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You mean getting Pandora'd by Joel last time out won't trigger flashbacks? 'Tis indeed an honour sir! Up to 13 confirmed players now with Mr Ledgerwood's birthday ticket and the Gruesome Twosome ( ) Marcus and Ross on their way too. Guess we better get the hammers out for extra space. Or just tell Matt there's a doughnut on the other side of the wall.

Yep, what Papa Squig said. That's the car park us locals use on club nights.

Cheers Rik and Graeme - be great to have you both on board! Papa Squig has also coughed up so things very much starting to take shape... Prize pack has arrived so I can pay my scrip debts from the last event. We're looking at whether we can expand to accommodate a few more players and hit the magic 28, by knocking down a couple of walls. With me and Mr Ledgerwood locally, demolition work is pretty easy.

Paid up. First tournament run for the new wheels!

There's a few lingering like me waiting for paydays at the end of the week!

Mayorhold is the one I recommend - it's where I park and it's free all weekend.

Be great to see everyone there! First ticket has been sold (thanks Maria!) and to mark the occasion I've ordered a full 32 player prize pack from Wyrd. Pics as usual when it gets here...

Pssst, Craig - Maria's from Austria, not Yorkshire.

I'll be coming - I've missed the Outpost events. Just sorting out logistics and how many cars with various clubmates.

Hi all, As the title says, selling plastic Ressers. Scaling back what I have and no desire to play these sadly. All prices include shipping within the UK - add a couple of pounds more for international. If you buy multiples I'll do the shipping at cost so can knock the prices down. Tara crew, Herald of Obliteration (new sealed box) - £25 Molly crew, Take Back the Night (new sealed box) - £25 Necropunks (new sealed box) - £10 Punk Zombies (new sealed box) - £10 Hanged (new sealed box) - £8 Graveyard Spirit (cleaned up and assembled) - £2.50 with any other item

Paid up. I'm Liverpool born, so a shellsuit is my national costume. Don't take its holy name in vain.

Paid up. Narrowed my choices down to Kaeris, Justice or Tara. In theory...

Trying to see if I can summon some back-up. Too far north for me for a 1-dayer (longer in the car than on the tabletop) but a weekender makes things very possible!

Phew. I was getting sick of commissioning ever shinier trophies and then having to hand them all to you... I mean. Happy holidays.

Cheers all - that's the podium sorted then! Ticket link now added to the top post.

