Schemes and Schematics: How I learned to love the Hoff-ball.

The Man, the Legend, the Ball-Baron

Well figured I’d get some posts on this blog about our beloved Malifaux.

Just a quick run down of strats and schemes and how effective a Hoff-Ball would be at running them and also defending against them. I will  rate the strats and schemes on Great/Good/Average/Bad/Horrid for both getting points out of and denying points in a format like this Great-Bad, meaning great for scoring points, but bad in that the opponent can score points from it also.

I will obviously put in the caveat of take all this with a grain of salt, it depends on what else is in the pool, what is facing you across the table etc.

Also my ‘average’ Hoff Ball usually consists of:

Hoffman

-Field Mechanic

Ryle

Peacekeeper

Brutal Emissary

-Conflux of Amalgamation (so much yes!!)

Watcher

Crutch-Stringer

Witchling Stalker

With remaining stones generally adding to scheme/strat necessities.

Never leave home without the Emissary

Strats

-Rams

GG: Extraction – Just like the classic Turf war, this is great, it involves the Hoffball in the middle, bullying the other player off the marker, factor in if you win it, you can put it behind the ball to be even more annoying. Great - Great

VN: Turf War – The classic ‘Hoff loves’ strat, nothing better than putting the hoff-ball on the point and saying ‘come at me braux’ to the opponents. Great - Great

Mikecon Pt 1

So had my first Kings of War tournament on Saturday and it was an absolute ball!!

Pic by Michael Crossman

First off I’ll run through some basic crap. Before the the tournament I’d played a grand total of 3 KoW games. A 1500pter against a bloke called David Bliss, undead vs undead slap off.

2^nd game was a 4 player team match with some mates. Was Mitch and Rylie running very wood-elfish Elves and a very punch happy varangar army. Allied with me was Matt with a big lot of Kingdoms of men horses and a mounted hero. Was a good game, we ended up calling a draw as it was getting late..but oh boy where Matt’s dice on fire that night -_-..

3^rd game was against Matt, and it turned into just a big ole brawl in the centre which is always good fun.

Ok back to the tournament.

It was called Mikecon, run by the lovely and overtly sexy Michael Crossman. Was 2k points, allies allowed.

Tides of Fate...

The joys of Malifaux

Hello to the no doubt tiny amount of people reading this,

Just a condensed blog that myself and a mate (Jordan) will try to keep relatively updated some a slow trickle of hobby and gaming updates on.