JoeJones

For Arcanists, I always go back to Rasputina. She was my first master, and is still just about my favorite. 

For Ressers, it’s tougher to say, but I do so enjoy playing Seamus. 

I’m happy to see you doing more Malifaux batreps. I always enjoyed your Warmachine reports - even more so since Khador was my main faction. 

I hope to see more from you soon, and I wouldn’t mind seeing some Arcanists or Ressers featured. 

For Public Demonstration, you have to hire the minions. Your specified minions must be within 4” of one of his master, henchman, or enforcer models at the end of a turn to score. 

With Public Demonstration in the scheme pool, I would recommend taking multiple Belles for an easy 3 points. That is probably the easiest GG2018 scheme for Ressers to score full points. 

Against that sort of Ramos crew (Disclaimer: Arcanists are my main faction, and Ramos is one of my favorite masters), you will lose models and you will be outnumbered rapidly. Take One for the Team is a good scheme option to take against an extremely killy crew like that one. 

To score Ply for Info, use your Belles to separate one model from the rest of his crew, and use that model to gather intel from.

There are some specific things you can do against a Ramos crew like that.

First, you must deal with Howard Langston. Either take a heavy hitter to deal with him or slow him down with a tarpit model (or more likely, models). Multiple Canine Remains or a Flesh Construct might be useful for this.

Second, try to disrupt his summoning before he overwhelms you with spiders. Find a way to separate him from his scrap markers and the rest of his crew. If he didn’t take the Under Pressure upgrade, Ramos is as vulnerable to being lured as any other model. If he did, he has Counterspell, and is therefore immune to lures - so you need to lure his crew away from him and kill them individually. (Yes, I am basing a lot of this strategy around having and using multiple Belles, because they are extremely useful, especially in numbers.)

Joss is a hard target who ignores most defensive abilities. Avoid if possible. If not possible, use armor-ignoring attacks against him.

Johan hits hard, but is otherwise slow and squishy. Kill at your leisure.

The Arcane Emissary is intimidating, but can only use its most powerful attack on a charge. If it charges in, that means you don’t need to use a lure to bring it into your kill zone. 

Hopefully, you will find some of this advice useful, and hopefully the other people going to the same tournament I am today won’t read this until after the tournament

Good luck, and good hunting. 

2 hours ago, thewrathchilde said:

Archie w/Doc Found a Squid Today & Hulking Leap, Izamu, and 2 x Rotten Belles. 

I would probably use a Dead Rider instead of Izamu, but otherwise this is identical to what I would use for HH.

I would take Rasputina, Ramos, Ironsides, Marcus, and Kaeris, since those are the masters I have painted.

It’s still a Ca attack action, and it is still targeting the same model, so as long as you have line-of-sight, you can blast him again.

19 minutes ago, Adran said:

If you do manage to take it on an instinctual model then yes you could take 3 (0) actions (2 of which could be the same). I can't think of an instinctual model off the top of my head that you could put it on, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. 

Technically, you could put it on Archie with Doc Found a Squid Today to get 3 (0) actions, but other than proof-of-concept, I can’t think of a reason to do so.

I was playing against a newer Guild player in the following pool:

Symbols of Authority 

Punish the Weak 

Take One for the Team 

Recover Evidence 

Dig Their Graves (not 100% sure on this one)

Take Prisoner (again, not 100% sure, since neither of us took these schemes)

My crew was:

Declared Faction: Arcanists 
Crew Name: Kaeris - fire & ice 50ss 
Leader: Kaeris - Cache:(4)
   Flaming Angel 2ss 
   Grab and Drop 1ss 
   Seize the Day 1ss 
Eternal Flame 2ss 
The Firestarter 7ss 
   Imbued Energies 1ss 
Arcane Effigy 4ss 
Soulstone Miner 6ss 
Soulstone Miner 6ss 
Silent One 6ss 
Silent One 6ss 
December Acolyte 7ss 

My opponent was using Sonnia, Samael, the Judge, an Orderly, a Witchling Handler, a Witchling Stalker, a Thalarian Queller, and the Brutal Effigy. I don’t remember which upgrades he took.

I took Punish the Weak & Take One for the Team (December Acolyte), and my opponent took Punish the Weak & Recover Evidence. 

My December Acolyte (with healing support from both Silent Ones) distracted Samael & Sonnia from the center of the board while the Soulstone Miners, Kaeris, and the Firestarter advanced. Sonnia fell turn 2 from repeated Harpoon Gun shots and a charging Soulstone Miner. (And yes, the Miner did get her soul in a stone.) His Orderly & Witchling Handler each took one of my Symbols, but my Silent Ones were able to hold them off from the third. The Firestarter  took out one Symbol, and Kaeris took the other two. Kaeris actually was able to kill a Thalarian Queller with Grab and Drop.

Final score: Kaeris 7, Sonnia 3. 

