How To Play: Corrupted Idols! - by guest bloggist Brien "Schemes" Spence
As part of my move back to the midwest, I've been blessed to join a meta that is at least within practical driving distance in Des Moines, which has reduced my need to employ the Wandering River Style...
View ArticlePre-Gencon Potpourri
Like many nerds, I'll be making the annual pilgrimage to Indianapolis starting tomorrow. This rite of passage began many moons ago, young padawans, when I used to travel there to play the collectible...
View ArticleThe Past and Present of The Other Side: Moving on from the stumbles during...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Indianapolis to attend Gencon. I recommend it highly. It’s a good place to meet interesting humans and play games you would never have heard of otherwise. I...
View ArticleHow to Play: Lucas Mccabe Relic Hunter by guest bloggist....Me!
Hobby Update: I’ve been working to expand my pool of 10T models, so I’ve been building a lot of stuff recently. Namely, I put together the Born Every Minute boxed set, some Charm Warders, and some odd...
View ArticleHow to Play Zoraida - by 2019 Gencon Tyrant Rob Perry
Hobby Happenings-It’s been a little quiet on the Malifaux front recently for me, as I wasn’t able to attend a tournament in Des Moines due to family obligations and a change in Phiasco’s work schedule...
View ArticleQuick Hitter: The Lone Swordsman is an underrated champion of the Ten Thunders
As a Ten Thunders player, there are no shortage of fine versatile model choices available. For 10 stones, Yasunori can get just about anywhere you need him to be and deliver some serious...
View ArticleMcCabe gets schooled by the Academics
Picture of the Malifaux Badlands Expedition Force, circa 1907. Last weekend, we began a league in Des Moines, IA run by Schemes and Stones host Kyle Bode and Steam Powered...
View ArticleThe Franky Awards
Truly Malifaux's Most Prestigious Award The Golden Globes were last week, and Oscar season is right around the corner, so in the spirit of the times I thought I’d bring back an old premise...
View ArticleThat Fauxin' Feeling
Confession time: I spent a long time getting Malifaux Musings to become a top source for Malifaux news in M2E. I was hustling. I listened to every Malifaux podcast that was out there, good or bad. I...
View ArticleIn which a Resurrection occurs
A sad looking wooden cross rests in a cemetery on the outskirts of Malifaux City. It is weathered and pitted, having clearly been exposed to some harsh elements. It is humble, though the few points...
View ArticleCause baby you’re a firework
That’s a topical reference, right? The kids listen to Katy Perry, right? What? That song came out 11 years ago? Cool, cool,...as cool as playing as Sonnia Criid. Yeah! Saved it! Sure, Adam. Keep...
View ArticleGhosts and Demons
We’re hot and heavy into Gencon preview mode, so I’ve got a little bit of catch-up to do. The nice thing about this for your humble bloggist is that it makes it easy to come up with content on a weekly...
View ArticleExit Light, Enter Night
We continue with our trip through the new title system taking a look at a couple of new nocturnal themed masters (who, again, were summoners who now don’t really summon). And yes, I know...
View ArticleHot Malifaux Summer
Reveal season is continuing apace faster than I’m following along with them. Wyrd has done a really cool thing by integrating all the content creators in the process this time (and I’m really...
View ArticleHobby and Painting Digression
In lieu of some actual written content, I thought I'd share with you some pictures of my collection and some painting I've been doing recently. I have some half-baked thoughts on the title system...
View ArticleTItular Musings
We’ve got 3 more reveals left to go prior to Gencon (which hardly seems possible) so there are ostensibly 6 masters still to see beyond what Wyrd may be showing us through the Waldo’s Weekly...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Gencon, 2021 Edition
We’re a matter of days from the greatest four days in gaming, Gencon. Excitingly, Wyrd miniatures will be taking a great step forward at the show, offering a significant number of new models and...
View ArticleOrtega Family Values: Looking at the new Perdita
I’ve been looking at Guild more, recently. If nothing else, they’re considered to be on the lower end of the totem pole power wise, so at least I won’t be coming in last while playing broken crews....
View ArticleSix Feet Under: Lady Justice in the Malifaux Burns Era
A not entirely unfounded opinion is that the Guild did very well in the most recent rulebook Malifaux Burns. Not exactly a shock, I suppose, given that they were considered to be somewhat under the...
View ArticleWyrd's Unsung Hero
Wyrd has really put their best foot forward in 2021 with the reinvigoration of their product lines. Malifaux Burns has launched the title system, giving options to our new masters and putting a new...
View ArticleCaptain Con Prelude: Musings from a Charlotte Airport
Your intrepid bloggist is here, checking in from the Charlotte airport during my lay-over as I travel to CaptainCon. This isn’t a convention I typically attend, but the folks organizing the Malifaux...
View ArticleMusings on Futility: My CaptainCon Recap
A few weekends ago I made the trip to Captaincon to knock some of the dust off of my game, try out the Frontier crew in an acid-test environment, and participate in the Malifaux Content Creators...
View ArticleMalifaux Blogger Returns! Joins the Arcanist Faction! Wyrd players everywhere...
Extra, extra, read all about it. Crusty old Malifaux blogger dusts off blog for…like…the 20th time? Ok, not much of a headline there. Certainly not news by any stretch of the imagination. A few things...
View ArticleBallad for the Working Man: Musing on the Foundry Keyword
Yeah, I know, it's the Ten Thunders Poster not the Arcanist one. I don't care. Labor Day seems like a good time to continue my delve into the world of the Arcanists. They are, at least nominally,...
View ArticlePicking Through the Ashes
Malifaux has been burning and going mad, now I suppose it’s time to start picking through the ashes. Or asses. Depending on your source, that is. Coming later this fall, the next expansion to the...
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