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The models usually sacrificed got an inbuild "Sacrifice and get a rat" rule. Stolen and the wretch for example. So you keep your numbers. Of course, if somethin starts to sacrifice the rats or rat catchers by devouring or similar stuff they never come back.

Outcasts already have a pig rider. Ok, its a warpig with an attached gremlin actually but nevertheless...

We will see it on the card when the model comes out. Atm it could be only for the fangs because it fits the "different weapon" theme. . Fangs do more damage (poison, rot) while the claws hit much better (paired and cb+2).

This way you have to keep an eye to your RC+rat swarm as long you dont hunt seperated models. If Hamelin doesnt keep some distance you catch them all in the blast and with Wp 2 running from terrifying is nearly guaranteed. Isnt it more safe to run them in the middle of enemies and waiting for them to kill it? You could get paralyzed models as bonus.

How is this calculated? Moving will stop at a certain point. If you have 3 rats for example, one move and the others use writhing mass, so you get 2 bites at a model originally 6" away. Thats clear. If the second/third rat move after the (0) action she is around 10" away but cant do anything else. You get 1 rat at 5", and 2 wounded rats at 10". Rats done. Warning, the 10" rats are out of RCs voracious rats. Rcs turn, move up and slaughter, if you have been in contact with the rats before moving you are just in range. New rats in basecontact with old rats, so you win 30mm. With a similar move to the first you can do 2 bites at around 15". Rats done, no chance to further activation and all rats out of the RCs revival range... If you have many many rats i imagine you can combine the above with (1) rat problem and get another move, but you need a big swarm to make it worth...

Right back for free isnt it? The example lists take 5 rats, the RC costs 3. Means your rat swarm is mostly gone if you have to summon one. And whos gonna do enough damage now to get more rats? Loose the RC a second time and even with "one free per turn rat" your are out. People seem to forget that someone have to catch the damage output of the opponents crew. No reason to waste any AP on respawning rats. THIS would be waste of time. Stolen are hidden or mostly sacrificed anyway. So whoever guide the rats as your damage dealers into combat (either Hamelin himself or the RC) will have to eat anything the opponent deals out. So after Hamelins star is falling a bit now Nix getting the same kind of curious arguments for overpower? He has a gimmick reversed damage chart making all discussion about "high" damage obsolete. In the same way i could whine about his severe damage of 2 because its the lowest of nearly any model in malifaux. Btw, witchlings get a weak damage of 4 (with ram card) too. For 4 ss. And they can onehit poor Nix because they dont care about And no one complains about overpowered witchlings... Yes spirit + magic resi is a good combo. So what, the magic missile damage drops to around 2-3 same as physical attacks. So bar all self healing, 6 wounds is far from unkillable.

Thats what the flock rule is for. Rats activate at once, even when you "reactivate" them by slaughter. Should be not so easy to have rats inside 6" of a RC, at least 2 inside 2" to get the armor, and still have enough in contact with the enemy to munch it without have rats in 4 " of other rats.

If i read the new manual correctly, the 13mask is still "in play" as long the duel is not finished, so you cant draw it again immediately if your opponent cheats. But after the duel the card lands on top of your discard pile, and now its time for your enemy to think about cheating in his next action. Same conclusion, just a bit different timing...

7 if you count his melee spells & trigger in.

Paralyze in the first way has nothing to do with falling back and sisters in victory. This: is part of the fall back rules in case a model suffers both, fall back AND paralyze. There is no rallying if you dont fall back before. And yes you can use sister in victory to get into range of your own models. Free chopping included because the strike(s) are mandatory, so keep low cards to cheat.

If you got a crew relying on wp duels they can be fun. Seamus in close action with trail of fear on, faces of death and the terrors aura is terrifying 18 (16 and -2wp...). The average living enemy will run a lot.

Sometimes my posts seem not so understandable as i thought.. I referred to the "Look how many ways Hamelin makes you insignificant" posts. Yes he can do it several ways. But ANY of his ways gets a resist. In similar ways you resists other bad stuff from other masters. And i consider the "other bad stuff" more worse. Drop two cards or die by headshot. Drop two cards or be insignificant. Resist by Wp and get paralyzed (Nico). Resist by Wp and run away (Pandora). Resist by Wp and get insignificant (Hamelin). What do players prefer? Can he drop your resisting stats? Sure. But their is no diffence to for example"Lilith: I beam you into this lava barbecue pool with a total of 25 because i have some ss left, sure, you can make a resist dear unable-to-use-soulstones model". If you want duels to be unresistable for your opponent you go for it. If not, your opponent gets a chance to show you are not so powerful Mr. Hamelin. Besides, i consider it kind of funny how players always scream "OMFG Hamelin is so powerful because he makes me insignificant". No one is scared about Hamelin oneshotting models by stick hitting...

Wp resist Wp resist Def resist and only for 1 turn discard 2 control cards None of these is automatic. Yes you can make the totals unresistable by high cards + ss, and you can run out of hand cards. But i dont see any difference to dead by headshots and other bad happenings. If your running away every turn by Pandoras trigger or be forever paralyzed by Nicodems spell with unresistable high castings you are out of the game too. No actions anymore and no scenario success. If i get the choice between dead, paralyzed, fleeing or insignificant, i prefer Hamelins way because i still can beat the hell out of his friends...

Weapons count as talents now. So Zoraida can play tooth fairy with lord Chompy.

You can kill models without targeting them. You learn this when playing vs Pandora. Unkillable? Try to kill Colette when she has the black joker in her hand, THIS is unkillable (until she runs out of ss...)

Just for notice, triggers only work for the primary target, so no triple damage blasts.

Conduit and Hex dont work on masters. But you can use obey on the golems if she uses a turtle. Frozen heart give no protection vs wp spells...

Didnt the rule say "This models controller cannot be changed", so its immune to obey and such instead?

Got some Hoarcats today, and the card is printed in neverborn purple instead of arcanist blue. Wrong colour in printers cartridge or did the native kitties changed their faction?

Maybe but constructs do not wear dresses...

Even this is no problem. Shoot whatever you want, cheat the attack down, hit the guy in combat with Whoops automatically. If Somer stands near of course. Think "unmodified" damageflip means no cheating the damage, but you get the blast at medium damage already, (and even with severe damage the blast damage for the enemy will be 2 anyway...) so good are ok. Medium damage is still better, because your gremlin in combat will survive and can catch a second Whoops.

Punching bolstered undeads doesnt make you kill yourself...

This is not clear. The errata says LOS is blocked when more that 3"terrain between models. And says you can draw LOS if you got less than 3". So whats with Liliths forest of exactly 3"?

The witch got a spell to forbid enemies to play control cards. And to get control over the next flipped cards. This could be fun. Combined with Flip for it from the Bayous and a bit luck (or a bit more, i think gremlin players will always need this) and it may be possible to gun down even a Def 8 model in defensive stance with the poor 2p Gremlins. By the way, Lilith is not immune to fear, and Bayous can get terrifying. Chances for her to run away maybe low but we have already seen pigs fly. Can be fun to make her burn cards or soulstones because of one lausy Gremlin.

You made a flesh construct out of the construct teddy? Or is this just story flavor?