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Is there a list anywhere of all the Malifaux miniatures not generally available? I cant find one, and it would be a useful asset to collectors. Off the top of my head: Easter Gremlin, Egg Hauler - Easter 2012, no longer available. Easter Gremlin, Chicken Rider - Easter 2012, no longer available. Nightmare Teddy - Gen Con 2011, no longer available Dead Justice set - Gen Con 2011, no longer available Miss Demeanor - Gen Con 2011, Rumored still available in random mail orders from Wyrd. Nightmare Lord Chompy Bits - Gen Con 2010 - no longer Available. Miss Pack - Gen Con 2010, still pops up in random boxed crews. Original Avatar Pandora - Discontinued I'm sure there are more, please contribute and we will have a useful resource.

There http://www.gameslore.com/acatalog/PR_Mayday_Magnum_100_Card_Sleeves_80mm_x_120mm.html are the best sleeves I could find to use. I agree, this would be ideal.

Getting a reply from the Big Boss, which actually answers the main problem, 8 Whole minutes after posting a long rambling post is pretty awesome customer service there. And as to the other things. Yes, you can sleeve the plain old ordinary fate deck, and that's fine. Then you have a deck twice the size, and it just seems a shame, since they have the technology. That was a minor nit pick. And as to the Stat cards, I'm willing to chalk that down to taste. I'll keep on buying obscure sleeves and trimming down my cards with a hobby knife forever, because its not a deal breaker. But if lots of people find them unwheildy, then, that's something else that could change. But my main quandary was about the books. So thanks for the prompt reply.

I love Malifaux. It’s a great game, and the models are in my opinion some of the best things coming out in miniatures at the moment and I play all the big systems. However, I have one or two concerns and I was interested to know what the community at large, as well as Wyrd thought about them. I am new to Malifaux. My FLGS started to stock it, seemingly on a whim, and the wargames guy who works there was told to learn it. (The owners mostly know about TCG’s). I was the guy he could convince to start so he would have someone to play against. I then discovered how awesome the game was (I had been previously aware of the miniatures.) So, I then needed to get the usual guys I game with interested in it so I have more opponents. On the face of it, this is easy. Cheap mini rulebook. Cheap starter box of awesome miniatures and a demo game, right? Except. One of my friends, bloke called Pete who loves RPG’s, turns around to me and says: “I bought this mini rulebook , but I don’t know which crew to get” “Just get whatever you think looks cool” “I want to read the fluff first, were the fluff?” Well. That’s the question, isn’t it? Where is the fluff? Then I had to explain how there are these Three big rulebooks. Two of them have out of date rules in, and the third one has some rules that aren’t in your little manual, but you don’t really need them unless you want to use an Avatar. Also. I haven’t seen a book one on sale in the UK for a long time. They have both the other books here, but I don’t know how much sense they will make without the first book, and I think Rising Powers might be getting reprinted soon…. Around this time his eyes started to glaze. Wyrd: This is a massive problem. What is going on with books 1 + 2? Are they getting reprinted? When? Is the content changing? Am I ok to buy Book 2 since my FLGS has some? (I own Rules Manual + Book 4) Is the rules manual getting reprinted to include a page on manifesting Avatars? Or will I have to carry Book 4 around to games in perpetuity. It’s not just the books that seem to be in a shambolic state. What’s going on with your cards? First of all, they change, but don’t get reprinted, so you have to be constantly checking online for errata. If they do eventually get reprinted, you have to order them from the USA L. Why isn’t there a Deck of Cards available? Come to think of it, why are the cards the way they are? Anyone actually like the design? Trying to sleeve them flat involves buying obscure sleeves from a board game hobbyist website and then trimming them down slightly. Why aren’t they a standard size? And who thought the FOLD was a good idea? That would be cool if I didn’t have to mark my wounds on a sleeve in Dry erase markers. Privateer Press kind of already did the whole stat cards thing well. Why are you reinventing the wheel? Talking of cards. The Fate cards. The puppet deck is an excellent product, but my opponents have trouble reading it across the table. You should entirely make a fate deck on the same material, but with a clearer font and the Weak Medium Severe showing. So To conclude. I think you have some of the best miniatures currently being produced. I think you have a great rule set. Why is this being let down by printed media issues? I would also be interested in knowing if I am the only one who has these problems, or if others in the community agree.

