Are you able to use the terrain rules?

[Jonas Albrecht]

Are you capable of playing by the set up rules of the Rules Manual? Do you choose not to if you are?

[Dolomyte]

I want to qualify my no. I have two personal gaming tables, a 4 by 6 and a 3 by 3, which are themed and have just enough terrain to fill them (16-18 pieces per) so we cant use the terrain rules at home

My LGS probably maybe has enough terrain to use the terrain rules.

[psychocamel]

We used to kinda make do with some cheaply home-made houses and such, it didn't look the best but it did the job.

Now however, we have the sewer terraclips set, which looks so good it kinda puts the other stuff to shame.

So now we're basically assuming we've flipped sewers every time >_>

[Justin]

Nope.

Sometimes we go through the motions to see what general effect the terrain has and apply the rules of that effect (graveyard, magical nexus, what have you) but without the variety of terrain required we skip this more often than not.

[Q'iq'el]

I don't have all that much terrain but back when I started Malifaux, I went and made all the special terrain and some of location specific terrain. It often is no more than 1~2 pieces (rocks, water, hills, forests etc.), but that means whichever encounter I get, I can set up the table to contain most of its characteristic terrain.

I'd say no before Terraclips as I had no good way to make city and interior encounters, but now even that side of the game is covered.

I also don't think you have to build whole themed tables to play the Encounter rules by the book. A lot of terrain is inter-changeable, after all and generic green mat is all I need to set it up.

[pugwhan]

The LGS has a ton of terrain and space so we are able to play there and do just about any of the RM terrain options. Now when playing at home its a lot harder but I found a nice cheap way to do terrain.

Head over to your local fabric/craft store. Buy bundles of felt remnants fore a very low price. Grey squares are instant buildings and walls. Green can be cut into forests and hedgerows. Blue can be cut into rivers, lakes and ponds. There are a lot of options with different colors.

Now it may not make the best looking terrain but its cheap and super portable.

[schristofersen]

I'd really like to see terraclips be released in such a way as to make all the terrain possibilities in the various sets. I know there is some resistance by some people to terrain such as forest or the like in terraclip like form but the rules really make it simple to have a 3x3 piece of flat terrain that is marked as a forest and be able to use it. I've been using DnD terrain but i'd much rather have Malifaux specific.

[Radium]

At home I have some buildings, rocks and hedges and the like, and at our gaming club we have loads of Mordheim houses and swamps, forests, large rocky formations and the like. So at the club we can do a lot of the exterior locations, but none of the interior locations.

We usually just set up some terrain we feel like and play.

[ispep]

At the store we've pretty much got anything outdoors covered, but when it comes to "indoor encounters" we are severely lacking.

So far I've picked up one set of TerraClips sewers, I think I'm going to get a second, if I start playing more Malifaux.

[Drake]

The issue for me is having different terrain pieces for different areas of Malifaux.

At the moment, we use the same design buildings for all our outdoor locations, so what we need are different looking buildings so games feel like we are actually playing in different parts of Malifaux

[karn987]

Pretty much the same thing. We use them some of the time, but we don't have the variety of the terrain needed for about half of them. It would be great if Terraclips could eventually release sets and pieces for all of the terrain pieces the RM has in it. Otherwise it's a matter of space to store the terrain, time to take it out and set up, and as always, money to buy it with.

[Stonedog-7]

Like most, we can kind of cover most of the outdoor locations with general terrain but not the indoor ones... and we always flip for 1 of the random quirky pieces, even though they seem to go against me, particularly when i play pandora (forest & bog really slow down her movement shenanigans)

[Ratty]

A easy way to deal with it is print out my terrain cards and remove the ones you can't do then just shuffle them and pull out 1 at random. It's like having a random terrain table with just the ones you can use on it.

[CannonFodder]

We have enough in our LGS for all the outdoor terrain, and maybe a couple interior as long as we ignore the green base.

At home I have Green felt for my table and ordered 3x3 Zuzzy mat, with some nice pieces for swamp/forest along with WM/H hills and forests, with a couple small simple houses.

[dgraz]

voted 'other'. We can make a reasonable table for most terrain and we use it sometimes. But there are plenty of times we just throw a quick game together and we just throw down whatever looks good and go for it.

[nilus]

My local store has outdoors covered like most people but indoors are trickier. I plan to build a few pseudo-permanent 3 x 3 Terraclips boards to help with this.

[Keltheos]

I'm pretty sure the rules also state use what you have.

It's a robust system, it shouldn't be considered limiting if you don't have every single thing on the list or every iteration of the board types either. Case in point, I don't have an indoor lab or saloon to play on.

[gregdorf]

My local store has a ton of terrain that can be used for any situation, we just do not use the special rules.

[FearLord]

We probably have enough different terrain types to at the very least represent any type of terrain, but we tend to just throw the terrain together and not use any special pieces - I think this is mainly because we're limited for time and most people are still learning the game...

[Gensuke626]

Locally, we don't typically use the extra terrain rules for 2 reasons. One is that the terrain we use is shared with Warmachine players and comes in nice little themed boxes. We use what we can but it's not like we can go "Hey, we just flipped swamp for our game, can we trade terrain sets with you?" to the guys sitting next to use who've just finished setting up terrain. Well...we could...but I don't think that's polite.

The second part of it is that there are few dedicated Malifaux players in Hawaii. Most people here play 2 or 3 games and Malifaux is the newest one, so the players find it easier to get a Pick-up game of Warmahordes or 40k. That usually means that when a league is run, the first week is getting folks to remember rules. From there, most just find the extra terrain rules to be too much to remember on top of everything else...

[schristofersen]

A easy way to deal with it is print out my terrain cards and remove the ones you can't do then just shuffle them and pull out 1 at random. It's like having a random terrain table with just the ones you can use on it.

Lest this be glossed over by people I think it needs to be highlighted how great these cards (and the mission cards) can be for making your games easier.

[Jonas Albrecht]

Tuesday and myself pretty much have two settings we can use. Badlands and Swamp. We're not much in the way of terrainsmiths yet, and we're hoping Terraclips lets us make use of the game's set up rules.

[pugwhan]

A easy way to deal with it is print out my terrain cards and remove the ones you can't do then just shuffle them and pull out 1 at random. It's like having a random terrain table with just the ones you can use on it.

I gotta admit I'm love with all your cards. Just one question are going to get them updated for the changes in the RM? Such as which schemes can't be taken with certain strategies?

[Ratty]

I gotta admit I'm love with all your cards. Just one question are going to get them updated for the changes in the RM? Such as which schemes can't be taken with certain strategies?

They all got updated when the RM was released, they should already say this. Remember that cards are physical objects and don't automatically get updated when the website changes.

[Justin]

They all got updated when the RM was released, they should already say this. Remember that cards are physical objects and don't automatically get updated when the website changes.

I often have this problem with reality as well.