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Students of Conflict #11B - Lonestar Fauxdown 2023: Angel (The Brewmaster vs Sandeep Desai, Font of Magic)
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This episode we talk to Angel about a game in his journey to second place at the Lonestar Fauxdown Malifaux GT 2023, how he survived an epic night out and still managed to have a solid day of Malifaux the next day, and the lessons he learned and friends he made along the way!
Hosts: Nick, Doug, and Clay
Primary Guest: Angel
Other Guests: Carlo and Landon
Tournament: Lonestar Fauxdown Malifaux GT - Houston, Texas - 14-15 Oct 2023 Tournament on Longshanks:https://www.longshanks.org/event/10354/Heroic Scale Gamers tournament live streams: - Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpHfJAfjag - Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__H-JAD80EQ
Encounter:
Round 5
Deployment: Standard
Strategy: Covert Operation
Scheme Pool:
3: Assassinate
7: Catch and Release
9: Load 'Em Up
10: Public Demonstration
12: In Your Face
Map:
Peaceful Graveyard (page 5 on https://tinyurl.com/FauxdownTables2023)
Schemes selected:
Angel: Assassinate, In Your Face
Pete: Catch and Release, Load ‘Em Up
Crews:
Angel's Brewmaster Crew Bayou) Size: 50 - Pool: 5
Leader: Brewmaster 1 + 12 Cups of Coffee
Totem(s): Apprentice Wesley
Fingers
Gluttony
Whiskey Golem
Fermenter River Monk
Fermenter River Monk
Tanuki
Pete's Sandeep Desai, Font of Magic Crew (Arcanist) Size: 50 - Pool: 0
Leader: Sandeep 2
Totem(s): Banasuva + SS Cache
Shastar Vidiya Guard + Magical Training
Four Winds Golem + SS Cache
Metal Golem
Soulstone Miner
Soulstone Miner
Fire Gamin
Mentioned in the Podcast:Lonestar Fauxdown: The date is set for the Lonestar Fauxdown Malifaux GT 2024 - taking place in Houston, TX October 11-13, 2024, mark your calendars!: https://lonestarfauxdown.com/eventsGalewyn from Phoenix Foundry: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/phoenixfoundry/tabletop-terrain-3d-printable-fantasy-village-for-wargaming
Danger Planet: https://www.youtube.com/@DangerPlanet1337/featured
Rage Quite Wire: https://ragequitwire.podbean.com/
Thank-Yous:HUGE thanks to Top Doug Design for all the terrain we play on here in Texas and for sponsoring this podcast, to Heroic Scale Gamers for streaming Lonestar Conference matches, to Wyrd Miniatures for allowing us to use their artwork from the 2nd Edition Student of Conflict, and to Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy Houston for providing such an amazing space for the community.
Top Doug Design: https://www.topdougdesign.com/Heroic Scale Gamers: https://www.youtube.com/@HeroicScaleGamersWyrd Miniatures: https://www.wyrd-games.net/malifauxDragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy Houston: https://www.facebook.com/dlairhouston
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Transcript
Introduction to Podcast and Hosts
00:00:10
Speaker
Straight out of the heart of Texas, here come the students of conflict, helping you become a better Malifaux player and reach the top of the podium, one game at a time.
00:00:33
Speaker
Welcome to Students of Conflict. We are Clay, Nick, and Doug. Hello. Hello. Hello. And we are trying to become better Malifaux players, leveling up ourselves and hopefully leveling others up as well. We normally do that by interviewing top third players from the Lone Star Conference playing in tournaments across the US, though tonight we've got guests from
Podcast Format and Episode Guests
00:00:51
Speaker
all over. We're not trying to capture our guests' entire tournament journey. We just want to take an in-depth look at one game. What were the key decisions that these players made before the game, during the game, and now that they're looking back at the game,
00:01:02
Speaker
What were the things that they learned and that they can pass on to others? Our format is to interview guests all at once, just as soon as possible after the tournament when it's all fresh in their minds. We get some good cross flow between the guests. Rather than publishing one long marathon podcast, we break it up, releasing one individual podcast per guest, helping people level up one game at a time. Today, we are speaking with Landon, Angel, and Carlo. It's the Pope here. How are you? Hi, guys. And it's your favorite Mexican. Mexican, not Mexican.
00:01:32
Speaker
Whoa! These guys came in first, second, and third, respectively. And Carlo took home Iron Scorpius at the Lone Star Fodown Malifo GT.
00:01:42
Speaker
held in Houston on 14 through 15 October. We're gonna be releasing our discussions with them as episodes 11A through C. All right, so today we have Angel on the pod.
Angel's Gaming Journey
00:01:53
Speaker
Angel, welcome to the students of conflict. How are you today? Thank you. Good tired. Tired, but happy to be here. Absolutely, well. Tired, it's probably, I was born like this, I think. Are you still recovering from that crazy night during the showdown?
00:02:10
Speaker
That's a hell of a hangover, isn't it? Yeah. But yeah, but welcome to the podcast. One of the first things we like to ask all of our first time guests is a little bit about your gaming background and how'd you get into Malifaux? So I think my gaming background started because when I was in elementary school, I had a rich friend and his father,
00:02:37
Speaker
They're leaving a castle that for me was fucking Hogwarts, okay? So the father of my friend, who was a really nice guy, he had like a whole room with a table that was like four to five meters long to play miniature games. Was playing mostly Warhammer. And he had another room just to paint them.
00:03:00
Speaker
and collected them. So imagine how big the fucking place was. So that's what I was like. Oh my God. First of all, I want to be rich. And second, I want to play miniature games. I was like 10 years old or 90 years old, something like that. Then I saw the prices. I was like, well, I cannot afford this shit.
00:03:19
Speaker
But slowly, a couple of years after, I started working and a couple, more than a couple, like six years after or so, I started working. I started to have my own money. I started to buy into some Warhammer at the time. I think it was like fifth edition or something like that. Who delves? And that's how it started. Then also, I don't know if you guys know the game, miniature game, Infinity. Oh, yeah. So that's done like 50 kilometers away from where I lived.
00:03:49
Speaker
Oh, wow. It's from Spain. That game is from Spanish. From the Northwest. Yeah. Like how I like to call it like Rinali, Atlantic Northwest. So I was involved in Infinity Alpha and stuff like that, right? Because I moved to university, and university there was this nerd store I used to go, and they had like
00:04:09
Speaker
written down notes, Bostria was there, and yeah, we shared a note, we basically playtested the game kind of there. And I played Infinity for a while, a little bit of Warhammer. And then I have a friend that he opened his own store that I made actually there, playing Infinity.
Building a Malifaux Community
00:04:28
Speaker
And I played, he introduced it to Malifo. He opened his store, bought a bunch of products and he wanted to try alternative stuff. So he had Malifo first edition, 1.5. And it was really, I mean, when I played, they did a demo and I was like, oh my God, this is like so cool, right?
