BatRep - Malifaux Beta Play Test

Hello every body Ian with Kreator Hobbies.  So I just got through playing some of my first few games of the Malifaux 2.0 Beta with a friend of mine. For those of you that are new to it Malifaux is a warband style tabletop war game and it is quite a lot of fun if I say so myself. The game is a departure from other miniature games that I'm familiar with like Warhammer or Warmachine which in my opinion is rather endearing. The back story to the game is well written and has a creepy steam punk/western feel to it which is a big plus to me as well.

Baby Kade and Death Marshals

When is comes to this game you will still form familiar aspects to other games. You still have miniatures that you play with and once the new edition truly comes out I can only assume that you will have stat cards again as well. You still make all your movement in inches and need a tape measure to play, but no dice. That's right NO DICE all of Malifaux's interactions are made by flipping cards in a 54 card deck, that is a standard set of playing cards with a red and a black joker which we will touch on exactly how that works later in later posts. The other very nice aspect of the game is its size. Since Malifaux is a war band style game you don't need to paint and assemble as many models before your ready to game. This has a two fold effect if you like to paint and convert you wont get sucked into a massive project like going through and cutting off all the heads or arms in all your units to swap with something else before you can even begin to paint, and you can go buck wild with both the conversions and the paint job if you want! The other effect is that due to its small game size this becomes a game that doesn't require you spend a whole lot of money to get your force to a proper playable size. Over all I have spent less than $100.00 and I have a core fighting group, some additions to that base force, glass markers, and specialized playing cards. I am holding off on getting the rule book for one reason and one reason only, at the moment Wyrd Miniatures gave me a copy of there Version 2.0 Beta and I am planning to wait until they release the book this fall. In the mean time because this game has stolen my heart I have printed out and am feverishly trying to wrap my brain around what this new edition is going to look like as well as identify any issues that can be brought to Wyrd's attention. Now I did not do anything special to earn the right to beta test the new edition I simply went to Wyrd Miniatures forum page and found the 2.0 beta post @ www.wyrd-games.net and the file is there for any one to download as well as submit rule changes or issues. This is something that I find rather awesome as well that anyone that has a stake in the new edition from the player at home to the game designer. All if the have the ability to submit their ideas as to what will make the new edition awesome.

okay so now the fun part my friend got some Neverborn and I've got the Guild.

Each of our forces in these games involved Lady Justice, a Judge, three Death Marshals, and and Executioner for myself. My buddy John he had Pandora, baby Kade, Kandi three sorrows, and a Teddy.

The two crews involved the Guild and Neverborn.

With these configurations John's force was larger not only in model count but also in soul stone cost. in the new edition soul stones do a lot of the same things that they used to me you but buy additional card flips and can be used for other things as well. There main role is in hiring your crews. Before the game each player decides on a crew cost.  In our case we settled on 45 and use that to hire a crews with. Since my force was lower in cost to John I got the use my extra soul stones later in the game. We played a lot over the weekend and lots of blood split.  John figured out an effective way to run his force utilizing all of its facets very well Teddy worked to hold off my advance while Pandora and Kandi forced my Death Marshals hands to harm themselves.

Pandora versus Lady Justice.

 

Two Sorrows Versus the Judge.

Thankfully as I begin to learn to play my force. Lady Justice came forward to deal with the Teddy with the Executioner and the Death Marshals all surrounding supporting everything that was nearby supported by the Judge. After all is said and done neither one of us can really say that we are the true winner amongst us.  However as we keep extending the series and as soon as we play on a table with some more Malifaux scenery or build a more appropriate scenery ourselves there will definitely be a few battle reports on our page.

so if you're looking for a game that doesn't require a whole lot of an initial investment to get started in and is challenging and fun to play Malifaux is definitely worth checking out. For Kreator Hobbies this is Ian and as always Ibspirata Ex Ignes.

Executioner versus Teddy.

Death Marshal and Sorrow