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  1. That model is gorgeous! Very nice mix of beast and machine. Hopefully it comes out soon Going to agree with Tawg, the long blades are much longer than I expected and I'm hoping they'll be easily posable to be a bit more inwards on the model (looks like it's already going to take a fair bit of horizontal space in the pluck foam).
  2. Hey all, so as an update to this the tournament has finished and went stunningly well in general. We had a whopping 16 players show up (we expected maybe 10) and nearly ran out of tables making space for everyone. I ended up going 2-1 with a total point differential of 0 (+1 game one, +1 game two, -2 game three) which as someone still new to this I'm very happy with. Seeing as there was a very large number of newer players, many of whom didn't have a full 50ss painted yet the painted models restriction was dropped which thankfully helped my lists out quite a bit. Game one was Reconnoiter, with Ramos vs Pandora. Howard as usual was MVP, killing his totem and a Sorrow, removing two of his LitS scheme markers, and putting down a Protect Territory scheme marker where no enemies could stop him from scoring. Game ended on turn 3 (we were both playing slow as we were both new) with a 7-6 victory Ramos (I picked Protect Territory (3 pts) / Make Them Suffer (1 pt), he picked LitS / Protect Territory). Game two was Turf War and humorously turned out to be Ironsides vs Ironsides with about 15ss different in our lists. Game went to end of turn 5 and was extremely close but my December Acolyte and Nemesis Oxfordian Mage Slowing the enemy Captain and Johan followed by my Captain Airbursting both away from the center marker put my opponent a point down, with my Ironsides winning 8-7. My opponent had taken Frame For Murder on Willie and tried to keep my Master low but alive until Willie died, but I wasn't willing to trade Ironsides out with the Willie explosion and just ended up killing everything else instead, so that backfired. The strats taken here were Protect Territory (3 pts) / Distract (only 1 pt) for me, and Protect Territory (2 pts) / Frame For Murder (2 pts). Game three was Reckoning, with two small crews led by Mei Feng and Kirai fighting. I ended up being quite outactivated all 5 turns (I thought a small crew would be good but it just meant my opponent was able to outmaneuver me a bunch) and tabled on the last, but I did some good damage along the way and succeeded in both my schemes (Breakthrough 3 pts / Deliver The Message 2 pts) but wasn't enough, losing 9-7 to my opponent (who took LitS 3 pts / Breakthrough 3 pts). All in all a fun tournament and a very happy surprise to see such a turnout! I hope you all enjoyed the quick rundown, and hopefully next time I can win all 3!
  3. Hey all, I'm planning on making a consolidated list of all the abilities Cassandra can copy with her Understudy action and I was thinking of putting it onto the forums when I get it all together. However I don't want to put details on the forum that Wyrd would rather not have, so how much info on the abilities is alright? Specifically I thought any damage spreads, TN's, and similar specific numbers would be worth asking about. Should I keep it vague or just describe the abilities in full?
  4. Thanks for all the replies, seems like the general consensus is that Ramos is probably a bad idea with those specific models and Rasputina is a *maybe* here too. Just as an update I have a second December Acolyte painted up now (but I don't have any baking soda to give it my snowy train track base I've been doing for Frozen Heart models so hopefully having her lay on the base is OK), does that extra 7ss of good Frozen Heart make her a bit more viable here?
  5. Hey all, I have a small tournament going on at my LGS on Jan 10 and I'm wanting to get some games going! Trouble is, it's a painted models only restriction and only about 1/3 of my models are painted right now (and I just moved houses so painting between now and then will be very limited). Do you all think some decent 50ss lists can be made out of the following stuff? (I'm only listing what I have painted) Masters: Ramos, Rasputina, Mei Feng Totems: Brass Arachnid, Wendigo, Emberling Henchmen: Joss, Kang Enforcers: Rail Golem, Ice Golem Minions: Arcane Effigy, 3x Ice Gamin, 2x Metal Gamin, 3x Steam Arachnids, 3x Rail Workers, 1x December Acolyte, 1x Steam Arachnid Swarm Not having Howard painted feels like it hurts, but basically my general Mei Feng list is all painted so it's Ramos and Rasputina I'm especially concerned about.
  6. That's a good point, the list was Ironsides and Joss (both with Warding Runes), with Captain and 3 Oxfordian Mages mostly hiding in the back so it took a lot of effort (and put Kaeris and Firestarter in danger) to set anything on Fire that game. From what I've read up I definitely plan on swapping Eternal Flame for Malifaux Child (EF hasn't done much of anything in any game I've played with it) but I don't have the model yet sadly. Does the rest of the list look okay?
