Strype McClaine

I kinda jive with the reporters/entrapment theme-ing here: "Hey look the thing you are doing, its illegal. Ignore the fact I tricked you into doing the thing. Now I'm telling everyone you did the thing. This just in: Thatguy did the thing, news at 11." Also, since no one has said it. Anyone remember our girl Molly. Molly used to be a reporter..... Called shot: Pre-undead Molly as a special edition Nellie Varriant // What if // Undead Nellie as Molly variant. [AKA: There go i but by the grace of god] The huge What-IF-Conspiracy theory breaking here first, now back to Sports News with color commentary from Joss.

Welcome to the Kaeris team. 1) Learn how fall damage works. Grab and drop is your friend. 2) Never leave home with out blinding flame. It always comes in handy. 3) Try out Gunsmiths. They arn't for everyone, and most seem divided on them. I like them personaly. 4) Don't get fixated on burning them. Think of burning as a builder/spender resource that does incidental damage. 5) If you run gamin. Run them in. Target them with your own spells. Get value not just out of attacks, but of their deaths. 6) Mechrider is awesome. Rail Golem is awesome. Joss & Howard Langston are awesome. We are Arcanists (aka: buy the Ramos box, it goes with everything).

Oh that list looks like fun on a bun for a 35ss game. I might just hijack that. It contains so many of my favorite things.

^This. The only must buy in Arcanists, as a generalist purchase, is the Ramos box. Because everything after that is seriously a play style choice. Joss & Howard are just about the best models in the faction, and you'll be hard pressed to play, build, or even find lists that don't include at least one of them. Rasputinia is a safe choice because she is a take-my-thematic-models and go kinda master, who doesn't play as well with the rest of the faction, but is still a good choice. Easy to learn. Easy to Master, but there is a bit of a skill plateu where she isn't as good (for sake of counter play) then she gets better again. If you like casters. Grab the Ironsides box. Ironsides may be a tanky brawler, but the oxfordian mages are awesome, and the captain is also one of the most manly man who has ever man'd (tied with Joss) Personally I went all Union themed. So Ramos, Mei Feng (Might as well be union still) , Kaeris, IronSides

I used to joke that the Brass Arachnid just never did anything for me in my first few games of malifaux. It was a burden of a model. Hard to get on the base, hard to get painted, hard to get the thing moveing. Then, it redeemed itself in a duel vs Coladi. Despite being nearly tabled, the brass took out far more models than it should have. Since then, he has been re-wiring, reactivating, and chopping fools

Reactivating Howard with the Brass Arachnid, popping imbued energies for fast, swinging up the board to take out a flying teddy turn one? Reactivating MechRider with Brass Arachnid to pop out even MORE SPIDERS. Born of fire Ramos and spiders. Burning +1 each hit. Not being afraid to swarm the spiders together because its a legit dps machine. Mech Rider & Envy / Large Arachnid. Attack. Make scheme marker. Profit. Arcane Effigy to give Mei Feng burning on her attacks. Jackhammer kick to apply burning. Tiger Claws to get the positive twist. Does Eternal Flame acting like Joss's personal healer count? Since I play alot of Kaeris....STUPID KAERIS tricks Activating a fire gamin, charge in, do his things. Kaeris immolates the gamin to kill her own gamin with a ram to explode and hit 1+ burning 1 on the 1" pulse w/ born of fire trigger to put a gamin in base contact, before immolating the now burning targets? Ok, thats not really strong.... You can always use purifying fire to drop pillars, and then flaming halo's push trigger (Blinding Flame. Love the upgrade) pushing them through the two pillars for damage. Grab and drop + Raptors now kinda run schemes. So do Totems. Every Kaeris has a grab and drop story. Put burning on the mech rider to have a flying robot pony of doom? Actually using the fire-starter because he's awesome, not as a beater but as a scheme runner/burning spreader.

Truthfully, I'm only REALLY familiar with ol' Howard on the table, here's the few thoughts. Howard is... Costs 13 With imbued energies (because when do you not) and has only one upgrade slot. Is Fast as lightning getting up the board w/ nimble. terrifying, so he Eats the occasional card from the opponent. Hits harder (And most often, a low card to either flurry or cheat the decapitation) Would like your for decapitate. Has Steamcloud for protection against shooting crews. To synergize with Rasputinia, requires her to use AP to make him frozen heart, so often, unwanted Snowstorm is... Costs 11 with two open upgrade slots. Built in Frozen Heart for Rasputinia Synergy. Can use soulstones as a henchman for his suits & Protection Stronger vs shooting crews, for both himself and his team. (Meta dependent) Does less damage, but has some nice triggers to heal/bonus damage (/dependent). packed with Explosive demise 4, this is pro and con a bit. But at best, you use it to dive bomb when he's a bit on the damaged low side to suicide bomb in. Actually has a cast action, so has SOME range and can use his cast to target friendly models and burst onto them while dealing no damage, and has GREAT triggers on this cast (Potentially casting up-to 4 casts per turn w/ burst. Has a KILLER zero action to keep mobility up and positioning on the board. So after looking at the models, they server two distinct jobs. Howard is a giant scalpel who runs up and chops out some poor fool in half. He is fast, has some protection vs shooting. Snowstorm is a heavy hitter, but has a lot of movement and positioning shenanigans built into his card. The ability to target his own models with a blast that does nothing to them, then push models away for free. He wants a few masks, which raspy also wants, to get some great triggers off. Snowstorm is like blast caster number 2, that is a terror in melle if he gets into melle. Its more that they do two different tasks, Howard dashes in to kill. Snowstorm casts on his team to blast and push, then dashes in to finish them off. Think more like a skirmishy model like Bert Jebson. His gun is good, but his knife is better. Don't let your self get blinded by the on his claws.

