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PM's being sent, and apologies everyone, it appears this has been posted in miniature matters, not trading -.-

Oh joel :') Keep up like this and I'll be moving to Leicester just to save on postage cost of bits Anything you fancy on that list? I'll hit you up with a PM

Hi all, I'm after alternate lilith. I'm also looking for, in no particular order: Alt Zoraida, Avatar Zoraida, The mire man off av Zoraida, Puppet bad juju, Puppet sorrows, Puppet cherub. Puppet anything neverborn, puppet guild, any other puppets I have: Normal lilith, painted well but can strip. Primordial magic painted. Normal Zoraida, unpainted, Puppets - Nurse, Punk Zed, Hog whisperer and piglet, austringer. Cash and loads of malifaux bits. Especially interested in puppet trades and the mire thing off avatar zoraida Thanks in advance

Dont forget an austringer has (0) deliver orders. So you can activate him, shoot twice, deliver orders then start a companion chain on the ortega models. I dont think its their greatest strength. Most of them are very good one piece models in their own right. Consider santiago, nino, and I think cisco... All very good for their points. Malifaux eventually becomes about combos, which is why these models dont often see top tier lists (santiago excluded), but companion chaining is a massive bonus. Their strength is in their decent CB and stats.

I'm wondering what the twins will be like with jakob and co... No real synergy per se, but they're decent models for their points, thats undisputed, and I think a lure or two to get a model in huggy/jakobs range wont go amiss. 8" isnt too far in a game of malifaux, worse still I find myself critically over-estimating how far that is and wasting AP.

I really think jakob lists need the beckoners. That, and starting with the darkness on the table. There's a 2ss difference between him being there, and him not being there, and every single time I've used him, he's been worth more than 2ss. I'd rather take something else out to increase my cache and include him, than not include him and summon him later on. He's amazing at handing out brilliance, especially perma-brilliance, which is good because when your opponent finally kills him, popping those minions when you have a pair gets you huggy back. Especially given the fact youre not using beckoners, You NEED to start with him on the table.

Hi all, Currently building up a collection of bayou scenery (Pics at the bottom). I'd like to have some patches of trees there. I have clump foliage to stick on the trees, if I make them, and in some ways that'd be preferable to buying them as it would match my board. Basically, does anyone have any easy ways to make tree armatures? Or, if there's anywhere I can buy trees, that will look good on a bayou board. Finally, here's a WIP of what I'm doing so far. learnt a lot from this already, such as the water effects going cloudy because I've done it in a thick layer. Need to finish painting the wooden pontoon, the lantern, and add some reeds.

I just ommitted the skeleton completely. It looks really cool - Cool on jakob, but I also like the look of jakob without it. It looks even cooler on its own. I'm going to stick it on a base, possibly stick a puppet malifaux cherub flying above it, and use it as a cherub/primordial magic for lilith. With the cards its throwing down, I think it'd make a great primordial magic. I'd use it as one for jakob, if huggy wasnt so great.

I've never played with or against hoffman, but having looked up his rules and tactics whilst listening to a podcast recently... 1) The wording for machine puppet is "make a strike" - I'd assume this uses paired as normal, you're making a strike. 2) I'd also assume you keep the triggers - Gaining critical strike and changing the CB is neither here nor there, but I'm not as sure on this one.

Having played using huggy the other week I'm more inclined to agree... Spirit negates most of what you're taking, healing back up from your own or enemy models using his (0) and finally healing a wound in the start closing phase. Also, the ability to come back is ridiculously powerful. It means you can be stupidly agressive with him, knowing that if he dies, you can come back. I used him and put perma-brilliance on colette and cassandra. Colette later died, huggy got re-summoned, completely tipping the swing of the game.

Haha this is so ambitious... I love it There seems to be a lot of companies making asian themed models... Check out bushido, and some historical japanese stuff, and of course wyrd's own 10T models. I'd probably use torakage for the basic ninjas, I think bushido have some creepy girl that would work well as either version of jade.

Have begun writing up some of my games on my blog, thank you to all my opponents http://wanderingwargamer.wordpress.com/

I'll try and organize some stuff, would love to attend... Is there a train station anywhere nearby?

I did something very similar a long time ago: So long, I can't remember exactly how his arm comes :/ I removed his left arm holding the cane, replaced it with a tablet, then added a skeleton arm holding a cane outstretched in his right arm and painted it up.

Very Excited Just need to finish my paperround and confirm times with a friend, and I'll be on my way. Might bring another crew to use tonight if anyone fancies a game? (Possibly the halloween story missions seeing as I missed playing them at my club?) Oh and I should have jacob arrive in the post today, tempted to model him up and play him tonight. Are people bringing paints for the paint a model speed thing, or are we borrowing maelstroms?

I dont know... I used pandora against him twice and found him easy enough to deal with. Doing one or two wounds at a time suited me well, even if huggy was healing one wound at the end of every turn. Sweet jesus... So jealous right now :')

I've been making some swamp terrain recently that would make a decent spawning pool with minimal effort... Want me to upload pics?

