Seregon

Yes. If the new ruling is that the suit from the RJ is that it "counts as printed on the card for all intents and purposes", then that would make it go away due to Nether Fluctuation. Hence the need to rephrase it if it's not supposed to work like that.

I may just have been playing it wrong, but does Nether Fluctuation always prevent any and all triggers from Ca, Ml and Sh action? I always played it as if only the printed suits were ignored.

If it's supposed to be as I read it, then this FAQ effectively made Nether Fluctuation work with the RJ and may want to be adressed in the next FAQ. If it's always supposed to prevent all suits from any source, then nevermind and I've been playing it wrong.

Perfectly true, of course, but I can't help but feel that Von Schill brings almost nothing to the game other than his Friekorps synergy. By giving that up, you're just playing with a different kind of disadvantage (albeit a less severe one than using mostly Friekorps against Kirai). You could instead choose any other Outcast and get more value.

Well, you can also see it in such a way that apart from his HtK and Wp bubble, he doesn't necessarily bring anything even to his Freikorps friends. He's perfectly capable of doing stuff by himself after all.

In reply to the counter thingie, it's not mandatory to pick a Freikorps crew if you have Von Schill as a leader. If you happen to know that the opponent is picking Kirai then, apart from the Librarian, Vanessa would be a solid choice to pick, as is Taelor and possibly the Nothing Beast.

Or you could be grateful for the information from an undoubtedly very busy wyrd member and instead wait patiently (or ask) one of the visitors on gencon for specific info.

Got a picture? For me the censer arm fits with the single piece tube from the forearm to the bottom part of the upper arm, just above the elbow. The longer "Y-piece" tube for the book arm however seems to only fit when going from the forearm to the side of the very bottom part of the center of the backpack itself.

Really looking forward to the Saturday event! In the process of assembling Hannah now so I'll have a Henchman option to blood-Vik.

Now, where exactly does the hoses go? I almost assume the shorter one is for the censer arm and connects to the arm just above the elbow, but how and where does the other one go to?

I'd bet we'll get a reply on this next week. Right now all of them are busy with GenCon. So yes, right now it is fairly hard for them to post a reply.

Lovely. Just got hit with a $15 flat fee + $28 import tax from the nice people at FedEx.

I would say that since Base to Base is effectively 0", then the 3" push would put Lilith exactly 3" away from Fuhatsu, and thus still be in melee range and engaged with him.

It would seem that the Swedish part of FedEx customer service isn't very helpful at all. No help for me without the tracking number.

20%, plus an £8 royal mail fee. Its ridiculous. 

 

Source: Loud, angry conversation with royal mail after being hit previously. 

Allow me to comfort you with the Swedish £8.50 flat fee plus an additional 25% of the total amount of the product + shipping combined.

And that's a potential (not guaranteed thankfully) hit for any order from the US, no matter how small.

Malifaux Sverige är bara stängd, inte hemlig, och går således ypperligt att söka efter. Alternativt så kan en använda denna länk: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MalifauxSverige/

Poke me on Facebook and I'll give you access to create the Malifaux event / tournament as one directly under Malifaux Sverige.

Also, the current event seems to be closed or invite only.

Personally I wanted the new box not only for the Steamtrunk but mainly for new poses for the normal models. If I want to run more than 2 Freikorpsmann or 1 Librarian/Specialist/Trapper, I'll now have to use models with the exact same pose.

Instead of getting a new box with updated sculpts that I can use to complement my existing Freikorps with, I'm now "forced" to buy the very same box I already own with identical models just so I can get the new totem. That, in my mind, is a really bad design.

Seeing what happened to Colette and how amazing the original art is, I consider it a big plus, but mileage may vary.

New art or not, I at least expected the Freikorpsmann and the Librarian to get new poses instead of their current static ones. I can understand it for such new models as Lenny, but all other new crewboxes has had their main minions tweaked a bit so that the old players could get a few new posed figures if they wanted to expand. This is the first complete copy/paste.

I'm really quite bummed out with the decision to just rehash the old metal sculpts (as seen from the plastic Freikorpsmann render in WC13). In my mind that's a really poor move.

I really do hope it's out with the rest of the remaining Wave 1 boxes for GenCon. Though I'll gladly wait if it means updated sculpts for the Freikorpsmann and Librarian especially.

Time to bump this one for Uppfaux IV on August 2nd.

More information can be found in https://www.dropbox.com/s/l48ni5ee9ghy6i4/Uppfaux%20IV.pdf (partly in Swedish)

or on the facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/237705773106782/

Apply at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LH-GaCMQ7E6kGwt2CxPf25_1qQgPlLHzzhsV8k1ayMY/viewform?usp=send_form

I'm in for both days! Let the Viking Vanguard Invasion of 2014 commence!

 Edit: Nevermind, the Trapper can't take upgrades. Now how do I delete a post..?

Also not a definitive answer as to whether stilts are meant to be able to negate the damage to himself on Francois' melee attack.

Will there be some open gaming on friday evening? 

Librarians can make short work of most incorporeal models with their furious casting, especially if they're clumped and you hit that blast trigger. Hannah can also be used there to steal their offensive spell.

Also, don't forget Nether Fluctuation that remove the opponent's built-in suits when within 4" of them. That has stopped a fair many nasty triggers for me.

Trappers should never be in combat, and have their (0) to simply push away and then doubletap into whomever is unfortunate enough to have gone so close to them (plus that they get to move up to 3+3" while doing so).

As for Von Schill being charged by opponents, it's something he can usually tank and next turn he can simply charge them back even when engaged and drop three or potentially four attacks on them, ignoring armour and potentially permanently dropping their Df and thus making each subsequent attack easier to hit with.

3/4/5 ignoring HtW at 12" is absolutely devastating against most ressers.

Specialist is one of my favourite support model. His attacks ignore cover and either deal one extra damage from burning or effectively deal out slow if the opponent wants to remove the burning. He can also burn away scheme markers and he's immensly effective against summoning masters since he automatically removes all scrap and corpse markers at the end of his activation.

The only drawback is that he tends to get swamped in combat. He'll usually hit with his Ml6, but you may want to have some other model nearby to relieve him.

Freikorpsmann can be quite decent as an objective runner if you can go after the engaged opponent. Discard a low tome, hopefully hit them once and trigger Duck & Weave and then try to disengage with your now Df7.