thatlatinspeakingguy

You can see the results at pages with rankings. Just google them.

Interesting thread. However, I'm not sure if your "most winning" and "most struggling" categories tell us anything except that these masters are played by relatively better/worse players in a given community than other masters. I can tell you that in my (and Cedar's at the same time) meta three players play Shenlong, but only one of them constantly places high at tournaments. The same pertains to every top tier master played by more than one player in our meta I think. Because the number of players is high in it, the correlation between the personal skill and the result is more visible. Also, what does it mean that some masters are struggling in a given meta? It should be more specified. I assume that it means that a master is played by someone (or even better - by several people) regularly with no success.

I do think that you can spend those 6ss better with these two masters. The best use I made of her was when I started playing Jack Daw, as she gives him an access to Lure.

You don't hire them primarily as scheme runners. You hire them as shooting multipliers or abusers of various unique actions: they do they job on turn one or two, and after that they mainly do schemes or kill your opponent's low-df beaters with their own attacks.

Taking the results of the faction at big (40+ participants) events in Poland and UK this year, I would say it's exactly the opposite - the faction is horribly bad. Troubleshooters 3, 13th Jan, 40 participants, the worst avarage score. Polish Nationals, 17th March, 46 players, Ressurs at 5th place. Haul of Eggs 6, 24 March, 44 participants, the worst avarage score. Adding the results from smaller events doesn't change the picture much.

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holy molly, I had no idea it works that way. I have wasted free blasts so many times... 😉

the thing is that Nekima will stone to circumvent the negative twist to horror duel and happily kill you anyway.

I consider Fortify the Spirit a staple. It requires full cache to work, but it enables you to avoid some hits and to eventually live long enough to make use of your Blood Ascendant upgrade. Some people don't even bother attacking Yan when they see FtF, as it may drain their hand with no effect - so you may not see it's usefulness at first glance.

It makes the faction competitive. Costs 1ss, it's Rare 2 and Non-Master. It says as follows: This model gains the following Ability: My Little Helper: When this model is killed or sacrificed, you may summon a Mindless Zombie into base contact with it before removing it. An Errand For Master: Once per game, after determining Initiative, this model may choose to draw a card. If it does, it gains the following Condition until the end of the Turn: "Dark Protection: This model may not be targeted by the Actions of enemy models unless the enemy models are within 3" of this model. This model may take an additional (0) Action during its Activation (this may be used to take the same Action a second time)." The upgrade has two main uses: to abuse (0) actions which summon/generate corpse markers in certain crews (Nico, Yan Lo) or to protect your beaters (Archie, Rogue Necro etc.) on crucial turn.

If the spirit of Malifaux is to make a list according to schemes and strats, then the One Great List policy is not player's but designers fault (and partially also Tournament Organizers, who IMO should exercise their power over the scene and organize more "different master for each round" events). I don't understand why do you blame the guy for playing the most competitive list he could create.

Congratulations for the result. It seems that the way you understand Seamus role and play him is not very (if at all) different from the way people around me do, but you were able to get much better results. I have the feeling that here most Seamus games are like your second game May I ask for strats and opposing crews in all rounds?

Sorry to say that, but this is a classical exmple of a strawman fallacy. Malifaux is a multilayered game of subtlety with relatively good internal balance. You expect good Malifaux player to beat weaker players regularly and in competitive enviroment that happens most of the time. The problem with Sandeep is that after many months of regular gaming good players realized that unlike other A tier masters Sandeep has no exploitable weaknesses - and this is precisely what "being on a different level" in a game like Malifaux means. You have raised the problem of reliable data to support that claim and rightly so - but I'm afraid that we cannot rely on anything else than "anecdotes" and popular opinion, grounded in experience of players, because we don't have anything better (more "objective") at our disposal.

This is precisely the case of the winner of Polish nationals: he used to play Ten Thunders and Neverborn with okeyish results (http://pol.malifaux-rankings.com/#/players/126), he switched to Sandeep at the beginning of 2018 (according to rankings, I don't know him personally) and his results got substantially improved. To make it clear, I don't want to say that he didn't deserve the first place and we cannot exclude the possibility that in his case the improvement of overall skill simply coincides with the faction change.

Alpha strike is the only way to win against her I'm afraid. Keeping her engaged may not work if your opponent brings Guild Investigator. Try to kill him as fast as possible, as he grants her free pushes from everyone in the crew.

Just in case you don't know: there was a discussion recently at the Arcanists forum about the possible nerf of Mages which eventually developed into conversation about Sandeep:

Some more data for your discussion: we had Polish Nationals this weekend and guess what happened? The first and the third place were taken by players running Sandeep exclusively. I wouldn't be surprised if they were playing fixed lists. I don't know what is the winner's opinion on Sandeep's possible nerf, but the third player agrees for a long time that there is a problem that needs to be addressed somehow.

Decreasing your activation count by killing your own models won't help you against alpha strike. Personally, I tend to position my summoned seishins in such a way as to prevent placing an enemy model after charge in a place I don't want it be (works against models with 50 mm bases). Yan is awfully fragile indeed, which is why he desperately needs Fortify the Spirit and full cache. If you play Sebastian and Nurse, have you also tried Shikome? I like to take one with Yan, she makes such a nice synergistic duet with Goryo. As for Yan's competitiveness, I have mixed feelings. I know it can be frustrating to play a master who is strong from turn 3 onwards if the game ends after that turn because time has run out.

Shadow Emissary is certainly the best acquisition for a TT newbie, as it is played with every master. Yasunori is pretty strightforward, as are Katanaka Snipers, Crime Bosses, Mr. Graves (cheap Yu's substitute) and Lone Swordsman. But basically everything will work with Misaki, except things that don't work at all.

Love your necrotic machine. I don't like the sculpt, but you made it look good actually.

I have never played with a similar list, but I have settled on Yan as my main master recently and I can tell you that you don't need more than 1 Chi on turn one in half of the games, and in the second half you can simply kill your own seishin (which I often prefer to keep alive until turn two: they block los, they engage chargers, they're activations and anchors for LD). Killing a 3 ss HIRED model using SEVERE card only to get ONE chi is the purest nonsense to my mind

I assumed he meant Ca 7. Which is near to impossible.

pic or it didn't happen.

that's what you get if you don't bring Kang into Ressers. Kang makes Sinister/DYKWIA Seamus very sad. I often don't use Decaying Aura outside Reva's crew, but in Seamus vs TT matchup it seems to be the right choice, in case they will bring Kang. Without Soulstones he's not that hard to put down.

this autocorrection revealed your identity, Cedar - or maybe I should call you Bolek?... ;-) the more I read about Parker the more I want to actually play him. he seems to be complex enough to provide some good excuse for me screwing games up ;-) by the way, how did Taelor manage to kill Sue on turn one?