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Awesome! Really looking forward to these hitting the table.

On 9/26/2016 at 8:56 AM, dancater said:

Again this is a tricky question as different metas (areas/regions/groups) have very different outlooks.

For example I know a group where Gremlins are renowned as being a total nightmare to play, in particular Brewmaster and Ulix.  Ironically travel a few hundred kilometers south of there and Gremlins are regarded as useless.  I know a group where a Tara crew combo a player runs is considered unbeatable, I've heard other folks say she is not worth much.  Pandora I've been told by some is a horrible struggle to win against, I have crushed her in the games I've played.  Many, many players say Lucius in Guild is useless, he is one of my favorite non-Arcanist masters and I rate him.

I wish we could help Teddy and I commiserate with English as a second language and the problems that causes, this is not that problem.  The key element here is you are asking a question of such complexity and (as Golden noted) subjectivity that it is impossible to answer. 

There is an old adage from the silly game Rock-Paper-Scissors that goes "Paper is balanced but Rock is overpowered, signed Scissors".  But here the combinations of rock-paper-scissors is not a factor of three options but in masters alone of something like 35+ and then with crew and other game variations for all intents and purposes infinite.

Different tournaments have slight local rules variations, different players and such.  A consistently strong, simple master will win a lot but a well played unusual master will dominate many people more so because most folks rarely see it and understand the tricks.  Sometimes a meta will have a strong core which plays certain masters and those masters become very dominant but head somewhere else and the strong players have a different spin, so different masters rule.

There are a bunch of podcasts and such which provide advice,

I'd go find the Pullmyfinger webpage and the Schemes & Stones podcast and blog page for a start.  Both provide solid advice.  As for the strong masters looking worldwide is pointless, yeah master "x" is strong in Texas and master "y" strong in Birmingham, while in the Loire Valley region master "t" is the top tier, really doesn't help you much.  What you need to know is in your area who plays what and well, even then it will change very fluidly.

This just means there's good balance. I would say that if Gremlins are that over-powered, I'd look at the terrain setup in each game, though. Pockets of power exist everywhere, but definitely agree that metas vary wildly.

16 hours ago, godswearhats said:

Thanks! Very interested in feedback.

Went to listen to this on my commute home last night and couldn't find it on iTunes. Is "soon" days? I assumed a few hours? (Or do you not know because iTunes does what it wants?)

7 hours ago, solkan said:

I hoard my leftover spruces.  Hold on a few minutes...

I now have four sprues sitting in about two inches of undiluted Simple Green in a jar.  Plastic sprues that should even be from different production years.  One of the sprues has those obnoxious wires from Hoffman's mechanical leopards left on because I'm still sane.

Ask me how it's going in a week or two.  For science and waking up in the middle of the night.  

 

Didn't even think about using sprues. You're genius.

Awesome store! Awesome folk!

So many new podcasts. This is great, I plan on listening later today on my drive home from work!

I saw this on Facebook and am super interested. I've never seen anything like that (I've not used Simplegreen a lot, admittedly). It didn't just unglue them, though, he says that it ate through the plastic. I find that somewhat hard to believe. I may have to attempt to replicate this at home. You know. For science.

Awesome. Saw this on reddit just now, I'll give it a shot.