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Vallejo makes a metal medium which you can mix with any colour to make a metallic version. I still have an old pot of Amethyst Purple which is by far my favorite paint ever.

This looks fantastic. Backed.

We have a small Malifaux community at Metro Wargamers in Park Slope Brooklyn. Prospective members are always welcome to come down, and check us out.

Since Steampunk Arachnids, Swarm Together and Scatter have come up a few times in recent days, I figured now would be a good time to broach this subject. I'm probably making this more complicated than it needs to be, but I can't figure out how this works. A Steampunk Arachnid Swarm is hired for Escape and Survive, counting as one model for the victory conditions. It takes the Scatter action, is sacrificed, and three Steampunk Arachnids are summoned into play. Since the Swarm was sacrificed, the individual spiders(A,B, and C) now count as three models for the victory conditions of E&S. Next turn, the spiders Swarm Together, are sacrificed, and a Swarm Replaces the individual spiders. This Swarm should count as one model for E&S. Ramos summons two spiders, D and E. These spiders do not count for the victory conditions since no model was killed nor sacrificed when summoning them. Does the Swarm/individual arachnids still count for Escape and Survive in the following situations? 1.Spider A takes Swarm Together and forms a Swarm with spiders A, B, and D. 2.Spider D uses Swarm Together with spiders A, and B. 3.Spider A uses Swarm Together, but with spiders A, D, and E? 4.Any of the above subsequently scatter. Thanks.

While it doesn't change the combo that much,you couldn't activate the BBS immediately after Lilith since both Drain Blood and Broodmother are (0) actions, and Lilith is not Instinctual.

I was thinking of picking up a 3x3 Zuzzy Mat or two to use as playing surfaces. I have a 6x4 Ruined Land mat; it's a great product though I found it more than a little annoying to paint. I really should remember to bring it down to the club one of these days.

Head over to the Compleat Strategist on a Thursday night or a Saturday afternoon. You could also arrange it on the Warmongers message board.

I would contend that the ruling doesn't stand because nothing related to that ruling was included in the Rules Manual, and the rules have indeed changed. Legal target wasn't a term in the first rulebook, as far as I can recall. Unlike the previous examples I cited(burying and interrupting activations), they chose to reinforce the primacy of the general Strike Sequence instead of differentiating melee and ranged strikes or adding a clause that a melee strike requires a Legal Target. I too prefer having to actually worry about the placement of my nightmares, but I also prefer the Dreamer to not die on replace. Shadowy Form only requires the nightmare to be targeted, and not to be a legal target. An errata to Shadowy Form requiring the nightmare to be a legal target would be the easiest way to resolve all of this and would not have an impact on the general rules the way Keltheos old ruling does.

You don't have to target a model in range. Reread the Strike Attack Sequence rules, italics for emphasis mine. "Models making a ranged or melee Strike use the Strike Attack Sequence...Once a target in LoS has been declared the target of a Strike, ensure that the target is in range by measuring the distance between the two models...if the distance is shorter than or equal to the attack's Rg, the target is in range; proceed to 2. Strike Duel below. Otherwise, the target is out of range, is not a legal target, and the Strike fails."(p.42) A Strike doesn't require a legal target, only a target. It will only be successful if it does have a legal target though. A failed Strike, even in melee is permitted by the rules. While you can measure melee range at any time, there is no other premeasuring, and the rules for declaring a target make no mention of range. For something to be a target, you just need LoS, for there to be no extenuating circumstances, and no Spell/sTalents that prevent targeting. "If all of these factors allow the item to be targeted, then the model can declare that item as the target." Shadowy Form only requires that the Nightmare could be targeted by the action, not that it has to be a legal target and thus in range.

There seem to be a few issues that were ruled on in the past by Weird Sketch and Keltheos but are contrary to what is printed in the new Rules Manual. Some of these seem to be rule amendments designed to eliminate the specific issue by turning it into a general rule. For instance, the last paragraph of Multiple Activations(p.31) reverses this post by Keltheos. Another instance is that while before only the Dreamer could bypass the general rule on burying and unburying(Weird Sketch's ruling), now the general Buried(p.13) have been changed from "when the effect that buried them allows them to do so" to "when an effect allows it to do so." This seems to establish that the Rules Manual trumps the prior Marshall rulings. My main concern is this post by Keltheos, and the thread around it. Keltheos breaks the general Strike rules by stating that with melee strikes you cannot declare a target that is outside of your melee range. A Nightmare within 3" of the Dreamer but outside of melee range with a model trying to Strike the Dreamer would not be an eligible target and Shadowy Form would not take effect. However, no such requirement made it into the Rules Manual, and there is a clear distinction made between target and Legal Target(p.14). To declare a target, you need to check line of sight, special situations, and Talents/Spells that would prevent it. After that, range is measured and if the target is within range, it becomes a Legal Target. The Strike Sequence(p.42) reinforces this. "A model must be within the attacker's LoS to be declared the target of a Strike," then the range is checked and if "the target is out of range, is not a legal target. and the Strike fails." So, should we be expecting a Dreamer errata changing Shadowy Form to require a Legal Target? Should this be played by the Rules Manual as written, or by the older ruling?