LAZtheinfamous

Mine is in two parts; 1. LAZ is my real nickname, I use it so much that I'm pretty sure that some of my wife's family doesn't know my first name. 2. The infamous, this is a long part. It all has to do with 'The Three Amigos', which was my favorite film as a kid. Quoth: Martin Short: What does infamous mean? Steve Martin: You know, he's more then famous. So famous that he's in famous. Pretty unique and pretty much guaranteed not to be taken wherever I go.

I dunno. It seems to me that every few years there is a 'rebirth' of skirmish level games. I just think that they disappear for a while. Old ones die, new ones take over. When I got started in wargaming, it was Battletech. There were typically only four or five models on the table. I started with the big army games because of Necromunda, which was skirmish level. I left the hobby for a few years, and got back in due to Mordheim and Bloodbowl, which were huge at my LGS. Then a lapse. Now, Bloodbowl has come back into favor at my new LGS, and Malifaux is becoming the next thing. The problem with skirmish level games, though, is that they have such a small base. With just the initial buy in, you have all you ever need. There's often no reason to buy more. That's what keeps the big dogs in business. You will always need more or different giant troop units. The problem with skirmish games is that if you buy all the different options, and even spam them all, eventually you have it all. Then the company is sitting there with a bunch of models people won't buy and they go away. I think that is why many games that start out as skirmish level (40K, Warmachine, etc) and grow to army games is for that very reason. It's hard to stay in business when everyone who wants to play has all they need. Rules don't expire (I'm still happily playing D&D 3.0 and haven't spent a cent on D&D in years!), and models only need replacement if they get lost or a better one comes out. So that's what I'm dreading is the day that I have to have a big box of plastic gremlins for my Som'er Teeth Jones crew, or they disappear because there are no sales. Cause a mini isn't just for today, its forever.

Well, I guess I'm a bit different. I usually buy a bunch of stuff all at once, and build/convert/whatever first. So I will play with models that are fully painted and some that are just assembled with no paint. I try to get them all up to snuff before a game, but I'm not going to worry too much about it. Most of the people I play with are hardcore dudes when it comes to the game. Most have never touched a paintbrush at all. I lose, and lose big, but my finished models are prettier.

Yeah, Mastermind. Shows the love of old school games. But... I probably would have gone with the Perdita starter, actually. I was up in the air about them both. Choose Som'er cause I have lots of green already.

I wish I had known this when I bought my Som'er starter. It does seem underpowered to the Marcus and Pandora starters I got.

Anything with a tophat. IE Seamus, Som'er Teeth Jones, and about half the gremlins.

Thanks for the welcome. It seems to be a fairly active community here.

I just bought my rulebook three days ago, so I would be rather irate if they released a new one soon. Though, having been said, rulebook updates are a necessary evil. They have to be done periodically, just hopefully they'll announce it in advance and pull the old one from the shelves a bit before they update.

Hello, I'm LAZtheinfamous, and I got turned onto this game by a friend of mine who knows of my love of skirmish games and fine miniatures. I've mainly played the GW lines, with special interest in their skirmish level games. So directed to Malifaux by said friend, I picked up the rule book, and three starter sets without having played the game yet. My oldest two sons are getting into minigaming, so two of those starters aren't actually mine, I just paid for them. For right now, I'm more interested in getting to know the ins and outs of the game, and maybe picking up some strategy. Sometime in the near future, I'll be picking up the paint brush or knocking out some terrain.