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It would be cool to have a ruleset that allows you to create a pool from the comprehensive list of all schemes and strats from all GGs.

You're in! Happy to have you

@Jokerboy can you DM me a screenshot of the error? I can add you manually too, just send me your Name, Faction, Discord ID (including the 4 digit identifier), Country, and Time Zone.

I had a similar thing happen this week. I had two Titania games in prep at the same time. The first was in Scheme select. Then I set up the second and when I started the second game, that second crew got inserted into the first game.

Edit: splitting into two groups put a wrench in my plan of sending trophies to the podium spots

I'm operating under the assumption that we'll be able to run full Explorer's by then. If something falls through, I'll be happy to do faction swaps for anyone who was planning on playing ExpS.

That's awesome! Ty for doing that.

I'll get it updated and add +13 to the form. I didn't know there was a +13! Learning stuff 😅

Hello all! I'm pleased to announce the next event for the Malifaux World Series: December's Feast. This event will be running December 1st - 22nd. Registration is open today and will be open until the 29th. Like the Fauxvember event running now, this is 3 rounds, 50ss, singles event. Your place in this event will apply towards qualification to the World Championship invitational in the works for August 2021. I am GMT-8 based out of the Pacific Northwest, USA, but this event is open to anyone who wants to play. Player's pack with pools is attached. Register for December's Feast here! Once Fauxvember is complete, World Series rankings will be hosted at https://vassal.malifaux-rankings.com/#/. Huge thanks to Malifaux-Rankings for hosting us! We are working on consolidating our information, but for now, we have these links: Series Event Calendar Player Contact List Game and Match Data - Expect to see more detailed master/score/scheme data here in the coming weeks. Series Rules FAQ - We are trying to keep rules disputes contestant across the series. If something comes up in game, check here first. I will check this post as often as I can, but my preferred contact is via Discord: Alcathous#5867 UPDATE: Explorer's models released in the App will be legal in this event. Proxy tokens are OK for ExpS players if Vassal isn't updated. UPDATE: Since all Explorer's opted to other factions, no new models from the Explorer's release will be allowed throughout this event. E.g. Malisaurus Rex, Spelleaters, Harata Ngaatoro, and The Damned are not allowed. Rough riders are OK. UPDATE: Fixed typo in R2 terrain definitions (steam cloud is hazardous, not severe). UPDATE: R3 Pairings are live. Blessed of December. The Damned. DecembersFeastPlayersPack.pdf

That's a fair point; I tend to push forward more in that one to try and disrupt the opponent's lodestone movement, but you're right that it's viable to castle up and make that work.

It sounds like you've got most the models you need to really make Pandora shine. If you're planning on soloing her for a while, I definitely suggest the Rider. Carver is another ruthless model and a good tarpit if you're looking to expand beyond that, and I wouldn't sleep on Lyssa either because they get you a lot of value for their cost. I have mostly played Pandora in Recover Evidence this season. I'm a big fan of "Castle Dora" where I force the enemy to me and force them to overextend due to the strategy markers dropping within your bubble. I think that can work in Public Enemies too, but it's less consistent because the enemy can get more benefit from ranged combat. The other way to go is throw Pandora into the opposing crew as early as possible, follow with Candy, and just start wrecking their day. With Dora as a main, I recommend trying out both styles. I think you'll find the aggressive style better suits the strategies that want to play on the opponent's half of the board; Ley Lines and Symbols. Schemes wise, I think she's one of our best at scoring two points off Let Them Bleed (especially if you're hiring 2+ sorrows). Poltergeist's Telekinesis + Iggy's Arson means she has the faction's best scheme marker denial. I like Hidden Martyrs and Vendetta for her as well. Mood Swings does a lot to make Vendetta more viable than other crews.

Any chance of having a way to "spectate" and look at the crews/pool/revealed schemes/total score of a game in progress? This would be really nice to have for streamed games and other content creation.

I believe so!

If you're running 2 pacts, it's often just as important that the opponent does not get pass tokens. You want to be 2 up on the initiative flip as much as you want last activation. I use the dolls occasionally, but only if I need the activations and don't have more points to spare.

Sometimes you only need one activation with poltergeist nearby to win a game. As M_c mentioned, timing is key. My most effective poltergeist plays have been double-walking into an engagement towards the end of a round. Top of the next round, use mood swings to delay threats to the poltergeist as long as possible and abuse distraction as much as you can until the poltergeist dies. Setting that up is hard. Sometimes the better play is to feint with the ghost to soak some damage and buy you some time.

😝 T1 I am willing to spend 2-3 AP and a high tome + old ways to get 4+ pillars out. My goal is to have 7 by the time combat starts on T2. Ideally, they are placed so that the opponent is spending AP to remove them or avoid them. If I don't have a tome in hand, I'll hold Euripides until there's a tome on the discard pile (if I think I need the AP) or bite the bullet and spend the AP 1-for-1. That said, even when I don't have a tome in hand, intuition and old ways usually make up the difference and I can get at least one frozen domain off. Only if I've built a crew around tossing in a wrecking ball (Titania, Nekima), and I usually only do that if I think I've lost at master declaration. If I'm relying on getting shove off for a dive, then I'm also running two Pacts on minions (gigants) to maximize the chance of getting the tomes. In general, I think Euripides is a late game master. Diving with Shove is plan B or C. I don't like rushing to engage before the end of T2 unless I'm up against a crew that will scale better than mine or up against a threat that negates my defenses. With a board that's full of pillars, the giants are really quite good at attrition and soaking enemy AP. Plus, Euri and the Gigants have a great mid-range artillery barrage if you're able to force the enemy to come to you.

