Nukemouse

Having one target that is very fast and DF7 so you can cheat to dodge most things AND will get you some card cycling on death doesn't seem so bad. Enemy beaters will gravitate towards Hayreddin, only to be lured out of position by belles.

Hayreddin is only 6 stones now and is a flying wk6 with DF7! He could make an interesting replacement for the necropunk, though he cant "leap" as often since he needs vitality to teleport around, he would provide a bigger damage threat and if he stands in the right place can add a nasty to damage for Seamus' gun.

I've always liked akaname more for their potential ML8.

Most of the models can apply burning and poison, and are better at applying burning to models with poison. Popcurn Turner can summon whiskey gamin off scrap, using the poison on herself as the number of wounds it gets to keep. I think Whiskey Gamin have a self push or movement boost based on how much poison they have? Don't remember. Cooper Jones can prevent friendly models taking poison damage (its a choice so you can still that's the stuff) and has Alcohol Poisoning from the new brewie upgrade. Thats all that i can remember.

https://www.wyrd-games.net/news/2015/11/23/monday-preview-aionus Actually they showed us his card in advance for this exact reason.

I'm interested in this too, because i want to make an informed decision about my purchase. Normally the books and card stats come out way before the models.

Levi's ability to hire out of faction isn't really all that. You can grab some neat things and there's one or two neat combos, but outcasts now have models that help fill most niches without needing to rely on the out of faction hiring. Levi's hiring pool used to be amazing, but that was back when there were not many options in outcasts themselves. Now with 5 books of models every faction can usually bring a variety of solutions to their problems instead of only having limited choices. That said, a mobile toolkit wouldn't hurt.

Will o the wisps are 3 cost incorporeal models with 5df/5wp who usually can be 10 inches away from things. I don't ever find them squishy relative to their cost and role, but i play against, not with them. In my opinion they are the second most survivable 3 cost non-totem in the game, after Night Terrors which of course are much harder to kill.

Personally I think Hayreddin could/should become a Master out of any existing nephilim. His concept is very cool and he would be a very interesting Neverborn/Ressurectionist character. Lorewise he seems much more impressive and interesting than just being an enforcer.

Well it could also be something out of left field, like an earth animal that escaped a circus or zoo or something and the Gremlin fear/worship it believing it to be all powerful as they've never seen a creature like it. It's not hard to imagine Gremlins in awe of a sloth, hippo or a camel and it's "master tier abilities" can obviously be explained by an awakening when it traveled through the breach, similar to Hoffman etc. Better yet, a Rooster with a scarecrow-like fake gremlin on its back.

A gremlin master that is actually a Pig, Rooster, Silurid, Gator or otherwise an animal. Have the gremlins fight for it believing its a genius and interpreting its body language as orders, but leave it ambiguous as to whether its intelligent enough to really understand whats going on or if its actually smarter than the gremlins that fight for it.

The Lotus Eater hates enemy schemes and scheme runners. Its not necessarily about who to use it with, more about the scheme pool. If you believe the enemy will need to place scheme markers as part of play you can draw cards, fuel his abilities, teleport to enemy scheme markers or just disrupt enemy minion's attempts to disengage or interact.

The rules are as much if not more so a part of the product than the sculpt. The official tourney rules require you use the models or a close approximation of them made with mostly wyrd products, so its clear Wyrd doesn't want us to play with nothing but proxies. If i thought Wyrd was going to go bankrupt in two weeks or end product support for malifaux i would stop all my purchases immediately as the game would be dead, its somewhat of a gamble as unexpected things can happen but i don't think its likely Wyrd will disappear soon. Whilst there are only a few truly useless models and quite a few of them saw changes in the recent errata, i was discussing more the principle behind balance changes than specific examples. I don't think the game is flooded with useless models, but i do think being "underpowered" is very much an emergency on par with being "overpowered" in terms of being disruptive to customers enjoying the product. Indeed the fact customers prefer certain sculpts over others is part of why those sculpts should be as viable as possible, to not punish them for their preferences.

I would argue that useless models are very bad for Malifaux as a product line and is thus deserving of an "emergency" errata. Buying models that end up being useless feels awful for the customer.

Levi relied largely on damage output to function, which they hit. Nico doesn't rely on his card draw entirely, so a hit to it wouldn't be as bad, since he's less specialized.