I run into quite a few questions on my first play-through of the game. Some of them the discord community helped answer, and some remain.

To help others which might run into the same, I compiled all the answers I got into an unofficial FAQ. Hopefully it will help you and hopefully it will incentivize Tom to tighten up the rules explanations in a future update.

Deadsouls vs Gargamox (I was garg).

Opponent was trying to wall me away, but I didn't remember one can just destroy walls :D We did a lot of mistakes for our first game, but it was nevertheless fun!

The other day I posted my unit poker chips but I wasn't happy that the Tyrants were at the same size, so I went back to the drawing board and used my tile technique to create 2x2 tyrant tiles. To do that, I needed a border around them to know where to cut. However I liked the way they turned out with the border so much, I decided to redo all my poker chips to have the same border as well. The rest of the creation process stayed identical as the other post (other than needing to remove the previous label which was a PITA)

And with this, I have almost all components done so here's a Proof-of-concept photo

My project to make Maleghast easily playable on the tabletop continues. For Unit chips I decided to go with poker chips instead of 3D printing my own miniatures.

I went with chips because it allows me to display unit information for the opponent directly on the table, rather than having to remember everything or refer to the unit cards all the time. For this purpose, I used G.I.M.P. to add the basic unit information directly on each unit image. Now it becomes very easy when you're deciding what to target to easily view all most relevant information.

As a sidebonus to that, the other side of each unit has a corpse image, so when a unit dies, all I have to do is flip it upside down, and it becomes a corpse on the battlefield. And if I need more corpses, all I need to do is use some of the unused unit chips.

For the poker chip creation, I used the process described here. For reference, these are the supplies I bought from German Amazon given that this guide was built for the USA market.

• Poker Chips: These chips are very affordable and have satisfying weight. You need to remove their internal label to allow proper adhesion of the unit labels, but that's easily done with an x-acto knife.
• Hole Puncher: The poker chips have a 2.9cm diameter internal space so this one works best, but I've found you're better off printing the units at 2.8cm to avoid cutting off some edge art.
• Tweezers: To pick up unit labels without getting fingers sticky.
• Glue Spray: This is the one suggested by the original guide. Loos like it works well enough as I can variate the spray strength as as to not send the card pieces flying.

For the unit printing, I created a custom python script which takes all the images in a directory, resizes them and places them in A4 PDFs, which I can then send to my printer. If anyone is interested I can share.

For now I prepared only one of each unit of the 6 core factions as I run out of chips. Now that I know it's working, I ordered some more so I can prepare the 3 games-for-freaks factions plus the mercenaries, as well as prepare extra chips for each unit, so that people can mix their own warband format (instead of taking one of each).

PS: Yes I know the Tyrants are the same size. I haven't yet decided how to handle this. I'm going to see if I can find larger poker chips. Or maybe I'll 3D print just the tyrants.

I was inspired to post it here from the song at the end.

I'm trying to figure out a way to play Maleghast on the tabletop and I came with the idea of converting the unit cards into cards one can hold on the side of the table, rather than keeping the printouts open.

This design also works very well for unit upgrades as well. All I need to do is use a paperclip to mark which upgrades that unit has unlocked using dark power.

This is my first printout from my personal printer, so colors are not great. Looking to get a more professional print.

What do you think?

PS: Ignore the bad upgrades on Enforcer, I've fixed that already

What a state monopoly does to a motherfucker.

Cross-posted from "They Were Serving the Longest Federal Sentence of Any 2020 BLM Protester. Then They Vanished in Prison." by @rss@news.abolish.capital in !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital

Incarcerated activist Malik Muhammad’s standing client call in March with their lawyer had been canceled without any real explanation. When Muhammad’s attorney, Lauren Regan, went to check their status on the Oregon Inmate Tracker, she found nothing. They seemed to have vanished without a trace.

Friends and family feared the worst. Muhammad, an army veteran and activist serving the longest federal sentence of any 2020 Black Lives Matter protester, had been a target inside the state prison because of their outspoken political beliefs and organizing efforts while incarcerated, several of their friends and supporters told The Intercept.

“We were calling everyone,” said Christopher Kuttruff, a close friend and supporter. “We were terrified that they were in the hospital or dead …your mind obviously goes to the worst places.”

For weeks, the activist disappeared from all tracking systems. The best Muhammad’s supporters could ascertain by early April was that they had been transferred to a “confidential location.” Late that month, Muhammad was able to get a letter out to their partner from Kirkland Correctional Institute, in South Carolina, an intake facility 3,000 thousand miles from Oregon — or, as Regan puts it, “as far away from me as possible.”

Muhammad described the conditions at Kirkland as deplorable, claiming that incarcerated people are denied access to enough water, food, and recreation, and are forced to sleep on mats on the floor, which sometimes get confiscated as punishment.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections had little to say of Muhammad. In mid-May, the state’s prison system told The Intercept they had no record of someone named Malik Muhammad anywhere in their custody; the prison system did not respond to a follow-up query in June. The activist had become a living ghost within the carceral system.

Even now, friends and family struggle to reach Muhammad, with only the occasional letter or call to the few people approved to contact them serving as proof of life.

Because she is not licensed in South Carolina, Regan said she has “not been able to speak on the phone or in person in an attorney-client privileged manner since their transfer,” seriously impeding her ability to represent her client. She had to hire a local attorney to speak with them in person and collect potential evidence.

