Mister Shine

I may have broken the wiki template in a few place to add in model suggestions. Collodi being a prime example.

I'd rather have too much info than not enough

Im standing by all night to approve wiki accounts.

And yeah, do multiples if you like/can, but do them one at a time.

For reference: If we fill up and complete all the Masters I'll throw the gates open to people who complete other models' pages. But the Masters all need to get done first

LETS GET FREE THINGS

Ok, so to encourage people to be awesome Im going to be giving out a Miss Step to a random someone who completes a tactica. A random someone who isn't me. But hey, write up a tactica, let the thread know you've completed a Master and I'll throw your name in the draw for the awesome Gen-Con exclusive:

I'll write up some Colette words.

Wyrd's been really good about missing/mistcast pieces

Just contact them, fill out form, wait a week or two: Have piece.

Hey All, just been approving all the new people who signed up for the wiki, glad to see so many people interested. There are a LOT of empty Masters right now, but I do want to try to hit the July article target, and I certainly think we can. Most everyone has a favourite master and that means you probably have a decent idea of how to use them. So I encourage everyone to give article writing a shot.

The worst that could happen is Justin hides under your bed and kills you in your sleep. And thats pretty unlikely.

He's more of a soul-eater kinda guy.

A bit late, but thanks for the thanks!

It does actually - also one of those things we're trying to rectify (lessons learned the hard way at times). 

Never change the Archers! They are a rite of passage.

A focused shot is often better than 2 shots. Just because it costs AP doesnt make it a penalty. Your models dont take 2 penalties a turn, 3 penalties for masters. AP is the resource you spend on you action toolbox, of which focus is a reeeeeeally great tool.

Calling Malifaux a CCG is kinda like calling 40k or Warmahordes a dice game.

Or for schemes and strats that use them. Your opponent doesnt have 1 to remove, they have two, giving you a big VP advantage

Of course you can always just add something similar back in for friendly games

I had massive issues with the tubes on the Strongarm suit. I've assembled hundred of models without issue but managed to snap every single tube in that kit.

I am tubeman, breaker of tubes

Just let fly in the halls.

If you're good at archery you'll get around the students, and the students get a rush from being arrow-dodging ninjas!

Warmaheim could be pretty good

I think you trade it for Lumber or Brick so you can make a road?

http://pullmyfinger.wikispaces.com/Strategy+%26+Scheme+Tactica

It's incomplete while we work on filling everything out, but we'd more than appreciate your contributions!

I've got the first week of an Infinity escalation league on Thursday. Making hamburgers tonight. Thats my exciting week

So anyone got any fun midweek plans?

That is, indeed, a lot of detail

Link it?

Drybrush! lol

Does ebay "pro" painter count? I can very nearly drybrush.

That's all fine, and I agree. However, once the models are out, why can't you have them painted? Replace the render / plastic pics with painted ones. At this point many of the plastics have been out for a long time......new players are jumping on the web-site every day. Their first experience with the model would be painted. Those of us that have been here see the renders first......so what?

Well, then you piss off your LGS by sticking them with a bunch of "old" boxes. Works fine for Wyrd, but if your local store doesnt move those 3 Marcus box sets theyre going to be even LESS likely to sell once there's a pretty "new" version. Seems dumb, but I have seen it happen, we are in a community where OCD tendencies run high.

Second, and this is more of a personal thing, a bad paint job can ruin a model. I'm thinking specifically of the old Wicked Dolls here (and apologies to whoever painted them) but I thought they were hideous penguin models and I didn't want to touch them, but they came with starter. But then hey, if you give them the stitched paint scheme they look great.

Overall, its probably more of a logistics thing, one that I've already stretched my knowledge base trying to explain and I doubt Wyrd is really going to explain the reasonings behind all their decisions, but renders are here. You may be fine with not giving Wyrd money for a month or two while models get painted but Wyrd, as a business, is probably less keen on not getting your money for a month or two, what with expenses and overhead and such.

As for on-tracking - I think putting painted stuff from the Chronicles on the website is a pretty good idea.