rancor709

slateridge mauler +student of Conflict=profit. Delicious and absolutely dirty combo but such is the way of malifaux. Plus its a 6 armed bear! How can you not get a 6 armed bear model.

i look forward to your work with molly unrocky. Love your marcus work and its inspired me to pick up the old man.

Having a similar love affair with Dead rider at this point as well so he's becoming a 1+ almost regardless of strategy for me. SoulG your line in the sand list pretty much what I take, but I do the 3xNecropunks. Just never have had luck with the dogs. But to the main post, don't focus on list building, focus on strategy fulfillment and build your list to accomplish the strategy and the schemes, and build to hamper your opponent. as has been said every model in malifaux has a base job its best at. build to the strengths of these units in terms of the strategy and the schemes.

If you see neverborn don't do a grow list. Why give them free points if you dont' have to. And as always you can just take one of the easy schemes to do and reeven the playing field.

Let's talk about what to me is the signature mini for Nicodem, the Punk Zombie. On there own probably the best 5 point model in the undead arsenal, combined with Bolster Undead these become fearsome. Incredibly high paired combat with decent damage to back them up and when under the bolster these become def7 nightmares to bring down. Combine this with a ranged wd inflicting spell that while unreliable can cause trouble for the opponent. And with Nico's decay they can be brought back to health rapidly. Never underestimate the power of a well timed slow to die action. The punk zombie is a staple of what nico should be ressing up and depending on match you might want at least one on the table to provide some early game muscle.

Your logic engine seems perfectly on target. Sorry could resist. But the seems very solid for hoffman wither he would go avatar or not. Wardens are something built specifically to fill the role needed in an avatar hoffman list. And watcher may be the best guild construct based on being a superior objective nabber.

Now oddly my normal base is Nico Morty Grave spirit 2xnecropunks And then I add too it to flesh out

I'd say so. That's the beauty of malifaux multiple viable options in each masters crew. I think crooligans are going to over take punks for me. But I plan on running molly a lot with nico to allow me to max them out. I apperciate the dogs I've just never had a good game with them. Thanks Joe

The twins are amazing and once you use them you will likely start every crew with at least 1 set of twins. They work amazingly well and are to me the best models in the game.

Recently got molly box so she will see some board time with nico. I prefer to leave the dogs and go for necropunks adding some signifcance. I love grave spirit both for nico and for dead rider.

Dang it time lapse now your gonna force me to buy nurses.

Glad you seemed to enjoy the game it took me about 4 games to get the duels down after that the game really get good.

Molly v molly race to cast philisophy of the uncertain through the totem

Nico and the rotten beLle. Belles are amazing but this is likly a 3year long love affair with seamus talking. But belles are a force multipler in the hands of nico. Belles' primary role in a nico list is to help mitagte slow moment by luring your team forward. Or moving the enemy into range. Belles also make great augmentors for crooked men and punk zombies bringing there pray on to shaft markers and in flurry range. Amazing enough belles actually have 2 more spells. Distract which causes slow and undress which lowers defense. Harder and more resource intensive to cast but can be game winning. Belles become decent combants under bolster with cb 6 grimy parasole with a decent damage line for a 4pt model and a cb8 with teeth and nails. Lower damage profile but cb8 is hardcore. Belles will get hit even under bolster there def only jumps to that of an unbolster punk zombie but the belle has 8wounds.

Lots of players will call nico card dependant. That is a dangerously narrow focus as illustarted. If your summoning yes, you are card dependant in malifaux you cannot afford too much suit dependance in your strategy and survive. Some general musings on nico will do some minion synergies with him in the next few posts.

I have been playing nicodem a lot recently and will be playing himplaying him in the team tourney at adepticon. I want to use this thread to filter some thoughts and experiences as I prep for playing nico at the tournament level. Some nico basics. Nico is slow by himself a walk of 3" does not the table cross and movement can waste valuable ap. However nico can be moved several ways, be it fresh meat or the rider or a bell. So this inherent weakness can be mitigated. Nico has two of the best (0) actions in the game. Arise and bolster. Bolster is the reason undead tend to have lower starting stats. As it raises cb and def by 2. Being able to do one or the other each turn one tends to lean toward bolster unless corpses are scattered or nico is range for an assisnation attempt. Nico's best spells have the requirement baked in. I'm talking of course of riger mortis and decay. Being able with casting expert to paralyse 3 opponents a turn is the real str of nico. Summoning is fun but keeping your opponent frozen is better. Also the fact you have spell that ony requires a 7plus to cast to deal healing to your army and damage to your enemy is win. Summoning should only be done when it makes sense. No one is going to give you the time to ramp up a death engine. Nico has such limited ap that death engines aren't viable. Not saying don't summon, just saying don't make summoning vital to your lists ability o win. Nico needs a friend. Nico is old and like many old people he needs an assistant. I am very fond of old faithful mortimer or as I call him morty. Morty provides additional mobilty options with fresh meat and he can get you corpse counters by diggy diggy holing them. Morty however is expensive for what he does both in card cost and in soulstones. My recommended assistant is rafkin coming to the table this january. Rafkin ability to passively gain body parts which he can convert into mindless zombies is lightyears ahead of exhume in that for a single cast I can make multiple mindless zombies which when nico sarfices them I gain parts back to make more. Rafkin also can use his knife to acquire additional parts. Nico is an underestimated master because too often players focus on the fact he can summon and make that pivotal to there strategy. Summoning is suited high card dependant, there are not enough outs in the deck to make it reliable as the focus. Out of 54 cards only 6 allow you to summon with a stone. While 17 will allow a successful cast of riger mortis and 29 will cast decay.

