OctaBit

Thanks for the replies. @ausplosions: cant I just get the arsenal decks for the up to date cards? As for the metal models, my main game is warmahordes so I'm used to metal. @Kadeton: I'm probably going to stick with just the crew box and maybe one other model for awhile while I get used to the game. Going off of that which one would you say offers the most diverse range of playstyles (like how you said raspy could play denial etc)? @mythicfox: She seemed really neat when I first looked at her. I like that she had many diffrent ways to use the burning condition to give everything from healing to card advantage. How effective is her crew box as is?

Well it looks like my play group is finally going to take the plunge and pick up malifaux. I've been looking at arcanist for awhile and I'm pretty sure its the faction I want to play. The problem I'm having is that I'm not sure which crew to start with. The three I'm liking the most are Raspy, Colette, and kaeris. Raspy seems like a nice intro caster. Lots of spells and just slinging them around. She just strikes me as very one dimensional. Colette seems very interesting to me since she has so many options at a given moment, but I'm afraid that her crew won't be able to deal a lot of damage. And as far as kaeris goes she seems neat and i like her starter box, but she seems like she might get old relatively fast. I was hoping some of you guys could help me figure out which crew to start out with or at least help me narrow down the choices.