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Hi folks, Another update on http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/ Today it's a totally unbiased* look at everyone's favorite** Malifaux Lady: Myranda.

Hi folks, Another update on http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/ Today it's a totally unbiased* look at everyone's favorite** Malifaux Lady: Myranda. * It may not be unbiased **she may only be your favorite if you play Marcus... but maybe this post will change that (it probably won't)

Hey, team Marcus, there's a new post up at http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/ looking at what I might take for Reckoning in a tournament in the not too distant future. Had some interesting feedback on it so far, but more feedback is good feedback, so why not check it out? There're going to be a couple more strategies theoryfauxed in the next week or two (for the same tournament), so keep checking back if you want more. Enjoy

Yeah, I'm starting to think there isn't enough causing damage there. However, Marcus has plenty of ways to make models beasts, and then put them on -ve flips, which makes the other models more survivable and more killy. Armour would really ruin me though. The major problem is that in terms of beatsticks in the models available to me, I just have Miss Step and the Cerberus (and agressive Marcus if I chose to go that way). I'm tempted to put the ronin in there. Good for killing stuff, and easy to sacrifice when she's down to her hard to kill. Lots to try out in the 2 gaming nights I have before the tournament.

Like a relentless swarm of bees, play it like beat down is back with more stings. This time round it's a chat about my potential Reckoning crew. Your thoughts and opinions would be highly appreciated. Enjoy

There's a new post at http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/ It's all about activations and activation advantage today.

Like a rampaging elephant, Play it like beatdown thunders forth with yet more incoherent noises. This time, it's a bit of chat about Marcus (himself) in-game. Why not pop over and check it out? http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/

Like a rampaging elephant, Play it like beatdown thunders forth with yet more incoherent noises. This time, it's a bit of chat about Marcus (himself) in-game. Why not pop over and check it out? http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/

OH NO! Gremlins seem to have got into the system at Play It Like Beatdown! I'll try and get them out asap, but in the meantime, why not check out the fantastic new post which Dumb Luck has written? If you have something you'd like to write about (preferably Malifaux related) and nowhere to put it, then drop me a line, maybe yours can be the next guest post*? Thanks to Dumb Luck for writing the post (it's rather good). *disclaimer: I'm rubbish at answering DMs on here, so if you send me one, either comment to iamsssk on twitter, or post in here to let me know you've sent it.

On that note, I'll subtlely slip in here that there's a new post up about soulstone use in game. Why not pop over and check it out? (I don't think anyone noticed the lateness of this post)

Thanks dgraz, I'll post a link over in Marcusville with each new post. I'm interested to see what night terrors are going to do, and like you, I'm interested to see what the BOD will be like (hoping it's not just a better Cerberus again)

Hi folks, The blog section of the forums seems to have drop off the map somewhere, so I figured this is as good a place as any to point folks to my shiny new blog: http://playitlikebeatdown.wordpress.com/ Though the posts are Arcanist oriented, they might inspire you to look at things from a different perspective, regardless of the faction you play. Generally though, it's just a bit of fun and a place to put my various thoughts on Malifaux (and for folks to share other perspectives too). If you're bored, why not take a look? It can't hurt (...can it?). sssk P.S. I've tried to make sure my role as president of the Razorspine Rattler fan club doesn't show too much... you'd have to be Sherlock Holmes to spot any trace of it

I'm a bit sad that Marcus is so much fun to use I've had to delay painting up Mei yet again. I already have 2 razorspines in the 13, and when the plastic box comes out, there'll be another one in there. Looking forward to the rest of this series

Just a minor (or should that be "miner" *chuckle chuckle*) note. I've been playing Marcus exclusively since the opening of the beta (though only totalling about 10 games including 3 proper M2E games), and I haven't got much more out of them than you have with Ramos, so I don't know that he adds too much to their use. 3 things which he might do better with them: 1) When moleman dies, Jackalope pops out (prolonging the annoyance) 2) Myranda could heal them, though she usually has better things to do 3) Marcus could cast alpha to get 2 activations from one... but that's not going to be a regular occurance. I think they're just an all round good arcanist model now. Equally good for everyone I'd say. Now back to figuring out my 20 models (I'm still at 13)...

