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Without knowing the details of how Sparks works, I'm also liking the idea of a 4AP Pigapult. Does Sparks' explosive ability confer blasts to friendlies? Cause that'd be freaking awesome for the 'Pult. No more penalties for using Stuffed Piglets - use regular ones and still get blasts?!

Necro strike! So, I'm just starting to warm to Lilith as well, and while I like Nephilim and they obviously fit with her fluff-wise, I can see the Swampfiend/terrain synergies with her as well. Could anyone suggest a good Swampfiend list for her, and are there enough models with terrain marker abilities (I'm thinking along the lines of Lilith's and the Waldgeist's Illusionary Forests, etc) to make a list themed around putting down forests, rooting things, dragging them out/in for damage and that sort of thing? I know the new Emissary would fit with that style. Thanks!

Went looking for comments specifically like this OPs after seeing the Ice Dancer's render for the first time today, and am glad that there seems to only really be this one. Because obviously there'd be some people of the opinion that while it's fine that the male models can range from buff like Big Jake to slovenly and grotesque like Mortimer, the female models ought to all be lithe, big-breasted comic book-esque fantasies. I'm really intrigued as to why Wyrd did give this Ice Dancer sculpt a bit of a heavier physique, because it's something that - given the status quo of female representations in comic books, movies, games etc - would have resulted from a conscious choice on their part. And good on them - I think it's brilliant (and, as Bengt said, refreshing). More of that please, Wyrd! King of Draconis - it's cool if you don't go for bigger chicks. That's just your deal, and you're not the only one. Just in regards to a range of body types being portrayed in sculpts, it's not such a problem, is it? There's still plenty of slim, hot-looking female models in the Wyrd range, so is it such a big deal that you personally don't find one of them particularly alluring that you think Wyrd needs to yank it from the product line and photoshop the render like in a Dove commercial? ;-)

I've got Tara's crew box, and I have no conception of how she'd fit in with Rezzers (other than Karina's summoning, that is), so I was interested to see what suggestions came up for her. From what little I know of the two two Enforcer suggestions, I'd definitely go for the Rogue Necromancy. Built-in Necro-Bomb Then again, for her Rezzer side, maybe Tara wants to play a different game...

Fair point - I'd better ask what the 10T Master's boxes would look like with crew for their "undercover" faction then! Although, as Bengt pointed out, Lynch is already kinda covered for that.

Cool. Is there any in-game synergy between Zoraida's and Swampfiends, tho? Or is that just a thematic label? I know McTavish has his mechanics for them, but you say that he himself isn't particularly wedded to Zoraida, right? Forgive me - I'm still a noob to the game, and I'm working my way through the fluff at the moment, so I have no idea what her themed Gremlin crew would be. I'd have kinda thought that Sammy would be a contender, as she seems to be a kind of an apprentice to Zoraida. Slap me if I'm way off base there!

Are there any other "Fae" models in the game? I'm sure I've seen that label on some other card somewhere.

Just for fun, what would you put into the Crew Box of a dual faction Master, if that box was to represent their other faction? Thinking about starting Zoraida got me onto this, as I'd be coming at her from the Gremlin side and her Crew Box seems much more Neverborn. So...who've we got? Zoraida Lucius McMourning Tara And the six 10T dual Masters, who may not be too different from one another if they each had a 10T Crew Box: McCabe Lynch Brewmaster Misaki Mei Feng Yan Lo

Something something "Betrayed by fate"... ?

I'll be coming up for this as well. Put me down for either Neverborn or Gremlins. I know you're the only Henchman offering Gremlins, so if someone else wants to pair with you for them, no worries - I'll go NB.

On my way, with pigs to play!! Looking forward to it.

You makin' it after all? I'm heading up from Huntly (and this would be the embarrassing part where i learn that DrEvilmonki is the man I've already arranged a lift with!). :-)

Forgive the necro (it's not so old tho, this thread), but: On some auras I read the qualifier "other friendly xxxx models" are affected. I know that normally auras also affect the model causing the effect, so when there's this stipulation of "other" models, does it mean that the originating model is, in these cases, unaffected by it? (I'm specifically looking at Somer's "Encouragement" upgrade, but it's fairly common to see this, I think). Thanks!

