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Some thoughts: 1) I ordered Lynch, a box of Depleted, a box of Beckoners, Graves, and Tannen. Seems odd his box includes three Illuminated (when will you EVER field that many?!) but no Depleted (which you NEED, probably a minimum of two in every game) or Beckoners (minimum one in every game). Concept sold me, he looks insanely fun to play; make everyone Brilliant, draw a shitload of cards, attrition the enemy to death. 2) Rail Golems are beastly and an army with Mei Feng, Emberling, a Rail Golem, 2 Rail Workers and a Fire Gamin will be really really nasty at 25. Stoking up golems is really really easy and boy, they can just beat the absolute poo poo out of everything in sight. Activate Mei Feng, Railwalker -> Terminus -> Badass Pose -> Tiger's Claws -> Condensation -> Vent Steam -> Roaring Boiler -> Superheat; now you've used exactly one (1) general AP, done a shitload of damage, and there's burning tokens all over the place. Activate Rail Golem, go to town (as an example: Head of Steam (hopefully with Redline) -> Refuel ->Release Fury w/Build Pressure or Fierce Determination, Pain Train, lather rinse repeat). With Knock Aside and enough Rams to trigger Redline and keep your boiler stoked, you can easily cut through an entire crew's worth of dudes, and 10 Wds with Armor +2, Hard to Kill, and an ability to heal keeps them alive. I also think running Kaeris alongside Mei Feng is worthwhile; it'll be hard to fit Kaeris as well as a Golem and its associated support duders, but then you can take Kang, some Rail Workers, 3x Union Miners, Johan, and a Gunsmith or two and run the Bread and Roses army. 3) Gremlins are my primary faction and both of the new Gremlins are incredible. Gracie is useful in a Som'er pig pile with Stank Eye and Vintage Swine, but I play gunline and so she's of limited utility. On the other hand... Wong has magical attacks and counterspell, and most importantly, a 5" aura of immunity to terrifying. He's worth it for that alone with Gremlins. Burt doesn't look it, but he's the first melee powerhouse Gremlins have. He's Cb 6 with 2/3/4, which doesn't look like much, but he's got critical strike and a ram built in, Ophelia can give him another ram, and if he flips one as well his damage total is 5/6/7 which sort of speaks for itself. He's also got a 10" teleport into melee and a respectable Cg of 8, and he's cheap, cheap, cheap. Plus he can pawn wounds off on Bayou Gremlins. I think I may take him instead of Francois in my Ophelia list; he's got the same additional shots trigger without dealing a bunch of wounds to himself, and he can help out the family if they get into a jam in melee. Plus his background is just excellent.
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You need a 7T for Terminus, a Crow for Badass Pose, a Tome for Condensation, a 6T for Superheat, and any number of Rams to trigger Redline on the Golem. So it is kind of Tome heavy, but the only ones of those triggers I'd say are essential are Superheat and Terminus, so that's two tomes. Mei Feng's whole deal is her insane stacking of triggers and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. Basically Railwalker is a series of teleports between friendly dudes within 5" of each other, Terminus lets her finish that series with a free Jackhammer Kick, Badass Pose lets her cast a free Iron Skin (+2 Armor on herself or a friendly within 6"), then Tiger's Claws is a melee attack that can trigger a free Vent Steam, she can automatically then cast Superheat to add Burning Tokens to everything inside a Vent Steam (and that's all Vent Steams within 10," not just the one she just created). Also Tiger's Claws hands out Burning Tokens. The reason it's important to get burning tokens out there is so that when the Golem casts Refuel, which takes a 10 suitless and has no resists, he can pull enough burning tokens off of enemies within 2" of him to get to 5 for Pain Train. Redline adds burning tokens when he makes attacks, and he gets some for free, so I think it's doable.
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Please tell me this is one of those "Neat trick you can pull off once in a blue moon, when you get exactly the right triggers in exactly the right order, and your opponents are exactly the right distance apart" things, and not something she can do every turn/game for next to no effort.