00:04:50
Speaker
and they let me accrue a couple of times but this friend of mine had this story in another city so I just played and that was the only story I knew that had Malifor so I just played like a couple of games and every time that I was gonna pay him a visit I would play some Malifor just for fun and that's when I started to play Malifor and then with second edition and Lady Justice box I dive into it
00:05:18
Speaker
I bought my first box that I bought. It was Lady Justice. I think I played one game. I didn't like her at all. And I built Sony at the next day. Yeah. And then like one month after that, I bought like three Bayou Cruz and that was my... That was it. That was it for me. That was it.
00:05:39
Speaker
Ophelia, Sommer, and Wong, it was like, this is it. This is like, you're not moving from here now. This is amazing. That's the moment that this became my main game when I bought Bayou. He heard the call of the Bayou at that point. Exactly. The names of the triggers, the names of the attacks, the abilities, the crazy things that could happen. I mean, I will never place a combination of that. Wait, what? You like the triggers on Bayou models? Yeah.
00:06:07
Speaker
That's a good thing that you like them because sometimes you don't have a choice and have to declare one
00:06:14
Speaker
Oh, yeah. So memories of Francois's trigger from Tui that did like double damage or whatever. I mean, the amount of stuff that Frank could get away with by just abusing the rules in second edition. I mean, it's dumb luck that they let that model exist the way it was. Then the place where I came from, it was really remote area. So we didn't have a meta or anything or not even tournaments. We will just have like
00:06:43
Speaker
We basically have a club, a bunch of friends, we just rented a place forever, and we left our miniatures, we built some tables, and we were playing there. The club is still at six, actually. I'm still an honorary member. I was member number six.
00:07:02
Speaker
That's the coolest thing I think I've ever heard in my life. That is super cool. It's awesome. It was great because one of the first things we bought was a fridge where we could put beers and drink while we were playing. That you can do at a regular store. Yeah, that's how everything started. That became my main game and then I started to play a little bit more competitive when I moved to Canada.
00:07:28
Speaker
Gotcha. Because there was no Malifo meta at all. Almost. But there were a lot of people that had models and they were interested and stuff like that. So I kind of became the TO in Montreal. So I was organizing like events, almost events every month and then tournaments every two months. Basically, at the beginning, we were like four or five people, then eight, then 10, then 12, then we reached like double digits regularly. And it was pretty nice.
00:07:58
Speaker
Wow. Only some of them were pigs. That's fantastic. So we'll roll into our icebreaker question. We already know that you came down to the Lone Star GT and did pretty well. So what we want to know is what was your favorite non-gaming moment from the tournament?
00:08:20
Speaker
My favorite non-gaming moment has a name and it's called Brandon. That was my favorite. So if you're listening to this Brandon, I love you. I had fun. I've been watching Danger Planet for a while.
00:08:38
Speaker
Is that the Brandon you're talking about, first of all? Yeah. Danger Brandon. He's not just a person. He's a moment. Oh, my God. I love Brandon. Brandon, you're the best. Come back to Texas. We miss you already.
Tournament Factions and Strategies
00:08:50
Speaker
It was my moment. And the TQ, the triple T, the thirsty Texan. That was also my favorite moment. The pub next to Dragon's Day? Yeah. I went Friday, and I went Saturday, and I left Sunday.
00:09:10
Speaker
Oh man. How's your liver feeling? Nah, just having good memories of my twenties now. See, he's from, he's from Spain. They're used to drinking up there. That's true. Fantastic. Yeah. They had a shower of booze. I'm sure Brandon, I think was back maybe 10 minutes before rounds started from what I recall talking to Jesse.
00:09:35
Speaker
And then he's like, oh, shit, I have to go play Malifaux? Nope. I'm going to say the seniors, usually say the scene, but not the seniors. But he was like Tom from Alberta, a great, great folk that also went down there. Corey from the Pacific Northwest, that was the guy that fucking stabbed me in the back. He forced me and kidnapped me to stay. I was like,
00:10:02
Speaker
guys, I'm going 3-0, I think I'm going to go back to the hotel, so bye. This was like 1.30 or something like that. He comes close to me and tells me, I didn't expect this video. And fast forward, I reached to my room, I don't know how. Listen, your pressure is real.
00:10:26
Speaker
Look, all I'm saying is I went 6-0 and didn't stay up drinking until 4 AM. You went 5-1 and we're out until, I don't know how long, which is really more impressive. I don't know. Could have been a little bit more. In the end, I threw a smoke bomb just before when they turned on the lights, basically. I said, like, I'm going to the bathroom, be right back. Never went back. But they had to kick them out. Like, guys, please leave. Oh, that's great.
00:10:55
Speaker
That's great. Well, sounds good. So we'll roll into the tournament. What round are we going to be talking about and why? Round five. The why is because round four, I didn't know which round Carlo was going to talk about. I don't want to say like, fucking Carlo, round four, he broke my ass and now I came because of him and motherfucker didn't even have the red joker in his deck.
00:11:21
Speaker
But hey, hey, hey, but my black jokers in that game counted as red jokers at least I recall that game is recorded so we could go and check but at least there were two black red jokers thanks to the hang
00:11:38
Speaker
Yeah, that I think that was the thing that tricked you into thinking that maybe you still had that. Don't worry, maybe you didn't do that, but that's the game that I'm talking about is where I got my ass kicked. So yeah, I went for game five because it was like a very weird game and I think there are some really good lessons we can learn from it.
00:12:03
Speaker
Fantastic. So you came down to Houston for our GT. Again, thank you for coming down and your whole group that came down was fantastic as well. That's the group that adopted me. So huge thanks to all of them. Yeah. Today I was supposed to play Gaining Grounds 4 with my local meta here in Vancouver, but we are not
00:12:25
Speaker
really good at organizing tournaments because we don't have our own like we don't have a good space and most of the people like work on the weekends or have like other duties on the weekends like family, children and that kind of things so it's very difficult for us to organize anything but every time that we can me and another guy Jamie we just get the car cross the border we get to stop because he's Canadian but
00:12:47
Speaker
at the eyes of the US government, border agents, I'm Mexican. I speak Spanish, so I know I had to stop there, get out of the car, get the car get searched, and I had to give my prints every single time. As a Mexican, and having met you in person, we will accept you. Okay, and I'm white Mexican then. So what faction did you wind up playing for this tournament, and why?
00:13:16
Speaker
Bye you. The why?
00:13:20
Speaker
Honestly, I don't know. I didn't know what to play. I play most factions, acceptance centers and sports society, but I don't play like all the masters in a single faction. I just play the ones I... This one looks cool. This one has this thing. This one is like, oh, cowboy is nice. Oh, dead people. Nice. The professor with the students that has a radio podcast kind of thing. Nice. That's me.