Thanks all. I'm not naturally drawn to the Lightning Bugs, to be honest. But I'm getting more used to happily nailing my own Gremlins to get them to perform better. Played yesterday with an "Oooh Glowy"-ed Rami, (flanked by Lenny, of course), and one-shotted a Black Blood Shaman at 30" on the first activation of the game. Sick. Still, Rami walked away from that with only 1 wound left, and Lilith soon caught up with him... :-) One thing I'm still unsure of is how effective Wong's blasting is going to be at the 35ss level, when there are probably fewer models around to bunch up. What do you think? Are there any Masters who naturally tend to clump up, no matter what?

I'm looking over which Gremlin master to take with me into a set-list 35ss noob's tournament, and it's either going to be Wong or The Brewmaster. Reading this thread has been massively helpful - thanks all. One thought about giving ranged defense for Brewie - would a 6ss Bayou Bushwhacker be too extravagant? (0) Action to put out a 3" Soft Cover aura?

I've been wondering - does that mean I could use the "Crackerjack Timing" action twice in one turn - once with Lovely Assistant, and once with Burt? The Action has the limitation "this action may only be taken once per turn" on it. Building on that, I'm trying to come up with a decent 35ss Wong list for an upcoming noob tournament (only fresh players who've never been in a tourny before can enter). I've played a couple of lists, but if anyone can give some feedback, I'd really appreciate it. The 3 rounds are: Game one:Deployment:Standard deploymentStrategy:Squatters rightsSchemes:A line in the sandBreak throughBodyguardMake them sufferPower ritual.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Game two:Deployment:Corner deploymentStrategy: ReconnoiterSchemes:A line in the sandBreak throughProtect territoryPlant evidence Entourage----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Game three:Deployment: Flank deploymentStrategy:ReckoningSchemes:A line in the sandAssassinateDeliver the messageDistractCursed object For a trial game on the round 1 setup, I played: Wong (+ A Gremlin's Luck), Old Cranky, Sammy (+ Oooh Glowy), McTavish (the Glowy target), 2 Bayou Gremlins and 3 Stuffed Piglets. It went pretty well against a Zoraida crew, McTavish doing good damage but him, Sammy and Cranky clumping up and being quite static so everyone got everyone else's bonuses. For a trial of the 2nd round, I took: Wong (+Oooh Glowy), Old Cranky, Killjoy (+ Dirty Cheater), Wild Boar, 2 Bayou Gremlins, 2 Stuffed Piglets (against a Pandora crew). One of the Stuffies raced up and self-imploded to release Killjoy, who I thought would be nigh-unbeatable so I charged him into Pandora and only lived through the self-flagellation because of my opponent's crappy cards. He went on to kill her, and I won the game, but I'm just a bit wary of making such a large investment in Killjoy at 35ss level. It's truye that he could be a game-changer, though. What do you all think? I'm also considering the Wong/Burt/Gracie (and maybe Sammy) crew, or one heavy on Wild Boars to start upfield and Sammy/Lenny summoning more pigs. Cheers!