I find bodyguard a nice scheme when using seamus, with nicodem also. That said, playing in tournaments has made me less likely to pick 2 easy schemes with each crew... I pick the odds and sods, because I'll end up having to use them in a tournament so need the practice. I know I could probably get 2 vp with announced bodyguard on seamus (or kidnap with neverborn) so I'll use eye for an eye, or something else, to get the practice.

Cheers guys This was going to be my next point... Avatar nicodem, picking up easy chi from non-neutral mindless zombies... I can't wait to try it

Quick query: "Yan lo gains a chi token whenever a controlled non-ancestor model is killed within 8". " People keep refering to gaining chi off enemies? I'm assuming you're interpreting the controlled bit as "not neutral" - Whereas I'm reading it and thinking "friendly" any confirmation?

I'd drop an insidious madness and start with huggy on the board... Possibly drop a stitched or the depleted to get a beckoner aswell.

So I've just been listening to the gamers lounge and am plotting around a yan lo crew... Does anyone have any ideas for proxies, making, or converting the existing grave spirit to look more asian-ny? I don't think it would be hard to make a ghost type figure out of GS... Add a few samurai bits and I'm sure it would look alright... I'm just wondering if anyone has any better ideas?

I think it really depends on the master in question. Generally, box sets are a good way to go. Get you a nice crew, easy to start from, and normally have a unique model with a few extra rules. That said, there are a lot of different ways to play each master. I'll give some examples: Pandora - Her box set comes with 3 sorrows, baby kade and candy. Sorrows are useful to have the option to field, though I never normally field them and if I do, its never more than one. Baby Kade and Candy have largely been outclassed by book 2 minions, so I can't even remember the last time I fielded them. Thus, if you were starting pandora (never a good idea ) You could easily get her, a blister of stitched, then possibly the twins or collodi and some marrionnettes. Another example is lilith. She has loads of different ways you can play her crew. Her box set, in my opinion, is geared towards a "grow" list. (A type of lilith list where you kill some cheap stuff and turn your cheap minions into better, larger more expensive models.) Again, it'd be easy to start lilith by grabbing her, the twins, then either some terror tots or some of the other more unique nephilim, like tuco and graves. Guild is another one. Generally, I find you want to take witchling stalkers over some of the other 4ss minions. So even if you buy the box set, I find you'd need to grab a blister of stalkers and then some more expensive minions, either the exectuioner, the exorcist, possibly a guardian. So yeah, without going any more indepth, its perfectly possible to start without buying the box set, but if you think you'll need the minions from it, you might as well buy the box set, as you get the unique minion in it for "Free". (Generally the box sets are the price of the blister plus the master.) Ignore this if you prefer the alt sculpt of the master in question.

Seamus has a few interesting things to consider. - Firstly, he's quite hard to kill. Hard to wound 2 and necrotic ministrations means your opponent will really struggle to take him down. Use this to your advantage - Take bodyguard as a scheme, for example. Also, you can add a grave spirit as his totem for 1ss, very cheap, to give him armour. Generally, his own totem, the copy cat killer, isnt worth taking. - Malifaux is mainly about movement tricks and objective play. For this, make sure you remember belles gain +2 walk when close to seamus, and sybelle (Also a good target for the grave spirits armour) to call belle. Belles are very good for their points. Lots of wounds, hard to wound, slow to die, and especially lure. Use lure once or twice on an enemy to drag it out of formation, then charge it with your own minion, eg a punk zombie, or seamus, to hopefully kill it. - Seamus has a lot of WP and morale reliant abilities, these will not effect models with immune to influence, or constructs (or any non living stuff) for the morale. This is a big problem... Which can be countered by taking avatar seamus, or see what your local players tend to bring - A new book was just released with a lot of good, living models in it, so they'll be more common than they used to be. - Seamus needs quite a few SS, especially if you want to get the flintlock off. I try and take 7... That means in a 35ss game, you're only spending 30 on models. Hope that helps, let me know if theres any models that catch your attention and you'd like a brief overview of what they do or how they function, good luck, have fun

Okay, so I might be snowballing and bigging up an idea that doesnt have too many merits, but in anticipation of the release of our favourite mercenary geisha showgirls next month, I've been figuring out if and where they could fit in my various crews. I'm wondering if they'll have a lot of synergy with pandora. They've got lure, which is always nice, especially nice on models on a to wp thanks to pandora... Failing the resist will result in a wound from pandora (and another from a doppleganger if you're using it). Harmless will also have some nice effects - If on a negative flip, many opponents will have a hard time beating 12 to actually be able to attack the oiran. Using sultry or the trigger to regain harmless... I think there's a lot of possibilities here. Finally, there's a (0) that gives friendly models +1 wp, which is nice, especially if you're going to be using stitched/incite chains, and the card peeking from the oiran. On the downside, lilitu can do lure better, albeit at a higher cost (And having to include a lelu if you werent going to already). She also has irresistable, which is as good, if not better than harmless. She has the trigger on her lure and is not a living model. So yeah, thoughts? I'm just brainstorming. I'll try it out when I have the model.