Malifaux Terrain

When setting up terrain for Malifaux, it is important to cover the four types: Obscuring, hindering, obstructing and hazardous. The rulebook gives a guideline of between 25% and 50% of the table should be covered and recommended a third of the table. See here for my previous post about this. I have noticed in the new two player they now recommend half of the table be covered in terrain but I still prefer a third.

 

See below for some of the last table terrain setups used in games at my place. Take particular note of the different types: blocking, hindering, soft and hazerdous. Note that the white shapes are smoke for soft cover and hindering.

As you can see I can still do better with the mix of terrain.

The hazardous terrain is made with foam from the local dollarstores and is quite cheap. I have fire, acid and pits. How I made them are here, here and here.

Woods are simple green foam cut into interesting patterns.

The smoke is the same. It can also be used as snow mounds and the other side drawn on with lines for ice (difficult terrain with a def check or slow).

Blocking and hindering terrain should be as varied as you can afford. I have the luxury of having accumulated a lot of terrain over a decade. It can aslo be done on the cheap. Never pass a yard sale as even childrens toys and buildings can be appropriated for terrain with a few twists and modifications.

Brown foam around a terrain peice means difficult terrain so you can combine elements to make unique terrain that can be changed up in the next game.

Always remember to go through unobvious terrain so everyone is aware at what it is and what it does.