Hateful Darkblack

Mine just arrived last night, very quickly with great communication all along the way. Me: "Oh, a package. I wonder what it is." My Roommates in Unison: "More Malifaux stuff." Me (opening the box): "Oh, yay! Ice and fire pillars! Guys, check this out!" My Roommates in Unison: "OOooooOooOoooo."

Awesome answer, thanks! Next question! What if it's B1 -- A -- B2 ? That is, can a model with Companion (Dude) activate simultaneously with two Dudes that do not, themselves, have Companion?

No disagreement on that from me.

See that star by the name on that Rules Marshall? That means that there isn't a doubt for which you could confer the benefit. Nobody on the forums can stop you from playing a house rule with your friends, of course, but there isn't anything you could say that would make the Rules Marshall not a Rules Marshall. There's nothing disastrous about ruling the your way instead , in my opinion... except that Rules Marshalls are considered authoritative.

Oops! You're so right. My mistake.

Bete Noire is super easy to bring out for Leveticus. Your units die all the time! Especially Leveticus himself!

You get your AP when you activate, so the inactive Viktoria has no AP anyway.

Bete Noire has an insta-kill, and Levi can hire her.

Oh, right you are. You can take a disengaging strike against a Coryphee (but good luck with that), but not Swinedash.

Bring in Teddy and Baby Kade. Everyone loves babies and teddy bears.

"Hi there. Mr. Desperate Mercenary, was it? We're looking for an employee who doesn't really run too fast, and isn't too hard to chew up and eat. I see here that you're pretty good with those pistols. How do you feel about punching other mercenaries a little to tenderize them a bit, while slavering bloodthirsty vampire-demons wait hungrily?" "I'm... hesitant." "The slavering vampire-demons in question would be the employers. They're devoted to the cause of removing your entire species from this dimension." "I'm... very hesitant." "And we'll pay for your mother's surgery." "Yeah, I guess I'm in."

Only one hit per action for the Swinedash or Sword Dance movement. They draw normal disengagement strikes, of course.

It occurs to me that you could probably use a lot of warjacks and deathjacks and juggernauts from Warmachine to represent the Clockwork Juggernaut. But I've never played Warmachine so I wouldn't know the details at all. (If someone else has, I'd love to hear suggestions!)

Alps seem to provide a lot of synergy. I have only used them a little myself. I love playing Coppelius with Pandora. He acts as a second mobile flanker, picking up side objectives while Pandora and her linked Sorrows sweep through the field, and Paralyzing anyone who tries to stop him.

Ooh, good point!

I ordered a big batch of stuff from this site in December, and I've been really excited by the results. They're really pleasant and attractive. New counters? Great news!

I like playing aPandora. She is great for some strategies: If your opponent has Send a Message or Distract or Holdout, or you have Claim Jumper or Escape and Survive. She also makes an enemy's Assassinate hard and your Bodyguard easy. To play her: flit around as Pandora, horrifying and discombulating your opponent for a few turns, and accomplish any mobility-related goals you need to accomplish. Then, settle down in a strategic objective point, and throw up a Hollows of Despair wall to turn it into your personal fortress hideout. If the enemy comes to you, it's great because aPandora is incredibly defensive. If the enemy doesn't come to you, send Candy to make trouble and have Pandora cast Self-Destruction through Her Eyes. The awesome thing about aPandora: All damage to Pandora is split in half and shared with Candy, but all Candy's healing is applied equally to both, so Candy heals about 4 damage per round from their communal pool. (Also, don't start with Candy if you plan to manifest. A free model is way better than 2 extra Wounds.) Don't pick aPandora if your strategy requires you to move around a lot. She's worthless for Line in the Sand or Plant Evidence. But if you can park her in front of your enemy's Supply Wagon or a Claim Jump or something, she is amazing. She makes a little super-fort wherever she lands.

Oh good. I'll go aplly this rule to the twelve suspended games I had, all frozen by infinite spawning rats. They were starting to clog out my house anyway, and buying new aRasputinas every time this happens was getting expensive.

"Oh man, our game had a stack overflow while the rules were generating and killing an Infinite number of rats. We're both going to go get a pizza and come back to see if they've stopped spawning and exploding in the meantime. Maybe we can get them to write a script for Hamlet in the meantime."

I have played a few 15 soulstone games when I was short on time. They're fun. Though I shoukda reflipped strats when I got Reconnoiter.

My favorite theoretical use of Growing Influence is engineering a Perdita/Ophelia Team-Up. Anything is possible when you employ a rat-catcher. (But no, I don't think hiring Ophelia this way lets you hire more Kin, since you couldn't hire the Kin out-of-faction unless you were already playing Zoraida or something.)

So, I'm very curious about just about all the Avatars, and Justice is the one I kinda don't get. Is she awesome? It seems like she goes from the best melee combatant in the game, with some buffing abilities, to a really confusing buffing/card manipulation model with some lingering memory of melee skills. Has anyone played with her? How does she work? Is she awesome, and if so, how?

Wow, a little Googling turned up something interesting. There is a real town named Malifaux in France: http://dgw42.mirabilevisu.info/genealogie/commune-42224-en The people in that town are called.... Genésiens.

I hadn't thought about using it as scrap for growth. Like some kind of giant archnid Desperate Mercenary!

And this is why the Large Steampunk Arachnid is ultimately not a very good minion. It was fun to paint, but I wish I'd read the text more closely before I bought it.