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| Seems like a lovely place to visit... |
Today the details were released for
Wyrd’s Fall 2016 organized event, in which players will battle to claim and
profit from the discovery of a ruined city in the Badlands, Nythera. For the
fluff heads out there, Nythera is sister city to Kythera, which the factions
battled over back in book 1 due to it containing a portal to a realm of death.
The living managed to seal it up and deal the Resurrectionists a blow there,
but with the discovery of this sister city, the battle is on once again.
On the
Malifaux side of things, players sign up on the Wyrd forums for one particular faction
that they will represent during the event. The factions will then battle it out
on a map of the Badlands, fighting to seize territory for their side and defend
their holdings from the enemy. Players will report their game results, and will
be granted access to secret forums where the factions can plan their objectives
for the week. It sounds very similar to the Dead of Winter event from several
years ago which, ultimately, led to the creation of the Tara crew and the
Kaeris alternate sculpt released earlier this year. This time around, the
winning faction gets to be the 2016 Nightmare Edition Gencon crew, and second
place gets the Miss alternate sculpt model. Cool stuff. I’m also intrigued by
their integration of the Campaign system from Shifting Loyalties into the
event, with players working towards constructing strongholds for their faction
during the course of the event.
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| The campaign map, pre-violence. |
Excitingly,
they’re also including the Through the Breach roleplaying game as part of the
event. Fatemasters sign up to receive three one-session scenarios with
characters responding to the Nythera events back in Malifaux city. Character
generation will be skipped for this event in favor of pre-gens, which is a
little bit of a bummer, but I understand why it will be necessary. In place of
the destiny mechanic, each player will have individual goals that they will be
trying to accomplish for their character. At the end of the event, the
character which most-frequently accomplishes their personal goal will be made
into a model for the Malifaux skirmish game! Awesome!
I’m signed
up for both sides of the event, so I see a lot of time spent on the other side
of the breach in my future. My regular Wednesday Google plus gaming group is
down for the Through the Breach stuff, though I’m going to have to figure out
how to do it online, using Vassal perhaps. I am signed up for the Guild in the
Skirmish game (natch) so I’ll be doing my best to earn us some new miniatures at
next Gencon. “But Adam,” I hear you saying, “The Guild has already had a
Nightmare Edition boxed set and two Miss models. Wouldn’t you rather see the
Ten Thunders get something new?” And my answer is, frankly, no. We’re the
Guild. We’re Law and Order. We deserve to get more Nightmare models, just in
exchange for keeping peace and order in the city. And, frankly, that kind of
seditionist talk is just the sort of thing that could get you thrown in prison
or added to a work gang.
You wouldn’t want that, would you?
For more information, head to the Event section of the new
and improved Wyrd forums.
