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s inability to be every truly happy heck entire generations have thrown away inheritances to sit at the feet of mysterious men in the hope of discovering true bliss which is itself nothingness which says something in itself but this is probably not the place for it i should be happy right now but instead i find myself sulking it being a monday morning in the office could account for this but i tend not to mind mondays too much it s those tuesdays you have to keep an eye on as the darkness of 2015 slowly gives way to the still dark but getting gradually lighter 2016 three things are certain firstly supporting manchester united has never been more infuriating secondly turns out that sitting in cold water for 6 th months is enough to get you an oscar and thirdly 9 th age is well and truly upon us putting aside all views on viability and the etc vote that installed it though one should never not mention the brilliance that is the lawyer s strike in greece that is preventing the venue from being confirmed who negotiates between the sides if lawyers are on strike come to think of it a nation with no working lawyers perhaps bliss is attainable after all it is here to party and in the uk 2016 saw its real birth with two sizable events kicking things off in sheffield and cardiff so why the sulking well simply put we don t have the finished product which just annoys me i don t like beta testing i don t like kickstarters i like finished products i can obsess about and throw too much money at yes my parents despair at my capitalist leanings is this good in the long run of course the team are working on sorting out as many balance as issues as remotely possible great i m just annoyed that after taking part in my first full on two day event of 9 th age all my built up 9 th fever it s a thing has to sit around impotently until they release the new books weeks from now i can t even play around with list building what new hell is this to fill in this yawning chasm in my life hyperbole is in this year i am going to share my reaction posts to the sneak peaks the team at 9 th age have been drip feeding us until next time raf posted by raffazza at 12 10 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 12 december 2015 poking a toe through the breach as i embarked upon my odysseyan quest to sample the delights of the various game systems on offer following the great schism of 2015 my first port of call in the storm of uncertainty was the peculiarly unique world of wyrd s malifaux this is a game that i had always been intrigued by but had little knowledge of the sum of my knowledge in a general sense was an episode the fantastic podcast world s end radio did years ago discussing the background and fundamentals of the game more locally i knew it as the game that current warhammer etc captain fatcraig used to play apparently inevitably getting into and placing in the masters before quitting i believe as people do across all games at an edition change even more recently in the past 18 months or so occasional guest author on this blog the panzer himself had finally had enough of dice hating him and leading to him throwing himself into the game full bore i was loosely aware of some of the models some of which i thought was great some of which do nothing for me of course and the general pseudo steampunk western vibe i also had a vague recollection that the background and imagery was supposed to be rather racy you ll agree then limited knowledge going in which is fun really the below are some short thoughts following my initial exposure to this game so first up i browsed around online to see what was as they say what some cool resources on there the pullmyfinger website has a lot of information which is handy because wyrd s website really doesn t on a related note i noticed for the first time and i never thought i would say this that games workshop s website is really very good allowing for easy browsing of the various models and armies on offer with wyrd well not so much i literally have no idea what is out at all what is only out in the old metal models and what has been released in plastic and end up having to resort to checking out element games to see what they have on sale i am sure that maybe the information is all out there on wyrd s website but i haven t found it not that i tried too hard but then i shouldn t have to surely one other thing i learnt from the internet is that if you go down this particular rabbit hole you have to change out the end of as many words as possible to faux to be taken seriously a bizarre affectation to be sure but is seems a small price to pay so enough foreplay and into the meat of things the local club south london legion the guys who have put on the very well received london s burning and london s calling events is a good group of guys who play pretty much everything out there including a small core of malifaux addicts here i managed to organise some intro games playing three short games with a growing number of models to get a sense for the feel of the mechanics i liked it my wallet was not happy about it but hey that s half the fun my main girl perdita has been doing a good job of shooting things in the head so far cue weeks of trying to get a sense of what was out in plastic i have no interest in metal models going in to a new game i could get into things purely from a model perspective here i noticed the paucity of centralised information relating to the actual models around i did eventually find out something quite useful though i don t actually like most of the models out there other than a lot of the guild models and some of the ten thunders stuff the more fantastical stuff really doesn t appeal to me this meant i could more easily limit the number of models i bought and encourage me to paint things win win well perhaps less so on the last bit cue some more reading up and listening to podcasts there are a lot of them out there as i decided on what to get to get the ball rolling my first purchase consisted of lady justice crew box perdita ortega crew box sonia criid crew box guild austringers box the malifaux 2e book deck of fate cards bringing law and traffic cones to the dark streets of malifaux not long after i added abuela ortega lone marshall crossroads expansion book scheme strategy cards the thinking was simple enough get enough to get my teeth into things and to give me some flexibility the next day seriously these deliveries are fast down the rabbit hole we go nino the ninja or something so the book is an interesting beast the rules are all pretty clearly laid out and make sense all good the background really the key to my enjoyment of things is cool but very short after the succinct descriptions of the overall world and the short summary of each faction in the game i noticed an interesting quirk of this game the way they convey the background this is of course coming from historical bias i am used to