Millions of people flow through the U.S. prison system every year. And every year, an untold number of them vanish off the map, lost in a massive system that is legally obligated to watch over them. In New Mexico, Stephen Slevin spent nearly two years in solitary confinement in county jail after county officials appear to have simply forgotten about him after charging him with driving under the influence. Slevin never saw a judge or a lawyer and had to pull his own tooth due to consistent medical neglect.

Wanda Bertram, communications strategist for the Prison Policy Initiative, said that people getting lost in the prison system is “pretty common,” even when they haven’t moved as far away as Muhammad. “There’s never any effort made by prisons to tell incarcerated people’s families, ‘Hey, we’re moving this person,’” said Bertram.

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As the Trump administration ramps up its use of incarceration as a method of immigration enforcement, concerns are mounting about the already stretched system’s ability to keep track of the people within its care — and the opportunity such lapses in oversight create for authorities to target activists and dissenters adversarial to the government.

“Not only is [Malik] intelligent,” said Regan, a founder and director of litigation and advocacy at the Civil Liberties Defense Center, “but Malik is Black, Muslim, an anarchist, [and] a political activist, and they have targeted Malik as a result of all of those things.”

Muhammad, who was arrested in October 2020, received the harshest sentence out of the hundreds of protesters hit with federal charges in the wake of the 2020 summer protests for racial justice. After tens of thousands were arrested in some of the largest mass arrests in history, many were released without charges or saw their cases dropped, but some prosecutors pushed for harsh sentences and elevated state or local infractions to the federal level, arguing that rioters were masquerading as protesters.

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Muhammad pleaded guilty to both state and federal charges, including two counts of “unlawful possession of a destructive device,”for throwing a Molotov cocktail during a protest in East Portland.In 2022, the then-25-year-old was sentenced to 10 years in state prison.

Their plea agreement specifically stated that they would serve their time in Oregon state prison, near their supporters and community. Regan says that Oregon’s prison system has reneged on the agreement — illegally transferring Muhammad interstate as retaliation for their activism while incarcerated — in another attempt by the criminal legal system to punish Muhammad for their organizing.

“Normally, they would have been sentenced to the federal prison system,” said Regan. However, “because their friends and family and supporters at the time were based in Oregon, they explicitly negotiated an outcome that ensured that they would remain in Oregon.”

Federal prisons tend to be “better,” said Regan, because they often have more funding, allow for more freedom of movement, and have marginally better food. Put it this way, she said, “generally speaking, if you had a choice between Oregon State Prison or Federal Prison, most people would choose [federal].” But instead of relative comfort, Muhammad chose community.

Prisons are essentially a “black box” where people can disappear into solitary confinement or be transferred without their family’s knowledge, according to Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative.

“There’s so many constant questions that you live with as the loved one of an incarcerated person, and then when that person suddenly disappears, it’s terrifying,” said Bertram.

To make matters worse, she said, “prisons have a kind of nasty habit of not telling the family when someone dies or is transferred to an outside hospital, or needs emergency care,” compounding concerns for people who cannot locate their loved ones on the inside.

In Regan’s view, there are “a number of reasons” to characterize Muhammad’s transfer as retaliatory. For starters, she said this is part of a pattern of behavior from the Oregon prison system. In 2024, The Intercept reported that Muhammad had been effectively held in solitary confinement, which in Oregon is called “special housing,” for more than 250 days — despite the fact that Oregon limits the use of this type of confinement to 90 days.

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She said Muhammad had met people in prison, many who’d been through excessive solitary, and suggested that they could become potential plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit her organization is seeking to file against the state prison system. “The prison is, of course, retaliating against them for basically assisting a nonprofit legal organization in bringing a giant lawsuit about the abuses of solitary confinement in the Oregon prison system,” Regan said.

Oregon flatly denies sending Muhammad to South Carolina as retaliation.

“These decisions are not made lightly and require a thorough review process conducted by all parties. In the case of Mr. Muhammed [sic], there is extensive background for the reasons [they were] a candidate for an Interstate Compact,” Amber Campbell, communications manager at the public affairs division for the Oregon Department of Corrections, wrote in a statement to The Intercept.

Muhammad’s advocacy and community building inside have consistently put a target on their back, said Jeremy, a close friend and pen pal. Friends described Muhammad as “empathetic,” “generous,” and “passionate,” as eager to sing for their cellmates as they are to share a book on political theory.

Now, Muhammad’s friends and family have to sit and wait, and hope the prison system won’t lose them all over again.

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Sigh This is becoming a weekly thing.

Context:

I regularly have takes which upset libs (anti-electoralism, primarily), and I regularly have takes which upset MLs (anti-"AES", primarily). When this happens, my words sometimes ends up in a post in some drama comm with a lot of people insisting that I'm clearly in the "bad group". I.e. Libs will call me a tankie, and MLs will call me a lib, as is tradition.

So when this happens, like clockwork, the flip-side of this particular equation (Libs<>MLs), will make a post in their own drama comm, smugly gloating about how "they knew this would happen".

People, when I state a political position, I'm not doing it to cozy up to non-anarchist movements, it's because that's what I actually believe...non-anarchists being upset is not in my list of concerns. It is what it is.