Yup one model a turn you can make undead. Its quite good, undead gunslinger bolstered is awesome.

The dogs by themselves are insignificant they have a pack rule that if you have 2 or more within a certain range of each other they are significant. Sonnia is a very good master and she is fairly straight forward like most guild masters but presents you with good depth as you grow with the game. I will always recommend a guardian with Criid as herself and some of her damage dealers are fragile the guardian helps midigate that some what. You'll want an additional package of witchling stalkers, as you have a spell to turn your enemy into that model even if you don't take your full load in the list itself.

It all depends on the person at the other end of the table. Losing can be fun if the game itself was a good contest and your opponent was a good to fair sport. Far as masters that always seem to make me feel like I didn't play malifaux but another game. Pandora the explora, when playing against her you cease to play malifaux and start playing how to beat pandora. Still a fun game but if your not prepared to play beat pandora it may be a long game. Dreamer has tremendous reach but always provides an interesting game with his ability to yo-yo across the board and kill what you hold dear. I haven't played against hammy yet but i'm sure he's interesting. I think levi is strong but he doesn't inherently force you to stop playing malifaux and play the game to beat other person.

The flip is a damage prevent flip not wounds. Which is why spells that do straight wounds cannot be mitagaged through a dmamge prevention flip. As no damage is occurring only wounds.

You are.seriously forcing me to get marcus. Because I have half your model list already from playing ressers. Love it mate keep it up.

What part of the twins did you find the lack of fun in? Or was it strictly the puppet shenagians combines with obey and poison? I think we've all had an npe at somepoint either in malifaux or another game system. Personally I love playing against zorida because its not chompy or pandora. Its rare to not see stitched and at least 1 set of the twins in all neverborn lists. If your going after the twins Lelu is the one to kill. He's easier to get through than whippy and as has been stated lelu is the focus till he's dead. Also austringer is the way to go

Played a few more games with Dead rider last night against a seamus crew. Very impressed with Rider overall if it hadn't been for some really poor tactics with him on my part he would have been the star of the match. Note to self when postioning rider during mounted combat make sure you are blocking lure lanes for your opponent. Had dead blasted off the table cause he couldn't kill the desperate mercenary and wasn't blocking the desperate from the bell who lured the desperate away and proceeded to for my family the rider out of the game. Second game i total bone headedly mounted combat before i had adjusted purpuse to make him fast which would have killed the threat I was dragging off an objective instead, I set my opponent up for a nice strong flurry which killed dead. But I learned a lot about not leaving him unsupported, ah well hard lessons make for hard crews.

I have both types of models as well as Night Terrors. When playing Nico I've been tending towards using necropunks simply because of the raising restricitons and the punk can still operate fairly well if only 1 is on the table. If your opponent kills 1 of your cooligans their ability is significantly cuddled. However the idea of advance deploying 2 3in obscuring templates early in the game is interesting as well as snagging objectives rapidly. I'll have to play around with the cooligans more to see if on the table they perform as well as the trusty rusty necropunk.

Rigor Mortis is Nico's best actual spell even above raising. Being able to paralzye a model is vital to sucess with him. Raising by replenishment of loses and morty I tend to find work best as a majority of crews don't or are built specifically to not drop corspe counters. Bolster is an amazing 0 action that turns resser models into pure gold. Combined with the ability to heal your stuff while harming your opponent with his decay. Most of his abilities are 10" so use that to your advantage and move the bubble towards the center. If Nico and his shambling horde can control the center by the middle of the game you have a firm chance of winning. As Centrally located nico's bubble is dominating the battle and likely paralzying anything that could cause trouble for your bolster minions. Nico takes time to understand, the more you understand how your individual minions work in terms of what they accel at and what they are weak at the better nico player you will become. As he can provided he gets the cards, be raising that specialist when its needed.