Jeebus

 

 

For some weird reason I didn't think of puting Animal Shape Upgrade on Sammy LaCroix, only on Zoraida to keep her safe or to score VPs for Entourage.

Raven Form Action is (2) though and Sammy LaCroix doesn't have Reckless Ability.

 

This thread has inconspicuously changed into "Zoraida vs. Gremraida".

Zoraida has Stitched Together and Eternal Fiend Upgrade. Gremraida has Sammy LaCroix and Dirty Cheater Upgrade. This... is not going to be easy decision.

Putrefy is a (0) action. It needs an 8 for it to go off, but soulstone use can help with that. 

The upgrade is called Hexed Among You. You should be able to put it on McTavish, but for some reason the crew creator wont give the option. If for some reason I'm wrong, you can put it on Bad Juju or Zoraida.

I believe you can only deploy minions this way, so you would not be able to put McTavish up there with the rest of your swampfiend minions. 

I have zero experience with Gremlin Taxidermist and Stuffed Pigletts and I am affraid that I might be biased due to some posts that I have read, but...

 

In Gremlins Faction he costs 7 SS, 8 with Dirty Cheater Upgrade, which is Rare 2 and there is usually a lot of candidates for it. In Neverborn Faction he costs 8 SS and can't take Dirty Cheater Upgrade. I feel like that for the same price there might be better models. Under which circumstances do you consider hiring him? Or do you play him often because you like the model?

I think that the main purpose of his (1) Hide Scrapin' Knife Attack Action is to place Corpse Marker or to summon a Stuffed Pigglet more than to do any damage at all. to the Damage Flip is nice, but since there is minimal difference between low, moderate and high damage (2/3/4) it is not that useful, as it would seem at first sight.

On the other hand, he has the greatest Ability there is... Reckless and has Wk 5, which is nice.

Not sure how durable he is. He has Armor +1, Df 5, Wp 4 and Wd 6.

To me he seems like very situational pick, but as I already wrote, I have zero experience with the model and I might be biased, but this is my first impression.

But I must say that his illustration looks awesome and I quite like the idea of Gremlin Resurrectionist so comme on, Rubbe, try to recruit me into your 'Taxidermist is pure love' movement. I went ahead and made logo

 

Taxidermist is pure love movement logo

 

 

Regarding Sammy LaCroix, both Animal Shape and Crystal Ball Upgrades cost 2 SS each and I feel like Animal Shape is needed only when Schemes like Assassinate or Entourage are in the pool.

But I will definitely consider her, because I do not like Nurse.

I play the Tax-man from time to time also. I usually use him to carve some corpses off of Pere turn 1. Then summon stuffed out of those. The problem i see with the Taxidermist is that he is there to make stuffed pigs, but isnt all that great at it. what he is great at is making corpse markers. If it was a mercenary I'm sure it would be in all the Nico lists! The problem is that gremlins dont do anything with corpse markers. So this guy is piling up the corpses for no reason at all. Just a chance at a new Stuffed.

You can use him in Neverborn with Zoraida for a turn 1 summoned teddy. Zoraida makes a voodoo doll of an enemy model. Tax-man goes reckless and attacks the voodoo doll 3 times for 3 corpse markers and 6 damage killing the voodoo doll and dropping a scrap marker. Then Widow Weaver summons up your teddy. And really, you can do this every turn as long as you have an 11+(preferably of masks) in your hand. 

Sammy can make stuffed piglets too, and it uses enemy scheme markers to do so. Sammy lets you get a stuffed piglet AND deny your opponent VP at the same time. Couple that with Animal Shape upgrade and Sammy just hops around the board eating scheme markers. 

if you want to use all the undead then get Levi

Even he can't get ALL the undead . . . He hasn't mastered the art of Stuffed Piglets. 

I played a Ulix/Ulix game that was interesting. we actually had almost the same list even! 

my list:

anyone looking for a game? 

silly little tentacle pancakes (insidious madness) can be made with sprue and a lighter! only costs being time, a base, and burnt fingertips. 

it also doesnt say that the disengaging model has to actually disengage all the models for them to get their strikes. It just takes one. IF the disengaging model were to move in such a way that it were to disengage one model but not another (due to melee ranges and placement scenarios) they would both make a strike, right? I mean I guess it wouldn't really come up that often because you announce that you are disengaging before you actually move . . . . 

okay. just thinking at work. didn't have the cards with me. 

Now here's something, could you obey a warpig to charge, then obey vasilisa to obey the same warpig to charge? (assuming you are playing Neverborn Zoriada with Vasilisa)

He's a Toon!!!

Trixie is beautiful! 2nd prettiest gal in Malifaux.

First obviously being the Swamp Hag "Ol' Flappy Bags" Zoriada, right?! 

I love skeeters. I tied up an Ashes and Dust, AND a Trapper for two turns with one Skeeter. didnt use pull my finger. Just quit screwin around and then defensive stance. 

Ulix is a lot of fun. I play him a lot, but his crew is highly specialized so there will be little overlap between Ophelia and Brewie's crews. Basically with Ulix if it is a pig it will work with him. If it's not you're gonna have a harder time of it. Most of the time the only other gremlin models I run with Ulix is a slop hauler and sometimes Merris for the blast protection. 

Ive always played by the first scenario (which makes 50mm models a pain in the terrain.) 

i was just musing over this the other day (obey terrifying), and i came to the same conclusion. it wouldn't end the action but would apply paralyzed. There are similar things that seem to slip through due to actions taken outside of activations such as Shot in the Rear from Ulix and Eat Your Fill on the Warpig. Shot in the Rear lets a pig make a charge action and if it kills the target make another, and another, and another, . . . Eat Your Fill lets you heal all your wounds but end your activation. The warpig isn't activating so it would heal up and continue rampaging due to Shot in the Rear. 

at least thats how ive understood it. Someone more educated may see it differently. 

Ooh dat Collodi tho! 

i can play in about an hour. 

I'm usually up late too. I get off work at 0300 CST. 

i like it, but it looks way too much like Burbakka The Snakebiter from Titan Forge. The only difference being Gluttony has a drum and Burbakka is holding a sword and a person . . . 

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/images/uploads/Titan%20Forge/TF-013.jpg

Hi, I'm happened upon a collection of stuff but its all missing cards. I need cards for a Misaki box, Mei Fang box, and Rasputina box. 

for trade: Wave 2 arcanists cards minus Colette and her crew, and the snow storm; wave 1 neverborn cards minus zoriada and her box; and i have duplicates of Hamelin crew minus the rats. Or i always have paypal. PM me! Thanks in advance. 

anyone want to get a game in? I can start any time in the next couple hours (work at 8pm CST so have to finish before then.) 

sorry, I ended up getting called into work . . . 

just say what time!