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Yeah I have heard a lot about Yannic + Von Schill. I actually haven't played against it myself yet. On paper it seems strong, but a lot more fair than some of the things we had running around pre nerf. Is it the guild mage that causes issues with Perdita?

If we overlook Madness of Malifaux that has a ton of overtuned content, I feel like the game currently is at an extremely healthy place, where a lot of different masters have game and the meta can be very versatile. That said, what keywords do you currently feel are the strongest in the game? I personally have a very hard time answering this, when you can't point to some of the obvious Madness keywords.

Welcome back. I feel like ES right now is extremely well balanced internally, so pretty much every keyword has game. That said, I personally think that Wastrel, Syndicate and Cadmus are more aimed towards specific pools. EVS, Dua, Seeker, Apex and Frontier I feel I could make work on most pools, although Apex and Frontier I will strongly consider the terrain and deployment type before picking. The ones I would say require the least synergy to make work would be Frontier and Syndicate. But remember to focus on what you like the look and theme of : )

I feel ES as a faction has a ton of really cool looking ones. Seeker just looks amazing every time they are thrown on the table and DUA/Umbra also has such a cool style. I just finished my Bellhop Porter and man I love that model, but choosing one single model out of the entire line is borderline impossible.

So what are some of the uses of having enemy models being treated as friendly after the nerf? Other than Siphon Power?

I agree, I think they are definitely still playable. The nerf seems completely wild when you look at it, but you just need to remember how completely over the top they were before. If you try to forget how they were printed previously and only look at their cards as they are now they still seem very interesting. I am curious what you like about Cavatica though? I have only tried him briefly, but was left very unimpressed.

You would think that, but for guard and covert it is very easy to run out of eligible models, so every model counts and in cursed it is also a pretty big negative that they come in with a cursed token. This is without even mentioning the one strategy where they can't ever interact with the strategy markers. So I definitely think it is a loss worth considering

Interesting, but you think it is better than just hiring the stitched to behind with ? You need some high cards for the summons on top of the one Dreamer requires. If you have to stone for the suit for Widow you also "only" gain 2 stones in contrast to hiring Stitched. All strats now also care if a model is summoned, so a summoned Stitched is not as good as a hired Stitched. Don't get me wrong, I like the thinking, I am just theorycrafting a bit.

All added together this box is like 8 months delayed or something. I am honestly pretty dissapointed in Wyrd for not at least giving a reason...

Ahh I see. It was just my thought that it would need to be a concrete rule that "models are banned till they have been trough an errata". If something gets added to the list because it is problematic, then we might as well just make a banlist instead.

I get that the versatiles are banned for Yannics sake, but they have been through an errata cycle, no ?