Malifaux Release Schedule

Wyrd have just announced their release schedule for the last quarter of the year. There's some good stuff in there but all the pre-Gencon hype got me wanting the figures then. Sadly the 'want' has gone away now and I doubt I'll be buying any of them. Although the new box sets do look tempting. Anyway on with the details.

• October
  
  

  WYR4057	Mr. Graves	$ 11.00
  WYR4056	Dark Debts Box Set	$ 40.00
  WYR4058	Mr. Tannen	$ 11.00
  WYR3053	Rail Golem	$ 35.00

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  November
  

  WYR3052	Rail Crew Box Set	$ 35.00
  WYR5072	Oiran (3pk)	$ 21.00
  WYR3059	Willie	$ 16.00
  WYR1046	Avatar Hoffman	TBA

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  December
  

  WYR2062	Izamu	$ 11.00
  WYR8001	The Thunder Box Set	$ 35.00
  WYR1058	Guild Riflemen	$ 21.00
  WYR4060	Beckoners (2pk)	$ 16.00
  WYR8002	Ten Thunders Archers (3pk)	$ 21.00

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  No picture for the Guild Riflemen or any word on probable UK prices though.

  
  

Malifaux: More Gencon Previews

First up, is the all plastic Hanging Trees box set. This Special Edition features a Hanging Tree, which stands a little over five inches tall, and includes both Eric and Nathan hanging around after a hard day. Also included are two smaller trees, along with bodies, which can be used as alternative Hanged models.

WYR2059 - Hanging Trees -  $80.00 

Next is Miss Terious, a female Death Marshal. Miss Terious is the $100 Special Edition miniature for this year. For all orders of $100 or more placed at Gencon either at the booth or online, this miniature will be included in your order for FREE.

Last is a “perks” miniature for Henchmen, Santana Ortega. This miniature will be made available initially only to Henchmen. After a bit of time, Santana may be made available to the public by way of tournaments, prize support, etc. Which is a pain as it's a great model and one I'd love to own.

They've also announced some more Ten Thunders models. I really like the look of these and will be definitely getting some. Looks like the Gencon releases are going to get me spending large sums of cash and get me playing Malifaux again. If you've never tried Malifaux give it a go if you get the chance. It's a great game with lots of tactical depth and subtlety, not to mention the great looking models.

WYR5078 - Oiran (3 pack) -  $21.00 

WYR8001 - The Thunder Box Set -  $35.00

WYR8002 - Ten Thunders Archers (3 pack) -  $21.00 

WYR8003 - Yamaziko -  $11.00 

More Malifaux New Releases

Wyrd have released pictures of some more of the new miniatures that will be available at GenCon. This time it's some Arcanist figures & crews. They have also confirmed that these new releases are plastic injection molded miniatures, not 'bendy' plastic or finecast.

Rail Crew Box Set - $35.00 

Metal Gamin (3 pack) - $21.00

Rail Golem - $35.00 

Willie the Demolitionist - $16.00

I don't know whether it's their new approach or not but these figures look a cut above their usual designs. I particularly like the Mei Feng model, although I'll be interested to see how it fits together. It also looks like it might be a pain to transport but I can still see me investing heavily in these new releases when they come out.

Malifaux: Witchling Stalkers & Death Marshals

Looking at yesterday's post got me thinking about Malifaux again. I haven't played in a while and I've had some half finished figures on my desk for ages. So I decided it was about time I finished them off.

The first pair are Death Marshals. I did my usual base coat of spray white and then used washes on most of the model. I'm fairly happy with them except for the 'flames' (or whatever it's supposed to be coming out of the coffin) I wanted a more two tone effect but the yellow highlights didn't show up as much as I wanted.

Next are some Witchling Stalkers. These were pretty simple to do and I'm happy with how they came out. I think the proportions on the sword and guns are a little off though but there's not much I can do about the sculpts.

I'm looking forward to the Gencon releases and I can see me investing in a few new crews. Particularly the Ten Thunders and Dark Debts sets.

Wyrd Miniatures Goes Plastic

Wyrd has traditionally done all of it's models the old fashion way, sculpt, mold, cast and done. Like many figure manufacturers rising metal costs and other issues have caused them to look at alternatives.

They've moved from traditional sculpting to digital sculpting and from metal to high detail hard plastic. Below we've got a couple of shots to show you the progress from art to finished plastic product.

They say they're not raising their prices to do so, unlike GW. They claim to offer better quality, more model options (heads, arms, weapons) at a better price. I'll be interested to see how these turn out.

WYR4056 - Dark Debts Box Set - $40.00

WYR4057 - Mr. Graves - $11.00

WYR4058 - Mr. Tannen - $11.00

WYR4059 - The Depleted (3 pack) - $21.00



WYR5072 - Lazarus - $18.00



WYR4060 - Beckoners (2 pack) - $16.00


Apparently these are just a few of the things that'll be making their way to Gencon next month. There's some interesting looking models in there. The new Dark Debts box set looks like something i may have to pick up.

New Releases for Malifaux

Wyrd have finally announced their new releases for June. There's five new figures, some more Terraclips (due in August) terrain and a revised rulebook (due in July).