I love the purple wash on Liliths flesh. What wash/ink did you use? and over what paint?

My local store http://www.wargamestore.com/ stocks Malifaux and isnt on your list.

Hello folks, I have just started Malifaux (having played precisely one game) Th aught I would share some pics of my painted minis. (Apologise in advance for poor photography) Lilith. Tired to use some brush on gloss varnish to get some shine on those boots. Looks slightly better in person. Nekima. I keep thinking her ankle is going to snap. Is it just me that thinks the metal Wyrd use is a lot softer then GW/PP stuff? Cherub, a very simple little model. Creepy as heck though. The Works in progress. Going for Red Flesh on the more demonic looking Neph.

That Dweller in the Dark looks like a cool second Mature Nephalim, since haveing two identical sculpts sucks. Any idea how tall it is?

Thanks for the Excellent replies guys. Regards Terrain: We were playing on a heavily sculpted trench system board, because that's what was available. Not the most Malifaux thing ever, but we did have plenty to hide behind. I do like the look of the terraclips stuff. Seems also hard to find in the UK. You would also be limited to playing in a city. I am waiting to see what the 4th Terraclips set turns out to be, hopeing its something foresty. I like the idea of an "edge of city" kind of board that would represent a neverborn raid Even so. As far as I can see you STILL wouldent want to flip to see were you played because you still wouldn't own every kind of environment. Definately going to start useing schemes. And the expanded encounter chart I guess. Whats this about Story Encounters? Worth includeing? I see I need to download them. Crew selection, I realise Nekima is more a 35ss kind of model. But, shes a lovely miniture and painted, so I wanted to see what she was like. Completely understand now the utility of haveing a un grown tot to grab things. Reluctant get more tots/young/Mature as that would mean doubling up on sculpts, which seems a shame in such a low model count game. (I'm one of those gamers that lets pretty miniatures overrule tactics from time to time) Gonna stick with 3,2,1 for now and see if I start to really hurt for lack of models. Again, thanks for the realy thurough replys.

