Higgybeans

Have you played with the metallurgist? Redcing damage to 0 seems OK?

I have only played Perdita 2 out of the new masters, and she was very good. Into The Vics 1 and had a very good match. Her shielded pulse and focus makes it very hard to kill in her bubble, and trick shot giving unresisted damage. Francisco with LLC survived a turn and a bit against both Vics, Bishop and Vanessa whaling on him. Took 4ss and my hand, but he wasted basically the entire 2nd turn of my opponent, whilst everyone else was whittling down/scheming. Turn 3 I put 1 Vik in a box, then killed the other. Edit: Her summons is good too. I'm gonna try and get some more games in as I REALLY enjoyed it! My list: Perdita 2, Nephilim, Francisco+LLC, Santiago+LLC, Sly, Nino, Steward, Effigy+upgrade, 4ss.

Welcome to the Guild. Good job joining us from those shifty mofos at Neverborn. I guess Lucius would be a good half-way crew too, I suppose? But yeah. What sort of things are you looking for? What synergies did you miss?

#Nellie4lyf! (Just coz she is the master I have done the best with, I won't have you saying anything bad!) In other news.... I regrettably only got 3e lucius with the cane. I am liking where his story is going, but kinda scared he is just gonna stop being guild at some point. I'll cry 😭

Haha, IMO it is easier to paint human like as you KNOW what it is supposed to look like. Whereas it is easy to paint a monster with wild colours and it not looking great. Clothes, leather and skin is now incredibly easier with contrast paints from the GW range.

To be fair when I first started playing Malifaux (after a taster game) I went into my local game store to decide which faction I was going to pick up.... and I saw the Purifying Flame as a skeleton on fire who is screaming at the world and decided that was what I wanted to play. I didn't know any of the rules for Sonnia, or any faction in general. And picked up guild purely because of that guy. If I was to be starting now, the choice may be different as there are like 20 new masters (with an entire faction) to look at as well. But honestly I would be choosing an explorer, probably the EVS as I like the look of them. Now I know the rules I am happy with guild. It is the right level of complexity and decision making for me. And the entire faction as an "army" looks great. It was quite easy to paint them as a uniformed "police" and I think that is good for anyone who doesn't like painting so much.

@Maniacal_cackle Just curious, who were the LLC on? Agent and Lone Marshal as your main gunline? Or Agent and Pale Rider? To get the rider to survive long enough to get the 5 ram trigger on revel? This list looks super interesting. I really need to play more Lucius hopefully the title is cool too!

Oh wow, I didn't realise they had different base sizes. That's a little awkward haha.

Technically. But I would argue Yukou's is worse. Sure Sonnia can discard all 13's not just one suit for example. But Yukou can remove that 13 from the game. This would leave me waaaaay more tilted. And as a bonus action it isn't impacting what else she is doing. For Sonnia you are manipulating your opponent's deck instead of burning the enemy and dropping pyres. So yeah, they are different effects, but I would rather come up against Sonnia instead of Yukou....

Yeah, if you look at Nellie's art it is clear that she read the wrong book.... who knows how it got there. But that is why she got corrupted. I feel Misaki is a good choice, because it progresses her story and is the next trial in her life. Maybe instead of just straight up being a cultist it has led into a sort of split identity, with 1 half doing burning man stuff, and the other half fixing it to prevent the TT from falling apart? We just don't know until the book drops at GenCon (and I for one am buying it immediately =P with ToS box)

Thank you. I thought something like that would be intended (and turns out is actually correct). But I just wanted to make sure.

Is this true? Don't you need to be at range 0 to declare the action? Otherwise there is no legal targets for it? But then you put the coffin within 1" of you and the enemy? Or is that me confusing things?

I know this is a mildly old thread. But I just wanted to add my thoughts. Using Pylon's to lock out the strategy can deny your opponents points. But then they aren't giving your models shielded or power tokens. Most of the constructs have lower defensive stats, and without the power support may be easier to take out to score your schemes instead. A lot of your "prison" talks are, Hoffman has to do this, this THEN HIT the opponent. Surely playing against the inventor you keep your high card to defend. Much easier than bringing anti-tech pieces. Then the Hoffman has set up to prison you, and actually done nothing instead. This seems quite risky. If having a board covered in terrain is a problem, other Masters would already be a problem. (Basse and all severe, Ivan on a board of forests and so on). You can't say this is the problem with the game, it is just a part of it. Some masters will benefit from boards than others, and it influences you Master pick. While I see your points about it potentially being a NPE, I don't think it will be nearly as bad as you are suggesting. And only time will tell when more people have the chance to play with and against it.

Effigy + emissary upgrade is fine though

Effigy + upgrade is always a good shout for whichever faction you pick. And then a cache of 6ss?