Massaen

Haha!!! My first convert to the awesome world of Malifaux!!! Nice one mate!

Decided to magnetise the arachnids so i can swarm or scatter them at will... I used 3mm magnets in the spiders and 6mm in the bases. It means i can hold the base upside down and not have the spiders fall off!

Thing is, in the 5 or so games i have played with the starter set i have NEVER been able to get the grow spell off. It simply becomes an opportunistic thing to do rather then basing your strategy on it. I find the highercards are better played when you hit the enemy lines and using sprint then trying to get the grow off. As for adding to her crew, i find Candy very cool

see for me with the Viks, i have found... Awesome - Taelor, Gunslinger, Ronin, hamelin Average - Misaki, Johan, Hans underwhelming - Bishop, Kill Joy Taelor is relatively cheap, durable and very dangerous. The gunslinger is great for card control. The ronin is cheap bang for buck and can be used to revive a Vik if needs be. Hamelin is a great board control caster. Misaki is good in melee but a touch to easy to drop. Johan is a cheaper less durable version of Taelor. Hans is a great threat but a little pricey and tends to deal very little damage. Killjoy is to expensive to summon in a crew of expensive models (though hamelin plus a cheap gremlin can work). Bishop though is the worst... slow, low damage, expensive, hugely subjective to get any use from. While i own Bishop i have only used him a few times and have been underwhelmed each go...

Thing is, while they did offer options and suggestions, the letter was heavy handed and rather blunt. Bascially its bad PR. I have spent 10 years in the Advertising and Printing game and can say that what they did was in their legal rights but not at all the way to engage a base of fans of your product. GW have let the fans generate the LRB for a number of years and help develop the game and now want to take back control of the IP. Fair enough but it could have been done in a much friendlier way so as to keep the fans on their side

as long as you have 1 tome you can SS the total up to meet the construct spider. Also, salvage under fire gets the tokens

Thing is guys, while it sucks and was handled badly, GW must protect their IP like any company or risk loosing the copy write. If you don't protect it and are seen to protect it then its all bad. It could have been handled in a much friendlier way but this is what happens when you open the cage door for the lawyers... My guess is there is a legal case pending somewhere and GW need to be able to stand up and say they are protecting their IP...

i found pinning either impossible - just used locktight instead!

hamelin can be great since he allows you to access any HT1 model... adding candy (9SS though) can be great! Kill joy should really almost never be used unless you sacrifice the totem - outcasts are too expensive! I find Bishop hugely underwhelming. Hans at 8 is ok at 30SS but a touch too pricey at 25. The gunslinger is great. Taelor is just nasty! Misaki looks great on paper but i never have much luck with her spells... I have yet to try the ronin but on paper they look great

Candy was heaps of fun to paint - especially the pink - been along time since i used titillating pink! I am amazed everyone likes the tots! They are the ones i was considering re-doing! Pandora is the one i am most proud of - my first go at source lighting on a single mini...

The purple is all GW... Based with liche 1st highlight - 70/30 liche to warlock 2nd - 50/50 liche to warlock 3rd - warlock wash with GW purple wash they have more definition in real life - might be the lighting...

Here we go... Hans cause i like him plus the better part of 2 neverborn starters... C&C appreciated!

The intent of the Podcast has always been GW games... but occasionally we get bonus eps done which is what i am hoping for... But since it seems to be every 7th ep i show up on it might not be till the new year!

That will teach me to skim read threads at work while ducking the boss... Sorry!

I can take credit for that! Mike Basc here - aka Massaen. Link - http://worldsendradio.com/?p=133 I am a guest host with the show and JJ (one of the main hosts) and I have really gotten into the Malifaux world and game. I will be applying for henchmen status shortly and trying to get luke to give us an ep devoted to this awesome game.

