Argentbadger

Those colours really pop, this is very nice work. The source lighting effects are particularly good.

Welcome to the forums. You’ve probably noticed that this area is rather quiet at the moment as everyone’s attention is focussed on the beta test. I’ve played and enjoyed both Masters in classic and beta rulesets so I suppose that this will come down to your preferred play style. My experience has been that Jakob does well sending Hungering Darkness down the other crew’s throat, forcing them to deal with it and then bringing it back when the next Brilliant miniature (probably in your own crew in the beta version) dies. Mei Feng can be played as a crew protector / counter puncher with her mobility and Vent Steam ability. Alternatively, you can do what I always end up doing, which is launch her forward into the thick of it and hope for the best. It doesn’t always work, but it is usually quite entertaining. Kang is a beast with nice melee powers and durability and the Rail Workers are good cheap filler minions with a bit of utility. In my opinion both of these have lost a bit in the beta test which might indicate that they were a little bit too good before. I haven’t tried Hans (or any other mercenaries) but I speculate that he might be a bit trickier to use with Mei Feng as you’ll often have Vent Steam up which will limit your targeting opportunities a little. So in that regard he might be a better fit with Jakob. The crew boxes (three Illuminated plus Jakob and Hungering Darkness versus Mei Feng, Kang, three Rail Workers and the Emberling) are both good and full of miniatures that you might want to use. In particular, the beta test seems to have given a relative boost to Illuminated; previously I don’t think I’d have used more than one in a crew. The beta rules are free to download anyway so you might as well print them off and play a few games with both masters and see which you prefer. Good luck.

@Viruk: Thanks very much. Yin's a pretty scary beast. It never fails to amuse me that she starts with Harmless. I guess maybe she starts the game with a bit sheet draped over her that drops away when she attacks for the first time. This is Sidir Alchibal (and not Captain Nemo from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as you might have thought initially), sidekick / bodyguard for Lucas McCabe. I only ended up using him once in Malifaux Classic edition (where he was shot to death by Perdita Ortega without achieving much) and his rules aren’t even in open testing for the second edition of Malifaux yet. This is probably the most testing amount of white I’ve tried on a miniature because Sidir is a remarkably big chap (that’s a 40 mm base he’s sitting on) and I’m very happy with it. Even in the somewhat unforgiving medium of close up photography it still looks decent, and on the tabletop it’s very pleasing. I thought that the bright red turban and robes really set off the white, and then chose to make the rest of him (beard, weapons, accessories) darker to pop the white as much as possible. I declare myself satisfied. Now, when can I get him back to the gaming table...

The Dead Rider looks excellent, but why so little orange on him? It's like your signature is missing.

That's going to an amazing board to play on. I look forward to seeing some in-game photos. McCabe looks great. I like the way you've painted Luna, it's a model with such a lot of character.

@Evilbleachman: Thanks for the feedback. I guess this is a matter of taste; I rather like the bold colour of Yan Lo's robe, and I'm happy with how much it stands out in a game. I bet if I'd painted it the same but with orange you'd have liked it more! This is Yin, the Penangalan, another of my Ten Thunders miniatures. Unlike some of them, Yin is actually a proper Ten Thunders choice rather than being restricted to a single Master like Beckoners. Her main thing is to be supremely annoying to everyone, which she achieves by being hard to get rid of (negative flips to attack) and having the Anathema rule so she’s even scary to robots. I’ve found that Yin really hates it when people bring paired weapons, or remember that they can focus attacks to get round the negative flip on the attack duel. It all gets even more hilarious when enemy pieces can have their Willpower reduced, such as with Lucas McCabe’s Braying of the Hounds spell. Of course, this is all outdated information due to the new Malifaux rules, so who knows what will happen to the poor Penangalan with the update. I painted most of her mass of organs in various colours then slathered purple ink liberally across the lot which appears to have had the desired effect of looking slightly nasty. To add to the scary look, I left out the pupils from her eyes which works well enough, though she doesn’t need much help looking scary.

Great work, especially for someone who is new to the hobby. You put many veterans (or least me) to shame with your painting.

