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Oh I love that model so much! The title seems quite interesting. Shade of delios could help allow students of sinew control anyone, students of steel to heal living allies as wel, etc Lessons learned could be pretty nice as well. The protect me trigger could be fun. Have a bodyguard, could be used by Anna to blow it up with her bonus action. I'm not sure how powerful astronomical insignificance could be, especially since it's "until the START phase" If the ennemy has a scheme that names one of his models, you can use that to negate the scheme for the last turn point, right?

Indeed. And speaking of which, does new artwork mean new model? Should we expect alternative models for each titled version of masters?

I'm guessing with marker generation & consumption from McCabe's crew, you can build grow tokens fast on the botanists

I'm gonna copy what we got for Sonnia! Lucius Mattheson, UNMASKED (like that's ever going to happen )

For Von Schtook, I don't have any clear idea but I would at least like to see an action themed around the whistles that he uses in the stories to call or direct his student. Maybe something making them move, or charge. For Molly, maybe something themed around the influence of the Gorgon on her? Making her have a more direct, attack spell vibe to it?

True, I failed to mention that. Valedictorian was a prime target for the fast. I'm curious now, would people still take an upgrade for her as often?

I'm trying to see how the changes to Von Schtook's trigger Positive Results will impact the crew. Removing the "heal 1" part shouldn't impact much, especially since there's not much hard to kill in the crew. But changing the fast from "if the model has an upgrade" to "remove scheme marker within 2'" is interesting. On the negative side, there's a cost to pay. If you want to give fast turn 1, you'll need to spend an action (preferably from a model without good options turn 1) to generate a sheme marker. Though you could use an undergraduate Study/Ana's grade assignment, if you also take a gravedigger, or other way to generate corpse markers. On the plus side, you can potentially give fast to anyone, not just the models hired with an upgrade or the summoned models. Also Von Schtook's Recruitment drive (even if nerfed), and Students of Steel's sabotage would help generate the scheme markers in later turns. And it's definitly worth mentioning that it doesn't have to be a friendly scheme marker, so it might give more opportunity to use it/might help remove ennemy schemes markers you couldn't remove normally. I'm sure I'm missing other ways this change could impact play, but I'm definitly curious to play this one out to find out

Oh I see, then I definitely missed something. In which document is that written? I just saw the link to the errata & faq and I don't think I saw those here, so I guess I missed a link EDIT : nevermind, It didn't occur to me to click on the big "gaining grounds season 2" image. Silly me

I'm not sure I get this one. Are you refering to the change : "On the turn they are Summoned, Summoned models cannot take the Interact Action and are ignored for friendly Schemes and Strategies." If so it's not really new, in GG1 there was already something preventing summoned models to interact on the turn they were summoned : "Summoned models cannot take the Interact Action during the Turn they were Summoned." If not then it looks like I missed something

Gotta love the Alpinist being sideways on its rock

I just saw new boxes pre-order appear on Wayland (but without art so not sure what is in there) : Here Lies... : maybe the grave goo + moorwraiths? Hush : I would be surprised if the archivist isn't in it, but I haven't seen Cadmus' box appear in pre-orders. would be weird to have it released because its core box. Also, who who he be packaged with? Turning Tides : should be EVS. I would guess at least Harata Ngaatoro and TideCaller in there Off the Deep End : I would expect EVS too. with bebe & Calypso. Harpooner could be in either box

FYI the upcoming page got updated with the May releases. It shows (some of which we already knew, but it's nice to have some sort of confirmation) : The explorer's society starter box Maxine's box (Maxine, Orville, Kiya, machinists) Jedza's box (Jedza, Sophie, Mikhail, lamplighters) Fools' gold (rough riders, cryptologists) The damned Austera & Twigge

I just saw these pre orders on wayland : The damned Austera and Twigge While the release date is not guaranteed as we've seen delays a few times, at least we know those 2 will each have their own separate box. If I'm not mistaken it leaves us with the moorwraiths and the grave goo for the seeker keyword. I wouldn't be surprised if they are together in the same box (though I was surprised that Austera & Twigge would have their own box, so maybe the grave goo will have a separate box as well)

The upcoming page shows releases up to April. And before the delay they had Waldo Weekly mentions April for Jedza's stuff. So I would say unless there's another delay, we'll start seeing seeker boxes on May's releases

Ok so we got Jedza, Sophie, Mikhail and the lamplighters. I would guess the rest of the seeker boxes would be : 1 box with grave goo, austera & twigge, and the moorwraiths 1 box with the damned (hopefully, since he's savage too it would be nice to have him alone) Since the surveyors are in Anya's box and Tannenbaum is in the starter box, that would be all seeker models

You can only target friendly models with it. It will do damage to that model and ennemy models in a pulse of 2" around it. So you would basically be doing 1 damage to a friend to do 1 damage to ennemies. But let's not forget that in the Cadmus crew has the parasite mechanic + the "parasitic grasp" ability on the "will of cadmus" upgrade. This makes it so Cadmus models can treat ennemy models with a parasite token as if they were friendly cadmus. So in a cadmus crew the spelleater will be able to target either friendly models OR ennemy models with a parasite token. Note that this also applies to the action trigger "expand the hive"

Ok but you still can't have Ullr's trigger more than once in your chain, since Ullr's second attack is a "subsequent Actions generated"

Yeah found it. Page 12 of the errata'd rulebook, in the box "actions generated by triggers" "Actions generated by Triggers (and any subsequent Actions generated) cannot declare Triggers, and like other generated Actions, they do not count against a model’s Action limit."

If I'm not mistaken, actions generated by triggers cannot declare triggers. So Ullr wouldn't be able to use his "hold down" trigger here.

Also in the game that third floor wars streamed, where I believe Matt & Kyle where commenting, they said it was on purpose. They wanted a master that was pure construct, and played around several stuff until settling for the "rebuilt" man that is Cooper now. Also, cue in Obi-wan Kenobi :

I have the 2 boxes and I have started painting them. Here are some pictures I took a few days ago after assembling/painting them (Cooper & one of the Crypsis have a rocky base insert, for the rest I used rock stuff I bought) :

Was there one of the enforcer you felt you shouldn't have picked? With that many enforcers I would think that you would choose some of them depending on the pool, the ennemy crew, etc. Also, how hard would you rate getting a good value out of the lamplighter's lamps? Like puting them on the right spot, lighting them when relevant, etc? Those guys look tricky to play IMO

Not only that, you can set up a crypsis corps with patient strike and have the harpooners move an ennemy to trigger a shot from the crypsis Or pull an ennemy into model 9 or malisaurus rex range Or stop an ennemy from engaging Cooper (especially if Cooper got staggered and you can't move him with your other models) I'm not sure if the harpooners will be super great hires, but I can see some play with them

Yeah looks like it from some retailers, like here Wayland has been pretty ok with these M3E releases (unless there was a change also happening on the "upcoming" page, for instance) There might be delays happening as well but at least it should be first half of the year I can't wait to have the seekers models!

I could see how the neverborn box could have some Cadmus keyword, as it was created by Titania after all. Or how the resurectionist box could have Seeker models. But here, Seeker already has 3 minions & a bunch of enforcers, so I don't think they need it. So I wouldn't be surprised if the ressers starter box don't have the seeker keyword, but have another keyword or no keyword at all.