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Arguably, she might have created them in the first place, so raising a few from the dead as living rather than undead wouldn't be that much of a stretch

To be clear, even if the attack hit (which requires a suit like Myyra said), it's not going to eat the target, even if it was legit. So it could use it if the target was an eligible target, but it would still only prevent the Walk.

I don't think the Fae are "multiple species" or anything like that, but are closer to the old magic. Neverborn lore has them taking on forms of human nightmares and such. Nephilim are weakened from the wars of the past, and probably are more straight forward than they used to be, but the Fae are old. They were around at the height of magic, and likely were a lot more adaptable as a result. "Faerie tales" are likely heavily influenced by fae after all. Also, Titania created the knights out of other things, so I'd say it's a heavy dose of magic suiting form to purpose. That's true of a lot of Neverborn, even Lilith was able to change her form to better suit her wishes, though in her case it doesn't seem too easy or casual.

I'm not too keen on getting significant ranged minions in the faction. Play Lucius as a gunline if you want that without merc's. I do like the idea of getting more Fae to balance out the Nephilim, but hope that they can come up with ways to keep the whole faction from morphing into a "durable hard to kill" faction of undead Fae. Neverborn tend to be more like glass cannons, heavy offense, but the defensive stuff is tricky, not stacks of armor and such. Obviously with as big as factions are these days, there are always exceptions, but I'd like to see Fae continue the "more offense, less straight defense, and continue survivability through trickery" route. And the tricks scream fae to begin with.

I don't know if I would say he's outright "bad", and more like he usually doesn't offer enough to any crew to pick him over the alternatives. His big schticks are From the Shadows and a gun with blast markers. In a faction very heavy on melee, he's a little out of place. His debuffs can be very strong, but they are no means certain. Though I'm curious if he'll see more play with Liliths new Black Blood focused upgrade, or possibly Sirenia, though I haven't tried out either of those yet to actually say.

The evil baby crew works well with Pandora and to some degree Lilith. Running Baby Kade, Candy, Iggy and some Changelings is always amusing when they are busy ripping apart giant robots and ninjas.

Yeah, I'm with Ludvig here. It sounds like maybe you were playing a bit too cautious, or your opponent was. Having Lilith be the "center of the web" is great, but you want to make sure you're bringing a fly to the spider in that case. You don't want Lilith out in the middle of things to get beat on, but she's got a great sword to make use of when there's nothing else to do. That's why I like having Lilitu and Doppleganger around, because I can always lure something close to Lilith (and friendly pounces) if I don't see great uses for her other abilities. Lilith isn't a pure support master, she likes to get her hands (or at least her sword) dirty too

Now if they could only make the miniature incorporeal too...

On a shelf, yeah, definitely. But in a 80mm wide alley between two buildings with models based to base, there's no where to go with those tentacles

I didn't like the sword either, but liked the rest enough to pick it up anyway. The sword grew less terrible with time, so I assembled and primed with it. That simple conversion is making me change my mind though, I think I have to go back and do that! I probably even have a spare sword from an old metal Nekima that I modified for a Halloween theme, so I wouldn't need to sacrifice a sword from my other metal Nekima

The base overhang is definitely a concern. Very hard to make him fit in any type of case or on the table in a lot of cases. It looks very cool, but it's on the verge of being unplayable. That said, I still like him better than the old sculpt Got mine painted up as soon as I got home from GenCon so I could use him in a league the next day.

I do like the Cherub for interact heavy things, but usually only if it's a (2) interact. The problem with the Cherub is that he needs to be right there in the thick of the action to get the full effect. And it requires setup. The Cherub has to be in position before your interacting model, which telegraphs to your opponent what you're doing. When I used to use the Cherub more against opponents that were familiar with it, it would get murdered as soon as it moved into position and before I got much use out of it. So between being 50% more expensive, arguably more fragile, and require much more work to get it to pay off, I tend to go straight to PM and forget about it. Sure, Cherub can pay off big in the right situation, but it has to be 50% more valuable than the PM to value his points, and that's requires a lot of attention I'd rather devote towards setting up some wicked Lilith pounces.

Now that is a more reasonable argument for his size being big. Though it seems implausible. It's not like they would have been delivered a whole pile of plastic that was bigger than anticipated and said "oh, we better charge more". They would have had to at least place a PO before the Grootslang were even shipped to them in the first place, so they would have known their plastic cost was higher than anticipated long before. I'm guessing it was more likely a typo.

Just because it's very big doesn't mean it's a scale issue. There's nothing saying the Grootslang can't be a 20' monstrosity. And it's only Ht 3 because it normally walks on all four legs, making it shorter for game purposes. I think it's a mistake to assume it's a mistake

You mention the Primordial Magic would have been useless except for Rush of Magic... but even if it's just there for that, it's useful enough to take Rush of magic is one extra card / discard per turn. In a 5 turn game, that's 5 cards, or 2.5 soul stones worth of cards if you keep him in the back corner hiding. And he only costs 2 SS. Plus he's an activation. Totally pays for itself in other words. And if you can use it as a scheme marker or get the rare Nullify off, it's just gravy.

I generally use Changelings mostly after summoning them with the Emissary. Between manipulative and regeneration, I nearly never have anyone actually bother attacking them in that case, knowing they are very expendable. I'm not sure I'd want to go through the work of keeping Coppelius near them to use his attack just for the +df. I'd probably rather keep them near the Emissary and slam home the cast action at range if they are going to attack, or use them as I normally do, which is blink around and interact.

