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Thank you very much! 🙂

I'm pretty sure this is basically a non-question for more savvy Malifaux players:

A Model becomes Slow. Then another model puts Fast on it. What is the result? Do both states only negate each other out or does it still become Fast after canceling the Slow?

You sum up my problem nicely. There are so many solid choices that I'm almost confused. It's not like my other Guild masters where you pick versatiles and OOKs anyway to have a fighting chance against an equal opponent.

There are some models I'm not sure about like Joss. On paper he looks awesome, but his skills feel a bit all over the place and his use of power tokens is less generally useful than Melissa's or Howard's.

Another example is the Hunter. I really like the concept, but I don't see a reason besides the rather high cost why it's so disliked in this forum.

I've just played my first Hoffman game on Vassal and my core box should hopefully arrive tomorrow. The boxes with Joss and the Wardens are already on my painting desk at the moment. So far I like the theorycrafting for this crew a lot and the first test game was awesome.

But compared to other crews I find it hard to seperate the duds from the actually good and awesome models, because I didn't see any models that weren't at least situationally useful.

So what are the autopicks and stinkers for Hoffman in your opinion? What are the important versatile and OOK hires (for Guild AND Arcanists)?

If you've an all comers list, please feel free to post it. 🙂

 

Dashel needs a nerf

Colette needs a nerf

Nexus needs a nerf

English Ivan needs a nerf

Maxine needs a nerf

Jedza needs a nerf

Dreamer needs a nerf

Leveticus needs a nerf

Jack Daw needs a nerf

Prof. von Schtook needs a nerf

Yan Lo needs a nerf

Shenlong needs a nerf

McCabe needs a nerf

Asami needs a nerf

So'mer needs a nerf

Did I forget anyone from the "needs a nerf"-list?

I don't see why Dashel is in an especially dire need of a nerf compared to all the others on this list. Or maybe, just maybe Malifaux is a not overly balanced game and most of it's fun comes from overcoming your crew's weaknesses and beating up supposedly OP crews.

3 hours ago, StormLordXIII said:

Honestly glad to hear this. I always found it off-putting that Mei had a sort of romantic thread with English Ivan; given her portrayal since she was first introduced in M1E Storm of Shadows, and how she is portrayed in "From the Ashes" and "Three Riddles," she just seems too tough for that in my view. Not super sure why they went this direction at the end of Shifting Loyalties. Also when you mention Mei's injuries - do you mean the ones she sustained from fighting Avatar Kitchener or from her duel with Misaki? Or did she get hurt again?

Thanks for the updates. Even more eager to get my ES book now! 

It refers to events in Sunbeam, which I think is the place of the duel with Kitchener. But to be honest I haven't read much of the m2e fluff so far, because as a newcomer I'm working my backwards through the timeline. So I'm not entirely sure.

3 hours ago, Adran said:

I would probably add Cooper, Anya and English Ivan to that list of "useful idiots" for Gretchen. And you could probably argue that Cadmus fits into it as well. It looks Gretchen has her own plans for the society, and is happy to use any of its members to achieve her goals. 

Oh absolutely, but the entities in the meeting seem to be more aware of the Society's plans. They just don't care and only want to kill "prey" (Cooper), are in for the money/power (Anya), are inscrutable (Cadmus) or play their own game (Ivan). In the end Gretchen admittedly gives me some "Actually-smart-and-succesful-Lucius"-vibes.

17 minutes ago, Maogrim said:

On a side-note, as you are discussing fluff: is there something mentioned about the relationship between English Ivan and Mei Feng?

Sadly not really. It's just mentioned that he played Guild AND Arcanists and that he might be responsible for Mei's injuries.

I just reread the intro. Gretchen is definately NOT Cadmus, because it's explicitely stated that she found Cadmus during an excavation.

The story itself is about a meeting between Gretchen, Cooper, Anya, Cadmus and English Ivan in a secret lair below the Society's headquarter. That part is just about the clandestine operations of the society and it becomes pretty clear that Jedza, Basse, McCabe and Maxine are just useful idiots for Gretchen and her cronies, although I think that all of them know that already.

In the last paragraph Cadmus and Gretchen discuss some kind of magical contraption that Gretchen wants to power up, which needs a certain command phrase that she's looking for and which might be the sole reason for the Explorer Society's continued existence. My guess is that she wants to become a tyrant herself, but that's just a gut feeling.

 

SPOILERS!

Gretchen is definately not Jedza.

As far as I understand the Ten Thunders-story she's a Neverborn and none of the new masters is a Neverborn besides Cadmus. But Cadmus is a VERY alien creature and there is an interaction between Gretchen and Cadmus in the intro story of the Society book, which makes it rather unlikely that they're the same.

And yes, Jessie, Ludwig and McCabe make Cameos.

Thank you very much! 🙂 We played it wrong first then. But when I reread Titania's card after the match I came to the same conclusion.

Newbie Question:

Can you use Flight to take a move/charge action to leave Engagement?

 

https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/arcanists/65959-ironsides-core-box?search_query=ironsides+core&results=1

Ah, I misunderstood you: m3e is generally available, it's just wyrd who hasn't got it in stock at the moment.

There was an Amina Box available but I only found in a shop in Luxembourg.

https://letzshop.lu/de/products/malifaux-2e-amina-naidu-8f5476

Ironsides and Troubleshooters became available  a few weeks later and I ordered them directly from Wyrd.

But there have been no news regarding the Heavy Metal box and I didn't find it in Wyrd's store while others still have it listed. I guess it might be the best to buy the m2e stuff.

10 minutes ago, theamazingmrg said:

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

 

What a time to be alive, when Wayland is considered one of the reliable stores (to be fair they have been much, much better in the last 12 months or so, but they used to be particularly awful!)!

I know, but they have gotten MUCH better and the retailer we referenced is much worse.

On 9/13/2020 at 1:16 PM, Beta said:

Germany is not better in this regard. Ordered McCabe and his additional box 8 weeks ago at one of the biggest german online stores. They have no clue when they will be able to deliver...

That particular retailer is highly unreliable for any game that is not from GW, FFG or CB and that is not marked as being in stock. I try to order only things that are set for immediate delivery there, because otherwise it might take more than half a year. For example I just canceled an order for ASoIaF which was pending since may.

If you want to stick to german retailers I highly recommend Miniaturicum.de or if that isn't an issue https://www.waylandgames.co.uk/ - Their fulfillment is much more reliable.

Thank you very much for all your efforts in such a short time! 🙂 I just started with Malifaux and the youtube BatReps help me a lot get the gist of the game.

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.com/2018/01/unboxing-malifaux-death-marshal.html

Not step-by-step but it helped me a lot.

Hello,

I'm just starting out with Malifaux and so far I bought the entire Marshal Keyword (which seems to be awfully disjointed mechanically after having almost the entire crew painted up and somewhat understood the rules over the last 3 weeks) and right now I'm painting up Mei Feng and the Bayou Engineering Box.

But those crews are actually just distractions since I actually want to focus on Toni. But the new Ironsides core box and Troubleshooters box (which seem to have been released during the big corona chaos earlier this year) are sold out everywhere worldwide (even in the wyrd store). Is that normal? Does anybody know what's going on and if they are going to be available again soon? I'd also appreciate all infos regarding the Heavy Metal set.

I sent emails to my trusted sellers in Germany and UK but nobody knows what's going on.

And yes, I know there are some sellers, where I can buy the M2e box for Toni and the Gunsmiths, but the old boxes have too many missing models compared to the new ones and I don't want to buy everything twice.

Edit: And I apologize if I posted this in the wrong forum, but I didn't find a better subforum.