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I spent the Winter holidays desperately trying to get my hands on a McTavish. Finally got one so now I'm going to figure out a way to work him in there. Hexed among you proved to be a nasty upgrade for slowing down clustered crews in schemes. I failed to really get any significant kills off on the competition. Maybe McTavish could be that extra muscle to turn that around.

This last weekend I tried out an experimental henchmen list for a local fixed faction fixed henchmen tournament at 35ss. The strats/schemes were standard and you could only choose one henchmen in the list. I pieced together a Bad Juju Swampfiend only list with the goal to make a theme list competitive. Although I didn’t win the tournament, I didn’t lose a game and placed 5th out of 24. The build was really successful at schemey intensive pools but definitely suffered on the killy side of things. I thought I would share this list with the community. In the future I’d like to build upon this for a Lilith swampfiend crew. Any feedback will be well received. Below is the list: Bad Juju Eternal Fiend + 2 {Fears Given Form + 1} or {Hexed Among You +1} Silurid + 7 Silurid + 7 Waldgeist + 6 Waldgeist + 6 Gupps + 4 Primordial Magic + 2 (*I know the primordial magic is not a swampfiend, so I made one out of greenstuff to look the part)

Sorry to jump into this thread but I'm coming to FL from overseas for the next 6 weeks and looking for a place to play Malifaux. Is this shop the best place you would recommend?

Great tutorial on the Vicks. Thanks for sharing!

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Finished playing the tournament today and I am happy to say I did not come in last place so it's mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned. Won 2/3 games. Game one against Marcus: (Reckoning, Assassin, Entourage *revealed). I had more models so I had the luxury of more activations. It was kinda hard to disguise assassin when Nekima is flying half way across the table but I got lucky with some cards and pulled off the kill but failed on entourage. Not an easy game but got lucky.***Score: 5-3 (win) Game two against Shen Long: (Turf War, Breakthough *revealed, Protect Territory). Shoulda revealed Protect territory. Dumb move. The player I faced knew Lilith as his primary master and he played one of the most competitive best games I've seen in my experience. Gave me a proper Malifaux lesson as he cut off the entire board and wouldn't let me score much outside a little camp I built next to the center. Shen Long is a brutal master and kinda like what ***Score: 6-8 (loss) Game three against Hammelin: (Squatter's, Assassinate, vendetta). This was a really tough game as I was severely out activated and there is no possible way I could do any thing about it. Primordial magic is a god send. Gave me really greats cards to insulate the uncertainty. Surprisingly Nekima didn't do too much but Johann scored on vendetta and weakened Hammelin down to one 1 wound for Lilith to do the final kill. My opponent took line in the sand which I couldn't deny. ***Score 10-7 (Win) All of the guys at the event were super nice and patient with a lot of mistakes I made. I got very lucky playing against really great players. The all-stars of the crew were Primordial Magic, Johann, Nekima (with Fears Given Form). Proper card cycling is sooo important when you can't out-activate and need to deny. Fears given form does the opposite as it burns the shit out of your opponents hand and gets rid of their 7 and highers. Johann was never the center of attention which served him well to drop that communist hammer on people. Thanks to all for the advice on the forums and to the organizers/participants of the event. They made an American feel welcome in the Czech Republic. I'll post pics when I can.

Looking forward to the event!

Pretty much the best damn advice I could hope for. Much respect to all the great advice. I'll be sure to incorporate it the best I can. I'm definitely going to try to add some of the models mentioned into my list for the future. However, at this point it's probably best to just stick with what I've got. Johann might be an exception...but maybe I shouldn't tinker. The tournament is next weekend so I'm gonna get some practice games in tomorrow and post the results and pics after next week.

I've taken it upon myself to enter into my first Malifaux tournament with the audacious goal to not come in last against (from what I hear) will be a pretty experienced group of players. The tournament will be 50ss and fixed master & faction and I haven't heard back yet as to whether or not they will use Wyrd's tournament package. Lilith is leading my Neverborn crew and my concern at this point is that pretty much 90% of my games have been against Guild masters, so I'm relatively inexperienced when it comes to dealing with other crews. I also don't have all the faction cards at my disposal. Any strats/schemes advice I should be cautious of going in? Any advice you can give to a Neverborn player entering their first tournament? Below are some crew builds I plan on shifting between: Lilith (Beckon Malifaux, Aether, Wings Darkness)GravesDopplegangerIlluminated (2)Waldgeist (2)Terror TotPrimordial Magic***And I might drop a Terror Tot and Graves to include Nekima if Assassin is in the pool

Mysterious effigy brings a lot more to the table, in terms of scheme running, over runnin gall terror tots. Same stat line and costs as a Terror Tot but you get to add Hard to kill, armor +1, accomplice, and disguised fate to the mix. Although Terror Tot does have sprint, I think Mysterious Effigy would be a great addition to your build.

Your Lilith is making me seriously reconsider redoing my Lilith from scratch. Very well done!

The new plastic window weaver is great but it was a pain in the butt to clean the mould lines and account for the umbrella. So fragile!

Such a great podcast. I listened to it twice actually. I even appreciate the edited pauses to provide clarification when the discussion moves a little bit too fast.