Granty1982

Anyone going to this looking to split a room or have space for 1 more?

Safe journey to all those travelling from abroad. See you all on Fri/Sat.

Use Seamus:-)

It depends a lot on strats and schemes but into dashell my advice is to just ignore him. As an all comers list I'd probably go; Seamus with whisper Copycat Doxy with gsp Doxy with gsp Bete Gravedigger Possibly Mano or a dandy Enslaved or a gwisin 5ss cache minimum. Delete the big minions or enforcers and scheme with bete plus seamus

@ScottishMetaLew Any update on teams/nations Lew?

Ticket bought. I can also bring 1 complete table of terrain and enough terrain for another if you have a spare mat

Correct

Soooooo, what's happening with this now?

It really depends on the strats, schemes and opponent. I'm currently toying with the idea of dropping the gravedigger for a doxy but need to test it. Toshiro is there for when I know I'm going to be on the receiving end of some hurt and having played Matt quite a bit I knew he would be bringing the ruder and archie with the intent of hammering Seamus. I got very lucky and for the second game in a row I believe he flipped a black joker on defence. Seamus in my opinion and many would argue that it's not worth much Haha is that people that have played Seamus are often falling into the trap people did with the m2e viks slingshot. They spend so much time focused on Seamus that they loose sight of all the other toys on the table. Reice, a club mate of mine and UK best bayou player is really tough to play against and his advice to people is generally to just ignore seamus and accept he will kill a model a turn. Focus on scoring points and playing your game.

Mortimer, bete, toshiro, manos, Vincent and asura are the interchangeable models

Molly was assumed dead anyway Haha! Serves you right for hiding 2 scary beaters behind night terrors! Was so bloody happy you didnt play Kirai in that pool too as would have struggled

My crew varies a bit from game to game so the initial setup is a little different but as a basic idea let's assume I'm using the following; Seamus(whisper) Copycat Emissary Toshiro Gravedigger Archie Mortimer Crew will for up around GD with archie and copycat on a wing. First activation grave digger will pulse out focus. If I have the tome, give a second focus to toshiro and move or drop a scheme if dig graves is in pool. Mortimer will then RIP out a corpse and start moving to position I want to hold. Toshiro activates and summons an ashigaru, pushes it 3 and gives it focus and gives Seamus his second focus. Carrion emissary moves to a place where is can drop 2 marker on centre line, replacing one with a MZ in opponents half. Seamus then teleport in and murders something with 2 focused shots then ports away or if I'm brave charges into melee. If I charged copycat gets him out of dodge. If I didnt copycat moves into a position I want seamus later in game. Really depends on terrain. Archie then moves to wherever I need pressure, anti scheming or scheming himself. Activation order can change slightly but that's pretty much it. Matt's comment above is true and highlights why whisper on Seamus can ruin an opponent. Pay close attention to what's been flipped as well as with stoning you will have seen 8 cards in your hand. After a turn one blitz like above the opponents Angus clenches and you just need to mop up the models he tries to position. A great example of that is vs dreamer I was able to kill both the bandersnatch and chompy in turn one using Seamus and Vincent (opponent flipped black so huge luck involved) It can be shut down very well too. Steve Johnston took misaki who Seamus hates more than shen as well as loads of ruthless, high armour, h2k models giving Seamus no real targets. Fortunately he is a shit hot scheme runner which is what he became in that game.

So what we all like to see done with Sybelle and the keyword to make it useable in competitive play? With the belles rather than giving Seamus positives on just to hit but dmg too would make me want to take all keyword models although may be too strong. Sybelle I'm not sure. Some kind of card draw would be nice as that's what I feel is missing personally.

Imo having played against shen then only issue is the 6" push and irreducible dmg. Other than that hes fine.

Yes I've used Sybelle a fair bit and would love to use her more as I've got the alt model which is one of my favourite sculpts. As you say she can be amazing but I find on average Archie achieves more for the same cost. I dont think I killed many things with Archie all weekend and used him mainly as a big scary scheme runner or anti scheme runner as Seamus did the heavy lifting in the crew. I'll have a look at nurses as in all fairness I've totally overlooked them to date. I'm not sure if I've even read their card Haha!