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Also bare in mind when you take plastic surgery on McMourning it will make nearby ice constructs undead, allowing the abra cadaver trigger to go off from expunge, nothing better than turning an ice golem into a flesh construct,or an ice gamin for that matter, raspy is one match up where the nurses aren't THAT good as the paralyze trigger will be a bust against all that frozen heart.

I play in a pretty small meta in the UK, just a couple of friends but were looking to get more friends into the game and for starter games I'm using my guild to demo because i feel i can pull my punches easier and there's less rule's for new players to keep track of. I wouldn't dream of using my neverborn against a players first game and my friends that play have banned me from running resser against new players On the differences between UK and US players I've noticed a few trends, one of them being the difference between Lynch players, personally i always use Expert Cheater for mind games fun and have ALWAYS found it worth the SS. From what I've heard its rarely used in the US.

I own a fair few crew spanning guild, outcast and resser but when I absolutely, positively have to inflict considerable amounts of psychological damage on an opponent I pick Lynch Where to begin... I came to Malifaux from other dice based mini games and have learned that despite statistical averages the dice are never on my side, with Lynch the cards don;t have a choice I WILL get a high card in my hand I WILL have both jokers pop up as my deck cycles so damned fast and I will NEVER be on the sure end of loosing an opposed duel because I can BS my opponent with what card I'm cheating. Not to mention the max damage you could get from Final debt was so high Wyrd felt the need to erratta it to once per turn. His pistol will routinely have whatever trigger you need due to your card draw. I cant beat Lady J in Melee but sure as hell I'll have the right card to trigger squee and a soulstone to tank the damage. Also Lets not forget Lynch is only half the master, using the Hungering darkness to jack control of an ice golem and pound its little friends to oblivion? oh and with the right upgrade it comes back from the dead so long as a brilliance enemy model dies within 6" of Lynch, which is not hard to accomplish with illuminated, Beckoners and Huggy. I will say Lynch's biggest weakness to me is his crew construction tends to be consist of expensive soulstone models leaving him often outnumbered, in exchange you almost never get control hand screwed and get a free henchman to do the damage heavy lifting Lynch lacks.

Thanks for the speedy response

Sorry if this question has come up before but I've started using McMourning and Seamus and both have fair considerable healing abilities, can they heal wounds above their wound total e.g. Seamus take 1 damage heals 2 due to a failed WP check via feat of fear does he get 2 wounds and go over his total or just the one back to his starting total?

Its like some kind of... Necromantic veterinarian.... Yes every McMourning list must have a crazy name, for example, my lawyers McMourning guild poison list is lovingly names the Medical Malpractice Suit... Its fun to use McMourning.

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....

Probably a dumb question but what is and is not counted as a Guardsmen?, because my guild guard card don't have the trait and I would have assumed they were guardsmen what with them being, well, guards, who are at least in one case men....

Thanks, I've filled out the form, just didn't know what the packer initials were and thought it was necessary.

Hi, I know there is a contact form for mispack's but since I lack the information the form asks for I'm not sure how to continue. Earlier today I bought the Bound by Law box from my LGS, Firestorm Games in Cardiff, while the cards and number of bases is correct in the box, instead of the sprue for the guild guard I appear to have a sprue for a plastic Teddy, if someone could advise what I should do next I would be grateful...

Well I'm hoping to get the box from dark sphere and I have no idea what stat cards come in it as there's no outward difference between the boxes as far as I can tell. Thanks for the quick reply

Ok I really want to pick lynch up as a 2e master and I have a Pandora crew from 1st ed, are both Pandora and lynch in the Neverborn arsenal deck or is lynch JUST in 10 thunders? Thanks in Advance.

Well me and my buddies have started gravitating back towards malifaux now that 2nd edition is a solid thing (that and my best mates stubborn refusal to go anywhere near what GW has done to his beloved Imperial Guard) we had our first game, his Viks box vs my Lady J box and we got into a slight dispute over the pine box. 2nd turn I box a viktoria with a marshal hoping said marshal will stay alive long enough to get the vikky as far away from the rest of her crew as possible, his next activation his other vikky slots my marshal, viktoria one comes out of the box fair enough. Everything's clear so far i spend an activation running damage control, he then takes an activation with the previously boxed Vikky. We're not entirely sure whether she can activate this turn. To make it clearer, Viktoria gets boxed before she has a chance to activate, later that turn the marshal carrying her dies, she unburries, does she get to activate later this turn? Thanks in advance

