Mortarion

Interesting list. Makes me want to try something like that. I would perhaps swap an investigator and a stone for two changelings. I would allow to spread the AP:s around more easily, but it would lessen the theme...

I just consider the Mastermind ability as a nice bonus and do not build my crew around it. Taking models which will be good in the game will allways be better than taking worse models in order to possibly gain some extra card draw. Especially since Lucius will have quite a lot of card draw anyway. In fact, when I have pass tokens I usually save them for the next initiative flip anyway, unless I really need better cards (or can gain a significant advantage from delaying an activation).

And I think that Agent 46 is still absolutely worth taking. He was insane before, but is still a really good model. But of course it depends on the purpose in a list. If copying a specific attack was the main reason for getting the Agent, a Doppelganger might be better now.

It depends on the deployment and how aggressive my opponent is. If my opponent rushes some model up the field she is an ideal counter-punch. But if my opponent is more defensive I usually do not charge ahead of the rest of my crew just to get a single attack in. In that case I'd rather hide her somewhere and focus. Leap and 2" range means she can threaten a quite large area even from behind a building. If I can get two or more attacks from her by rushing ahead... maybe. 

But overall I like a more defensive playstyle in Malifaux, so I may be overly cautious.

The Hooded rider's Greatsword attack has a trigger called Wide Swing. It says the following:

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When resolving, for each in this Action's final duel total the target suffers +damage. Blast Markers Dropped by this Action must be within 2" and LoS of this model.

My question is: Does the second sentence replace the normal rules for dropping blast markers, or does it apply in addition to them? For example, if I get one Blast marker, do I need to drop it in base contact with the target or can I drop it anywhere within 2" and LoS? The wording seems to imply that it is in addition to the normal restrictions, but it's not entirely clear in my opinion.

Cool scheme! I predict a lot of mindgames with that one. (Which is awesome!)

The Breachside broadcast have all the stories from the Malifaux books (up to a certain point) recorded as audiobooks.

http://www.breachsidebroadcast.com/

I'm not sure how far they have gotten yet, but there is a lot to listen to.

1 hour ago, lusciousmccabe said:

Looks great. Really like the detail on the severed heads.

How did you do the base? 

Thank you.

The base is pieces of plasticard and sand. I wanted to do a variation of my standard cobblestone bases where it looked more like it was breaking apart and nature was starting to reclaim it.

Hooded rider done! Unfortunately, it's really difficult to get good pictures of it.

This is propably the closest to a Games Workshop model that Malifaux gets, so I decided to paint it in more of a GW style with brightly coloured armour. I think it ended up quite well.

Yes. All actions with a target requires LoS, unless otherwise stated. Page 59 in the rulebook (Step 3: Targeting).

38 minutes ago, ShinChan said:

Or weakness of witch hunter models ?

More than weakness, some models look directly useless (sanctioned spellcaster, thallarian queller) since they're not Witchling.

I honestly think Sanctioned spellcasters are quite good for their cost. A scheme runner which is fast on the first turn, has Shielded 1 and a ranged attack with blast and automatic burning is better than many other 4 SS models.

Thallarian Queller on the other hand is completely useless IMHO. It's a slightly worse Sanctioned spellcaster that costs 2 SS more for some reason. And some of its abilities are just really strange. That model needs to be reworked from scratch.

23 hours ago, Guslado said:

Hey! I ran the Malifaux events at LVO this year. Here's the breakdown of all of the masters played and the matchups at LVO.

I was posting most of my photos to A Wyrd Place as I'm one of the mods over there and these forums don't get along well with my phone. I'll see if I can get a few more photos from my phone onto these forums in a bit, but figured the breakdown of masters and matchups is what people mostly wanted.

Were there no Guild players at all?

2 hours ago, le_wahou said:

If there was something to change on LJ, it would be more synergy. Her inspring swordplay do not function. She is often way too far to have allied marshalls in her 6" focus pulse.

How well Inspiring Swordplay functions is very much tied to playstyle. I think it is good that she gets some kind of bonus for being closer to her crew, as it is very tempting to use her like a cruise missile. For me Inspiring Swordplay tends to work on some of her kills, but of course not all of them. But I do favour a more defensive playstyle.

Regarding "Stand back..." and Aura stacking, see this thread:

How does "Following orders" work with disengage?

The "Following orders" ability says:

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...After this model resolves an Action taken outside its Activation, generated by a model with Cost higher than it, this model may draw a card.

The general Action "Disengage" says:

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...One enemy model engaging this model (opponent’s choice) may take a Action targeting this model;...

Lets say that Teddy (Cost 10) is engaged by a Guild Lawyer (Cost 6). Teddy takes the Disengage action and the Lawyer chooses to take a action. Can the Lawyer draw a card from Following orders? From the wording, it actually sounds like he can.

