katadder

sure, if said action requires a target number 

just played a game last night with kaeris, rail golem, 3 fire gamin and 6 ice gamin.

certainly not an optimal crew and I picked it before strats/schemes just for a bit of fun but they did well due to activations (and reconnoiter).

if the schemes and strats work out for your crew then any crew is capable of winning

not sure, so many to choose from, probably the death series as a whole

hes nice, but not that big for gluttony, i consider gluttony more like jabba the hut, or the big fat vampire from blade, thats real gluttony

and whilst the previews are nice, wave 3? we havent seen half of wave 2 yet have we?

my arcanist masters tend to use 3 each but hardly anyone else in faction does (apart from myranda). 

my outcast ones it depends, levi gets 1 or even 0, but alyce takes a couple, misaki sometimes gets one depending on points left over

day after sanctuary so will have to see if can get a weekend pass. hope to be there though

weekend pass sorted, add me

steve wilson - arcanists

check out the UK events subforum for info on local events as well

glad the standing one is regular as much prefer her 

where does it say Cojo is on a 50mm? on his card and in the rules it says 40mm and no mention of it in the FAQ unless theres a new FAQ?

hmm ok found it further down in seperate section, really should keep all arcanists together. annoying change when both the card and book say 40mm, now I have to get more 50mm bases too

which is why i always kill the damn bird asap, really annoying

excellent, thanks.

Miskai has diving charge which means she can charge even when engaged. can she use this to charge someone she is already engaged with in order to get better position for her next target trigger etc?

seperate prize is ok but should never go into the main tourney score as people say the top guys mark everyone down

dont think I have ever used smash with my ice golems, much better to go for 3 attacks in the long run unless something is high armour or impossible to wound etc as you will probably get at least 2 through, possibly more and when backed up with an ice gamin thats a nice 4/4/7 attack 3 times anyway.

get those december acolytes in there as well as they are great models that give good casting points and really annoy people (built in slow and discard a card).

usually i will only do one paralyse a turn, best thing for that is throw a gamin into base contact with your target, then if you hit the gamin it can relent and stil paralyse the target (unless its a master).

also dont be scared to throw your damage spells into combat, if you hit your own you can go for the straight or positive damage flip to get the big blasts out there and if it kills a gamin thats 2 more damage on top of whatever else you hit with the blasts.

just used levi myself last night (2nd game using him) against our experienced resser player. i didnt take any of the pariah upgrades so was pure outcast crew.

being turf war he took master of summoning Nicodemus but i pretty much out summoned him and out activated him all game for a 10-1 win.

levi is certainly powerful, especially against people who dont know how to deal with him that well but putting limits on his pariah upgrades wouldnt really change him that much.

think the main thing with Levi certainly for our area is he doesnt see much use as everyone goes on about how powerful he is so we feel a bit bad bringing him out, so as they dont play him dont know how to deal with him. 

my crew for the game:

Levi (from ash) + 2 hollow waifs

2 x abominations

johan

rusty alyce (desolate soul, from the aether)

taelor

vanessa

What tends to happen if you bounce Seamus behind Raspy's lines is she paralyzes him, due to his Df 4 and then the Wendigo runs up and eats him.

which is what the complaint is. upto 3 fairly easy paralyzes per turn from upto 16" away.  plus I have no fear of throwing my blasts into combat

any masters raspy crumbles against? trying to get this theory that raspy is overpowered out of my playgroup

well by that his aura would be ht5 from where he is so hes not above it, but people at the bottom of said terrain but in his aura would also get soft cover. think of it like a mist going down a hill i guess.

This isn't even how LoS works in general, let alone for auras.

A ht 2 model can see over a ht2 model to a ht 3 model.

LOS wasnt the issue, as knew that, was auras but fair enough.

and thanks Dirial. always good to have something to read at work

Justin said that the Ht of the aura only matters for LoS and cover purposes. If two models can see each other and they are close enough from top down perspective, they are affected by auras. There is practically no way to deduce from the rules that this is the correct way to handle auras, so I think it really should be added to FAQ.

is there a link to where he says this? as auras do say they are only the ht of the model producing them.

the way you guys are saying would have benefitted me in 2 recent games so happy to use it but with nothing official its kind of hard to convince people when the rules say what they do about aura heights

auras dont go up as well as out though, they just go out, same as pulses. and they can only go out from the ht of the model with said aura/pulse.

yes LOS is required for auras, but you cant increase the height they go out at which it does say in the aura rules they are the same ht as the model projecting it

it says that auras are the ht of the model producing them in the rules though so a ht2 models aura would be blocked getting through to a ht 3 model by ht 2 models in the way. auras are not on LOS

yeah masters even, keep calling them casters, too much time in warmachine

the odd thing to me is auras and heights. a height 3 model can put its aura out to height 2 models behind other height 2 models but the reverse isnt true, can see him towering over my friends but my aura wont effect him as its height 2 and blocked by my friends.

was having an interesting conversation today about top tier masters with people in my meta. they are of the opinion that Rasputina is just this side of broken and head and shoulders above the other Arcanist masters but from reading the forums its Ramos that everyone thinks is the top arcanist.

so who are your top masters per faction? and an overall top 3 in the game?