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I'll be one of the bearded Scots. Unless we're all wearing beards, just to confuse the English

I will be playing Molly at the GT - happy to discuss her and her crew with a new player :)

While agreeing with everyone else's comments, the only thing I would add is that in Strategies where summoning wounded models is a bad idea (eg Reckoning), Molly's own Attack Action - Revelation - is very reliable and with Paralysed on Severe can be quite potent (esp if you debuff the target first with Yin, Dead Doxy or Molly herself).

Just watch out for over-extending her. She and her crew use control cards a lot, and a canny opponent will wait til your hand is depleted and then target Molly. Without being able to discard cards for her defensive trigger she can die quickly.

The other fun model with Molly is Bete Noir. Molly can bring her out anywhere she can bring Killjoy out (see above), but Bete comes with her own box of tricks and is cheaper than Killjoy. Fun for interacts or Stake a Claim. Once you're done with her over there, kill her and bring her out over here :)

Try Liesl from Taban Miniatures

My plan is currently to go with:-

Cassandra
Howard Langston
2 x Coryphee
Practised Production

This gives me a fast, survivable Master who helps with Scheme Markers, a major beatstick and two Scheme runners who can also become a beatstick as needed.

The temptation of a Mech Rider is strong, however!

David McGuire. My writing is mostly 1st edition, and back then stories didn't get by-lines! I have one in Shifting Loyalties, however.

I wrote a story about the origins of the Effigies for Wyrd, but it got cut from Book 3 of 1st ed for space reasons. They have never re-used it, although it might turn up in Chronicles at some point. I do wonder if Wyrd realise they still have it!

I usually use him to protect two models (Yin and a Hanged, say), and he is a lot easier to keep out of LOS that way. But if your opponent wants to get him they usually will find a way. This is okay, as it is AP that is (probably) not going into Schemes or Strategy.

I wrote Master of Fate, and I'm glad you liked it :-)

I really didn't expect Batman to show up with his trained Raptors and take down Katniss so easily.

I have the AB Poison Ivy, and it is very good indeed.

Ramos could have some fun with an Electrical Creation. Use Glimpse the Void to bury a Reactivated Hank and send the EC up field. When it dies, out pops Hank

Of course, Guild could do the same with Papa Loco, or Lady J. Viks could do it...

The difficulty I am having with your question is that you appear to be using a tool (a wet palette) to address an unrelated problem (thick paint).

If your issue is that your paint is too thick, then the solution is to thin your paints. Water will do just fine (you can get into additives later).

A wet palette might thin your paint a little, but that is not its function. A wet palette is meant to stop your paint drying out - as the water evaporates from your paint it draws up replacement water from the sponge below to keep the paint wet (hence 'wet palette').

Sure, but are you going to have a 10 point melee model babysitting (let's say two) ranged models just for bonuses to hit?

Absolutely - depending on the Strat and Schemes

Emissary + Arcane Conflux = all December Acolytes within 4" are on +s to attack. Cover? What cover?

Force him to play Reconnoitre?

"I am playing <ARCANIST MASTER/ LEVI>. Which of my non-Master models would you like to ban? Actually, never mind. I'll just put Mech Rider back in my case, shall I?"

This could be fun. You would need a willing group of attendees, however, who are all on board with the idea. But yeah - I could see this working.

So if a Ronin Focused and made a melee attack on Bishop, missed and Bishop got his Df trigger off, would the Dg flip for the Df trigger benefit from the plus flip from the Focus?

EDIT: no, it wouldn't. Never mind

I think city boards can word great, just with most of the buildings being impassable terrain, a few that you can enter and shoot out of windows and such and a limited amount of climbable/vantage point terrain.

 

I just wouldn't do a giant city underhive and expect models to change elevation constantly unless you do as Omen suggests and house rule a few things.

I disagree. Provided you don't treat stairs as climbable terrain (and the rules specifically say you shouldn't), then provided your terrain has plenty of stairs between levels you can easily incorporate elevation changes in your games. If you have lots of blank walls with no way up or down them then you might as well be playing in a canyon, but cities have steps and stairs galore and so should decent city terrain.

I played a few games with this set-up, and it's 10" from the top of the bridge to the surface of the water below. I love vertical elevations and try and find new ways to incorporate them to make the games fun:-

A game that deals with verticality really well is Batman Miniatures Game. I am not accusing the BMG ruleset of being water-tight or perfectly balanced, but in terms of producing pure gameplay fun and magic, it is unrivalled.

A model performing an Action is referred to in the rules many times as "the acting model". If you were to assume that an action taken due to eg. Obey did not result in the Obeyed model immediately becoming an acting model, then many of the rules would not work. For example, all LoS is described as being from the acting model to the target. The intention cannot be that Obeyed models cannot draw LoS. Therefore Obeyed models are also acting models.

Note that nowhere does it say that there can be only one acting model at a time. So the model who eg. casts Obey is acting. So is the model who takes an action due to Obey.

I like it on Cassandra if I think she is going to take some heat and I need her to survive. While is fairly often. I also take it on Bishop, just to make his Riposte even more annoying. I would consider it on Ironsides and Mei Feng, but don't remember ever taking it with them. Other than that, not so much.

And I guess you don't have that many friends left.

All's fair in a tournament. Or playing against Neverborn

I think you have to stretch the meaning of "any resulting" beyond the usual bounds of language to declare that eg. Killjoy's damage flip does not result from the Prompt action taken by the Child.