kmdl1066

I've moved to Plano TX, just down the road from Madness Comics and Games. Which seems to be an awesome store, except no Malifaux. (They have a small section of very old metals.) Asked one of the people working there and he said no one plays Malifaux. Anyone know if/where Malifaux gets played in the DFW area?

 

As Dirial states there is no such consensus. I'm not really sure where you are getting this from, perhaps you've totally misread something above? 

Yep, simple misunderstanding. When Dirial said "the latter"  i.e. "only one time to any friendly model" I read that as him saying it could only be used on friendly models. And then CunningStunt (who must be quite the cunning linguist) only spoke about the targeting friendly models scenario. And then Asrian said "A friendly model...ONCE per turn. Emphasis on "a" and "once." 1 friendly, 1 time a turn."

So I don't think it required a total misread to get the wrong end of the stick. At least it wasn't the wrong end of Mr. Graves stick.

Request for clarification:

If the wording above is accurate from the card, there appears to be a restriction that only applies when the target is a friendly model. There appears to be nothing in the wording preventing you targeting an enemy model.

If the intention was that only friendly models could be targeted the wording would need to be something like: This model may only target a friendly model with this Action and only once per Turn.

So I'm not really seeing why the consensus seems to be that only friendly models can be targeted. I checked the FAQ and did a forum search that brought back a bunch of topics but non I checked explained why it could only target friendly models.

For 1, compare the "all friendly models within" wording of Engage to the "all other friendly" wording of A Legend To Live Up To and the "friendly mercenaries" wording of I Pay Better.  You'll see why Engage At Will affects Von Schill while the other two do not.

Also notice per Justin's comment http://wyrd-games.net/community/topic/105661-obey-understudy-prompt-action/?hl=%2Bcontrol+%2Bchain#entry786330, there is a subtle difference between controlling the action and being the controller of the model.

As a new player, I will be taking a very careful look at the wording of obey flavor actions to see if they are of a "temporarily take control of the model and make it do something" or a "force the controller of the model to do something she does doesn't want to do with her model" variety.

I think you're over thinking it.  Your first instinct of "too much grey" is spot on.  Turn the barrel into a much darker color, say rusty/dirty iron, and the brighter skin will pop instead of blah. 

I think blue-grey armor will look good on Bishop. It will work with the green pants and pale skin.

To me, despite being the man in black, Sue needs something to make him stand out from the crowd. I would do it by painting the body of the guitar in an eye catching color.   I don't have the skills to do the purple flames , but to me the guitar needs something to indicate its importance.

Premeasuring is the opposite of cheating. Allowing premeasuring is a great way to remove the most common form of cheating : measuring by alternate methods when the rules don't allow measuring.  I'll just "innocently" lay this thing that I know is exactly x inches over here on the side of the table parallel to something that I'd really like measured.  I've just measured a range I'm allowed to measure and now I'll just casually move my tape over another area before retracting it. I know that piece of terrain is exactly x inches long (and you don't) because I measured it yesterday.

Convict Gunslinger proxy hence the orange jumpsuit with white vest color scheme. 

Taelor "Gratuitous Underboob" Hammerstrike 

Engagement is for 4 primary purposes in the rules disengaging strikes, firing  attacks into engagement, charges can not be made while engaged, and engaged models cannot take  attacks. Paralyzed models have no engagement range therefore enemy models can charge another model, make  attacks against other models, they can walk away without provoking a disengaging strike, and any model  firing a  attack at the paralyzed model will not have to flip for randomization. A 0"  range is just that, 0", meaning the models' engagement range is now 0" as well (pg 48 little rule book, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence). The FAQ established that BTB is 0" so it is possible to attack with a paralyzed model that is in BTB with an enemy model, but a model that is in BTB can walk away without provoking a disengaging strike. (paralyzed models do not make disengaging strikes as they are not considered engaged pg 62 little rule book)

The stink of newbie is still strong on me, so I'm probably wrong, but here goes. 

What am I missing?  The paralyzed model may not be engaging the non-paralyzed model but the non-paralyzed model is almost certainly engaging the paralyzed model. (How many models have no attack at all?) Page 48 tells us that engagement goes both ways.  So both models are engaged with each other due to the non-paralyzed model's engagement.