I've been thinking on simmilar things, except with Kaeris. (Construct Burning Kaeris, Or Mages + Kaeris)...Except maybe just use Envy in that slot.... Joss/Laz Large Spider&Rail Workers are ALWAYS good, in almost any master (Except maybe Marcus)

Right. I just think of Joss/Ramos as holding various buffs and turning into a battle-station around them. Getting laz-blasts with burning seems pretty, pardon the pun, pretty hawt.

I think you'd get powered by flame wouldn't you? I forgot that assimilate wouldn't work with a named model in there. But being able to steal any of the other activation would still be pretty good. Forgot that Under pressure was MI only. Brass Arachnid Stealing would be pretty slick..... I run a heavy elite list with ramos anyways... I've gone Ramos + Howard + Joss + Brass + Toolkit (toDie) + Upgrades + Soft SwapSpot (Usualy Elite) and then just spider spam to fill out activation..

If your going Powered by Flame Ramos/Joss. Maybe a gunsmith to do things the hardway. Or go big and bring a big shooty Lazarus...get the construct bonuses from Ramos, and steal his spider summoning?

You know. I was thinking that exact thought. Either that, or the kneeling person with what looks like daggers, as a sabature master (play up the la resistance theme-ing of the arcanists).... But yea. Outcasts should have moar roguish bandits so I have a reason to dabble more into them.

The first thing that comes to mind...

MY Body IS ready for sand Gamin. They ARE coarse. And rough, and get everywhere. In all seriousness, you could do like crackle paint on the body, or why paint, just use superfine sand and just glue coat over the lil guy. ...Wait....Sand...Gamin means...Sand Golems.... Ok, lets reign it back some. Most likely not since he looks Sike. So Indian Sub-content. Could be some Oni/Deamon overlap with Rakshasa...or maybe a incorporeal Preta. I'm expecting more of a student of the world/student of magic theme ing from him. Explorers. Cross faction academics. Maybe like a bit of captain nemo in him

Academic? Arcanist? M&SU? awwww. At least 2 out of 3 aint bad.... But seriously. No. Yea. No Its time for magic party

Then again, Look at the new preview model?

Raspi is a good choice because she is self contained. Raspi's models don't stray too far from Raspi's Models.... But as an Archaist player, the best purchase, is still the Ramos Box. Because of Ramos. Joss. And Howard L. A few other things you can think of. Myranda might be worth buying as a single because she can act as a buffer for the blessed of d, getting into place and then shapechangeing into it. That way you have a neigh untouched Blessed in position. Lastly. The Tortoise and the Hare box. The hare (Mother Trucking Luther) counts as a blessed of December... And what self respecting arcanist player does NOT want a giant evil bunny hopping all over their opponents (and acting as a mirror shooting out ice blasts) Its a swaggy upgrade.

Thanks! With the combined efforts of your instructions, and the wyrd instructions. I might be able to finish these this weekend!

I always loved his face and his smile the most on him....He's a man who loves what he does. Willie is not too far from Wile E. (coyote)....and just is a cartoon-y demo man (though the wheel is a damn damn shame and goofy. I always imagine it with the most loud high pitched squeaky wobble)

Like Crossbeams?! OK, now I might be able to do that

If this ever comes back up. It would be cool to make these for players for ttb... </3

The Oxfordian mages have some really cool synergy with our burning lady. Consider them a bit higher than you would.

As someone who also started recently(ish). Please do your self a favor and Pick up the M&SU box. Joss goes in just about every Arcanist list. Howard is almost, just as ubiquitous. Give it some time, Kaeris is tough, but rewarding. I'm still trying to get the hang of her, and she is my main master. Also, the crossroads seven box, has a ton of mercenary models, so technically wrath is also a mercenary henchman...but envy might as well be, and has some interesting synergies with...our lady of infinite conflagration.

I was hoping to have them put together by today.... I'm downright baffled. Any chance for instructions?