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The Wyrd speed painting events are up if anyone would like to sign up for those (I just did).

Keeping up with the viks theme from last month, here's a couple taelors for this month so far:

Yeah I have no worries about the change in model counts. That's like saying gremlins should never be played cause most their boxes have smaller models. Editions change and prices go up. Sadly it's the way of the world. If a couple dollars or model removed lets wyrd recruit and keep art / design / etc talent. Go for it. I'd rather a game that can stay competitive in the space than one that cuts off its future for near term benefits.

@Athiko thanks for the recommendations! I'd looked up some of them, but it's always nice to get confirmation. And ha, on being spoilt. I'd be jealous but I can buy wyrd products without paying an arm + leg for shipping. So it all balances out

Not sure how I'll do this month as I'm leaving tomorrow for a week holiday in London (is there any London shop I need to go to for game / basing stuff?). @Caedrus looking at the sheet I'm down 15 for April, I actually did 60 (4 viks and lady j).

Agree with Adran on everything. I usually think the built in suit for an ability with a suit requirement in the TN is so the developers can give the ability to other models and make it harder / easier. Leap and Obey are good examples of this. There are a lot of models with slightly varying starting scores and built in suits / non-built in suits for those 2 actions. Makes it so the devs can really toggle the difficulty. A 3rd option (that also doesn't apply to this ability) is that some triggers can use multiple suits. Critical Strike / puncture, for instance, get better for each Ram in the duel total up to a certain point. A built in suit for these abilities start you at a better position.

@nikodamus no, I'm not going to add any of the stuff coming from her hands (I actually cut off one hand and glued the smoke / fire on top of the other one). I also used the wings to mod other models. I did pick up a second one in case I wanted to build her as designed, but I don't see a need for a 50 mm based lady j right now. Especially since, as you said, the model looks super delicate with all that metal. Itd prolly be fine but I dont feel like chancing it with my poor metal modeling skills.

Keeping up with the metal month I painted part of the avatar to get an alternate lady J. So that puts me up to 60 points for the month, which may end up being my limit (which isn't all that bad point wise at least).

@Athiko those bases are great. I like the red in the empty spots, it'll make a partial fire team pop. @Caedrus cough... not all of us have been putting pigment to plastic this month, ha. <looks for more metal models>

Been slow this month, so just finished another set of viks this weekend. I'm hoping to try and get some painted themed models to go with em, but we'll see how the next week shapes up. At least now I've gotten 44 points of pure viks.

Nooo I just bought an avatar so I can paint some more magicy Colette... Aw well, guess I'll just have more to buy/paint. Art looks great, looking forward to the render / model.

I think Marshal is pretty easy, they haven't changed radically from 2nd, tho there are some new abilities to play around with. That said if you played m2e relatively recently it shouldn't take too long for you to get your head around your favorite m2e guild master. Yeah the cards have changed but the general flow of the game is pretty similar.

I think he means he wishes they were new unreleased nightmare models to expand dreamers summoning pool rather than an alternative of one of the existing summons.

@viruk yeah the eyes look a bit off in that pic, which is kind of annoying. In person, they look a bit better. I wanted to do more asian-esque on the rabbit suited vik, but i kind of liked the way they came out (kind of reminded me of skeeter from doug funny). I may go back at them when i get set up again, and see if it's just a bad image or if I can make em a bit better. I do prefer to do anime eyes, so we'll see. Those Cereberus's look great. I was thinking of the same color scheme for mine (when I get around to it), though i was thinking a darker blue for the mane / stripes rather than grey. I may have to change my opinion after seeing these, the contrast is nice.

Decided that this month was going to be about Mercs, so I started with the season specific viks to get ready for Easter. Trying to decide how many other viks I should paint... Think I have 4 versions ha.

@Diddick that necropunk looks amazing. I was wondering where you were going to go from the black lining (which looked good by itself). Great work.

Not bad, ordered. I assume the pin up one is just female masters? If so, kinda a missed opportunity to add some diversity. Maybe could release a separate male deck?

