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Anna is awesome to shut down tangle shadows in Ressers, getting the Freikorps boost in Schill makes her worth the merc tax.

Suited frame for murder is awesome. That's gonna be a cool change for the game.

Archie. Leap, then throw your leap upgrade at someone, drop a corpse next to them, then charge them. Then Reva lays into them. (Kills most things, lots scarier if they have armor defeating stuff near Archie.) Might require a Belle or two if you're playing someone hanging back. You can also just focus/shoot w/ Archie early, and hang back to protect Reva.

How does this work when she draws cards? First question: As in, does she look at the top 4 cards, rearrange them, then draw one? Is that correct? Second question: When she rearranges the 4 cards, does she put all of them on the top OR the bottom, or can the cards go to either location? The wording is a little ambiguous so we're not sure.

Tara's fun. She's different, but fun. You don't have to run beastie bomb strategies with her, but it's nice to have the option! Her learning curve is noticeably higher, and she might not work as well with most schemes, but she's somewhat versatile. Karina is iffy, not being able to stone for summons hurts, you've got about a 58% chance of drawing a card you can summon w/ for her (assuming you stone for cards.) I like her, but you can run graveyard spirit instead, etc.

Once more into the, well, you know...

So Killjoy bombing with Tara is a good time, and Bishop/Hans can be fun, somewhat unexpected additions to ressers. I'd like to try Ama No Zako, as she seems like she'd be fun w/ a Hanged and a Drowned, but I'm not sure. What are your preferred mercenaries? What masters do you like to use them with?

You might like Tara or Molly when they Killjoy and/or Bete bomb.

Blowing away austringer #1 on turn 1 and austringer #2 on turn 2 with Seamus feels good.

I really didn't like Yin either until I found out it's a Malaysian vampire myth -- I thought she looked kind of silly til I knew she was based off a classic set of stories. You might be able to do a conversion of a Naga figurine or something that looks kinda like Yin without the gross-out factor. (Or you can just not use her, but she's dang good for Yan Lo to tie stuff up and debuff Wp! She's very good at what she does.) I think from what you've said that you'd like to start with Yan Lo. Toshiro provides some minor summoning support, and Ashigaru are cool skeleton guys and they come in Yan Lo's box anyway. Bete is probably easier to use in Yan Lo as you're not wanting to use those high cards to summon cool stuff like you are w/ Kirai, so you can save a 10+ for Bete insurance. Obvious answer: Get both and pick based on the schemes.

Yeah, for sure. Your local group might vary, but I haven't witnessed anyone get as silly serious about Malifaux as they would about Magic:TG.

Might wanna grab a Hanged? They synergize well w/ Seamus and Kirai both (though she'd rather summon them.) Kirai likes Rotten Belles too, and you already have them.

For Bete Noire -- start with her on the board if they have any shooting models. On top of the anti-shooting stuff, she's just good. It'll limit your hand a bit w/ Kirai by wanting to keep a 10+ around, but Bete's also going to spawn Ikiryo so she's even less attractive to hit, so you might get away with bluffing it at times if you hold one bad card.

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Yes. Also, you can grab these off of http://www.wargamevault.com/.

I just played that matchup last week -- it was pretty balanced and a lot of fun! However, we both had enormous summoning pools, and there are a lot of model interactions going on. That's probably ok though, it doesn't sound like you're wanting to start w/ the more straightforward stuff. But it's a bit more expensive. Also, you can play ressers vs. ressers and it's fine fun; this is probably true for Neverborn as well (but I haven't done it.)

You can relent to automatically fail the Glimpse the Void WP duel, you don't need to flip for it. This is wrong.

Yep, you got it. Corpse candles die very easily. Toshiro seems like a decent pick against Ressers in general if you can make him fit.

Ten Thunders has Toshiro, who summons off of corpses. That's pretty good against Reva -- you turn her corpse candles into your Ashigaru.

Bring a different master so that people can't do tech picks against you. (E.g., Anna Lovelace vs. Lilith / Beckoners, etc.) Alternatively, ask them to play as Lilith against you playing their crew -- it might help you learn a few things you've missed for both crews when you're focusing on the other ones.

Have you tried using Decaying Aura on Izamu and throwing him in with Reva, who treats him as a corpse that turn? It sounded fun, but I'm not sure it works out in practice -- Reva needs to be fairly close to the fight if you're doing that, whereas you really just want to keep swinging at people with her AP. (Or, at least, I did!)

Have: Translucent: Hamelin (yellow, new on sprue) Plastic: Lady Justice (assembled) the Judge (assembled) Scales of Justice (assembled) 2 Death Marshalls (primed black) 2 Torakage (primed white) Ototo (primed white) Metal: 3 primed white rotten belles on graveyard base inserts 3 wicked dolls, decently painted Insidious Madness, painted orange Coppelius (primed black) 2 Alps (primed black) Stitched Together (unprimed) Miss Pack (primed black, pictured and sent in blister) Alt Seamus in original Blister Nicodem (unassembled) Bete Noire (unprimed) Arsenal boxes: Guild Wave 1 & 2 Arcanists Wave 1 & 2 Neverborn Wave 1 & 2 Gremlins Wave 1 & 2 40K: I have two dozen plastic berserkers of Khorne, 28 metal Plague Marines, a Nurgle Chaos Lord, a Khorne Chaos Lord, some Rhinos, some metal Plaguebearers, chaos marines, chaos terminators, Nurgle terminators, and other 40K stuff; all are painted semi-ok but strippable. Board games for the inclined: https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Terwox?trade=1&subtype=boardgame&ff=1 Wants (metal or plastic are fine, painted is better): Bishop Necrotic Machine Vulture Philip and the Nanny Night Terror(s) Mindless Zombies The Drowned Hayreddin The Forgotten Marshall Carrion Emissary Reva box Viks box Desolation Engine Ashes and Dust Von Schill box Sue

I'm using this model, but painted w/ Vallejo's dead flesh color. (Reaper Hill Giant) Bit too tall, but whatever.

I played Reva for the first time last night. Really fun! It was collect the bounty so she sounded good w/ her shieldbearers, and I ran public demonstration and frame for murder (Anna Lovelace) against Lilith. Archie spent a long time just being rooted by Lilith, but being able to rip your own upgrades off, focus, throw them at people, have them land as a corpse, and then have Reva murder them out of said corpse was ridiculously fun and entertaining theming too. Also I dumped a stone turn 1 just attacking a Waldgeist for nothing so that I could give three shieldbearers fast; one ended up killing (albeit a framed) Nekima. Bummed I didn't end up being able to order a box (so I was in proxy town,) but it made me look forward to getting the real models. Except Archie, I love my Archie proxy.

Bishop, Killjoy. That's about it. Bishop is probably better, unless you're against black blood. Scion of the Void is alright and fun to play with (don't forget it can essentially unbury itself) but not "necessary." Really fits her theme though! And it makes void wretches ok when they steal her attack.