Golden Apple

On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 7:54 PM, TeddyBear said:

hello everyone,

i open this thread, to ask you, to make your own personal rating of the power (considering every aspect: versatily, game difficulty etc. etc. no personal preferences)

of all crews (maybe including new ones)

15 hours ago, Franchute said:

He is just asking to rank masters, isnt he? Not the basic crew boxes right?

All crews. As such, I declare this request completely crazypants.
 

On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 9:50 PM, dancater said:

This is an incredibly complicated perhaps nigh on impossible question as it is so dependent on master, the upgrades, crew selection, opponent and strat/scheme pool.  In addition terrain and set-up plays another factor.  With that many variables the question quickly becomes moot.

In addition to dancater's extremely valid list of difficulties I add this: subjectivity.

Some people just gel better with some masters/hemchmen/enforcers/minions/peons in the Guild/Arcanists/Outcasts/Gremlins/Ten Thunders/Ressurectionists/Neverborn. Let alone the master-as-faction 'toons like Marcus or Leveticus... I'm listing everything to try and show the enormity of this request. You're basically trying to condense the majority of the forums into one thread. It's bananas!

Get Crossroads Seven, choose faction based on favorite effect for each step of the way, and win.



Rock and roll.

All the Ripples of Fate crew boxes were pre-released at GenCon as a teaser. They go on sale for real down the road.

 

But I have that "I must have you" feeling for the Barrows box set lol

I'd suggest you go with this type of feeling. Any master can be learned. You'll play it more if you want to play it, and practice makes perfect. That said, your biggest bar to entry is that Parker is not for general sale. As such you'd have to scrounge one up, or keep your fingers firmly crossed until Black Friday.

Collodi. One million times Collodi!

"I got no strings/ to hold me down..."

Message sent.

I am returned from the field of combat: this is what I have survived to tell you!

I played a Doppelganger with Mimic's Blessing. I was unable to harm any opponents all game long. Which was a shame, because I didn't die once before time was called. Manipulative and Mimic's Blessing are a hell of a thing. It didn’t help that my fate deck seems to consist entirely of fours and fives... regardless. I took a disengaging strike just to leave a game long ineffective slap fight between myself and the Nothing Beast just to walk to the center of the board and declare myself king/queen of the mountain. (Doppelgangers...)

It seems like the most valuable ability on the table was to be able to hurt your opponents during their own activations. We had a Nothing Beast on our table that couldn't pull of a hit on my Doppelgangster during its own turn, but on two separate occasions the same fresh Teddy activated and the Nothing beast KO'd the bear. On it's own activation. Twice.

On the other side of the table was a Convict Gunslinger with a new upgrade that I can't remember the name of. Basically it seemed to give a defense trigger to return fire, and the return fire could declare triggers. This, and hot cards, led to the Convict Gunslinger blasting any that dared attack him twice... on their turn... per attack.

Bonkers.

I went to check in with a friend on another table, who was going with a flying Teddy. He got a few kills, and a few deaths. Seems that his freshly dead opponents would spawn right near him and try and get their pound of flesh. A gremlin I'm not familiar with who blows up for 4 damage when it dies ran the table. Show up, hurt stuff, blow up, stuff dies. Points, points, points...

I probably would have had a more interesting time with my Strong Arm Suit, but as I haven't settled on a paint scheme for my Friekorps, I didn't have it painted.

There's always next time.

Cheers.

I've got a soft spot for "juicy" abominations.

I also like how effective but understated Ashes & Dust (and it's constituent parts) came out. Cheers!

13 hours ago, santaclaws01 said:

You reactive at an initiative of -1, so after everyone has activated. That being said, Lone Swordsman with Recalled Training is very strong.

Thanks for the answer. It seems like coming in below 10 ss will be important for maximizing VPs, along with not dying. Now who is best at both of these...

Also what would the timing of reactivate in Enforcer brawl be? Lone Swordsman could be worth a chuckle or two...

21 hours ago, Viagrus said:

I like Doppelganger with Useless Duplications. Everyone will be bringing heavy hitters whose attacks you can copy. She's 7SS so your opponents will rarely get 3 points from her. You can cheat the initiative low to make sure her manipulative is always valid. Low cards have value because you can discard them to give your attacker a negative flip to melee attacks.

Mimic's Blessing is also a valid upgrade for defense. If Doppy does bite it there's some hand shaping you get to do.

Doppelganger is a particularly wicked, tricksy choice. Very Neverborn. Hadn't even considered it, but you bring up some nasty points. I could see her having a rough go against anything armored, but one can't have it all.

Any other less than 10ss enforcers who could roll with the big dogs?
 

