Mr Oogie Boogie

I read a story where zoraida creates a rift and travels back in time to earth to leave a souls tone for Emily who I assume is herself so Oraida can open portals for an unspecified amount of time. So it would be easy to introduce creatures feom other parts of malifaux or earth to add replacement crews for dead man's hand crews. I mean i5s a good way 5o keep the game fresh but o camnunderstand why players don't like it cos it makes their models obsolete 

Or the gibbering hordes. The sea creatures may be good for new crews not just alts. There are so many possible replacements for dead characters and their followers. 

Personally I think they Nedd more crews to be brought in to replace the dead ones. From more carved backgrounds. For example we k ow what happened to London but nothing on what happened to the north. Back when malifaux is set the north south divide and hatred of the south existed even back then so the north wouldn't rush to help London. We have welsh miners in malifaux for example. And the French where are the fre lnch in all this.  And the Africa s. I think there is far more scope for new crew to fill rhe place on the desd mans hands. Not to mention the other families of the bayou, or perhaps an expansion into other areas of malifaux woth new crews feom neverborn or creatures from the new areas. 

brave man  lol if i had posted this i would have been torn to pieces lol 

for malifaux figures, does anyone know?  and is it safe just so i know wether to prep these away from my dog and nephew or if its safe

yep its always active on the discord, ive had had to turn off my notifications lol 

my huge malifaux order arrived in the uk today, and got through customs without a check! yey! no import tax lol, its all good, working my through the many many miniatures, its weird glueing metal now, when i collected gw it was all metal, but since ive been back into models, ive been plastic  all the way. lol just a bit weird

it all came so far all in good order, all except ross jebson who came with a snapped eseal leg. but i managed to fix it by supergluing the back leg back on, and then using uv resin to  completely seal the break

but other than that 580 dollars well spent, got about three months of painting to do ready for the easter sale lol 

im surprised at how efficient wyrd is at getting stuff out and to you, considering i live in the uk, it was super fast. 

but i have a question, the 5900 or so  points i have, do i have to buy something   then use those points on another item, or can i just use the points to pay? im not intending on using them till around gencon.  but i cant see anywhere that explains it?  i wish i had more money to spend on those limited editions lol .

also can a mod or admin give me a warning point, just having 1 is driving me insane lol i dont like odd numbers, and it irritates me lol 

only place i know in warhammer where goblins can walk freely in a human city is marienberg, where they worked with all the races as mercenaries. so they sorta can just walk around carefully.  

also the fact that it hints gremlins arnt from malifaux originally did make me wonder, if they arnt from there originally did they fall through a breach from another world? 

just cos i heard malifaux buys a LOT of pork off them so trhere must be gremlin traders

from the bearly together, i got all but 2 pieces to fit, in the end i just forced the last two pieces in, god knows if its the right way i just got so sick of that one model il just putty any bits to look right its a deceptively hard model to put together  especially after the other two lulled me into a false sense of security

is it a case of gremlins can go anywhere as long as they arnt causing trouble?

and yeah tales of malifaux on breachside broadcast everyone just stares at him, gthe guard the merchents the ticket vendor the snack guy lol 

yeah wong goes to a market in the city then to a wresting match he got weird stares but no one stopped him 

also today i found out gremlins are allowed in malifaux city. i thought they where banned 

as im listening to number 64, and it suggests that gremlins arnt from malifaux originally as it states one of wongs henchmen is from  the first gremlin family to settle in malifaux

On 12/3/2021 at 12:38 PM, aquenaton said:

I really enjoy knowing the lore behind the alt-models in the factions. The idea of the mad circus is good, the pirate-molly es amazing and the cat-lady that is Hamelin all look good and knowing they have a place in the universe is cool. Some models are just alternatives, like another pose from Seamus or the likes. Those do not need anything IMO, the christmas Rasputina does not need anything, as it doesn't make much sense.

As Malifaux is a game based on characters, adding importance to a character that will only be an alternative master may be counter-producing, as that character is "less avaigable" than the others on the big plot. I like to see small stories about the alt-models, but would not like to see them in the spotlight of the Big Lore, we have the real masters for that

i agree, thats why i say just 5 or 6 lines is enough 

46 minutes ago, solkan said:

Please stop and look up "Wyrd Miniatures, LLC".

I know there's a saying about preaching to the choir, but the problem is that what you're doing isn't even that.  The choir and the choir director are off busy working, and we're a bunch of congregation members bullshitting about someone's opinion about what the choir should be doing, while the usher has to hang around to make sure no one starts a fight.  😐

 

anbd your point is? 

more like what do the shareholders want it to be. even company owners have bosses

not for my mates or myself  and we played since the 80s  when  models had their individual history 

do you remember when rank and file troops all had names anbd a bit of history like the orc mercenaries. for example 

or the nightmare box of skeletons that each ordinary skeleton had a story for it. and they where just skelebobs. 

 and yes the back story helps with emersion and does boost sales, no matter what you wrongly think lol 

thin kabout it this way, if  back stories didnt effect sales why bother having any stories at all, if eveyrone hates the back stories of characters like you suggest then why put any history in at all, cos no one needs any storylines at all cos everyone would just buy the miniatures without question with no history or explanation. 

there is a paper written on the importance of narratives in wargaming https://www.jstor.org/stable/26397225?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents

in it it states that the narrative  creates high end engagement and emersion, and can mean the success or failure of a game. 

for example would people  buy more of yarrick the generic commissar with powerfist ,  because he has a cool fist. or would  they be more likely to buy yarrick, hero commissar, hero of Armageddon and nemesis to ghazgul

for example the black library books where created to make people buy more models,  and specifically the models of the heros you find in the books.  they also act as a way to get people to emerse, they arnt just writing the novels for the sake of the novels 

also a lot of gw players buy models due to their fluff and back story even if they never intend to use those figures. there id solid proof fluff helps sell

i personnally am more likely to buy a kit bsed on its story but that might be cvos im an ex warhammer/gw player  rocinante is a she i believe 

i know its a diorama im not talkign about the diorama im talking about the style of dark on one side and lit by the light, so black and white almost

ignore the fact its a diaroma imagine its on a base, and that painting style

i think the alts would be more immersive if they and even just five lines of fluff just my opinion. 

16 hours ago, Regelridderen said:

So what you’re saying is; you don’t like it, because you think gaming models should look, as if no effort has been put into them?

Why? Is it because they make the rest of the table look bad in comparison? Or something else?

I can’t wrap my head around, what you’re saying? 

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@Mr Oogie Boogie My Google fu is weak, will you provide some links? 😊

this sorta thing 

not my picture or model. just this sort of thing 

i know nothing comes painted, i just wondered if it came with the base. cheers