00:13:47
Speaker
I think I have an IDHD, but that's another topic. That's another topic, yeah. Bayou kind of like, I had, the good thing of Bayou is like I painted almost every model I have from Bayou. By the way, amazing job.
00:14:03
Speaker
Now I give most of my models to paint to a friend of mine, because I don't have the time, neither the skill anymore. And value is kind of my safe peak. And then I went to Longshan just before, like the day before taking the play. Actually, like nine hours before taking the playing. And it's like, which ones are the least represented factions? And I have the models to play, and I have to
00:14:28
Speaker
like say like okay I'm gonna be missing like for example for Arcanist I'm missing a couple of models that are key like for Mayfang I'm missing half of the keyword and I only play three masters in Arcanist and I was like oh Bayou is one of the least represented factions so I'll play Bayou is my comfort peak I have like a ton of models from Bayou I think like the two keywords I don't play I have every other model Wow okay that's an awesome way to approach it
00:14:57
Speaker
Yeah, that's pretty great. I hate mirror matches, first of all. I truly hate them. And second, I always like to just go and play like the least represented section. I just like that because... Don't we all hate mirror matches? We all hate to beat up ourselves. Yeah.
00:15:17
Speaker
Fantastic now, did you consider iron Scorpius for this event? I'm gonna be 100% honest. I didn't read the player back
00:15:30
Speaker
I just asked Cambros, like, hey, I didn't even know it was six rounds until I was playing second round, basically. Thank God. I asked Cambros if I needed to know something. And he just sent me, like, if you want to order food, this is the link. I was like, great. Cambros got his priorities right. That's right. Fantastic. So yeah, that was it.
00:15:59
Speaker
Gotcha. So for round five, who'd you play into? I play against Pete from Rich Quickwire. It was the first time we were playing, I think. Fantastic. And he was playing Sandeep II. Sandeep II, okay. And then what master did you choose for this round and why, based on the schemes and strats? Brewmaster I. The why is because it was a standard deployment cover-ups. So it's like, well, I don't have to cross the center line. So that's okay for Brewmaster I. I can fight in the middle.
00:16:29
Speaker
There was not that much concealment or severe terrain, so that's also good because Broomaster models are slow. And then I really wanted to play Broomaster in round four, but Fucking Noble told me like, you better win, you are 3-0, play your safe beacon. So I played Ma, because I think that Ma is a great master of it all. And I was like, well, now I want to play Broomaster, so I want to just play Broomaster, because I want to play Broomaster.
00:16:59
Speaker
And I think that Brewmaster1 is, well, or used to be a semi-decent competitive master in Gaining Grounds 3. So I was like, yeah, fuck it. I'll play Brewmaster1. It's what I want to play. And I went over thinking too much. I just recovered from the, it was like, Carlo make me recover from the hangover. So I was like,
00:17:21
Speaker
But I was not still 100%. So I was like, let's just play something that, you know, I play like a bazillion times and I know very simple activations. There is no big brain place. It's just like, walk, walk, charge, lure, lure, charge. Just like there are a couple of like options there, but it's a really simple diagram that you're like, follow. Things go your way. Good. If they don't go your way.
00:17:51
Speaker
Well, another game. Yeah, absolutely. You had a decision chart already built in your head on how to react and everything else. So that makes total sense. Absolutely. So when Pete declared Arcanist and then inevitably Sandeep 2, did that impact your crew makeup and how you were going to tackle
Strategies for Victory
00:18:11
Speaker
this game? Or did you kind of go in with that set crew, like, this is what I can execute with minimal deep diving and thinking in the decisions?
00:18:21
Speaker
No, actually, it impacted it. I don't want to say a lot, because sadly, BlueMaster1 doesn't have that much flexibility on what he needs to play. But I remember that there was a loading map in the pool, which was going to be very easy for Sandeep, either version. And I was actually expecting Sandeep 2.
00:18:41
Speaker
because people are like, oh, Sandeep is terrible, which I don't think so, especially for cover-ups because some ones count. But Sandeep is quite a strong master overall. And people, it's like kind of the new hardness of Arcanist. So I was like, yeah, you know, if it's Sandeep,
00:19:00
Speaker
Two, he's going to probably do this and deep opening. Let's call it like that, which is like, wait until the ends and deep goes, sets in some fire, drops three. Eight million chop weights. Two, pass one bazillion duels. And I was like, what I'm going to do is just like, walk, walk, charge. You know, it's in my diagram. So it's going to be A or B. So, Angel, what you're saying is that you follow the kiss rule. What's the kiss rule?
00:19:29
Speaker
Keep it simple, stupid. Oh, yeah. Basically, yeah, literally. So regarding my list, I was like, OK, big shockwaves that are like fucking horrible and unavoidable. One thing that I took into account is like the table was awful. That table was awful.
00:19:47
Speaker
I had literally only one place to deploy the whiskey golem so he could fit his base. Which table was it? It's there on the document and it had like bits and me into peaceful graveyard.
00:20:02
Speaker
Pete sent me to the bottom one. I gotta see what this is. Is it the one with all the tombstones in it? Yeah. He was on the tombstone side and I was on the opposite one. So it was like I either deployed the golem like in a forest behind the forest kind of thing. Oh no.
00:20:18
Speaker
And I, in fact, tied the road because he's going to take two walks just to cross that small little patch of forest. Or he goes there in the corner. And I was like, well, he'll go there in the corner, in fact. And then I wanted models that could survive the shockwaves. I was thinking, OK, let's just bring the monks, because they have technically armor too.
00:20:42
Speaker
and models that could heal themselves pretty easily, like monks as well, they heal with a 5 and they push one inch. You're talking about fermented river? Yeah, the only monks Brumaster can bring. Fair enough. And, no, but yeah, it's good clarification. And so my options were like, yeah, let's just bring like keyword models that can do their thing, they are tanky enough so they don't die too easily. And then I like tanukis because, you know, tanukis are an animal with huge balls.
00:21:13
Speaker
And I think that they do have play in Broom Master. Most people don't like them, but no, it's a little tiny raccoon with huge balls that likes to get drunk. It's true. It's true. It's the ballsy pick. It's cute. I just deploy him very far away because every time I play at a nookie, they die turn two. I don't know why people hate them that much. So it was literally almost at the border of the table, full motive motivating people like, hey, you!
00:21:42
Speaker
I hate them because they do die turn two. Not to say, I think Landon has on the record said that he hates Tanookis. For sure. They're just jealous of their pendulous testicles. Exactly. I mean, how could you not be? Speaking of giants, did you consider Alphonse at all for this matchup just based on what you were talking about? He has that blast resistance to keep him healthy from shockwaves. Which one? Who? Alphonse LeBlanc.
