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@muraki @Magnus @Stranglelove Yeah I'm pretty much the same as you guys, I always change what I'm painting halfway through the month Well yeah it could totally be done by pledging a soulstone amount rather than particular miniatures. Its more about having it as a monthly thing so that casual painters can do a month here and there rather than having to commit to the year, and being excluded if they can't do every month. For those of us doing it every month it wouldn't really change much, except you could change you pledge level each month and take breaks if life gets in the way. For example: Muraki pledges Master 16ss for Jan and completes it (Gets a green box with total painted). Feb he has more free time so he goes big and pledges Tyrant 31ss which he also completes (Gets a green box with total painted). March he has a lot of work on so he doesn't pledge anything for that month (Gets a grey box with total painted). April he pledges big again but this time falls short ( Gets a red box with total painted) For those that want a challenge, you could have a total year pledge that your working toward Could even have huge pledges if people really want to challenge themselves on a certain month - I pledge 100 STONES!!!!

This month I'm gonna pledge this lot. 3x Lampads, 2x Grave Diggers

@Caedrus I'd be interested in running 2021. But I'd like to suggest a format change and see what everyone thinks. The reason for the change is to be more inclusive and accommodating. I've noticed that there's a lot of new people getting into Malifaux and joining the forums at various points throughout the year. I think the way the challenge is set up it's hard for those people to join even with the buyback. I've also noticed a lot of people will miss a couple of months and then give up on the challenge as buying back in can be a daunting amount of work. My suggestion would be this: The challenge runs monthly. You pledge what minis you are going to paint at the beginning of the month and you complete them by the end of the month. If you do so you get a green block on the spreadsheet. If you don't you get a red block. Simple as that. If you don't pledge for that month you just get a grey block. (Could even include a yellow block if you didn't paint the minis you pledged but paint something of equivalent value in ss cost) This way would mean several things. Painters could take months off when they are busy without being excluded from the challenge. New painters could join in at any point during the year without having to catch up. And it allows for people to change their pledges based on what they want to commit to each particular month. This sounds like it might be a nightmare keeping track of everything for the book keeper, but thats where the strictness come in. Pledges have to be made in the first 5 days of the month and results have to be posted by the last day of the month. If you miss these deadlines its no big deal as you can just jump in again next month. Let me know what you guys think. If this sounds interesting to you or whether you'd want the challenge to remain as it is

Great work guys, I have been pretty busy this month but it's nice to scroll back and check out all of the work I managed to squeeze in a cheeky Draugr last night to complete my pledge Total for August is 3x Crooligan - 12ss, Draugr - 7ss = 19ss

Ok fine! I'll buy Umbra as well as Apex

Some Crooligans. That's the Forgotten finished

I usually make a Flesh Construct with Mcmourning on turn 1. Just bring a Grave digger and a mindless zombie. Grave digger will get you 2 corpses and the MZ is your third Tip: Have the mindless zombie bite Mcmouning a couple of times first before he's used for the flesh construct. Can dish out 2-4 poison and only 2 damage which Mcm will easily heal

Yep or this I'd be fine with. They just don't feel good at 8ss, to be honest if they came down to 7ss but stayed as they are I think they'd be ok The models are so cool, I'd love to be able to put 2 of them on the table regularly

This. I'd love to see them repurposed as a 6ss Scheme runner.

We have an insanely good Guild player in our meta, who I've only managed to beat once and that was running Kirai into Basse. My thoughts so far: I'll never run Jack into Guild again. Whatever master you face they'll probably bring in Pale Rider and Lone Marshal which will, collectively ruin the tormented's day. I found Reva and Seamus are also not ideal picks as both really need those corpse markers which the Marshals mess with. Exorcists are a problem for Ressers. They've shown up with many different Masters so always make them a target priority. If your opponent declares Sonnia, bring a student of Steel, Guild nearly always have a couple of Lead lined coats, mix that with Shielded and it can get get really obnoxious. The Masters I've had most success with have been Kirai (watch out for exorcists though) and Von Schtook. Molly is also a good option if you want to run around the board doing Symbols, Spread them out or breakthrough. Guild have a hard time keeping up. Also don't bother poison stacking on the Experimental against lady J. She can undo all of it with a single action. Yep I learnt that the hard way 😢

Nah it's great. Use it to control what the Hoffman player is doing with his master. If you Analyze weakness on a couple of things and watch Hoffman run around or spend power tokens trying to negate it. Meanwhile he's not making Joss and Howard Fast. Bring in a Student of Steel against Hoffman every time, even if your not playing Schtook.

