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A very preliminary picture. This is the Pulp City urban terrain I made yonks ago: The plan is to make the roads into gravel roads and the sidewalk into boardwalks (using popsicle sticks ). I've ripped off most of the grass, so those will be made into prairie with some tufts of grass. The big flat grey areas will be made into generic prairie with some grass maybe. The buildings will go on the big flat areas with facade facing the roads, with coaches and stuff on the roads. I'm figuring gallows or something and big bush-things or even cacti on the flatter areas, as well as fences. It might direct the flow a little, but the small 1x1 boards are easy to vary from game to game. Also, they're real easy to make more of, and I'm contemplating making a few "real" buildings for when players don't want to be caught up in a crazy nightmare frontier town! EDIT: I was actually thinking that players would be able to fight behind the facades as well! The facades won't be entirely flat; there has to be some struts to allow them to stand without falling, so there will be some corners to fight around. I even think I'll cut doors in some of the buildings to make it easier to get behind the scenes (so to speak). If I get really into it, I might make a few balconies as well, to get some more height into play. Great idea about toppling over the buildings!

Oddly enough, no ... I haven't watched westerns in a long time, but the idea just struck me. I'm going to try making a building-facade sometime next week to see how it works out!

Hi all. Having just scratched the surface of Malifaux, I'm going to need some terrain that is more than just coke bottles and green felt. I have some urban terrain that I made for Pulp City which could easily be made into base-terrain for a western style pioneer town. I'm going to use paper-craft buildings on foamboard to make buildings, but then I had a stroke of genius (or possibly just a stroke, you be the judge!). I got to thinking about the sometimes nightmarish atmosphere in the world of Malifaux, and thought about the setting where the combatants arrive in a strangely empty bordertown. The crews notice each other and as stand-off starts a cackle is heard, and suddenly the hapless fighters find out why the town was so strangely desolate! All the buildings take on the characteristics of the old buildings in spaghetti westerns, being only the facade, but everything behind the facade is empty! They're puppets on a mad stage with a demented master watching them fight it out on an insane set! With no escape until the puppeteer has had his fill, there is only one way to go, and not enough room for everyone to leave through it! Basically, this would mean that buildings would only be the facade of the paper-craft building, with a small base behind them to let them stand. There'd be roads, boardwalks, a well, fences, praries-stuff and so forth, but the clunkyness is "justified" by the fact that it's just a stage! Also, it'd allow for more room the small-ish 3x3 board, while still being som pretty cool terrain (I think). I might even make some "card-board-cut-out" people, so that the heroes would have been lured into the town under pretenses of it being populated, but suddenly it's all a shakespearian trap! What do you think? Could it work, or is the idea so far from the setting of Malifaux that there are grounds for getting me sectioned?

Denmark signing in here!

Thank you both for the input. I'm definitely not decided yet, but the Peacekeeper is climbing the ladder just for the model alone. I have some idea's for converting it (using some Warmachine warjack parts), and that big flat carapace is just screaming for some battledamage and free-hand painting! But I have to look at them some more ... both models and rules. Please, if anyone else has some input, fire away!

I really really want to play FO:NV ... but I have no money, so I'll have to settle for listening til all my friends talk about the game

Hi everyone! I'm completely new to the world of Malifaux, and I've picked up Sonnia Criid as my Master. My group and I are just starting out, so we're just playing with the starter-boxes, but I'm already starting to think ahead a bit. I'm on quite a tight budget, so I can't really afford to expand in any old direction, so for the next tier (from 25SS to 30 SS), I'm going to add one model to the contents of the box. I'm not adverse to removing a Witchling Stalker from the crew to leave room for more goodies though. The models that I'm looking at are the Executioner and the Convict Gunslinger, or perchance removing a Witchling to add the Peacekeeper. The Executioner fits in the "fluff", and seems to add some much needed heavy hitting to the original crew. The Convict is fitting as well (drafting some poor unfortunate from the nearest stockade, giving him a pair of old guns, and pointing him towards the enemy!), and gives some terrific firepower. The Peacekeeper is awesome, but then I'll be missing a Witchling Stalker... Which of those would you suggest? I like the models almost equally, but there is the consideration of cost. I have experienced that Sonnia really needs her soulstones, so if I add the Executioner, I'll only have 7, while the Gunslinger is cheap enough to let me have all possible 8. The Peacekeeper will leave me with 8, but then I'll be missing a Witchling to "get in the way" during the early game. If you have any suggestions other than those two (and please not Nino Ortega. I understand that he's all that and a bottle of gin, but I cannot abide his miniature ) feel free to point me in the right direction! Thank you in advance for your help and comments!

Hi everybody! I've been lurking about on these forums for some time now, but finally thought I'd register. I've been playing Warmachine for a few years now (you might know me, for better or worse from Privateer Press' forums ), and have dabbled in several skirmish-size games as well; Hell Dorado, Urban War, Pulp City among others. Malifaux is the first one that seems to have stuck on, not only with myself, but with people in my gaming community as well. We're just starting up, so we're just playing starting boxes for now. My choice was Sonnia Criid, and I haven't regretted it! I'm looking to expand a bit for when we're going to move on to bigger games, and I'll be pestering the Guild subforums for a bit to figure out how to proceed. I'm a big fan of converting and painting, so you might see me in the painting sub-forum as well. But I paint at a glacial pace, so it'll probably be a while for something in colour to show up. Introductions all around! Hi \o/