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The big deal isn't even Mei Feng, I don't think; it's the ability to activate your Rail Workers and shroud the enemy in big clouds of delicious steam (and stoke up the Rail Golem's boiler), then activate her and Superheat all of that steam to hand out Burning Tokens like candy, then activate a Rail Golem. A Rail Golem with access to 7+ Burning Tokens (not a hard number to hit; it gets one for activating, one for Walking twice, one from a ram trigger on melee attacks, can pull them off of enemies, and can be given them by Emberling, Rail Workers, Fire Gamin, etc.) is an absolute terror in melee, since it gets two activations, has effective Melee Expert on a Cb6 paired weapon (with the option to flip an extra card on attack and/or damage by discarding more tokens), can heal itself, etc etc etc. I mean, this is a model that can and will shred everything it can reach without difficulty. This crew is also very very mobile because the Golem can discard a burning token to charge for 1 AP and Mei Feng can bounce around with Railwalker. Also he's a big walking train who whacks people with a piece of rail.
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So am I correct in assuming that aHoffman is the only Avatar that's not available yet-- whose sculpt, in fact, has not even been previewed? Bummer, man  .I have Som'er and Peaches at least to console me. Unquestionably the best looking Avatar.
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Dominion posted:aSeamus and aNicodem beg to differ. Maybe, but I don't think the pig that aSeamus is riding is... Wait, what? aSeamus isn't riding any sort of pig at all? INSTANT DISQUALIFICATION, NO STARS AWARDED.
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so guess what I noticed Beckoner targets friendly Hungering Darkness with Honeyed Words! Cheat down DEF, it's a hit! Hungering Darkness takes 1 damage and suffers Brilliance. Activate Hungering Darkness, gently caress everything up with Tendrils/Heed my Voice. Use Casting Expert to cast Serve me on yourself. Your beatstick Totem gains Reactivate! Serve Me has no resist and thus can be cast on self. Too bad you have to sac Hungering Darkness at the end of the turn. Next turn: blow up a Depleted or kill anything Brilliant. Hey look who's back!!!
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Reading the Storm of Shadows fiction now. I have to say that normally I find the Malifaux fluff to be in pretty dire need of an editor, except where it's impossible to follow and terribly paced; but the new stuff is actually really, really good. Love the story about the Library, the little bit on Herman Croft is ok (if super predictable), the Collodi story's fantastic, the two terrible gunslingers one is great, and Iggy's is not bad.
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Lungboy posted:Yeah, NPE is used all over the Malifaux forums and I had to look it up to work out what the hell it meant. It's a lovely term. Let's be fair: there are Malifaux masters that present a negative play experience. Playing lots of crews vs. Hamelin is a drawn-out, frustrating ball of mess; same with Pandora and pre-nerf Dreamer. Most of the poo poo that people call broken isn't, but compared to Warmachine (a game that has its own balance issues) the imbalance is really jarring. It's a game that's badly in need of a Mk2, if only because of the plethora of identical or nearly-identical abilities with different names.
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My Jakob Lynch crew showed up today. Dark Debts box, Beckoner box, Depleted box, Graves, and Tannen. 25 ss crew is 2x Beckoner, 2x Depleted, Graves, Lynch, and the Darkness starts the game off the board for a cache of 4. At 35 I'll throw in the Arcane Effigy and Tannen. Starting turn 2 or so every single Lynch activation will be "activate, walk with Card Trick, cast Dead Man's Hand 3x with the Effigy AP" and then I'll have a hand of ~14 cards and murder everyone 
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Lessons learned with Lynch today: 1) He really, really needs his soulstones. Pac-man spending them too eats through your cache really loving fast. 2) Mr. Graves is neat but expensive and not very hard to kill. 3) Depleted bombs are not as good as they look on paper. They are better. Holy poo poo, depleted bombs. 4) Lynch is really really not hard to kill. Running dis list at 25 now: Lynch Beckoner Beckoner Depleted Depleted Depleted This list is 5 stones, 7 if I start with Pac-man off the table. Beckoners should get 10" out there turn one to set up Honeyed Words and Come Hither turn two. Depleted likewise, I want them engaging poo poo as long as I have crows in my hand to blow them up with.