@Viruk: You're very kind, as usual. This is Yan Lo, the Master of the Masters of the Path box. He’s pretty amusing to play as he ‘powers up’ during the game from deaths around him, and it was my first taste of the Ressurectionist play style of bringing dead minions back into the game. For whatever reason Yan Lo isn’t in the first part of the beta testing currently ongoing for Malifaux second edition so it’ll be a while before I find out what happens to his rules. Assembling Yan Lo was a colossal pain as he comes in a remarkable number of pieces, and unbelievably, his beard is a separate part from the rest of his head. Just getting that attached took a bit work. However, I’m not a sculptor so perhaps there is a good reason for this design, but whatever it is, ease of assembly by the final user didn’t seem to feature in the process. Luckily once Yan Lo is put together he’s a fairly sturdy piece, at least when compared to the flimsy arms of his Ashigaru retainers. I chose not to add the rising skeleton to his base and eventually I might find some use for the parts; for now they are in my bits box. Overall I am fairly happy with the effect, with the exception of the visible brush strokes on the white under-robes. Fortunately this isn’t a problem as they’re not so obvious at table top distance, and in any case the eye isn’t really drawn to that part of the paint job.

That's a pretty cool idea to turn Ashigaru into Samurai. The GW arms work much better than I would have expected. Does this mean that you've ended up with duplicates of Yan Lo, Chiaki and the Soul Porter? What plans do you have for them?

That's a lot of Neverborn to strip and paint. Teddy looks very good in those bold colours; a long way from mediocrity in my opinion. Have you had any thoughts on the basing? I believe you could get away with a fairly restrained base since the miniature is so eye-catching.

Fantastic. The jeans look especially realistic. Even with all the work you've done, it's still a silly pose though.

Here is my painted Soul Porter, the totem for Yan Lo. In classic Malifaux it was pretty handy at pushing other, scarier miniatures into places of maximum awkwardness. Of course, in Malifaux version 2, who knows what the little chap will be able to do. I deliberately used muted browns for the clothing and grey for the skin to try and emphasise the lanterns a bit more, though I couldn’t resist a cheeky splash of red on the bandanna. I tried to make the lanterns appear to glow a little bit. Once the actual lantern was in a satisfactory shade of orange, I filled in the little slits with white, then edged them with yellow. Simple, but effective (at least at tabletop distance).

Pretty. If this is what 2 hours of work gets, I'd be awestruck if you posted something you spent 50 hours on! The OSL is really nice.

You've really captured the stern look of this miniature. The blue coat is lovely. As always, great and inspiring painting.

Beautiful painting. The Avatar Sonnia is my favourite, but she pairs well with her regular form.

Nice basing. Would it be possible to get a close up, as it is tricky to see the skin tones at that distance. It certainly looks promising.

That sounds like a great game, thanks for sharing. Congratulations on getting your other half to play (Mrs Argentbadger and I occasionally play a different wargame across scenery unknowingly provided by our children while they slumber). Perdita’s defense is quite amazing, especially since she can fortify it with soulstones in case of a low flip.