Theodore T Bear, The rogue Teddy who struck out for himself when he realised that his neverborn masters just used him as a babysitter. Once he comes tot he realisation he tries to live a normal life free of neverborn and see's the exploitation on constructs around him and decides to form a crew of constructs to fight for equal construct rights!! Yeah kinda influenced by a story I wrote over in the writing room But come on, a Outcast crew led by a Teddy master, ye can get no better,

This seems fitting for my gal, Pandora [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQTaj5Fcps4[/ame]

Come to think of it the next installment came pretty easily. Lilith rammed the blade through the reanimated corpse before her, slicing the blade upwards and savagely bisecting the corpse vertically. She watched the last hint of the Ressurectionist’s magic drift away from the now useless meat puppet as a waft of green mist rising upwards and seeking to reconnect with its master, the coil of magic turned the corner of the building before vanishing from view, the predator advanced on its prey. Ethan stood behind the wall, his breaths coming in short ragged bursts as he attempted to control his heartbeat to no avail, he had been out for a stroll, nothing more, perusing the quarantine zone for any signs of a hidden stash of books, maybe an artefact or two. James had told him the quarantine zone was full of the damned stuff just waiting of an enterprising Resser to go and collect it. He imagined James now, sat by a warm fire, laughing his fat ass off; the joke would be on him once Ethan returned with a newly found artefact of ultimate power! At least that had been the plan. Since running into two fine looking young things two streets back his night had gone from bad to worse to downright bloody awful. Everyone had heard of the infamous Seamus, the Mad Hatter with his coterie of undead harlots, Ethan fancied his chances with these young things. Oh how ill informed had that little side plan been, the simple plan of raising his legion… well even he had to admit 5 mindless walking corpses hardly constituted a legion… his contingent of undead monsters and setting them upon the two “Helpless” women had gone more than slightly awry. The women had dispatched his group with little more than idle annoyance and were now out for his blood, something Ethan was unsure he would be able to deny them. Ethan’s casual self reflection, and partial self denial, was suddenly and very rudely interrupted as a strong yet delicately feminine hand smashed through the solid brickwork mere inches from the side of his head, seized him around the mouth and drew her arm back sharply, crushing his head halfway into the wall, the great gout of claret and brain matter forming an airtight seal to the wall… her hand looked so pretty…. Pandora giggled as Lilith picked parts of brain and skull out from under her fingernails disdainfully. “I assume you found that funny sister?” “Oh truly hilarious, who ever thought running an errand for the Hag would be so fun?” “Or so time consuming…” Lilith responded looking up to the sky, the moon hung full in the tainted sky, brashly blasting its light through even the dense clouds native to Malifaux’s foul weather. “We told Teddy we would only be out for a short while; he’s been watching the children all day” “Aww but he is so fond of the little things I’m sure he won’t mind” “I don’t know” Lilith said doubtfully “He has seemed rather strange lately, still your right, he does have a soft spot for the kids” Pandemonium…. Mayhem…. Total Carnage, why oh why had he let them talk him into hide and seek. Black blood decorated the walls like a remake of some deranged artist that Mr Teddy vaguely remembered, tears and cries from both Kade and Candy while the unholy terror tots sung jeering songs at full volume. Things had been like this all afternoon, curse those girls, no sense of responsibility, just dump the kids on Teddy he won’t mind, well this was it, they were several hours overdue, the tots needed feeding and Kade and Candy needed to go to bed. Mr Teddy’s internal debate on what to do ended abruptly as Kade’s knife came sailing through the air and embedded itself in Mr Teddy’s thigh. Deadly silence Not a soul or creature with a lack thereof moved for a number of moments that seemed to stretch into multiple separate eternities. Mr Teddy withdrew the knife from his thigh, stomped over to Candy, wrenched the scissors from her hand, took Kade’s teddy and put all 3 of the offending items on the top shelf. He motioned with his clawed paw at Kade and Candy and pointed to the corner before repeating the motion to the tots and pointing to the opposite corner. As both sets of children opened their mouths to object, Mr Teddy let out an enormous roar that shook the very foundations of the house. The children wisely fell silent and did as they were told. They stood there for a further two hours while Teddy busied himself around their shelter. “Honey were home” Pandora called playfully as she stepped through the threshold and froze. Both sets of kids were still standing in opposite corners facing the wall, neither set moved an inch but that did not disturb or confuse her at all, little kids were wont to misbehave at times, no, what made her freeze was the sight in the middle of the room. Lilith stepped inside an instant later and was greeted by the same sight. Mr Teddy stood in the middle of the room, his bag packed with his trusty sewing kit, some spare stuffing and a few fabric scraps he kept for emergencies. He stomped past the reckless, irresponsible young women, thrust a note into Lilith’s hands and stormed out. Hastily scrawled on the note, probably by claw and blood were the two words “I’m Leaving!”

