Hi,
It’s mid-May and in the last month I have only made one
purchase for Malifaux to add to Sonnia’s crew, a Guild Executioner. I found that I would like to have a brute, a
damage soaker, to control the center of the board. My attempts to do that with Sam Hopkins,
Witchling Stalkers, or the Witchling Handler resulted in unfavorable, but fun
results. I believe the Executioner will
help with this. To go with the
Executioner I bought some 40 mm bases from Secret Weapon Miniatures, the Trench
works ones. They’ll match the theme I have
for the rest of the minis, which also have the trench work bases. In the near future, I will want to apply some
green stuff to the model. The mini has a
pair of severed hands dangling from his belt, which kind of breaks my
rule/desire to have miniatures I’m ok with showing to my kids. I intend to make them into pouches, should be
simple enough.
In other modeling news I made a little bit more progress
with the Sonnia Crid avatar and the Witchling Handler, but they still need more
paint.
In game playing, I missed a big tournament in New England
for Malifaux, held at the Game Castle in Londonderry, NH. I had other plans that conflicted, however I
did get to play 3-4 times this past month.
Once was even a 4-player game that was great. I got crushed, but the story was good and I’ll
get to it in a minute.
My friend Mike, an avid player/collector of Malifaux, keeps
bringing different crews against me, some guy with a top hat and mechanical spider-things,
someone Pandora with a bunch of ghosts, someone with a bunch of rats, and some
ugly lady in a swamp. Obviously I pay
great attention to the details such as names and techniques so I can master it
later, not. Nah, we play fun games and
enjoy the event. I make slight
variations to my list of Sonnia, but it remains similar for now as I learn more
about the schemes and strategies. Some
work well and others are disasters.
In the 4-player game we started in corners, with a hidden
desire to get to a set campfire for extra victory points. The game quickly became 2 games of 1 on 1 for
the first few turns since we ended up wanting the opposing person’s campfire. I
ended up clashing with some Resurrectionist who kept taking bone corpse
counters to summon more opponents. I
used the 1 point skill to allow Sonnia to create Witchling Stalkers from dead
opponents. It was a crazy battle, I
started with 7 figures and had 14 die and 1 survive the game! My main opponent
of this game had 15 die, unfortunately there were more. It was a great story and a great game. I’ve never seen a Malifaux game turn into
such a blood bath. Combined we had 9 die and 6 get created on Turn 3 alone. Anyway,
I recommend trying the multi-player scenarios or making some up.
Take care.
-Dave
Take care.
-Dave