I'd be hopeful for a Henchmen model that allowed unusual hiring options into the crew. Though that is more through her generalship role and role to bring people on board to Misaki's plan. Unless she just has ulterior motives, but the story makes her seem legit. But the art was awesome... it has to get a model of any role or stats.

Lilith is my primary go-to master and I've gotten a fair amount of experience with Titania. Still prefer Lilith though. I highly recommend picking up Lilitu for use with Lilith. That might just be my preference, but the very reliable Lure works well with the way Lilith likes to play. Best advice I ever got for Lilith is that she is a "spider in middle of a web". Don't use her big sword to go charging after people. Make people come to her, where she can quickly cut them down one at a time and stay safe. A few Lilith tricks - Tangle Shadows is an AMAZING ability. Remember, it can target your own models, so the CA 5 is irrelevant. Move up a cheap piece, then tangle shadows to get a slow beater half way up the board and into charge range. If you have an enemy with a low WP in middle of a group, Tangle Shadows that to drop a big tar pit into the middle of them and then spend the rest of your AP to chop up the one you tangled. You can even nominate Lilith as the friendly model to move, giving her amazing threat range. - Terrain generation from Waldgeist, Beckon Malifaux or her new Book 5 upgrade play very nice with Wicked Mistress and Living Blade. Maybe not the most AP efficient, but you can drop some terrain in front of her, root something, lure/push it to break the root into terrain to slow & terrain damage & extra damage, then get a free pounce-esque swing. - Lure + Teddy + Baby Kade is also all sorts of fun. I once had Lelu use his ability to gain pounce, which gave it to Lilitu. Then I used Lilitu to pull Francisco into Teddy's reach, triggering a Smell Fear swing, which connected and then pushed Francisco into Liltu's 4" reach. She then lured a second time to pull Francisco into Baby Kade's and Lilith's pounce range. He didn't live through the experience. - Don't forget her front side Master of Malifaux. You don't need to see to target things, so things like Tangle Shadows and Root work great while keeping her out of sight. She has a decent ML defense, but melts completely against WP attacks. Keep her out of sight against those, and use Lure/Tangle to pull things one at a time to her and murder them. - Remember, the Doppleganger can be a duplicate Lilitu if you get used to using her. Plus she can turn into Nekima when the lure is done!

While I love the idea of a Poison Ivy style Lilith (more so than a Nephilim Lilith), the story would make this strange. She gave up her Nephilim form to be able to walk among the humans. That's an important distinction between her and Nekima. Nekima is all rage, while Lilith adds a healthy dose of cunning and deviousness into her rage. That said, I'm guessing we'll just have to wait for book 6 to see what direction she'll take now though (I'll avoid any more comments on this to avoid spoilers) Quick comment on Titania - When I said "more regal looking" I wasn't thinking French Royalty or anything. I meant more of an imposing Dark Fae Nature Queen. Something like Aeslin for example. Though I like the "warrior queen" aspect, in which case more like her knights is also good.

I really enjoy the doppleganger, but rarely use Ill Omens. Winning initiative is nice, but at the cost of a high card. I can usually find a better resource for that. Instead, Don't Mind Me is one of the primary reasons I bring her. Schemes like Head Hunter she rarely does anything other than pick up heads and frustrate attackers with Manipulative. I tend to utilize Lilitu heavily in my lists, and that's the second place the doppleganger shines by copying the Lure, potentially 3 times a round with a midsize tome in my hand. I think of the Doppleganger as a second Lilitu early game, and interact piece late game. It also is nice to copy Nekima's big swing in a pinch as well. That said, if I get away from Lilith/Pandora/Lucius, I frequently leave the Doppleganger at home and rarely miss her.

If blood wretches became more useful, like summoned with Nekima, you'd get people begging for a small box of them rather than buying the 2 player set. Not that this is a reason to avoid it, but it would cause some discontent for some people feeling like they were "being made to buy the 2-player set" for the wretches and/or scion. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing a scion alt-sculpt and a bit of a boost to his condition removal so I actually felt like he'd be useful in a Lilith crew... even if the upgrade was on Nekima to do it.

I want a Minako Rei too, that is awesome art. I generally like most of 10T's current lineup and it's my second most played faction. There aren't models that I wish I didn't have to put on the table because of the sculpt, so there are no immediate answers here. I don't hate the current Ototo, but would like a new version anyway that wasn't playing Bam Bam. Pathfinder is another possibility I like, being that the model tends to stick out quite a bit. I hate Fuhatsu's comedic current version, but probably wouldn't field an alt-version anyway so it isn't as big of a deal for me.

Sebastian please! Would love a Miss Sebastian to hang out with Dr. Dufrense and Rowan Nilson...

This looks like a complete lack of consensus to me, which is probably because we just got our Nekima and Hungering Darkness Changelings - I'd love to see more Emissary style changelings as well. "Freshly born" ones. I tend to summon them, and it looks weird to have the school kids show up. Lilith - Because she's awesome. I already have 5+ copies of the old metal sculpt since it is my favorite, but an updated one would be awseome Titania - Unlikely since we already got two, but I agree with the others that I want a more "cleaned up" version. She's still royalty, and after she got out of Nythera I can't imagine her not dressing up a little. She doesn't look very regal as is. Widow Weaver - I'm partial to the current one, but I think there's a lot of room for a cool design with her that represents her fear potential better Lucius - Really, a whole box of Neverborn-esque Guild figures. Rifleman with subtle tentacles. Queeg with a face in his chest. Dashel with fangs and one eye. These are Neverborn infiltrating the Guild after all, but they can be trying to blend in like the current Doppleganger does.

Dang! So much for that theory. My memory must be going with age...