November's Wrath

yep armor of december surely  is a good way.
i find that even with shattered  you are still better off casting directly.
armor makes this more easy.

Well i never played metal gamins protecting themselves. it just kinda felt like it wasn't meant from the  start..
the loss of htk is pretty brutal... but again it opens up playing moleman so is kinda good to have a little bit of choice..
Grrr for having to use printed cards

i actually like very much armor of december on raspy.
every melee opponent can be simply
1)Sub zeroed through cheat or stone
2) push away thanks to the upgrade gainin +1 armor in the process( no need to rely on Snow Storm)

3) do horrible things to the opponent
Simply put it rasputina becomes melee immune and is able to cast directly bumping her  efficiency a great deal.
shattered heart is imho overvalued, as mirror points tend to dwindle rapidly during the game.
you usually get some goodness out of it but for the first turns.
armor gives you a bump in resilience and an awesome built in mechanism for escaping melee, you still have the mirror option, but you can live without it

Hi November,

 

1) That's exactly right, they're just tar pits and short range scheme runners, but they do the job excellently. Normally I wont hire any but keep summoning more to bulk out my numbers.

 

2) I don't tend to swarm together unless there's a compelling reason, normally the pulse scheme marker removal.  Like the Rail Golem the Swarm is a very swingy model on offence, it seems to either totally wreck face or do absolutely nothing, with relatively little in the middle. 

 

 

@ Prof_Bhycid - You're talking about the Brass Arachnid, Ramos' totem. Not the Steam Arachnids.

Thanks for the suggestions!

i find the swarm very hand dependent: it can kick asses, but depletes your hand. 

hello guys  i recently started playing ramos.

the thing that puzzles me 

1) steam arachnid seems only good as a tarpit/ scheme runner.

2)Swarms seem a nice offensive unit, but the loss in term of scrap production in pretty harsh. suddenly you are looking at 2 scraps less.
so usually, how do you manage the transition from spider into swarm, and how dou you keep the scrap generation up and running?

Hi guys! i recently bought the Rasputina starter set for malifaux.

looking foward to play what seems a really good ruleset.