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But we get plenty of wenches in Malifaux without the pirates, so why do we need them? (Don't get then thing with ninjas either) Wasn't the big boat Molly went on a riverboat designed for the bayou? At least that was my understanding but I might have been mistaken there.

Got to admit, I'm perfectly happy without ever having pirates in Malifaux. I never understood the obsession. But in any case, you might get away with raiders in boats in the bayou, so far I think its basically the only possible setting for anything resembling the stereotypical game pirate. You could change the setting to put in an ocean or a flourishing river trade but it seems a little excessive to fit in a new crew.

My guess would be we will see perhaps a master per faction, but mostly filling out some special forces and maybe a cross faction minion or two per faction as well. Cross faction models are IMO too good an idea to not be used again. Probably mostly focusing on filling out masters that needs a bit of help.

It says you can't discard it to summon a model. Disappearing Act doesn't summon a model so I don't see why there should be a problem. Mannequin Replacement isn't part of the spell, but a trigger that might go off it and by the time the trigger might enter play you are way past discarding soulstones.

I'd swap the Golem for a Blessed. Raspy is slow, and you really need something fast for a lot of strategies and the Blessed is the fast December model. Raspy Essence of Power 2 Ice Gamins Blessed of December Silent One That could work, but leaves you with a cashed of only 5 and Raspy really likes her soul stones.

Oiran. Admittedly I havent actually done it yet(lack of opportunity), but they are the cheapest showgirl option and a 5 point lure does seem like it could fit into a number of crews.

That is how her face is supposed to work. It worked fairly easily with mine, but only after spending a frantic 10 minutes looking for the front of her face as I had manage to drop it. I had more trouble with the delicate pins/sticks through the hair of the fist one, I'm afraid I've manage to damage them a bit.

Got mine assembled, just need to paint them now. Since I got a Collette crew and the missus have a Viks crew that wants these I think the plan will be to paint up one for each crew and the do the third one for whoever is most likely to use a second once we have tried them. Its some nice miniatures, but way to fiddly to assemble for their own good. Seperate faces and hands is not a good idea.

Have a look at the Blessed of December for some speed. I've just started with Raspy too (and Collette) and the Blessed have done well enough that my regular opponent now goes out of her way to hunt it as soon as possible.

Don't you then run into problems some factions having better models than others at various point brackets? For instance Arcanists have Fire and Ice gamins at 4 (and Steampunk Arachnid at 3), which doesn't seem to be an even -up to what the Guild could bring (as an example). I think you could do something like that, but then I'd rather give every faction a generic minion that was the base of your force, and then you could "earn" access to the more advanced unit we usually use. Going generic is also the best/only way I see an experience point system working too. At least if you want charts etc. If you wanted to you could sit down and agree on when a given model advanced and what it should get, a more "narrative" approach you might say. To be honest, the only experience point system I've felt worked was the Blood Bowl one. Every other system I've tried had some serious balance issues (Blood Bowl sort of avoids that with the inducement system), I've not tried the new Infinity system yet, but from looking at it I think the best balancing item in it is that it doesn't apply to very much. Still, for some fun in a gaming group I think its a great idea. A small group of likeminded players, a cooperative approach and you should be good to go. Just don't make it to system oriented.

What is the date of that event? Just picked up the game, me and the missus have been playing a handful of games so far and loving it. Over in Clanfield but I/we should really try and come along to that/club evenings.

Hello, Been looking into Malifaux for the past month and a half of so, as something for me and the missus to play. And we got our Viktoria and Rasputina crews this week, and been having fun with those (finally managed to win our third game too). I've a Most finished painting them too. I'd forgotten how cool it is getting a newly painted force on the table (it helps it being half a dozen models per crew rather than hundreds...!) Got to say though, apart from the obvious joy of getting a cool new game, reading the fluff was really cool. Got to get the next books to continue the story.

Cool. I've listened to all of them already but I think I'll put this on tomorrow while painting. And looking forward to another proper episode. Always very cool to listen to :-)