decker_cky

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There's never been new limited models for Black Friday before, has there?

Hard to tell. Adepticon was won and placed by majority arcanists, with a very strong showing by Colette and the mechanical rider.

Worth noting that mech rider was errata'd after that.

Yeah...there's options, but it's not nearly as flexible as you think at first glance. Not hard to figure out, but it'd be nice to have a guide for which parts go together. 

No free PDF release of it, so you'll have to get it from the book or from the arsenal pack.

Do we know who this guy is?

Samurai can be taken with her, as well

Minus upgrades...

But I am able to. II can place a marker that is touching the base, we both would agree that they are in contact, only that I would say, if the issue should ever arise, that the distance is greater than 0 while you would say that it is 0.

They can't be in contact if there is a distance between them. 

There's only one point that matters - the point of contact. Having that point is a necessary precondition to base to base contact. The distance from one point to itself is zero. 

If the models are touching, we can all agree they don't occupy the same space. However, what matters is the space between them, which is 0, since they're touching. 

I don't think a starter without models does the job.

I like some of the simpler starters here, but I'd add one thing - recent Wyrd models have had a real barrier for new players in their difficult construction. I think the starter should have simpler plastics, and not necessarily follow the starter sets. I think the models should be designed for easy assembly - as much as possible being 1-2 parts (see witchling stalkers). You could have lady justice, 3 guild guard and a sergeant or something in one crew, against a similar resser crew. It keeps the crews slightly simpler in terms of abilities (masters will still be complex), it keeps a reason to pick up the main box set later, it adds models that could stand to have alt sculpts to the wyrd range, and it gets the player started easier.

Some posts talk about showing off all the mechanics....this isn't really needed. What the starter needs to do is show the flow of the gameplay, then next it needs to show the interesting scheme mechanics. If you try to teach everything, you'll just confuse players who may have to teach themselves to play.

edit: I also think that Marcus and 3 slate ridge maulers against justice, a sergeant and 3 guild guard would be ridiculously fun. 

Small chance he could be out early on Black Friday. Yan Lo and McMourning got early releases for that. 

if it requires corpses, that means you wouldn't really use it in a core crew, since none of the void stuff drops any markers

The sprues for LCB and Bad Juju.

Read ericj's twitter. Hannah will be there but may not be displayed. Likely online too. Also a few limited Hannahs for him to give out when he's feeling particularly generous. 

Also:

You need a good 3d printer for the master from what I understand, as some of the cheaper ones won't be quite as crisp as a good printer (and the most detailed level of material).

A 3D printer may be useful regardless just to see how some things come together when cast.

Also, with plastics, you have to spend a lot more time at the design phase to ensure that there's no undercuts.

I have an IPhone 5 if you would like a play test and bug report. I test products for Microsoft so I understand the proper way to look for and report bugs.

Shouldn't you have a Windows phone then?

Yuck. Definitely strange pricing on those - seems like they should be an $11 kit. 

 

Waldegiest look so damn good I'm going to have to but them even though I have the old ones.

 

5 of them are only 30ss, and may be the core of the ultimate denial list.

I think the Hoarcats may now be 1 per base, which is disappointing. I'd much prefer a smaller 3 per base miniatures like the current ones. I may have to order a few more old ones rather than get the new ones.

Waldgeists look great.

Dreamer is a slam dunk kit in my opinion. 

I still haven't seen a Zoraida model that I like. 

Electrical creation and essence of power are great. Almost wish EC was a 3 for 21 kit, but I already have an old one so it's not really an issue. 

Lucius box set is nice too, though I find the guild guard to be a bit generic (could use any appropriately scaled wild west minis and they'd fit right in).

Teddy is one of the real signature Wyrd models, so for sure yes.

Does anyone run multiple Teddies well aside from Dreamer?

Well you are quoting something from before M2E was even announced, that is why that statement exists. The Hannah we are getting is the same as the one everyone else is getting we just get it early. The rules will be EXACTLY the same.

Not that I care, but I seem to remember Wyrd being very clear that it was a different sculpt of Hannah than would get general release. Some will care and cause a ruckus if it goes for general release.

Yeah...in a way, you can easily justify a 100ss pool for Marcus alone when playing 50ss games. 

On the other side of that coin, I think you could make for a hugely flexible 100ss pool using Ramos and Mei. Ramos of course needs extra spiders on top of the pool.

Rasputina falls closer to to Marcus on that scale and even has some decent overlap. 

I could see them offering LE Hannah as a $250 bonus, like they did with Santana on Black Friday last year. I don't think that goes against anything they promised in TTB, and it would be consistent with previous LE offerings.