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I doubt it. That's a wheelbarrow full of carrots.

Obviously he's there to feed Marcus' new death bunny

Howdy Arcanists! The Australian Malifaux GT is fast approaching and I've decided to utilise Colette for part of it. Day one is a set of story encounters (as yet unkown) with a fixed master drawing from a 55 pool using the gaining grounds rules. Colette was the very first crew I bought, yet I have only played a few games with her (mostly because my most regular opponent is Sonnia and that match up kept frustrating the heck out of me!)

I'm playing Colette for giggles on day 1 before getting competitive with my Ressers day 2, so am looking for advice on my 55 pool - the only stipulation is I don't want to run the Duet. Not sure why, just want to think outside the box a bit. At the moment my list looks like the following:

Colette

Mechanical Dove - 2

Killjoy - 12

Renegade Steamfitter Johan - 7

Cassandra - 9

2 x Performers + Mannequins - 12

Kaeris - 8

Large Steampunk Arachnid - 5

The only thing I'm considering at the moment is replacing the LSPA with a SoC for Kaeris, but I kinda like the big spider. Any other models I'm overlooking? Any whacky ideas that sound good for a giggle?

Which list do I have more of winning against if I get drawn against you?

I'm considering doing the same thing with a fun crew that I've barely used for day one, is what you say true about Johan in gaining grounds? I was considering using Colette, will Johan still take up 7 of my pool?

I finished off Perdita with the explosion from one of them. Your opponent may think they're safe from the explosion, but a slow to die walk followed by a 4" explosion is a massive threat area.

Did anyone else get the Wyrd newsletter email with the news about the new hard plastic and the Neverborn model designs? My money, all of it, take it! I DON'T NEED IT!

Yeah I'll do some search-fu and find it.

Victory! My search-fu is strong. http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?23839-Official-Ruling-on-quot-That-One-s-A-Keeper-quot-Scheme-please!/page2&highlight=One%27s+Keeper

I like the idea, especially for some clarifications that aren't really errata worthy. For example mcmourning picking up a corpse counter and converting it to body parts does count as BP gained for his avatar/scheme. If I recall correctly he doesn't even have to have killed the model so long as he is the one to pick up the CC, ie it wasn't sent to him by a canine remains or something similar.

You know.........I pretty much suck at sculpting.....but I wonder if I might try sculpting a bird suit on my original Marcus now......................He could be like that bird that fights with Peter Griffin all the time.

And I think the non-master Hamelin would be good to model as Peter, instead of sharing his base with Nix he can share it with Brian

It's the full stop in the description of the trigger that sells it for me. Please note I don't have my book 1 so am running purely off of the DE's v2 card on the .pdf, but Leveticus has the same stipulation for Necrotic Unmaking. It doesn't say instead of generating a corpse counter summon an SPA, it says "...does not generate counters of any kind. Summon one SPA..." They're two separate entities in the description, separate steps to resolve. Since it doesn't even stipulate a living or undead model for either the trigger or Levi's spell, I'd say you can even summon an SPA from a spirit, who already don't drop counters of any kind.

Devoured would not matter in this case, as both abilities line up in the lack of generation of a counter, but voracious rats would negate the summon explicitly though.

Started with and still play mcmourning, but after the australia gt I will be switching to neverborn for a while. Kinda cos I want a change but mostly because my painting has gotten much better since my ressers were painted so my neverborn are much prettier

Interesting that after 40 voters Molly is beating Kirai...

I am going to destroy my social life playing this when it comes out!

Saw the guild doing this and figured it's be interesting to see which masters are getting the most regular use in our faction. Have at it!

And yes, I did copy and paste the poll title before I noticed those uneducated guild couldn't spell

Just be careful using him against gremlins with lots of mosquitos. Having your hand burned away and Killjoy turned into a mosquito is hilarious, but not conducive with winning

However, whomever the GS is linked to cannot be targeted by enemy ranged attacks and spells, even if they are not undead.

It's the grave spirit that cant be targeted, not the unit it's linked to

Nino can be good against her, as she needs to throw away cards to create soulstones. I personally fear Sonnia the most of all the guild when using colette, that dispell, the witchling stalkers anti magic field and her being able to cast at Colette without LoS is so damn annoying!

I do enjoy a good Hamelin forum rage post

Everything Mike said is spot on, you don't want to be stuck on low WP against Hamelin.

Not true.

snow storms damage is 3/3/6 night terrors have 4 wounds.

You ROUND UP so ANY 2 hits would kill it.

Night Terrors have Hard to Kill. Second hit would take it from 2 to 1 wounds only.

It's weird seeing Dan as the grumpy one and Nathan so cheerful =]

Eric's just Eric as usual

See, isn't the world so much better with video content? *hint hint*

+1000, having faces and voices to put to names on the forums is an amazing way to breakdown the barriers between consumers and businesses.

So when are they coming down to Australia huh? I'll buy them a beer or 2 if they do!

We used a few strategies; slaughter, claim jump and bodyguard, each worth 2 points with a +1 for being the only person near the claim jump marker at the end. Worked quite well, became a real cat and mouse game.

Since the Ikiryo is unique, when it dies can you re-summon it?

Not only that, if it's already on the table you can activate it, get it killed or sacrificed, resummon it with Kirai then activate it again, albeit with slow from the summon.

That model certainly does make Taelor's "underboob" seem trivial haha

I play Ressers and I support the Red Joker as is. I've had my ass saved by H2W stopping my opponents from cheating in high damage FAR more than I've had my H2W used against me to chase red jokers. It's part of the mystique of Malifaux, if you want to remove random luck from the game you play competitively, then go and play chess.

Edit: I now have a burning desire to make a chess set for each faction.

Well, here's a few points:

Johan only has range 3 Melee

The Brass Arachnid can only reactivate Constructs, which rules out the Gunsmith and Johan

Your pool would be 3. Yes, Johan does cost 1 less for the M&SU membership, but you still have to pay the +1 cost for him being a mercenary. He only costs 5 for Colette because she can specifically hire M&SU members from any faction at no extra cost.

Joss suffers from being a high SS cost model with no action modifiers (Nimble, melee expert, etc). His walk of 4 means he takes an age to get anywhere and is easily kited by your opponent. Of course he can be reactivated by the arachnid but this risks him moving faster than your guardian ball and getting isolated and killed. The low WP on the Gunsmith would make it an easy target to lure away from the guardian to be isolated, or just get you to burn away wounds using smoldering heart since his isolation would make life very difficult for you.

Sorry if this all sounded a bit negative, it could be a fun list to use, just be wary of high movement oppositions leaving you stranded. I would maybe only bust out this list initially for a slaughter type strategy, combined with something like holdout where you don't need to leave home or worry about your opponents superior speed.