Scurry

was posted earlier in the thread that its a typo, meant to declare faction before strategy

she doesnt count towards the rare limit of a model, cant find th link where it was ruled but it was because she still counts as myranda

as far as i know 1,2,3) yes 4) no cannot reduce a stat to 0 5) yes 6) i would assume so, same with pandora dealing wounds for each one failed

4 of shared claim jump, recon, destroy the evidence, slaughter, treasure hunt.

effects of the same name dont stack

personally i would drop the second librarian since both will require you to discard a card when they activate but you only get one extra card from arcane resevoir. with that in mind any of kael's suggestions are good for replacing her, i would however add Misaki (tricky to keep alive but is brutal if you do) and taelor since both add melee, magical damage which is what the crew lacks. i would also suggest looking at the convict gunslinger or a ronin instead of the specialist who is very situational but can be devastating if your opponent doesnt know what he does (blew up all of collodis marrionettes for me leaving a vik dree to walk in and kill him). you want to keep von schill on as many soulstones as possible for slow to die healing flips.

u still follow the normal duel rules, attack and defense flips then the difference calculates the damage flip modifiers. remember that you can cheat both the attack and defence flips. it is useful to use your own crew to kill levi if its the end of the turn and you need cards, get him in a better postion or complete his scheme.

effects of the same name dont stack unless it says on the card so no

yeah waifs are still undead so the grave spirit can give them armour

the faq said that he could ignore both ice pillars and illusionary forest, not sure if it is still valid tho.

yes blessings is a typo and should be melee attack

if u trigger one fluid motion no but if u didnt get a triger off it that gave a push then they would get a disengaging strike

i believe they all have to be given the same ability, also it auto effects 2 since it requires a mask to cast (same as marcus' wild heart and justice's combat prowess) if you flip/cheat a mask you get it on a third

you can also have the manequin bash colette and cheat if needed to get her blinding flash trigger off so she has a free action to use

the viks are a great crew because most of their models are specialists in their areas, they do prefer melee but have some great options for ranged support. for melee you have the viks, taelor, misaki, ronin, bishop, johan and a few others ranged you get the convict gunslinger, von schill, the rest of thefreikorps (pretty much all of them are great ranged options) and hans the only healer you get is the freikorps librarian but she is great at it, been able to cast her healing spell 3 times and if it is on a vik they both heal the wounds due to their Fates Entwined ability. you then also have hamelin for some tricks with spells (mostly messing around with your opponents models). a good all comers list at 35ss for the viks with a bit of everything is: Viks Ronin 5 Convict Gunslinger 5 Freikorps Librarian 7 Desperate Merc 2 then either Taelor (8) or Von Schill (9) leaving you with a starting soulstone pool of 8 or 7

some models have abilities that sacrifice things (eg levi has a spell that can do it to any model with less than 2 wounds, wicked dolls can sac themselves to do 2wds and slow to an enemy model etc.) it is pretty much the same as killing except they dont drop counters, some things only work when things are killed (hamelins ability to summon rats)

it can be expensive having a guardian but also well worth it since it helps keep ur master "alive" at 25ss u could use Levi Alyce 8 Ryle 8 Canine Remains 2 Watcher 3 which leaves Levi with 4ss to use. kill the dog turn 1 and turn into a second waif. watcher is their for objectives, alyce and ryle will shoot most things into oblivion

hamelin and levi can brawl together since they are both soulless (one of each of their hiring restrictions)

colettes ability allows u to hire m&su from other factions at no additional cost, not at a cheaper one so he is 5 for crews containing her

page 32 of the rules manual says the closing phase goes in activation order so if the gremlin player went first levi would come back

the only place a lack of magical weapons really appears is against kirai who will normally have all/mostly spirits so u will be doing half damage.

the main reason to take the viks then hire von schill is that they bring the main thing his crew is lacking: hard hitting melee models, that and with them you can have 8ss to use rather than 4 so von schill gets more slow to die healing flips. the main matchup where they are better is against kirai since they have magical weapons and some of kirais stuff can hurt you if you shoot it

yep the viks rule over-rides this and hamelins height 1 rule unfortunatley

object is not armour its a characteristic. if something ignores armour it will ignore bulletproof, magic resistance, evasive etc. as well since they all say "Armour +#"