Peace Was Never an Option

    Browsing the Wyrd forums for the first time in a while following the errata announcement, I noticed that there was an event coming up in my old stomping grounds this weekend! The Big Bayou Bash. Well, I’ve been playing Bayou, so it felt like fate. Time to participate in my first Malifaux tournament face to face! It was great to return to return to a place where I used to regularly compete in wargaming events. That was five years, three game systems, two cities and one whole gender ago, so a lot had changed. I’d finished up my final MWS game the previous evening (more on that soon) and excited to play more Ophelia. I wasn’t necessarily expecting to take many (or any) wins – Malifaux is a very complex game and even after a dozen or so games I’m still very much finding my feet – but I went in with the goal of having three fun games and at least making my opponents work for their points, which for the most part I think I managed. I was also the only Bayou player at the B...

  Round 3! This time we’re playing Break the Line, similar to Symbols of Authority in setup but you have to move the markers into the opponent’s table half at 2” a time. If you get them 8” or more over the line they are worth two, and as is common you need more markers than you have scored VPs to score VPs. The schemes (and my initial thoughts) are: Research Mission – This seems okay for marker based crews. Scheme marker, corpse/scrap marker, one of your crew’s markers in the same place and you can score the first point. Three models alive on the enemy table half and within 2” of a different marker type also feels doable, so long as your opponent doesn’t bring a ton of marker removal. Detonate Charges – Two scheme markers within 2” of the same enemy model, that seems like a False Claim dream but keeping Sly alive to the end of the game when they know that’s what you’re going for doesn’t seem likely. Just bringing him at all probably signals he needs to die before he can mak...