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Just remember that Mollys bonus only lasts while they're in range of her aura (so you'll most likely only get use of it for a single move action).

A Silent One is one of the most useful December themed models, she'd be a safe bet. A totem would also be a good idea. While the Wendigo fits Rasputina better thematically, it is by most considered inferior to / less useful than the Essence of Power, so probably go for that one. The Blessed is very similar to the Cerberus, which your friend has already, so I'd not suggest that one for now. Snow Storm is.. .. Okay, I suppose.. Not nearly as essential to the crew as the Silent Ones or a totem though, in my opinion anyway..

WYR3052 - $35 - Rail Crew Box Set Master - Mei Feng: -Better cache than other Arcanists -Solid Df and Cb values -Claws are paired, more stable damage and positive damage flips against burning targets. -Kick has higher Severe damage. -6 spells (as seen in the diagram) -6 triggers (one of which is not in the diagram, Vent Steam -> Superheat is an ability) -Scalding Breath is damage (not sure on details) -Vent Steam is like Creepy Fog (may not block LoS for certain friendly units) -Superheat makes enemies in Vent Steam aura gain burning tokens -Railwalker makes you jump to btb with a construct (or Tail Worker?) within 5", do this twice (or thrice with the unlisted trigger) -Seismic Punch moves nearby models -Iron Skin gives armor to a friendly model (only Mei herself with the trigger) Emberling: -Arcane Reservoir -Can dish out burning tokens somehow Rail Workers: Open Spoiler -M&SU Members -Have a Rst: Df spell to give burning tokens WYR3058 - $21 - Metal Gamin (3 pack) Open Spoiler -Nominate a model they protect -(0)action to charge models engaged with the nominated model -Faster, but also more expensive, than other Gamin WYR3053 - $35 - Rail Golem (this fella stands 78mm tall!) -M&SU Asset -Works on burning tokens (can get from friendly models (emberling, Railworkers), absorb from engaged models and possibly generate itself) -Can spend the tokens on various stuff.. Reactivate being one such thing. WYR3059 - $16 - Willie the Demolitionist Open Spoiler Also the wallpaper. (link) Edit: Put excessive pictures into spoiler tags. Edit2: It seems as if there'll be 1 Master w/ totem and ~5 minions per faction, so we shouldn't expect anything more than what we have here for the Arcanists. Edit3: Added some tidbits I heard through chatting with knowledgeable people, so not first hand and might have gotten some of it wrong, take it with a grain of salt.

Okay, so I just browsed through this thread.. I'm all for gimmicky lists, but I think I'll have to agree with Q'iq'el on the reliability problems in repeatedly using transposition in this way. Either way I still have a questions/suggestion to better the list. What exactly is the point of the second Sorrow? And why not take a totem instead of the second Sorrow? Both options are cheaper, have better Ca, don't spend all their AP to cast Allure, don't hurt Lilith to cast her spells and are arguably more survivable. By the time you manifest the 2nd sorrow isn't that important anymore anyway from what I gather, which'd otherwise be the only pro of the Sorrow as I see it..

Not errata, core rules, always been. Just look up Rare # in the rulebook.

So... I had a little chat with this rocketboots-toting dinosaur and he told me that bumping this thread might get us all that which I so dearly desire. Can we please have a fresh fix of malidoodles? Perhaps even some Sonnia Sundaes and/or Raspberry flavoured ones. =3

Aside from losing out on Companion, his defensive trigger and the occasional Howl bonus.. I assumed that since those are on his card one might as well try to take advantage of them by at least picking a single beast, but hell what do I know about Marcus, nothing.

Ah a twist.. Usually what's been said on these boards throughout the life of Malifaux is: "I’ve won, so this is certainly not a statement of “Pandora is OP/unbeatable”, rather a criticism of how her design makes me feel when she’s on the board across from me." One of the Masters you play, food for thought, eh..

Talking about your local meta? The Coryphée works fine with Rasputina. Ramos aswell. Can't speak of Marcus, but don't see why not, as long as you don't give up on beast minions entirely with him. As a December player I wouldn't bother with Cassandra though, massive investment and our core is already elitist enough, really need some cheaper activations if you take the Coryphée. Note that strategy and board matters alot when deciding a list for December, Rasputinas inherent problem is her speed, but she doesn't always need it, and certainly not always in the amounts that the Coryphée brings.

Just in case anyone else was wondering.. Sadly it turned out my memory was mostly playing tricks with me. Dug through alot of the old threads and found those two that must've somehow combined to one in my mind: Turns out however that she got her first name from this woman (link). Ah well..

Ah no.. It was more like an advertisement for an upcoming/ongoing show.. Probably a burlesque one, don't remember what it looked like exactly, but I'm fairly certain it said 'Colette DuBois' on it. IIRC it was was drawn.

A bit of an odd request here, but shortly after the release of Twisting Fates there was quite a few threads about the various references from which various of the characters drew inspiration, Unexplained Connection, Collodi, etc. IIRC there was a vintage poster of a real life Colette DuBois posted in one of them. Unfortunately my search-fu is weak and I haven't been able to find it again, nor on the forums and neither on google where the Malifesque version gets the vast majority of the attention. Soeh.. A simple request.. Could someone who saved that picture please repost it, or someone with a better search-fu than my own dig it up? - Thank you very much in advance.

You can hire Hoffman with Colette, yes, due to one of her abilities, your chosen Faction has to be the Arcanists however. Edit: So you'll have to give up on all the guild constructs. The Coryphée can carry Hoffman however, and Mannequins give him Armor+3.

It works for Ramos because his Avatar is one of the strongest and one of the few that can reliably be brought out early on without really sacrificing all that much - you're not required to scrap models and his crew is free to leave his deployment zone, so not sure what you're getting at there. I don't see an alpha strike assassination run working at all unless Ramos is all by himself in the open- but any model caught in that situation is prone to whatever your enemy throws at it..

I agree with you that North Wind should affect Ice Mirror, but it was ruled that Rg does not equal a listed range and therefore it sadly doesn't. You can find the thread here (Ratty chimes in on page 2). Freeze Over is an action though, so is definetly not affected by North Wind.