I haven’t had much time to write
lately, but I really wanted to cover ITC because it was an amazing event and
has really reignited my interest in Malifaux (even if it felt like there was a
NB support group there about how crap out waves 3 and 4 were… but I digress).
Before I get into the actual games I would just like to thank Mike Marshall for
running yet another amazing event. Mike has now run two of my three favourite
events I’ve ever been to (Daffcon 2016 and ITC 2017). The third one was in
Canada, though I’m sure Mike would’ve run it even better. Also thanks to all
the judges and other volunteers who were great and looked like they were having
a blast. I’m still unsure if we will get a team together for next year or not,
but if not I definitely plan to volunteers as a helper/judge. Finally thanks to
everyone at Element games. Wow, what a venue. So far the only other venue I’ve
been to that compares is Firestorm in Cardiff. Also it was lovely that they
noticed me eating a salad I bought elsewhere on the Saturday as I couldn’t eat
the provided sandwiches (which I am totally okay with) and offered to get me a
salad for the next lunch, which they did. So props on that, they really went
over and beyond my expectations. Finally, having an on site bar is fantastic
and the late hours were great too. Honestly one of my favourite parts of the
weekend was drunkenly playing Dom Westerland and James Reeves in Guildball
(borrowing James’ Masons team) and trying to explain to some of the Finnish
team how the game worked. 3 Games of Malifaux (and several pints) during the
day and still was up for some Werewolf (Paul Butler is always a werewolf…) and
Guildball (and more pints) at night. What an awesome time. Other big highlight
was just chatting with a bunch of new players. Was great seeing Elinore, Martin
and the rest of their team again as I had met them at Nationals 2015 and had
faced Martin in Daffcon Frostgrave event. Also was great chatting with the
Americans who were just excellent blokes. Also props to Team Trump Card for
winning the event and for embracing their role as the heels of Malifaux by
dressing up in super American gear. Loved it. Anyway, enough gushing let’s get
on to the actual games.
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| Arran (Metalhed), Francois, Pippa, Me, Brad (Mechanical Dove) |
So I
lied… before we get on to the games I want to talk about my team. Abnormalifaux
brought a team! That’s right we were repping the blog. Though only 4 of the 5
of us have actually written for the blog, but still, we are a true team and I
was really excited to see how we would do. Also nervous though as I think we
had played a combined 4 games or fewer of malifaux in the previous 1-2 months
(I’ve been playing a lot of Guildball and a few other guys have been as well or
were just generally busy) and one team member Brad (Mechanical Dove) was forced
to play a different faction and ended up using a Master he had never won a game
with (hamelin) for the whole weekend. For simplicities sake Brad went fixed
master Hamelin, Francois went fixed Nellie, Philippa went fixed Ironsides
except one round where she dropped Raspy, so it was really only Arran and I
that were swapping Masters, and both of us only ended up using 2 of the 3 we
brought (Sorry Tara/Pandora).
