Hi everybody, I'm Mike from York in the UK.
I found Malifaux by following a link on a miniatures online shop purely because the thumbnail caught my imagination. Then I found the official site, read the bacckstory, saw the minis and I was hooked! It's got one of the most imaginitive themes out there that I've seen so far but I'm not a long-time wagamer.
I dabbled with 40k and painted Tau, Chaos, Dark Angels, Imperial Guard, Skaven and Empire armies before tiring myself out on them. I realised that huge army games were a bit much for me to handle in terms of painting, buying and learning the rules for. Then I discovered skirmish games like Infinity. I love Infinity's background too and the minis are amazing. The rules too are some of the best I've seen BUT are a bit too complicated.
Malifaux seems to have the balance between comprehensive rules and scope for tactics, a cool mechanic with the cards and few enough models that I can really spend a lot of time making them look good (It took me 6 months to paint 80 Skaven clanrats to a moderately good level and by comparison I've spent 3 days on Lilith and she looks pretty awesome!).
So I think Malifaux will be one of the games I settle on!
Unfortunately I don't really know anyone I can play against. I have one friend nearby who is willing to play and my dad loves playing with me but it's harder work as he often just tells me what he wants his minis to do and I have to resolve the actions for him lol (he doesn't get to play with me much so the rules don't stick in his memory).
Around here (York) as far as I'm aware there's only Games Workshop and Travelling Man and neither touch Malifaux (obviously, in the case of GW).
So anyway, I love the hobby, love the painting, making terrain etc and love what Wyrd are doing! Keep it up!