Another month, another Malifaux tournament! Gareth (Furycat), Steve (Forkbanger) and I drove out (with Joe (Euclid), a Malifaux tournament stalwart, who turns out to live just round the corner from Gareth) to Worlds at War for the Fountain of Souls story event. Strictly speaking, it’s not a tournament in the sense that the strategies are story based and so things are more about theme than face beating. From my perspective, there’s no difference as it’s just an opportunity to play three games of Malifaux back to back, and (hopefully) play against people who aren’t in my regular gaming group. Game 1: Ten Thunders (me) vs Neverborn (Stephen, Station on the forums) Strategy: Tracing the Source. Carry a water token (but only one at a time per crew for some reason, presumably they only remembered to bring a single bucket with them) from a well in your deployment zone to both aquifers on the centre line. Moving by any means other than a walk means you drop the token and have to start again. Victory points for doing this for each aquifer, and another couple for being the first to put water in both aquifers. Schemes: Ten Thunders: Hold Out, Kill Protegé (I chose Tuco as I thought he’d play further forward than Mr Graves who was also eligible) Neverborn: Grudge (Archer), Breakthrough Crews: Ten Thunders: Mei Feng, Emberling, 2 Rail Workers, 2 Wastrels (one with Soulstone Bullet and the other with Earth’s Elixir), Ten Thunders Archer, Kang, 6SS Neverborn: Lilith, Primordial Magic, Mr Graves, Tuco, Terror Tot, Young Nephilim, Waldgeist I swithered a bit on the Wastrels for this strategy. On the one hand, they can’t use all their cool movement tricks and carry the water token, nor can they use them in general with Lilith on the board. On the other hand, they’re the cheapest models I own so I thought they’d be the least wasteful to mess around moving the water tokens. Everyone else was just intended to run interference for the Wastrels and disrupt the Neverborn’s own water carriers. Turn 1: The Waldgeist moves the forest in the far corner toward one of the aquifers, and I realise that this is going to get awkward. The Primordial Magic put an Illusionary Forest near the other Aquifer, presumably to cover Lilith and the Young Nephilim. One of my Wastrels picks up some water, and the Tot does the same on the other side of the board. The Young heads over on the left and is shot by the Archer for his troubles. Lilith and Mei Feng both move forward to sit on the aquifers. Turn 2: My Archer kills the Young Nephilim, and puts a couple of wounds on Lilith with a blast from Yajiri. In retrospect, this was pretty much the last useful thing I achieved in the whole game. The Waldgeist uses his powers to attack Mei from the far side of his forest, putting a few wounds on her, and the Primordial Magic fails to Transposition Lilith into range to threaten Mei Feng. Mr Graves moves into probable attack range of Mei Feng, but the forest being moved by the Waldgeist means that getting Rail Workers into a useful position is tricky. Mei Feng eventually Rail Walks into Mr Graves but I can’t put much damage on him (I also forget to move into base to base contact after a Jackhammer Kick). Lilith smacks Kang down to his Hard to Wound, but 3 return attacks all miss hopelessly. Turn 3: Mr Graves flurries Mei Feng. On the first attack, I decide to use a Soulstone to avoid it rather than one of my good cards, needing a 3 to make it. I flip a 2, and the Red Joker (plus severe) comes out of the negative flip killing her in one fell blow. In my mind, Mr Graves beats her corpse for a few more attacks anyway, because of flurry. He then casts Bar’s Closed on a huge card, making pretty much the entire side of the board move. This causes both the Wastrel and Tot to spill their water. Kang tries another 3 attacks on Lilith but still can’t get a single hit in. She finishes him off in return (in retrospect, I think I forgot about Kang’s Slow to Die action, but after missing 6 previous attacks it probably wouldn’t have mattered) and moves to engage the Archer. I force her to kill him off over two disengaging strikes thanks to Wicked. This denies Stephen his Grudge, though to be honest, I’d probably have been fine with her letting the Archer go instead. Tuco picks up some water and starts heading for the left hand aquifer. Turn 4: The Rail Worker Implacable Assaults the Waldgeist but Black Jokers the first damage flip and misses the second. Mr Graves hurts one of the Rail Workers, is killed by the second and puts him down in return with Slow to Die. Lilith moves to engage both Wastrels, and kills one of them trying to get away with Wicked disengaging strikes. Turn 5: My Rail Worker finally takes out the Waldgeist, and Tuco actually scores a VP by putting his water token in the aquifer. The Tot moves back to the fountain and picks up another to start the process again. The surviving Wastrel uses Earth’s Elixir and moves around Lilith in the hope of luring her away from my deployment zone. He attacks her just for the form of it, but Black Jokers the strike anyway. My hope at this point is that Lilith will have to commit to taking out the Rail Worker and so be unable to get back into my deployment zone for Hold Out and Breakthrough, but Stephen very cleverly uses the Primordial Magic to Transposition Rail Worker and Tuco. Lilith beats the Wastrel down the one wound that he can stay on thanks to Earth’s Elixir. Turn 6: The Wastrel fails to hit Lilith at all, and she beats him to death and moves into my deployment zone to score Breakthrough and deny my Hold Out. My Rail Worker kills the Primordial Magic, just because I can, then the Tot puts the other water token in the Aquifer to wrap up my defeat. Neverborn win 6 – 0. Ouch! It’s been a while since I’ve felt that outclassed. It was a fun game, but I don’t feel like I was ever really in it. Lilith just strolled around being impossible to hit, and Mei Feng went down very early on. In retrospect my choice of Wastrels as water carriers was poor as they’re very easy to kill and can’t actually use any of their cool movement tricks to do anything in this strategy. Picking up the water token also ends their Harmless ability. Game 2: Ten Thunders (me) vs Guild (Gareth) Strategy: Unlocking the Potential. Both Masters start the game in ‘stasis’ in the Fountain, and can’t do anything apart from cast one spell a turn until they are ‘unlocked’ by a complicated business involving carting soul tokens from the aquifers to the Fountain. Carrying a soul token also makes you a Spirit. Points for picking up a soul token from each aquifer and for being the first to unlock the Fountain. Again, moving by any means other than a walk causes the token to be dropped. The spell that the Masters can cast is Manipulate Soul, effectively a super-powered Obey. The Fountain counts as a Pool of Aether so Masters can use a ‘free’ Soulstone once per turn. Schemes: Ten Thunders: Infiltrate Malifaux, Bodyguard Guild: Grudge (Rail Worker), Raid! Crews: Ten Thunders: Mei Feng, Rail Worker, 2 Wastrels (Petrified Feather, Strangemetal Blade), Yin the Penangalan, Kang, Ten Thunders Archer, 5SS Guild: Perdita Ortega, 3 Witchling Stalkers, Witchling Handler, Exorcist, Santiago Ortega This is a very odd strategy. I took Bodyguard as having the Masters out of action for most of the game meant that it was unlikely that I’d lose Mei Feng. I stuck with the Wastrels for token carriers since they could at least use movement shenanigans to get the soul counters first, and then use the Spirit characteristic to (hopefully) float through a wall to safety. Also, they’re cheap. The Emberling would have been pretty useless without Mei Feng’s spells to cast, and similarly I went with a single Rail Worker as it wasn’t likely that I’d need multiple jump points. As a side note, playing against Furycat in tournament is weird because he uses my miniatures. It’s odd to see them on the other side of the board, coming to get me. Turn 1: Everyone rushes forward. The Archer one-shots a Witchling Stalker thanks to the increased damage track from Yajiri. Perdita then Manipulate Souls Kang to charge the poor Archer, hitting him flying and leaving him with a single wound. Mei returns the favour