The Half Arsed Gamer

September has come and gone! As ever this month has been a hodge podge of different games but I saw myself playing some Malifaux events and really started to get into Infinity. The Infinity models have really pushed me but in the end I have been really happy with the outcome. As well as all this I have expanded on my ever growing scenery collection and finished off some Imperial Assault Twin Shadows releases.

Infinity

August for me has been a month of Malifaux, Imperial Assault and Relic Knights. I first had a tournament at the start of the month for Relic Knights so managed to get Cordelia Clean, Delphyne and Ekhis polished off, funny that these were the first miniatures I had too and have taken the longest. I also managed to get my Terrakami crates and cargo containers finished which look great on the sci-fi terrain board.

Then came the start of the Imperial Assault campaign with a group of five so I got my head down and finished off the rest of the box that had been waiting for me along with the custom tray inserts to organise it all, great stuff. This didn't stop me from then purchasing Twin Shadows along with the additional packs (curse you fantasy flight for making awesome games!).

I also have another tournament around the corner for Malifaux so decided to finish off my Dreamer crew including wicked dolls, teddy, the Dreamer starter and some proxy insidious madness in the form of pink horrors. Also decided to have a dabble at some custom terrain in the form of a sign post, sadly there is only a population of two in McNicholfaux (me and the wife) but we welcome others to come join our little home town.

Finally I posted up some pics that strictly speaking aren't from this month (many moons ago) but never made it on to the site so thought I would give them their time in the spotlight, Mice and Mystics has been a blast and I recently got to play it with a really young audience and we really enjoyed it, more so when its painted.

Malifaux has been on my hit list for a while but just have never had the free time or drive to get it done. That all changed when I got invited to my first game a little over 2 weeks ago. I had a Dreamer box lying around that needed some attention so I quickly got everything modelled and even got a chance to finish Lord Chompy Bits. I say "quickly" but this wasn't actually the case, the models whilst very detailed and of good quality are very very fiddly, some parts that are split just don't make any sense. This has been my only negative of the game so far, but the finished result is great.

For those who don't know The Dreamer is a child who lives earth side. One night he falls asleep and his dreams are invaded by Nytmare, a dream dwelling menace that feeds on people in this plane. Instead of being terrified the child just stands there ignoring Nytmare. Feeling a bit bemused Nytmare moves on to find other easier prey, to his disbelief the child follows him into Malifaux and appears as a spectral character in Malifaux itself. Nytmare doesn't want to give up the massive amounts of power this child posses but can't figure out how to use him yet so he gives in to the boy and pretty much does what he says going so far as to call himself Lord Chompy Bits. Every night when the dreamer sleeps he reappears in Malifaux and takes form conjuring up nightmares to wreck havoc on the people there. When he wakes up Lord Chompy takes to the field using the dreamers power to take physical form. Pretty cool huh?

 His play style is generally get Chompy out as fast as possible and wreck havoc with him or more of a support character where he keeps summoning monsters. I want to take him down the summoning dreamer route as this appeals to me more but for my first game I went at a Ten Thunders crew swinging with Lord Chompy bits tooled up to the nines. The game was really good fun, pretty fast to pick up having played other small skirmish games and made some really great cinematic moments. So I went home and got my paint on as well as acquiring a Teddy for my crew.

Two weeks later I had set up another game this time as a 3-way with the Viktorias crew and Pandora's crew. We played the "stop the ritual" scenario from the story encounters and had a right blast. It also got me ploughing through my painting queue to get all my minis finished.