Mo Lifaux Mo Problems

well, with school ending it's a pretty crazy time of year for a teacher. Add in the release of Red Dead Redemption, which is a great game, especially if you like Westerns, and I haven't found much time to paint. That being said, I have put a little paint to models, and thought I'd show off my latest WIP of my Malifaux Ortega crew. I am finishing up the box crew which leaves me with Nino and Papa Loco to paint. Nino does have some work done, but I've broken him off his base, so no pics of him right now. Papa Loco is about 85% done. Additinoally, I needed to beef my forces up for 35 Soutstone games, so I bought the Excecutinar. I figured he could give a little close combat punch to my army, and it's a pretty sweet Model. So without further adu, here they are. Sorry the pic quality is so poor, I am still trying to figure out how to take good pics.

Skin that smokewagon...

well, I've finished my latest malifaux figure, Santiago. Santiago, besides being a sweet duel wielding model, is an absolute beast. Well, actually, he's more like the Hulk. He starts out ok, but when you put some shots on him and damage him, he "hulks" out and turns into a bulldozing nightmare for your opponents. Just ask Rasputina. I really love how he plays, and it was nice to get him all painted up. I just need to do his base, but I'm going to base the whole family together at the end. As for my remaining three crew members, Papa Loco is about 75% done. Nino and the Executionar are both in the beginning stages, but I gotta be honest. I am not enjoying painting Nino, he's very weedy, but the Exec is an awesome model. I am loving painting all the skin. Should be fun!

updated pics

Hey all,

here is a few updated pics of my crew. I'd say these are about 90% done, including the work that needs done on the bases. Comments and Criticisms welcome. Hoping to take the Ortegas out for a spin sometime in the next 7-10 days!

Here we see Francisco, Perdita, and then a shot of them together!

enjoy.

Getting the Gang together

Started putting paint to model on my Malifaux gang. I am about halfway through the gang, and nobody is totally done, but I'm happy with how it's going. It's pretty fun to take a break from fantasy models and paint some wild west stuff.

I also really enjoy this game. I have taken my "Crew" out for a spin a couple times. The first game was a practice game, and the 2nd was a draw against RPA's Rasputina. The most recent adventure was last Thursday against RPA's Pandora crew. For Strategy I got Treasure Claim (or something like that) where by I had to grab a treasure in the middle. I could then score 4 VP's for possessing it at the end fo the game or 2 VP's for having it in my deployment zone. For my scheme, I took the one where noone is in my deployment zone, as I knew I'd be hanging out there guarding my treasure. RPA rolled up the recinoiter (I think that's the name) whereby he got 4 vp's for having 1 model in each table quarter, or 2 vps' for being in 3/4 quaters. He took the same scheme as me. We had diagonal corner deployment.

as the game started, I used Perdita to rush up to the treasure in a building and grab it. With fast ability and quick walk, she can cover 18 inches in a hurry. RPA advanced cautiously, not wanting to get in range of my guns too quickly, an d having to attatch woes to his crew. We also had some questions on what exactly Pandora and her mind tricks could do to my Ortegas, especially Pandora, and that hurt RPA's aggressiveness some. The rest of game involved me retreating to a building in my deployment zone, giving the treasure to Francisco hiding in the building, and then staging an Alamo-sytle defense of my table quarter. Some sharp shooting from Perdita and Nino took down Baby kade and Candy, and at this point, RPA conceeded, realizing I was going to get 6 VP's (Scheme and strategy) and at most, with his reduced forces he was going to get 5, and probably more like 2.

Overall, it was really fun. I think RPA's lack of expeirence with Pandora and our confusion on Immune to Influence vs. Pandora's tricks hurt him. there is little doubt in my mind that his crew will be a lot tougher when he gets some more experience with those guys. Regardless, we had beautiful terrain, and it was a fun game.

here's a couple shots of my crew as a work in process. I am happy with how they are looking, espeically on the table.

Malifaux part 2

Got another Malifaux game in. I took on RPA and his Raspitina gang. He took 'Tina, an big ice golem and 3 of the small ice golum. I was shocked by how good she is at casting, and how potent her ice magic can be. I took Pedita and the whole Oretga contingent. We both drew Assasinate for our main objective, and decided to not play any secondary ones to keep it simple.

RPA deployed in a cluster in the middle of his deployment zone and used his forces to project 'Tina's spells into me. For my part, I split my forces go around the hotel building in the middle of the battle field. I should have played more and cat and mouse with Perdita, but I didn't and ended up getting her shot up by ice magic and killed. I now had to get to 'Tina to get the draw. He contiuned to blast my forces and I lost Papa Loco and Nino while only taking out one of his small golems. However, the game saver for me was Santiago. He got blasted down to four wounds, and began hulking out. He used his improved skills and healing flips to mow down the Arcanist scum and pumped about 16 rounds into Rasputina's body. She didn't get up. It was amazing how good he becomes after being damaged, and his ability to stay on one wound and then healing flip was pretty sweet. He was definatly my MVP.

result - draw

spring break starts next week, and next Thursday we should have a chance to get all the big boys out as it looks like it might be an all day Malifaux fest! I will be sure to have pictures to go with the write-up.

Malifaux

Played my first game of Malifaux this past Wednesday. Well, to say I played a game is a little generous as we mostly just trotted out our models and gave it a shot to familarize ourselves with the rules and mechanics. We didn't play with any strategies or things like that. I took my Ortega gang, and my opponent, my friend Jason, took his proxied Nicodem force. We both sorta trundled forward, and in the end, I blasted him to pieces, taking very little damage myself. I think this has mostly to do with the ease of playing the Oretgas vs Nicodem for beginners. The highlight for me was Papa Loco running into the middle of Nicdems force and blowing up for huge damage on everyone, including himself. Great fun.

The game is really fun, and much different than other things I play. I was very happy to have bought it, and look forward to playing it some more in the near future.

A myriad of projects

well, it's been a while since I posted. I haven't been quite as busy on hobby stuff as I wanted thanks to the holidays and x-box, but I have been doing somethings. I finally hauled the camera down to the basement "nerdery" last night and squeezed off a few pics of what I've been working on.

Lately, I just haven't been able to throw myself completely into the Ogre project yet. I think this is due to the fact that I have a couple guys partially painted, and getting back into the detail work to make them look nice just doesn't appeal to me. I am slowly progressing on them. On the bright side though, I have sort of started a lot of mini projects, and so that is cool. What I am currently working on is the following:

Magnetizing the bases for my Dark Elves as well as redoing the base of my carnasaur to function as my Hydra. I just am not a big fan of Hydras, I hate the multiple head thing. On the other hand, I'm a HUGE fan of this mondel, and wanted to include it. Putting it on the big base has also helped with my huge problem, namely this guy falling over more than a co-ed at 2:30 am on an icy night in Cedar Falls.

Painting up my new plastic Dark Elf Cold One Knights - something I've wanted to do for a year but just lacked the motivation for. Stuff like this is why I'm kinda glad I haven't jumped full throttle into the OK, as I do want to flesh out my DE's a bit more.

doing test minis for my Space Hulk game - my little brother loves the game, and I want to get us playing with some painted minis. tried priming black, which is a paint. Am also going to try the white prime/red wash plan too. Also, of course, d0ing some small work to the Ogre Iron Guts I started a while back.

Painting up my Malifaux minis. very excited about my Ortega clan, and have begun doing some work on those so I can get them on the battle field soon.

Thats all for now. more pics hopefully in the next week.