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I will say that I have had almost nothing but pleasant experiences at wargaming tournaments. Sometimes you have to be willing to just go Lick My Balls Mother Fucker ┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐ and peace out of there.
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If you're playing Perdita make sure to play with the Wyrd recommended amount of terrain, that is, a complete shitload. And enforce the cover and LOS rules, marking ht of terrain if necessary. She's not so bad then. Ran Lynch today vs. Von Schill and the Freikorps. Brillianced a Freikorpsmann, pulled him in with Come Hither, and then basically used him as my draw engine-- just cast Dead Man's Hand on him 2x a turn. The Darkness popped out of a dead Depleted and ganked the other Freikorps, and then the guy had to go, but I had just perma-Brillianced his Specialist and was about to Obey it to Detonate Tanks (haha take that flamethrowing motherfucker!) In the future if my opponent declares Outcasts I think I'm going to take Tannen over a Depleted. It reduces my pool to 3 (5 if I don't start with the Darkness in play, which I usually don't) but he just messes with Hamelin so hard and otherwise that's a really, really hard matchup for Lynch.
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Jakob Lynch vs. Rasputina today. Realized one thing: Lynch really, really has a hard time against gunlines. I wouldn't want to take him against Dita. I made some serious mistakes, not least of which was leaving the Darkness off the table at first. Figuring out some Gremlin lists. Som'er Teeth Jones -- 4 Pool + Som’er and Peaches, Avatars of Indulgence [2ss] 2 Giant Mosquitos [4ss] Bayou Gremlin [2ss] Bayou Gremlin [2ss] Hog Whisperer [5ss] Malifaux Rat [2ss] Pigapult [4ss] Piglet [3ss] Piglet [3ss] Slop Hauler [4ss] This list's first turn is basically Get Yer Bro on a Gremlin twice, hopefully getting the cards I need from Survival of the Fittest and Take a Swig on the third action. Larva one Gremlin and then the Rat, healing all of my Mosquitos to near-full. Everything else moves into position, then most turns go with Som'er cranking out Gremlins and potentially healing them with Swigs until he Manifests turn 4 or so. Until that happens I sling pigs up the board with Sooey and set 'em loose in the enemy army. I could drop the Hauler (I like him for a variety of reasons, not least of which is his ability to heal up a ton of Gremlins at once) and take a Taxidermist, which might work better for pig-slinging. Of course that makes my cache even smaller. Eventually Som'er manifests and gets Sooey'ed up the board, Stik'm in the rear end for Reactivate, and just goes (if you'll pardon the pun) hog wild on the enemy. Up to five melee attacks per activation and two activations is a lot of dead stuff. Ophelia Lacroix -- 2 Pool 3 Young Lacroix [6ss] Bert Jebsen [6ss] Pere Ravagé [5ss] Rami Lacroix [6ss] Raphael Lacroix [6ss] Slop Hauler [4ss] Wong [6ss] I'm gonna try this one a couple of ways-- could drop Ravagé for a Bayou Gremlin, which would put me at a much safer five-pool. Jebsen obsoletes Francois in my book, since he's very similar (melee beater with repeatable ranged attack) but much harder to take down and has more mobility. Wong is an amazing counter piece since Colette, Hoffman, Dreamer, and Rasputina all really hate to see him (and Ramos isn't thrilled either). This crew can handle a lot of things the Som'er pig swarm can't, like Kirai (Right Between the Eyes + magical Rami gun via Wong), Dreamer (Inspiring presence, any of the Lacroix clan can blow Chompy right off the board, and Dreamer hates Squeel!) and Snow Storm (just Right Between the Eyes his rear end). Generally, people don't like facing gunlines, especially not Ht1 gunlines that can just hide behind walls and blow you away. DAD LOST MY IPOD fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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Cojo just got errata'd to a 50mm base because the model does not fit on a 40mm one. Given that he has at least one powerful pulse ability this functionally makes him a better model because Wyrd's sculptors got carried away.
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So I haven't played in a few months but I'm looking to get back into it. What's the current state of the game/metagame? What about Avatars? Is Mah Tucket ready (please say yes)?
