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The Plague tidings

I am going to document m 4 games with Hamelin so far and see what nuggets of information I can extract from my tortured memory! Game 1 vs Seamus in Ply for Information. As my friend declared Ressurs I reached for Taelor from my admittedly limited pool of Outcast models. Immunity to Horror duels is nice vs a faction that thrives on them. My list was: Hamelin: Piper, Sewer King,Plague Pits Taelor: Oathkeeper, Scramble Midnight Stalker: Scout the field Baby Kade: Scramble Big Jake Wretch, 2 rats and a Stolen Report The Plague spreads to the table top as Hamelin faces Seamus in Ply for Info. The rat engine is a little slow to start but eventually Seamus leaps out to shoot Big Jake. The shot hits the tree Jake is cowering behind sending a flock of angry birds swirling away. The Copy cat Killer leaps and shoots Taelor but misses. Hamelin responds by luring Taleor and Baby Kade into position and Taelor drops Oathkeeper to charge Seamus, dealing 6 damage to the Mad Hatter. 
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Year of the Rat - January Part 3

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Part Two can be found  here One of my goals with this project was to improve my basing technique and the time I spent on bases in general. Before now, the time spent would be as little as possible, and the bases to be as generic as possible which was no bad thing in Malifaux as you play the faction in the game, so bases matching meant you had a less odd looking force when you deployed your crew of Showgirls, Ice Golem's, and a mechanical spider building mastermind (who am I kidding; no one ever deployed an Ice Golem!) I wanted to complete the basing before moving onto painting.. I felt that a flat surface (on which people would be walking along the sewer tunnels) should not be devoid of features. So out came some sand to create the following effect: The weird empty looking base belongs to Nix, or Schrodinger's Cat who will have a cool looking cardboard box to go with an otherwise featureless base. This doesn't look like much, but let me tell you - putting sand on
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Year of the Rat - January Part 2

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Part One can be found  here It was a Friday night after a hellish week of work that I found myself sharing the flat with my girlfriend and 3 of her friends. Not wanting to intrude (and to get some space) I took over the study area and decided to make up for all the hobby I had missed over the week. I think the doubling up on cats help define them, as individually the cats are smaller than the rats which didn't look right to me. Gluing them to their bases was the only option I was comfortable with, as I couldn't find a suitable point to put drill a hole to pin the model. All the models here are pinned to their base, with the exception of the 3 Stolen who had teeny tiny legs and I didn't trust myself to not drill through a leg or ankle! I'm particularly pleased with how my vision for Catelin Abernathy came through! The head was a pretty good fit for the gap in the Rat King's cowl so all that was required was some filijng round the top of the head to
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Hamelin and the Year of the Rat - January part 1

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So here marks the start of my long-time project; to build and create my own themed Hamelin crew based on the Nightmare box released at Gen Con 2017 I have always liked Hamelin (the Pied Piper) and the story surrounding it, possibly because we performed it as a school play one year (sadly I was not the Pied Piper) and while Malifaux's version doesn't overtly play into this theme, Wyrd Miniatures did release a model that suited my vision of Hamelin perfectly - the Vintage/Avatar Hamelin. After acquiring this model via some hard-won guilders, the Gen Con box was announced and my fate sealed; the Hamelin crew I'd long thought about would be created! I'm not looking to make a competitive crew (I have my Ten Thunders to play competitively) so this crew will be a labour of love (and dark imagination!). I will be adding 'Lost' models to it, representing the lost children (Lost is a keyword characteristic in Malifaux that allows Hamelin to hire them in-game) as
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2018 and the Year of the hobby!

So after a brief exchange on Whatsapp with my friend, I realised that despite firmly believing in never setting resolutions I do have a list of Hobby Goals that I'd like to hit this year. Work on the themed Hamelin crew with a view to finish by Dec'18 Paint all the Wave 5 TT models as they become available I think that will be the extent of my Malifaux painting this year, as you can gather from the Introduction post ( here)  I have a lot of projects on the go (most are at the not starting phase!) and I want to give them a go this year. These include: Paint my Burrows and Badgers crew ready for the Tournament in June Complete my Kingdom Death Monster starter set Build, and paint my Kingdom Death expansion sets  Build and paint the Shadespire crews Build terrain! Paint my remaining Guildball models for Farmers and Engineers Paint the Darklands stuff that I have squirreled away I have tried to list these in order of priority but it will no doubt change as new sh
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My Malifaux Journey

In this post I weave and wander through my history with Malifaux and how and where I am today! In the beginning.... Seamus was one of the characters (along with Lady J and Pandora) which drew me to Malifaux, as well as the card mechanic which now causes me to sneer at most dice-based games! Through them I got to experience some of the great game design that went into Malifaux and the incredible depth that comes from each model's abilities interacting with each other (admittedly some go off in Wonky directions but no game is perfect) and I just wanted to play more and more. As my friends and I settled on our factions, we each settled mainly on one character that we preferred to others. Andres was Som'er Tooth Jones (with a feck ton of Skeeters!), Jack was Hamelin (with a beautifully painted crew!), James with Lynch and me with Seamus. Our games felt like we were adding to the history of Malifaux (not unlike WFB where our own heroes would battle with and against legends of lo
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Welcome to the Wandering River

This blog is intended for me to document my thoughts on various aspects of my life and hobby, in a bid to try and add some structure to my days and the time spent on things that are important to me. The reason for the blog's title is two-fold: Its the name of an upgrade in the game Malifaux, the game I spend the most (too much?) time on It represents the lack of focus the Blog will have (as you read further you'll hopefully appreciate that!) What am I doing currently? Playing a lot of Malifaux  60 games to date this year with a 60% win rate (36 wins, 3 Draws, 21 Losses) Currently ranked 57th in UK Malifaux Rankings:  Adam's Rank Winning a 24 man tournament is a real highlight! One of the problems I'm experiencing is that perhaps I'm playing too much Malifaux, and the character of the game is getting lost on me as I come to see it more as a game and less of an experience to be had with a fellow player. More and more I look back to my days of playin
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