I scored 4 on the strategy and 3 on Punish the Weak, but my Acolyte failed to die for my last scheme. My opponent scored 2 on the strategy and 1 on Punish the Weak. By the time he revealed Recover Evidence, all of his surviving models were engaged in or near his deployment zone. 

Hoffmann, Ophelia, Wong, Lilith, & Perdita. Maybe Sonnia or Lady J. 

Who am I kidding? If I had unlimited time and money, I’d try to play all of ‘em. 

It all depends on the schemes & strategy, the terrain, the opposing faction, and what I feel like playing on any given day. Too many variables there to give a general list which could be competitive in any situation. 

Rotten Belles have become my autotakes recently. Archie, Anna, and the Dead Rider have also shown a lot of promise in my last few games. 

Running Marcus with all beasts is perfectly viable. The Sabertooth Cerberus and Blessed of December work well as extremely mobile beaters, and Canine Remains or Hoarcat Prides can work as scheme runners. I tend to add in a Rogue Necromancy, since it is one of my favorite beasts in any faction. 

Adding non-Beast models can work. When I started playing Marcus, I would run a December Acolyte or Howard Langston for some added firepower, but I’ve done that less as i’ve become more accustomed to using the beasts to their strengths.

All in all, Marcus is a powerful enough master to run well with whichever models you want to run with him. 

An insignificant model can do anything which does not require an interact action, assuming no other condition/keyword (for example, being a Peon) prevents said model from performing a specific action or scoring on a specific scheme. 

I haven’t played Kaeris much in GG18 yet (focusing on Ressers for a league at the moment), but in GG17, I ran her with the Firestarter, Eternal Flame, 2 Silent Ones, 2 Soulstone Miners, a December Acolyte, and the Arcane Effigy. I would take Grab and Drop and Flaming Angel on Kaeris, and Imbued Energies on the Firestarter. The Miners were my dedicated schemers and also could threaten my opponent’s back line. The Frozen Heart models were my main offense/heals/control module. Kaeris and the Firestarter filled in whatever role was needed, given their mobility and flexibility. 

The crew worked fairly well for GG17, but I feel it will need some modifications to run well in GG18, given the lesser emphasis on activation control and greater need for higher ranking models for many of the current schemes. 

Arcane Effigy, Silent Ones, December Acolytes, the Firestarter. Sabertooth Cerberus with Marcus. 

One corner case I stumbled across recently involved Ramos vs 10T.

Specifically, Ramos with Leviathan Power Core against Misaki with Risk & Reward. Add in a fortuitous first turn hand (both jokers, a 10, pair of 8s), Brass Arachnid, Howard Langston with Imbued Energies, and the 10T player going all-in on Risk and using all his cards by the end of turn 1, and I ended the turn with Ramos on Powering Up +6, full cache, and 2 points from Eliminate the Leadership. (I missed the point from reducing Misaki to below half wounds, since the decapitate trigger went off after she took only 5 wounds.)

Has the update reached the iOS App Store yet? I’ve checked on both my iPhone and iPad, and I haven’t seen an update for it yet.

For me, it depends on the master I’m using. The closest thing to an auto-include in my opinion is the Arcane Effigy.

If I’m running Rasputina, I will be bringing Snow Storm and the Wendigo.

If I’m running  Ramos, Joss, Hank, and the Brass Arachnid will be coming along.

Kaeris always brings the Firestarter. 

Anything else is scenario- or whim-dependent.

For never-takes, Mouse and Cojo head the list.

The Emissary can be good, but is usually overshadowed by other options (Snow Storm, Howard Langston, etc).

The Rail Golem’s weak Ml stat keeps me from fielding it at all - massive damage is only good if it hits.

Essence of Power is nigh-useless outside very specific lists and tends to be overshadowed by most of our totems. 

With me it varies greatly. For example, I went to a tournament last weekend, and when I saw the strats and schemes, my first thought was that I could use a single  Kaeris crew all 3 rounds... (Note: I did so, went 2-1 and ended up 6th out of 18.)

As mentioned in passing above, Convict Gunslinger with Return Fire is insanely good in Enforcer Brawl.

Return Fire + built-in positive flips to hit + Trigger Happy trigger = stupid amounts of carnage for 8 ss total cost

One of my local players has been using Ohaguro Bettari quite a bit recently. Bettari can put out a ton of damage and is surprisingly resilient if there are a few weaker models around for her to eat....

The text of that upgrade plus the new alt Sybelle model are giving me reasons to paint my Seamus crew....

Dr. Dufresne was packed as a bonus model in The Queen's Return box. You didn't get the wrong model; you got an extra model. And a nice one, at that.

Edit: Just noticed that the model in the pic is the vintage sculpt for Dr. McMourning, rather than the alt sculpt Dr. Dufresne. Same rules, but the wrong model.

Here's the real Nightmare:

Each. Whisker. Is. A. Separate. Piece.