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The release schedule: http://www.wyrd-games.net/upcoming-releases Note that there are various month-to-month promotions for ordering and buying things from your local game stores: http://www.wyrd-games.net/where-to-buy Ripples of Fate is a September release. That's probably about when the General Upgrade Deck 2 will come out, although it's not listed in the August newsletter, so it be a few months. Note that there are now two "Geralist Upgrade Decks". The first one is the upgrades from the first three books, #2 is the upgrades from Ripples of Fate.

I'm just surprised to see that the Gen Con sale items are still in the store.

You're quoting the rule in your first paragraph which provides the reason why your second paragraph is wrong. That means that in order for the action to change which models are considered friendly, it has to explicitly say so. And what does the action specify? So the target considers Hungering Darkness friendly because the action says so. The friendly/enemy status of the rest of the models in existence doesn't change, because the action doesn't specify any other changes and as a result the rule specifying that friendly/enemy doesn't change applies. In other words, in order for anything else to change, the rule would have to say so.

Doing a quick check, it looks like the individual card availability has caught up to Shifting Loyalties except for the Emissary models and their confluxes. And if someone needs a replacement card for a plastic Nightmare edition other than Wild Ones, that looks to be available now. (But not the 1st edition Miss models, like Fetid Strumpet wrote.) There's still no Gremlin Wave 1 Arsenal deck, but I think all of the cards for wave one are in the individual card section.

The interaction which explains that paragraph is: "This model can charge for (1) AP, has Reckless, and has to charge whenever it can." And, there's also the possibility of hitting four targets because you managed to put Fast on the model as well. Not that a statement on the official unofficial wiki has any authority in rules matters...

Can you link to the thread that has the "after the first" quote? Edit: Actually, scratch that. Myrra has the right explanation.

The point of all of this was for proxies for the not-even-scheduled-yet Ripples of Fate models. It could be months of "If only I had that model, I could have"s.

Ah, darn it. I was hoping the Kamen Rider stuff would be closer in size to the Assault Kingdom figures. And I think the Converge Kamen Rider ones are going to look too silly.

So far I think the impetuous modeling options for the new book are: Yasunori represented by Kamen Rider w/ bike Does Kamen Rider have an established steampunk costume? Are the Kamen Rider candy toys the right size for a 40mm or 50mm base? Museum gift shop Terracotta Warriors Is there anything else so far?

I know you're being humble about the paint job, but from this side I'm seeing that it was even more impressive than previously related. Because it wasn't just a tri-athalon, it was a pentathlon--assemble, paint, tournament, volunteer and shop. Congratulations on doing so well.

No one has answered the critical question: How well was Sandeep painted? I know last year, I tried buying and assembling stuff at Gen Con, I barely got to "assemble and prime the models". Buying the box, painting it, and then placing second is like the Malifaux triathalon.

If you're counting out-faction models hired due to the Surpringly Loyal upgrade, there's a new Ten Thunders model with the Mimic tag, the Terracotta Warrior. You can get an audio spoiler of the model in the Malifools podcast:

No, that's not ignoring it. That's treating the model like a kamikaze pilot--one hired yokai taking out a more expensive model is a fair trade. Even better if it can remove more than one model. The yokai just isn't going to survive to the end of the game, but it can still be worth hiring. And all of the things that the crew has to prolong a summoned yokai are still going to apply to the hired one, including the upgrade which prevents the Condition by enemy abilities and actions. Like I said, you probably wouldn't want to hire several of them, and it's really aggressive crew choice, but that ability wasn't written as "If you hire this model, you fail at Malifaux."

I don't know, I think hiring yokai is one of those "My X SS model destroys your X+2 SS model, I win the trade" or "If you move your expensive enforce near me, I'm going to eat it" deals. So not something that you're going to do with a three model set, but something you might do with one of them. And you'd definitely be planning on playing them aggressively if hired.

Schemes and Stones podcast, episode 44.3 is on Asami's box including the yokai.

There are two magic words involved: Abstraction, and balance. The "I don't care about that stuff you're flying over, I care about where you land" choice is a compromise between the two. Especially since most of the time, if the height of the intervening structure made a difference, the flying model would just go around it anyway. So you get: Option A: Write a paragraph of text describing, for just one rule in the game, Flight, a mechanic for determining and changing elevation while moving. And then write a paragraph of text for another ability, Incorporeal, how to move through terrain and pay for the elevation difference at the end. Option B: Everybody ignores terrain using the same paragraph of text, and they're all subject to the same balance restriction.

