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On the flip side, she can gain fast in that format? XD

8 hours ago, Azahul said:

As a summoner I would think Tara would actually be quite good at lower soulstones. Each model you summon is a much bigger swing, proportionally speaking.

It may depend if they're playing with the default rule that limits masters to two actions at that cost.

Then she goes from 5 actions to 3 which is quite a hit.

The madness wave feels much better for purchases, so I think they learned their lesson from the title box feedback.

51 minutes ago, theamazingmrg said:

What would you suggest instead?

Boxes with just one Master and the Enforcer so those that have both Masters have to buy the Enforcer twice?

 

Individual packs for each model and triple the number of packs available for that release, probably increasing the per model price for the Master and Enforcer you might want?

 

The two Masters plus shared model(s) is probably the best of all the options for that release.

They could do two masters + two copies of the enforcers now that we're stuck with this model.

8 hours ago, Regelridderen said:

You’d imagine that having 70-80 keywords would be enough for a game, especially one that you’d hope retailers would stock.

I’d love to see a repacking, giving up all the boxes, and you just buy a keyword box with all the trimmings priced around 100 bucks, and then separate starter packs and versatiles.. You, or I at least, buy the whole shebang anyways, no point in the SKU-bloat. And then give up on the Hi-we’re-just-flipping-you-the-bird-because…co-packs. It just comes off as greed.

I’d love for them to re-do all the out-of-scale characters, and most of the M3E sculpts have been less interesting than their M2E counterpart - better made, but less interesting.

I think the issue is their money comes from established players, so new content is what needs to be released for the players who own all the existing models that they want.

Which is made worse by how poor the new player experience is for the game.

But even if they fixed the new player experience, that's a long term investment and might take years to pay off.

So they may be stuck in this cycle.

There's a bizarre number of masters that synergize with the stagger package of hinamatsu, vasilisa, mysterious emissary.  Can throw in some wicked dolls.

That would give pretty good coverage of tons of masters even if not optimal.

5 hours ago, Patzer said:

How do you all play around mcmourning getting distracted by summoning Fleshies? Concentrate to cancel, getting focus from Grave Digger or GST, having a baby sitter assisting Mcmourning, something else?

If you copy rogue Necromancy's attack you get a built in positive with him, so that's the best way.

Otherwise assist it off or stone through it or attack on negs.

I think in Wyrd's case it isn't malicious at least.  The errata seems to face lots of challenges so they probably can't do as much as they'd like to.

2 hours ago, Patzer said:

Plastic Surgery states Friendly Experimental Only does that mean that both the source of the action and the target needs to be a friendly Experimental? 

No just the target needs to be Experimental.

So you can put carrion emissary gun on a kentauroi.

Or Archie's attack on a flesh construct with charge through is super dangerous.

On 5/16/2023 at 1:22 AM, regleant said:

Where are people talking about these things, as I don't see any other discussion here in the forums, nor in the FB group?

Discord is extremely active.

Wyrd has a discord, and then the next biggest is probably the Malifaux World Series. 

And individual podcasts have a ton too.

They have some interesting story text in the unit section.  Every model does!

Madness of Malifaux book.

Basically get really good at racking up incidental poison - once your Horrendous corpse snowball starts, you're pulsing out a lot of poison. McMourning hands out 2. RN fading hands out 2. Curator splashes it with bonus and with sludge.

It all adds up, and pretty quickly you don't actually have to put much work into it beyond 1-2 actions turn 1.

Oh, and for Rogue Necro, make sure to discard for its ambush in the early game - so DON'T use terrain to negate the discard.

Also remember that if you have a spare card, you CAN discard while engaged - you just don't get the ambush movement.

In general, one of the hardest parts of learning mcmourning is learning not to durdle too much.

I sometimes have a flesh construct missiling turn 1 for example.

Basically there's two things poison matters for:

• Having 3 for horrendous corpse (most of your models that you intend to have die)
• Having 5 for blood poisoning (mainly matters for rogue necromancy)

The end of turn poison I consider a bonus rather than something I actively strive for.

Note that to achieve these numbers, you sometimes have to plan ahead (5 poison on turn 1 is down to 3 by turn 3).

Horrendous corpse is probably the most important part of poison in the crew, so I'd start by focusing on that and 5 poison on your rogue necro. Remember that McMourning's actions hand out a lot of poison, so you don't need much.

My next list I'm going to try just doing a single little gasser for poison gen (plus the mindless zombie horrendous corpse poison pulse turn 1).

Looking forward to reading the rest! I wrote one ages ago but love reading other perspectives.

2 hours ago, Clement said:

Trying to get into McMourning2 and this quote is sticking with me.  Was there some cheeky way to get the dog killed I can't think of?  Or will I have to just beat it to death or hope my opponent does.

Usually I have the models just run around interacting to drop schemes.  If the opponent kills my model I get a scheme anyway.

The web browser bugs out if you make a list with story models on the phone then swap to the web browser due to the accent changes.

Turns to a Grey screen.

Oh I forgot to mention you can have Parson give Matron extra positives to damage to make it even more consistent/can even straight flip stone users.

2 minutes ago, Cheshiredog said:

Maybe not 100% on topic, would you share what's combo with Tiri?

It was actually only 18 damage last time I played against Iron matron, but: make Iron matron fast. Attack four times (straight flips because of Greatsword).  Do 3/4/5 damage on straight flips four times = 12-20 damage.

9 hours ago, TheWatcherUK - said:

Brilliant thanks for the replies.

So if I look at starting with the mentioned boxes for nekima what would be a decent 50ss list ?

Also trying to get into the game on a somewhat budget instead of owning everything in one go - what other masters have an alright cross over of models or is malifaux not really like that? 

 

Malifaux does indeed encourage cross purchasing by overlapping models!

Could be worth keeping an eye out for the Returned boxes coming out this year. There's a few models with both the Nephilim and Returned keyword like Athorak and Cavern Nephilim.

(And Barbaros, but Nekima can't hire him because of his lore).

4 hours ago, Regelridderen said:

So you feel it makes a difference in your games? That’s nice, I don’t.

Do you go through your fate deck multiple times in a turn, so you get the effect of a thinned deck? I rarely do so, not with Nightmares.

It goes to your discard after shuffling the next turn, so you always get one turn without it in the deck.

But agree it feels like a terrible fix xD

7 minutes ago, Plaag said:

seamus 1 will not work against dashel1 and 80/100 will not work against dashel2

same with seamus2

its a bad matchup for seamus

best what seamus player can do-try to scheme more than dashel, put anna into dashel face

not big variaty

In general I'd say don't play Seamus into Guild due to laugh off.

But am not a Seamus expert xD

10 hours ago, thunderwolf said:

I’m not sure of list yet but I think

executioners x2 , mtd guard x2, riflemen x2

plus lead coat 

One big thing to watch out for here is to use Terrorize to move models out of Dashels soulstone aura (or you can terrorize a mounted guard between dashel and an executioner and then cut off LOS for the aura).

Then your gun can do its work.

If the executioners don't have LLC, you can use the daze trigger to get Why Hello Love for that last hit.

If dashel doesn't have LLC, you can terrorize him away from models so you can turn off their stones.

Any example lists from Dashel?