Showing posts with label Malifaux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malifaux. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Body of Evidence, McMourning and Crew
Far better then the old sculpt for McMourning, and the nurses have a fantastic Silent Hill creepy-sexy thing going for them. And I still love Canine Remains, which suit this crew just fine.
Take Back The Night, Molly Squidpiddge and Crew
The Take Back the Night box. Molly's crew. I've loved Molly pretty much forever, so I had to pick this up. The sculpts are amazing, especially the Crooligans. I used the red of Molly's dress to tie those zombie kids to her thematically, but otherwise stuck to muted color choices. I saw that Harold and The Nanny was pretty obviously inspired by the kidnapping ghost from Ghostbusters 2, so I went with a spirit-type paint job for her.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Gencon, Day One
Roadtrip time. Beautiful day is good, long detour around a closed road doubling transit time is bad.
Event of focus for the day: Malifaux Beginner's tournament.
Round One! Nicodem vs. Lady Justice. First game of Malifaux ever. Playing against a Henchmen (one of Wyrd's volunteer team.) What exactly he was doing in a Beginner tourney I have no idea, so that's strike one against the setup. He picked the specifically anti-Resurrectionist master, too, and preceded to crush me without mercy. Managed to avoid a wipeout and master-kill by dice-down (cards-down I guess). Which mister Henchman spent the next five minutes bitching to everyone about because he wanted to finish the wipeout. Classy. He didn't even want me taking pictures of his dudes. Way to represent Wyrd.
Round Two! Nicodem vs. Zoraida. Narrow win by last minute punk zombie dash and evidence plant. Realized the main weakness of my Master in this Tourney's setup: Way too slow. Took forever to get anywhere on the board with most of my little dudes, and the ones who could haul ass, the Canine Remains, are Insignificant unless there's more then one (Which means they can't do the scoring thing, in general), and they stay together. Still, summoning shenanigans are fun, and I sure as shit don't do the play to win at all costs thing most of the time. Yet again, game ended by cards-down rather then a proper ending. Strike two against the setup: Not nearly enough time per-round for newbs to finish. I didn't finish a single one of my games. Still, was fun, and the chick I played was super chill.
Round Three! Nicodem vs. Som'er Teeth Jones. Loss. By a half inch. The right kind of game. Other dude, Matt, was classy as fuck (He had impeccable fashion sense, a fine mustache, and we had an eerie similarity in hat choice for the day), and we decided early to play for entertaining shenanigans rather then a win. By this round I had the rules down pretty well, and got a ton of summons off, but I probably should have summoned less and moved more. Still, I did pretty well for no sleep and post-roadtrip fatigue, all things considered.
Prize support was decent, though I'm not sure the exact method was something I agree with. I want to call it Strike Three, but I'm probably just being bitter. Instead of spreading out the low-end prizes for things like sportsmanship or tactical genius or other things you might want to do to try to keep new players motivated by cool prizes, they just gave all of the things to the top three places and the best-painted.
Overall, I had fun, but I can't shake the feeling it was in spite of the organizers and Wyrd rather then because of them. Definitely not the kind of thing you want to put forward to new players, for sure.
Event of focus for the day: Malifaux Beginner's tournament.
Round One! Nicodem vs. Lady Justice. First game of Malifaux ever. Playing against a Henchmen (one of Wyrd's volunteer team.) What exactly he was doing in a Beginner tourney I have no idea, so that's strike one against the setup. He picked the specifically anti-Resurrectionist master, too, and preceded to crush me without mercy. Managed to avoid a wipeout and master-kill by dice-down (cards-down I guess). Which mister Henchman spent the next five minutes bitching to everyone about because he wanted to finish the wipeout. Classy. He didn't even want me taking pictures of his dudes. Way to represent Wyrd.
Round Two! Nicodem vs. Zoraida. Narrow win by last minute punk zombie dash and evidence plant. Realized the main weakness of my Master in this Tourney's setup: Way too slow. Took forever to get anywhere on the board with most of my little dudes, and the ones who could haul ass, the Canine Remains, are Insignificant unless there's more then one (Which means they can't do the scoring thing, in general), and they stay together. Still, summoning shenanigans are fun, and I sure as shit don't do the play to win at all costs thing most of the time. Yet again, game ended by cards-down rather then a proper ending. Strike two against the setup: Not nearly enough time per-round for newbs to finish. I didn't finish a single one of my games. Still, was fun, and the chick I played was super chill.
Round Three! Nicodem vs. Som'er Teeth Jones. Loss. By a half inch. The right kind of game. Other dude, Matt, was classy as fuck (He had impeccable fashion sense, a fine mustache, and we had an eerie similarity in hat choice for the day), and we decided early to play for entertaining shenanigans rather then a win. By this round I had the rules down pretty well, and got a ton of summons off, but I probably should have summoned less and moved more. Still, I did pretty well for no sleep and post-roadtrip fatigue, all things considered.
Prize support was decent, though I'm not sure the exact method was something I agree with. I want to call it Strike Three, but I'm probably just being bitter. Instead of spreading out the low-end prizes for things like sportsmanship or tactical genius or other things you might want to do to try to keep new players motivated by cool prizes, they just gave all of the things to the top three places and the best-painted.
Overall, I had fun, but I can't shake the feeling it was in spite of the organizers and Wyrd rather then because of them. Definitely not the kind of thing you want to put forward to new players, for sure.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Snowmen. Now with sharp claws.
Repainted some old Mage Knight figs to pretend to be Rasputina's pets. Same base as hers. For the one with a base.
Rasputina. Without the cellos.
God, I love this fig. Still don't feel like my paintjob does her justice, but whatever. Model is the alternate Rasputina from Wyrd. Base is 30mm Clear Ice base from Dark Age groundwerks.
Undead Puppies. Of Doom!
Pulled some pooches from my bitz box.. Some are Mordheim dogs, I think, and the others...I think they're Chronopia figs. Not positive though. Now, though, they're super fancy Canine Remains
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Death Marshal/Drowned/Crooked Man
From the Nightmare Edition Dead Justice box. Amazing sculpts, fun to paint.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Mortimer, The Gravedigger
Ahh, a poor schlub, whos' only friends are zombified puppies and hookers. Love the model, paint job turned out ok, except for the face which is irking me to the point I'm tempted to strip the model and re-paint.
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