Welcome to the game. Quite new to malifaux my self. I have to say of all the games I've played I have found the malifaux community to be the friendliest about
If you haven't already I'd sergeant giving the FAQs a glance, I found thay clarified a couple of confusing wordings for me.
http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/93515-malifaux-rules-dicussion-in-m2e/