How Do Story Encounters Work?

[Enkmar]

Hey folks. I've never tried a Story Encounter, in fact I've yet to play a game of Malifaux. I've bought some minis though. I'm intrigued about Story Encounters because I think a co-op skirmish experience could be a lot of fun. Could anyone run me through how they work with as much detail as possible? Thanks!

[Bengt]

Story Encounters are generally not co-op. They are like normal games except the strategy is asymmetric, and are subsequently less balanced.

There are a few that are for more than two players where the players are formed into teams so they'll be cooperating to some extent, e.g. Joint Task Force on page 97 of crossroads.

[Ludvig]

I thought Enkmar meant the transmortis box etc. I don't know how those work unfortunately.

[Bengt]

Chapter Five of the rulebook is called Story Encounters. Crossroads contains "Scenarios", but several use aspects of Story Encounters so I assume they are supposed to fall under that umbrella. The Crossroads seven box has scenarios as well, they that are formatted in the same way as those in Crossroads (I don't own it but there is a sample picture in GMorts unboxing).