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For me the propagandist and control of the press narrative is so prototypically inline with Guild objectives and strategy that I can't believe it took this long for the Guild representative of the voice the masses and the crooning opiate of misinformation and distraction to spread its toxic sedative. I love the idea of this master the control of media is one of the most powerful and recognised tool of the modern state and what is Guild if not the presumptive humanistic state power of Malifaux (at least so it thinks). In fact this model and crew practically begs for an Arcanist counter-propagandist in the future, so a subversive graffiti artist and revolutionary pamphlet printer for example. I further really like the model look and rules thus far revealed. I come down on the side of .

Well this crew is sealed as an instant buy for me. Hell I love my Lucius support master even with the masked manaics struggles, everything about this release looks spot on. Personally love the crew concept, the model art and render and her rules are developing in an intriguing way. So thus far I'm: 9/10 Guild 8.5/10 Arcanist (my main faction ) 8/10 Rezzers These are the factions I love to play. 7/10 Neverborn (which I have models for because of my Zoraida Gremlins and Lucius crossover, but Dark Fae call me open to the idea) 7/10 Outcasts (I might have to get me some wild west style outlaws, we'll see) 3/10 Ten Thunders (the only disappointment but then I am not super invested in TT anyway) So Gremlins.............. the bar is set high to displace the great and glowy Wong as master of all things. Remember for every action there is a pop... zap... bang..... oops..... is it moving.... run!

Really, really pleased to see what looks like a Gamin master (want to see full rules before I beat that drum though). Really, really pleased to see something which adds to the diversity of the Malifaux universe. Really like the artwork and hope the render is just a little weaker due to awkward angle and lack of color and vibrancy, think he'll really shine with a good paint job (which of course opens a new problem as my painting skills suck ) Generally really pleased that my first and fondest faction got a sweet master preview. Keeping it really people, keeping it really.

Gold, this is a must use model for me.

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I think a pretty reasonable measure is the "If this was done to me" scale. If you would consider it cheating or really poor and intentionally deceitful then I'm certain your opponent would. If after you lost a game when such 'bluffing' statements were made and you felt bitter and as if you'd been lied to, well then I'm betting if you did the same your opponent would feel the same. I also subscribe to the ignorance and certainty principle. When thinking about whether you're breaking a law or a rule and you need to ask clarification of others because it seems borderline and you're not sure... Don't break the rule/law, basically the question itself indicates you've at least entered a grey zone and you are as likely to be wrong as right. If it's a vital rules point then ask for clarification during the game (your example is not) and if it's a side rules point discuss it after the game.. "If I had done this....?" (such as in your case) and find out what your previous opponents and perhaps tourney judges would think. Basically if you find a wallet on the ground and you're wondering 'is it OK to take that and keep it?'. Well the fact that you need to ask the question pretty much indicates the answer, 'no, it's not yours'.

Waiting on the list and the kick off dates, hoping Easter plans do not mess up my ordering.... Give me shinies!!!

Will be getting these for NB Lucius, they overall look solid Looks great, no complaints top notch, 9/10 Is truly the gem, the arm coming from the stitching is both disturbing and simply awesome, this captures the feel, 10/10 The least 'exciting' of an exceptional bunch. One thing does always also make me nervous and that is a tiny base connection, I'd prefer a better base to model join, 7.5/10 So I'll give the set 8.5/10 overall and pretty much an auto buy for me in what I hope is a unsettling Easter sale purchase. The thought of buying these over Easter and chocolate eggs and bunnies is really wrong, love it and hope it happens.

You'll have to balance your desire for theme against your drive to max-power any list. Lucius can run with Sorrows, it will be a functional list but very tricky and not "ideal" for what he can do. The trick as Carcosa has stated succinctly will be that Lucius is a buff for minions and sorrows as Minions demand support which forces Willpower duels, not something Lucius brings built in, thus you are forced to spend stones on henchmen or enforcers. If you head over to the Neverborn forums you'll get some advise. Also Dirial makes another solid point for creepy then Jack Daw has that in spades, but again his force is more twisted corpse than twisted spirit. I know the Asian theme does not appeal but if you get the chance to look over Kirai's rules and main models I think play wise she might be right in the wheelhouse. Either way you have plenty of ammunition to go out and test fire ideas and concepts. I would by the way also play Pandora a few times with her Sorrows as she runs them well and nasty and it will give you a feel for what they do before you experiment with Lucius, it is very, very hard "learning" Lucius while at the same time learning a tricky minion because his main schtick is to maximise the minion. Good luck mate.