00:22:13
Speaker
No, I didn't consider him, but I don't know. I don't like to, I like to play in keyword. I keep things a little bit thematic. So the only like non keyword pick I brought it was gluttony because there was low, the map. And I know that gluttony can ruin the metal golem day. It's like been told all it likes to teleport and not walk. Right. So I could say, Hey, I'm at the goal and just go into the scrap and eat it and take
00:22:34
Speaker
one sad damage. But at least you don't teleport. You walk like a normal human being. So he's like, you know what? In fact, he'll output this one. This guy there. I consider bringing the Emissary for the same reasons, but he couldn't roll in that table. So I was like,
00:22:52
Speaker
It's enough with one big base. So Whiskey Golem, because he's an always, you have to bring him 12 cups of coffee in Broomaster, because you always need to put that upgrade in Broomaster, two monks, so they can have fun and drink together with Fingers. Fingers, because Skimarker shenanigans, and it's a tough model. Yeah, Fingers is one of the coolest models in that keyword. I love Fingers. And it has this thing that with Broomaster, too, he can draw a shit ton of cards.
00:23:21
Speaker
especially when he doesn't get to bait, which happened to me once with John Law. And my opponent draw like 20 cards in one activation. Ouch. Ouch. But with Prue Master Wang, he's not going to draw you more than five cards the whole game, which is what a terracotta will draw you across a whole game for less than half of the points.
00:23:51
Speaker
he can draw you those five cards turn two which is a very key turn if you want to keep brewmaster alive and brewmaster killing something so i found that that was a good play there and i had a danuki told them because it comes for free and the two two monks i think that was it fantastic
00:24:10
Speaker
So with the scheme pool being assassinate, catch and release, load him up, public demo, and in your face, what two did you select and did you anticipate based on Pete's picks what he might be going after? So I imagine that he was taking load them up because golems and stuff. For me, it was like load them up is not a possibility. Public demonstration is not a possibility. Catch and release, that I can do.
00:24:38
Speaker
assassinate I need to kill the motherfucker
00:24:41
Speaker
And in your face, it was going to depend on which models would he bring. But I was expecting one or two golems. I was like, I can do that probably. So I was like between those three schemes. I knew that my schemes were going to be pretty telegraphed. But I was going to play for the better flips, I guess. I was just going to cut my fingers and play, basically. If things go my way, maybe I had a chance there.
00:25:09
Speaker
Gotcha, yeah. And to clarify, Pete did bring two golems, so you definitely had that option there. He had Sandeep II, Banasuva with Soulstone Cash, Shasta or Vidia Guard. I thought that was a typo, but it's there with magical training. Four Winds Golem with Soulstone Cash, Metal Golem. He had three golems, Fire Golem, and then two Soulstone Miners. So that is a beefy list. It was a Fire Gammon. Oh, it was a Gammon. Okay. A different typo.
00:25:39
Speaker
Which golems? Metal and wind golem. Wind, okay. Yeah. Four winds, right? Yeah. Got that model so good. Yeah. Really good. So, during the game, Angel, how did it plan out? Did everything go as planned? Did you recover from your hangover midway through and then lights came on and started reacting? I mean, what was the outcome of the game in any interesting lines of play worth mentioning?
00:26:09
Speaker
So I've, since turn one and two, things went better than I would have expected. He was technically playing with two soulstones only, because soulstone miners are the thing. He was like, I'm playing with zero as well. I was like, well, come on, technically you are playing with two. Because you're like, turn one, your first activation is like, concentrate getting a soulstone and berry.
00:26:34
Speaker
So I didn't know what I wanted to do. I want to play very reactive, see what he was doing. He was going to throw some deep or not. So I tried to spread my models a little bit, but keeping the poison party going, because Promaster needs at least six poison, I would say. And you want at least 10, 12 on fingers and a couple in the monks.
00:26:59
Speaker
A couple just like they are, they can send a couple of attacks on themselves before dying at least, or the opponent really needs to have a couple of lucky flips. So on my favor, I had a terrible hand. I think every card was below six.
00:27:17
Speaker
And a 13, which it was great. Because I was like, a 13 is pretty nice, especially if I keep it for next turn. I knew that Sandip was his willpower seven, so I'm at a disadvantage. So basically, it's going to be like, if I'm going to go last with Promaster and see if I can use this 13 to either punch him or lure him. Right? One of the two.
00:27:44
Speaker
And let's see what happens. So we play our game. We did more or less what the other was expecting. I played very safely with Whiskey Golem. And then I won initiative, and he was the forcing to go first, of course. And then he activated. When he activates and finally, he does what he was expected. He already moved up the board. I don't know if he tossed himself or something like that.
00:28:07
Speaker
And then he put it at a safe distance in the sense like I needed to walk twice and then charge to hit him. And then he did the shockwave thing, right? He was like, shockwave stuff, yada, yada, yada. Since I already flipped like a shit ton of like bad cards actually, I passed most of the shockwaves, so they were not that impactful. Oh, OK. And I think I had to pull like eight
00:28:35
Speaker
I don't remember the number exactly, but I would say something between 8 and 10 simple duels, and I think I failed like 2 or 3 only, almost with any fingers, so I was like, I don't care about that guy, he's staying there for now, and I have some soul stones to save him after if I really need to.
00:28:54
Speaker
And then with Broomaster, if I remember this correctly, he just ate like ski marker to gain a focus. And he had focus too, and then he tried to lure. He walked because he was not in range for the first lure, so he walked
00:29:14
Speaker
And what I will say is like, I was actually paying quite a lot of attention to which cars he was cheating to pass the ends and stuff like that. And he had like two cars left in hand or something like that. And I knew that at least one of those cars was a high car, like at least a 10 or something like that. And the other one was probably very low.
00:29:35
Speaker
One of them was definitely below five, that's for sure. And the other one must be definitely above nine, that I remember. And so I tried to lure Sandeep, who was in the Bent Steam War or something like that, and I win the flip from the flip, right? So it was great because he had to actually
00:30:00
Speaker
cheat the 13 that he had in hand. It was actually a 13. Goes to 20. I cannot get some deep close. So then I just lure him again, use a soul stone to give him poison. And now I know he doesn't have a high card in hand. So it basically depends on what we flip. And with flipping, I win the duel again from the flip. So I don't even have to use my 13. Clutch. Well, great. I had the 13 for next turn. I discovered the other garbage. Turn two.
00:30:30
Speaker
and I use soul stones to snuff our cards and after that I have I think seven low cards in my discard pile.
00:30:41
Speaker
And I haven't seen the Black Joker yet, but I have like three... I have two 13s in hand, and the rest of cards didn't matter, but they were like moderates. There was no other figure, but I was like, if I win initiative, I can spend one 13 to win initiative, another 13 to smacks and dip, and then just like, kill him if I have the cards, because I'll be at a plus three stat advantage against him. So what I did was charge him,
00:31:10
Speaker
I hit the first attack because I was already at Plan 1 stat, then I became on plus 3 stat over him. So I just hit him one more, and then I did a Blood Poisoning and killed Sandeep. He didn't have good cards. So first activation turn 2, I killed Sandeep. Brutal. Brutal. I did not expect you to say that. The only time that I've beat Sandeep is when I was aggressive like that and killed him at the top of 2, because if you can manage that,
00:31:38
Speaker
It's a huge advantage against that group particularly. Yeah. I mean, the end result was not that far and we were fighting literally until the turn five. Turn five, I think the game was decided on my own. It was either a tie or a win for me. He couldn't win at that point.
