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Totally forgot cause her mask is flesh colored. Ignore my dumb comment.

As you can see one of them is me. I also see my name for verification. The other name is Ben R. So either FacelessOne and Prof_Bycid are not actually signed up not sure which.

Signed up as well.

From Aaron's post it seemed to me like they want more people to use the chat function. When I am logged on I rarely see people use it, usually 1or 2. I never used the OTT, but I have browsed it on occasion and I could see some sensitive people reporting/flagging some of the posts on there. Speaking for myself here, I imagine a company doesn't want any of its users/customers to be upset about what is on the company's forums.

I don't have my cards with me, but I would definitely rule out a rifleman in the first list. I preferred having a pistolero in the early games with his benefits he can burn the players hand and then pick off easy targets. In the second list I would narrow it down to the austringer or pistolero depending on if you want more movement/schemes/range or defensive benefits.

You forgot pale rider.

I think that took care of it, but I'll let you know if it continues.

I am getting notifications for topics and people I don't follow.

Double hunter could be interesting. I don't think austringers are mobile enough to take two in low point games. You will have a hard time completing certain schemes/strategies.

I think riflemen are too much of a paper tiger and not worth the investment in low point games, since they only have schtick.

I ended up going with list #1. They performed well. My first match was against Neverborn. The strategy was guard the stash and the schemes were: a line in the sand, breakthrough, vendetta, distract, and spring the trap. Opponent played Angel Eyes, doppelganger, primordial magic, silurid, and 2 terror tots. Opponent took ALitS and breakthrough. I took vendetta and distract. I ended up getting full points for guard the stash and denying my opponent in strategy points. They did get 1 for ALitS and full for Breakthrough. I got 2 points for Vendetta declaring Santiago and the doppelganger. Guardian ended up finishing the doppelganger off so that denied the third point. Didn't get any for distract was going to turn 3, but chose instead to get the Vendetta because I knew the opponent was going to withdraw. They tactically withdrew at the top of turn 4. Turn 4 I would have gotten rid of 1 marker they laid down for a line in the sand and 2 for breakthrough to deny them points, while hopefully pulling off 1 distract in turn 4 and 5. Didn't lose one model. Between Francisco, guardian, and pistolero de latgio's defensive capabilities it was tough for the opponent to land any damage. Only model that got hurt was the guardian and that is because we forgot to include the negative for hard cover.

Don't have any experience with Grimwell. Is your campaign running during the event? I would suggest posting there so your opponents don't know your tactics in advance.

I agree a lot of ranged damage, but nothing to deal with if they put a brawler in your face. Depending on which direction you go I would not take riflemen, pathfinder, and austringer. I would suggest picking two out of three.

Anyway you could change the "First Unread Post" icon from grey on black to maybe white on black? Hard to tell visually right now and that is how I check to see there is a new post. Additionally, the "Faction Discussion" speech bubble on the main home page doesn't seem to update each time one of the faction's discussions gets posted in.