Peace Was Never an Option

  Round 4! We’re doing another GG All strategy with Corrupted Ley Lines. You have a Lodestone Token you are trying to end the round in contact with a strategy marker – one in the middle of each table quarter and one in the centre. Models with the Lodestone can’t be placed (but can be pushed). The schemes and my initial thoughts are as follows:   Catch and Release – You need a minion to get within 1” of the enemy Master and then run away to survive the game. I am very sceptical of the ability of most Bayou minions (at least in the keywords I have) to survive to the end of the game when the opponent knows that killing them will deny a point. Load ‘em Up – Again, this looks okay for marker crews. Both Mah and Angler can put out a silly amount of markers. Sabotage – Two scheme markers near a chosen terrain piece with no enemy models nearby during the game, then one near it with no enemy scheme markers at the end. There’s a lot of terrain that you can try and score this w...

Wow, was it really five months ago that I was definitely, absolutely going to start focusing on Resurrectionists as my entrance point into Malifaux and start playing? Suffice to say that life got in the way. Between a move, some major career challenges and some family issues I've not been able to get many more games in. I have at least continued to make hobby progress! Urami are completely painted (I even got my hands on that Undertow box, woo!), Angler are fully painted, I got my hands on Transmortis and I'm about halfway through there. Finally making my gross zombie dreams a reality. And I've taught myself to use Vassal. Or at least, I've started that process. There is a new gaming store opening close to me in the near future and I figure if I want to play more Malifaux I'm going to have to build the community I want to see in the world. So, after sitting down and playing a few hotseat games so I can not completely embarrass myself (only mostly embarrass myself) I...

I have finally settled (I think?) on Resurrectionists as the faction I'm going to try and use to learn the game. They definitely aren't the faction I have the most built and painted for! My current collection looks like: Bayou Kin (all built and painted) Tricksy (mostly built and painted - need to do the Bayou Engineering and Mah Tucket title box) Angler (all built, mostly painted - need to paint Uncle Bogg and Buckaroos) Emissary (built and painted) Bayou Starter (not painted) Explorer's Society EVS (mostly built and painted - need to do the Harpooners and Tidecaller) Syndicate (all built, mostly painted - need to paint 2 drudges, Catalan Brawler and 2 Surveyors) Wanderlust (built and painted, who doesn't love Lara Croft and a mechanical goat?) Neverborn Fae (all built, mostly painted - need to paint the Bultungin and Rougarou. Do not yet own the title box or the Waldgeist.) Nekima2 (Got her with the Molly title box, painted) Resurrectionists Forgotten (All built and ...

There are plenty of games out there, what is it that has attracted me to Malifaux in particular? Well, firstly there's the miniatures. Malifaux minis are notorious for being hard to assemble and that is certainly true; I have struggled to assemble mine without some vary obvious gaps at times, the instructions are often unclear or straight up bad, and some of them are genuinely mind-boggling to make. HOWEVER. They are also some of the most fun and dynamic miniatures I've had the pleasure of painting. They aren't all wins, but Malifaux minis are often dripping with character and even the relatively boring standard human characters wind up having something to enjoy in them. Even if I don't manage to get regular games, I've enjoyed my time painting the miniatures a lot - and I am very definitely not a pro level painter. (I've always seen my painting as 'fancy colouring in' and I am comfortable with the level I get to for something I do primarily as relaxatio...

It's a lovely Monday morning and I am a horrible goose. A bit of an introduction to me and what this blog is supposed to be about! I go by the internet handle of A Goose. I am 35 years old (at time of writing), and I have played miniatures games in some form or another for over 20 years. As I suspect is most common I began with Warhammer 40,000 and through my teenage years and 20s that was more or less all I played. I have a vivid memory of standing in the local Games Workshop as a kid with my parents and desperately wanting to start collecting a Warhammer Fantasy undead army (skellingtons are cool) but the shop staff convincing them that 40k was the simpler game and so we walked out with a starter box for that instead. I bounced around game systems (and the country) a lot over the years. The first games I wanted to take vaguely competitively were Infinity and Marvel Crisis Protocol, though technically my first tournament experience was with Wild West Exodus where I took 3rd place ...