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  1. What an amazing project. You are one seriously talented person. So glad you share, I can learn a ton just watching!
  2. Thanks Furio and Arli. Great point about the track is a little isolated. I have several extra inches of track from the piece I bought so will be easy to work up a nice flat section. Thanks for the idea.
  3. Thank you Ferossa, those are encouraging words about the terrain. And your starting game system sounds perfect, will being that way for sure! Thanks again for the tips and comments.
  4. Absolutely stunning. Did you have any challenges getting that large a tree to fix securely to the base?
  5. Thanks for the kind words Cy-Fi, coming from you especially I am honored. And super thanks for the constructive criticism. Excellent point on the value of defining area of hazard. I can easily see how that could be an issue with something as amorphous as pools of light. I’ll see what I can come up with on that. Good catch on the bottom edges of my hipped hill. My first attempt at base material was ¼” foam core in 12” squares which totally curled up into little umbrellas when I put the spackle on it for texture. That hill was one of the original squares I kept and repurposed into this final version, but it no longer sits down flush into the grid so now the bottom edges are exposed. I totally overlooked that. Thanks man, that’s easy to fix.
  6. Thank you Ferossa. You don't think it looks too crowded on the board? From what I've read I know you need a lot of pieces to play around, and 1/3 - 1/2 coverage is recommended, but mercy it looks busy to me.
  7. Sort of the opposite of severe - you could travel 2" for each inch allowed. In other words, you could travel twice as far rather than half as far. But like I said, I know that mechanic isn't in the rules. Just thought it would be interesting.
  8. I’ve never played miniatures before, but a friend convinced me Malifaux would be a great way to get started (thanks Andy) so I’m jumping in. I still haven’t played my first game but have been reading a ton in preparation. While waiting for my figures to arrive I’ve built my first terrain base and was hoping for some honest and critical feedback as to playability. My first set will be Mei Feng and her Rail Crew, and my wife is starting with Lucas McCabe and the Relic Hunters. I want the terrain to work for a wide range of crews, but knew it would conceptually be in the badlands, and I had to have a train track for my boys. Before I began I established a number of requirements: The set was to be abstract. I’m not a fan of a lot of the “realistic” wild west buildings and such that I’ve seen. I’ve always figured imagination fills in the blanks far better. It had to be inexpensive. The base is 1” foam insulation with spackle spread over it. Most of the terrain pieces are electrical or plumbing parts I also got at the hardware store. Add in some sprinkle-on grassy textures from the model train store and this whole setup has only cost me a few bucks. It had to be modular. I live in a condo and space is limited so I cut the base into 18” squares. I apologize for not having figures in the photos. I only received them recently and haven’t started assembling them yet. I included measurements on some of the key pieces so you could get a sense of the scale. I see the hipped hill and the slope more as molded base than actual terrain pieces, but when I started spreading everything out it feels really busy and tight. Is this too crowded for good game play? Do you think I have enough variation in size and type of terrain? Will this board be overly favorable to either ranged or melee? Thanks a ton for any and all feedback, and please feel free to be brutally honest. As I said this is my first try at building terrain. I see this as a sinkhole over a soulstone mine. Severe terrain so -1 travel. No travel penalty for gentle slopes, but if my opponent agrees I would like to have the pools of irradiated light coming out of this structure do Hazard damage if your figure stops within the glow. It appears some ner-do-wells wreaked havoc with the Malifaux railroad. That’s ok, will give my Rail Crew something to do in their spare time. It may look like a thin slice of polished geode, but this small plane is the result of a weakness in the fabric of the Breach. Time shifts quickly forward when you enter the plane – even though there is no mechanism in the rules for this, I would like to have this area be a +1 inch for each inch of travel across it. Would that totally break the game? Various electrical parts. Treat them as dense with soft cover? Various plumbing parts. Treat them as blocking with hard cover? This hill is made of dried grout I found in the bottom of a bucket I was cleaning out. All I did was glue the pieces together, stick them on a piece of the leftover 1” foam I used for the terrain, blended them together with spackle, and spray painted the whole lot. Hedge rows made of a piece of floral foam. Trunks are random splinters from a 2x4 I broke up with a claw hammer. My understanding is this type of item would be dense with soft cover. Thanks in advance for any and all feedback!
  9. All this is SUPER helpful, thank you. I can't wait to start playing. Almost done with my terrain and then will start assembling and painting figures. No doubt then a lot more questions will come up, lol. I'm planning to post photos of my terrain when it's finished to get some feedback on playability. Hopefully will have that ready by this weekend, and would love your feedback. What a helpful bunch of folks.. thank you again.
  10. Excellent, thank you for the info. Not sure how I missed that but figured it had to be that way.
  11. I’ve never played a miniatures game before so I’m studying everything I can get my hands on before I start my first game of Malifaux. After reading the rule book a couple of times and tons of posts here on the forum I still have one basic question on getting started. Thanks in advance for any clarification you can provide. We decide to play a 30ss game. I have figures in my crew that total up to exactly 30, but my opponent only gets to 27. Do those 3 extra soulstones go into her cache to use during the game, or are they lost? Seems basic I know but I’m totally stumped, and I’ve ordered two crews for my wife and I to play where I think this is going to be the case. Thanks again for the help.
  12. Hello from Seattle, WA. A friend of mine who is a serious miniatures gamer recommended Malifaux as a great starting point so here I am. Tons of games in my past, but never miniatures. So I'm reading lots (got the full rule book with card stats and have been cover to cover twice), trying to glean as much info as I can from the forums, and looking forward to my first game soon. Right now I'm building the 3x3 terrain and having a blast already.
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