HiveCommander

Remember that Ramos can do more than just summon spiders. Usually once a game (sometimes more!) I'll summon some spiders, then forget I still have another 2AP to work with

Awesome, so I have been doing it right. I may have to start using 50mm based constructs with her more regularly!

On the new sculpt note, I can only hope that one of the reasons behind there being so little Arcanist stuff in the sale is because Wyrd are redoing the Colette crew based on the negative reaction to the Crossroads artwork. We can always dream Less parts for small models would be nice too. Particularly elbow-joints on too-thin-to-pin models.

Hi all, Would I be right in assuming that as long as a Scrap marker or a friendly construct is within 6" of Mei Feng, that she can be placed anywhere in base contact? Just clarifying, since it sounds like it works that way (even though in some instances it can net her an extra base width or more of movement, especially if you're railwalking to a 50mm base construct).

I'm with you on that one, old metal Judge looks great, and I prefer the Lady J metals (both the crew box but mostly the alt!) to the flicky-hair plastic. The plastic Lady J does have the whole Kil Bill vibe going, which is also cool Plastic Death Marshals are fantastic minis though

Coryphees have been sold out for many months, and I believe alt metal Raspy is the same. The more popular metal sculpts haven't been around for a long time, it was a miracle that the Mannequin+Performer set 2 was still in stock, considering Colette's been gone for a long time.

Take notes from Rathnard and paint them to match

Lucky for me, they were both at my FLGS so I nabbed them a few weeks back. If they were available on the store, my wallet would have cried over the Australia tax

For us that may be the case, but it's between midnight and 3am for America

It's great when you flip the trigger in, although I ended up having the king mask in my hand 2 turns of the game which helped. In one turn my opponent used a Nurse to buff the Judge's melee attacks who was in melee with Mei (I really underestimated how tough he is to take down) and accompliced into the Judge, so I threw the king mask out on his first attack for the push, which made a waste of 2 activations. Being able to do cool tricks like that is really neat.

I really need to pick up a couple of Silent Ones. I'll wait on that until I at least have Raspy and the rest painted though. If Silent Ones are in the sale, then I'll be duty-bound to grab some.

There's a bit more of a difference between a katana-wielding blind lady and a mortician that uses his scalpels and other surgical tools to do his dirty work, than a streetbrawler and a martial artist that both resort to punching stuff until it gives in. I haven't played against Lady J yet, does she have anywhere near as much healing as McMourning does?

Ok, so I played out the game. What I learnt: -Mei Feng is stupidly mobile. Being able to jump across 2-3 markers/constructs and then kick something in the face is crazy. Boy does she use up the deck fast though! -Mei's defensive trigger is crazy-good, especially if for some reason the enemy model can't follow up if you move out of there. -Mech Rider really is the most amazing model we have access to, and is quite literally 12SS for 3-6VPs depending on what schemes you flip. -Rail Workers deal a lot more damage than I anticipated with their (0) action.

Thanks all. I haven't got an SS miner or Arcane Effigy yet though, so I'm stuck with my limited model pool. I forgot to mention since I haven't got the Outcast arsenal decks, but I also have Johan, Bishop, Hans and Taylor.

Brass Arachnid? Don't be silly, that model is an LSA. It just doesn't come with the right card or base

I also feel that Ironsides and Mei look far too similar on paper, being they're both in-your-face brawler types, with their own twists on it. Good to hear it's not the case, I've yet to play either of them myself.

Hey all, I just got Mei Feng and her crew mostly painted and I'm hoping to give her a shot for the first time tonight. Outside of the Rail Crew box, what stuff does she like to bring? What I've got (excluding the Rail Crew box): -3 Metal Gamin -9 Spiders -1 Spider Swarm -Joss -Langston -Mech Rider -LSA (Thankfully the Arsenal decks exist, since Ramos doesn't come with a card for his LSA ) -3 Ice Gamin -3 December Acolytes -Ice Golem -Snowstorm Metal Gamin sound like a given with how sturdy they are, and I could see Mei really liking Mech Rider (I don't think there's many Masters that don't appreciate Mech Rider in their list), but what others are good options?

Other myths state that the only children she was bearing were Incubi and Succubi, hence the 'Mother of Monsters' name.

I was wondering what was up with the chat occasionally showing me double/triple posts. Thankfully it's not my Australian internet to blame

What are the tokens inbetween Poison and Burning meant to represent, respectively?

Actually, Australia Post have very recently started up a new program where Aus Post have a US address to send stuff, which they forward back to Australia. It's called AusMate from memory, I got an email about it a few weeks ago. It's at least a good way to get around those "We don't wanna send to Australia" companies.

I saw that, Google image searching 'Children of December Rasputina' actually brings up the photos you have of it on your blog I wanted to go for a more light blue, I figure Drakenhoff Nightshade is far too dark a wash for ice.

Not so much about the game, but I'm still trying to figure out where on the blue scale I should start when painting the Ice Golem and Gamin. Any ideas?

I'm going to be that guy who necros the thread (sorry!), but you guys are lucky to have been in the game for so long; I'm but a new player. When I first started looking into Malifaux about 6 months ago, I was torn between Arcanists and Outcasts. I liked the concept behind the Viks being like a steampunk Kill Bill, along with Von Schill and his elite force of not-German spec ops on the Outcast side, whereas Ramos' horde of little spiders and Rasputina's ice elementals were all appealing to me. I took a look into the other portions of the factions. I didn't like Marcus (never been a fan of 'beastmaster' type characters) and I was quite indifferent on Mei Feng, but Colette was a real draw. It's just a shame that the metal box set has fallen off the order list at my FLGS, since the new artwork is losing a lot of the glitz and glamour of the original sculpts. Even the performers (both the artwork and on the cards) don't really give off a showgirl impression anymore, which is a real shame. Cassandra's art looks great though, so there's a plus side.

Mech Rider is amazing, the first time I used it I almost one-rounded McMourning (burning Imbued Energies, of course) which left him with 2 boxes. Then I remembered Revel In Creation, so I made an EC so it could blow up as soon as it activated, netting me the kill before he could do the Nurse/Witchling trick to top him up. I haven't had a chance to play Colette (here's hoping she's in the Black Friday sale!) but I expect Prompt lets her get more mileage out of her beatstick models.