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  1. 3 hours ago, Rillan said:

    Lone Marshal - great vs SH based armies like Gremlins has great sustain against Ressers, otherwise no point to take.

    Abuela ortega - pointless to take her if u dont base your crew on FAMILY models.


    Those models almost don't combo each other. Only thing u might like is unbury models in LOS of any Scheme marker, or Justice will never die while D. Recruiters are close enough and u have cards in your hand.

     

    About the lone marshal, I actually had some pretty good games with him. What is underestimated on him is that he pushes 10" and still gets a focussed shot off, if you think about that that's pretty crazy. He can be really nice to engage scheme runners on a flank, because he can still push around and get shots off, and push back in to engagement. Late game he can also be a good scheme runner cause he's pretty fast. He has a lot of competition from other models, but he has a unique move and in my opinion is a bit underestimated.

     

    I actually don't believe abuela needs a family crew to function. The combo with the emissary can be strong. After that she still has a no charge aura and a good shot. I agree that without using the emissary she has no real synnergy with the crew.

     

    I strongly disagree that the models I have don't combo together. I've always felt that jury and death marshal recruiter form a really strong duo to stand behind lj. Condition removal, heal, hard to kill aura, extra attacks on Lj. Plus there are a lot of chances to discard cards which basically makes the scales arcane reservoir +2.

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  2. Hello guys,

    I've decided to play lady justice in an upcoming tournament. It is a small event and a very uncompetitive scene, so it's more important to have fun and be a good opponent (though still trying to win games) for me. My pool of guild models is very limited and is more scewered towards cool and/or thematic models than the best fits with lj. I enjoy playing her though I don't have a lot of experience with her. 

    My question: based on the models I own what kind of combo's are strong, are there explicit weaknesses, etc. I recently purchased abuela ortega and I was also wondering what anyone's experience is with using her and the brutal emissary to get lady j up the field.

    My model pool:

    Lj box obviously

    Jury

    Brutal emissary

    Brutal effigy

    Lone marshal

    Death marshal recruiters

    Executioners

    Abuela ortega

    Guild riflemen

     

  3. 37 minutes ago, Franchute said:

    @Joachim these minis are great. Which colours did you use for the cream white you used on the gakis and the dirt?

    And which Chilean wine do you drink? :D

    Thanks, it is a mix of skull white (all colors I use are from Vallejo) with leather brown and a very small amount of black to make a bit more greyish. I then used glaze medium to make some smooth transition from pure white on the ridges of the folds and a darker grey in the recesses to create a nice contrast. Finally I used german grey to stipple a darker grey brown from the bottom up, adding some more of this dark color in the recesses and some dark spots to create an extra dirty effect at the bottom of the robes. I then applied a watered down sepia wash and i carefully wipe it off with a cloth to remove it from the ridges.I also let quite a bit of wash collect in the recesses. So breaking some normal rules of painting which is fun :).

    Can't remember which bottle exactly, but we drank a bottle of casillero del diablo recently, I think that that's from chile?

     

  4. 36 minutes ago, Burnin' Coal said:

    @Joachim lovely brush work...really like the pearlescent effect you have achieved on the Seishin and the glow on the eyes is excellent

    Thanks, I was trying out some stuff, and actually painted the belly in leather brown. Then I applied several very very light drybrushes of a bright gold and it gave a cool effect.

    The seishin are miniatures that allow you to do some different stuff, they have a cool feel to them.

     

    For the eyes it is actually quite simple, i paint the eyes with white where I want the glow to be brightest, then apply nihilakh oxide, and i then come back with white where I want the glow to be the strongest.

    I'm also really looking forward to painting the gaki. It doesn't show very well on the picture but I painted ikyrio with browns, redbrowns and orange and red tones with very dirty spots, stipples and smudges with quite a high contrast. I then applied several sepia washes, it creates a very cool and creepy effect, which will fit the gaki very well. I can use the same technique for the cloth to make them fit in with ikyrio.

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  5. 9 hours ago, Ludvig said:

    Best bet?

    Justice with the emissary would be interesting. Just having her buried by the emissary through an obey turn one and waiting pretty much makes Philip's card draw suicide for Nico. I guess a savvy Nico player will spot it and do the marker drop and Philip as his first two activations.

    I also think that lady j with the emissary and an obey is a good combo. If you name nico you can get + to damage and take 3 min 4 hits, probably bumping it to 5 or 6 cause youre gonna want to put your high rams and stones into this alpha.