00:31:57
Speaker
But we were fighting until the last three activations to see if we were dying or I was winning. Those are the best games. Yeah. Which is pretty impressive, right? One of the reasons I wanted to talk about this game is he lost his master after a single activation. He only got one activation out of Sandip, which wasn't that impactful. And he was still fighting for the game until turn five.
00:32:27
Speaker
at least for a tie. Absolutely. And kudos to Pete in that regard. That can be backbreaking. For sure. And just as a plug for Pete, that if y'all aren't listening to Rage Quit Wire, you got to give them a listen to as well. Oh, absolutely. Well, I think that definitely underlines something we brought up with Landon earlier is, which I mean, technically that was a previous episode. So go back and listen to our episode with Landon. But sticking it out that
00:32:56
Speaker
A lot of times you lose your master that early in a game, it's just going to tilt you and you're like, ah, fuck it. Might as well just scoop and say, fuck it. But it sounds like he really stuck it out and gave you a run for your money with that one. Yeah. He give my Tanooki. Third two. Yeah. Right.
00:33:18
Speaker
It's probably, it's probably the ball envy. So Angel, what was the outcome of the game? I think we know you, you won this round, but what was the score and how did that break out? I think it was seven five for me. I made all the points to assassinate because I killed some deep
00:33:34
Speaker
I didn't want to, I was like, wow, I'm not letting this guy live, right? If I let him live, like many things can happen. I don't know how the game is going to end. Like I kill him, I get activation control that he just recovered by killing the Tanuki. God bless his soul. Die for the cause. Die for the cause, exactly. There you go.
00:33:56
Speaker
Yeah, 7-5, so I scored everything by one point of Assassinate. I denied him one point of Cobra Ops. He had loading up, which he couldn't score. So he scored three points of loading the strategy of Cobra Ops. And two points, I think it was catch and release. That was on the pool, right? On the Shadash Tabidija card. Yeah, catch and release. I tried my best. There was no way to kill that guy with the counterspell and everything. It was really tricky to kill him.
00:34:25
Speaker
Very underrated model in that crew. Yeah, I agree. I mean, it's not an amazing model, but I think it's a solid model, especially with magical training. Yeah, of course, because you have to have it on a living model now, right, for it to work. Right. All right. Well, Angel, based on the game, what was your MVP model and why? Well, I think the MVP was definitely ProMaster.
00:34:49
Speaker
Not the Tanooki? I mean, the Tanooki did give the two focus to Brewmaster, one by dropping a scheme mark and another one like this full mode and motivation. So Brewmaster could actually lure... like, the Tanooki was the enabler of that play, okay? Yeah, he gets the assist, but... He gets the assist on it. Got the assist on the kill, exactly.
00:35:09
Speaker
Honestly, he did the three things. He gave two poison to Broomaster than one. He gave him focus and he dropped another skin marker so Broomaster could deal with 12 cast of coffee to get the other focus. The two focus I needed to not spend soul stones and be able to lure through the bent steam thingy concealment. So I'll have to agree. Tanooki MVP.
00:35:34
Speaker
Only needed one activation, one activation. Sandeep that, thanks to the Tanooki. All the Tanooki, yup, carrying his weight.
00:35:47
Speaker
I wanted to ask about, you'd mentioned in one of the notes or maybe on Discord or something, but about Whiskey Golem, you almost completely messed that up. Can you tell us that story? I love hearing the close runs that you were able to pull out, you know? So I was like in a pedestal. I just killed some deep chills. So I was like, wow. This game is just like, it's not one yet. Many things can happen, but it's heavily decided on my favor. I just guaranteed a point there. My opponent has no master.
00:36:15
Speaker
So then at some point during that turn, there is a Soulstone Miner that pops next to my Whiskey Golem just to engage him so he cannot go and claim a marker, right? I was like, a Soulstone Miner, please, bitch! I'm just gonna destroy your Soulstone Miner and just walk to my marker. And I had like, I drew cards with fingers because I burned my whole hand with Brewmaster. And I had like, I don't know if it was a 10 of Mass or something like that to go for the Onslaught trigger and kill the
00:36:45
Speaker
and try to kill the Soulstone miner. And he just flips better. I fail the attack. Even if I cheat the tank, it's not going to hit him. I'm like, oh, shit. I wasn't counting on this. Then I was like, did I actually measure if I can disengage enough and just walk with the nimble and get it within the two inches? And this is like the tank speed, that it was very close. One of those measures that
00:37:13
Speaker
on a table, right? I checked with him. I was like, well, first of all, if I fucking fucked up the disengage, I'm not scoring the turn, the strategy. And second, just because I didn't disengage first, which was stupid. And second, it was really quite close on the measurement side. And he failed the disengage. So I could push the full five, and they had another five to walk.
00:37:43
Speaker
It was one of those cases, I just put the rule on top, it's like two inches. Is it big or is it out? Is your call because it's very close?
00:37:51
Speaker
Measurements here are not precision. I haven't eaten anything. My stomach is empty and my intestines as well. And I'm like shaky here still because of Brandon. I'm going to blame it all on Brandon now. I'm sorry. And people will be like, yeah, yeah, you're good. No worries. You know? Tip of the hat to him there. But yeah, yeah, measure the disengage. Don't get too cocky with the big models, trying to crush the small models. Great lessons for those of us towards the bottom tables.
00:38:19
Speaker
Kind of things went your way, and then I got cocky. They're like, yeah, I'll just defense five, armor, one, but whatever. A couple of them attacks here, and I'm going to blow it out to the space. Didn't happen. And then I had another moment that was the game that was also curious that
00:38:37
Speaker
We both had a choice at some point. He was like, we either deny the other one at one point and try to score it some other way. His soul-stone mind and my gluttony will just look at each other saying like, I'm claiming this. Are you claiming this as well? Okay, peace. Let's make a truce. Nobody's engaging anybody. We just stay here. We don't hit each other.
00:39:04
Speaker
We cool, bro? We cool? Yeah, exactly. We cool claiming this? Okay. And then after they claimed it, it was like a pillow fight, you know? I don't kid you because you're manipulative and they spent like the whole fucking game there. Oh, that's hilarious. They became good friends. Yeah. Those were the two interesting moments. And then I had a feels bad moment that I call out that I was hitting this
00:39:29
Speaker
have to change only. It was a one-point swing for him that I staggered his fire gamut so he could not reach with one of my Affirmatory Beaumonts so he couldn't reach the marker. And he didn't realize that the attack would also give a stagger because he didn't hear me properly and he actually had the guard to cheat and prevent it. But he was like telling me this after everything. I was like, do you want me to edit it? I was like, no, no, no, it's good. I will have done something different. It's fine. But yeah. So in the end, you know, he lost his master.
