GAH

For clarification (and the ruling seems odd to me) can you choose to discard two cards if you do not have two cards?

No

I think its mostly been said. Taelor would be another good addition to the crew though.

Taelor comes with the boxed set.

I would rather have a Large Steampunk Arachnid or a Soulstone Miner. They are more useful than the swarm (except with Ramos) and the Victorias need more than 3 soulstones to survive.

Mechanical Rider.

I don't see any mindless zombies to go with Nicodem in your collection.

Gremlins: Francois Lacroix, Raphael Lacroix.

Leveticus crew: Rusty Alice.

Victorias crew: Ronin, Taelor, Ronin, Freikorps Trapper, Ronin, Student of Conflict

Hamelin: Rat Catchers

Necropunks are good objective grabbers.

Rotten Belles are good for Lure.

Ryle is good for ranged support.

Crooked Men are good for area denial (and great combined with rotten belles)

If you're looking to bring his avatar, the riders are necessary.

I think I'll take all of your new toys and use them with Leveticus.

I don't believe there's any such thing as overkill. There's just the right amount of kill (and in this model's case, it wasn't enough).

If you drag one Victoria away, and they haven't already activated, they can just use Sisters In Spirit to push them back together. The Avatar can only form if both Victorias are still in the game.

Sue can be good if you need help defending against WP duels.

Once you kill one Victoria, the other loses a lot of her usefulness. At 7 wounds, they are fairly fragile once you force them to get rid of their soulstones, so focus on killing one of them (preferrably the one with two swords).

Damn right - Zoraida is the primary reason I have more than half the crews in the game. That damn girl just has so many available minions from every single faction... she really gets around...

The other reason for my many crews would be Marcus - the undisputed man-whore of Malifaux.

Tip of the day: Malifaux is not cheap if you get Zoraida or Marcus. It's just a good thing I never got Nicodem. The three of them make up the well-worn wheels of the town tricycle...

I play Leveticus. He would like to have a word with Marcus about this title.

I stopped paying attention when I saw you typed dps into your rant.

Thats just my collection rather than what I use. I mostly keep the Hunters because one of the regular gamers at my local club uses Hamelin and Ive found the Hunters' and Peacekeeper's Chain Spears to be rather useful against his Rats by dragging them to their deaths outside of a Ratcathers/Hamelins 6" range.

I refuse to take the Steamborg Executioner as to me, its just something Hoffman shouldn't be allowed to take due to his fluff. As for the Swarms, I just wanted to find a reason to justify buying some at some point in the near future other than 'They would look good in my crews colours.' Oh well, double Warden it is then! XD

I have double Hunters in my Hoffman crew. Not a big fan of the Warden, but that's a personal preference.

My Leveticus crew is the one I'm closest to finished painting, and the Victorias are the crew I play most often.

Raspy just wants to ditch her clingy BFF.

When your BFF is a Tyrant, you have to be careful when you ditch them.

I would rather take a large steampunk arachnid with Hoffman.

Hodgepodge is great for Leveticus since he can't have a totem anyway, and it brings some nice abilities to his list.

Between those two, I would go with the Peacekeeper.

I also don't like Seamus for similar reasons.

I use Molly with McMourning. She can summon Belles (with corpse counters provided by canine remains in an emergency). Belles use Lure to bring enemy models in range. McMourning finishes them off.

The only guild leader I've used so far is Hoffman, but I have a Lady Justice/Lucius list I want to try out soon.

No Guardian? I think that he is extremely good for both Lady Justice and Sonnia Creed. Watcher is also something I would buy before Guild Guard.

There's a Guardian and a Watcher in the Hoffman box

Is it wrong of me that I want to get a second Hunter to use with Hoffman?

With Leveticus, I would bring a Soulstone Miner rather than an Ice Gamin. Also Leveticus could go with an all Rider crew and go for his Avatar.