Euripides himself can get enough pillars on the board to get his ice palace rolling, regardless of opening hand. I find it's much worse when you don't have the Rams you need for shatterering surprise.

I've been toying with the idea. Not sure if it's in the top tier of dual master pairs, but it sounds hella fun.

I agree with your assessment. I've had decent luck with a doppelganger lure, who I also like for copying a Cyclops' ice pillar ability T1 if I have a 4tome. The missile option is the least good in my opinion, because that isolated model often isn't worth the resources or is just as easy to kill as it is to turn into a popsicle.

I strongly second this. I played 20+ games with Titania before I picked up another master and I feel like it really helped me to learn the fundamentals of the game, but also to learn how to play a crew in a way that scores points and wins games. Because I knew my own models, I was never struggling with activation order or what a model's purpose was, instead I was able to focus on how to maximize my ability to score and deny my opponent.

He's a good, situational model. The potential strength of frozen trophy is why he doesn't have a strong bonus action, in my opinion. Df 6, frozen vigor, and hard to kill make for a pretty tough model, and having 2 intuitions in your crew means that your card consistency is really high when he's included in your Euripides crew. He's a tarpit, not a beater, and his trophy is better as a deterrent than as your main strategy. If he's sitting next to your gigant gunline, the threat of his trophy is a big deterrent to an opponent overextending. All that said, I think Thoon only worth it about 20% of the time in a Euri crew, usually when you are expecting an alpha strike or when you think Euripides needs a bodyguard. You didn't mention Mv6, which is really useful, especially when made incorporeal by the totem. However, his lack of relevant bonus action means he's not really jumping in to alpha or dropping markers to score. He's getting where he needs to be to tie something up and keep in there. As good as frozen trophy can be, it costs you a high card and often a stone. All it takes to undo is an action from any throwaway model on your opponent's crew. I see it as alpha protection because it can force an opponent to overcommit with multiple models of play a more defensive game. That works for Euripides' gameplan, but the issue is that most factions have pretty good options for mass marker removal, and declaring Euripides is enough for most players to consider that even OOK. I don't think a single Blow it to Hell shuts down Savage as a whole, but it does pretty much negate frozen trophy's usefulness. This has been discussed before, but if you're looking to really abuse trophy, you bring Thoon into Lucius. In addition to potentially two more trophy models, lawyers can get Thoon into position and changelings can use his glacial pull to yank popsicles out of the enemy's reach. It possible to trophy something and yank the pillar away in a single Lucius activation if you are using a mimic'd trophy or chaining through a lawyer obey. Trophy gets much better when you have more control over the WHEN and WHERE and you can hire Thoon when the enemy isn't expecting him.

Pandora has so much more agency than Raspy to pull the fight to her. It's lures lures lures. Literally the entire objective pack. In the context of Recover Evidence, I'm holding at least 4 of my opponent's VP hostage wherever I am. Spread Them Out, Leave Your Mark, Claim Jump, Sabotage, Research Mission all push the opponent towards center or across the centerline. Breakthrough ever moreso. Vendetta, Assassinate, Hidden Martyrs, Catch and Release, Let Them Bleed, Take Prisoner, Runic Binding all pull the opponent towards my crew. With Walk>Lure, I'm threatening at least a 17" area outside of my killzone. Iggy is denying schemes at a 20" bubble. I am confident in the crew's ability to force the space if my opponent tries to score at all. Vendetta/Assassinate and guns is where it gets tricky. But I can probably lure you if you're shooting at me.

I know Som'er is a monster lol. I'm not saying Dora is in that caliber of "always good" but if you pick her into the right game, it is that oppressive. Key thing is that I'm never trying for the midtable melee. I want to stay solidly on my side of the board, and when the opposing crew sidles up to brawl, I pull in their key models over to me after activation and murder them the next round before they activate. Do that twice and you've usually won the game. Mood swings gives a lot of breathing room to killing unactivated models, so I don't have to rely on winning initiative and spiking damage to make it happen.

@Kharnage @Nagi21 I think Castle Dora has a place in Recover Evidence. There's a lot of scheme pools that force a fight or crossing the centreline, which can make a great opportunity to pick a killzone and dominate a fight there. Running her with 2-4 lure effects is pretty easy to do, and you can reliably score your strat points while making it an absolute nightmare for the enemy to get theirs. She's got great options for Hidden Martyrs, is one of our best scorers for Let Them Bleed, and has some of our best anti-scheme tech. She may not be the best, but she's far from DOA. To the original topic, I'm starting some Euri reps this week. I'm come back after I get some games in, but right now I'm looking at him having potential in Recover and Symbols in particular. On paper, I like the aoe damage potential combined with the ability to funnel enemies together using pillars and big bases. I know the 50mils are often cited as a downside of the crew, so I'm going to be looking for ways to turn that into a strength as much as possible. Shattering surprise and ranged tech makes me think the crew has potential to have pretty good target selection if you set up right. Control space > soften the enemy > pressure weak spots > profit? Lol. I'll let y'all know.

I'm enjoying your vids! Looking forward to more.