My Malifaux beginning...

I haven’t yet mentioned anything about my first foray into the world of Malifaux. I had a little taster in the break week previous to round 4 of our Warmachine/Hordes campaign. Having already taken a shining to the Viktorias, it seemed that I would get hooked on the rest of the Outcasts. So with my Viktorias and Som’er Teeth Jones starters boxes, I waded in.

As usual I went in a tad unprepared having not read the rulebook, only printed off the necessary pages from a pdf version I randomly found on the internet. Admittedly, it actually isn’t that difficult to start Malifaux as quite a lot of the rules make sense and I had a patient teacher. Ish, as he’s known on our club forum, started off by showing me the basic game mechanics with a one model per side skirmish. My first impression of a game that is not ruled by dice, was surprisingly good. Flipping cards in order to perform actions sometimes feels a lot better.

With the basics covered, we went into a proper game. I think we had a 15ss game which enabled me to take the following:
The Viktorias (two hot chicks)
Johan
Taelor

Ish took:
Seamus
2 x Rotten Belles
Madam Sybelle

After breezing through the set up of the game, we began. We both managed to pick the same objective, with was a counter in the centre of the table. The game had it’s up and downs for both of us, (including me flipping a 12, 12 and 13 at one point and an ace, ace, 3 at another), but I claimed the victory in the end. I lost one of the Viktorias early on and it started to look worse when Ish resurrected on of his Belles. Taelor looks to like she can dish out a lot of damage and Johan can prove to be a nuisance. I just have to learn how they all combine together before looking into other models. I’m sure Ish was just going easy, but it was nice to win the first game. The bad thing now is I wont have another game for a few more weeks. This game was played three weeks ago at time of writing, I’m doing something with the wife this week and then there are two more weeks of the Warmachine/Hordes campaign. The campaign is also supposed to end in a big finale to. I do hope to get another game in before the year is out as I really enjoyed this one. I was particularly impressed with the alternate model activations.
For now, my new lovely ladies will just have to wait.