Misaki's spies had already informed her that the Oyabun was in poor spirits and so she had no doubts that the clan leader was about to denigrate her in some way during their meeting and was unfortunately correct...
"Your progress is unsatisfactory" he had stated after a lengthy diatribe on the relate merits (and lack thereof) of her plans, progress and various other aspects of the clans projects in Malifaux that were under her control.... "I expect control of all significant areas of crime and business in this realm under our control within the month..."
Of course such an increase was an impossible request in such a short time frame and Misaki was well aware that her father knew this himself. It was just another way for him to belittle her in front of his advisers...On the other hand if by some miracle she could accomplish a task deemed impossible her own position would be greatly strengthened and the Oyabun would be made to appear foolish and out of touch. Under such circumstances the clan may even look for a new leader...a successful leader, capable of achieving that which could be done by no other...
"It will be done.." she said as she turned to the door and was satisfied by the looks of surprise on the faces of her fathers sycophantic followers and her father himself as she left the room without waiting to be dismissed...
After ensuring that his daughter and her Torakage had left the stronghold the Oyabun dismissed those members of his entourage whose loyalty was not without question and turned to those he knew were his and his alone and began to speak though he focussed on no-one in particular...."Though it would be dishonourable for me to deliberately sabotage my daughters mission and I wouldn't for a moment consider commanding those loyal to me to do so in my stead..." he paused for a moment "..I also wouldn't be in any haste to punish those who did so...they may even find themselves rewarded...after a suitable interval of course..." and with that he left...
The problem with events, leagues and other things of that sort is that they tend to require you to be in specific places at certain times, play games at points values you don't enjoy or have extra rules that complicate games unnecessarily...Wouldn't it be great if you just played games like you always do and then someone else put all the results on a big map and told you who was winning?
Some time ago Titan Games built a map of Malifaux City using Games Workshop 'Hex' tiles...130 Hex tiles in fact...
It's based on this 'official' one...
It seems a shame to let all that work go to waste so I thought I should do something with it.
Firstly I need you guys and girls to play games of Malifaux and give the information to me...secondly...no it's okay there is no secondly...I'll even leave a pile of forms in the shop for you to fill in.
Of course there has to be some rules...
1) M2E crews only.
This is for two primary reasons. Firstly, It's a far better balanced system than 1.5 and secondly Malifaux 2nd edition and 1.5 have slightly different amounts of VP's available so it made sense to use the edition that's best.
Okay...technically that's only one rule but I may have to add others later...
All the information I require will be on the form and you just need to fill in the gaps with such tricky information as who the players were, what Masters they used , what Faction they were representing and who the hell won. Should you wish to be fighting over a certain area then you can let me know that as well or I'll decide it randomly if you don't. Each week (after the first one) there will also be a 'challenge' that (if completed) will get the players chosen faction some bonus territory ;-)
I've helpfully numbered the tiles for you all just in case and provided a key so you know which area is which.
1-11 Slums 112-20 Downtown
21-23 New Construction Zone 1
24-35 Industrial Zone
36-38 New Construction Zone 2
39-51 Slums 2
52-54 Quarantine Zone 1
55-57 Little Kingdom
58-66 Quarantine Zone 2
67-76 Quarantine Zone 3
77-84 Quarantine Zone 4
85-91 Slums 3
92-93 Howling Slums
94-107 Quarantine Zone 5
108-109 The Burns
110 Southern Slums
111-119 Slums 4
120-130 Slums 5
At the end of each week I'll update the map in store as well as post a picture and/or diagram so we can see which faction is closest to dominating Malifaux City as well as compiling all the game info so we can see who are the best or just plain busiest players and Masters. At the end of each month we'll see which faction (if any) is in control of the most territory and the opening story at the beginning of this article will be moved forward based on the campaign results. If all goes well we can keep this campaign running almost indefinitely on a month by month basis for as long as people are still enjoying using awesome models to brutally murder other peoples awesome models...
As soon as there's anything to report it'll be found here.
So there it is...what are you waiting for?