Figured while i wait for my crews (god Aust Post is slow) i would do up my starter table for the henchmen program. Its a 3x4 board with a 1x3 section blacked out for cards, decks, models and soul stones plus has a quick reference sheet attached. The board itself is not textured but layered with blacks and browns to give the feel of it without making it unduely heavy or rough on models. The terrain is a sample (old and new) but you get the idea... Thoughts appreciated!

Sorry but its any failed WP duel - not just moral duels... so everytime your in range of a sorrow or pandora and you get hit with pacify, incite or any other spell which starts a WP->WP duel you need to win or take damage

It was great! This was our first 2 master game and we kept the SS low as we are short on mini's. Its also the first game i have won in the last dozen or so!!! Lilith is a beast and when i used whirlwind it was make or break. I flipped an ace against perdita's 13, the black joker against lady J and my heart sank. Then i managed 2 x 13's and the red joker against fransisco... hell nasty. I lost the nephilim in a stupid move - i should have done the transposition later in the first turn but got so excited about using lilith... live and learn. The narrative was just a nice way of telling the story... next time i will have pics...

Perdita eyed off the abandoned church warily. The rain coming down hurt visibility which only made things worse. She knew the neverborn would come, they always did when soulstone was around, and the dilapidated church before her had a large stash in the crypts below if the rumours were true. Stood beside Perdita was a figure of dread in Malifaux – Lady Justice. Perdita had requested her assistance to secure the stones from the site and the Lady had readily agreed. Perdita hid a smile. She knew that the Lady would come before she had been asked – the Resurrectionists would seek the stones as well and that made good bait for the Lady and her marshalls. Perdita motioned for her family to spread out. She watched Nino run towards an old guild guard tower and start to climb it with an almost insect like quality. Papa Loco trailed in Ninos wake, singing a song to himself. ‘Maybe this will be easy’ she thought to herself. Then all hell broke loose. She watched as Nino was bathed in an eerie purple light though he seemed unaware of the glow around him, so intent on finding his next hand hold on the difficult climb he had started. The light flashed around him and in that instant he was gone. Perdita blinked away the silhouettes on her vision and the true horror of the light became apparent. In Nino’s place, its dagger like claws sunk deeply into the wall where her cousin had been was a creature from the worst of human nightmares. The Nephilim was huge, at least 12 feet tall by Perditas reckoning. ‘NEVERBORN!’ yelled Perdita, drawing her peacemaker and advancing on the creature. Papa Loco seemed to come out of his daydream at the sound of his enemies name. Laughing manically he charged the monster with a stick of dynamite in each hand. He reached the bottom of the tower as the sticks went off. The tower rocked but stayed upright with the blast. Huge chunks of flesh were ripped from the Nephilim and the creature roared in pain. Papa Loco faired little better – he lay dazed and barely conscious. Perdita’s peace bringer spoke and more black blood poured from the fiendish monster. Badly wounded it took flight back across the high walls surrounding the church. Perdita cursed fearing the creature would come back with others of its kind. The tell tale rattle of Ninos rifle and the roar turned gurgle spoke of the creatures foul end. Perdita punched the air in triumph but her smile was lost at the blood curdling scream which was unmistakably Nino’s. The scream was cut short abruptly and Perditas blood turned cold. The rain had eased now with nothing but a mist in the air. Perditas keen eyes caught movement in the gloom and a small child – a girl of 5 or 6 years old emerged. Behind her a dark green apparition hovered, its malice tangible in the magic rich area. The girl smiled a cruel grin at Perdita. “My friends are coming to kill you” she giggled. Horrified at the ancient evil before her, Perdita watched dumb founded as the child whispered a spell. As the words ended she watched papa loco sit up, still in a stupor. He held a lit stick of dynamite in his hands. He seemed mesmerised by the flickering fuse and a heart beat later the explosive went off. Shaprnel scoured Perdita, tearing at her clothes. Papa Loco had faired far worse – he lay in a spreading pool of his own blood. ‘BITCH!’ cried Perdita and her peace bringer spoke again, joined by Lady Justice and her Marshalls own fire arms. The mists and low light obscured the creatures demise but the tell tale black blood where the child had been spoke of her end. Perdita reloaded her weapon, her heart racing. Fransico joined her in the gloom, flanked by the 3 marshalls. Fransico started to go to Papa but Perdita waved him back. She knew they had more pressing matters. Perdita watched Lady Justice – she seemed to sense something from the other side of the church. Lady Justice spun in the gloom, her great sword flashing from its scabbard. The huge weapon intercepted the carving knife aimed at her back. Again Perdita was amazed to see a child, this one no more then a year or so old. It held a large carving knife in one hand and a toy teddy bear hung under the wicked childs other arm. A faint trickle of blood dripped from the teddy bears eyes and the childs smile was enough to even give the death marshalls pause as they closed on their mistresses attacker. The pause in their stride was all the neverborn needed. While the guilds forces focused on the nightmare child, the Mistress of Monsters descended on them and the blood letting began. Perdita saw her first. A vision of seductive beauty, Lilith strode out of the gloom. The mammoth great sword sitting on her shoulder seemed too large for her to even carry and the wicked sharp edge gleamed in the dim light. Before Perdita could draw a bead on the evil witch, Lilith swung her sword in a great arc. Perdita ducked, the huge weapon passing over her head by barely an inch. Lady Justice avoided the weapon as well, her incredible hearing obviously catching the sound of the great weapon cutting the mist around it. Fransico and the Death Marshalls were not as lucky. One Death Marshall avoided the blow but the others were almost cut clean in half. Blood sprayed from the hideous wounds, raining on the combatants like hell itself watched the carnage. The baby giggled with glee at the grizzly demise of the Marshalls. Perdita did not care one bit about them – but Fransisco was another matter. Her brother lay beside the Marshalls, his body still. It was hard to see if he too had suffered the same fate as those beside him but he would take no further part in the fight today. Perditas fury knew no bounds. She lashed out the neverborn witch before her. Lilith moved with amazing speed, deflecting bullets with her blade or simply moving so fast that the bullet passed through air where she had once stood. Black blood dotted the ground and Perdita took hope – at least the bitch could bleed. Lady justice joined the fray, intend on taking down the neverborn in revenge for the loss of the marshalls. The last marshall joined the fray as well though Lilith seemed not to care. She laughed as they fought – a mocking laugh though Perdita could tell Lilith was pressed. More black blood flowed and a brief lull in the combat showed Lilith was sorely wounded. Only now in the lull did Perdita see the real threat – Pandora. The young woman emerged from the gloom, a small box cradled in her arms – a faint purple glow radiating from it. She glanced at the last Death Marshall and Perdita watched horrified as he raised his peace bringer pistol to his temple and calmly pulled the trigger. The crack of the shot echoed and the Marshall slumped to the floor. The baby pounced at once onto the corpse, drinking the fresh red blood flowing from the vicious wound. Lady Justice renewed her attack on Lilith, hoping to destroy the monster but it was no use. Lilith parried each blow in turn, finally stepping inside a missed attack and impaling the lady on the great sword. Perdita was alone. Surrounded and outnumbered, Perdita felt despair enter her. She knew it was that cursed box that Pandora held which caused these feelings but she could not break the spell. Perdita felt her hand move of its own will. She struggled to regain control as the hand holding her peace bringer moved towards her own temple. The gun was pressed against her temple now and Perdita screamed in frustration and the gun fired. The crack of the weapon was loud, so close to her ear it deafened her. Her vision blurred and she felt herself falling. Then blackness took her. Perdita was amazed when she woke. She was sure the bullet should have killed her. Checking her head she found her hair matted with blood but the bullet had only grazed her temple, knocking her unconscious. Slowly, she staggered to her