Hi all! Just after a 1-word Critique from whoever's happy to leave me their opinions! This is my first time venturing into writing, let alone fan fiction. I'm participating in a little Shifting Loyalties campaign with a good little group of guys here in New Zealand, and a couple of us are doing some fluff background for our crews. I'm running Mancha Roja to start, with a view to building up to Wong, so I'm putting Wong on the trail toward his loyal Henchman. I'd really appreciate any critique that anyone has to offer, and thanks for reading! (apologies if I inadvertently contradict canon here - I don't know enough about the Malifaux universe yet to reliably avoid those kinds of mistakes) The Wong Stuff, Part 1: Last Train to Spotsdale (Stop). Little Lucy hated living in Spotsdale Stop. All the townspeople looked wrong to her somehow - just shuffling around with no energy, their eyes locked on their feet. They made her sad. Made her feel heavy. That's why she would usually spend as much time as she could in the swamp out back of town, catching baby skeeters and lizards, and listening to the noises of the frogs (they were singing to her!). AuntyMummy had stopped her going out there now. She'd come home a couple of weeks ago with her best Sunday dress full of mud and slime and stench, and that'd been the last straw. So now, the best fun to be had was to just sit at the town's eponymous railway station and hope that someone interesting might arrive on the 11:55 daily from Malifaux. That hadn't happened though, on any of the seven previous days that Little Lucy had spent sitting on the edge of the platform. She just whiled away the day there, sometimes running up and down till she was spent, then collapsing on the solitary bench that faced out to the swamp, flushing her with bitter anguish because AuntyMummy had forbidden her to go out there again, on pain of losing her prized possession - her magic set. Lucy used to pack up her "Wong's Patented, Prodigious, Phantasmagorical & Probable, Efficiency Enhancing Ectoplasmic Enchantment Kit! (now, in "Super-Sterile"!!)", and toddle off to the bayou to put on a practice show for her amphibious friends (she still thought of them as friends, even though many of them had met instantaneously sticking ends, becoming plastered in the process against various trees, vines, stumps and genuinely shocked alligators-in-hiding). Lucy was still working on retaining the physical presence of her audience, before putting on a show for the townsfolk in Spotsdale Stop, but how was she meant to get better now, when she had nowhere to practice? Today, on Lucy's eighth day of her railway vigil, she'd decided to bring her magic set with her. Yesterday, on the way hone, she'd gone a different way (around the back of Virgil Awlins' hardware store, instead of down the main street in front of it), and had suddenly seen Mr Awlins' nice big stockyard with new eyes... Of course! Here was somewhere that she could practice her magic! Behind, between and around the corner of so many piles of metal, lumber, timber, slumbers and hammers, no-one would could see what she was up to - not even from the station next door! She happily went straight there with a packed lunch of peanut butter bread and a gallon of milk, her "Wong's 3P By 4E Kit", and a box full of frogs that she'd captured and brought home the last time - the last time - she was allowed in the swamp. The morning hours flew by in a flash (and a few "WHOMPF!!'s", "POOF!!'s" and "'ribbet'-BLAM!!-SQUELCH!!!'s". So engrossed in her labours was Lucy that she did not notice at all the high-pitched toots of the arriving train. It - quite literally - ground to a halt on the warped and rusted tracks that the Spotsdale Stop Town Council maintained they had no money to, well, maintain - and disgorged it's usual cargo of letters, parcels and essential goods, along with a rarity - one fully fees-paying passenger. A short man, he nevertheless stood very straight and gave the impression of being quite formidable ordinary in stature (or would have, had any of the depressed townsfolk been fussed to look up and notice him). He wore a dusty black tuxedo, slightly worn at the elbows, and he wore a very tall top hat, bedecked with fine golden symbols around the band. He carried with him a leather kit-bag of deep maroon, and with a pattern that at first suggested that it was made from the hide of an enormous snake, the scales individually being half the size of the man's hand. The clasp on the kit-bag was apparently gold, and was polished to the highest sheen, reflecting the noonday sun as the stranger made his way off the platform, toward the station entrance. Lucy was down to her last frog before she realised all that she had been doing wrong, was wanting to magically make them jump too high, and the poor fellows never had any wings! She wanted them to jump all the way up into the sky, so that they could fly home and be with their friends again (with her help!), but she hadn't given them any wings with which to do it! Full to the brim with excitement over her momentous discovery, Lucy aimed her wand at froggy final, and closed her eyes and concentrated on visualising him instantly sprouting huge, black feathery wings, just like the ones she'd seen on the vultures and buzzards out in the desert whenever she rode the train to Malifaux town. Lucy took a deep breath, opened her eyes, and willed the spell to power... When Lucy woke up, she found herself lying next to a pile of timber some 10 feet away from where she'd cast the spell. Some funny-looking man was lying a few feet away from her, starting to pick himself up off the ground and gather his wits. She looked to where the frog had been, but couldn't see him there anymore. He seemed to have been replaced by an oozing red ball of feathers and fluids that pulsated slightly every few seconds, but then shortly stopped moving altogether. The man by now had recovered himself, and Lucy could see him in profile as he reached for his hat. She realised that he wasn't really a man after all - he had green skin, and long, wispy hairs on his top lip, and his ears were huge and pointy. He was just turning to face her when Lucy realised what his silly-looking peaked hat meant. He was a wizard! The man fixed her with a frighteningly fang-tastic smile, but one which Lucy felt was supposed to put her at ease, and made his way beside her. He stretched out one hand full of claw-filled fingers to help her up, and said in a high-pitched and rapid speech, heavily accented from somewhere exotic, "Well, little lady. I think I may have just the adventure for a girl of your talents. Come, Lucy", (she started at the stranger knowing her name), "We have an awful lot to accomplish together"...