Thank you

I'm going to be a massive ***** (now that I've re-discovered that ***** does get asterisked out, I'll be using it a lot in place of rude words which I would never realistically say) and ask to be on the (a) backup list. 4M was too fun to not go, but then I might well not be in the country next July, and I may well not know about whether I'll be in the country or not until April or May of next year. If I am in the country though, and someone pulls out any time up to and including the Saturday morning, count me in (with my tiny tent)! EDIT: Mike has "plans afoot which may allow more people"... are we looking at "Gazebfaux"?

Could you stick me on a backup list filling in for dropouts nearer the event? I'd like to be there (especially as I missed it last year), but February promises to be a massive *****-storm (hilarious use of an expletive, assuming ***** still gets asterisked out on here), and I may well only know if I'll be available or not a week or two before the event.

Hmmm, I think I'm around that weekend. Looking at the field so far, I could do with a new spoon. Will confirm... later

I think you either have to win an event at gencon/adepticon, or be a lucky git and win one in a raffle. Speaking of which, does anyone know if the foil cards are bog standard "card" cards, or nice plastic "retro deck" style cards?

My biggest disappointment of the whole weekend was not getting to play Puppet Wars. This was mainly my fault for wanting to try out zombicide and munchkin on friday, and being nackered on Saturday night, but next time hopefully I'll get some puppeteering in. I don't know that specific achievements for these games is necessary (why give PW/EBO better standing than some of the other great games which were going on), but maybe achievements for games which aren't Malifaux might be good. One of us could even run a little Puppet Wars tournament on one of the evenings. I'm sure we have plenty of boards and puppets between us. Anyway, I'm getting distracted from the Malifaux aspect, so I'll shut up. EDIT: how many sets of "cash and guns" would we need to combine to have a monster 30 player game? Couldn't possibly go wrong. P.S. In the meantime, I'm still figuring out how to run a Puppet Wars tournament in Sheffield in the not-too-distant future, keep your eyes peeled.