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Yeah, the beta was fun. Especially seeing your contributions get incorporated into the rules (and also all the hilarious board drama). Best part of the beta was this one guy who obviously had a psychologically unhealthy relationship with Molly complain over and over that she was being nerfed, that she was too weak, that they were RUINING her. Molly in Beta was an unbelievably negative play experience, worse than Perdita, but every time she was toned down there was one poster yowling about it for days.
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LordAba posted:Yeah, couldn't Molly suicide and just remove any enemy model on the board. That was a bit dumb in many ways. Basically yes but what was worse she had an aura that gave her dudes black blood and could summon seishin, so you could swarm enemies with seishin, then use self-damaging powers to hit them over and over and over with Black Blood, until your dudes died and you re summoned and did it again. All this from complete safety. She can no longer summon seishin and the power that let her summon dudes into the enemy and damage everyone near itself no longer damages friendlies and ignores black blood. "I swarm 5 seishin around you. Now I summon necrotic machine near you. It takes damage and you take damage from the summon. Now the Machine and all 5 Seishin trigger black blood on you."
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JoshTheStampede posted:The molly/seamus fanatic was Fetid Strumpet. The Nekima fanatic was Sybaris. With a name like that you can tell his interest in Molly was purely a competitive gamer hoping for a powerful and fun crew.
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moths posted:The promo Witchling they gave out in GTM a few years ago was a single-piece, so that's a reassuring sign. They're not incapable of producing fun and non-frustrating models, they just choose not to most of the time.
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Sooooo... No more avatars. That was unexpected.
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The pendulum is swinging and I'm getting back into this crazy poo poo I have full Som'er and Ophelia crews plus a ton of other stuff (all mk1 metal of course, sigh). Looking at Zipp, Ulix and Tucket. Are they any good? What's the standard SS size now? How's balance these days? I remember Mk1 Hamelin was a beast and it seemed early Mk2 Leveticus was busted too, are they better about that?
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Just got a buddy into the game off the back of Ironsides so he'll be happy with the changes
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So, has anyone been eyeing Lynch? I have a full Lynch crew with all the addons I don't use and I was hoping to trade it for a Zipp box set. That's Lynch, Huggy, Graves, Tannen, two Illuminated, two Beckoners, and three Depleted.
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just played my first game in nearly a year, mah tucket vs. mei feng. turns out Manifest Destiny is actually as insanely busted as it looks. you can charge Mah in, raise hell, then push out before they can retaliate.
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so now I have a few games under my belt with mah ticket since BP and I can say that manifest destiny is probably the best upgrade in the entire game and is, in fact, super broken quite apart from anything else it’s a free, unstoppable 8” push at the start of every turn before anyone activates, that doesn’t cost you any resources— in fact doing it improves your hand! it makes schemes like undercover entourage trivial, it lets you dive in fearlessly since you can just scoot out of combat at the start of your next turn, it does everything you want it to.
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the three gremlin henchmen everyone takes got more expensive, the minions nobody takes got cheaper. Seems reasonable to me.
