Bengt

Mei Feng likes to manipulate and torture people. She is not really a very nice lady...

Perhaps Amelia Dyer.

Their ability to remove corpse markers with their (0) can be useful against other ressers.

The voice actors are credited on the Breachside website; read by: Ian Travis; announced by: Dominic Westerland. I haven't seen writing credits anywhere.

Note that it says triggers that cause damage flips, not actions. It's talking about things like Slug on some shotgun attacks, e.g. Abuela.

The paralysed model does not engage anyone else, as per the errata: Pg 52, “Paralyzed” Condition: Change the text of the first paragraph to: “A model with the Paralyzed Condition generates no AP and can declare no Actions (whether or not its the model’s Activation). The model is also not considered to have an engagement range or to be engaging any models (and therefore cannot take Disengaging Strikes).” But, your model can still engage the paralysed model if it has any actions and could thus not be used with Mirror. You will randomise if you attack engaged models with actions, it doesn't matter if your model use Sh, Ca or Ml as skill.

You only take hazardous terrain damage when you enter it or activate in it. Carlos moving the markers around doesn't do any immediate damage, only sets up for later damage.

What would the point of the " if this model is still in play " part be if not to disable the sacrifice when using "It Goes Pop!"? It could also be killed by Black Blood, Explosive Demise, etc when taking the action as a normal action, which would also remove the sacrifice I guess, but that seems like a weird clause to add for just that reason. The Corpse Marker rules (p 49) also says to drop them when killed, so before you would look at "after resolving". And it doesn't use any retroactive wording to say that it's sacrificed instead of being killed, like e.g. Long forgotten magics does (i.e. Karina's long forgotten upgrade from the first book ).

That is the story I thought of first, but it only uses the same art.

Yeah I thought you were asking about what influenced the names, as that is a common interest of many Malifaux players. Special editions rarely have any stories associated with them, though there are some cases, e.g. Luther (#17), Mr Cooper (#18) has Chronicle stories. Funnily I thought Doctor Dufresne also had a story but it turns out the art was used in a Chronicle story for a character called Imogene Watts (#12).

Yes. This exact scenario is demonstrated by the image on page 40.

Nilsson is the 4th most common surname in Sweden (and probably somewhat common in say Minnesota as a consequence) but the one that pops out to me is Per Nilsson, but I have no idea if he is at all well known outside Sweden.

Elizabeth Báthory

The wording in the rulebook for stacking value less condition is (p 52): "...a model that would get a second instance of a Condition simply ignores it (the second instance is not applied)." Feed on Dreams: Enemy models that receive Slow within 3 of this model suffer 1 damage. In my opinion a model hasn't "received" something if it is "ignoring" it.

Ramos' box can fill out any Arcanist crew. Howard and Joss as differently flavoured beaters and Arachnids as cheap and moderately fast little minions. You might also want to consider Malifaux raptors as they go really well with Practiced Production for certain schemes (as you already have Cassandra (or whatever the nightmare version is called)).

The "origin" can be found here, the same story is also in both the 1st and 2nd edition rulebooks. The ongoing story line starts in Chronicles #3 with "Til Gran Kythera Dow" and continues through all the rulebooks to date, it's being serialised as an audiobook in the Tales of Malifaux podcast.

I haven't had time to listen to it yet, but the description of episode 45 says it's "the second part of The Rifleman.". Is this an error in the description or has the first part of the The rifleman gone missing?

Wouldn't it be better to have Carlos lead? He is a bit more resilient than Firestarter and one of the objectives is Assassinate, right?

The first section of the M2E rulebook Arcanist story, where Ramos gives Joss a mechanical arm, shows a more caring side of Ramos. The climax of the 1st edition rulebook have Ramos use his humongous spider to help close Kythera, wrecking it for the greater good in the process (this is in episode 7 of ToM I think). So while Ramos is mostly a self centred ass hole (like most Malifaux Masters...) there are stories that round him out a bit.

Games Workshop had (at least in some editions) all the stories in one place in the rulebook (meaning that the corresponding A5 rules only books could have the same page numbers, which to me is the only concrete benefit of the practice). In the codex/army books it was generally more spread out as far as I can remember. But it do seem fairly common to intersperse stories and rules, Hawk does it as well for Dropzone and Dropfleet. --- To get back to Malifaux, as I noted in my previous post very few of the Chronicles stories are part of the main story line so you can read them whenever/never and still understand the main story. But to get the main story I do recommend starting with the 1st edition books (they are $7 each digital) or the Tales of Malifaux podcast (which is free), as several stories in the M2E books doesn't make all that much sense if you are not aware of the old stuff.

Some non spirits that can be useful are: Flesh Construct as a pile of wounds to summon from, Nurse for debuffing fun and perhaps heal summoned stuff, Rotten Belles, Necropunks/Canine Remains/Crooligans are all affordable scheme runners, Anna for her auras and a very decent ranged attack, Mindless Zombies to go with the Emissary (who is a Spirit with Kirai's conflux).

To me the question is how a model's death position should be considered. E.g. if a model can climb enough to just survive the fall and then move a little. If you do consider the death position a real location then you can compare that to where the model could end up if it climbed various distances. Presumably all death effects where location is important (Corpse/Scrap, Explosive Demise, etc) would happen at the end of the fall, not where you would have ended the move if you survived, so there is some precedence for considering it a real, if brief, location.

Kim Cattrall's character is called Gracie Law, and Kurt Russell's truck is called Pork-Chop Express. There is an article in Chronicles #5 about it.

A model's controller chooses the order Start of Activation effects are resolved, page 36. So Nix' controller can chose to resolve Sloth's Aura before Hollow.