00:40:00
Speaker
after one single activation of his master, and it could have perfectly be a seven six. Gotcha. And his or your favorite? My favorite. Okay. All right. So game's over. You've got the win. Now we're going to try to educate some of our viewers and some of our hosts.
00:40:18
Speaker
I'm not London here, okay? That's why I play value. I embrace cows and flip cars and pray to the grandfather of Jugioh that he smiles at me from the sky. Nice. Well, we'll have to join that religion then because if that's what it takes, we're happy to jump on board. As a site, there was one
00:40:36
Speaker
game that we were playing in a tournament in Bellingham that I just talked with my friend Jamie that drives with me and he's like fucking hell I don't know what I'm doing but this isn't working I don't know if I'm gonna manage to score get the wing or anything but it's like Jamie stay calm just sleep better and he did
00:40:58
Speaker
He was that. In the middle of the game, he jumps on me from the other table. I'm flipping better and it's working. And his opponent, yeah? He literally won 99 out of 10 duels out of deck. I was flipping an 11, he was flipping a 12. He just needed the captain's blessing, man. Yeah, there you go.
00:41:20
Speaker
That's what it is, for sure. Top tier is brought to you by Students of Conflict. Here we go. Trademarked. Just flip better. Students of Conflict. Just flip better. Putting that on a shirt.
00:41:35
Speaker
Love it. All right, so for the bottom third players that are really getting their feet wet in Malifaux and we could either gear this towards Brewmaster or Bayou as a faction, because there's a lot of underlying themes that Bayou has and options that will catch you off guard. So I'll let you decide how you want to approach this, but any advice for the bottom third players facing you while playing Bayou?
00:42:01
Speaker
Most of the Masters I play are very vulnerable to guns, so just bring guns. Or Misaki as a second Master. I really don't know how to deal with her. That's if you're playing against me. If they are just getting there, if you're just starting Malifold, they're starting to get the reps and play and go to tournaments and events, I will say learn from Pete.
Lessons Learned and Advice
00:42:23
Speaker
Sometimes you lose your Master, just try to keep your head in a good space.
00:42:28
Speaker
and see like okay this happened there's nothing I can do about that now how can I come back from this right which is what Pete did and he did it very well he like I was against the ropes the whole game when I thought that I was like oh for now on should be an easy game for me it definitely wasn't he did everything he could to make it that it wasn't
00:42:50
Speaker
And so that will be, and if they are playing value, I will say, just play Matak. It is just so forgiving or cheap, you know? Yeah. They are starting and they are playing value. Those are the two masters that I consider that are the best. And they are not because they are the best, but because they are very forgiving on what they do. If you make mistakes, you can always kind of recover from that.
00:43:17
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. That's good advice. With Brewmaster in particular, are there any gotcha moments? What are some of the worst gotcha moments that usually you have to learn the hard way that we might be able to warn some of these newer players, like the first time any of us encountered the Pigapult, right?
00:43:38
Speaker
That was a moment that I will never forget and we'll make sure I learned from that. What does Brewmaster bring that people need to look out for? So you need to realize that once you get close to Brewmaster, it's very difficult to get out because he's always, if the other player knows what he's doing, he's always bringing two cups of coffee. So I would say just feed a model to Brewmaster every turn. He's going to just kill him, but this is going to be the model you pick. Don't let Brewmaster have the choice.
00:44:08
Speaker
That's the key. Brumaster is a murdering machine. Brumaster 1 is a murdering machine, but he can only murder one model per turn. And he needs to do the setup to murder the model first. So it's not that easy. My Brumaster in that game, he murders and deep across two turns. And then he did manage to murder the Four Winds Golem.
00:44:32
Speaker
But because he already had some damage into it, he was like just above half health or something like that. And then he didn't manage to hit a single other like flying deck the whole game. So I just play him like, okay, I'm not attacking, I'm failing, so I'm just gonna lure my mother so he can go and score points instead. But I would say with Brewmaster, just be careful with the lure, which is just a stat six lure.
00:44:55
Speaker
And don't underestimate his defensive trigger. And if you think you can kill him, just go for it. Because if you put pressure on him, he dies. That's great advice. Appreciate that. I would say Brewmaster 2 was the new hotness in Bayou for a long time. So props to Angel for actually playing Brewmaster 1. Because I haven't seen Brewmaster 1 on the table in such a long time. And I've always thought that there was sauce to unpack there.
00:45:24
Speaker
I think some pretty good advice is to learn both versions of the master no matter how bad somebody tells you one version of them is.
00:45:32
Speaker
Yeah. And if you want to play keyword, even some people tell you like, it's not the most competitive thing. If you really know what you are doing or you want to do and you want to enable your plan, like my diagram with basically two options there, like option R, option B, if they go well, okay, if they don't go well, fuck it, this is probably lost. Just do it. It's fine. Sometimes you don't have to play them the super hotness.
00:45:59
Speaker
Also, Brumaster 2 was fucking bananas before and he got nerfed, in my opinion, pretty hard. It's not playable or anything like that now, but it's not like the crazy bananas. Jesus Christ, he was so good when it came out. Oh my God. I remember playing the first time against Brumaster 2 and it was against John Mosher.
00:46:17
Speaker
And he had a whiteboard to keep track of all of the poison ticks. I was like, okay, this is serious. He still brings that to tournament. It sounds like you're talking about, though, that it all comes back to fundees. And, you know, you gotta have your fundees down. You can play whatever the fuck you want if you got your fundees. Yeah, of course. But there's Broomaster 1 or Broomaster 2.
00:46:42
Speaker
You were saying it before and I agree a lot. I'm not a big brain player and just embrace cows and just hope for the best most of the time. That's my game plan 95% of the time. But one thing that is true is by playing online during COVID and by playing now, I go to the Pacific Northwest.
00:47:01
Speaker
whenever I have the chance. Actually, tomorrow I'm going to buy a car just to go there more often and play more with them. Once your fundamentals are clear, you can make and you know how things work and what's important and decision points what you should be doing.
00:47:19
Speaker
It's the game just like kind of clicks, right? And maybe you're shooting yourself in the foot if you're playing Blue Master 1. Let's put an example. But if your fundamentals are there and then you get a little bit of luck, you can defeat even Damien 1. Of course. Well, I mean, and if you know your crew inside and out, upside down. Yeah, that's key. You know exactly what you can do when you've got, you know, rally against, oh, I lost my master early. Cool. I know what I can do with everything.