A valid point, I heard ghost and got jammed on undead. The Sorrows in Neverborn are less the spirits of the departed and more the manifestations of spiritual nightmare. Between those two you'd certainly find the weird ghostly, malign, spirit theme. If you like Lucius then Sorrows also give you an in there, not sure how they would play with him but they could go in a Neverborn crew with him and also Pandora box includes Candy who as a 'Mimic' has multiple and some quite frightening applications with Lucius lead crews. Nice thinking Carcosa

Ghost themed crew, really depends on what you mean by ghost? If you mean zombies and all the other undead then any Rezzers master works, McMourning give you Guild/Rezzer crossover with a mad Doctor Frankenstein feel. Nicodiem is the king of summoning. Yan Lo has a really ancient feel but its still skeletons and such more than ghosts. But for real 'ghost' concept its about spirits. For that Kirai is really on point and the spirit Molly crew is also in theme. I've never played Kirai but I have seen her played and it is very much about spirits and felt ghostly.

I've had a couple of cards 'off', notably I actually had to trim my Mech Rider card to sleeve it, and that was not a GenCon pre-release also had some oddly tinted TT cards that I constantly mistake for Guild because the orange looks red. Still the cards are functional which is what counts. As for the Dark Carnival, put 'em together and was generally pleased. My sword mannequin sword was (as appears common) snapped and I never noticed but was insanely lucky, i had kept the box for image reference and the sword point had caught and remained on the box lid lip. Glue has repaired it, looks OK and hopefully will be durable enough. It is an unfortunate thing I guess that Malifaux makes really dynamic and detailed mini's with precision..... which I love. But this means delicate and often many multi-part constructions with almost insanely difficult pieces to cut and glue. There are web posts and meems devoted to it. In the end I love the detail and I prepare myself when I go to the hobby room for frustration and occasionally tears. DC mannequin having a really delicate sword which does not survive international air freight, yeah predictable, just advise everyone to open the box really carefully and search it thoroughly, for me I totally missed it, but the Mali-gods took pity and saved it for me.

Always love your work GMORT. Your unboxings have literally saved my sanity and wallet by allowing me to anticipate tragedies, the hell of Yan Lo's beard was adequately managed after your warning as have been others. Hoping to see a Colette unboxing, I am looking at the box and wondering what to do with the Doves to make them "work". Please keep it up.

Decks look nice, easy to assimilate, excellent for starters and good for anyone. Scenario book is kind of amusing for experienced players but really useful for new folks, as intended I think. Tape measures are ho hum, not much to write home about but would work in a pinch, long term durability is doubtful, seem to be filler. The miniatures are useful to all especially Guild and Neverborn players and they look really good in general although the Enforcer NB is a little bland. I will say this they are really, really simple to assemble, not many pieces, large parts, obvious construction... now this I really thought was evil because new players are then going to encounter Yan Lo's beard, the standing Austringer, TT Archers and numerous other horror assembly experiences. Lure you in with the good stuff then make you cry with the hidden nightmare I think. Still my overall thought is 8/10 for content and 9/10 for value. The electronic rules manual is also a bonus. Well worth it for Henchmen as an intro, Gulid and NB players for the mini's alone and everyone else should give it a look because the mini's are all Mercs and you'll diversify factions anyway, it is Malicrack.

I second this. I had 5 separate orders between my desires and friends add-ons. 4 of the orders were tracked and arrived 14/8 (2) and 17/8 (the other 2) 1 order smuggled its way past box check and arrived by surprise on 14/8 End result made my orders 30/7 and from order - packing - shipping US to Australia the longest took 18 days. My only issue is that it will take longer than that to put everything together...... I need an assembly peon (someone with incredible patience, microscope vision and soft tweezers for fingers... I will make it LIVE!)

For me its been both fast (kudos Wyrd) and slightly odd. Got notification on 4/5 orders (don't judge me, I'm not addicted just... Ok I'm addicted). Of those 2 arrived last week and I'm waiting on 2 more which I hope are very close. The 5th non-notified arrived last week as well, totally out of the blue by courier? Beats me why, I was thinking it had been missed but nope, it obviously smuggled itself into some 1st class bag. The awesome upside is I realistically expect all of my GenCon orders to arrive here in far off Australia by the end of next week. Could not really ask or expect better service than that.

Wyrd should set up a memorial and veterans of putting together fiddly plastic mini's fund. I mean seriously I have emotional scarring and still get the shakes when holding small pieces of plastic.

She does? How? I could not find this rule on review, I have never played her and am unfamiliar with her tricks, this rule was news to me...

