Macumazahn

Well it's just as the tittle of the topic says. I've asked myself this question almost since the first time I used him. I mean he usually delivers (or used to, in the CG 2016 he feels much less useful for some reason) but at the same time he does no damage and he's not that resilient at all, so any opponent will get rid of him pretty easily, and that's 10ss, or more, wasted. Any thoughts on this?

The problem with using Mancha Roja finisher trigger, is that he can do another thing equaly useful: straight up kill the model. If someone is defending at negatives Mancha's damage track is more than enough to take even the most resilient model down, especially with melee expert. Instead of wasting ap giving 3+ poison to someone, paralyzing him (an action that can fail) purging all the poison, and hoping the opponent doesn't activate the model inmediatly to get rid of the condition, you just spend one ap swilling an enemy, and then wait to charge with Mancha, easy.

I like to use Raphael for killing stuff. His damage is ridiculous and he can heal just by being close to the brew, his Sh 5 is not a big deal against someone that defends at negatives too. For the same reasons François is great. Sammy with Binge is also a good option. And I would never take old cranky over wesley. He's just so good: a significant minon, that can do brewmaster casts and count as an extra life for him. If the plan is to rely on swill over the drinking contest then Wesley is even better, he won't be in the thick of it.

In my experience the brewmaster only makes use of drinking contest in two models, tops. There's no way for him to spread poison effectively around, you need to be very careful with him like you would on an assasin master. Choose one or two extremly dangerous models and go to town with them, because unless the enemy crew is full of low willpower models (ulix pigs, or some resurrectionist crews) the drinking contest aura is laughably small and inconsecuential, and the brew has nothing aside from that in the way of defenses. Not only that, but you need the rest of your crew to be useful outside the brewmaster or else bogging two models won't matter at all, and you're already spending 8 ss or more in trixiebelle, always, wich doesn't do a lot of damage, and probably a performer. Maybe I'm just bad at this but, despite being my favorite master, I find his crewmaking much more restrictive that some other masters. I have used him that way and it's pretty good. Althoguht I always have a hard time against summoning crews when I go that way. I would also say that his upgrades are not... very good... like at all. Only Binge and I don't see that upgrade as powerful as other people do. Thinks like "The Good Stuff" shouldn't exist. XD

I don't care for the 3 characters anymore. I want those two gremlins, from the selfrighteous man path, that can pass for a human in the middle of the street with just a trenchcoat, AND bribe guild judges with just some booze. That model would be awesome.

I have seen some nice fanart uploaded to this forum category, since there's no fanart sub forum I guess this is the correct place. Say hi to Ophelia LaCroix and her kin, although they’re busy putting the fear of green on some fellas. I hope you like it.

Now that I think about it, Sparks must work pretty well with an Ophelia crew, those blasts and the possiblity to give fast to some of the kin look pretty great on paper. Anyone has tested that to see if it works?

But gremlins don't really have a lot of ways of handing paralyze. Only mancha roja with a trigger, Brewmaster with an upgrade and 3 poison, I think the emmisary, and Ophelia's own "my threatening gun". And I don't think the're fiable or cheap enough ways to do it.

I think against Kirai you're always going to have a terrible time with Ophelia. Literally everything Kirai does counters her perfectly. Same goes for other mainly shooty crews.

I don't know, It's certainly worth a shot, but only if you know you're going against a crew with a lot of pushes, like Seamus, Colette or Lilith. Otherwise I think those 10 ss are better spent in the likes of Mancha Roja or Sensei Yu. That wp duel would be amazing against a drinking contest bubble, but it would affect Brewmaster too, and Sammy can do something very similar for much cheaper. Nonetheless she's a pretty great model, and it's true she has synergy with Brew.

The model with drinking problem doesn't benefit from the effect, only other tri chi models. But Fingers is pretty hardy either way.

I think Brewmaster works better as a Ten Thunder master actually, even though he doesn't get acces to Trixie; There's plenty of models that add poison without needing a trigger, a lot of pushes to bring model to the drinking contest aura, the misdirection upgrade works great with him, and a lot of models that synergize very well with the Brewmaster: like Yin, sensei Yu, bunrakus, fermented monks, even oiran and komainu could have their place. I don't even think the "Running Tab" upgrade is necessary. Only wesely is really worth it, and I don't understand why he's not dual faction. But maybe that's just my way of playing.

It's strange, I always considered Ophelia to be unique precisely because of her upgrades, otherwise she does nothing special except raw damage, and she needs rams for that ,so not always. Might as well run Mah for that purpose. It's Ophelia any good by herself without Lenny in the crew? Because he seems an autotake.

Hello from Spain. Name is Macumazahn, because I like easy names like that. Malifaux is actually my first miniature game ever, so the struggle is real, but I'm having a great time with my Gremlins so far. Brewmaster being my favorite gremlin master, and Mah Tucket being the master that actually gives me good results. XD Hoping to learn more about the game and share everything I can. Mostly art since I'm an illustrator, although doesn't seem to be a fanart thread in this forum. Apart from the wonderful mechanics I'm in love with the aesthetics of this game. I tried to make some stuff, giving them an "Oddworld" feeling to them. Anyway cheers, Macumazahn