by getting the furthest forward surviving Stalker to charge its Handler, but I Black Joker the attack. The Wastrels move to the Aquifers, one using the Petrified Feather to do so and the other one using Hidden Passages. Hurrah for Lilith not having line of sight to the entire board! Turn 2: The Archer repeats his trick with another Witchling Stalker; I activated him first because I though that Perdita was just Manipulate Soul Kang again to kill him off otherwise. Santiago Ortega Rapid Fires the Wastrel on the right to death, though at least Furycat is forced to burn a couple of cards to get round Harmless. Mei Feng Manipulate Souls the last Stalker to hit the Handler again, and Perdita does the same to get Yin to hit the surviving Wastrel. My Rail Walker moves to engage Santiago in melee, where he is significantly less horrible. Kang bashes the Handler, who has moved to threaten my Wastrel, with his spade, then the Stalker hits him in return and is in turn counter charged by Yin. Finally, the Wastrel picks up a soul token to score me a VP. Turn 3: Kang knocks the Witchling Stalker out of melee, then walks over to beat the Handler senseless. The Exorcist attacks the Rail Worker in melee (for Grudge purposes) but Black Jokers the first hit. Yin finishes off the last Stalker who blows up to put a couple of wounds on her. The Rail Worker hits Santiago, then returns the Exorcist’s favour by Black Jokering an attack on him. Turn 4: Perdita Manipulate Souls Kang to hit Yin, but he misses thanks to the Mass of Viscera rule. The Rail Worker kills the Exorcist and is killed right back with the Slow to Die attack. Santiago, now free of melee, walks round to easily finish off the Archer. Mei Feng Manipulate Souls Kang to move back toward Santiago, who is now feeling rather lonely, and Kang goes up under his own steam to apply a spade. Yin heads for the other soul pool. Turn 5: Perdita tries to Manipulate Soul Santiago to get out of melee with Kang. It doesn’t work, and Kang pulverises the moustachioed gunslinger. Yin picks up the soul token for another VP. Turn 6: Perdita Manipulate Soul Yin to charge Kang. It doesn’t have any effect on Kang but it does force her to drop the soul token. I can’t move anyone fast enough to make them score and Perdita can just cast Manipulate Soul on them all day to make everyone drop the tokens, so we call it there. Ten Thunders win 6 – 2 (2 each for the strategy, Infiltrate Malifaux and Bodyguard for me, and Grudge for Furycat). I was satisfied with the win, but I am not a fan of the strategy. Playing without a Master for the whole game really changes Malifaux, and others I spoke with on the day pointed out that they were happy to leave their Master in stasis if they felt that the other Master was stronger than their own. It also meant that Bodyguard was too easy a choice to make. The pseudo-obey spell meant that it was just about impossible to move the soul tokens around if you had more than one minion left as the could be forced to charge each other and then drop the token. Even worse, the Fountain giving a free once-per-turn Soulstone meant that it was impossible to resist when the spell was cast, as there is no reason not to do so. Speaking with Furycat after the game, I think he focussed a bit too much on the brief period in which token carriers became spirits when selecting his crew and ended up with too many magical melee attacks at the cost of some flexibility. Game 3: Ten Thunders (me) vs Neverborn (Irving) Strategy: The Fountain of Souls. Score victory points for having most miniatures in the fountain at the end of each turn after the first. The fountain itself has various effects for being in it (magic resistance and regeneration, plus it counted as cover) which we remembered and some effects which depended on how many things were killed that turn, which we totally forgot about. Schemes: Ten Thunders: Exterminate (Beasts), Save Face Neverborn: Kidnap (both Rail Workers and Archer), Kill Protegé (Yin the Penangalan) Crews: Ten Thunders: Mei Feng, 2 Rail Workers, Ten Thunders Archer, Kang, Yin the Penangalan, 8SS Neverborn: Lilith, Primordial Magic, 3 Silurids, 3 Terror Tots, Hooded Rider Since the mission is just a glorified Claim Jump, I went with the most survivable pieces I had. Yin is brutal in this kind of strategy as people have to get close to her Anathema. After some consideration I took the Emberling out of the crew; I don’t really need the extra movement from the Seismic Punch and Vent Steam was going to be of limited value against a melee crew like Lilith’s. I chose Exterminate as the three Silurids aren’t hard to put down and the strategy forces contact, and took Save Face as a gamble that it might be hard to score in the early turns. Turn 1: Everyone runs toward the Fountain. Lilith puts an Illusionary Forest down in an irritating choke point. Turn 2: The Archer puts a couple of wounds on the Hood Rider. Lilith moves to attack Yin but misses due to the negative flips from Mass of Viscera. A handy Rail Worker tries to get started on Lilith’s wounds but misses his attack anyway. The Silurids all activate together and leap into the Fountain. The first gets too close to Yin and is scared, falling back and being caught by her Wicked strike. The other two wisely keep their distance. The second Rail Worker also tries to hit Lilith and actually succeeds this time as Irving has used up most of his control hand. The Hooded Rider moves partially into the fountain but the placement of the Silurids means that he can’t get into range to hit anything or score on the strategy. Kang climbs over the wall, bashes Lilith with his spade and hurts the nearest Silurid (I was hoping to take advantage of the negative defence flips on the Silurid who was falling back to put moderate damage on to kill it but it was not to be). Yin floats over to stop Lilith from constantly splashing Black Blood on her, and also to maximise her Anathema effect over the Neverborn crew. A crowd of Terror Tots move to be a second wave of bodies into the Fountain once the Silurids are cleared out. Finally, Mei Feng puts a couple of ineffective attacks onto Lilith then casts Scalding Breath to hurt the cluster of Silurids and Hooded Rider. Irving scores a VP for the strategy. Turn 3: Lilith is forced to burn most of her hand and Soulstones to survive Mei Feng’s assault, and Silurid is finished off by another Scalding Breath. Lilith attacks Mei Feng, who also has to use a few Soulstones but does at least get some use out of her armour from Iron Skin. Kang then finishes off Lilith, knocking her back to avoid the Black Blood, move into the Fountain and kills a second Silurid. The Hooded Rider fails to do anything to Mei Feng, and Yin fails to do anything useful to the last Silurid. The nearest Tot moves to reinforce the Neverborn in the Fountain, and the Archer moves up to kill one lurking further back. My Rail Workers gang up to kill off the nearest Tot. I score a VP on the strategy. I’m feeling pretty confident as I’ve hammered the Neverborn crew and lost nothing myself. Turn 4: Mei Feng kills off the Hooded Rider with Tiger’s Claws and then uses her casting expert to take out the last Silurid with Scalding Breath (scoring my Exterminate). My crew dogpile the last Tot before it can even move into the Fountain. I score another VP on the strategy. Turn 5: Yin kills the Tot, and I score another VP on the strategy. Turn 6: Everyone moves out of the Fountain so I can achieve Save Face. I win 7 – 1 (3 for the strategy and 2 each for my schemes; Irving has 1 for the strategy). Again, I was happy with the win, but the Strategy wasn’t really different enough from Claim Jump to be worth talking about. My crew selection worked well enough in that Yin, Kang and Mei Feng can be very tough to get rid of, especially if you’re forced to jump down their throats as in this game. Overall, I came out very pleased with 5th place (of 10), just behind Steve (4th) and ahead of Gareth (7th). I should give a special mention for Forkbanger’s performance going undefeated with two wins and a draw, which is surely his best result. It was another good day of gaming with 3 fun games of Malifaux. There are more pictures on David’s blog, here and here.