  7. I ended up playing a game last night and yeah after that I agree with you. Turn one it was nice (Protect Territory was one of the schemes so it let Firestarter get to work on that early too) but turn two I wanted my Rail Golem to start hitting things so he kept his Burning for himself. As far as my list goes, I don't think I like the Oxfordian Mages with Kaeris. They were always in the list as Gunsmiths-aren't-out-yet filler, but I think next game I'll swap them for December Acolytes (the only other elite ranged minions I have). The game was against Ironsides so there was a ton of Counterspell which probably biases it (can't burn or slow her with the enemy Oxford Mages alive so I ended up just pushing her around a bit), but I wasn't feeling like range 10 was much help with the rest of the army dedicated to melee. I'm thinking something more like: Kaeris (Arcane Reservoir, Blinding Flame, Grab and Drop) Eternal Flame Firestarter (Imbued Energies) Rail Golem 2x December Acolytes 2x Rail Workers Think that would be a bit better? My game was against Ironsides so I struggled to set much of anything on fire for most of it, but I feel in most other situations I should be able to get that synergy going much better.
  8. I haven't seen this mentioned much at all but does anyone recommend using the (0) Truth In Flame much? I was thinking it'd be very easy to use turns 1 and 2 with the Rail Golem using (0) Vent Boiler before Kaeris activates for a stronger hand, has anyone tried this? I'm thinking specifically of trying it in a crew like: Kaeris (Arcane Reservoir, Blinding Flame, G&D) Eternal Flame Firestarter (Imbued Energies) Rail Golem 2x Gunsmiths 2x Rail Workers Seems like a decent mix of defense and offense, with a bit of ranged in there too.
  9. This is a fantastic idea, having errata-updated cards for sale makes my life easier - no more having to try and remember what changed in the Metal Gamin! Quick question, do you plan to mark the errata cards? Having something in the corner of the cards like "Errata 201X-XX" would help stop any confusion about errata and non-errata cards.
  10. I got a little wood and plastic dice holder from Brush 4 Hire's kickstarter (these ones). They're pretty handy and let me have multiple dice beside a model (say one for health and one for burning or some effect) without getting confusing or knocking dice over.
  11. I've really enjoyed her mobile gameplay but (and my experience is still pretty light) I find I really take her for Kang and his beautiful anti-Resser aura, since that's the only way to get him in Arcanists.
  12. I've enjoyed him with Ironsides (push her into a pile of enemies or make a pile to push her into) and Rasputina (since her crew feels so slow without Snowstorm). But I actually had no idea he had an upgrade card at all, it didn't come in my Troubleshooters box. Where do I find his upgrade?
  13. My local youtube gamers have said it's something they want to do eventually but they mostly do Warmachine. I think it'd be great if it was just a series of short videos (1 min?) just going over duels, what you can use soulstones for and who can use them, what the different conditions are, and maybe one turn of a small game to show how the turns work, etc.
  14. Exactly what Dirial said. Coming from Warmachine (and seeing a lot of the same in this regard in Malifaux) you need to be able to measure exactly from any line between bases for abilities and movement. If you're using cornered bases then there are going to be spots on the table where you can have three models and even though center-to-center two of the models are exactly the same distance away as the third their base edges may not be and that's kind of not okay.
  15. Hey all, I recently picked up the Kaeris box and was wanting to get them painted up and based but I have a small problem - while I found a nice tutorial for painting flames on models I haven't been able to find one for bases. All my crews have a dark brown gravel with rails and wood beams for their bases and that's generally what I was hoping to do for the Kaeris box set as well but with some burning effect to show the burning models (like Fire Gamin) walking along the rails. Does anyone have any recommendations on things to do or places to look?
  16. So I picked up Ironsides yesterday and was thinking of things to bring with her. She has Mouse for heals and her own heals as needed so I figured Johan would be a bit redundant but conditions can still be a pain. Would people consider bringing the Arcane Effigy with her? Fire fists and condition removal sounds pretty nice.
