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By the way, how did the Silurids pan out? They seem like they'd have helped against a lot of the things you've had trouble with. (Can't ignore LoS or cover against them; negative flip on Charge or Sh attacks if they haven't activated yet.)

That is completely and entirely irrelevant to whether one is being deceptive or not. I feel like you're arguing there there's nothing bad with not telling your opponent these things, which is confusing to me because I'm not arguing the ethics or morality of anything.

The line is whether you are purposefully withholding information. If you think they already know, then you're not purposefully withholding information, regardless of whether they actually know or not. (You would be accidently withholding information.)

It sounds like you did a lot better this time. If you like Pandora, I'd suggest you stick with her. If you constantly switch masters, then you'll never get enough experience with any of them. If you don't like Pandora's play style, then switching might be a good idea. It was only deception in this case if public information was purposefully withheld from the opponent. Which I don't know if it was or not, but it might have been, which is why I included the phrase "kind of" in my original post. (Which was super unclear. Oops.) The big thing, though, is that my original post was saying why a person might think that is was "pretty low and dirty." I posted the first two possibilities that popped into my head. To answer your question, no, but not letting your opponent know that Obey can be used on your own models when you think that they don't know that would be deception. Like if I want them to walk into the middle of the border so that I can Obey Bad Juju up there. If I don't think they know I can do that and I don't tell them, then that would be deception. If they know I can do that, but don't think that's my plan, and I don't purposely do anything to make them think that that is not my plan, then it's not deception. Sorry if that sounds angry. I can get... explainy sometimes, and it's hard for my to convey that through text very well.

First off, deception (with the exception of lying) is not bad, at least in the context of Malifaux. It is pretty clearly built into the game. Secondly, the article literally says they aren't going to forget it after the first time. Thirdly, deception is both a trick and a tactic. Also, thank you Dirial.

I can think of a few reasons. A big one is that it kind of falls under the second type of deception mentioned in the most recent Wyrd Chronicles: it's the kind of thing that most players won't realize can be done at first. And like the author says there, it's totally legit even though it leaves some players with a bad taste is their mouth. There's also the segregation of gameplay and story. Question: Why would cover be ignored? (I don't have their cards.)

Both Wong and Mancha Roja are based off human stage performers, so I think thematically they actually fit together quite well. By the way, his name means "red [blood]stain" , which I find pretty lolzy. Tangent: I keep hearing people mentioning Zoraida+Nurse. Why no mention of Zoraida+Performer?

Crazy Legs is asking for himself. His girlfriend has already chosen Lilith.

As a new player (haven't even played the game yet, actually) who recently saw McMournings card, if you want to avoid complicated then it's probably a good idea to avoid him. Have you looked at Lucius? He's both Neverborn and Guild, and looks relatively simple rules-wise to me. Only kind-of-complicated thing about him: A given model can only benefit from his Commanding Presence once per turn, because once they pass the Horror Duel they are immune to further Horror Duels from Lucius.

Isn't he a viceroy in a guild of mages? I would hope he has a ton of magic.

I hadn't gotten that impression from the two stories I've read that had the Governor in them. Crossroads and the $15 rulebook are the only books I have so far, though, and I haven't read all of Crossroads.

It's because you guys aren't currently logged into Facebook. If you log in on that page, it will take you right to his photo gallery. The models are really quite well done.

I feel it's worth mentioning that Shenlong refers to the Dragon as "Dragon of the Stars" a few times. That specificity would lend some credence to the previously mentioned theory that there are two Dragons, though it's by no means definitive. Side note, but we know that there has been some crossover between Earth and Malifaux at least as far back as Ancient Egypt from McCabe's backstory.

You are my new favorite person.

Looks like my Animal Shape is also misprinted as 1SS.