![]() The Configuration and Ideal upgrades are wholly new, but despite their conceptual similarity play out in completely different ways. The rules design of the crews, too, is extremely cool, and it’s great to see that this late in the day Wyrd still has gas in the tank it comes to new crew concepts. The blend of desert nomad and high tech works perfectly, and the Aua themselves look human enough to talk to but still alien and strange. Wyrd has taken the Aua, who basically appeared for less than a paragraph in one lore book, and fully fleshed them out into a tragic, fallen, but still fearsome race. The gold medal winner, though, has to be Tiri. I even love Damian Ravencroft’s Witness models, as they really feel like the servants of an ancient power drawn together by circumstance and misfortune. Linh Ly’s Red Library models all seem otherworldly, but her Stories are the real show-stoppers – each one embodies a real-world legend, Malifaux-itized. ![]() The Clampetts embody classic Gremlin wackiness but with a strong nautical twist that gives them unique flavor. The rest of the crews are even cooler looking – Kastore’s Returned blend Neverborn and Resurrectionist influences perfectly, evoking the creepy, ritualistic side of the former and the nightmarish monstrous side of the latter. They even have Walter the cat and Frederick the bulldog!Ĭome on, how can you resist this lack-of-a-face? Credit: Wyrd Games Harold Tull’s Cavaliers are probably the closest thing the book has to an “ordinary looking” crew, and they’re incredibly distinctive, between the porcelain masks the Sappers and Rocketeers wear and Tull and John Watson’s military uniforms. There’s not a single crew in here that doesn’t look incredible. On that score, Madness of Malifaux hits it out of the park. Malifaux’s an amazing game, and part of that is the aesthetic. Let’s start with the Good, because there’s plenty of it. But I’m the one with a column, so you get my opinion, delivered steaming fresh into your lap. Nothing I say should be taken as gospel I’m just one incredibly talented, handsome, and brilliant Malifaux player. I play in the Vassal Malifaux World Series events as well as on the tabletop, so that colors my perspective a bit. I’ll preface these thoughts by saying that, as far as Malifaux goes, I’m a pretty competitive player. Classic Westerns are deeply embedded in Malifaux’s DNA, so it seemed appropriate. I’ll separate these into three: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. ![]() I’ve been having a blast, but of course I wouldn’t be a wargamer if I didn’t have Thoughts to Share. I think Wyrd is hitting it out of the park creatively, and Malifaux’s like no other game I’ve played before. The next few months will see the Madness crews hit the streets, and before you know it we’ll be anticipating a new release again, but as this is the second full release cycle since I rejoined Malifaux I wanted to provide some seasoned perspective on it. ![]() This is Wyrd’s second full release in the span of a year (or so), a pretty brisk pace for a small company – as I write this, there’s still one box from Malifaux Burns yet unreleased. We’ve covered every last model in Madness of Malifaux, and I wanted to pause here for a bit of a retrospective. We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.Can’t believe it’s come to this… it seems like only yesterday we were previewing the Clampetts. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze the use of our website. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Microsoft Advertising uses these cookies to anonymously identify user sessions. ![]() It also serves behaviorally targeted ads on other websites, similar to most specialized online marketing companies. The Facebook cookie is used by it's parent company Meta to monitor behavior on this website in order to serve targeted ads to its users when they are logged into its services. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The purpose of Google Analytics is to analyze the traffic on our website. Security (protection against CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery) Stores login sessions (so that the server knows that this browser is logged into a user account) which cookies were accepted and rejected). Storage of the selection in the cookie banner (i.e. being associated with traffic metrics and page response times. Random ID which serves to improve our technical services by i.e. Server load balancing, geographical distribution and redundancy ![]()
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