MALIFAUX
Wyrd Henchman David Brown takes on novice Nobby in this magic-fuelled gang war in a parallel dimension
The Rotten Belles, controlled by Nobby, surround David's Arcanist Gunsmith.
Malifaux is Wyrd Games’ characterdriven skirmish-level miniatures game, involving gang warfare in and around the ruins of the eponymous crumbling city. Discovered through a portal into another dimension, this world is a source of the valuable and magical resource ‘soulstone’, with games pitting Masters and their crews against one another to achieve specific objectives.
For this issue’s battle report, Wyrd Henchman David Brown got together with Malifaux newcomer Nobby, one of the owners of Daventry games store Battlefield Hobbies, to tackle the Reckoning strategy. A slightly uneven pairing? Perhaps that’s why Nobby went for the Resurrectionists: ultraresilient necromancers and commanders of the undead. Their master, Seamus, is known as one of the most fearless and vile characters in the Malifaux universe, having a crew composed mainly of undead women!
David took on the role of the magicpracticing Arcanists, who boast a number of mechanical and elemental assets, as well as beastly minions. Master Kaeris devotes herself to magic and has discovered the power of the Eternal Flame.
SETUP
The Malifaux setup is often thematic and covers a wide range of environments from the very popular Wild West to bayous and swampland and the dreamer board, inspired by a small boy’s dream of big monsters.
David and Nobby went for a frontier marshalling yard, complete with flatbed rail carriages and two ominous-looking characters hanging from a tree. Look closely at these and you’ll see they’re actually Eric and Nathan, owners of Wyrd Games and the creators of Malifaux.
Having decided to play a 50-soulstone game, Nobby flips a card to determine the deployment for both players – they get corner deployment.