Freman

Probably a reasonable idea.

Basically any Freikorps that have useful abilities for Hannah to duplicate, like Librarians. I'm not sure about I Pay Better in small games. Cards are too precious to easily discard. I started with Rusty Alyce with From The Aether, as having a free model now and again can be very helpful, and giving her Instinctual as an upgrade allows her to summon every turn for a 7 and a 10.

And that is why news of it should have been kept under wraps until about three months out from release. Knowing 3.0 is coming out creates apprehension for players, as evidenced by this post.

I managed to eat Pandora by running a Rogue Necromancy into her.

So his main change is that you have to commit even more to summoning to get the best out of him?

You might still find the metal trapper turn up as a single on eBay and the like, but they've been out of production for a lot of years.

Or Sonnia.

Hamelin and as many condition immune models as possible. "Poison? What's that?"

They do look awesome.

^That would actually be pretty good.

Four of the masters I'm interested in, Collodi, Nicodem, Ramos, and Lilith, all gone. Hoffman is taking over Ramos's role in Arcanists, but there doesn't seem to be anyone for those who liked the other three masters.

They seem to have solved the Nicodem problem in 3rd edition. Remove him from the game. No Nicodem No Ramos No Lilith No Collodi So... no interest.

Remember Strongarm targets Wp at range, which can prove useful in some matchups.

Hannah has her uses.

Corpse Bloat and My Little Helper. 3 stones.

He received the Leveticus treatment. When you pick up a Malifaux master of the older generation, every rule on their card is written and balanced with every other rule on their card. If you change one then you have to be willing to change the others to rebalance them. Without his positive flips Leveticus has too low a damage track for a master. Without his ability to summon relatively healthy minions, Nicodem's role as a summoner ceases to be relevant. Asura Rotten and Kentauri were the things that pulled Nicodem above the high median. Kentauri could have been made unsummonable, or requiring two corpse markers. Asura could have had some of her abilities toned down, perhaps not summoning a Mindless Zombie until the end of the turn, but no.

I suspect that Nicodem has just received the Leveticus treatment. Leveticus was designed around the idea that you'd be burning his wounds and your hand to do a bunch of low but consistent damage. Take away that mechanic and suddenly his damage track is too low for a master. Nicodem is meant to be a support summoner, a bit like Dreamer, but he has no passive healing effect so one wound summons will just be chaff, and he probably won't have the resources to heal. If he had a passive healing aura, and could summon Undead Enforcers then the investment might be worthwhile... but probably not as it stands.

Shikome teamed up with Rafkin (specifically his aura) make mincemeat out of Joss and Howard, especially if you're able to "take their meds" to give them extra armour (doesn't matter) but put them on negative flips (matters a great deal).

Remembering all those positive flips would probably have helped with my last game with Nicodem. Also, I'm less concerned by Pandora now. Charging her with a Rogue Necromancy can work.

Wargame Vault has the past cards available for print. All the expansion decks are worth getting for the extra options they open up in your crew, although if you have the app you'll have most of them (except for models like Mindless Zombies which can't be hired so can't be accessed through the app, they didn't implement my idea of a "summon" menu which allows you access to the stats of models you're summoning).

Forgotten Marshal with a Malifaux Raptor (courtesy of McMourning with Test Subjects) can do Surround Them by himself.

I think I've managed to get four Rat Kings on the table once, but I was really working on it. Rats tend to be cycled into Kings, or just die, so I don't think I've managed to put all 12 down. On the other hand I do keep forgetting that enemy models, and friendly models with blight, that die near Hamelin also summon rats, so there's that.

I have twelve, and five Rat Kings.

Of course if Leveticus is an example a hit on Nico will relegate him from top tier to bottom third, about level with Seamus.

I just left the head on the sprue, added a dab of plastic cement, and pushed the beard into place.