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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.

You could. Fortunately the rules tell us that an opposed duel is between2 models, so we know that isn't right. If I can't unbury him in base contact with a bayou gremlin because there isn't a gremlin then he doesn't physically fit in a location on the board, hence the use of the rules. And if you want to talk intent, I honestly believe the intent was that killing a 3 ss minion was not intended to be a way of killing a master. Which is exactly why they didn't include the rules for no gremlins.

The built-in suit counts towards your final duel total, so if you declared critical strike its counted towards the damage. If you declared a different trigger it doesn't give you the plus 1 damage.

Sorry I read a time, at end of turn, an action, unbury this model, and a location, in base contact with a bayou gremlin. Nothing in the rules makes the action conditional on there being a gremlin. If there isn't a valid location then the deployment zone becomes a valid location as the rules say.

It is the only thing in the rules and the faqs that talk about placing in base to base that might provide an answer to your question. If it was a sure answer I wouldn't use " I don't think". Placing a marker in base contact with a model is not the same as placing a model in base contact with a marker as you know, so you have 2 choices. You can decide the place rules will let you place in any position as long as there is base contact, or you can decide that the faq that talks about a very close situation ought to apply. You can't really prove either option. If you want you can find the thread on the rules forum that had a discussion prior to that faq, and see if anything in it helps, but it's probably over 4 years old. It might help understand why the faq says what it does. From what I remember the question was can I place a scheme marker underneath my model?

I would say a lot of it depends on the game you are playing. It isn't a case that X will always be best, but more a case that some match ups may give some masters problems. In general Neverborn have a lot of wp stuff so you probably want to avoid too many low wp models. The common view is gremlins have low wp, so people often build based on that. It's not really true, they have the highest wp in the game on some models, but some commonly played gremlins do have low wp. Filling your list with bayou gremlins and war pigs may struggle if they do go for attacking wp, but it's dependant on what they bring.