After the first event earlier this year the feedback was generally "more of the same" so I looked into what I could do. Some lessons learnt from the first time round was to be more prepared and to remind people to turn up promptly!
With this in mind I worked with Rob, the shop manager to ensure we had all the schemes and strategies printed out and protected to give out to all the players as packs as they arrived. I had registration sorted out using the store PC and I made sure I took photos of all the crews entering the painting this time around.
I arranged a few votes to determine some of the details of the event and one of the changes this time was to try out a few story encounters. These took a fair bit of play testing and while the first encounter seemed reasonably well rounded, the second was problematic and on the day proved tough make much progress with in the short space of time we had available. The details of the full event pack are here.
Anyway on to the eye candy. Here's all the crews that entered the painted competition. A huge thanks here to the sheer number of new players and crews that turned up as well as the longer in the tooth players (and their crews) who constantly support these events and games we arrange.
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| Molly's crew by Si - I love Molly and the crooligans here especially |
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| Von Schill's crew by Big Simon, bought and painted in the last couple of months - the Orian mere hours since the paint dried! |
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| Jacob's crew by Emily, painted in what I am calling a canvas style, really interesting and striking effect, even more so in person |
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| Jacob's crew by Steve, my old mate. Recently returned to gaming and painting, he's adding more detail to these as he gets chance |
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| Zoraida's crew by Jason - its all frogs here with a really nice shared palette and great bases to bring the models together |
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| Nicodeem by Matthew, an interesting mix of book 1 and 4 models overshadowed by the huge and grim Killjoy |
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| Perdita's crew by Andy - the selection grows as Andy leaves no corner of the guild unexplored for recruits (he married the proxy into the family in one game) |
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| Finally we have our winner, Rob's Leviticus crew. We have a rule at 7th Heaven - you can keep entering a crew until you win - Rob was narrowly pipped last event, but now he'll have to paint something new! |
One thing I did forget to do was take shots of all the tables, I had spent a fair bit of time constructing a pile of terraclips buildings to help on the day. Before the event started Rob, Steve and I built 5 tables in readiness, you can see hints of them in the crew shots above and there's a few shots I've stolen from Matt below of some games in progress.
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| Battle at the farm! The noobies take on Rob - Rob suffers! |
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| Its Jacob and Jacob vs Lucius and Mei Feng - my Oogie Boogie guest starring here. |
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| A streets of Malifaux table - very pleased with this board. The Tazos are markers! |
So the day went really well, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, although once again time was the enemy. I'll have to consider how the sort this out for the next event, we'll certainly be doing more before Malifaux 2.0 hits officially.
The overall placings then were:
Best Painting: Rob
Best Sportsman: Jason
3rd Place: Jen (very narrowly pipping Ian on a technicality)
2nd Place: Matthew - for the second time just missing the top spot and...
1st Place: Big Simon - a stunning first place with a clear 2 point lead. Newly into the game Simon is crushing his foes with the combination of Hulk Hogan moustache and giant leaping Iron Man suit.
This is looking good, shame I missed it!
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