10 players looks pretty good, and it means you actually get to play a game of Malifaux for a change! All I need to do is stop being so rubbish with the hilarious Yin / Mei Feng combination I've been rolling lately and I can actually give a decent game to people.

@Evilbleachman: I share your view. Although I take these photos at giant size, in reality I see these miniatures on a gaming table from several feet away for the most part. @Viruk: Thanks. The bones are just cream paint with a wash of a mix of yellow and brown ink I made up about 20 years ago. Sadly, it's running out a bit now. Chiaki, the Niece is the first of Yan Lo’s Ancestor miniatures to see the business end of my paint brush. In game she appears to be highly variable in performance, as some games she can have a massive effect by clearing slow, Brilliance, burning tokens and such off your own guys. Against other crews who don’t rely on these sort of ongoing effects she isn’t much more than a 5 point objective sitter. I definitely need to get a few more games in with Chiaki to get a feel for when to put her in the crew and when to leave her in the tray; the fact that I can only use her with Yan Lo is reducing the number of outings she has compared to proper dual faction or Ten Thunders miniatures who can get on the board with any of the masters. She was a bit tricky to assemble as most of the pieces are really thin. The pipe in particular is very fine work. For some reason, presumably to do with the mould casting, the bow on the back of her head is a separate piece which made it rather fiddly to get into place. Still, I enjoyed painting her once the glue was dry. I quite like that Malifaux has some miniatures that aren’t raging murder machines, and Chiaki actually looks like she could be Harmless, unlike Yin, the Penangalan.