feet and recovered her weapon which lay a few feet away. Methodically she reloaded it, fearing the neverborn were still about and she felt better for having the weapon back on her hip. Checking the others she found Fransico alive but only barely. His chest wound would take a long time to heal but at least he would. Lady Justice also stirred nearby, the wound to her stomach still dripping blood. Perdita moved to where Papa Loco had fallen and was amazed that he too lived. He had almost no hair from the blast that had felled him and was covered in grazes and cuts from the shrapnel but otherwise looked like he was sleeping. He snorted silently in his unconscious stupor and Perdita breathed a sigh of relief. As Perdita moved to find Nino, her emerged from the church, his left arm hung at his side and blood covered his left side and face. He cracked a grin. ‘Looks like we got caught with our pants down this time eh!’ Perdita smiled to herself. The family would be ok. She found Lady Justice in the old church. The crypts had been looted and no trace of any of the precious soul stones could be found. ‘You win some, you loose some I guess’ said Perdita ‘but at least we can walk away from this one.’ “I wish it were that simple” said the Lady, “but they got far more then just the stones…” It was only then that Perdita noticed that Lady Justice looked different. A length of hair had been taken from her head – from the scalp no less, no doubt while unconscious. ‘If the neverborn did that, why not just kill us?’ asked Perdita. Justice shook her head. “I don’t know for sure… but there are tales about the swamp witch and voodoo magic…” Game wise it was as follows... 2 Masters – 30SS Pandora, Lilith, Mature Nephilim, Kade, Candy, 2 Sorrows (9 cache) Perdita, Lady J, 3 Death marshalls, Papa Loco, Fansico, Nino (6 cache) Played on a 3x3 table Guild – Claim Jump, Hold out (unannounced), guild only (announced) Neverborn – Claim Jump, Bodyguard (Lilith), Kidnap (Lady J) Turn 1 Mature Neph carries Lilith forward Nino starts climbing tower Lilith walks, swaps nino with nephilim then walks into B2B with nino Papa loco uses take ya with me at nephilim – bam! Perdita shots at Neph reducing it to 1 wound. All other models begin moving towards centre building Turn 2 Mature Neph flys back to within 2” of candy Nino disenganges from Lilith and kills mature neph Candy advances and uses self loathing on papa loco, killing him and wounding perdita Perdita kills Candy Pandora uses multiple WP attacks on nino to advance and causes 4 wounds in the process Lilith charges nino, kils him and then walks up to beside Pandora All other models advance – guild form up in a close formation Turn 3 Lady J charges sorrow kills it Kade charges lady J but does no damage Death Marshalls charge kade but he lives! Lilith walks once through a wall, uses whirlwind – kills 2 death marshals, fransico but perdita and Lady J are unharmed Perdita attacks Lilith but does little damage Pandora walks twice to climb a wall then uses pacify on Lady J, and self harm to seriously damage her with the help of the sorrow Turn 4 Lilith kills lady j Perdita reduces Lilith to 4 wounds Pandora WP’s perdita down and uses free moves to get onto claim jump Last marshal wounds kade Kade wills marshal Neverborn – 8Vps vs Guild – 1Vp

I am in the same boat as an earlier poster... its a club scene here in West Aus! Plenty of people interested though - expect my application when the next starter box shows up!

Ice golem in 1 charge... 3 of the ortaga crew in 1 charge...

But they are very killable as well. Its easy to over extend and get swamped. The zero cost is balanced by the higher cost of the merc models. I have killed many things in 1 round with the Vik's but at the same time charged in, epic failed and had them die due to lack of suppoort

due to the activation process and individual missions, 3 players work very well!

I would as well - though the exchange rate ATM means i am better off buying from the US or UK!!! Malifaux is developing quite a little following - i know around a dozen people with crews here which, when the clubs are between 30 and 50 people and most of them overlap, is quite good given we still do not have our minis!!! I WANT MY VIKTORIAS!!!

Viks with SS are just nasty. I have run mine with 0,2 or 3. 0 makes you play very carefully since you can't modify much - you take whats in your hand. 2 and 3 gave me more room to move in terms of damage and healing. Personally though, in 25SS i will run with none and get the extra crew At 30 or 35 it might be different...