Heh, gimme time, its hard to write into a universe where the subject material is a little sparse at times.

Wow, people on here are a lot more complementary than I'm used to, thanks for the kind words and encouragement, unfortunately my eyes dont pop out on stalks far enough to attempt 15mm

The marshal threw himself, shoulder first into the pane of coloured glass the served as a window to the disused store. The old glass gave way to the sudden brutal assault, exploding outwards as if expelling the death marshal from the store. Rolling hard away form the building, grimacing from the pain he brought the revolver up, sighted on the shattered pane of glass, waiting for the creature to dive out after him. A second passed, another, another. Tentatively the marshal rose, glass tinkling as it fell from his heavy leather duster. The marshal stood firm as a statue expecting the creature to dive after him at any moment. More silence. The marshal cursed under his breath, it was toying with him, it had been all night, since the chase began. Even now he could scarcely believe it, his recollection clouded by the insanity of it all. He could remember the girl, barely 8 years old, he remembered his partner approaching her, and then the blood, the flash of scissors, the girl taking off for the quarantine zone, since then and endless chase through the darkened, still streets. A noise terminated his recollection prematurely, a noise that couldn’t possibly have been, not this far out, and yet there it was again, a baby boys anguished cries. The girl-demon must have found a new victim. He took off in a sprint towards the cries. He found the source 2 streets down. A baby boy sat in the middle of the dusty street crying over a beheaded teddy bear. Years of training, of combat against hordes of shambling monsters all of it rendered impotent by the sight of a baby boy crying over his broken toy. The marshal forgot himself and approached, his revolver holstered. He didn’t make it within 5 yards, the monster had killed many of his kind, it knew its work well, iron bladed claws tore through the duster as if it were wet cloth, severing the marshal’s spinal column in a display of brutal savagery and precision, paralysis stifling the scream in the marshal’s throat, he fell where he stood, as he did his murderer came into view, has final thought “How... Undignified” Mr Teddy regarded Kade sat a mere few yards from the humans corpse, he could sense Candy step from the shadows before he saw her. He bent to gently pickup Kade in his arm, stomping over to candy and taking her by the hand with surprising gentleness given his appearance. He had warned Pandora a thousand times not to let the children out after dark on their own, but did she listen? Oh no, no matter how many times he stressed that it was dangerous for small children alone in these parts now that the monsters had come back “Silly Teddy” they would say, but when it all went wrong who did they all send to recover the little tykes? Mr Teddy made a mental note to have a serious talk with Pandora when they got home.

Isnt this kind of 20+ pages of serious OVER-analysis, im fairly certain the female models in malifaux werent designed to offend. TBH its nice to see a portrayl of female models that dont look.... well lets face it their are a number of companies in the model game industry that dont make very flattering models. The problem seems to be the happy medium, something I feel GW's relationship with deamonettes illustrates quite well. GW put out the so called 18+ deamonettes, people complain so they put out a series of models which look like (And im quoting this from a post on dakkadakka) "Nurgle Banged my Daughter" You can't appeal to everyone, personally my Fiance wants to get into malifaux with the showgirls box, she thinks they look pretty, so personal taste issues not gender issues.

Mind your eyes, im not a very good painter. Most of my work is tabletop quality at best. The cobblestone bases are homemade from greenstuff and spare time. Im still pretty impressed with how they turned out, wondered what other people thought.

Ah well, thanks for the fast response, extra 20 quid to the order then.

Hi, a friend of mine introduced me to the game and it looked really good, and I really like the art style, in fact im hovering over the buy button for a Neverborn starter box, but one thing struck me. Do the starter boxes come with a quick start rules guide to give the rough basics of how to play or do I HAVE to fork out on a rulebook straight off? (My fiance also wants to play something about the arcanists new showgirl box...)