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It is probably also worth mentioning that it is not difficult to get units into combat turn 1. Played my first game with Hordes last night and had the Alpha charging in with a 22" rush on turn 1. And that was after the Frenzy shoved him up 9". If the frenzy manage to push your entire list up 12" you could be charging with pretty much everything on turn 1. Long story short... If a player is diddling around in their back line generating tokens you can get in there and start interrupting it pretty darn quickly. All that said it is still very possible that there are ways to break the game. Maybe even this eel spam idea.

Along the same lines... I am disappointed there are not spam hiring restrictions. I would like to at the very least see a global rule hard cap of hiring no more than 3 of any one unit.

To whom it may concern, Please dear god errata Hinamatsu to be dual faction Ten Thunders. That is all.

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Working on my speed painting techniques. Painted this little guy in 1.5 hours.

Zenithal priming + glazes. That's it. I didn't mix any paint while painting this mini. - Primed black with standard spray primer. - Top down airbrushed white that was significantly thinned for control. - color glazes applied in various degrees of watered down paint + glaze medium depending on how rich i wanted the color. The real important aspect of this painting style is that you have to be sure your glazes are thinned down to a workable state where you won't lose the underlying highlights and shadows created by the zenithal priming. From a traditional standpoint the technique is referred to as underpainting.

I haven't painted anything in a while, but I'm working on a new speed painting technique. This one is about an hour and a half in. Plan to finish the base and do some minor tweaks on the paint job, but overall I'm happy with the result so far.

Wyrd actually is going to be making a fantastic Tengu model... it's just not called a tengu... http://www.gamewire.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/carrionemissary.jpg

In case people are interested in using these, I also have item sheets that I have been making so that you can use items that would be more likely to fit the Malifaux theme.

been working a lot on my custom zombicide stuff again lately. Here's one of the Viktorias

Slowly but surely getting my Ten Thunders painted. Been kind of jumping around with styles. And I am still not 100% on which style I want to use to paint them.

Very impressive work. You capture the malifaux atmosphere very well.

It's great that everybody likes the flames so much. That was the part of the model that I waited the longest to paint because I have never painted flames before. Happy to know that they turned out well.

Top notch painting. I'm not a huge fan of your metals, but other than that you've done a great job. Congrats on taking best painted.

Happy to inspire Osoi did that. http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?36619-Thunder-from-Down-Under/page2 it looks good.

Thanks for the comments. I just need to decide who to paint next in the crew. Probably going to end up being Misaki or Yamaziko.

Finally finished my first Malifaux model. I'm decently pleased with how he turned out. I keep thinking that his helmet or back need freehand, but I think I will paint the rest of the crew before going back to add any freehand.

I don't have the books and my google-fu is failing me. Do you have the art for it somewhere?

Glad you all approve. Any requests on who I should do next?

I've been playing a lot of Zombicide lately and decided it was about time to upgrade the models that I was using while playing. What better models to upgrade a horror survival game with than Malifaux models? Here are the beginnings of my Photoshopping custom characters. I also am using the Terraclips terrain for my Zombicide board, though I don't have a picture of that at the moment, I will get that up here later.

+1 for McCabe. While I am fond of Yan Lo and the models associated with him, I'd have to vote for McCabe as having the most synergy with misaki.

Fair enough. Goes to show how it can be played in a variety of ways, but for me, to get the full effect from the archers I need a hand stocked for them to go to town. Which means a card valuing 7 or higher for Yajiri (for some reason I always fail the initial flip on this and have to cheat it), a high tome and a ram or crow for the extra shot (preferably a high ram or crow for the extra damage), a high mask for when they get engaged, then more high cards for your second and maybe third shots to make sure that they hit in order to really take advantage of whatever you used yajiri for. On the flip side you could use the 0 action for the positive flip on a single attack instead of yajiri and play them completely differently. I just tend to play them as card hogs.

I think you are going to have problems with Ototo being too slow. Only one Torakage means you are going to have to decide whether to help Ototo around the table, work on objectives with him or deliver Misaki early. You might be able to get away with it by having the two archers on the table, but that is going to be very match-up dependent. I also wouldn't drop shang if you are going to run two archers. Shang's only spell available to him actually has a purpose when you are running archers. One last thing... Archers are HUGE card hogs. A single archer's activation could drain your hand. They want high cards from every suit. For this reason, I don't know that running two of them is a great idea. I would drop an archer for a torakage. I also would probably only take one scheme with this list to take advantage of the +2SS. You definitely want more than 4 SS with Misaki. at 25 I run the following list and I can say for certain that it will never change: Misaki + 4 SS for 8 to start Shang Torakage Torakage Yamaziko My 35 isn't set in stone yet and I think needs to wait for more models to be released before I make up my mind.

That's kind of where I am at. I think I am going to try a 3 torakage list at 35 pts because I want 2 for misaki and ototo needs his own torakage as well. Naturally it will depend on what I am up against, but I am at least going to try it a few times.