Let me tell you a story of two guys getting into malifaux 1st edition.
One boy chose the viktorias, the other pandora.
This led to cruelly unfair matches whereby on at least one occasion a viktoria decapitated her sister before proceeding to lop her own head off.... yeah
After a while the two guys returned to Malifaux in its 2nd edition one boy again chose the new vik box, the other chose lady justice (And would consider to buy a lot of additional crews, seriously I have an addiction....) and for the first half few games proceeded to watch as the models he lovingly assembled and painted were summarily sliced to pieces without having so much as an activation between slaughters. Those first few games were an education. My friend still plays the vikkies much to my annoyance though our win loss record has returned to a more equal footing. Let me be clear I can claim to now quite easily encircle and annihilate the hated sisters however they are still an annoyance to play.
1. Its really hard to keep track off initially which sister is which.
2. The teleporting madness for the first half dozen or so games requires a LOT of card reading, this doesn't help with point 1
3. The vikkies are very self centred masters, this is great due to independence from the crew, this is bad when it comes to adding models to that crew that have synergy that aren't Vanessa
BTW another friend has recently been borrowing crews to try out the game before he buys in, made a good account of himself using Lady J vs my Lynch crew, then got hammered into the floor twice in a row using ortegas vs the vikkies.
Much like Leveticus there a bit much for beginner games in my opinion....