Looking at the wording, it doesn't look like it's breaking any rules to carry out the interaction described. Even for the objection "He already has the upgrade attached that he wants to attach the new copy of, that shouldn't work", there are a few cases where you would want to have multiple copies of the same upgrade attached, even though the hiring rules prevent it and most of the effects that add or remove attachments try to avoid that situation. You could get into a situation where two Jack Daw players end up putting the same Cursed upgrade on a neutral model, for instance, as a game of Curse driven activation chicken. Even if someone were to go crazy with Yan Lo and use his action to attach the same upgrade twice, the duplication would still be handled by the Stacking rules: so, theoretically, if an upgrade ever granted Armor +1 and a player figured out how to get multiple copies of that upgrade on a model, those Armor +1's would stack. Otherwise, stuff like Jack Daw Curse Chicken is just a "No, I don't want you do to be able to do it, either" thing. Unfortunately, you can't get a direct answer, because the powers that be aren't supposed to do that any more. (No more rules marshals in the forum, handing down judgements on things.) The two possible outcomes are: 1. It's a problem, so it gets addressed either as a FAQ (more likely) or errata (less likely), eventually. 2. It's not a problem, so it doesn't get addressed. where unfortunately "not a problem" and "intended behavior" aren't really something that can be distinguished. But this thread does at least accomplish raising the issue so that if "another friendly model" (meaning anyone but Shen Long) instead of "any friendly model" (so that Shen Long is included) goes beyond what Shen Long is supposed to do, it'll get fixed. There's remote possibility that someone might remember the wording history (assuming that wording changed any in public). Edit: Actually, I take that back. There's also the third possibility. The developers could look at things like the AWP discussion, dispair, and put an entry in the FAQ saying: "Can Shen Long do this thing? Yes. <short description of why nothing bad happens>" if everyone is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the game mechanic is in error when they shouldn't doubt it.

Obey doesn't change friendly/enemy. From the rulebook: That's from a callout box labeled Friendly and Enemy, page 31 of the Core Rulebook. if a Gremlin (like Brewmaster) makes an Oiran attack another model on the same crew, they're still friends. Edit: That scheme Frame for Murder which starts: You can totally accomplish that using Obey when the other crew has a model near your "sucker" model.

Somehow 11, 12 and 13don't seem like they'd work as well for models compared to things like 11, 12 or 13. But I could see 13 happening before 12. I'm not sure we'd notice if they took the cards and make models for them, though.

The action in question: Going over the rules to double check, first we have the Condition rules: So according to that, if you have Poison +1 on a model, and apply another instance of Poison +1, the result is one instance of Poison with a value of +2. In the case of Poison, it's really important how many instances of Poison there would be on the model, and it's very deliberate that the model only has one Poison on it for Poison to work right. All of the instances where you're supposed to just lower the value of a condition (instead of removing it completely whatever it's value) should say "reduce" or "lower". So, yeah, when you use Shrug Off to remove Poison, if you had Poison +2 on the model, you don't have Poison on the model any more.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Wyrd, this is speculation on my part. But the following fits how other companies reportedly done it... 1. The new mold gets into production. They end up producing a small batch of the models to make sure everything is good, and there's no sense in putting that in a warehouse until the whole run is ready. The same thing probably goes for the boxes and cards. So the initial test batch gets made a bit bigger. 2. The initial run gets sold at the convention as a form of advance advertising. If you're going to a convention or buying early, there's a decent chance you're going to be excited and end up showing off the models to other people. 3. When the regular production wave comes through, there's still enough demand to buy the models. If you can't buy the models at the convention, and you don't want to wait, there is still the option of "Convert/Build your own model", which is even tournament legal (subject to conversion approval) according to the Gaining Grounds documents. I could be full of garbage on the initial test run/main production run bit, but I did hear a story very recently about a plastic production factory being more than happy to start a production run, ship off the first few boxes early, and then ship the rest of the production run when it finished. And the "Have a few models at the convention to sell to die hard fans because they'll advertise your game for you" model is part of why go to conventions--advertise the game, sell the game, and get second hand advertising. Disclaimer: I grew up trying to play 40k, where a certain amount of the time the answer to "I want to field this unit" was "How am I going to build that from parts and greenstuff?" And I think I still have my box of "human-model sized wings, in various textures and materials".

To be really frank, the thing which annoys me about pre-assembled is going through and fixing minor gaps that the factory worker wasn't paid to worry about. I'll grant that it probably eliminates a lot of customer service work by eliminating most of the missing part requests, but if there was a decent way to split the Tortoise or Hare models back into their components, clean them, and reassemble them, I would.

That earlier post should be "If I told you everything, the post would get disappeared as spoiling too much." You'll have to wait to get the book before you can use the model, anyway, so being vague about numbers isn't unreasonable.

The link for the previous hobby thread, corrected for the server move: I swear that Shang's tail something you could sell in one of those obnoxious 3-D puzzle boxes, to go along with the split thread screw and the others. The links in Pierzasty's posts for the color coded parts still work, it shows up in a few different places and I remember it being useful when I assembled that box.

If you're going to beat the Lucius drum, don't forget about the new Ten Thunders mimic model. There's a spoiler for it at the 55 (and a half) minute mark in the Malifool podcast.