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i have seen people mentioning Cavatica for use against the new Guild models.  shutting down kings wall aura to make the crew easier to kill. 

16 minutes ago, ElPuto said:

Thanks dude, exactly my thoughts.

My list right now is something like this:
5SS
McCabe2 + FWC
Luna
Botanist + FWC
Botanist
Corpse Curator
Cryptologist
Huckster
Sidir + TM

Lots of things to do, hope it can be a good starting point

Really good list but i would swap the 2nd FWC onto the other botanist to let you fully make the most of the once per game ability

6 hours ago, grrrfranky said:

So what does a Lady J title list look like? I've been playing og Justice for a long long time, and got the title box for christmas, so thought I should give it a go. Am I playing mostly in keyword with occasional lashings of pale rider and guild steward or is there a wider spread of versatiles?

I think it depends if you are going bury heavy.  usually seems to include Judge and Jury, Lone marshal and fillers.  Not sure if 33 is still popular or not.  The recent Vassal world series has some Lady J players in it so maybe have a look and see how their lists appeal to you. 

My usual list includes 3 noctures (2 with flush) and rook with treasure map. 

one nocturne i will keep beside Gibson as free card draw.

I love Eva personally but you need to respect her squishiness.  Her Lock away action can be devastating to the enemy if deployed right. 

Ping damage is a personal hatred of mine. Mai 2 and Mah 2 with sparks have a special place in my melting pile for their scrap marker/pit trap shenanigans 

Flush on any minions for the card draw.

im the same as you with the others. totally forget them. Hidden agenda i always forget the ping damage and treasure map i always forget the push until the model died in a position it wouldnt have been in if i had actually moved them. 

Hello all. 

Recently i have been taking my malifaux far too seriously in prep for events. Have been playing every game like its a top table final round must win.

Today i am deciding to have some fun while stepping back into guild and playing thematic lists/ total nonsense so i am looking to the hive mind for some ideas.

my current ideas include Gunline Dash, NHS Grimwell led medical list and trap/bird spam basse.

Send me your memes 

I have been toying with a Butcher Gunline list.  Being able to stone in executes from the riflemen seems like it could be fun. Cursed objects is probably the only viable strat for me to take the list into.  

9 hours ago, santaclaws01 said:

2 things that also need to be considered when evaluating Nexus2's performance in the MWS is the rulings on their two big rules questions.

1st, if a model is hit with multiple Join Us triggers, MWS rules that only one E&E summons.(Which I think is wrong)

2nd, if a model has shielded MWS rules that Burrowed Into The Spine will keep activating to deal damage until they run out of shielded or all 3 are used, whichever happens first. (Which I think is the most wrong of the 3 possible interpretations for it)

You cant just look at the MWS for the nexus performance tho.  Radek ran it in person at the largest event in scotland and went undefeated taking home the crown.  this is one of the few times that a master is showing strong across multiple metas in person worldwide and online. 

At the recent Scottish GT i played against a Dash1 spam list. 4 dogs and 3 guild guard.  It was in Covert operations and it was a tough game and a bad loss for me. 

well this was a roller coaster

At the Scottish GT this weekend  it was won by someone running Solo Nexus Kids so I would say that they have a place in GG3

Ivan 1 will be really good for the Marker scheme ( the 6 named markers in the opponents half) 

On the case of the Freeva i think most people are overlooking the fact it can use his mimic the turn he comes in.  He can hit the mask on the mimic get the place and hit with a stronger hit than his normal fists.  The Summoned Deava from Ivan 1 lacks this due to being stunned

On 7/6/2022 at 6:29 PM, admiralvorkraft said:

I won't play the title 'till it gets an errata so there's that. 

OG Perdita you're bringing in against heavy armor and high model-count crews I think. She has a perfectly decent ap-spam approach to the game, she's just more of a friendly obey crew than an aggro crew. I like her fine. 

What errata are you expecting?

Personally i hate playing against A&D.  and having recently played against someone playing horseman Levi using the Mech to drop scrap markers for A&D to zoop to i hate it even more

20 minutes ago, theamazingmrg said:

As someone who has played Basse 1 I completley agree.  Basse 2 does a lot of things that Basse 1 doesn't, but I still think I prefer the original because that shotgun is glorious.  I'm not sure which is better, but they do different things.

all kinds of this.  Basse 2 i feel tries to trap you into using dust clouds as death bed targets which is fine until he dies and you are unable to score the 2nd point. 

The amount of injured basse 1 can put out is glorious and not to be sniffed at

On 7/1/2022 at 9:43 PM, Maniacal_cackle said:

Basse markers get removed in the end phase, and since botanists are once per activation, they can't grow in the end phase.

Jedza can also grow them with geodes.

Basse with his new bandit pal can remove them but honestly dont think it would be worth it tho

23 minutes ago, hydranixx said:

Do you find them being pushed off the Leyline to be much of a problem? Especially when you have to come closer to the opponent to claim your 3rd or 4th Leyline?

Since I've started playing Botanists, I've become allergic to hiring any other model as a Leylines runner - that Planted Roots with Df7 (or effective Df8 with McCabe2) is just so hard to ignore.

My way of playing usually means i have the last activation so im able to sneak in without fear of retribution. 

I am fully on the Botanist hype train but i dont want to use them as a crutch in every master.  i do love them in McCabe 2 tho.

19 hours ago, hydranixx said:

 

It's interesting you say you dislike the two Strats that place Concealing terrain - I really thought Ivan's keyword would appreciate the ability to just get free plus flips while running the strat, and Eva seems great for both on paper.

I feel that eva becomes target number 1 when opponent sees her on the list and if you are hiding her shes not scoring and if shes scoring shes not surviving.

19 hours ago, hydranixx said:

 

For Leylines, while Nocturnes are plenty quick, they're made of paper so anything in the game will kill them, or just push them off the Leyline, so you're playing with fire if they're your Leyline runner. 

 

I never leave home without flushed with cash on the nocturnes which lets them survive a bit longer.  I tend to find def 6 and concealing keeps them alive longer than they should.

9 hours ago, Cranky Old Man said:

Thanks for the replies @hydranixx you don't rate Ivan into any of the strats?

I rate Ivan into most Strats. I hate symbols and dont really like him into Break the Line. He is killy enough for Turf and his noctures are speedy enough for Laylines

Mccabe is a good shout as mentioned above.

  I have had success with Ivan and also Basse winning tournaments running fixed lists with both.

1 hour ago, Maniacal_cackle said:

I used to be against chess clocks as well, but I find in practice it turns out to be mostly the time is yours during your activation, and you only end up passing it if the opponent is actually being slow.

but then how do you define slow? even a 30 second pause every time its your decision during an opponents activation will very quickly eat into your opponents time. 

To the person taking the pause 30 seconds wont seem long at all. for the person whos clock its eating into it will feel like they are being slow played

UK. Meta is 2h15 and i feel that most games get finished but there is still the odd game that lasts maybe 3 turns.

In the case of chess clocks i just feel that there is too much back and forth for them to be effective in any way.  take the following example

Model  declares attack against model with focus with focus

Declare attack *Click* defender decides if he is using focus *Click* flips attacker wins *Click* defender decides to cheat *Click*  attacker choses to cheat. *Click* SS user decides if they want to put a negative flip *Click* damage flip*Click* damage prevention *Click*  ACTION FINISHES

in the example you gave why not just let Mordrake die?