Each of these boxes has something thematically  to add to the game, very strong models throughout. Looking forward to which if any to get early at GenCon this year.

Heck, I even like the gremlin box! (Although the thought of building those Iron Skeeters fills me with a deep existential dread. Good that  I have no intention of going green.)
 

The star, for me, is doubtlessly the Queen Returns. I'm not even a fan of Neverborn, but that crew just drips style, menace, and panache.  The one set that enthralls me least would have to be an Oni's Wrath, but the potential that the game has in further implementing oni seems pretty great regardless. The other crews are in a boiling stew of awesome, so I will not bother to try and rate them further, each has something fetching and compelling, and a few forgivable duds. (Poison gamin, meh, but look at that Banasuva....)
 

Cheers!

18 minutes ago, Dogmantra said:

 

I was wondering if it was worth trying Lazarus, as lobbing bombs all over the damned place seemed like a good time, but as soon as he's engaged he becomes much less viable, so I scrapped (Hah!) that idea. That said, I keep eyeing his Armor +2 and Self Repair... and who knows what kind of mischief I can get up to with his Assimilate!

Good insight on Raphael LaCroix, I won't be playing him but it's good to keep an eye out for.

I'm a new player, and after being harrangued, harrased, chided, bribed, and cajoled into attending GenCon I'm seriously considering my first tournament being the Sunday Enforcer Brawl. Seems simple enough, and it would be a chance to interact with the community beyond my local FLGS and our nascent little group.

So I come to open the floor to the wisdom of all: what's the nastiest filth we can slap on the table? Mind you, the sole objective is by no means to win, but I have to assume that the table will be MAXIMUM FILTH: FILTH ON FILTH, and I want to be able to take a few swings, at least.

I'll open with a few thoughts:

Strongarm Suit + Oathkeeper= Leaping, crushing, shutting down defensive tech and sniping/rocketpunching weak or unhurt models, farming those sweet sweet VPs.

Theodore + On Dreaming Wings/Retribution's Eye= Flying Bear or Armor Ignoring DF/WP trigger shutdown Bear?

Bishop + Oathkeeper= Seems fantastically versatile, with the option for one epic NO SURVIVORS double flury turn. Also I'd probably paint him as Lobo.

Howard Langston + Imbued Energies = Decapitate against four card hands, so spice!

Izamu + Unnerving Aura = Hard-bodied, a self heal, and an aura that has the potential to swipe some easy hurt-em-first VPs

Teach me your ways!

1 minute ago, Blacks85 said:

Not sure what this means, but if you speak about the painter...this is the one!

https://www.facebook.com/Mindwork.Games.Paint.Studio/?ref=ts&fref=ts

This is precisely what I meant. Cheers!

If you didn't paint the models in the pictures, I belive attributing credit where credit is due is in order.

23 hours ago, daniello_s said:

23SS in two models.... Only Levi can afford that

Good thing Chou's asking about Leveticus! Johan(a) and a trapper makes it 35ss for 7 models, 4 of which could be anchors. Or dump Johan(a) or the trapper for Rusty Alyce and really go whole hog!

If nothing else it will teach you how the models work, which one fits your playstyle better, and really rub in that Leveticus gives you 2 or 3 free activations from his waifus.

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Chaos Butterfly said:

I am re-listening to a McCabe podcast, it's gonna be him, sounds like some tricks and cool stuff to learn about positioning etc. Thanks for all the helpful input.

Well now you've got a choice between the vanilla McCabe or the Nightmare thunderhorse monocycle McCabe.

Good timing.
 

On Friday, July 08, 2016 at 8:06 PM, RodneyAnon said:

Not for Hoffman so much (he's kinda always struck me as the Phil Collins of Malifaux)

...What could this possibly even mean?

1 hour ago, Chou said:

Just a question, which one do you prefer for Levi, Lazarus or Ashes and Dust?

Why not try both?

Monocycles: how do?

1 hour ago, Mutter said:

I thought the Blessed was some sort of auto-pick for all the Marcus players? O.o

As I understand it, the Blessed is a strong choice for Myranda to hulk out into.

I just took a gander at the render for Big Jake, and I've gotta say that that is one tall glass of man-candy.

That is all.

4 hours ago, Wakshaani said:

I shared it before, and I'll share it again.

One million yesses. Step aside, pops.

Fingers crossed for a Storng Female Characters Alternate Viktorias Box.

I was just hoping the answer was less than three. Thanks!

How many of the Guilty see table time in a given list? I find two of the models acceptable, with a paint scheme they may actually be pretty cool. The dismembered one, on the other hand, is a bit too haunted house for me.