4thstringer

There are nasty things you can do with 4 hounds and double master and one other big, hard to take out model.

How did your get burning into him? Between passing off conditions to the totem and reducing damage to 0 he strikes me as immune.

I have never been impressed by Sonnia's range reduction, but then I bet someone else has gotten more out of that one than I have.

I completely agree. He did not. And this is someone that I usually agree with and that you are likely to run into in the vassal scene. Luckily for me it wasn't in game.

Oddly it was the nests and the brocken that got me thinking about it again.

Be warned, most opponents will just pick up schemes instead of dropping a marker, and I've had at least one person argue that the lawyer let's them decline to discard and so can't take the interact. I disagree with them, but it's not something that is pleasant to have to work out during your free time.

Daw is a weird pick for symbols. @Miltarion did you lean into the ruthless, or go another method?

Your opponent is right in that Pandora is one of the best at controlling the middle. You aren't going to beat her there. Unfortunately gg1 likes bunched up fights in the middle. Turning off candy's disarming with Dade seems like a good option. Hinamatsu is a really tough one to deal with. Both hina and pandora's ability to generate plus flips are going to make life tough for a journalist crew. You are going to have to avoid hina the best you can. There might be game in making hina charge her own stuff with Nellie. Lean into the slow, the obeys, and keeping them off of you. Use the fact that candy and pandora can't engage to run away. This is the game for oblique play (to learn more about oblique play, find the episode on swampfiends by the same name). The more brawly scheme pools, you will definitely need to think about a different master, especially if you are expecting Pandora.

I find the emissary to be a liability against obeys, with his wp 5 and ability to smack the hell out of my crew.

I've heard in a couple podcasts the recommendation that distracted cancel off focus like fast and slow. If its doing that, would that resolve the resiliency concerns?

The change to burning is also part of what made them worse.

The stalker got significantly worse than last edition, but I swear I didn't buy stalkers last edition, so I don't know what the idea is.

I don't hate the sanctioned spellcasters. In fact I think I like them more than I do the thrall or stalker.

Double huckster. Guess he didn't want to have to use misaki to get your markers.

Y'all got your lists yet?

It seems to me that at the beginning of the edition, we were all hyped for this model, and now I never hear about it. Are people still using him? My theory is that people are using less minions outside of summons, which makes him less attractive. But I still think I like him (though I'll admit I have a hard time fitting him in)

Antons +8 certainly swings things a bit.

Just a quick look, it looks like despite losing 2 more than we won, it appears that guild had a positive diff. (+4 I think, though I'm distracted) Does that mean that is harder for our opponents to put up diff against us too?

Like seeing lj having success. I've never gotten her going that well, so it's nice to see.

James Dyson (search James Dyson malifaux on you tube or you will get the vacuum guy) puts his games up usually.

Their htw shouldn't be ignored. There are some crews that absolutely hate running into an additional neg on damage.

The specialist thing is a silly theme that ends up not being real because you don't want to ruin one factions matchups. The problem with perdita into nb is that, with the exception of nb Lucius, I don't like perdita into any of the more common nb masters Dreamer- all that terrifying? No thanks. Titania? Getting into me t1, hitting well and putting hazardous under me? My crew melts. Pandora- probably perditas best matchup, but still gets that terrifying going. Zoraida? A bunch of stealth/butterfly jump models leaping past me. (Not as bad with Elite z than swampy z) Marcus- this one might be ok. Better match than arc marcus at least. The stealth upgrade and speed are still worrisome. Euri- I think I like this matchup, but I'd have to see it on the table

I don't think that damage output is his issue. I've had games where, allowed to do his thing and not facing terrifying, that he is an absolute terror. The problem is that a perdita crew can't afford to spend cards on defense, and he has no defense. Because the crew also suffers from needing cards, even a discard for phiona or a guardian feels really really bad.

I do think it's funny that basically since I've started the game in early 2e they have been so afraid of guns that they can't make Santiago a useful model.

At first I thought all elite minions, but then backed off that once I realized that intimidating authority on 6 models was too many. I'm thinking rider is essential. I like that master Alan is very flexible, he can go beater or ranged control pretty well. I'll probably not end up running it. More fragile and more expensive to use Lucius is not a cost place I wanna be.