Hello, another new player.
Had my first game with Marcus yesterday. Schemese plant evidence, spring a trap, line in sand and squatters rights - so a swirling mess of conufsion, scheme makers and death along the center line.
List was claw and fang (myranda sacing for sabre turn three), kudra, 3xhoarcat prides. I was up against a minion wave Macabe list, and was slaughtered... although having checked the errata I actually had 9 points spare, so some expansion is clearly needed. I have all the gamin and the shasta vidja at the moment, along with the medical autonomota.
I think I'm starting to like a walk of 7 and a fast moving game. Even with Marcus, Myranda and Kudra on the table I had trouble using up my soulstones. I was alphaing every turn, but with no big target on the other side it was mostly getting cojo to places quicker. In retrospect I feel like I gave up marcus's turn to double cojo's and I'm not sure that is a good trade.
The rattler was sent as a tarpit against the dawnserpent, mcabe and luna. It took up 2ap of mcabe before dying quickly. Cojo was where I learnt the perils of Danzey's Chaunt. Sabre was slowed and machine gunned to death in a single turn. Hoarcats are incredibly efficient guild hounds swallowers and good little scheme runners (and now cheaper!).
Kudra and Myranda match each other for speed, can defend each other and work quite nicely (difficult to shoot them becuase of Kudra's soft cover and butterfly jump, diffucult to charge them because of Myranda's skinwalk threat), but the duo is quite expensive.
Questions:
1) is my 'i like high movement' feeling becuase it's a compensation for being inexperienced at placement to start with, and I should focus on schemes and activations more? Molemen?
2) why have I never seen Marcus with warpigs or wild boar?, Pull My finger suggests he can take them: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1293024/pages/marcus
3) I'm not a fan of the models for the raptors, or the slate ridge mauler. I do quite like the waldgeists (which I know people recommend) and the grootslang (thoughts?).
4) Ranged options. I could just take some arcanist shooty goodness, but how do people find the dawn serpent?