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Best way to expand from the Von schill crew? Keep the freikorps-crew but replace Von Schill himself by your newly acquired Tara.

And talos is kind of our offensive bury model. imean hes like a nastier death marshal who can damage buried models without them being able to resist. Its just thats hes one model and kinda expensive.

Mostly not worth to make opponents fast to reduce their WP unless its Pandora and she allready activated this turn. Talos is Kind of a tank, takes a charge to the face but has armor and Terrifying and if you can keep him alive he just "Omnomnoms" that nasty alpha-Teddy and is back at full health again.

Sooo... offensive bury shouldnt be restricted to one model buried. And shouldnt be a simple Duel. so what are we looking at. Death marshall Aionius on severe Donkey Rider Hannahs upgrade Talos Models being able to copy from those: lazarus can copy talos bury. Hannah can copy lazarus copy to copy talos bury. Hannah can copy death marshall bury. hannah can copy malifaux child copy to copy taras copy to copy any bury action of an buried model. tara can copy bury actions of buried models. Malifaux child can copy taras copy of buried models with bury actions. So... offensive buries are rather bound to expensive models ore need a lot of setup. BUT are possible. My guess would be hannah, lazarus and talos as your 3 offensive bury models and then a bunch of void wretches.

When will second edition be reeassed as PDF? im still burning witing

My Guess of powerlevel: 1. Hamelin still best, got another boost. 2. Viks were allready strong, got even better due to Scion of Void and their new Upgrade boost. 3. Tara Which received a nice boost as well and seems to me the second best Supporter (Hello Hamelin :P) with a nice Bonus to being able to counter many obnoxious crews relying on hiding or bury mechanics. 4. Misaki because she fills a Niche as our dedicated Blast-Master which outcast didn't had till now. 5. Jack Daw who's a combination of beater and Supporter but didn't get any boost and seems a bit restricted by his Keyword (even though Nurses are great) as well as having other Masters being better at beating and supporting. 6. Levi who has the biggest Hiring pool but got cuddled kinda hard which hurt him badly because hes now our "Big hiring pool Master" instead of "Big Hiring pool Beater" which isn't enough in my opinion. 7. Von Schill who got a Boost but still... Take a VS crew and replace VS with hamelin and its straight out better. Take a VS crew and replace VS with Tara and its straight out better. Hes not as bad as before but he still lacks in beating power (Although he can pull of a cool attack-Combo with his new Upgrades by hitting throwing, shooting, pushing, hitting again on plus flips but it's kind of a BJ fishing) and is still supports only his Keywords and doing a poor job at it. 8. Parkers still the worst. Very Squishy but wants to be on the Front. Highly restricted by his Keyword. High Target numbers and Actions not strong enough for the hoops you have to jump through to make them work. Often even allowing your opponent to choose the most convenient outcome. Not to mention that they often cost SS to reuse again.

Theres definitely sth to it. But once you see snipers in the opponent team you should deploy all your models in cover or out of LoS. This Crewsetup fortunately doesn't need LoS to deliver Misaki. But yes. buried Models or Sniper kinda counter this List.

Well you pay 7SS to get activation controle and 4 additional Handcards for an alpha, and to get Misaki and Deso whereever you want. And since when were void wretches or rat catchers suboptimal schemers?

Step 1 of my Plan to make the Outcast players of malifaux loose all their friends is completed... Muhuahaha!

Yamaziko is the cheapest hench available

thx

Because yamaziko is 7 SS and the cheapest henchman i could fit in >.< the crew can unfortunately only spent 50SS.

Hans as well doesn't randomise when he wants to kill the WP. And yes, maybe its just to prevent BJ screwing but BJ screwed me like thousand times when i built this list so i'm kinda overcautious. And yamaziko sint bad. 7ss, anti charge aura, nimble and min damage 3. she makes for some good schemer/anti-schemer.

You could use trapper as well but not needing LoS is a great benefit tbh. And hans can more reliably kill the winged plague if needed.