August I will pledge 3x Crooligan, that will complete the Forgotten Keyword. Then maybe Lampads and a Draugr to complete the Revenant Keyword. After that there's just a few versatiles then its on to Ancestor After that... I'll have a fully painted Faction!!! 😱

Great work as always this month guys! @Caedrus didn't manage to finish any more so my total for the month is: 3x Gaki - 12ss, 3x Rabble Risers - 18ss, Molly - 15ss Total for July = 45ss

This crew looks amazing dude! You've done a fantastic job

First time I saw the sculpt I thought it was a rocket launcher I think he's just an attention seeker. Always taking his shirt off and picking up large pipes. The rest of the class hate him

Whenever i declare Jack my opponents will always tech in Ruthless models (which makes sense) So I'm finding the Mourner really useful to shut that down, unfortunately I find that for 7ss (ook) it dosen't really do much else. @Graf i think summed it up best in that for a 6ss model it's not worth taking in its current keywords, so taking it for 7ss in tormented just feels bad. But against Ruthless, Tormented fold pretty easily as its their main defence mechanic. Maybe I'm just not playing them well enough So to answer your question, maybe, yes, sometimes. The thing is Weeping Widow doesn't really work against ranged Ruthless. I've found it doesn't work against Guild or Bayou. Ressers it's more useful as most of the damage dealers are melee focused. It could work against TT unless they bring Fuhatsu (which they always do) I think baking in the mask to Feed on grief so it could get around to apply the aura where needed would be great. Reducing the ss cost to 5 and/or making it versatile would make it a useful model

When I've used them in Tormented, the to wp doesn't come into it that much as its only 1". Especially when a model is coming in to attack a Terrifying model they'll just position so they're not in it. Can be useful with some of the other WP attacks in Jack's crew if you can get them in position

Do you not like Betrayal? It's such an amazing aura

This would be a nice idea. If they had a mask baked in to feed on grief they could reliably port around to be where they needed to be. Would make their other abilities more useful in the process. Giving them frightening reminder is another good idea, would certainly be thematic. And give them some more utility

Does anyone else think that Mourners should lose the Redchapel keyword and gain Tormented instead? Rules aside I think thematically an aesthetically they belong with Jack Mourners are such amazing sculpts but I have trouble getting them on the table. The only thing on their card that makes them worth taking imo is Weeping widow and I only ever use that with Tormented. In Redchapel I'd always take a Doxy over these and in Revenant most likely a shield bearer. Or maybe if they were versatile? Either that Or I'd like to see them erratered so they'd see play more. I'd be curious to know your thoughts about them or if anyone else has had success with them in Redchapel or Revenant?

Its not ideal, all I really want is a second Steel and Viscera (one from each box) but it makes sense to package them this way for new players

At the tournaments I've been to, using an existing Malifaux model to proxy another is not allowed. Tournaments can be loud and playing on the clock allows less time for explanations. I have a few proxies and conversions but at tournaments I only take the actual Gaining grounds compatible models. Luckily it was only a friendly, but once I took Vendetta against Taelor only to realise it was a proxy for a prospector made out of a Taelor model. So my advice would be make the Female Mcmouning crew as it sounds cool, but get the actual models for tournaments

Finished the new Molly sculpt and the new Rabble Risers

Its a mix of Sotek Green and Kabalite Green. With a mix of Gulliman Blue and Waywatcher Green glazes