Malifaux Shifting Loyalties and Campaign Deck

At Worldcon 2015, I ordered from Wyrd during thier GENCON sale a few items. I'll review them as I build them but first is the book and campaign deck for Shifting Loyalties.

The book is the same size as the large format rulebook and Crossroads expansion and contains many interconnected short storys in the ongoing sage taking place in Malifaux.

The campaign system is uber-cool! It reminds me of the best things about other campaign systems. You start off with a crew led by a henchmen (can start with a master if everyone agrees). Through games played and weekly scenario changes, injuries, new skills, new recruits, buying a master and eventually getting them to avatar status you can play a great story based campaign. They recommend playing for a couple of months and then stopping and making a new one. Even though there are inventive ways to enable players who have lost a lot and lag behind to catch up and be equal on the battlefield, you want to start fresh once in a while.

The avatar section makes interesting boosts to your masters. Basically they make hat they do better.

There is also new model stats for the figures that will be coming out in the next year. There are not as many as the crossroads expansion but each faction will get an emissary of fate, one of the Crossroads 7 musicians and a few other models. The Guild and Neverborn get three extra with the two player new box set models.

The campaign deck is another extra that makes playing a campaign easier. There is a lot of cards in it so be careful when keeping track.

Overall an excellent addition to the Malifaux 2E lineup. Now to read all those stories!