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An idea to improve firebranded: I would like to have more consistent sources of pyre markers outside of kaeris. So perhaps firebranded could be that source. My idea is that their bonus action could either heal or create pyre markers by removing burning from models. That way it would still be a significant cost, both by removing burning and using up a bonus action that could otherwise be used to heal. One implementation of this idea could be to add a built-in trigger to their bonus action with the following text: "When resolving, if at least 3 burning is removed by this action, create a pyre marker within 1 of the target." You can probably word that better and you could probably tweak the power of it (how much burning to remove, creating versus dropping the marker, etc), but hopefully this explains my idea. Så what do you guys think?

I recently played in a tournament and played Sandeep 5 out of 6 games. Regarding my previous question about how many academics to run, I only ran banasuva and kandara and never really felt like I needed more. Most rounds of the tournament I based my crew on this list: Sandeep, banasuva, kandara, wind gamin, fire gamin, carlos, soulstone miner (w. magical training) and arachnid swarm (w. diesel engine). 5ss cache With that list I will summon 2 fire gamin turn 1 to create a fire golem. Do you guys also do this or do you start with a golem? I can see arguments for both. There is definitely a risk in trying to merge a golem instead of starting with one, 2 times this tournament my opponents managed to move or kill a gamin so that I couldn't merge them turn 1. But merging a golem does seem more efficient, you can spend more SS on other models, you can draw a few more cards from gamins focusing and the fire golem can start with more burning. How many golems do you run? I have tried running 1 and 2, but 1 has felt the best so far.

Re. Firestarter, not sure you need too push them that much. I agree that at least banasuvas is a bit too squishy to have him in the front. Also we already have good movement with Sandeeps command and wind gamin focusing to trigger their demise. Re. Sandeeps defense, yeah it seems like he will stay alive because he's behind a bunch of other models. But on that note Sandeep will then require some academics to arc through. How many academics are you guys playing with? I haven't played that many games with Sandeep yet but it has sometimes been hard to have an academic in the right spot in later turns. Though I usually don't run more than 3 academics (banasuva, kandara, and oxfordian/shasta). And which academics are you running? Is anyone running kudra? She seems a bit lackluster, at least compared to the golems.