Peace Was Never an Option

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Salute 2025, and as is tradition this is when I stop and reconsider what my hobby goals for the year are going to be. At the start of the year I said to myself that I was going to commit to Bayou and finish up the crews I don’t yet own. But! Malifaux is a game with more variety between factions (and even crews within factions) than any other game I’ve played. On a long enough timeline, I suspect I’m going to wind up with everything sooner or later. That is, unfortunately, how my brain works. Way back in August 2024, before I had started in the MWS at all, I noted that I thought it was weird there was so little Arcanist representation, because every time I hear people talk about Arcanists they talk about how solid they are. That has remained true ever since, both in the MWS and according to the Bag of Tools data across the UK as well. People just aren’t playing Arcanists and I don’t get it! Witness has had a few nerfs, but I still think that...

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...