Rameses

"And we're back!" - Cheated Fates Radio 2013 Holiday Miniature Exchange Participants Real Name - Forum User Name Mike Marshall - OldManMyke Joel Henry - Joel Jimmy Balderstone - Ninjahamster Christofer Papinski - Carasz Josh Biederman - Beanicp Nick Battey - N1ck Sam Wages - Pride365 Adrian Scott - Rathnard Justin Gibbs - Justin Bruno Santos - Bacms David Gardiner - Kaine Mark Handford - Mack_5 Mike Tayor - Mike3838 John Bacevicius - Solicitor6 Austin Capewell - Oathius Matt Spooner - mattspooner Mark Sheppard - Gorillawizard Savanna Cooper - thezombiefever Marshall Cooper - marshimartian Dawn McCormack - malifauxlady Benjamin Crowe - jondoe297 Brendon O'Shea - Boshea Scott Porter - Barnaberble Damien Smith - Lord Shaper Craig Fleming - rythos42 Paul Plunge - abraxus04 John Andrews - Rameses Richard Paley - Pazzer Rules for Holiday Miniature Exchange. Read all the rules and look at some changes that we have made. I hope everyone will have fun with this one. Any fraud, lying, gimping, etc. Wyrd Miniatures and it's affiliates will not be held at fault. This is strictly a voluntary adventure. Wyrd Miniatures Henchmen will (in severe cases) do what we can, such as member-inquiries/reports such as the "Good/Bad Trader" bit, but of course, Wyrd Miniatures Henchmen can not do very much at all, and would have no obligation to do so. The sending of the gifts would be the business of the individuals involved, SOLELY. Please read the Rules! What is the miniature exchange? So here’s the Basic’s. Wyrd Miniatures forum members will sign up for the event and are randomly assigned to other forum members. Everyone digs through their pile of bits, blisters and other Wyrd Miniatures miniatures, picks two models and sends them off to their randomly matched partner. So long as they meet the $21 or £16 minimum requirement. For the folks with limited funds you can sign up and elect to ship locally. How do you sign up? Well, I’ll get to that after… So what are the rules? Glad you asked, THE RULES 1) You must send at least one "blister" of miniatures or some accessories/basing supplies etc. “YOU WILL NOT GET THESE BACK, so make sure you don't send anything you still want.” In other exchanges there has been a tendency to send more than two miniatures. This is acceptable but not to be expected. The rule is two. This is not a generosity contest. When you sign up, please put some money aside for the gift right then. If you do not have said funds, do not sign up. The overwhelming majority of excuses from most events are people not having enough money to actually purchase a gift for their giftee, so I want to nip this in the bud. I realize most of you won't know at the time of sign-up who you're getting or what you're going to be gifting, but it's not unreasonable to put twenty (ish) dollars aside for the event beforehand. 2) Based on miniatures preferences that your recipient will post when they register to be a part of the event you will then be prompted buy/convert/paint/whatever you deem suitable for a gift. All miniatures must be in an untouched state. This doesn't mean it has to be in a blister or on the sprue, however, just not mangled in any way and complete. No sending a single arm and counting that as a miniature. They must be able to assemble the whole thing. The minis are NOT to be painted, primed or glued. Exceptions to this rule are made by the participants and should be managed via private message. This includes any exception to the rules – if you want to send a glued, primed or converted model you *can* do so but you need permission from the person you’re sending to so if they put that they are happy to receive an assemble, painted model then you send it. They have every right to say no. Note that you can also send a painted, primed or converted model *in addition* to the two untouched minis but again this is not a generosity contest. 3) All miniatures must be part of a Wyrd Miniatures line of miniatures. This can also include Basing Materials and or Special Event Items: IE - Supply Wagon. This is a Wyrd Miniatures tabletop gaming related forum so no exceptions to this rule will be allowed. 4) If you wish to participate, you must be around. Don't say “I want in” and then disappear off the face of the Earth for a month. I'm not saying you need to be a forum regular, but you should be checking at least this thread once per week and respond to any PM's sent to you. 5) If you do not hear from either the person you are sending to, or the person sending to you, within two weeks of the exchange list being posted you should PM me. Since most people belong to several forums they may not check here every day. Do not post to the thread publicly with comments like “still nothing” or “I haven’t heard from my partner.” Issues with members as relates to this exchange should be sent privately. In order for me to assist in resolution of potential issues I must know about them, however, so please do PM me if you think there’s a problem. 