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  6. 6 hours ago, Amdor said:

    Firstly, thank you Joachim and Franchute

    @Joachim I try to get as much natural light for the pictures as I can, but there's a tiny problem. It's winter and I live in the north, so the brightest time of day lasts about three hours and even then most days it's not very bright out.

    @Franchute

    I understand. Though its not as extreme here in belgium, its dark when i leave for work and when i get back in the winter, so i take my pictures in the weekend. A very good light source should also do thr trick indoors.

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  7. @le_sphinx thanks, i was indeed glad i pulled out a win though it was very hard. I had to cheat initiative several times to go first with titania, accuse stuff and tie them up, while not being accused back.

    @whodares also had a negative experience against this player. It is indeed sad for the gaming community. Its all about having fun in the end for me. Luckiliy my next two games were against great players and i had a close loss and a win. So it turned out to be a great tournament anyways.

    Sorry for the off-topic talk. 

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  8. @le_sphinx

     

    Lol, I played into a nicodem with 1 belle and summoning 2 on turn 1. He lured my rougarou 6 times, failing once, but my dopple and lilitu lured him right back. Since nico invested 3 stones and his corpses into those belles and one punk zombie I consider that a win. Titania then had time to audience in izamu and a zombie. 

    Rougarou then put in great damage against izamu putting him down to 3 wounds. Turn 2 dopple lured the punk zombie into my crew allowing me to kill it and pick up the head. He then use one belle to get izamu out of there. It was a very hard crew to go up against but this titania crew by deploying defensively put a lot of pressure onto his resources, I threw titania onto the first head marker in the centre of the table, forcing him to use more ap on titania to mover her around and pick it up. I then focused on accusation and search the ruins to just score my points, which got me a close 8-7 win. 

    Technically he had the win, though I discovered at the end of the game that he did a double walk of 10 with a punk zombie to pick up a search the ruins marker to deny 3vp. That was literally the last activation of the game, and while the models where still on the board I checked with him if he could actually get there. He said yes, I can move 10" with a double walk. I then checked the stat card and said no, punk zombie has wk4. I also showed this to the to. The opponent reasoned that he could have removed the marker with another model instead, which was simply untrue. The to preferred to not get involved and force a decision, I'm also not the kind of player to argue about these kind of things and the opposing playere was clearly very competitive, so I made the agreement that we wouldn't change the vp but that I technically won, which I'm fine with. That player ended up winning the tournament which did feel quite unfair, but oh well.

  9. 19 minutes ago, le_sphinx said:

    Finally I tried Tooth+Rougarou combo in a serious game yesterday. I agree that it quite card dependent. For example, Tooth wasn't able to cast her (0) for a couple of turns. 

    However, the main drawback for me was low surviability of Rougarou. Tooth got serious pressing from opponent, but her armor, HtW and some healing from Titania kept her alive for some time. Unfortunatelly, the fae wolf was killed in one turn without big efforts.

    I found this point as the main utility of the combo!

    I think the perfect scenario when the wolf charges and engages two enemy models (not very strong models). It hits one model with his 2 attacks uses one of his (0) actions. The Tooth charges another model, tries to hit it and provoke some pounce attacks from the Rougarou. Her (0) pseudo lure can be used in order to finish one of that two models.

     

    Despite of some difficulties, anyway I am really exited to try Lelu/Kade+Lilitu+Tooth combo one day^_^

    I played lilitu dopple tooth rougarou in two tournament games yesterday and it actually worked pretty well.

    Titania acts as a disruption piece to audience opponents in, taunt them and that way protect rougarou. I managed to get out a very close win against a nasty nicodem list. And they worked wonders in a collect the bounty game vs kaeris. Getting 3vp from setup turn 2 on kandara and just killing off models with toot/rougarou. I audienced the emissary, put a taunt on him. Tooth then just attacked models close to rougarou, getting pounces and healing titania with the markers. If you get your pieces in the right positions it can get really powerfull.

    Also with the right hand rougarou can dish out a lot of damage when you need him too. I was able to get a ram trigger when holding the red joker, giving me the plus flip and hitting the emissary for 8 damage.

    I always now play primeval conflux with titania cause it is really good, but earlier I played the general conflux and that makes the combo extremely brutal. I also usually have some changelings hanging around and you'd be surprised how effective a changeling copying tooth's attack can be. It is the perferct attack to copy, since the push is built in. Agreed it is ml4 but there are only so many things the opponent can cheat, it tends to hit regularly, and you don't really care if it misses, either you need you changelings to run schemes, and if you can't and you're taking potshots you never cheat in cards for them.