Those are really nice basing ideas there, the sewing machine is especially cool. I feel like your paint jobs would benefit from a bit more depth (a wash would be a simple way to go) but this might just be an artifact of the photography. I look forward to seeing Coppelius all finished and ready to play.

Very cool modifications. I am somewhat with you on the impracticality of the Viks' clothing. It just doesn't really seem to fit wth the idea of providing any sort of protection. I can live with the high heels on Sonnia (for example) as she's an office worker of sorts who only hits people with enormous magical swords as a bit of a sideline. But the fighting characters with ridiculous armoured thongs feel a bit too odd. On the other hand, I'm not a terrifying mercenary in a magical alternate world, so perhaps it works for them?

Those skin tones are very life-like, you've done some really good painting there. I agree that Colette looks good with the white dress. If you could replicate the colour on her hat I would be a very jealous painter, as I find white to be an extremely awkward colour to work with. Also, I share Big Ned's awe of your stocking painting.

As ever, I am in awe of your painting. But what is that meant to be in the buckets? It looks like bayou octopus!

@Viruk: Thanks, as ever. Regarding the mould-lines on the bald one, they aren't too bad at real-world scale, but they show up something chronic when they are magnified by the photos. I highly recommend the Relic Hunters for painting purposes, though to date I haven't gotten the rest of the box set on the table for a game yet. After a brief foray into the Relic Hunters box to get the Wastrels painted for a tournament, I dove into the Masters of the Path. First up are the Ashigaru, cheap minions who swing alarmingly between ‘surprisingly resilient’ and ‘soft as butter’ without much middle ground. I have mainly been trying them against Furycat and Forkbanger‘s Viks crews, so maybe I shouldn’t be to upset when the Ashigaru explode into powdered bone. There was a lot of comment on these forums about how hard the plastics have been to assemble which I hadn’t really seen for myself with the boxes I’ve done so far. I have to say that the Masters of the Path turned out to be much more tricky to put together, especially considering how easy the other starter boxes were to work with. I could certainly see someone new coming into the hobby, picking up the Masters of the Path (since it is a ‘starter’ box) and getting discouraged by the thin spears and the awkwardness of Yan Lo’s head (more on him later). Anyway, I don’t find painting characterless undead minions too exciting so there’s not much to see here.