Adran

He has read the website for M3 from the look of it. The white text is hard to read on a phone, so I've not looked in depth , but a lot of it seems fine details are what worry people. Having seen the first to second transition, the feel of the masters was preserved, even if the play changed, so I would not worry about individual actions, they will change. Outcasts as a whole seem to have possibly the least change this edition change, at least that we have seen. I was surprised leviticus wasn't dmh, he has caused such a rules problem over the last 2 editions, that not having to balance him again would have tempted me.

Since upgrades are lessening, I wouldn't be surprised if it went completely. That said it could work almost exactly as it does now if they want her to have " mercs". Obviously the mercs hiring pool has shrunk to just the Victoria crew...

I agree I thought they were nightmare to back up dreamer when he was first released. I would say nightmare is probably used more on them than woe is, but that's probably true if those key words in general. I remember reading something about nekima and the half bloods which is why I expect them to be with her. I'm expecting the growth to be as it was, tot to young to mature.

Malifaux is not a simple game to learn. Each individual model probably has more abilities to learn and ways to use it than a general in a GW game. It's why my suggestion for learning is to try and use multiple of the same models. It just reduces the amount of rules to look at, and often lets you see what the model can do in a wide range of situations. The rules of the game are relatively simple, but learning what you crew does is harder. Learning what your opponent can do is harder still. And you will then also need tactics to achieve a wide range of victory conditions in a wide range if different scenarios. But a few games should start you understanding your crew and seeing where it has weakness, and planning on how to deal with that, and where it has strength, and how to exploit that.

I would expect the twins to stay nephlim, we used to be able to grow other nephlim into them. but even with out them we have tots,young, mature, tuco, Angel eyes, scion, blood wretches. They may keep nightmare, but I'd be surprised if they kept woe as well.

But you can use the 2 ap to push the wagon because you use the 0 to move. Granted the use of push may confuse the issue, but I read as interact on wagon, move to wagon, interact.

Personally I much preferred dreamer before when he didn't summon, and I'd say chompy was largely removed from second edition. So I'll be glad to see more chompy, but less happy with dreamer. Collodi has a great story an potential, but I've not been happy with his rules in either edition for matching what I think from a puppet master, so I'm hoping the new rules makes him worth me picking up. Lilith will be a loss, but I'm glad to see growth back on the nephlim. I hope she returns somehow, but I assume not in neverborn. Lynch isn't a loss to me, because I'm not exclusively neverborn. I'm not sure how his going will affect the rest of the faction, I guess it depends on what he takes with him. It'll be interesting to see what is thematic for NB lucius, as I didn't really feel anything was from the last edition. Zoraida sounds more swamp and less doll than I expected, but it follows her last changes and more time in the bayou. Marcus is going to be interesting, he already made good use of the high number of neverborn beasts, so it'll be interesting to see what get his keyword. Nekima has always been near master power level, so I don't think we need to expect much change, we can probably guess most her keyword models. Pandora has always been a strange master, capable of generating great hatred from opponent, so will be interesting to see how her control style has gone.

Honestly, I've probably played over 500 games, with about 300 being M2e, and in all that time I think I have had 2 games ( one each edition) where I would say I lost because of the joker rules. (Both were because I couldn't cheat, it's possible there are some I won that I shouldn't have thanks to a joker, but I don't think so). There have been many incidents where it made a big difference, but it wasn't the single issue that caused the loss. Sure, occasionally it kills your master turn 2, but that doesn't mean game loss. I've won and lost more games because of bad/good hands than jokers. It can disrupt plans but normally if it's not the final turn you can try and adapt. I'm not sure how many single incidents in a game where the flip is that critical that to lose that flip will cost you the game. At least not the way I play. (I'm likely to make a mistake somewhere so try and have redundancy in the list, and a back up plan for when things go wrong).

Back in the day (first ed) Executioners were part of the witch hunters. But I can imagine they were thought of as too durable for Disrupt magic in M2E. From a story viewpoint I would expect Lucius to have access to Vogel somehow. And he is still dual faction, so at least as a neverborn he could probably hire Graves and Tannen. No idea if they are going to match his new keywords, there certainly isn't any story linking them that I know of.

At the last edition change over wyrd had just started plastic kits rather than metal. It took Wyrd about 2 years to make all the kits in Plastic from the first ed. I had originally thought we weren't going to get resculpts of existing stuff, but it looks like we are. Sicne we are I would imagine that Howard and Joss will come in a different box, and at I guess I would be surprised if they resculpted DMH masters.

I agree, I just don't think I have inferred something from the rules. The location not existing on the board is a possible reason why I can not physically put the zipp model there. I would expect if the action was conditional on bayou gremlins then it would say something like " at the end of turn, if there is a bayou gremlin in play unbury Zipp in base contact with a bayou gremlin"

I find it's not so much the trapper is a liability, as the mind set it seems to have come with it. Holding back and shooting is not a good way to score points in malifaux.

Fortunately there isn't a magic formula that will let you win. That said , focus on how you will score vp. Know your crew and what they do. It sounds like you are learning ways to beat your opponents style, which is good. There are lots of ways to alpha strike and lots of different ways to try and survive each one. One way I found that throws a lot of players is using Marcus as a missile. He can move 24" and turn 2 enemy models into beasts, which often ties up the enemy, and good use of his df trigger can keep him alive despite the retaliation. I don't expect him to survive turn 2 as well, but it often forces the fight into the enemy and their deployment zone, where they can't easily score. I've done this against a good Sonnia crew, and I lost my whole crew by the end of turn 5 and only killed Francisco, but he didn't reach the centre line to get to the squat markers until turn 5 giving me a win. It won't always work, if it had been reconnotre then he would have still been scoring for example. But it worked because I knew my opponents game plan, and made it work in my favour. I focused on scoring my points and stopping my opponent scoring his by letting him do what he thought he wanted to, at the cost of him scoring.

Guild guard can "arrest".

Malifaux has conditional actions, but all the ones I can think of spell out they are conditional. This one doesn't. As I thought I said( rather than ignoring it) if I can't physically place zipp next to a bayou for any reason ( including there not being one) then I can follow the unbury rules.