My second game of Malifaux ever was a tournament this past June. I had known about it for a few days, but with my school schedule (I work 60 hours a week and attend school part time) had not had time to paint my models, so the day of the tournament I went to work until 8am, got home a bit before 9am, and had to have my minis painted before 11:30 am.
Fortunately, I had had time to prime the models the day before. However, the primer was several years old, and extremely fuzzy. It wasn't a super great foundation to work on, but I didn't have time to do anything else.
Here is what my first experience with painting minis - and also coincidentally, my first experience with speed painting - looked like. In other words... A MESS!! Poor Raspy!!
You'll have to trust me that the pictures turned out better than they are in person. Unfinished and shoddily painted, they were absolutely embarrassing to play!! Especially compared to my husband's Marcus crew that looks absolutely exquisite. Regardless, months later they are still unfinished. I plan on eventually stripping them and painting them up pretty.
The Essence of Power looks weird because I tried to use green stuff to add more swirlies of power around it. I was especially embarrassed of that model because it was only wearing two colors.
We arrived to the tournament five minutes late. Fortunately, they decided that my army was painted well enough to participate. Since everyone was paired up, my hubby and I played our first game against each other. I did my best to blast him to hell again, but between our first game and then, my husband had found time to read the rulebooks and think about tactics. Playing smarter this time, he absolutely decimated me. Arriving late as we did and trying to frantically start, we forgot to take time to choose schemes... something I regret to this day!
My next game was against Lilith. My opponent seemed quite afraid of my Ice Golem until he figured out that I didn't know what I was doing! After he figured that out, he was a kind and gracious opponent who helped me with rules and general game play. Losing to him was a pleasant experience.
My final game was against Zoraida. My opponent's models were all fantastically painted, and wonderful to look at! Playing against him wasn't very fun, however. He moved fast, spouting out rules and actions left and right, and it was very hard as a new player to follow along. He enjoyed rubbing his successes and my failures in my face, though I got the feeling that this was simply his personality, not that he was trying to be mean. He essentially controlled my ice golem the whole time and destroyed my own army with it!
So my tournament results:
Rasputina vs. Marcus = Marcus more or less trounces me! But I laugh a lot.
Rasputina vs. Lilith = Lilith wins, but I have fun killing a couple models and learning from a nice guy.
Rasputina vs. Zoraida = Not even a fun game, and a solid loss.
My husband's Marcus crew managed to come in 2nd place in the tournament, surprising many! Here is where I get back to regretting not taking schemes in that first game. It was a very close point total between first and second place, and those might have helped him win if he had completed a successful scheme!
I came in dead last!
What I learned:
* Choose schemes.
* You can't cast 3 ice pillars on the same turn.
* Lilitu is not a henchman!
* People are frightened of large models, regardless of their effectiveness.
* Ice gamin can kill your crew when they die!
* It is fun play Malifaux even if you lose, as long as your opponent isn't a jerk.
* The more special abilities a model had, the more I disliked it.
* I know nothing about strategy!
* Card sleeves and dry erase markers are your friend.
* Raspy was, at that point, too complicated for me to play.
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