6) Failure to participate after signing up for the exchange will result in being banned from future exchanges. I will keep a list of banned participants and it will be published in subsequent exchanges. :Powerful_Puppet: 7) Do not request specific trading partners. If you want to be matched to a specific Wyrd Miniatures Online member I recommend you send that person a PM and do a 1:1 exchange. The Holiday Miniature Exchange works on a randomly generated list and is not meant to match specific members together. 8) FLAGGED status: Members who have less than 50 post at the time they sign up will be marked as FLAGGED. Nobody ships to a flagged participant until AFTER the minis that person ships have been received. If the flagged person bails we simply skip them in the list, this is also to make sure they send something before they get something. Example: Malifauxlady Rameses (FLAGGED) Rathnard Rameses ships to Rathnard. Rathnard posts "I got minis!" and then Malifauxlady ships to Rameses. I will also mark anyone as FLAGGED if prompted to do so by any forum moderator based on previous behavior. NOTE: In each of the exchanges I have participated in there has always been at least one member who didn’t receive anything. This can happen. It has, in fact, happened to me. While most folks are honest there is always a chance that things get lost in the post, that your partner spontaneously combusts or that Galahad will intercept the package in the post and eat your minis. These things can happen but I hope they don’t. HOW TO SIGN UP Please send me a PM with the following information. I am going to try the pm method to make it more of surprise when the package shows up and who is sending it. Username/Real Name – Mailing address – Shipping - Faction of Preference First: should be obvious – it’s your Wyrd Miniatures Forum username. Second: your mailing address where you want receive your mini's this information will be forwarded only to your Secret Gifter. Third: Shipping is your shipping preference. If you are willing to pay for international post then put “anywhere” in this category. If you only want to ship within your country of origin this should be the same as Location. If you want to ship within the same geographic region, such as North America for someone in the USA or Canada, or EU for someone in Germany or the UK, that works too. Fourth: Faction Preference and Master you play. (This part is not mandatory to adhere to, but this will give your giftee an idea of what your interests are.) My own entry looks like this: John "Rameses" Andrews 42 Main st Perfection, Malifaux Shipping:-anywhere Preference: Arcanist, Master Colette. Please, please, PLEASE! use this format to sign up for the exchange. I'd recommend you post the miniatures you collect, what system you collect as well as things you may already have a ton of and things you need or mini's you are interested in obtaining in this thread, as well. Too specific makes the gifting process a bit silly. List the games you wouldn't mind receiving minis from, as well as what you might already collect, so your gifter might have some starting point. TIMELINE Sign up starts NOW! ENTER DATE – December 1st list closes ENTER DATE – folks can start shipping as soon as Dec 1st ENTER DATE – all participants should have shipped/received their minis by January 1st How do you assign Secret Gifters? Utilizing super-secret scientific method and a crack team of genetically modified super Gremlin’s, we assemble the Malifaux’s Most Wanted List at a classified Guild installation. We pull names out of a hat. I will take things like location into account. The one week delay between closing the list and the ship date allows me to make changes and PM people in the event of a mistake – such as assigning someone with USA shipping to a partner in Germany. Some guidelines for receiving the gift: Let your Secret Gifter know it arrived! One less thing they have to worry about. IMPORTANT: Post in the thread that the package arrived, and show off what you got! Especially if it was converted or painted and post some pics. Your Secret Santa probably worked really hard on your gift plus we get to all drool all over what you got. One last final point: While lurkers are welcome to participate, I reserve the right to use discretion in ruling people out of entry. If you have absolutely zero posts and you register on the boards to try and take part in this, I probably won't let you participate. Miniatures tend to be surprisingly expensive, and I really do not want somebody to try and take advantage of this whole event to just get free stuff. THANK YOU from the Wyrd Miniatures Henchmen I want to thank the moderators and members of Wyrd Miniatures for having a community in which we can do this. I’m glad to see so many people excited about the miniature exchange and look forward to seeing how many folks we get to sign up on our first run. If this is successful I’ll plan on coordinating it twice per year. If you want to participate but have a question or concern please post your concern or send me a PM and we’ll get things sorted out.

