Peytro

Thanks for all the advice. I went ahead and grabbed Johan and a box of ECs. For the spiders, I actually was considering trying my hand at magnetizing. And maybe by limiting the number of spiders I can summon will keep things a little more balanced at the 35 SS level.

I'm new to Malifaux, and decided to start with the Ramos Crew Box. I'm looking to start with small scale games (~35 SS) which I understood could be done with the crew box alone. But if I decide to summon the spiders instead of hiring them, and depending on upgrades, I was wondering if there was anything else people would reccomend I pick up. Specifically - Do I need to pick up another box of steam arachnids? Should I pick up a box of Electric Creations, or are they not worth it? Is there any other minion you'd recommend picking up to start for a little extra flexibility? Thanks for any help!

The nurses would have to be hired and can't be summoned, right? So would it be worth hiring them and summoning the punk zombies (to maintain the small SS limit)? Or for smaller games would it be better to just hire the punks and summon mindless zombies, iron zombies, or some other approach?

So I'm looking to pick up Nico as my first crew box, and am planning on pretty much just playing out of the box with 35 ss with another new player until we get the rules down. However, are there other models I should pick up for summoning? What's a good approach to take with summoning on small scale games?