What do you think bout this list? Misaki: The Thunder (1SS), Oathkeeper (1SS), The bigger they are (1SS) Yamaziko (7SS): I pay better (1SS) Hans (8SS): Scout the field (1SS) Rat catcher (6SS) Winged Plague (4SS) Void Wretch (4SS) 4x Abomination (16SS) What this List is supposed to do: Prepare for a good alpha strike turn one by gaining activation Controle, a good Hand and a good Position for our Beater (Misaki) You Spent 1SS for 2 additional Cards. You will need at least one tome and one low card. The rest of the cards should be as high as possible. 1 Activation: Abomination draws a Card by damaging another Abomination and hits Winged Plague once. Winged Plague relents. 2-3 Activation: Abomination draws a Card by damaging another Abomination. 4 Activation: Abomination draws a Card by damaging another Abomination. Then Sacrifices itself and 3 nearby Abominations to summon a Desolation Engine. 5 Activation: Desolation Engine takes a defensive stance. 6 Activation: Rat catcher reactivates Winged Plague abd hits Winged Plague. Winged Plague relents. 7 Activation: Yamaziko walks but stays within LoS and 10" of Hans. 8 Activation: Void Wretch hits Misaki. Misaki relents. Void wretch cheats in a Tome to burt her. Misaki cheats down with low Card on the TN13 to get buried. 9-10 Activation: Winged Plague flies 24" to a Place where you want to deploy Misaki for the Alpha. 11 Activation: Hans discards a Card for "I pay better" to get a free focus. He focuses again. He then discards "Scout the field" so he doesn't need LoS to the Winged Plague and shoots the winged Plague. Winged Plague relents. Hans gets a double- to the damage Flip which neutralises his fouble positive due to the doublefocus. (This is done to minimise the chances to getscrewed by BJ). Winged Plague dies, Misaki gets placed within basecontact of Winged Plague. 12 Activation: Misaki discards Oath keeper spents her last stone for a Plusflip and charges a low def-target to blast off 4 times. She declares her trigger to allwas cheat and cheats in the highest cards you can afford. She tries to deal as much damage as possible. Don't forget that her Attack and Blasts deal +1 additional Damage to non Leaders with Upgrades and that her blastdamage can't be reduced. Turn 2: should you loose initiative. Try keeping misaki alive. Dont forget that shes on + to Defense due to no Stones left. Activation 1: Void Wretch hits Desolation engine. Desolation engine relents. Void Wretch cheats in tome to bury desolation engine. Desolation engine cheats down the TN13 to get buried. This is our Backup should Misaki die. If she dies, Deso engine unburies in Base with her and takes over as out beating tarpit. Activation 2: If misaki is still alive, shell keep blasting stuff. If she's dead Deso engine hits and pulses Stuff. Yamaziko, rat catcher and Void Wretch run schemes now. Hans can try to focus-shoot to support. What do you guys think?

And does anyone got some experience with da list?

Im planning on fielding 4-Rider Levi. I really like the fluffyness and style of the 4 Riders BUT... im not sure how competitiv this list might be or wether its an Im-auto-getting-my-ass-swiped list i won't have any fun with. Next which 4SS constructs should i get for mechrider and which upgrades would you recommend slapping on Levi?

Ups, my bad.

Maybe Chiaki so she can make Tara fast? Dead of winter + Yin can be a pain in the ass. not sure bout bete noir. Some say shes a trap but dunno sounds like synergy to me Else she mighthave enough ap to make use of the "summon a rogue necromancy upgrade" Else maybe activation controle spam summon toshiro and emmisary?

Weird Scenario. Alyce with a shopping List from Levi: "Dear Alyce, plz go to to Town and get me some Screws, Motor Oil, a mechanical Arm and just a random guy named Joss"

I often read the argument of "he's a toolbox" but thats kind of a weak argument when all his tools are mediocre compared to the tools other masters have. Oh, you CAN jump though lot of hoops and a 8 to make another model generate an additional AP and move it up to its walk... or you could just obey the model for a 7 to do a walk... or you could pay a 7 to make the model fast so it can walk or do something else. All these other options are toolboxes as well but toolboxes using less ressources and being less situaional. Compared to some all-solving hammer.-abilities... his toolbox just doesn't shine. And dont take me wrong, hes fun and i like and play my parker crew but hes far from anything but good.

Parker would become much more viable if they upped the gain of his soulstones through actions and abilities from 1 to 2. and maybe lowered his targetnumbers and suitrequirements. His mechanic in itself isnt broken. Just needs a bit numbertweakinh. This way he could fit his role as a ressource generator-master. Which would be cool. But the way hes now hes shredding your own ressources instead of generating them. When i played him i felt i gemerated 2-3 stones per round but used just as much or even more to make him work. being able to generate 4 +soulstones a round wouldnt be this gamebreaking considering he needs to use 1-3 stoned per round for himself just to work smoothly. stoning like hell to stay alive and paying stones to use his actions appropiately. But itcould be enough to give him a role if you end up having 1-2 additional stones per round left to the rest of his crew. THEN you could call him a ressource-master. And its not like soulstone-pool advantage was ever a gamebreaking thing.

Lets be honest... Parker's never the best pick. Even when played into his niche. BUT he's less bad at the pools hes good at

Played properly even Cross7 can give hard time >.> But i have to quote some podcast i heard "even if parker had all his upgrades at once and didnt have to swwap them, discard soulstones for his actions, would he be as good as Viks hamelin or tara?" and sadly its no. His abilities are way too expensive in high cards and niche to compete with other masters abilities. Being able to give another model a free shoot IF the opponent doesnt drop a soulstone... is still weaker than n obey or being fast and getting another attack without the opponent being able to cherry pick. Being able to give another model he opportunity to interact is still weaker than an obey or being fast and getting the same stuff done this way. Even if you hit the red sppot with parker... its still not much better than a simplle obey or getting fast with the difference that parker demands higher cards, is less resilient and need to jump through a lot of hoops to do his actions. The one thing safiing his neck is the "hesniche and shines in scheme heavy pools" thats the one thng he does good. he can at scheme markers as if they were cookies and can place enemy scheme markers ear other enemy shememarkers to create big deny-zones on the table. Parker can spam the centerline with yur own cheme marker to a point ur not more able to score claim jump because schememarkers near other scheme markers near you dont counnt and you cand pick them up by yourself. theres no interact to pick up friendy schememarkers. He can really mess ths way but thats... the scheme-marker-heavy pools-niche.

7" away from their models.so they cnt reach and interact even when wlk 6.