July Malifaux Monthly Tournament! – Houston, Texas

July Malifaux Monthly Tournament! – Houston, Texas
Date: Saturday, July 8, 2023
Start time: 11:00am
Location: Dragon’s Lair Houston North
Address: 21155A State Highway 249, Houston, Texas 77070

It’s time once again for the monthly Malifaux Tourney at Dragon’s Lair Houston! As the final standings for the NAFT lock on June 30th and scoring for the new season begins on July 1, this tournament will kick off the new North American Faux Tour Season for the Lonestar Conference! Once again the Lonestar Conference was the most active conference in all of the NAFT and I’d love to see us hold that title again–come on out and climb up the rankings early! (Information and rankings can be found at: https://www.usfauxtour.com/standings/ Hopefully the final standings will be updated soon so that we can begin planning the Texan invasion of NOVA Open again!)

We’ve been officially using clocks for the last few months and everything has been going smoothly, so I wanted to remind everyone that we will continue to officially use clocks in a full way for this event! I have enough clocks to provide them for the normal number of players we have at our monthly events (and a few players kindly provided enough clocks to handle the larger than average number of players we had last month), so no need to worry about that but if you happen to own a chess clock yourself it would be useful to have if we have another larger turnout this month. You can find the rules document we will be using for the clocks at this link: https://tinyurl.com/LonestarMalifauxClocks

The new “Madness of Malifaux” book was recently released and the rules for all of the models from this book are now available in the M3E Crew Builder app, so they will all be allowed at this event! I will continue to be VERY liberal with my proxy policy for models from the Madness of Malifaux book which have rules released but not physical models (several have come in recently at Dragon’s Lair, so you can pick them up while you’re there!). Proxies for these models will be acceptable so long as they are on the correct base size and you inform your opponent in advance what the proxy model is representing. As always, painting is not required.

We’re booked for tournaments the 2nd Saturday of every month at Dragon’s Lair in their new space, so block out that day on your calendars in perpetuity! Dragon’s Lair also recently opened up their Tabletop Tavern, so now you can drink a beer while playing some Malifaux!

This event will be a three round, 50 Soulstone, fixed faction tournament utilizing the Malifaux 3rd Edition rules. Registration will begin at 11:00 AM. Round 1 will begin as close to 12:00 PM as possible.

This tournament will be making use of the Gaining Grounds Season Three document, which may be found at: https://www.wyrd-games.net/s/M3E_GG03_Rules.pdf

There is no painting requirement for this tournament.

Entry fee is $10 and goes entirely to prize support.

The strat and scheme pools for this event are as follows:

Round 1
Guard the Stash
Flank Deployment
4- Leave Your Mark
5- Sabotage
10- Public Demonstration
11- Set the Trap
13- Secret Meetup

Round 2
Cursed Objects
Corner Deployment
3- Assassinate
4- Leave Your Mark
7- Catch and Release
8- Spread Them Out
9- Load ‘Em Up

Round 3
Carve a Path
Standard Deployment
1- Breakthrough
2- Vendetta
6- Hidden Martyrs
8- Spread Them Out
12- In Your Face