It's that time again fans - announcing the next bimonthly Malifaux throwdown at the home of the UK's most statistically anomalous gaming team the Warzone's Own in Northampton. Don't Back Down will be running on Saturday June 18th at the Warzone Workshop store in Northampton. We have investigated going back to Sundays, but with the store being in a shopping centre it is so much easier logistically to run on a Saturday... The tournament will offer 3 rounds at 50SS. The best received events have been the ones where I haven't messed with the format so I'll take the hint, at least for a while! We can promise the usual laid-back atmosphere along with our traditionally generous prize pools. As a minimum the following will be on offer; 1st, 2nd and 3rd place gaming 1st, 2nd and 3rd place painting Best Sports Best Loser, aka the Dreaded Wooden Spoon... A prize pack has arrived from Wyrd and the contents duly raffled off. As in the Normal One, you'll only be eligible for the raffle if you hit the painting targets - of your starting crew, at least half of the models by number must be painted (3 colours and based), in 2 games out of 3. Note that it's a target - painting isn't required but it is strongly encouraged, and it's a pretty easy target to meet. 24 tickets are on offer at £12.50 each. This doesn't include lunch but being in the middle of a busy town, there are enough options within 2 minutes' walk to satisfy any palette. It does however include all the tea and coffee you can drink, along with all the doughnuts I can cram in my car boot on the way in. A 32 player prize pack has been ordered and the contents will be given away during the day. As the event is in a well stocked shop, if there's anything you want ordered in for the day we will happily oblige! The rules pack is available from here; https://www.dropbox.com/s/7jz76396ymim65b/Don't Back Down.pdf?dl=0 Tickets can now be purchased from here; http://warzoneworkshop.co.uk/Events/Malifaux%20Event Any questions, please feel free to ask! FAQs What crews can I take? On sign-up you'll be able to either use a fixed faction for the day, or select a Trinity of Masters to use for the day. Full details will be in the rules pack. What are the painting requirements? Do I need to use painted models? There are no painting requirements - models must be assembled and firmly fixed to their bases, but you don't have to have done any painting. BUT. Only players who have used mostly painted models (3 colours and based as a minimum) in 2 out of 3 games will be eligible to enter the prize raffle. This isn't a hard target to hit and you don't need to have hit it in order to play, but if you want to grab any of the cool toys on offer, get them thar brushes out! How will the painting competition be run? Anyone wishing to enter the painting competition can enter a crew of approximately 50SS, which they can set out for the player vote at lunchtime. I won't be counting the values of models set out but there isn't going to be room for you to dump an entire faction plus intricate display boards if that's what you're planning! Note that entrants will not be able to put their name next to their crews as the competition is anonymous, and anyone entering will be required to take part in the voting. What are your rules on proxies? My usual rules - no using a Malifaux model as another Malifaux model without doing conversion work. James Doxey's magnificent brass / large steam arachnids are a great example of what is acceptable (and an example I use with permission!), as they've been reposed and rebased. Sticking a Canine Remains on the table and saying it's a Guild Hound is not acceptable. Avatars are fully legal proxies for any Emissary, as per Wyrd. It is acceptable to use non-Wyrd miniatures as long as it's clear what they are - for example, I've been known to use a Wild West Exodus Native American model as the Outcast Big Jake. If in doubt, it's the player's responsibility to ask the TO (me) ahead of time to clear up any potential issues. Will you be publishing the schemes and strategies in advance? Yes. The scheme pools and strategies will be as follows; Squatter’s Rights, Standard Deployment - Convict Labour - Take Prisoner - Hunting Party - Covert Breakthrough - Catch and Release Collect the Bounty 2016, Close Deployment - Convict Labour - Exhaust Their Forces - Hunting Party - Search the Ruins - Occupy Their Turf Guard the Stash, Flank Deployment - Convict Labour - Leave Your Mark - Show of Force - Neutralise the Leader - Set Up Entrants 1. Rik Phillips 2. Graeme Nicholls 3. Joel Henry 4. Karl McConnell 5. Craig Woods 6. Steve Wilson 7. Mike Marshall 8. Mr Graves Lee Battrick 9. Andrew Neil Other 10. Marcus Rose 11. Ross Baker 12. Matt 'Birthday Boy' Ledgerwood 13. Mike Ross 14. Rob Hallam 15. Ross Mason 16. Benjamin Crowe, First of His Name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm 17. Zak Foote 18. James Boots 19. Dave Wigley 20. Joe Jackson 21. Callum Edens 22. Thomas Henry 23. Paul Dean 24. Tim Brown

Bigger I can do. More abusive or less abusive messages on them? Glad you enjoyed yourself. And as you say, so cool to have a booming scene on our doorstep.

Paid up. A fat man and his Gremlins will be rolling south! Will try and bribe a few clubmates too.

And we are done! 2 runners fell before the first hurdle, Messrs Bursnell and Zaramella failing to find a Lidl supermarket and the rendezvous (and they will not hear the end of this!), but 22 others made it and the event went really well from a TO's perspective. Huge thanks to David Brown for the terrain, and the surprise Internet celebrity visitor Eless and her other half Rich for the admin help. Couldn't have done it without you. Prizes then. As @OneLittleThunder alluded to above he took the Best Sports award. Managed to do so unanimously as well, all 3 of his opponents voting for him. Props to Brian for that, and it was an absolute pleasure to have him with us. Last place was really hotly contested. 2 players lost all 3 games, and then 3 more managed 2 losses and a draw. Edging it by being marginally worse than Marc Kempster, was Adam Lake. 3rd place for the Best Painted was David Brown again, with his lovely looking Arcanists. It was really close at the top, but Craig Colley's Lilith took 2nd and an absolutely shellshocked Joel Henry took Best Painted with his amazing Pandora crew! On the table, Maria took 3rd with her Outcasts, thanks to obliterating poor Hutch in the last round! Craig Colley managed to take a double of 2nd places with second in the gaming too. And at the very top, the much anticipated M2E showdown between Joel Henry and Craig Johnson, with the tournament on the line, went to... Craig Johnson! I'm getting so fed up of handing that man and his Lynch mob winners trophies. (Just kidding - anyone who beats Maria and Joel deserves their big shiny trophy!) Final standings are below and will be submitted to rankings shortly. Any feedback welcomed! Thanks everyone for coming, it was a real pleasure.

