The_death_jester

As stated in the title would like to add the Seamus Avatar to my collection of anyone in the UK or Europe was interested in selling. 

I might drive up from Oxford for this. Is there reasonably priced accommodation nearby? 

Cheers for the reply. I'll pop down next week if that's ok. Will probably bring some redchapel stuff to sit in the corner and paint up. 

Can you put me down for a place please?

Robbie Crickley will sort payment this week.

Recently moved to Oxford is there a regular meet up in the city?

Just picked up my first faction for 3E and haven't played since first ed so looking forward to winning the wooden spoon. 

1 hour ago, Gnomezilla said:

I disagree a bit with the above. Hunters lack something in durability and so does Miss Kore, if the armor becomes unavailable. (There was a recent remark on a pool of seven wounds not being durable in and of itself. This is a bit of a change from M2e and kind of fits here.) If there wasn’t a crew’s worth of Von Schtook’s finest armor ignoring models threatening you then a hunter would have been a safe bet, but in this situation, maybe not.

 

I am still terrible at deployment also and am happy to receive any tips going.

I'll take that point but add a caveat that if you're playing on a table where over 20" of movement doesn't allow you to pick what can and can't target you after that turn then the table may need some more thought. Movement should always be taken into consoderation when discussing durability as if you can't catch or target something you can't take it out.

I'm not saying it's going to win a game all on it's lonesome but it's going to get work done as well as be a threat that can't be ignored. 

But I digress as the original point about the Guardians toss being a forgiving tool to mitigate against deployment flubs or being caught on the hop was what was to be my main contribution. 

I find with my Hoffman crew a great boon is having a guardian tossing my own models. Suddenly you have a scary fast hunter with a couple of power tokens on them 10" across the board with a full activation to go. It's a great way to apply early preasure, potentially wipe out an opposing piece or set up for strategies etc. Plus a hunter is something that will take some substantial resources to dislodge for many crews. Hugely helps mitigate deployment flubs too. 

The flip is of course that Malifaux is a hobby, one people will hopefully be playing for decades of their lives. I have a huge collection but that's been accrued over a period of 10 years or so. Even on a restricted budget of lets say 5 quid a week you are looking at 260 quid per annum which is a substantial amount of models.

So while getting everything at once is hugely expensive 2-3 years of low scale hobbying puts you on par with everyone else if you're consistent and clever with purchases.

 Plus if you think about it, in a good strong scene you'll only be getting good enough after about a year to 18 months to really be competing properly anyway.

9 hours ago, LeperColony said:

 Malifaux has a lot of variables that muddy the utility of "mathhammer."  Player skill, terrain set ups, plain old luck are so influential that I don't think any match up is deterministic pre-game. 

Yup had a game of corrupted idols recently where my opponent rushed to a single corner. As far as possible away from my entire crew. Every single strategy marker fell into that corner amd gave him 4 obscenely easy VPs I bashed all but one of his models managed to get my 4 vps through schemes but he got 1 scheme right at the death to win it. There wasn't a crew change in the world that was digging me out of that clustercuss 😂

I'm really old fashioned and just can't bring myself to buy ready made terrain. 🙂

Generally speaking there's a core of models which are essentials for a faction and do the most work in tournaments and the rest can be take it or leave it. Mostly it's a case of gamer ADD and completionism rather than having huge competitive edge in my opinion. Money and models are great but clever and astute play tends to come out on top. 

58 minutes ago, Trample said:

We've seen better attendance in our area in the last couple of Malifaux tournaments than we have in years. There are new players coming into M3e in pretty good numbers. I don't watch or play any other games, so I don't know what they're switching from, but they're showing up. 

Well that's definitely encouraging. 

1 hour ago, Toqtamish said:

And tons of GB players are doing the opposite. SFG is sadly suffering it's own supply chain issues for a while now. I play both but I have so many GB teams I am gonna trade some for Malifaux stuff. 

Yeah I've been lucky I have 4 full guilds so the supply issues haven't  hurt me. Similarly I have an extensive Malifaux collection so outside of not being able to get the books I'm not prevented from playing.

