Scurry

you have those the wrong way round jewomie, taelors hammer is magicial the ronins swords arent. personally i would only ever take one trapper, they are good but i dont think they are great. a few thing to add would be ronin or taelor as mentioned then the convict gunslinger (absolutely amazing at 5ss) and deperate mercs. the student of conflict and hamelin can be really good if used right. at 25stones you could take: Von Schill Student of Conflict 3 Librarian 7 Strongarm Suit 8 Korpsmann 4 Desperate Merc 2 although i would always pick the crew when you know the strat/have an idea what your opponent may take. also the strongarms gun is magical and can be cb 6

yes you can, from the malifaux.com faq: Special Forces Can Zoraida summon a Wicked Doll if you have a model from another Special Force in play? The limit of only models from one Special Force and the limit on the number of Special Forces models in your crew only apply during hiring. So yes, you can summon a Wicked Doll if you have a Gunsmith in play.

it is all in the timing of the end closing phase, levi suffers a wound at the start closing phase and hollow waifs are summoned at the end of the closing phase so levi would have suffered before the waifs would be on the board so none of them would be next turn. remember you can always use a soulstone to try and wound prevent the wound he would suffer

the freikorp mercenary rule does not matter when the viks hire them because they are not hiring them as mercenaries, they are hiring them from in faction so you can still hire a performer (although at 8ss they are expensive) if you are ever unsure about hiring restrictions check out http://www.malifaux.com/Crew.php

with the change of bully to ruffian you can now have candy or the brutal effigy give hamelin a healing flip or have the arcane effigy give him an extra casting ap. for totems the best ones are either the wretch or the primordial magic. there are also night terrors or canine remains which are fast models for objectives

no because you are not hiring them as a mercenary (out of faction hiring) so you can take freikorps (still have to obey the limit of 2 if you dont take von schill) and ronin, convict gunslinger, taelor etc any questions on crews it is best to check here: http://www.malifaux.com/Crew.php

no there is no limit on how many you can have on the board

make sure you have the v3 version of levis card, blessing of desolation states after killing enemy defender so you cannot kill your own hollow waifs or levi to get spas

in duels both players flip a card and the player with the lowest total (card + stat) cheats and decides whether to use a soulstone first, then the player who started with the highest total. if the losing player doesnt cheat and the winning player does the losing player cannot react, its a risk you have to take. it is different with spells however, the player casting the spell flips starting total, then cheats and soulstones and decides final total before the other player even cheats.

just checked an they are there for me between the hanged and ice gamin

miss demeanor was last years bonus mini for spending $100 at gencon or on the online store at the time, this year its miss terious (a female death marshall). u will probably only find one on ebay now.

twisted mind states "after this model wins an opposed willpower duel, opposing model suffers 2 wds" so i would assume so since there is no mention of attacker/defender and pitiful is still an opposed duel

it would only create one spa no matter the size of the base. levis spells ignore hard to wound (as there is no damage flip). they do not ignore hard to kill, except entropic transformation as that sacrifices them rather than kill/deal wounds

ive already got it booked off so no

its the minion hamelin the ratcatcher who is a mercenary, not the master hamelin the plagued

freikorps armour doesnt help against black death since it ignores damage and black death does wounds

yeah if u announce a scheme u annonce all parts of it, what ur staking a claim to, who u want to assassinate, even who u have frame for murder on

voracious rats says "no other models can be summoned as a result of the model being killed." since entropic transformtion sacrifices the target i think you would get a hollow waif

no he isnt a game breaker or an auto-include but he is good for a fun/different way of playing viks. ive used him a few times and he has been very useful in those. unfortunately you cannot use hamelin to hire a ht 1 model in a viks crew because of their merc only rule. killing one of your opponents models by them walking off the board is always funny. as for obey it is nice to get models like taylor up the board faster or take desperate mercs have them for my family the obey them for uncontrolled fire, 2 extra shots at cb 5. you can also obey people to walk off objectives/tops of buildings.

Got this booked off so ill be there

He can hire him but the arcane cannot give him the extra ap because it needs to target hamelin and the arcane is only ht 1 so bully stops him

Am i missing something, the arcane cant target hamelin because of the bully ability

i think the hooded is one of the best with something to help against whatever u may face, been unable to make ranged strikes againts him makes him awsome against some crews while against melee based crews they will suffer damage to hit him, with both of those complimented with a nice bonus to his sword (unable to target him at all during next activation/plus one damage per mask, minimum 4/5/6 is great)

i used the pale rider once or twice, awsome gun with the push and attack make hit and runs easy. doubt alyce or ryle will come much once hes out think his first cycle (0 deaths) is best then his last also the heal when it kills is nice as for alevi have used him once at 35 stone and just didnt have enough activations, really needs at least the dead and pale for their bonuses and the hooded can be the best survival option against some crews with night, really needs to be bigger games or even brawls for him to get the most use. also seems to not get much done since u prob wont be manifesting till turn 3 (since one requirement is to die twice) then spend turn 4 pumping out the fourth rider it leaves only 2 turns for him to do anything. have a few bigger games planned so will see how he performs then

the student cant cast another one because it is a 2 action spell. it also requires u to discard soulstones which it cant do because it doesnt have use soulstone