I'm game - request sent.

I'll offer my personal take on things - I certainly don't have Stryder's or Blutack's ability to beat the best, but have taken out 6 tournaments now and played in a stupid number of events overall. Again, this essay is my personal view. This game is all about perspectives. Take Lady Justice - most people say she's awful, but she's one of my strongest Masters. Guild Top tier - McCabe Competitive - Perdita, Sonnia, Justice, Hoffman Just no - McMourning, Lucius Speaking personally, McCabe is one of the most all-round Masters I think I've seen. He can quite cheerfully do the support routine by throwing around upgrades, using the netgun and providing Promises. But he can also change gear and use his mobility and big sword himself to really bring the pain. Perdita, I can't get her to work. I can see what she does and she's a consummate noob-stomper, but a skilled player is able to dismantle the Family and nullify her. Sonnia is a brilliant casting Master but suffers from the same weaknesses as others of her ilk. I really rate Justice and have won two tournaments using her solely - if you can deliver her successfully and pick a crew around her, she will throw a spanner (OK, a huge sword) into the enemy plans. And Hoffman can be hard-countered with the relic hammers, but every time someone's tried that against me one of the big robots has flattened the hammer wielder early. Never won a game with Guild McMourning despite an awful lot of trying. Lucius makes me so sad - his fluff and the idea of him is just amazing. But try and make it come together on the tabletop, and then look at other support Masters like Colette or even Hoffman, and you wonder why you're trying so hard to push sh*t uphill. Ressers Top tier - McMourning, Molly Competitive - Nicodem, Seamus, Kirai (borderline top tier), Tara (borderline just no) Just no - Yan Lo A well-played Resser McMourning is a juggernaut of Poison, Flesh Constructs and Canine Remains. Being able to summon and benefit from better synergies with Resser models, in my opinion, makes the Resser version of the Doc one of the best out there. Molly is just a summoning beast and she is so hard to get at - if she's not throwing cards to reduce damage then she's being pulled and pushed around by Belles and Sybelle. Reactivating models and putting enemy models on negative flips for a turn, all for 0s, is almost the icing on the cake... Nico drops down for two reasons - if he's killed his crews tend to fall apart, and of himself he doesn't offer as much as Molly does. Kirai drops because she can be countered. Much like Hoffman and his Constructs hate relic hammers, her crews get torn apart by casters. Resser Tara can be strong in the right hands - there are a couple of players in the UK who have demonstrated what she can do popping Rogue Necromancies and Punk Zombies around. Sorry, but I don't Fear the Beard at all. Never seen him in action and thought 'wow, that's great'. Arcanists Top tier - Colette, Rasputina, Ramos Competitive - Marcus, Kaeris Just no - Ironsides, Mei Feng Colette is pure filth. Rasputina is my highest-rated caster because of what her crew offers her - I've been on the wrong end of Ant's alpha strike Raspy and speed was not an issue, and having played Mr Bursnell so often I have a healthy respect for blasting at right-angles. Ramos is up there because again he's such an all-rounder but he can also bring in Significant minions. I love Marcus but it's such a crew of glass cannons, and if your opponent has seen the tricks it's harder to pull them off. Kaeris has so many strings to her bow that it's not a case of what she does herself necessarily, but what she enables her crew to do. Ironsides... When Joel Henry gives up on a Master because even he can't break her, it's probably a lost cause. And Mei Feng is one of very few Masters that I beat first time I played against her, even with all her tricks up and running. Really don't rate her. Neverborn Top tier - Lilith, Dreamer, Collodi Competitive - Lynch Just no - Zoraida, Lucius Banned - Pandora Given half a chance I would ban Pandora. Playing against a good Pandora player is such a negative experience that I feel it goes against what Malifaux is about. Yes, there are counters. But she's