WarlockFiretop

You have a good start there.

Hopefully I can get by with this core for the time being! For casual play at my LGS, I don't want to just bring out Sonnia against Arcanists, Justice against Ressurectionists: too cheesy. Maybe I'll pick up Sonnia and Justice, but use them with this core crew. I'm hoping to totally avoid the Ortegas for reasons of cheese.

Personally I prefer to use Hoffmans own totem as having the ability to ignore the negative repercussions of Feedback has saved me several times.

I can't decide with between the Mechanical Attendant and the Mobile Toolkit. For 4 points, I'd always be tempted to take a relevant minion instead (Guardsman, Stalker etc.).

So long as you're not playing against Kirai having what you have is fine against Ressers. I'd also drop the Hunter in your lists as to me it's not worth 6 stones.

Ha! That's the opposite of what the next guy says: if playing against Kirai, bring the Hunter!

Hoffman doesn't actually need a big cache as he's usually machine puppeting so unless he targets himself with it he cannot stone the flips.

More models appeals to me. Especially with these expensive constructs.

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While I like the exorcist and usually prioritize killing it when my son takes it with with LadyJ, Perdita or sonnia, I do not think I would glance at it with Hoffman. In fact, I do not think he has ever taken it with Hoffman. Sticking to his strengths means constructs, and the ones my son seems to take are almost all Immune to Influence, so I have much bigger problems than what the exorcist brings to the table.

This is what I hoped. I'd rather play defensive with big metal robots who can't be influenced, than aggressive with some squishy human with a crucifix.

Whats cool against Kirai though is the emergence of the oft-maligned Hunter. [...] The Hunter is so cool against her because he targets her with that annoying "move when she moves" thing and just sticks to her and since her prey is not Hunter, she cannot touch him. [...] I just love when a model like that can shine...

Interesting. Maybe I won't break my Hunter up for scrap tokens just yet... and I've got the Stalkers for magic weapons, so that's okay.

McMourning... is awesome... Always... Constructs? Don't care, still gets body parts. he is my preferred master against the Hoff and the one that I think warrants special attention.

Bah! This is good stuff, I want to know my bad match-ups. So McMourning is good against high armour, and can use even my construct models for body parts? It looks like I need to take out McMourning himself, leaving his crew unsupported.

Reading PullMyFinger, I see that he's easily frightened, so maybe I could get set Lucius (Terrifying) on him. Could Sonnia help?

As a McMourning player, what kind of mechanics or playstyle you afraid of?

My first post! Like many new players, I've been lurking this forum for a while, have bought a starter box, and want some moral support.

:rams I've got the Hoffman starter box - Guardian, Watcher, Hunter - and a Peacekeeper. That's 25 points.

I'm happy with this 25pt core, because it's fast for scenarios with objectives, is synergistic with Hoffman, and has combined arms. I'm hoping to use this as the basis of a 35pt toolbox list that can be added to to deal with whatever comes my way.

:tomes :masks For playing against magic-users - Arcanists and Neverborn - I've bought a blister of 3 Witchling Stalkers. I'm planning to drop the Hunter (6pt), and add 3x Stalkers (12pt). That leaves me with 4SS for my cache, or maybe I'll take a Mobile Toolkit (4pt).

:crows For playing against Resurrectionists, do I need anything? An Exorcist (6pt) and Mobile Toolkit (4pt) would bring me up to 35pt, but do I actually need to worry about undead when I have a crew of non-living constructs?

:rams Maybe I could just branch out into generic Guild, with an Austringer (5pt) and a Warden (5pt)? This would augment my ranged game, which I prefer, and allow me to expand into a Lucius Guardsman crew, which I love thematically.