead constructs to choose from. Yes, Joel Henry, including Mech Rider. :)
My Second Choice: Von Schill
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The man, the myth, the legend. The Hulkster himself. Von Schill's crew is tough, flexible, and able to get the job done. The Will Power bonus and the Not-Hard-to-Kill from a Legend to Live Up To make them so dependable. The Trapper gives them range, the Specialist gives them counter control, and the Librarian and Hanna bring the spells to the crew. You're going to be out activated, which is a shame, but give it a turn or two, and you'll likely turn than around. They shoot well, melee better, and are just all around murderous. Add the Strongarm Suit to that, and you have a ton of in theme options. And the immunity to blasts doesn't hurt.
Choice Number Three: Tara
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The ultimate schemer, now with scramble! Any master that has a possible six AP a turn is a one (un)person scheming crew. She's relatively crew agnostic, meaning you can take any model you need, give it fast, and then let it go. If a clutch model gets in trouble, give it fast and bury it. She's able to pull off some really unexpected stuff, and can surprise an opponent unfamiliar with her. I've purchased the smoke version of her, and I'm hoping to get her painted better.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-70910692435772897662014-11-08T12:30:00.000-08:002014-11-08T12:30:00.088-08:00Preparing for the Con Season to StartSo, I'm primarily a Resurrectionist player for Malifaux, and I feel like I've been missing some important support models from my stable of go-to models. Namely, Bête Noir, and Chiaki the Niece. Bête is the hidden punishment threat that make people reconsider who they want to kill and where, and Chiaki brings much needed condition removal and stable healing to the crew, plus (with a 1 pt upgrade) she's a source of slow for the opposing crew. AP management is king, and forcing a walk instead of a charge can mean the difference between life and death of a model.
And I think you'll agree that Bête is also a fairly neat model. I wanted to limit the colors I used in the model to make it cleaner and more striking. I also used Privateer Press colors for the first time, though I didn't see any real difference between them and the Vallejo I usually use. Perhaps those who are better painters can point out the reason they're better.
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Also, from the Sage Old Painters Advice Department: if you're not getting any thing to come from the dropper bottle of paint, clear the neck of the stopper. Do not do what I did, or else all your Vallejo Scorpion Green will explode onto your palette, your clothes, and everything else. That is <b>not</b> recommended.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-45331666198476111562014-11-07T09:08:00.001-08:002014-11-07T09:08:13.076-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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23 days til the <a href="https://twitter.com/NOVAOpen">@novaopen</a>. 4 days of 'faux. Singles, Doubles, Story, Hardcore and Enforcer Brawl. <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinLaloGibbs">@JustinLaloGibbs</a>, too. Reg now!<br />
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<br /><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br /><br />What that guy said.<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745460225020787017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5355172741692213349.post-88560777806127384242014-02-23T10:52:00.001-08:002014-02-23T10:52:13.768-08:00Terrain Building for the NOVA Open<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My friend, Maht Crestborn, and I are going to be event leads at the<a href="http://www.novaopen.com/"> 2014 Nova Open</a>.<br /><br />We'll be running all the Malifaux events there, and I'm excited. We have at least two tournaments to plan, a few other events, and not a lot of time to do it. We're really looking forward to bringing a great series of events to one of the fastest growing conventions on the Eastern seaboard.<br /><br />Add to that my prep work for Adepticon and Gencon, and I'm a busy bee. I really looking forward to this year's con season.</div>
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Well, if you follow my blog, and apparently 30 of you do, you might have seen the above image before. It's my first of the Dreamforge Leviathans I picked up, and it's proudly in the case at <a href="http://www.titangamesandhobbies.com/">Titan Games and Hobbies</a>.<br /><br />I've had my second Levi just sitting in it's box, and I haven't touched it all. And then these came in:<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since the painted Levi was at the store, I decided to assemble the one that was at home. I pulled out my <a href="http://poweredplay.net/">LED kits</a> and got to work. Sadly, there's just not enough room in the guns or torso for a full 9v to fit into it, so I had to order the mini-ones from the kit maker. Thus, the torso lights are still a work in progress.<br /><br />But the guns work.<br /><br /></div>
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We played with huge amounts of cover, which killed my LoS with Raspy, and it really hamstrung me. Most of the schemes flipped were counter to the main strat, and so I felt up against the wall from the get go. Turn three saw Vik of Blood in base contact with 'tina, and only a Golem and the Essence of Power were left.<br /><br />At that point I conceded rather than waste both our times.<br />
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I was somewhat stumped as how to paint Misaki and her crew, when it occurred to me that they are the midnight assassins of the Oyabun's forces in Malifaux. They strike from the the smoke and shadows, literally. So, I thought about painting them in the in a half lit hard shadowed OSL, something I've never attempted before. And it's obvious from my first attempt that I need some refinement.</div>
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Moving onto firmer ground here, I also whipped up a more standard model, that of the December Acolyte. It's a great model, and I really wish there was an alternate of it, as I'd love to have two in the crew, and I don't want to have clones in my forces. That's why I spent so much time converting my Gaki. The December Acolyte, however, is far too mono-pose for someone of my meager talents to convert. I'll likely proxy the second one until they come out with a new plastic model.</div>
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I really like how they all turned out. Thank you, every Hollywood movie poster/Battlefield cover for my color scheme for the Essence of Power. :) It might be tried and true, but it sure does pop.<br /><br />I'm going to go back and do some more work on the bamboo on the bases of the Gamin/Golem, but for now, they're playable.<br />
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Jeff and I ended up playing a 50ss game.<br />
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Izamu the Armor (Aura of Decay)</div>
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Grave Spirit</div>
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Shikome</div>
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Onryo</div>
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Onryo</div>
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7 Stones</div>
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Jeff's List, from what I recall:</div>
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Vik of Ash</div>
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Vanessa</div>
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Student of Conflict</div>
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Taelor</div>
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Friekorps Librarian</div>
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A great game. It ended during the 5th turn, with me getting approximately 3 points, and Jeff getting 5 due to him actually killing things during a Reckoning Game. Odd that.<br /></div>
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><u>An error I made: someone pointed out to be that if I marked my own models with the Feast trigger, that the gaki summoned would be under my **opponent's** control. </u></span></span><br />
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