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But if you’re a special marker crew, how easy is it to get scored against (using your own special marker against you)?

I think first it needs to be said bluntly that the subordinate character rules are there to prevent minions overshadowing the players. So the downside to having a loyal minion who will do whatever you say is that the loyal minion won't do anything on its own without you telling it to do so. Disclaimer: For clarity, I believe the sequence of events is going to be: Initiative Flip The round in which all of the turns generated by "From the Shadows" happens. The "First Round" of dramatic time. What does any of this have to do with the Reactivate condition? The stuff about Reactivate is specifying a requirement to receive a second turn during a round, and you're just trying to figure out how to justify a subordinate getting a first turn during a "From Shadows" round. I think, personally, I would allow a subordinate with From the Shadows a turn during the "From the Shadows" round if it had received a detailed order to do something specific using Order before the start of dramatic time, but any actions taken have to be justified from the text of the order, at whatever the controlling player's initiative step would be. Because "your subordinate character won't do anything you didn't Order it to do" is still the deal. That way you can get some benefit from the ability without needing to also have From the Shadows. (I don't know how easy it is for player characters to get From the Shadows, so I don't know whether the rest is an issue or not...) Because if you want a Crooligan that will act on its own at the start of dramatic time, you want an ally, not a subordinate character.

If you do that, someone has to dig out the rulebook and point out to you how this edition includes elevation differences in distances, unlike the previous edition. 🧐 Really, all it means is that you'd be closer horizontally than you would otherwise need to be. And if the Calypso's on the ground, the pilot ignores the at most 1" of horizontal wall it would be standing on and has line of sight to the Calypso in spite of the shadow. The vertical difference in elevation rules: M3E: vs. M2E:

Well I'm half asleep and not afraid to be a butcher. 😈 The thing is, I look at "Here's a big model standing in front of the scheme marker" (attached) and ask "Why should standing on top of the marker make any difference?"

They are certainly going to be on the same sizes as the regular versions. That’s how all of the alt models are based.

It's simple: You cannot score the "Reveal" condition for a scheme that has already been revealed. And the last sentence if "... if the replaced Scheme has been revealed, reveal the new Scheme." So, you can get both points for the new scheme, if you haven't revealed the previous one. Note: Compare the wording with Let Them Bleed's Reveal condition: Notice how Let Them Bleed's first sentence says nothing at all about revealing the scheme, but the second sentence contains a statement that makes no sense at all if you try to argue that you can score without revealing. Reveal conditions which include the word "reveal" in them in various places are essentially doing so for clarity or emphasis.

Pulses require line of sight and range to the markers. A model standing in front of (or on top of if the model's base is physically larger than the marker's base) goes through the line of sight rules as an intervening object. There's a note in the rules about a model of the same size standing on top of a marker (a 30mm model standing on top of a 30mm model) because of the potential ambiguity for the idea of "Does that line of sight cross the model's base or not?" Does the scheme that you're trying to score require the marker to be visible to anyone? Picking a scheme at random, this text: doesn't specify any conditions involving line of sight to any models on either of the crews.

Essentially, if something ‘targets’ if it uses the word ‘target’ somewhere in its rules. There are going to be lots of ways to do things to a model without targeting, and shockwaves are going to be another big way to do so at range.

Just because it didn’t happen doesn’t make it not true. (And vice versa...)

Because measuring the distance for the place effect for Flight is not measuring the range of an action. It’s the same sort of thing for how ‘place itself within X”’ doesn’t give you permission to place anywhere on the table because a model is always within X” of itself.

Yeah, it's the trigger that's generating the damage. But... A target buffed with that trigger in range of Black Blood will start such a loop, yeah. But the attribution won't be that Sparks killed someone. From the rules: The effect of that trigger is going to be in the 'by any other effect' clause, as far as I can tell.

No. Practically speaking, between the 'interrupted' FAQ and the two sentences of the effect The fact that the push continues means that the interruption gets cancelled if the terrain is destructible. The first would probably have been slightly clearer if it was worded "If this Push would be interrupted by Destructible Terrain, that terrain is removed and the Push continues", but that's really what it has to mean.

This is complete nonsense. The Malifaux setting has magic, the undead, and documented instances of time travel. Permanently killing off a character in this setting is as boring as "the author hasn't bothered to bring them back yet" in comic book writing. Hundreds and thousands of anonymous or named characters have been killed in the stories over the years, where's the impact of that? To be frank, people calling for character death or other high stakes things to happen in a story line sound like the sort of people who want all of the thrill of watching someone else jump off a cliff. Let me offer a simple counter point to this. During M2E, Wyrd staged the climactic encounter between Lady Justice and Nicodem and then put the forward a vote for who would win. Please look up how that turned out: After several pages of story were written, the Judge got a new model.