His keyword is honeypot, so gwen / kitty / graves / tannen / beckoners / illuminated / depleted should work pretty well with him / make up a large portion of his list, but versatile models can be bought for the same cost (like the always fun tanuki), and out of theme models are just +1 cost which can be totally worth it in a certain pool. As for upgrades, lynch puts out 'the darkness beckons' when he kills models / summons minions and you can put the 3 general upgrades (silent protector, trained ninja, masked agent) on any model. Sure they're pricy but adding hard to kill or stealth/unimpeded on a model is great for certain matchups. I think my biggest issue (beyond wanting him to do 5+ damage a round without a gun icon) is that I keep trying to play him in any strat pool, and m3e isn't as good at that as m2e. Trying to get him / his crew across the board to do back field events, or things where multiple interacts were needed is a bit painful as that's not his keyword's forte (and TT has better movement / interact masters). Another thing I've noticed in m3e is that sometimes masters need to just put in the work for a round or 2 and score points rather than being a big board threat. Yes, there's still the big swingy rounds where they go crazy and win the game (cough lynch succumbs 2x , does 5--10 pts of damage and summons a model or 2)... but other times they end up walking / healing / dropping a marker or two to score for a scheme / strat. One other thing is I feel I need to plan his turns a lot more to get use out of him. There's less of the 'well at least i'll draw 3 cards and ping a few people with pay for blood... no big deal' from m2e. I think the next time I play him, I may try a lure game, use some beckoners to lure models into Gwen and her play at my table ability with lynch to lurk nearby to heal / give out more brilliance / summon depleted or teleport huggy into enemies. Very pool specific, (I'm thinking turf or reckoning) but could be a fun time.

Ditto'in Adran's comment. General upgrades are standard for a faction rather than model / master specific, and they've definitely tried to cut down on upgrade bloat this edition (which I like, as I was never big into upgrades). There has been comments from the devs about releasing alternate model cards (that can be used with any version of that model) with the same name, but a different title. The title system would open up alternate play styles (like maybe a melee or summoner raspy like in her wave 5 upgrades) for a model without having to balance a base card + a bunch of upgrades like in 2nd. That said there hasn't been an ETA for alternate titles or any details on what the alternate play styles would be like for any master.... so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I do agree that sometimes (as I played lynch for a lot of the beta) he feels like he's not doing much, but that's partially due to Huggy being pretty powerful, his keyword being pretty diverse and rig being awesome. He's also had a big change from 2nd and across the beta, so I need to put in some real time with him before I make a final decision myself. I think my biggest issue is that I need to stop thinking of him as a mid range blaster, and more of a buffer / ball of death master.

You could try table top games in westport ma. They have a lot of wyrd's line in stock. Not sure if they'll let you order over the phone/ship to you, but could be a possibility. I'd say I'd go down there and pick it up for you, but I'm trying to curtail my malifaux spending, so I'll only go if it's deperate

Spent the last 2 weeks building models so I have a lot to choose for this month. Maybe Parker, Tara, Wong or viks. Whatever it is, it won't be Marcus models to compete with viruk

From the post in the main forum about the book release is this quote Nathan: ' Dual masters will show up in both books, as well as Faction Decks. Dead Mans Hand models will be available via Faction Decks as well as downloadable online. ' So in my opinion that means mei feng / the forgeling will show up in both books. As for her minions / enforcers, well, most models are single faction now, so I'd assume they'd show up in the faction book / deck they're primarily assigned. So you'll have to get the bayou book for sparks, the arcanist book for the metal gamin, and the tt book for Kang. Course that's just my opinion, we'll see what the future holds. As it is, I'm optimistic cause it seems Wyrd is all about giving the rules / cards out for the edition change, so I'm confident we can find the info we need on models without buying books / etc we don't want.

Trying to find the second, no luck so far. But I'd totally pick him up, throw some the axe or knife in his hand and make him a frontiersman proxy

@Viruk it is the one off off eBay. My boyfriend put in a placeholder bid assuming he'd be out bid and wasn't. I like some of the models, myranda I think is cool and I like a bigger jackalope (tho yours is amazing), but there's parts on the jackalope and Marcus that I just don't like (I really hate Marcus's genie pants). Great work on both your models, it makes my 1/2 finished cojo look like junk (I love the eyebrows ha)

@Purple Mist thanks mist! I was trying for a pokemon trainer vibe with Marcus, as that was the post gencon joke (might as well embrace the meme).