Tara has been traded off. Thanks for the interest.

Hi Ryan, I sent an email regarding our match that will need to be played by the 28th. Contact me when you when possible. Rameses!

Thanks for sharing Henchman Lee!

Justin is a tease! :1_Exhausted_Puppet:

The hardest problem I had about the large Inquisitor minis was terrain. I never could justify build terrain at that scale, but I REALLY LOVED ALL THE MINIS from that sub-game.

Sharknado's with freaking lasers on their heads!

say it with me. Poooooop. Nuff Said.

Basically (very basic explanation) Crooked Man places a shafted marker, Tara unburies an enemy model; which activates under Tara's control. Said model saunters up to the Shafted marker using all it's AP if it is needed (or better takes a pop shot with 1AP then saunters up to shafted marker)

Email sent Thanks again Jon

Went to the Evil Empire (WalMart) for an hour. Come to find that FedEx was here and left me toys!

For those curious here is what the Fedex website stated for tracking info for my store order. Thursday 8/22/2013 - 3:52 pm Picked up (in GA) Saturday 8/24/2013 - 6:59 am On FedEx vehicle for delivery (GA to WI) Excited. But not as excited as I am for my Ninja shopper to arrive in town next week. :1_Exhausted_Puppet:

I'm a fan of Tara with a Crocked Man for some good old fashion Shafted fun.

A big thanks to all the hard work and intrepid reporting that Paul and Dawn are doing for the Malifaux community! Thanks again to the Malifools for excellent coverage!

I'd like to take the credit for Karina becoming Dual Faction. But hopefully I wasn't the only one that this made sense to.

She is easy.. Spam one spell, Kill everything

Tara! Personally I am looking at the following build for a 50ss game. Ressurectionists Crew - 50 - Scrap Tara -Echos of the Void 2ss, Dead of Winter 1ss, Knowledge of Eternity 2ss- 6 Pool Karina [5ss] Void Wretch [4ss] Void Wretch [4ss] Crooked Man [5ss] The Nothing Beast [10ss] Death Marshall [6ss] The Hanged [9ss] My thoughts are pretty simple (go figure) the Hanged is a Distraction that can't be ignored, The Death Marshall provides both ranged support and another way to bury things. The Nothing Beast will be a beat stick with some mobility, Void Wretchs will do what they do: burn buried things. Finally the Crooked Man sets up Shafted Tokens for when Tara unbury's a model and controls the model to end it's activation near a shafted token. thoughts? And what kind of builds are you looking at for Tara?

Thanks Jon, can't wait to give it a listen.

I can't say over all I loved episode 77 of the Gamers Lounge (but then you don't need me to.) I enjoyed listening to Bill's and Spencer's side of the coin. And I did take away a lot of things that I hadn't noticed in the M2E rules set thanks to this episode. I did at one point have the feeling that the song played at a break should have been "50 ways to say Die" by Train. Because their was a ton of veiled (not so much?) hostility. More importantly the ONE thing I took away from this episode is SADNESS. Sadness that two such PROMINENT voices of Malifaux have taken such a dim view of the latest edition of Malifaux, maybe "dim view" is the wrong term. But certainly a "loss of love." is accurate. And that is something I find disheartening.

So Marcus is Malifaux's Vandal Savage? Freeking sweet! One of DC's villains EVAH.