the stage being set in a pseudo encyclopaedic style even if sometimes knowingly coloured by narrative bias even without realising it it turns out i really like it and am not a fan of this alternative way of doing things i get it of course conveying the background in story form is a fantastic way for people to swiftly become immersed into the world furthermore not all companies have the infrastructure to have an in house publishing division providing this side of things it comes down to personally a matter of weighting and my position not being overly helped by my not being that interested in the subject of the stories published in the main book or the follow up book crossroads i haven t bought the third book yet overall through i enjoy the sense of a wider complete world that this game inhabits i like the fluff of my chosen faction the guild coming across as a very grimdark mixture of the law in a lawless land riddled throughout with corruption and competing interests it feels somehow real as for the perceived raciness i am not sure if it has been toned down since the first edition but it s not something that really comes across in the fluff some or perhaps quite a few of the models are overly sexualised but despite understanding why some people do not like that i personally have no issue with it blind lady with a big sword my favorite model in the game pity i can t paint worth a damn one thing became apparent when it came to assembling models the guys over at wyrd are sadistic there is no acceptable reason for the models being this fiddly to assemble it is madness small models with heads that are made of 3 parts just shouldn t be a thing malifaux is an interesting beast there is a large and passionate community out there for this game as can be seen by the large number of podcasts on offer interestingly however the unique nature of the game makes it a tough subject to podcast about in a coherent way not saying the podcasts aren t fun or good and am sure they get even more so the more you know about the game but the options are so varied and people seem agree with each other so rarely that one can easily feel like a oarless dingy in the wilds of the southern ocean cowboys with big birds are a thing right all this makes entering this particular shark tank very confusing there is no concrete source of information you can get to build on as a foundation given the way in which the opposition the strategies the schemes the deployment the terrain and your available collection will all drastically affect the way you go about list construction never mind further details of how to approach an actual game when you factor in the specifics of what your opponent has taken add to this the main issue i have noticed with going into a new game and it gets confusing this issue i raise is what i shall very imaginatively call the numbers on a page conundrum some people love this the challenge of making the maths work to the best of our ability hearthstone seems to be the ultimate version of this i however have less than any interest in this state of affairs i like being restricted by other factors such as fluff etc add to this the lack of some quartermaster type app to easily design lists whilst offline and things were just getting hard carrying your own coffin to battle saves a lot of time especially if your head is on fire then i decided to make things happen and just arrange some games i ground my teeth assembled some models and trusted that the madness would take care of itself i ll go into details at a later date but i shall summarise my initial thoughts as follows this is a brilliant game all my issues with it fade away when put against the fun of playing this game the tables look good the pre game list building is a great additional challenge the thought process of selecting schemes to complement or make up for strategies is brilliant the multiple ways of scoring points adds flexibility the card management mechanic allows various approaches the sheer diversity in how various models and crews operate explains the endless ramblings that create the online fan presence for this game the fact a crew easily fits into my work bag on paper a lot of the above annoy or perhaps just confuse me but when it comes to the table it s fun it helps of course having literally no idea what my opponent can do so i get to just worry about myself insert comment on typical imperialistic oppression of native races here right now i can honestly say that if i could play this game two or three times a week i would take it up and feel like i wanted more something i haven t been able to say about a game in years my enjoyment is enhanced by the fact i know i will not fall into the endless pit this game could easily become i do not like most of the models in the range so won t be buying them i have always also enjoyed imposing restrictions on myself in all games i play so the challenge of trying to complete the various mad strategies against the legion of even madder possible opponents utilising a small pool of models fits seamlessly into that it also has had me doing some terrible painting which twitter tells me is a good thing so there is that i shall report back on games and further thoughts in future posts but for now i have to say this crazy world of cards gothic horror clichés murky options and of course fauxs is very impressive have hat will travel until next time raf posted by raffazza at 22 06 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom element games search this blog raffazza on twitter tweets by raffazza if you re on here you should be listening to these bad dice daily the dwellers below heelanhammer the watchtower podcast bad dice kiwihammer garagehammer 6 dice monkeys chumphammer my blog list the magnificent bastards point hammered patreon model 2 jsa kuge delegate i m not going to say it didn t take forever to get it done but here it is note that ryan did not want it based he wants to base it himself to match the 7 years ago the bad dice podcast daughters of khaine work in progress it s the daughters of khaine release weekend so i thought i would post about the things i am working on the never ending paint mission is on going i ve n 8 years ago paint hammer ironjawz megaboss painted image element games wargaming webstore hey guys super quick post managed to paint up my ironjawz megaboss over the weekend pretty happy with him b 9 years ago kiwi hammer space wolves wolf guard as promised i ve got a few more photo updates of my space wolves here are 5 of my wolf guard in terminator armour i still have weathering and basing to 10 years ago pages home 8th edition special characters a review blog archive 2016 1 february 1 9th age phoney war 2015 16 december 1 october 2 july 4 june 2 april 1 march 1 february 1 january 4 2014 17 december 1 november 1 october 2 september 1 july 2 june 3 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 1 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the hobby since 19...