So tonight we are celebrating the 2nd birthday of a great local store opening. 30 hours of straight gaming (apparently) and cake (first come, fist served). We will be heading down later with a bunch of Malifaux on the cards. Demo games and hopefully some organised play.
There will also be demo games of Dead Man’s Hand, In Her majesty’s Name and 7TV and lots of board games.
Their Facebook page is here, give ’em a like!
Watch out later for pics.
In a Reckoning on a relatively cluttered board we set up facing each other. McCabe with the guilds best tech against the Viks with a hodgepodge of recruits after soul stones and payment.
Schemes:
Bodyguard
Protect Territory
Plant Evidence
Cursed Object
Crews:
Outcasts
Vik of Ash
Vik of Blood
Taelor
Johan
Ronin
Void Wretch
Desperate Merc
Specialist
Student of Conflict
Guild
Lucas McCabe – Starngemetal Shirt, Glowing Sabre, Invigorated by Adventure
Lone Marshall – Lead Lined Coat
Peacekeeper
Austringer
2 Riflemen
Warden
With a small crew my idea was to have as few models as possible available to be killed each turn to minimise the points earned by Mark. It was a trial list to see how McCabe could hold up (he did great with regen 2, Armor 2 and 15 wounds between mounted and dismounted). With the opposing right flank loosely held a quick shift by all models sent them to hold the centre and advance on the right, luring Johan up and atacking and paralyzing him with McCabe. The specialist promtly removed it and for his trouble was targetted by a rifleman and in turn 2 was pulled into base contact with the Peacekeeper.
The void wretch attacked and buried Taelor after giving her Fast. I was in no position to kill anything as Taelor would pop out immediately. With the sisters sweeping round the left flank a Dragon’s Bite from Vik of Ash and a follow up attcak from Blood killed the Lone Marshall who was a bit concerned when Taelor popped out. The austringer sent his raptor to hit the Student for 2 wounds.
Taelor ran into the Warden thinking him a soft target but with a Grinding defense was able to only inflict 2 damage.
Turn 3 saw the the specialist on 1 wound give a cursed object to the Peacekeeper before being killed by the Warden. he blew up giving the Warden, taelor, the Peacekeeper and a rifleman Burining +2. Mccabe finished off a dying Johan and placed a scheme marker before throwing Regen +2 onto the Peacekeeper. Taelor charged the Peacekeeper and took him down to 3 wounds. The rest of the Outcasts moved forward and dropped scheme markers. Vik of Blood finished off the Peacekeeper. Vik of Ash was taken down 3 wounds by a rifleman.
Turn 4 seen Vik of Blood charge McCabe and just fail to kill him even with Red Joker damage on the last attack. McCabe repaid the favour by knocking Blood down to 2 wounds. Vik of Ash killed the Austringer.
In the final turn Vik of Blood unseated McCabe from his horse but by then it was too late. A quick thrust with his sabre and he walked over to claim a marker for Plant Evidence. Taelor failed to kill the last Rifleman and he finished her off scoring a Strategy point for the Guild.
Final score: 6-4 win for Outcasts.
Set up
Turn 1 – Advancement
Turn 2 – the action
Woods for Trees?
The Final marker
So Justin has went and done it. The latest set of changes have been released for Malifaux Wave 2. A summary of changes can be found attached.
Looking forward to trying out the Hunter and the Warden with some Guild Masters. Looks like the hunter can finally be useful. The same goes for the Exorcist. With Wk going from 3″ to 5″ he has got a speed burst and looks pretty useful in a Justice crew or any crews going against the Resurrectionists.
Also of note is the slight point increase on the Drowned. These guys are going to be a good summoning choice for Molly crews with their Wrapped in chains ability giving them essentially +2DF in Ml and Resilient to give them better than Armor+2 since this does not get negated by abilities which ignore armor.
So, I have had enough of building my own websites to run blogs and trying to update a plethora of WordPress sites for dedicated gaming channels so I will try and keep everything here.
Mostly it will be Malifaux-centric, beacause, let’s face it, I’m a Henchman for Wyrd, and the game is fantastic. With a new shiny edition, new stat cards, abilities for the first wave of models and the Public Beta of Wave 2 now up and running, what’s not to get excited about?
We do play other games however, both board and tabletop. My Bushido has just shipped from Wayland Games after only 36 days. Not hours. Days. Sure, they have stock issues but it was left to me to get in touch with them. The stock indication level was green so I assumed it was in stock. But this is not a rant, right? No hate.
Add into the mix various other systems, of particular love to me is Epic:Armageddon and Dystopian Wars. And maybe a little Warmahordes thrown in for kicks.
So, hopefully this will be a regularly updated blog about our endeavours in my local gaming group with some input from the other guys. For now, see you on the flip side.
D.