  17. I'm in the same spot as you are right now, pretty new to the game and started with Ramos. If you do get more spiders (and so far I've found even 6 to not be enough sometimes) they have a box of 6 right now for only a couple bucks more than a box of 3 so I'd say grab that: http://giveusyourmoneypleasethankyou-wyrd.com/collections/arcanists/products/arachnid-swarm-2-swarms
  18. Okay so we're steadily getting more responses in but I'm noticing that most of the "Not in _" comments are just for the first one or two Strategies. In the interest of filling this out with more information, Colette is voted the best Master to bring for Reckoning (tied), Squatter's Rights, and Stake A Claim, also second best in Reconnoiter. Are there any factions or Schemes you would not play her into with those three Strategies?
  19. Added that in, thanks Whut I've also stretched it out so you can see the full list instead of just the top 3 for each category, and in the case of ties I've given each name their own line (listed alphabetically) with all ties sharing a number to make it easier to tell. I hope you all have been enjoying the list so far!
  20. Okay, now that we have 10 responses I've edited in the results so far in the original post!
  21. I'm assuming your two Swarms are just the two medium bases? If you get the plastic Ramos box then you'll have duplicates on Ramos and Howard, but you'll get the Brass Arachnid, Joss, and more Steam Arachnids so that's something. I've never played Kaeris (yet, very excited for her box to come out) so can't help with her unfortunately.
  22. Hey all, what with me still being pretty new to the game I've been skimming through the search function a lot to look back on old conversations for various Masters and how they play, who to play them into, that sort of thing and decided to try and consolidate some opinions from you all here. I'm linking a quick little survey I threw together here just asking for each of the five Strategies which Master you feel is the best suited and who you think makes for a pretty good alternative option, with comment space for stuff like "not against Ressers, not in Assassinate, etc." The only request I have to make of you all going in is that when you click on the Master you personally think does best in whatever Strategy you don't click them again in the alternative section, I don't know the site nearly well enough to personalize the followup questions to take them out of the pool of options. Also I can only put in 10 questions and I was planning on putting a comment box in, but I guess that's what a forum is for lol. I hope you all enjoy the survey and once some answers start coming in I'd be more than happy to put up what people think here for everyone (especially we new players) to see The survey itself is right here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DTZKW8V Edit: The results of the survey after 14 people is as follows: The best Master for Turf War 1) Ramos (not Make Them Suffer) 2) Ironsides (not Outcasts, Assassinate, Deliver A Message) 3) Mei Feng (not Deliver A Message) 4) Kaeris (not Deliver A Message) 5) Colette 6) Rasputina 7) Marcus The best Master for Reckoning 1) Colette 1) Rasputina (not Outcasts) 3) Marcus 4) Mei Feng (not Deliver A Message) 5) Kaeris 6) Ironsides (not Deliver A Message) X) Ramos (selected zero times) The best Master for Reconnoiter 1) Ramos (not Make Them Suffer) 2) Colette 3) Kaeris 4) Marcus 5) Mei Feng 5) Rasputina 7) Ironsides (not Deliver A Message) The best Master for Squatter's Rights 1) Colette 2) Ramos 3) Kaeris (not Assassinate) 4) Marcus 4) Mei Feng 6) Ironsides (not Deliver A Message) 7) Rasputina The best Master for Stake A Claim 1) Colette 2) Marcus 3) Ramos 4) Kaeris 5) Mei Feng 6) Ironsides (not Deliver A Message) X) Rasputina (selected zero times) If you disagree with any of the above then please make sure you put your own $0.02 in with the survey above!
  23. So it's more to do with Firestarter but he's kind of Kaeris related, I don't have Firestarter's card (preordered the Kaeris box at my LGS though) but is it possible to have him triple Ignition the Rail Golem to bring it up to 7 Burning turn one? That seems like it could make for a good alpha strike in scenarios where that's handy to have.
  24. I would love to grab the Dark Carnival box but $90 plus international shipping is well beyond what I can explain If it had been something like $70-75 I could do it but... I'm very tempted to grab the Colette and Arcane Effigy boxes, they look great!
  25. My LGS orders Battlefoam so that's what I've used for Warmachine but I've heard good things about KR so I decided to look into it. Turns out the equivalently sized KR and Battlefoam Malifaux bags are almost the same price (about $50) which really surprised me - how is the cardboard box Not cheaper? :/ Magnetic trays sound interesting, but... I travel entirely via buses and the local skytrain so there's a lot of banging around. I wouldn't trust my models not to go flying every sudden stop on the bus. Eventually I'll get something for it in foam, I was just shocked that Battlefoam and KR's prices were so close (and both of them were doing $40+ for shipping alone...). Are there any other comparable brands people would recommend?
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