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20 minutes ago, Brilliance Laced Whiskey said:

You've gotten me to thoroughly check out Nellie.  I got to say, she seems right up my alley in terms of playstyle.

I had a lot of fun with her, and am keen to exmplore her options. I'm more of a ranged firepower player, so this was a change of gear for me. Although I will say the activation where she cleared out three models in one activation was one hell of an eye opener. For my oponent and myself. I had no idea she could do something like that.

Oh, one other lesson - don't forget the Undercover Reporter's Creep Along. Super, super important.

Thanks for the pointers, guys. That was really helpful, and I took on board what I could in the game last night.

First off, this was first game in around three years, and playing a crew I've never played before. so I knew it would be rough.

My opponent took Levi, the waifs, Marlina, Rusty Alice, two prosctors, two Abominations, and a scav.

I took Nellie, the printing press, Phiona, the Pale rider, a peacekeeper, a field report, and an Undercover reporter. Ad also Deliver a message and Espionage.

The game only went trhee turns, as we ran out of time both trying to remember the rules and me learn my crew. I was ahead by two point having scored  the strat wtice, and one point for each Scheme, but that wasn't really an indication fo where the game was going as we both knew the game wasn't going to reach five turns so took some decisions we otherwise woudln't.

FIrst off, the advice on loading up levi with conditions worked a treat. He barely did anything in three turns, despite start 6" up the board ona  wedge deployment. He did whittle Phi down to one wound left, but that was it.

I did lose the Rider on turn two to rusty alice. I hadn't used him before and after having watched some bat reps with him I think I had an inflated sense of his survivability. I should have switch his position with the peacekeeper who could have soaked up the damage more easily and used the irder to scheme and shoot from the flank before rushing in to explode.

Some lessons were just how survivavble and annoying field reporters are. I took the peacekeeper because I was afraid I wouldn't have enough hitting power (more on that ina moment) but the report just waded into Leve's crew and was pretty much unharmed come the end, after scoring a strat point, setting up the second, and dropping a load of markers.

Lessons No. 2 was just how much damage Nellie can actually do. On the third turn in the centre I Twisted Their Ideals onto both Abominations and Marlina, having them attack each other, explode due to all of the markers around them, and also stack some damage on Leve. Not bad for one activation.

Lessons learned:

- Phiona needs LLC. She draws a lot of attention and needs to dictate when she moves.

- Be more circumspect with the rider.

- Don't be afraid to take two field reporters if the strats and schemes allow.

Hey all. First game of Malifaux in a long time next week. I'm taking Nellie against Levie in Cloak and Dagger. All I remember was last time I played Levie was an absolute pain the arse to play against. Does anyone have any general tips to counter him? Thanks for any pointers.

Alright, thanks guys. I think I understand a bit more now. I still don't think he's all that and a bag of chips some of the people I've heard say but I do some see value in certain matchups.

As the title says. I often see Manos come up an almost an auto pick in certain crews, and often out of keyword, but I'm looking at his card and not seeing what justies a 10 SS cost outside of keyword.

Can anyone lay it out to me in terms a fool can understand?  

As the title says - the new(ish) Guard Henchman, the Disease Containment Unit. How are they? Do you use them, and how? 

Good tips, thanks. I was trying to figure out how to get the most Chi onto Shen. He ended up wit much more than I needed. But learning how far tp push what abilities is part of learning a crew. Loading up the LRM does seem to be moved up the priority Queue. I ended up having to burn a Severe on Yu's Juggernaut to keep him up which wouldn't have been necessary with a loaded LRM.

No worries. Glad you found one.

I think I have a plastic CCK I can give you if you can pay the postage from Australia. If you're interested I can check. Let me know.

Given both Archie and Agent 46 were nerfed after I'd painted them, I have Lawyers in my queue, sooo......

Are there any more reveals we're waiting on does anyone know?

One Malifaux memory that lives rent free in my head is a thrall two-shotting Von Schill after my opponent misjudged just fast they could move with Drawn to Pain and Goad Witchling.

On 8/1/2021 at 4:37 PM, Maniacal_cackle said:

For reference.

The more I think about it the more excited I am to try her out. I already often take  current Sonnia with a Handler and two Thralls, but with her ability to drop pyre markers frrikkin' everywhere, Burn them out, and the Thralls' ability to remove burning to heal from enemies, they're going to be a real pain to take down.

The Rider is still going to be necessary to move her up, though. 

If anything I think this becomes more bubblier than vanilla Sonnia, which will be strat/scheme dependant, but hey, that's what a paint queue is for.

Hey, all

I don't play Neverborn and have zero experience witht he faction outside of playing against Dreamer a few times in M2E. But I'm  interested in Pandora for a project and I'm wondering is anyone can tell me what staples are in her crew? IE, when you play with or against her, what models are you expecting to see on the table for most strat and scheme pools.

Any help is appreciated.

TY.

On a side note, doe we know when these will be released? Also, will they be available outside the OS box?

Lies. Dune has only one book. In the same way there's only one Matrix film.

I really like them, and the reason i like them is they're not auto includes in every list or every pool. They're really good for certain schemes and crew make ups but that's is, and that's how Versatiles should be.

On 7/14/2021 at 1:31 AM, belorey said:

Cornelius Basse: Alfa Sand Worm Rider

Basse Muad'Dib. Can summon Sand Worms, you can't cheat against him because he knows everything, and he disappears for the game'sfourth turn for no narrative reason. 

As the title says. My main source fo info on how onk play is the Third Floor Wars deep dive, but that was before the nerf.  Since then, how important is Yu to Monk's play style? How do you (Y)use him, f at all?

And bonus question - Charm Warders. Is it ever worth taking two?

Thanks in advance.

Surprised at only one mention of Lucius so far.

On 4/22/2021 at 6:25 AM, Filox said:

This Errata is strange, overall it bringed mass NERFHAMMER to all the factions, leaving no survivors

Opinion from some seems to be that word could be falling into the same errata pattern from m2e, with the first errata of the year focusing on need with a second in the latter half focusing on buffs. So there's that hope.

1 hour ago, Maniacal_cackle said:

Molly is really good in the high mobility, scheming oriented situations. I think there's 6-7 scheme marker schemes, and the strategies are all over the map.

Molly struggles a bit with centre brawls against centre-brawl crews, but I don't expect much of that this season

Ah right. I hadn't checked the new schemes and stRats yet. Summoned models being unable tone interact is going to hamper me a bit. I really leaned on the Forgotten Marshall.

1 hour ago, trikk said:

Strong disagree