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Pyrolocutus posted:Gremlins does seem kinda iffy to me, especially some of the cost increases. I think Burt and McTavish would have done well to have had the "expensive mercenary" passive that some models in 1.5 had (+2 SS as a merc rather than 1), rather than a cost increase. While I'm not as familiar with Gremlins as other factions, some of the stuff in other factions need something beyond a cost decrease as well. mctavish is beyond bonkers especially with Wong. what he needs is to remain 10ss, but have his gator and gun each be zero-cost Limited upgrades, so he can have one or the other. the gator comes with gator snack, the gun with his other 0 for people without a lot of gremlins in their meta, mctavish with Wong has a range 14 sh 6 gun that ignores cover, ignores randomization into melee, ignores armor, ignores hard to kill, ignores incorporeal, has a 3/5/7 damage track, and he has a 0 action that gives him a 3 inch push, removes a scheme and then has a random secondary effect (controllable if you can cheat from your hand) for either a free attack, draw a card, heal 2, or push 4 more. also he does a LOT of other stuff and has a good melee attack. he’s absolutely gross and still is at 11 double edit: the other day I was playing him against arcanists. turn two i advance a bayou gremlin and drop a scheme, the on my next activation mctavish gator snacks into it. I cheat a 3 rams from my hand so he gets the free shot, he takes it at the arcane emissary. I flip severe on a -twist and put seven on him. I shoot again, he can’t outcheat me, three more for weak kills it. top of turn 2, and I had an AP left on mctavish to put five points into a Shastar Vidiya guard. absolutely disgusting. DAD LOST MY IPOD fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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This is the Very Hungry Swine-Cursed On Turn 2, the Very Hungry Swine-Cursed ate Chiaki the Niece  But he was STILL HUNGRY On Turn 3 the Very Hungry Swine-Cursed ate Izamu the Armor  and an Onryo  but he was STILL HUNGRY On Turn 4 the Very Hungry Swine-Cursed ate a Rotten Belle  But he was STILL HUNGRY On Turn 5 he ate two Recover Evidence markers... and then he was no longer hungry, because another Onryo killed him. RIP. The moral of the story? swine-cursed with Ooo Glowy are totally absurd
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he correctly identified the three magical guys as a threat. he lured in one swine cursed and blew him up with Izamu, then Seamus flipped insanely well with an empty hand and aced Burt. one swine cursed made it through and Pac-Manned his entire army. When your only defensive tech is “lots of incorporeal and armor” and your DF average is like 4, a stat 6 beater who ignores both of those things is gonna do work
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hello dead thread for a dead game been playing some with Survivors and the Mechanized Porkchop since the buffs. conclusion: they’re a very, very strong all-comers Zipp list generally I go Zipp, Earl, three Survivors, two Bayous, a Skeeter, and the Porkchop, and the rest are flex slots. The First Mate is always a strong option and lets Earl hitch a ride up the field, then leap away to eat scheme markers and deliver beatings. Burt is kind of absurd with the Skeeter, who delivers him into the action and gives him Fast. A Slop Hauler is reasonable to keep your Survivors above Hard to Kill, a Banjonista helps the Wk 4 Survivors get up the field, and a Gremlin Crier keeps your hand stocked. You can generally fit two of the above options plus upgrades/Bayous to taste. The basic idea is that you bunker up the Survivors. The Porkchop drops a scrap and then with a 5+ of tomes Earl swallows it to give all Survivors within 6” a + on all attacks. Then they activate, use their 0 to make their weapon a gun with a 9” range, and use Reckless to pour on three shots each at Sh 5 with a 2/4/5 damage track and a trigger for poison. Also, you paid four points for them, and they have armor and hard to kill. They’ll hose basically anything off the table and they have three AP each to run schemes, plus you can heal them trivially with a Hauler or Earl. Zipp just jumps around disrupting the enemy with his BZAP trigger and Up We Go.
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I was being sarcastic games alive as hell. I just wish the thread posted more. Sparks is a bit pricey for what he does. I’ve used him alongside Zipp to Stuffed With Explosives my Up We Go target so I can drop it in the middle of the enemy crew and then hit them with blasts, but that’s a gimmick that only works against people who don’t know it. Basically you take Sparks, Pere, and Zipp along with Poorly Handled Explosives, then you stuff Pere, give him a bomb to hold with Poorly Handled, then Up We Go him into the middle of the enemy crew. A blast triggers off Up We Go (4 damage unreduceable) then Pere activates and blows himself up (5 damage if people fail the duel) then his death bomb goes off (4 damage) then the Poorly Handled bomb goes off (4 damage). You can oneround Seamus or other tanky masters if they’re a little unlucky and anyone who can’t spend soulstones has no chance. It’s a big time gimmick though. I’d like to see more people try out stuff from the errata. 3 point guild guards seem like a mistake to me. On the other hand GG18 is MUCH less favorable to scheme runners and armies that swarm than 17 was. It’s much more about positioning than dropping schemes.