00:47:50
Speaker
and having that ability to rally and know your crew inside and out gives you an advantage over someone who is trying out the new hotness but doesn't have the reps in with it.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah. And also knowing what your opponent is reading. I didn't know Sandip Chiu that much. I only played one game against him. But I knew the rest of the crew a lot because I played against Sandip one a bazillion of times because there was a Spanish player that was playing him a lot. And then I was just like, you know what? I just need to eliminate off the equation the model I don't know. Sandip Chiu. So I just knew that worked. And the rest of them, I know how they work. That always works, right? If your opponent has no models, he can't play, right?
00:48:29
Speaker
You said something really important there that I think I forgot to say in my episode as far as just like advice I have for players that are trying to get better and that's just like, learn what everything fucking does. No way, not for real. Carlo can tell you, you know, firsthand experience from our game that one of the things that I do is I just know what everything does so that, you know,
00:48:52
Speaker
You can keep track of what your opponent's doing so much better when you can just like He pulls up his activation. He's like I'm gonna go with library and you're like, I know what you're doing before you even say it, you know So just having a good idea of what actions your opponent can take at a game really helps
00:49:09
Speaker
And you don't need to memorize everything, but sometimes I like to say that Malifo is the game of playing Sherlock Holmes, and you just need to ask the right questions. Sometimes some people doesn't have the questions because they don't want to give up their strategy or their tactics or their secret mission ahead. They want to ask, do you have a way to move my model with a lure or a push or a trigger or something like that on this model?
00:49:32
Speaker
And you are saying that, and maybe you have, I don't know, claim jump, right? But what is it better, to give out that you have claim jump, or to get surprised before when they move your model and they deny your point of claim jump? For sure. Fair enough. That's true. Very true. And knowing what the opponent can do, I just lost the game in the last online tournament in Basel, because I didn't know that Tiris told him. First of all, he didn't know he moved to unmatch. But I didn't know that he would ignore armor and
00:50:00
Speaker
get plus one damage on the attack. It depends on what I call it butthole or cross. It depends on which one it is. We went with hashtag and asterisk, I think. I thought I had this model with armor two perfectly safe. They're blocking a charge link or something like that and he's going to score me a point at the end of the turn and he just charge. He's like,
00:50:27
Speaker
Oh, I ignore armor, I have plus one damage. And it's like, hold on, what? I thought it was like two, three, four only. No, no, it's three, four, five ignoring armor. It's like, okay, you kill me on your lowest number. Number one.
00:50:42
Speaker
Number two, don't forget it has a shockwave that gives out stun and that it's significant. That totem is so good. It's ridiculous. That I suffered it, so I really knew. I was like, this guy is just like the shockwave, right? Whatever. He's just there minding his business, but it's really sometimes about asking the questions.
00:51:01
Speaker
Yeah, good stuff. Now for the middle third, I know that there was a lot going into the bottom third and it might have bled over into the middle, but any advice for people that got the fundamentals down, they're getting their feet established and they're diving into a crew, going against either you or by you, any advice for them in this setting?
00:51:22
Speaker
I would say that just what exactly we were saying, like, know your crew, know your opponent's crew, it will be the next step. Absolutely. It will be like, know what your models can do perfectly. Do not put everything perfectly, but the better you know them, the more options that are going to open for you when you play. And the better you know your opponent's crew, or you are able to ask the right questions,
00:51:47
Speaker
Because I think those, like, one compensates for the other one, because there are, like, what, 800 models? You cannot know every model and every trigger on every model. Of course. But if you are able to ask the right questions at the right time, that's what makes the difference there.
00:52:03
Speaker
on the people that are starting there to be a little bit more competitive and trying to fight in those tops and fight for winning tournaments. The thing is, the better you know your models and the better you know your opponent models, more things can go your way. Absolutely. Yeah, even if you think you know the answer, asking the question sometimes is just as important to make sure your opponent can double check your math on you almost. And you can always ask to see the card.
00:52:32
Speaker
RTFC is probably the most important piece of advice in any game.
00:52:41
Speaker
All right, so I'm going to ask everybody here on this on this call to get their pen and notepad ready because I'm about to ask this question. Angel, how do we beat you at the next tournament? But no, for top third players, they've got their shit together. What's some advice for some of those players that are going into advanced play with either Brewmaster or or Bayou in general?
00:53:08
Speaker
Okay, now here, I'll refer to those players to Landon because he's the one that knows how to actually play this game, peak praying. That is true because I honestly, like, I'm Michael Scott of this game, okay? That's my spirit animal. My answer is to play Jackdaw too, because Angel doesn't know what he does.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah. If you want to defeat me, just pick good Bendeta targets. I can use a bush backer. I just kill the only bush backer I feel, turn one or turn two. Because it happened in two of my games. It happened in my game against Carlos.
00:53:48
Speaker
I happen to be an authority in this matter. The first thing you do when you're going up to a Bayou players and experienced players, you insist that they aren't playing a real faction. That always gets you a leg up immediately.
00:54:03
Speaker
unless you're Angel. Although, we did find one technique not to defeat Angel, and apparently taking him out and getting him shit-faced the night before is not the method that is a valid approach for a two-day tournament.
00:54:19
Speaker
He played Brewmaster. That's just fuel. Yeah, number one. Number one. Number two. It doesn't help if you also drink heavily the night before. Good stuff. Well, we have a few questions from some of our listeners, specifically Brian. He's been a frequent guest. Personal glitch on the Discord. He has two questions for you. I have a question for him. Why wasn't he there? Yeah, right. I was about to say that. It was his anniversary.
00:54:50
Speaker
Oh, okay. Fair enough. That's a good reason weakness. He enjoys being married more than Malifaux, which should be most of us, but he has a reason to not do it. That's a fair, that's a fair assessment. His question is, is who was the best singer at karaoke night?
00:55:06
Speaker
I don't know. I was getting wasted. All right. Well, this is a two parter. So we'll, we'll transition over to the second question here. Uh, what's the best tournament you've ever been to and why is it the lone star foe down in Houston?
00:55:24
Speaker
Okay, I am being honest, it is a long start for Darwin Houston. That's great. Hell yeah. You just need to give me like discount on the thirsty Texan. There are a couple of things I would like to say though.
00:55:39
Speaker
about the tournament and how we can improve. One is like, organize an official dinner, either probably Friday before everybody's tired, you know, people can register paying advance. And we can kind of get each other together, meet, have some, eat some like Texas barbecue or something, you know, have some drinks, just chit chat, whatever. And then hopefully most of you will stay with Brandon.
00:56:11
Speaker
I played against him at Gen Con and had a blast!
00:56:14
Speaker
Yeah, me too. It was my first game. And then he paid me back that night. But the other thing that it's when you, and I think I put this suggestion on the card that you gave us back, but I don't know if I was too tired. I don't know if I gave it back to you or something. But when you set up the table and it's something that Ambrose started doing in the Pacific Northwest,
00:56:40
Speaker
When we're talking about corner deployments, so flank and corner, just define that there's only one side, the one that can be picked. So you either pick one side of the board or the other one, but you cannot pick one side and one corner, right?
