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1 hour ago, bertmac said:

Mei Feng is already card dependant herself.

Mei is card dependent if you're using her as a beater, for which she's not bad, but she better as a support master from what I've seen, especially with the new rail lines upgrade. Giving the Rail Golem +1 walk and the teleporting it up the field, then protecting it from shooting and casting until it decides it wants to do its thing... It could be pretty good. Envy or Lazarus+ Kang into ressers or if you expect constructs can be mean as well.

8 minutes ago, Franchute said:

Question about steamfitters: their Weld Metal Plate has a trigger on a  where they can take the action again after succeeding. Weld Metal Plate is a Ca action with no  included. How can you get two ?

Their tools for the job ability, you get the suit of the card you discard till your next activation

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You could probably do a really cool greek mythology based nightmare marcus box.

We do have good minions, but remember that any frozen heart wouldn't work for some of his stuff, since they don't take horror duals.

Sonnia would probably appreciate the Essences of Power and Arcane effigy, however.

Just to pull them into the bubble I'd imagine.

1 hour ago, spikes said:

I posted my Ironsides bat rep on my blog if anyone's interested: http://malifauxsg.wordpress.com 

Something I noticed while reading this, did you take into account that Nico would have had to take the WP dual from challenge in order to give things fast? Because that's totally a thing.

4 hours ago, frostwolf428 said:

Sadly I can't earn guilders...there are no tournaments in my area. The average distance I'd have to travel is about three hours to get to a tournament

You'll occasionally see people selling them on the Wyrd trades facebook page, and could probably ask to buy some and get some responses. Not sure what the going rate for them is though.

1 hour ago, spooky_squirrel said:

Any direction. It says "push target up to 2" for each [tome] in the final duel total."

Cool, that's what I thought, but I played it the other way to be more conservative. Interestingly, my opponent made the exact opposite argument in that since it doesn't say "in any direction" it's only directly away. Woo, more wording to clear up in 2.5!

Something that came up in the last tournament I played and I'm not sure which way the ruling actually goes: Is the ox mage push any direction or directly away?

I think an Alt Miranda would be a good one. Widely used model that you can only get in a master box (granted, that comes with things she can transform into, but still.) Actually, a nightmare Marcus box could be really cool, but we already got colette, so don't expect that.

With the new Raspy upgrade, an alt Ice Golem could be cool too, since they aren't rare.

Also, though she's not arcanist, she is academic, so I'd like to see an alt Freikorps Librarian that you don't have to buy a full box for. I think that's generally the best way to go with things, models that are widely used but can only currently be gotten in master boxes.

So, Steamfitter can now give Armor to masters for the rest of the game. What do you guys think of Armor 1 Trail Marcus? Could bring along Ferdinand/The Beast and a toolkit for Marcus +2 beasts to have armor the rest of the game. Seems reasonably strong, especially on things that have Hard to Wound.

Don't necessarily need him to generate the scrap, run Joss or a Arachnid and and a toolkit for 2 turn one (or Ferdinand/The Beast for 3), none of which are bad models, so it's like 3 stones for armor 1 on 2 or 3 people. Probably worth.

What's the TN for Weld Metal Plate btw? That could change how viable this is. And the Armor is still until the end of the game right?

5 hours ago, Kaiser Senpai said:

I have done some scouring and have now heard the same thing from two different sources.

Keep in mind you'll still need to ditch two cards to get the scrap needed for armor, as well as a 6 in hand (assuming you toss out a crows). 3" range is a hindrance as well.

Or get scrap from elsewhere. If the pool is good for joss, 3 stones for Armor on 2 people might be worth it. I think I remember reading that our werewolf lawyer can possibly make 3 scrap turn one from a toolkit, and comes in 2 stones cheaper than Joss before upgrades. Armor on Marcus and 2 beasts could make for some interesting possibilities.

38 minutes ago, Kaiser Senpai said:

Someone has told me that Steamfitters can now target masters with their 'Weld Metal Plate' action. That's crazy.

Holy... I might need to paint Ironsides now...

Sandeep with armor 1 and arcane shield, aka go ahead if you're not min 3 don't even try. (huh, you could make an armor 1 incorporeal mage that would need at least 5 damage done to it to even take 1... which probably means a severe, which you can lower to a moderate with the other part of Weld metal Plate. hmmm...)

Armor on marcus is nothing to sneeze at either. He could bump it up to Armor 3 with his new path upgrade, but that's probably not worth (not sure it'll be run that much anyway.

Raspy doesn't care that much I don't think, and you can just take her new upgrade if you want it. Collette shouldn't be getting hit, so also probably doesn't care.  Ramos/Kaeris/Mei already have armor, so can't get it.

Just wondering if these guys changed much/at all from the beta, haven't seen anything on them (other than Kandara's amazing model).

So it's probably not particularly good, but I have an urge to run an area denial Ramos crew with him, Malifaux child, and Lazarus putting out 6 Strike markers a turn, and maybe add Carlos in there for the Pyre marker. If there's nothing that ignores terrain, 3/4/4 is a pretty good damage track, and that's a whole lot of coverage. Too bad each marker can only active once, so it may not be that good, but then if that matters it means that the enemy crew is mostly coming from the same place, and the Laz gets to blast his heart out.

31 minutes ago, Gnomezilla said:

He's becoming a condition accumulator (like Ironsides) whenever a model uses or discards a soulstone, so basically every time except card draw and initiative. I think I just heard Lucius players swearing. The condition boosts range on electrical fire, or he can burn it on his activation to buy effects, like Nellie does with Guild Funds. For positive flip on single opposed duel, for +1 damage on electrical fire, for +1Ca, or for fast. One per activation only.

If that counts for himself using them too, then that's kinda cool. Early game use stones to summon spiders, late game stronger casting. I like it. Interested to see how much it costs and what his second one is.

On 8/14/2017 at 9:22 AM, Mrbedlam said:

1" limitation on its removal ability.

Effigy has a 2in range on the condition removal. Still restrictive, but a bit better. The main difficulty is doing the full combo of steal Sandeep ability with tome>Student of all summon Banasuva (so a gamin in 6 in too)>cleanse slow>chain into Banasuva. Needs a lot of pre-positioning, but it often surprises people.

Laz also likes the toolkit for the dmg flips.

Is there any chance we can get the option of a dark theme for the forums? The white background is a bit harsh on the eyes at night, even with f.lux running set to 2800K.

After using a raptor today to deny interference, confirm they're still useful.

Same goes for Practiced Production, did most of leave your mark and claim jump with it and off of a wind gamin, and used it to score all 3 points of a dig their graves game as well.

2 minutes ago, H4ml3t said:

This. I also used them recently by placing them on top of Squat Markers in Squatter's Rights at the end of Round 1. Turned out to be a significant road block to my opponent.

I didn't think about that. They could block LoS to an important Scheme/Scrap/Corpse marker too.

As long as they have an engagement range and To the Skies works as it does now, they probably will be useful. Engage a sniper, deny interference (unless that gets changed), engage a (non-leaping) scheme runner. Just being a nuance and an activation in general.

28 minutes ago, melkore said:

As an Arcanist player in an arcanist heavy meta, Wind Gamin were never really an issue and Mech Rider was rarely seen.

The issue with Wind Gamin was that them dying didn't count for most strats/schemes. Granted, that's a bit at odds with other models being immune to conditions not getting changed, but I suppose you could argue that's more of a game health issue than a balance issue, which is supposed to be the Jan errata not the July, but that's a bit of a stretch...