Hello,
I have been trying to persuade my fiancee to join me in playing malifaux for a while now and she has agreed on one condition: I need to make her a crew featuring her favourite characters from Avatar: the last airbender.
(I knew I was setting a bad precedent when i custom made Narninan army for her last year to play kings of war.. oh well, on with the next project!)
Now, the most obvious master to represent this would seem to be Shenlong with all his elemental tricks (and, lets face it, fairly blatant nod to the aforementioned show). I already have some ideas on minis/profiles to use for 'team avatar':
Aang - Shenlong (use Koji from busido minus the ponytail)
Momo - Kamatiachi (convert one of Kojis pet monkeys)
Kitara - Low river monk (use this old DnD model. The models quality makes me cringe a little, but I figure that with a decent paint job it might look passable. The pose + clothing is spot on)
Sokka - Katanaka sniper (boomerang = sniper rifle?) not sure on which model to use here
Zuko - high river monk maybe? or possibly kang? not sure which model to use here either
Toff - ???
Sky Bison -??? maybe a dawn serpent profile?
Kyoshi warriors - Orian (nice and simple one there!)
Uncle iroh - Kang? i have thought about sculpting a beard onto this guy
Dawn serpent - im sure there was a dragon somewhere in avatar so could probably slip this in tot he crew as is.
I would be gratefull to take any advice on how the above minis might work/not work together in game and any more ideas for minis/profiles to use. I'm not shy of conversions or minor resculpt work where needed. The hardest thing in my search so far has been finding minis which look the right age (lots of adults and tiny kids out there but not many teens...)
For those worried about the numebr of non Wyrd minis in here - believe me that getting my future wife into malifaux will see much more of my money heading Wyrds way over the coming years... Or at least less objection to said expenditure
So, onto the presing question: Is shenlong going to be too hard for a beginner? I have not played as or aginast him myself (or any other ten thunders for that matter) but gather he is quite a finesse master, not as easy to get to grips with as some. I just want to get a feel for whether he really is that difficult. My fiancee is not shy of compexity, but I do worry about driving her away from the game if i give her a crew that is too difficult to use...
Any thoughts Wyrdos?