     

    You also mention tooths (0). It is true that if you need it for your entire combo to start rolling, you're going to probably need a 12 or 13 depending on opponents wp. Alternatively if you don't have the hand for it you can try and wait for later in the turn, or you make sure you position yourself to charge them and still get 2 attacks in at least. I've noticed a huge increase in efficiency of these models after learning to position them and titania better. It's not the craziest combo I've seen, but it can be damn ap efficient.

  10. 1 hour ago, Amdor said:

    Done (Freikorps Trapper: 7 ss). Not much to say about this one, IMO the freikorps are very simple paintingwise. Though doing tiny details like the shine on his lenses is fun, as it instantly makes it look much better.

    February_Finished.jpg

    Unfortunately I have to extend the disclaimer from last month, the camera eats a lot of colour from the model. I might try to borrow a better one next weekend and snap some pictures that do the models more justice.

    Nice paintjob, colors fit the model perfectly. I have the same issue taking pictures so i do it under natural daylight.

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  11. 3 hours ago, Thimblesage said:

    The double charge works well as long as the three models are perfectly in line with each other. but the lure I've found extremely hard because having the enemy model end perfectly in between the Tooth and Rougarou is hard and at that point I have to invest AP positioning to get that perfect straight line 

    You're not luring for the pounce. You lure or audience them out of position to get off your challenge or get charge lanes.

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  12. Its not that hard to get off either. You can charge something with rougarou first and then charge it with tooth.

    Barbaros and titania also have ways to move opponents and you can bring lures. I dont find it very hard to make it work.

     

    15 minutes ago, Thimblesage said:

    I want to second the idea that the combo is much better on paper than in practice. I found the biggest hardship with the combo is it requires a lot of positioning and set-up. Because Tooth's attack is "Push away" its directly away which means you have to have an enemy model between Tooth and Rougarou in pretty specific distances in relationship to eachother. I found this put one or both Tooth and Rougarou in very exposed mispositioned parts of the board. Also, to position for the legendary 7AP for the price of 1 attack the set-up usually required a turn of wasting AP walking and not charging or attacking. This could not be more telegraphed and easily countered. Also, if there's a slip in the order of operation then usually the enemy model in base to base and doesn't push which doesn't proc pounce. 

     

    Still fun when it happens, just not as strong of a combo with the skill-set I have

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  13. 1 hour ago, chryspainthemum said:

    I dislike the combo because it's 15ss altogether and my personal playstyle likes to have individually useful pieces, or pieces that do more than one thing at any given time. Lately I've been enjoying Kade in a list that includes Tooth, Barbaros, Lilitu (looooots of pushes), but the 1" engagement is definitely a downside. But Kade also hits hard by himself when he has to, which the Rougarou does not, is a Woe, which is a more useful keyword in the lists that need it than Fae is in the lists that need that, and costs 2ss less. The Tooth is useful by itself with a number of schemes, Lilitu is easily a Neverborn all-star, and Barbaros is.. I dunno where I stand on him yet. Anyways, all the models are useful for more than one thing. The Rougarou, however, kinda only does one thing... so I've dropped him.

    I agree in part, but rougarou can put out a lot of damage if you hit the ram trigger. Also his zero pulse to push models in and then place can be really nice. He is also a minion so gets protected by gorar.

  14. I'm planning to finish the hooded rider this weekend as I'm using him in a tournament this sunday. I'm pretty busy on saturday so I basically have friday night and saturday morning.

    I've been giving the color scheme a lot of thought and I've been struggling a bit. I'll go through my thought process and post some WIP so hopefully you guys can give me some feedback.

     

    I wanted to use turquoise and purple as these are my accent colors for neverborn. So I wanted to have this constrast of dark colors and bright colors. I also wanted to paint the snakes on the horse similarly to the vines I used on the bases of my fae. To bring all of these colors together I didn't really feel like anything would work on the horse but browns and green/browns. So in the end the mount turned out te be really dark, which I think fits the model, and the bright colors on the riders cap really makes him pop. I still have to finish the skulls on his saddle and the wings, for the wing membrane I'm thinking of going for a mix of the brown from the skin, dwarf skin and white, this is the same mix I used for my fae skin, which is like a very pale greyish skintone.This will also add some more contrast to the horse.

    The saddle right now is very bland, mainly time constraints. I'm planning on just getting the rider tabletop ready and this is a model I'm probably going to revisit in about 6 months and finish the details. I think this is one that I will take a break from and come back to.

    Thoughts?

    Picture quality isn't great as i didn't have the time to take a picture during the day but it gives an idea of the colors.

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