That’s quite an old version. Please upgrade to the latest, 2.7.6
Is that really your entire config? It looks incomplete.
I would write the regexp like this maybe:
@facetiles path_regexp facetiles ^/tiles/faces/\.(.*)$
rewrite @facetiles /tiles/faces/{re.facetiles.1}
Enable the debug
global option and show your logs. It’ll show the rewrites that happen (original path and rewritten path).