II'm not seeing anything in your statement that says the non-paralyzed model  does not have a  attack, so  assuming that the non-paralyzed model has a  attack, going down the bullet points on pg 48 an I right in the following understanding:

The non-paralyzed model can walk away without provoking a disengaging strike because the paralyzed model has an override on the normal exactly at x is within x to say the paralyzed model has no engagement range at all.

Shooting at either the paralyzed or non-paralyzed model will require randomization because they're both engaged, courtesy of the non-paralyzed model.

The non-paralyzed model cannot charge because it is engaged due to "goes both ways."

The non-paralyzed model cannot make attacks because it is engaged due to "goes both ways."

I agree that a bright white crib would pull the eye to much.  Because Teddy is such a great actual teddy bear brown, he's a more muted pallet and a bright crib wouldn't work. To go with the night time terror feel, the crib shouldn't be bright shiny white anyway. If I had the skill, I would do the crib a light gray brought up to an off-white, to give the impression of a white crib in dim light, with a border of some sort to provide interest to the eye. 

If you know of a matt varnish that is actually matt, please help me out. Vallejo matt varnish simply wont work for me, no matter how much I shake the bottle.

 

Testors Dull Coat.  But it is so matt that it might actually dull things down too much for your liking.

Here's the thing with Lilith; if you like the cartoon/comic look (and I do) she is fantastic the way she is. Different monitors might show the color differently, but the essence of the figure is still there.  If someone doesn't really like the cartoon/comic look, there is no tweaking that can be done to make him/her like it. Making parts of it look more natural while leaving other parts with the cartoon/comic look will just end up looking disjointed.

If you want to win a Golden Demon I don't know that a cartoon/comic books style is the best one to be going for. If want the best, most attention grabbing figures on the table top actually being played with, it sure is. But for under a microscope presentation purposes, a more natural look might make it easier to win.  But then I really don't know what I'm talking about so if I'm babbling complete nonsense, hopefully someone will step and and set me straight.

Teddy is painted very well and great concept creating a really creepy effect.  Way better than anything I could do, so I feel hesitant to offer anything that might seem like criticism.  But it's a little brown on brown on brown for my taste.  I think either making the crib a painted crib (instead of plain wood) or going with a base other than wood plank flooring would make Teddy stand out more.

But again, such a great concept.  Nicely done!

I wouldn't have thought to do Rasputina in a non-blue/white scheme, but it actually works nicely to distinguish the people from the not-people.  I also like the pale flesh with red lips look you've given her.

As zFiend states they aren't using the soul stones for their abilities such as damage prevention etc, it is paying a cost for an enemy ability. The cost is pay 2ss / cards or be killed outright. This particular trigger can only occur if the attack it triggers from deals damage. The damage has been dealt and now you must pay 2 cards or soul stones to prevent the triggers effect. 

 

With that in mind they can drop 2 SS from their crew's pool to prevent death even if they can't normally use them like Masters or Henchmen

What trigger is this and how do you get it?  As a totally new player this seems like a useful thing to have. 

@McCabe    The odd looking face is entirely due to my (lack of) painting skills.  But the only way to get better is to produce crap that becomes less crappy as you do more of it.    

@Jotun  Yep, decent basing is the easiest way to make average painting look better.  (And nothing pulls a great paint job down like poor basing.)

 but I feel like I could create nice bases if someone showed me how in a couple of examples.

Easy (this is basically how I do mine):

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/01/hobby-fancy-bases-made-easy.html

and

Golden Demon:

http://www.necrotales.com/necroTutorials/

Great stuff all round.  The illuminated is my favorite. The base on Killjoy is such a great choice to go with the way you painted it.

Misaki

I like the bright and colorful approach taken. It suites the crew and will make them stand out among most Malifaux crews with their darker vibe. (Although no paint job can save the deformed arm look of that performer! )

Care to say a few words on how you did the tattoos on Mr. Graves?  Not that I could actually replicate it, but I can always dream, right?

Great looking crew. Are you going to do any individual shots? There are a few I'd really like to see a little more close up.

Yep Mr. Disaster, I think that is the conclusion that is is pretty clear from all the observations.  For experienced players who enjoy a cat and mouse type game where a maneuvering and position is by far the important  consideration, they make for a great game. (Which would be me, except for the experienced part.) 

As both of us are beginners, it seems from comments that Misaki will let me play the style I like without being as all or nothing as Viktoria and we'll both have more fun.

Very nicely done.  

The green flames + green clothing on Scales doesn't work for me. I can't help thinking that they should be different colors. But nicely executed none the less.