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.

I haven't had the energy to write about much this week (preparing for a charity run - which was a great event this year. I managed to get my wife to beat her personal best. I'm actually a little scared to try and beat mine from 10 years ago (I don't want to know how out of shape I have got, it's already going downhill) so I am happy to help my wife with (unwanted) encouragement), but I'll give it a go.
Tuesday at the club saw my Ratskins successfully complete an Exploration Action. they managaed to get rid of all the Zombies and Scavvies and save four Settlers.
My gaming new KR Multicase arrived the next day, but I waited to the weekend to move things around. Now my Necrons have their own Double Aluminimu case, but the two Monoliths will continue to travel separately. The new case now houses my entire Menoth force with plenty of space for expansion. Taking up a bit of that empty space for the time being is my Infinity (Combined Army and Yu Jing) minis along with my Malifaux (Outcasts) minis. I still do not know how I can tidy up all the boxes of Dark Angels that are cluttering the back of my wardrobe. I have a GW case that holds a basic force (a couple of squads each of Deathwing, tactical, devastators, assault, several characters, all three dreadnoughts and a couple of tanks). I'd like to put the remaining 75-80% of the force on some sort of shelving some day, but I'll have to annoy the wife a little more by keeping them in the back of the wardrobe.
Also I'm still waiting for this month's Maelstrom order, but I'm not really impatient about it as I'm going to take a couple trips soon to Florence (wife birthday) and Samadet (visit the in-laws). I have some time to figure out how the incoming Avatar of Menoth, Knights Exemplar unit, Paladin of the Wall and Errant UA are going to fit in with everything else. So this coming Tuesday will be a couple more games of Necromunda in lieu of playing in the big, mega, massive final game that is planned. I'm just gutted I'll miss it. When I come back though, I think I'll concentrate fully on Menoth (and by the time I get back it'll be time to order more Protectorate goodness) and start messing around with the themed lists (which calls for a second unit of Zealots...) as much as I can before Hordes MKII comes out and I get to have an excuse to start a Skorne force (I've already decided that they are going to be mostly green and gold).