Hi folks, here's my feedback: What went well: Really enjoyed the free-form match ups. I ended up playing against 9 people I'd never met (in person) before... and a couple of gentleman's agreement games with Adrian (who I play pretty much weekly). The fact that there were no time limits was great as it meant games were as laid back or intense as we wanted. The atmosphere was fantastic, everyone entered into the spirit really well, and the achievements made games much more amusing (I ended up playing about 5 games where I was just trying to kill a master with the Jackalope... Ophelia and Hoffman narrowly escaped a rodent based demise - the rabbit will be back for you next year). Camping in the grounds of chateau Marshall was fantastic too. Very welcoming. Oh, the hall was great too, nice venue, plenty of facilities, plenty of space, not too hot (except perhaps when Lee dressed as Kade), though evidently wheelchair access was an issue (but I'm sure you're already planning that out for next year). One more point (I'm thinking of these while writing the other sections), the willingness of a few folks to give lifts all over the place was fantastic. Thanks to Lee and Pete for ferrying me around during the weekend, and Jimmy for giving me a lift from/to sheffield (I'll give you petrol money at some point). The schwag was absolutely amazing, but more on that later (I seem to be the owner of a foil fate deck and a hanging tree amongst other things). Finally, the fact that I could play a game with 8 #RSRs was amazing. Only lost 7-5 too. Things which could be improved upon: Initial gut reaction is the lunches were slightly minimal. I know I'm the odd one out in this, but I rather like fruit and veg. That being said, a couple of quid at the local co-op gave me enough apples, bananas, and other things to keep me going, so it's not really a problem (and obviously you were somewhat money-limited). Next year I might suggest charging an extra few pounds for entry, and beefing up the lunch slightly (though I never went hungry), or else just don't put on lunches, and folks can go and pick stuff up from the co-op when they're hungry. Making wins slightly more important might stop folks from having "gentleman's agreement" games. Though I didn't have an issue with "gentleman's agreements", they were more an excersise in bagging points, rather than playing some actual games and trying stupid stuff to try and get the more difficult achievements. Things which sucked: Number 1 - I never actually got round to playing Puppet Wars... this made me very sad. Number 2 - Unique models dying: more specifically, over the course of the weekend I must have killed near enough 20 unique models, and not one of them (NOT ONE!) actually died. In one game I killed Sonnia, Pale rider, Sam Hopkins, and Sidir, and who died-died from it? FLIPPIN' KAERIS! Absolutely furious. Number 3 - ... nope, pretty sure that's it Thoughts on models dying: This was all fine, though team arcanist would appreciate it if henchmen were treated like masters when played as masters, rather than as uniques. This also made me take some interesting crews to avoid the risk of losing a unique model. Because of this, the mighty #RSR made it into at least half of my games, as I didn't want to risk unique models... often as a pair (or an octuplet). Thoughts on schwag: As this seemed to be something Mike was concerned about in terms of next year's event, I figured you'd want some feedback on it. The schwag bags were amazing, no questions asked. I now have all the bases I'll need for my new Mei Feng crew (as my old Mei crew was given away as a raffle prize), and tons of really useful odds and ends (KR case coming top of that list I think, it's all kinds of awesome), not to mention discounts for various retailers. The question comes, would I have enjoyed the event as much without the schwag bag?.. ...Well obviously yes. The schwag was a brilliant aside, but no one signed up to get a ton of schwag. Next year I don't think you need it (unless you want to). With the metric ton (tonne?) of raffle prizes, the amount of stuff given away was simply insane. I think for next year everyone would be totally happy with (depending on how much effort you want to put in): a) just the gaming experience (which was unrivalled by any other event I've been to (Jimmy, consider that a gauntlet thrown down)) the gaming experience and some raffle prizes (if everyone brings a few things, it quickly gets very good). If people could bring along a few more unique prizes, I'd be happy to take them off your hands. Utterly shocked at having won both a foil fate deck AND the hanging tree, now I'm just too terrified to open them at the moment. c) the gaming experience, some raffle prizes, and some malifools official stolestones (I'm massively impressed with the stolestones, they will forever be a reminder of this amazing event... soppy, but true... and great quality). So in conclusion, sign team Sheffailed up for MCC (and make sure it happens if/when I'm in the country). Cheers malifools, hope that is useful Dave/sssk/winner of all the unique goodness

On the subject of pungent gamers, will the happy campers be on a rota through Mike's shower each morning or something? I take it there isn't a shower at the hall

yeah, I think we'll be pooling. Thanks Adrian. I will certainly take you up on the offer. Incidentally, my list of stuff to do also includes assembling the rest of the cast from Puppet Wars! Wooo Yeah!!! Can I get a high five!... anybody?.... anyone at all?.... no, just me then I guess. Depending on if anyone else has a ready assembled set of puppets at 4M, I might leave them at home anyway. I'm only little, and need to lug my stuff all the way to the train station (boo hoo).

But considering how much effort you folks are going to to make boards etc all luxuriant (yes, I used a big word, and what?), I would feel very bad to field a silver Ramatar for instance. My ramos in contrast, is actually very well painted and based... because I didn't paint him... or base him.

Looking at my painting queue, I'm crying inside. I honestly don't think I'll have time to sweep the paint brush over any models between now and next weekend (repeat: NEXT WEEKEND....AAAAAAHHHH!!!!). Rather than going for a grey/silver colour scheme, I think this just means I'll only be bringing my painted stuff. I hope everyone fears the (not avatar) Ramos list made entirely out of gamin with no totems. I've won 100% of my games with it so far (n=1). On the plus side, Marcus and Kaeris are fairly well equipped. If I get time to daub some pigment onto anything, Ama is top of the painting list.