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bigass image dump incoming so i decided to clear off my painting shelf a bit. some of these i bought recently, some i bought before i left for a year sabbatical in the virgin islands, some are years old. my lightbox is homemade and doesn't work great; the highlighting this close looks blocky, but i promise you it's a lot smoother when you're holding the minis in your hands.  death from above!  just noticed that paint stain on his jeans. i wanna redo them anyways, the drybrushing technique didn't come out like i wanted.  fear the skeeters!  and of course earl keeps it all shipshape  been practicing an orange hair technique which i like, so my gremlins are all ginger  every commander needs his First Mate  note: as his rank implies, if you try to square this guy up toe to toe with The Captain he gets demolished. fortunately, you have Leap!  go ahead, guess what that character says  wind, fire, all that kind of thing!  a magician is nothing without his assistant  a baton, a smile, and the second-best set of bazooms on the Bayou. trixiebell's on my painting table now.  and here's wong's second finest student  and his finest  you know what happens when you take two swine cursed, mctavish, and both Limited glowy upgrades? you have a really good time, that's what happens.  ok, these are pretty good too  gIt OfF mY pRoPeRtY  here's the cutest little terror  doesn't seem like there's room under there for the lead-lined apron she wears 100% of the time  part pig  part man  er, gremlin  ALL ASSKICKER  REE! *clank* REE! *clonk*  and here's the Pep Boys  manny  moe  jack  there's been an accident  we can rebuild him. we have the tech-mo-lo-jee  we can make him better than he was before.  or at least pointier. and drunker. welcum to tha ba-yoo, laydees an' gennelman. enjoy yer stay.
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I would argue that the most iconic Malifaux masters of all time are Seamus and Perdita and maybe the Viks, but that’s just me I’m pumped for 3e. I already own Zipp and won Von Schill in a tournament so I might pick up outcasts. My biggest fear is Thematic Crews remind me of Theme Lists, which are a cancer in WM/H and a big reason the game’s suffering so much lately.
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Snack Bitch posted:I bought a Misaki box last week for Outcasts. I don't have a single 10T unit. This game needs more dual faction masters not less. What the gently caress... *marcus, Zipp, Hoffman and jack daw come in with everything for a HUGE party*
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Snack Bitch posted:Sort of, Outcasts aren't getting a new master though. SURRENDER NOW OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE IRON SKEETERS
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susan posted:To be honest, the whole Miniature Game market right now seems kinda hosed. Wyrd may be gasping for air if Mk3 doesn't land well, and while it seems they got a bit of cash from the ToS Kickstarter, I haven't seen it taking off at all. Everyone in my local Meta bought it, but I don't think anyone has touched it in months. Then there's Privateer Press which is giving off so many death flags that they had to just hire a CEO to handle damage control and to try unsinking the ship a bit. I haven't seen much of XWing since the new edition launched; still some but not the ubiquity it used to have. And now we're dealing with a Games Workshop that actually seems interested in putting an effort in again. To top it off we have so many Kickstarters and new line launches (there's a loving Harry Potter minis game now) that the community is getting more and more watered down for individual games. It's a bit of a poo poo show. The number one factor there is GW not sucking rear end anymore. When GW is bad, the rest of the market thrives; when they’re good, they suck all the oxygen out of the room. They were bad for years but they’ve had their poo poo together lately.
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The game kind of withered in my area but a friend of mine and I are pulling out all the stops to revive it. He’s buying more than a dozen crews in all factions to have loaners, we bought mats, we’re printing a ton of terrain, running demo games, putting on a league and tournaments with personally funded prize support etc. Malifaux rules and 3e is a solid ruleset.
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MCPeePants posted:Competitively, how much do you feel the game rewards people with a deep roster? The crews I like are scattered across different factions, but it seems like list-building being a part of game setup really encourages you to stick to one faction. I think having 2-3 masters in a single faction with sufficiently different play styles will give you everything you need to compete on every strat and scheme pool. Sure, you probably could eke some marginal value out of completing a faction, but it would be very marginal. The important thing in Malifaux is knowing your crew inside and out. That said, there are tons of ways to play Malifaux, and there are tournament formats that lock you to a single master or subset of your faction. Most players pick 1-3 masters they like and stick with them. And while I’d love to see a return of tournament Malifaux, the game is still struggling irl if we’re honest, so most of your games will be against friends. Pick a crew you like and buy it!
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