Hello good people. Last week I played my first game of Malifaux, with my Lilith Crew. I come to you for help. ( I have played other war games for years and years, so not a total n00b in that sense) I was playing against another inexperienced player, and we were sort of muddling through. Some generic questions first: The Encounter rules. We seemed to be skipping things, the book says you can skip them, but they take up a lot of pages. I cant understand how someone would have enough terrain on hand to do step 3. Randomly determine location. We decided to use Standard Deployment, because it has the word standard in it. We could have randomly flipped for this. Then for Determine strategies, we flipped on the "Core Encounter Chart" because it seemed more straightforward. Is this how people typically do it? We didn't select any schemes, because the book says you don't need to and we wanted to keep it simple, but I get the impression schemes are rather important. Then we skipped over many many location tables, because these seem irrelevant unless you have a very abundant selection of terrain? Or am I missing something? Strategy wise I flipped Claim Jump and he Flipped Destroy the Evidence. This meant all the objectives ended up in my half of the table, my claim jump on one side and his three Evidence markers on the other side. My Crew: I had Lilith Malifaux Cherub Nekima 2x Terror Tot Full Cache. Mainly, Rule of Cool, rather then what was most effective. I realise Nekima is probably overcosted. I thought about bringing the third Terror Tot, but since I only had 2 Young Nephalim Minis in my case, I decided against it. My Opponent was playing Kirai He had: Kirai Lost love 2x Onryo Datsu-Ba and Seishin. 7 Cache He seemed to have picked a really complicated crew, and didnt really have enough miniatures for all his summons. But I don't really know what his stuff was meant to do, so I'll carry on from my perspective. First up, two things I know we did wrong. We played on a 4x4 table, not 3x3. And We didnt realize you could make two move actions a turn. I flipped the first turn. I had clustered most of my miniatures on the right, near my claim jump marker. Right off bat, I realized I wasn't going to get any blood from my opponents spirits, so I activated Lilith, cast blood from stone to get 2 blood counters at the expense of half my soul stones. I preformed a walk, Cast "Illusory forest" then used Brood mother, on Nekima. Question: I assume I cant use brood mother to activate a model that has already activated? Nekima activated used Nephilim Heart to give the Tot's + 1 Masks to Casting, and moved a little wanting to keep the tots within 10 inches. She Skipped her last activation. My Opponent was studying his cards, thought about summoning his thing were he lost half his life couldn't see how he was supposed to get that life back, and basically resolved to walk something forwards. and then complained because all his things "to do" needed him to be in combat, weras I had preparation type spells to do. Long story short, I was able to easily grow both my Tots into young with the +4 and a Mask to casting from Nekima, and the two blood from Lilith. The young then moved forward towards my claim jump. My Totem wambled off to defend the evidence. Question: I could have acctivated my totem after Lilith due to Companion, but I wasent sure how that interacts with Brood Mother..? All this time my opponent was slowly moving forwards while doing nothing much ??? Turn the Second. I used blood from stone again to get another blood counter. and moved Lilith after the Young, Brood mother on Nekima again. She Recasts + Masks to casting and also uses blood offering to get a blood token, and moves after the young. One young then uses Mature. I realize now all the blood token have to come from one model, so I was full of cheating. The Mature and young move up to the claim jump, Totem keeps wambleing to the other side. My Opponent walks forward. (sure he should have been doing other things, but we were on a big table, and didnt know you could double walk remember so I had a lot of time to waste) Next turn. Having done all the growing and maturing I had the models for... Question: Is it, in the opinion of the forum worthwhile buying a second mature Nephalim mini? Will it ever come up in normal play (IE when your opponent isn't just obligingly walking every turn and letting you do whatever) I don't really want to get a second one as there is only the one sculpt. .. I decided to move Lilith towards the other flank. I then transposed the totem and Nekima. The opponent then had Nekima in his way rather then a Cherub. This was met with cries of "you can do what"?! Q: I am assuming when I transpose two friendly models like this I don't actually have to resist with my models, because that makes sense. Fighting then broke out. Nekima is quite good in combat, and that regeneration is handy. My blow by blow of what happened once the combat started is a bit spotty, basically he piled his entire crew down to his objective Nekima held them off for a while, Lilith waded in, when she started to die, I transposed her (useing the totem which is now in the middle of the table) with the mature Nephalim. The Mature used wing Buffet, and basically I won when the game ended at the end of turn six. (Nekima did eventually die, as did the Mature, but they stopped the opponent for long enough, that he only picked up one evidence. Lilith and a young were sitting unmolested next to my claim marker, well lilith was on half health until she was transposed away). Triggers are hard to remember to use. I need to remember that nekima can add a random suit to get off a trigger every turn. Obviously, my opponent needs even more help then I do, and I will be encouraging him to go and post on the Resser forum his master seems really oddly complex compared to mine, so I think I made the better choice. As far as Expanding goes: I have picked up a Black Blood Shaman. Who seems quite cool. And I mean to pick up Lelu and Litlu soon, but my FLGS is having trouble getting any in stock. Then thats about it... Until April, when I will pick up Tuco and Avatar Lilith, and probably a couple of Weildgiests to go with the Avatar. I don't know. Thanks for reading anyway, and I appreciate any input.

Hello folks. The Scythe and Teacup happens to be my FLGS. Its large, the staff are nice (or, the wargames guy, anyway). Food is cheap and good if you like things of the bacon/blackpudding/sausage/bacon persuasion. One thing though. It's cold. Really. Its cold. It has horrible ageing single glazed drafty windows (which they attempt to fix with cling film) and inadequate heating for a venue of its size. So basically, dress warmly. As far as your tournament goes I have (so far) played precisely one game of Malifaux. So I don't think I will enter. I might pop in in the evening and see if one of you gents might be in the mood to teach me how to play. (at the moment myself and one of the chaps who works there are trying to muddle through with one copy of the rules between us, and its so much easier with and experienced player on hand) Oh, regarding parking. There is on street Liverpool City Council Pay and Display right outside. This is expensive as all heck (But free for Disabled badge holders, so noteworthy) Otherwise if you look at google maps here http://g.co/maps/k5t9v you will see an area of trees and scrub with cars in to the north of the shop. You can park here all day for £3. But it is popular. (note, the smaller area with cars behind the shop, you need a permit and you will get towed) Hope this is helpfull!