I'm a bit underwhelmed with the figure releases to be honest. The Dreamer is nice but the rest are decidedly average.

They've also announced some new Terraclips terrain due out in August. As usual it looks great in the pictures but the reality is usually different. I was going to buy one of the last sets as it was good value. But seeing in practise I thought it was fiddly and time consuming to put together. I also hated the look of the plastic tabs used to join everything together. But I know it sold well and this set looks like it could do well with role players given it's setting.

Lastly they've announced a new rulebook due out in July which I'm not too happy about as it's probably just going to include errata and clarifications and I can do with out the expense of replacing my current rulebook.

I don't play much Malifaux these days for some reason and I don't think these announcements are going to anything to change that in the near future.

Demo Games of Malifaux and Dystopian Wars

Took a run up to Ben's yesterday. The idea was for me to demo Malifaux for him and for him to demo Dystopian Wars for me.

I got there about lunchtime and proceeded to unload three trays of Malifaux figures on to the table to let Ben see what they looked like in the flesh (or should that be metal) and also to activate his Ohh! Shiny gene so he got hooked on Malifaux as well. After a quick peruse Ben decided to give Von Schill a try so I choose the Ortegas to keep things fairly simple. We both used just the starter boxes so it was a 25SS game..

After a quick shoot-out between Von Schill & Perdita to show Ben how the various mechanisms worked we got down to our first game. I was so busy explaining things to Ben that I forgot all about taking pictures for the first game. So this will have to be a quick text only batrep.

We flipped for strategies I got Treasure Hunt and Ben got Slaughter. For schemes I went with Bodyguard (Perdita) and Holdout as they were a good combination with Treasure Hunt and Ben went with Bodyguard (Von Schill) and Holdout.

Turn one saw us both advancing and trying to get into good positions. But I did get lucky when Nino flipped the Red Joker for damage on a Freikorpsman doing a total of nine damage which killed him. Turn two saw a more cautious Ben and Perdita used her speed to grab the treasure and move back to safety. Turn three saw Ben hit back doing lots of damage to Santiago, Francisco and Papa Loco. While I was concentrating on keeping Perdita safe. For turn four I decided to try and thin out Ben's forces to make it harder for him to get Slaughter and also because I wanted to do some damage with my wounded models before they died. I had some nice flips and managed to kill the other Freikorpsman and the Librarian but I lost Nino and Francisco. Turn five saw Ben's Trapper killed while the Specialist continued to chase Papa Loco through the woods (his blasts being ineffective against the Freikorps due to their armor). Turn six saw Von Schill unable to do enough damage on Perdita to kill her and a rather bloody game came to an end. I got 6 VPs while Ben managed 4 VPs.

We had time for another game so for a change of pace I went with Collodi's box set plus Zoraida and the Voodoo Doll while Ben stuck with Von Schill. This time I remembered to take photos and they can be seen below.

We flipped for strategies and I got Plant Evidence while Ben got Distract. Ben went with Bodyguard (Von Schill) and Holdout for his schemes while I took Bodyguard (Perdita) and Breakthrough.

I'm not going to give a detailed breakdown of game two mostly because I'm not sure I can remember it all! I used Collodi's speed with his doll shenanigans to plant three of the four pieces of evidence I needed in turn one, with a model ready to place the last one at the start of turn two. While I was racing about Ben was using his firepower to kill three of my dolls in the first turn. Turn two saw me plant the last evidence giving me four VP's. I spent the rest of the game running from Ben and trying to slow him down with my remaining models. It ended up in turn seven with me failing to successfully cast Repulsive which would have allowed me to get into Ben's deployment zone for the win. So we ended up with a 6-6 draw an excellent performance from Ben in only his second game.


Starting positions



Collodi races forwards with his marionettes



The trail of counters marks the passage of Collodi
and the deaths of his marionettes

Collodi runs and hides while the Wicked Dolls form a rearguard

Zoraida heads for Ben's deployment zone

We then cleared the table to set up for our Dystopian Wars game. Ben went with FSA while I had my EotBS. Ben suggested keeping things small and simple and we went with a battleship, three cruisers, and six frigates each. I was so busy trying to learn the game that I again forgot to take photos.

There was so much going on that I'm not going to even try to report what happened. Suffice it to say that early on we both rolled masses of sixes and lots of ships sank. As things evened out on the dice front I managed to eek out a lead in number of ships sunk and when we called the game Ben only had his BS and one cruiser left to my BS, 2 cruisers and four frigates.

So how did the day go? Well I think Ben got a feel for what Malifaux is like to play and how good some of the scuplts are and i think he enjoyed himself. As for me I enjoyed DW but started to see how much of a pain the fixed channel weapons are on my ships. I'm looking forward to my next game of DW on Monday, but that will be a more serious affair at 1200pts against an experienced player down at the Wyverns.

Malifaux releases for May

Wyrd has announced their line-up of releases for May. Nothing particularly stands out for me in this batch of releases, although I did chuckle at the 'builders bum' on the Miner.

Luckily for my wallet I'm managing to resist the temptation to add to my Malifaux figures. Although a Kirai crew does keep calling to me, as does C.Hoffman & Guild Austringers and... well you get the picture.