still incredibly difficult to deal with even if you have them. Joel, Mr Piskosz and others have proved just how strong Lilith is. I find summoning Dreamer boring to play with and against but I can't dispute the effectiveness. And Collodi is the new hotness, and also really strong. Reducing an enemy model to 1AP and then controlling that AP yourself is horrible. And a special mention to My Will-ed Stitched who are benefitting from Fear Not the Sword from Brutal Effigy. Zoraida and Lucius are support Masters in a faction that has Collodi, who can do everything they can't and really makes his crew sing. Outcasts Top tier - Leveticus, Jack Daw Competitive - Viktorias, von Schill, Hamelin Just no - Tara, Misaki Leveticus is the filth. Can't argue with that having played with and against him. That hiring pool is amazing and he gains so much by jumping around off other models. Jack Daw can be incredibly frustrating to play against due to the curses and his own mobility, and he can really boost Tormented models. I've got Hamelin down in the second tier because whilst he can swarm the board with rats, in a lot of circumstances I just don't feel they're that useful. He has some nice tricks but I don't rate them at the same level as Leve's or Daw's. Von Schill is a brilliant all-rounder and if the Viks get the jump on you, you've had it, but if you can get the jump on them then they're toast. Tara I feel benefits more from Resser models than Outcast. She is playable in Outcast but there always seems to be a better choice. And I feel Misaki loses so much compared to her 10T guise that she drops down. Gremlins Top tier - Som'er, Ophelia Competitive - Brewmaster, Ulix, Wong, Mah Just no - Zoraida Som'er, as has been covered by others, does everything whilst being next to impossible to pin down. I find Ophelia really strong due to being able to pick a target and then batter it with three 4/6/8 damage flips, whilst being sufficiently far away from retribution. If you can get Brewmaster working he can be a really negative experience for your opponent, but it is hard to get him at his best and he has to be in the right situation I feel. Ulix is brilliant fun but has some horrific matchups, particularly Neverborn, where I would never take him. Wong drops for me due to the caster weaknesses of terrain messing with his effectiveness and being vulnerable to being attacked. And Mah again is great fun - if she doesn't want to kill things herself, she can push her crew around instead. Zoraida I don't feel offers anything particularly special. The only time she was a pain in the neck was with Entourage in the scheme pool and she just Animal Shape'd her way across the table. Couldn't reach her to stop her. Otherwise, she tends to summon the voodoo doll that can occasionally be annoying but that's about it. 10 Thunders Top tier - McCabe Competitive - Shen Long, Misaki, Lynch Just no - Mei Feng, Yan Lo, Brewmaster McCabe is just as strong in 10T as he is in Guild. Here he just gets a load of new toys to work with. Shen Long is daunting to play against as all the conditions move around and models push, but a lot of times I'm just not sure if it is Shen Long that's so good or Sensei Yu. Misaki really benefits from Shadow Emissary and Recalled Training, and Lynch is Lynch. Solid. Brewmaster loses a lot from his Gremlin incarnation, enough to drop him here. Mei Feng and Yan Lo, I stand by prior comments.

We are currently sold out - all 24 tickets gone. Have to admit to being more than a little amazed but in a good way. Really appreciate the support! There are a couple of people who've messaged me looking for tickets - I'm in the process of checking and will let those guys know.

You want to share the joke with the class?

Organising a road trip for me and some clubmates up north of the border. Panzer, Psyduck and friends hopefully en route...

And again, with a photo of the Wyrd prizes. It's now 4 small mystery boxes (I've added another one!) and that Kaeris card is gorgeous. I may have to enter myself and 'do a Jimmy' in order to win it... One thing I am going to do - first pick from the raffle selection will go to the winner of Best Sports. I have long been an advocate of rewarding sportsmanship and I'm happy to be able to do so!