Thanks folks Clarifies the situation. We got the paralyze mechanic right then. Was hoping for the focus trick as a lessening of the terror of Terror; but alas it is not to be . I found myself forfeiting an entire models turn because I had no cards to cheat or discard and was in engagement with a terror causing model which would heal if I failed terror, I needed an '8' flip to pass and confidence was not high so forfeited the activation to in effect prevent the healing. The model then walked out of engagement because I would not disengage strike with either of two models for the same reason. Terror is. And it should be noted I squeezed out a narrow win in this game with an Ironsides crew (10 to 9) where I knew what the opponent crew was. The poor person who played against the list first (Seamus with multiple Hanged) with their Guild (Sonnia), lets just say it was a brutal and painful introduction to the mechanic of "can't", with a hideous highlight being flipping the BJ on terror against a wide open burning Seamus with Samael planning to fan the trigger. It was difficult to watch .

Gentlefolks So I think I know the answer to this but checking to be sure. I am facing terror inducing models and it's the brown pants time all round. I wish to make some sort of action but am out of cheat cards and confidence is not really high. [so I can't Defensive Stance and try to escape or road block as no card to discard]. Can I (assuming 2AP available fresh activation generic model) in engagement range of terror model Focus action, this is neither a walk nor an action against the terror model, so no terror check Declare an attack or similar action which results in a terror check the terror check because it is the next duel I have to take Assuming the two card gods are with me pass the terror and perform my declared action against my target as a normal duel As a side note if I fail the terror check I become paralyzed, lose any further actions and AP and then at the end of my round I lose the paralyzed condition and could (theoretically if everything remains in stasis) rinse and repeat the sequence above. We were playing that terror during a models turn means they are paralyzed for the duration of that turn and not also into the following turn (or in a reactivate activation later if it was available). I think this is perfectly possible and reasonable and it makes sense to me fluff/theme wise that a model could focus their Will to try and overcome their terror as well. While I'm thinking of this is it possible to Focus then declare a Walk action to disengage and have a to the disengaging (the next duel in effect) defensive flip (one time of course) to try and escape (where if I failed I'd then be forced to make a neutral flip terror) as a way to bypass the Defensive Stance needs to discard a card and I'm out quandary? Again on my reading this seems possible......... However I will admit to often being wrong, hence I'm checking with the voting public and collective pool of experts (and maybe if necessary a rules mod). Thanks all

Thank you, really helpful

This occurred to me while reading Willies Wheelbarrow of Doom which allows him to "place a Blast Marker (so 50mm) within 1"... Now I simply mind blanked, I could not find this in the rules at all. Place.... does that mean? Now I am certain you measure from the outer edge of Willies base, so cool there. But is placed within.. Place the outer edge of the marker within 1" of the outer edge of Willies base? So basically 1" away Place the middle of the marker within 1" of Willies outer edge? (meaning that it will just not touch Willies 1" = 2.54 cm and the middle of the base is 2.5cm wide) Place the marker wholly within 1" so the inner edge of the marker must be within 1" of Willie? (meaning he will also be 'doomed' to be hit) This will also apply to things like Ice Pillars, I assumed that within meant 'wholly within' meaning the entire marker had to be within the range but I could not find the rules reference for this assumption. So does 'place within' mean: Outer edge touches Middle of the marker is touching (seems like it will be 'a where is the middle' argument creator) The 'wholly within' inner edge? Thanks folks for the help, a rules reference would also be ideal.

To be honest yeah 4/5 order shipped at a time when I truly expected to wait till mid-August before they rolled, this means I'm likely to actually get them by mid-August instead of the notification. This way is better.

So has my #1743. Getting worried about poor #1599 now, it appears to have missed the party I don't even bother looking at UPS tracking its so bad, worse than useless. I simply hope my goods travel from the US to Australia by Glowie magic power. It worked before I don't question it.

Intrestingly, and this also shows just how out of control I got... My orders have been slightly staggered thus far #1574 shipped UPS 1st class #1599 processing #1616 shipped UPS priority (bigger order cost more to ship did not have smaller option) #1636 shipped UPS 1st class #1743 processing So not sure why #1599 did not go before its later companions, maybe missed ( ), maybe its a bucket of orders in a range and its in the bottom corner of the bucket ( ), maybe something in that order has slowed it down ( ), maybe the gods hate my friend whom that order mostly is comprised of his items.... Either way it is definately not simply sequential. #1599 contains Wong, I so hope it does ship soon because I want to be Glowwwwwwwwieeeee