I think I'll leave it til after Xmas to see if there is more stability in supply then before I try organising any Malifaux tourneys.

1 hour ago, dope_danny said:

Warcry and Wild West Exodus in my area. The 2nd players just shelved their stuff till its sorted out and the people trying it for the first time got burnt and now have an opinion that Wyrd is a name you can't trust and games you don't touch and got refunds or just moved on.

Yeah it's a case of if I can't buy it I won't play it here. I have 10 different crews covering 4 factions but people simply aren't interested in playing with loaners while waiting for their own stuff which could be 6 months away from a release. 

Which is a shame as I think Malifaux is the best skirmish scale game out there. I've even had to repurpose what was supposed to be a Malifaux tournament to a GB one due to non-attendance due to supply issues. 

It's already happened in my area. Everyone jumped to Guildball.

20 minutes ago, gozer said:

Did orders with both models and books split into two orders? 

I hope this is the case. At this point, I would have just not ordered the faction book so I could get the crew box to actually play the game.

 Yes that's what has happened to my order about an hour ago. Very admirable of them considering that shipping to Ireland was 24 dollars and that by doing this for a single neverborn faction book they are essentially wiping out their sale of said book by covering a second shipping fee. 

24 minutes ago, Yew Arcane said:

They will be providing digital copies to anyone who bought a book. They will be providing more details soon.

There was a reason this question was aimed at a Wyrd staff member. It is a question of whether or not granting early access in light of substantial delays to physical has been considered. An answer from someone with knowledge of the process rather than a standard in due course is what I was seeking. 

@Kyle I understand the delays as unfortunate as they are. Have Wyrd considered releasing PDF codes for faction books to Gen Con pre-orders? I'm sure that access to the content digitally would certainly be seen as a welcome gesture for patience and support and go some way towards salving a large amount of the ill feeling.

24 minutes ago, Adran said:

 the initial announcement said they believed they would get it sorted by the middle of last week. 

 

No I absolutely agree that an estimate is exactly that an estimate. But it's been a poor experience from start to finish. To make matters even more quizzical I ordered several days before a colleague and they have already received their goods. So really can only mark it down as a truly poor consumer experience.

I'm still sitting on unfulfilled status and currently considering whether or not to cut my losses. Stating it would be cleared by the middle of last week and then letting it roll on to a new business week is very frustrating. I've been quite patient up to this but it's now really started to rankle me. 

Wasn't there an offer made earlier by Wyrd that due to the original delays people who bought Faction books would also receive a code for a PDF copy? Surely releasing that to waiting GenCon buyers would be reasonable considering they've been hit more so than those awaiting the more general release?

Yeah I've had no correspondence from Wyrd and order simply states unfulfilled. At this rate it's entirely possible that the faction book will be released on a European webstore like Wayland before my order will be fulfilled by Wyrd and I could have saved myself the inevitable import charges and annoyance. 

Lesson learned.

Hi all, 

Just asking for some info from people who have ordered during Gencon before. Generally how long after Gencon is it until Wyrd post out your items?

I'd be interested in the three Miss sculpts the alt rasputina and Killjoy if you could give me a figure for postage to Ireland 🙂

Hi all, 

Seeing as how I've been cheeky enough to comment on some members work and to give some limited painting advice I think it was only right I put up my first two crews painted since starting back. Be gentle 😂

9 hours ago, Sol_Sorrowsong said:

Is contrast medium something special, or does a laminar medium or retarding medium work just as well?

It is different as the type of medium the pigment is suspended in in the contrast paints is apparently different. Now i can't comment if glaze medium by Vallejo works as well or if GWs Lahmian medium is also compatible but given that we're dealing with waterbased mediums and paints I can't imagine that substituting one for the other would be a complete disaster 🙂

Very nice work dude really love how Carver turned out in particular.

I'mCertainly not advice on how to paint but here's a couple of things I've noticed with contrast: zeninth undercoating still works you just have to go heavier on the grey and white sprays than normal leaving the black only in the deepest recesses. Also I found that a 50/50 mix of contrast paint to contrast medium really got rid of any pooling for me.

Enjoy getting M3E compatible.