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  1. Railroad Avenue Rampage A competitive, two-day Malifaux tournament in Bellingham, WA Aegis Games, 1431 Railroad Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225 50ss Tournament: Saturday April 29 - Sunday April 30 Crew Painting Contest: Saturday during the event Bonanza Brawl: Saturday after dark Player Pack: https://bit.ly/BhamRampage2023 Pre-registration: https://aegislgs.com/Railroad-Avenue-Rampage-2222-14095/
  2. Hey all! MWS Season three is kicking off! Our first event of the year, New Year's Retribution, is now open for registration on Longshanks: https://malifaux.longshanks.org/event/6881/ We are moving house! The MWS will be operating under a new Discord server. Join the party: https://bit.ly/MWS-discord We're changing up the series a bit, including allowing people's participation in real-life tournaments qualify for the MWS Championship! Check out the full Season 3 announcement here: https://bit.ly/MWS-S3 Hope to see some of you on Vassal!
  3. After a long year of grinding in out in the Malifaux World Series, 16 players have risen to the challenge of competing in the MWS Championship! These competitors have shown skill, determination, and a shocking ability to avoid tilting when that black joker flips their way. The first round begins this week. The championship will run for 6 weeks, with three rounds of round-robin in the group stage, followed by a top 8 cut that moves to single elimination format. The rounds are GG3, singles. Because of the unknown release timing for Madness of Malifaux, the competitors were polled how they preferred to handle new content and it was decided that no Madness content would not be allowed in the event. We will be trying to record and share as many of these games as possible. Follow along on the MWS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MalifauxWorldSeries/ World Championship 2022.pdf
  4. What crew is your opponent playing? Terrifying is extremely good... right up until it isn't. It's either the most busted defensive tech in the game, or it does literally nothing for you. As someone who plays several crews that rely on it (Nightmare, Woe), if I rely on Terrifying to keep my models alive then I'm gonna have a rough time if my opponent has some variance swing their way or if they manage their cards well. What I'm usually looking at is how many good cards they flip on their terrifying duels and how many cards they cheat to pass terrifying. If they cheat to pass terrifying, I'm going to do everything in my power to make them miss or cheat to hit. It may be helpful to think about it as resource drain, and only spend actions into Terrifying if you know you can afford to cheat enough times to guarantee hits and kills. Sometimes the right play is just to YOLO some swings and hope for the best (never into Nightmare FWIW). Terrifying puts a lot of resource pressure on the opponent, but it's definitely not a silver bullet defense. Some rules of thumb for playing into terrifying: Don't cheat the terrifying duel if you can't cheat the attack flip too It's OK to throw actions at terrifying without cheating, but don't make a plan around your attack succeeding UNLESS, failing the terrifying duel puts you in a worse position (looking at you Dreamer) If you know its coming, a single ruthless model goes a long way Woe, Nightmare, Tormented, Honeypot, are places you know for sure you'll see some terrifying.
  5. This is wrong per the offical FAQ:
  6. Added registration link! https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/414k80w8
  7. That's fair; but if this format becomes so popular that it's supplanting standard play. I think that would be a strong message for Wyrd to rethink their release/errata cycle, and I'm certain they'd listen--at which point there might be a lesser need for it the format and it would probably die off. Implicit in the BalanceFaux idea is a belief that the best state of the game is after Wyrd has had a chance to tune their creations. It's just carving out a space for the polished game to sit on a pedestal.
  8. There are quite a few crews that have 1 or 2 lynchpin models that would be rendered effectively unplayable without them. I don't think this creates a more diverse meta, and has as much or more collateral damage as a blanket ban does.
  9. It is a format that MWS might use from time to time. No one is saying it's anything more than another tool in the tool belt.
  10. Fixed this for you. You're using this to try to make a point about abusing power or something, but you're missing the point that people are already at the point where they're not enjoying the game and/or looking for alternatives. The errata cycle is long. Playing competitively can be extremely frustrating when there are a couple broken things. If there's a solution that keeps people who aren't having fun because of have balance involved in the m3e, that's better than losing them to another game, no?
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