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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.
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.
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.
Reading: Malifaux – 2nd Edition Rule Book
Listening: For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless InYpsilanti - Sufjan Stevens
Gaming: Lego Lord of the Rings
Watching: Daredevil – Season One
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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