00:56:55
Speaker
Yep, I remembered that from when I went up there for the railroad Avenue rumble. And I didn't think to do that on there. And so that's definitely something that is on my list of things to do. I think I said the same thing in one of the episodes that I was in because I think I had leave your mark as one of my schemes on that like giant skeleton board.
00:57:22
Speaker
And you normally put the middle like the rib cage of the skeleton in the middle of the board and it's kind of like almost impossible to score that scheme there because you can't actually use like a quarter of the area to leave schemes in.
00:57:35
Speaker
Conveniently, that's not a scheme anymore. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, right? It's called from the center now. So I'm saying it because it allows one of the things I really like a lot and is creating more. You don't have to worry that much about that the scenery has to fit every deployment. So you can just create your table, thinking that if this goes into a corner deployment,
00:58:00
Speaker
It's going to be this corner and that other corner, the one that they're going to use, a corner of land. And you still can keep the theme of the table without worrying too much about, oh, every corner has to be available and stuff like that. That's fair. And then I got to say that the other tournament that I really enjoyed of Malifaux was the Six Nations in the UK, in Scotland, in Stirling last year.
00:58:25
Speaker
That was amazing, but things that you did better, it was the schedule was better.
Tournament Experiences and Community Growth
00:58:32
Speaker
It was also six games with you, with your tournament. I still felt like sometimes I had to put the clock on me while it was still deploying. So maybe five minutes more there would be better, but I was less in a rush than there.
00:58:46
Speaker
Also there at the end I got sick because I was, since I went to Scotland, I spent like seven days before the tournament just drinking and traveling. I went to Scotland last summer. I completely understand. When in Rome, sorry, Scotland.
00:59:01
Speaker
I went all around. We did a road trip with two friends. I forced two of my friends to meet me there and we did a road trip just drinking whiskey and then we swam naked on the Loch Ness. Awesome. That fucking living life, man.
00:59:17
Speaker
I know, it was pretty nice. But I think your schedule was better. The Dragon's Lair is fucking amazing. What a great store. The base that you have is insane. And then being able to buy beers directly there, top notch. And they were not like ultra expensive, or at least I don't want to check my credit card. They weren't.
00:59:43
Speaker
They keep a very good price and they also try to keep their beer list very local. Most of their beers they have there are Texas beers. Nice. I really, I honestly, hands down the best Mifo tournament they've ever been. Oh, thanks me clapping. Yeah, where's the soundboard for that? Doug, you gotta have a round of applause. That'll work. That'll work. That's the Perdita 2 one, isn't it? Something like that, Nick.
01:00:11
Speaker
I don't know, that's just the things being awesome. I don't know. Well, this is a good transition over for plugs and parting thoughts, because I think we had, I heard some good parting thoughts and plugs for Doug's tournament. The great thing is how successful it was. It's only going to get better. So how cool is that to see what's going to happen next year? But for you, Angel, do you have any plugs or parting thoughts that you want to share with the group?
01:00:37
Speaker
No, honestly, let's just keep making money for the great community that it is. I love going to the Pacific Northwest. I'm trying to travel a little bit more to the US, but you guys are fucking expensive because you have like a shit ton of real money and not like the fake Canadian Queen money that we have here up north.
01:00:57
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Then I cross with that and it's worth nothing. I met a ton of amazing people. I put faces to people that I only played online against. That was great. I think that we need to keep dragging more people into this amazing game and keep improving as a community as much as we can. Thank you all. Cheers. That's awesome.
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I got to give a shout out to you guys from the Pacific Northwest. I was super impressed. You had the largest, I mean, we had a few more Texans, but not by much. Honestly, that's 120% Ambrose. Yeah, so shout out to Ambrose. Super nice guy too, man. I love meeting him. I have a question. I have a question for Angel before we sign off. Are you going to be playing somewhere too soon?
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or summer in general? Hopefully. Yeah. Summer and Ophelia were kind of my best first two master because one was like too complicated to just like go through everything when I got them. So I have a special place in my heart for summer, although without, get your bro! It doesn't feel the same.
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Now I know that a bunch of you from the Pacific Northwest were mentioning, you've got a few GTs coming up this spring. I know I went up there for the Railroad Avenue Rumble up in Bellingham, Washington. I know y'all were talking about one in, I think, Calgary and one up in Vancouver, maybe? Yep, yep, we have those right now.
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I know you're all still working on the details for those, but as soon as you have any information about those, pass that along to me because I will be shouting it from the rooftops because I had an absolute blast when I actually came out and played with y'all up in Bellingham last April. It was so much fun. It was really nice. Absolutely.
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Oh, so I have a couple of things I'd like to promote real fast. Yes. Top dog design. Top dog design. We plug that every episode. First of all, some of you listeners out there may have noticed we took a little hiatus from releasing episodes of Students of Conflict.
01:03:12
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A big factor in that was I got super busy because a small terrain studio Phoenix Foundry had reached out to me to do a bunch of printable terrain design work for a Kickstarter they were gearing up for. Well, that Kickstarter will have launched shortly before we will be releasing this episode.
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We'll have a link to it in the show notes. Some quick info on it, it's called Gailwyn, and it's a 3D printable fantasy village made up of seven core buildings and a sweet airship, all with fully playable interiors. They're really sweet.
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I personally sculpted three buildings for this project, the Sunwind Tavern, Windmere Manor, and Windward Cottage, and I'm really proud of how they all turned out, so you should check it out. The guys from Phoenix Foundry, Judd and Peter, have been an absolute joy to work with, and we're hoping to do more cool stuff together in the future, so keep an eye on that.
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But yeah, you should go and check out this Kickstarter and show them some love. That's excellent. Secondly, so the Lone Star Fodown Malifo GT this year. I mean, that's what we're talking about today, but it was the largest event in North America this year.
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Absolutely staggered than many players in just our second year doing it. And we have the date already scheduled for next year. We are, you know, have the calendar slot blocked out at dragon's lair again. Uh, so October 11th through the 13th, uh, is going to be. Lone star photo, Malefoe GT number three. Let's go.
01:04:55
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We were the largest this year, you know, we're aiming to get even bigger next year. And yeah, so tickets aren't on sale yet, but I will be screaming it from the mountain tops as soon as they are. But you know, save the date. There was a big surprise and that duck made a fate deck for everybody, which is fantastic, by the way, for this year. And there might be some surprises for next year's one as well.
01:05:23
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I'm working on another Fate Deck for next year. Just got to get enough done on it to get approval from Weird, so. Nice. Excellent. All right. Well, Angel, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for coming down, making the trip. It was a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. Absolutely. My pleasure. Cheers. Salud. All right. Take care, y'all.
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01:06:41
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Just flip better. Just flip better. Students of conflict. Trademarked. Putting that on his shirt.