And accomplishing what, exactly? Getting that sentence FAQ’d to “by opposing player, we mean ‘target’s controller’”? Because we’re not expecting multi-player games to exist or anything....

Look Away specifies: There's the Pulse rules: and the Shockwave rules: Note, also, there's an example shockwave application: Note that phrase 'As they are both within 1" and LoS of the Shockwave Marker". Why does that matter? Because the Pulse rules have the requirement about being "in the generating object's LoS". The conclusion: The model performing the action which drops the shockwave marker does not generate the pulse, the dropped marker does. So, no. Cavatica's action is not "Target's shockwave actions become useless." Because, seriously, here are the search results for Shockwave: Shockwave 1: 21 Shockwave 2: 31 Shockwave 3: 2

For my money, the worst model to put together so far has been Shang, because the tail pieces end up being feeling like 🤬🤬 sliding ring puzzle, because that smaller tail part goes around the larger tail piece. http://malifauxshadow.blogspot.com/2014/02/malifaux-shang-tail.html Looking at the diagram for the pile of bears in the bear swarm, I'm guessing there are some subtle and easy to miss alignment points between the bears.

"Is it safe?" is the sort of question which invites technicalities and doubts about what sort of risks you don't care about... 🧐 I mean, metal and plastic shavings and dust are probably at least a little bit bad for you if you breath them in or swallow them. The metal's a pewter alloy. The answer to the normal big question is:

This may be a "New York City" vs. "New York State" problem, because the origin of the Gremlin race is covered in the RPG books, between the Bayou and Nightmare books, especially. Nightmares goes into detail about the Neverborn, and I thought it had a reference to the Gremlin origin but I can't find it at the moment. The Neverborn eventually became everything from Woes and Mimics to the Grootslang and Silirids, but the Gremlins were pretty much just pre-existing swamp monkeys that grew up after the Tyrant conflict. As for what people think about the Gremlins, from "Into the Bayou", there's this: There's plenty of material in the stories about trade with the Gremlins (is it Ulix who has the story about the Golden Pig?), and at least one first edition story featuring Gremlins eating an expedition of people. So, a bit varied? 🤨 I think how Gremlins would be explained in universe would be the same way park guides explain wild animals--if you get kicked in the head by a deer, ran over by a buffalo, or startle a bear, it's your fault for not staying away from it--pointing out that these particular wild animals are also very intelligent and can act like people when they want to.

Okay, but Shenlong the Teacher’s trigger doesn’t remove an upgrade. You’re targeting a monk without an upgrade and attaching an upgrade that’s not currently in play. If the other player is knocking off your models, easy to see that being useful five times during a game. Yeah, your point about the trigger stopping working if all four upgrades are already in play. But it’s still got uses.

You don’t “brick”. 😛 You perform the well documented “There’s nothing legal to do, so skip it” maneuver if you try to attach a Style upgrade while they’re all in play. It’s a trigger, if you don’t need to use it, you don’t have to declare it.

Their controllers. Because of the Obey, Bo Peep’s controller will be the opponent. For the other friendly models, it won’t be. Note that this applies to both the “may” and the “push” for each model. (The opponent doesn’t get to choose whether the other friendly models push.) This is all because it says ‘X may push’ instead of something like ‘may push X’ (Bo Beep isn’t pushing the other models, the other models are pushing.)

Please stop and look up "Wyrd Miniatures, LLC". I know there's a saying about preaching to the choir, but the problem is that what you're doing isn't even that. The choir and the choir director are off busy working, and we're a bunch of congregation members bullshitting about someone's opinion about what the choir should be doing, while the usher has to hang around to make sure no one starts a fight. 😐

I think it’s worth considering one point: If there’s anyone who knows whether the presence of background material influences the sales of one of Wyrd’s alternate art figures, it’s going to be Wyrd. 😕 And that’s before getting into questions like “What does Mr. Caroland want the product to be?” vs. quoting academic papers about the uses of non-tabletop wargaming in training exercises.

As a periodic GW player, I call malarkey. 😛 Any model with a cool enough to buy it for its own sake is/was cool enough to buy for appearances alone, or it’s actually a matter that the game mechanics for the model were the contributing factor. A five page biography for Gang Member #5 in one of the Necromunda boxes isn’t going to sell that box.

That’s a diorama. That’s all the “deal” it needs to be to justify things like “paint everything as if it were night time and illuminated by street lamps”. It’s just the fancy painting equivalent of ‘pose these three figures in a dramatic scene, possibly cutting and reposing the models’, something you do for any number of personal or artistic reasons, including just ‘it’s a bit of work, and it’ll look neat in the end’.