7 hours ago, Ludvig said:

Swede here. Our generic measuring tapes always include both and pretty much every game system uses inches so I never tried converting to cm.

As a sidenote to this, one potential problem is that there is an older Swedish measurment which is often called the same word in Swedish as the translation of an inch. This older measurement is 24,742 mm (compared to 25,4 mm of an inch). However, this is not much of a problem today, as most measuring tapes in Sweden have actual inches nowadays.

Good to see more video battle reports!

However, in my opinion, the commentary was a bit too spoiler heavy as you constantly talked about things that happened or didn't happen in later turns or how effective or ineffective certain models or abilities were in the game as a whole. From the comments alone it was pretty obvious what the outcome of the game would be by early turn 2, which unfortunately made it less exciting to watch.

On 12/23/2019 at 9:12 PM, Sweet Tooth said:

I would tweak the Marshal’s Hunt the Dead trigger to remove the undead requirement. I know it’s flavorful but so many of the crew’s triggers are gated behind that undead requirement that it’s become frustrating (for me as the player). 

I personally think that trigger is OK the way it is, since you can make models count as Undead. However, an interesting change would be that undead models gain Adversary (like it is now) and other models count as being Undead until the end of the turn. That way it would only be fully effective against undead, but at least do something against other models, like Morgan Vening suggested.

I would say yes. You reveal the target as part of the revealed scheme. You basically need to explain why you scored the points.

Otherwise schemes like Take prisoner and potentially Vendetta could get really strange.

In my opinion, both Lady J and Lucius works quite well.

Marshals are generally quite tanky. The Lone Marshal can move up on one flank. He is hard to tie down and on turn 2 he can usually move, shoot and place a marker. Lady J and Judge can place markers late game, when they have killed any enemies close to them. It can fell bad to "waste" their AP on planting explosives but many enemies do not really want to mess with them and they are hard to take down. The Jury can help other models plant their explosives with Obey, allowing them to do it on their third action.

Lucius is not so much about specific models, but the crews ability to move models around and "redistribute" AP to where they are needed means most models can both plant explosives and threaten the enemy explosives. They can suffer a little bit from wanting to form a bubble, though.

But these are just my observations from a casual perspective, so I'm not sure if they work in a more competative environment.

15 minutes ago, solkan said:

No good is going to come from trying to make that distinction.

Because you are, after all, arguing that it stops being an aura half way through a single sentence.

 

I previously saw it as simply being an Aura. But looking more closely at it, is seems to have two different parts. When checking for markes which activates the ability it says "...is Dropped within 4". Clearly an Aura. You need line of sight to the Marker and other rules about Auras apply. However, the part about movement is worded differently. It says "...this model may Push a model within 3" of the Marker up to 3" away from it". It does not say "Push a model within 3". In all other instances, there is a clear difference between "...within X"..." and "...within X"...". And I don't really see why this should not apply here as well. So I would say that the movement part is not an Aura, which means there is no need for line of sight and other Aura rules do not apply.

But I'm open to arguments why it should be considered an Aura despite not having the icon. I may have misunderstood.

41 minutes ago, Yore Huckleberry said:

I did a serious look-through of Guild tactical actions for the Changelings to copy, and really apart from Lucius's Obey, the only serious contender in my mind is the Executioner's Scatter: no TN and moves all enemy models in a pulse 3" a distance of 3" away from the model.

If you want to run dual Master, Hoffman's Overcharge can be worth to copy. 

Otherwise False claim from False witness can be good, but its usefulness is somewhat lowered by the 9 it requires.

8 minutes ago, 4thstringer said:

I've never thought it through, but why do they have to target a different target model?

Looking at it again, I realise that they can actually both target the same model.

Stand Back... is an Aura when checking for dropped markers, but it is not an Aura when moving models. So the rules for multiple Auras with the same name would not apply. I previously thought it was an Aura when moving models as well.

Guild investigators can provide some nice pushes. It will usually require one model to sacrifice an action in order to lay down a scheme marker, but it allows you to move a more important model and do some tricks to get out of engagement and auras. It can also be worth to note that two Investigators can both use Stand back... on one dropped marker as long as they target different models. And then you are turning one action into two pushes. And with False Witnesses one action can become four pushes. And some card draw.

I recently finished the Carver. Cool sculpt and concept.

And of course I had to paint blood splatter on the pumpkin face, both to give it more of a horror movie feel and as a reference to the intro of the movie Sleepy Hollow.

The Thallarian Queller is really high on my list of what needs fixing. Currently it does not add anything to the crew. It's just an overcosted Sanctioned spellcaster. It is one of the few models that I would never consider taking.

And I honestly think that the Austringer is fine at 7 stones. But I might be biased, because last time I killed one the board was suddenly filled with three trained raptors which not only killed my model who had killed the Austringer, but also removed my Corpse markers for Dig their graves...