Kriltic

Thanks Rameses :-) thats certainly given me a few extra little tricks such as the Seishin snapping. It was exactly what I was looking for. :-)

Silas, I was looking at the Drowned but they seem a little pricey since they work best in pairs, do you need two to get the most out of them? As for Night Terrors Ill have to give them another look.

The Crew I was thinking of running at is as follows:

Kirai - 7 Stone Pool

Lost Love

Desperate Mercenary

Canine Remains

5 Seishin

Datsue-Ba

2 Insidious Madnesses

Im new to Kirai, after starting with Hoffman, and was hoping to hear some tips and tricks from fellow Kirai players that you may have learnt while gaming with her that others may not know or some more interesting advice (and not on PullMyFinger as Ive read that a few times) that could prove useful such as models to have handy other than the obvious ones that can be summoned by her etc. MThanks :-)

Simple enough question, if a Shikome is within range of its prey, can it use (0) Hunting Partner on itself? I ask because my opponent had never had this used against him (hes played a few Kirai players and I was the first to use this trick) and although he agreed the wording on the Shikomes card agreed with me he felt it wasnt quite right.

Thats just my collection rather than what I use. I mostly keep the Hunters because one of the regular gamers at my local club uses Hamelin and Ive found the Hunters' and Peacekeeper's Chain Spears to be rather useful against his Rats by dragging them to their deaths outside of a Ratcathers/Hamelins 6" range.

I refuse to take the Steamborg Executioner as to me, its just something Hoffman shouldn't be allowed to take due to his fluff. As for the Swarms, I just wanted to find a reason to justify buying some at some point in the near future other than 'They would look good in my crews colours.' Oh well, double Warden it is then! XD

I'm looking to expand my Hoffman crew but I'm not sure whether Steampunk Arachnid Swarms are worth the 10SS for Hoffman considering the other models he has access to. At the minute I have;

Hoffman

Ryle

Peacekeeper

Mechanical Attendant

Mobile Toolkit

Hunter

Guardian

Watcher

And I'm thinking if adding;

Hunter

Guardian

Watcher

2 Wardens

Should I add some Spiders to the list or will the Spiders just end up sitting in my case looking pretty, basically is there an actual place for one in a Hoffman crew?

No they do I just managed to miss it as I always assumed simultaneous activation was due to the fact they were Totems, so when I couldn't find the rule under totems I automatically assumed Id being playing it wrong :facepalm: an epic fail moment on my half I think

Thanks for the clear up/pointing out that Im obviously a natural blonde XD

Do totems have to have Link or Companion (or an equivalent) on their card to activate with their Master?

I'm asking to find out if either my Mechanical Attendant or Mobile Toolkit can activate with Hoffman other than using Hoffman's 'Linked In'. I thought they could but now I'm not quite so sure...

Ah well its nice to know I did have the right idea then haha It certainly seems like I could be putting the Drag trigger to good use then vs some of my more regular opponents.

I was thinking more as in I might have missed a rule somewhere that meant he was right but since he couldn't find it I'd see what others thought. Plus as a new player I think its always best to ask if unsure since it always helps us learn

I thought it wouldn't be permanent haha wishful thinking on my part I see XD

Thanks for the clarification guys

A pretty straightforward question, are the abilities gained through assimilation kept only for the turn they are taken or for the rest of the encounter?

I ask simply because the wording uses 'gains' which to me sounds like it basically just stacks up with the rest of his abilities/spells etc however my opponent pointed out that because it doesn't specify how long the Talent/Spell is assimilated for, Hoffman may only use it for the one turn and must re-assimilate the same Talent if he wishes to keep using it.

Again thanks for the reply, I hope others agree as I can't find a rule to support it either way (it just seems wrong that I don't gain the trigger). My opponent wasn't happy as I was dragging his Rats out of his Rat Catchers range to bring them back, I figured dragging them away was my only hope of getting through some of them.

Thanks for the quick reply. I thought it would but as I'm new to the game and my opponent has being playing a while I wasn't entirely sure which way it would work. We did play it as the Peacekeeper would act again (through a lucky dice roll) but I thought it would be best to ask I did try to explain why the model gained Reactivate (using those very examples) but he wasn't entirely convinced either way on the matter.

A second question from my game today. Essentially the question is, does the drag effect apply even if the damage from the shot is enough to kill a model? And would this drag effect apply before the model is removed as a casualty?

The wording is as follows 'After damaging a defender with a Chain Spear Strike, push defender 4" directly towards this model.' So would this effectively allow me to pull a dead model towards me (before its actually removed) and by doing so, move the possible location of where models drop scrap/flesh counters. Or even dragging models out of certain ranges (such as Hamelin's range for bringing back rats) or into range of other effects?

Hi everyone, Im fairly new the Malifaux so I apologise if this question seems rather silly but in a game today, I cast Override Edict on a Peacekeeper that had already Activated, thus Reactivating it however this is where the confusion came in. Does the Peacekeeper have to wait to be Activated again after my opponent has had a chance to Activate one of their models or does the Peacekeeper Activate straight after Hoffman.

The reason this conflict came was because the first line says 'Activate target construct after this model's activation ends.'This to me overrides the normal way a Reactivated model works i.e having to wait as other models do. My opponent claimed that because it says the model gains Reactivate, then the first line doesn't apply as that only applies to models that have not Activated previously.

So, I guess my question is, would the Peacekeeper get to act as normal after Hoffman, or would he have to wait his turn?