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Mentioning Malifaux

Only a handful of people have any idea how they discovered the world just outside of our existence, but only the faintest veil kept our two realities apart...and all walls can be knocked down.

Malifaux - 2nd Edition Rule Book



Hi Gang, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

Hope the week has been a good one. I just started a new job this week, so that’s been pretty awesome!

When I started this blog I wasn’t exactly sure which direction it would go. Would it be a strictly miniatures blog? Would it focus on one miniature game exclusively? Would it be about hobbies in general? I’m happy with how it’s going. I like that it’s largely about miniatures, with other hobbies thrown in fortnightly. Let me know what you think? Is there something you’d like me to focus more on?

If I were going to focus exclusively on miniature game / line it would be Malifaux. This might seem funny because I’ve barely mentioned Malifaux up until now. But secretly in the background, while I’ve been covering all the awesome Victorian Horror-Steampunk World of Smog minis, I’ve been amassing a bunch of awesome Victorian Horror-Steampunk Malifaux minis. In fact off to the right of the very first picture on my blog I snuck in The Hungering Darkness.

Malifaux

I didn’t really want to mention it because I knew I would want to devote a whole blog post to mentioning Malifaux, and was too busy paining up my World of Smog dudes. Now, I still have over half of the World of Smog minis to paint, but I’m taking a little sabbatical and moving over to Malifaux for a bit.

I LOVE the setting of Malifaux: late 1700’s, a portal opens, people go in and explore, they find these crazy stones that bring magic back into the real world but can only be recharged by being around people when they die. A roaring trade in these “soulstones” kicks off and the city on the other side of the portal (The Breach) gets re-built: Malifaux. Then a decade later, suddenly the portal starts to close, people become frantic, those on the outside will lose magic, those on the inside will be stuck in Malifaux. As the portal gets smaller and smaller the people on the outside can hear sounds of battle, screams, a torso flies through just before the portal closes, and carved into its flesh is “Ours”.

So now it’s 100 years later and the portal has just re-opened…

Pretty cool eh? Well I sure think so.

Malifaux

It also helps that the models are beautiful (more detailed that a lot of the Games Workshop stuff I was used to), and the company is really good at engaging with their community. That being said, I find the models much more difficult to assemble, but I’ll talk more about that next time.

I’m coming at Malifaux from a different perspective than many of the Malifaux blogs and podcasts that I’ve seen. They often focus equally on game strategy and modelling, or often just on strategy. I’ll be focusing solely on the modelling side of things, much as I’ve done with my World of Smog posts.

I’ll leave you this week with some of the Malifaux resources that I follow:
Every month or so Ash posts a great game of Malifaux under his moniker: “Unto the Breach”

I think this comes out fortnightly, and it’s the official Wyrd podcast building up the world of Malifaux.

Not only Malifaux, but great paint jobs and photos

I’ll stop here, otherwise the whole post will just turn into links, but I just want to make sure you’re aware of the largest internet miniature site.

As I say, there are a whole whack of great resources out there which we can talk about in future weeks.

Thanks for checking out my first baby-steps into the world of Malifaux on The Art of Caesura.


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Next week:
We'll look at the miniatures for Malifaux and those that I've managed to get my hands on so far. 

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