moxypoo Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 My Arcanist playing friend just pointed this out to me! Could be the new Arcanist construct the Basilisk from Wave 3? http://www.gamewire.belloflostsouls.net/the-wyrd-gen-con-sale-is-here/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgraz Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 If it is I'll be very disappointed. Considering all the work that was done to make the thing feel like "a basilisk". That's a scorpion. (Albeit a very cool scorpion.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunarSol Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Not sure what it could be other than the Basalisk. Looks more like an Outcast model than anything in Arcanists too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 It doesn't necessarily have to be for Malifaux, it could be some TTB art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decker_cky Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 It's named a "Scorpius." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Mcmold Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 The thing looks very much resser oriented to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrflamme Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 It's been pretty much confirmed on A Wyrd Place on FB that it's the Arcanist model from wave 3 that's a hybrid beast/construct. I think the only thing that hasn't been clarified is whether it's still called the Basilisk or whether they renamed it to "Scorpius" like some people noted in the URL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zFiend Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Hopefully that's not the basilisk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgraz Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Well, if it is a re-named Basilisk, hopefully more got changed than the name. Honestly I gave up on the thing during Beta....it had a cool concept but didn't really work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decker_cky Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Alternatively....hopefully it's in addition to the basilisk. Scorpius doles out poison, basilisk slurps it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Mcmold Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 It's quite disgusting. I like it. It's probably the new arcanist model on the second sighting... I'm just going to give it a different paintjob for my Marcus crew. Chitin over metal limbs will work I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetorDragoon Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Most likely the Basilisk, or a renamed variant. Hopefully Arcanist/Resser (the whole 0.000001% chance that changed) Interestingly, I always pictured it like a Snake. /shrug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Aesthetically it mostly reminds me of Molly's totem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Lo Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Didn't the rules on that beta basilisk get changed and sort of gutted by the end? I didn't follow it closely, kinda remember it had fire and poison and some of that got taken away? Maybe this is a case where the rules changed so much that the model stopped being what they originally had in mind and they turned it into what the rules had become. Edit to say, the idea that if something has hypodermics is must therefore be resser is just as odd as the one band guy not being Outcast because he has a cowboy hat on and those can only go on Guild models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decker_cky Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 The burning side got toned way down at the end, but in exchange the poison was made a bit more functional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Lo Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Yeah, if it's a poison focus model now, maybe they decided to save the basilisk idea for later, and just went with a poison focused critter instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork Top Hat Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Arcanist and a beast! Can't wait to see how this thing synergises with Marcus. pic from the fb group 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4st4f4n Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Mmm, Malifaux is a big melting pot of very different archetypes, it works as long as they're solid, consistent and well defined, if they start to melt all together and it becomes difficult to recognize at least one of the Factions the models belong to, the result is quite a mess. Since there's no accounting for tastes, I will keep buying models that satisfy me in this way, and will add Resser-Outcasts Scorpius to the No-Buy list, together with Guild-Arcanists Komainu and Neverborn Jorogumo. Probably better this way, because with all the other wonderful shinies around, last thing I need is one more to buy xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork Top Hat Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 I think the fluff is that it's some kind of hybrid creature that got out but Marcus was able to get back under control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4st4f4n Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 I think the fluff is that it's some kind of hybrid creature that got out but Marcus was able to get back under control. There is just a rather slight line that Leveticus crosses to do abominations, different than Ramos' body modifications. I prefer to keep that line defined and not blurry at least on the Arcanists side (Leve can already mix and match all Arcanists Constructs and Abominations at will), so an abomination is a no-go in my Arcanists, fluff isn't enough for me in this case. A "natural" giant scorpion, with its own poison and mechanical claws implants could do the work, though. Depending on how attractive the rules of the model are, I will think about this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus Mcmold Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 It would actually look really nice in Leveticuses crew, your right. A bit weird looking in Marcuses crew, but it'd probably look just fine in some other construct crews (which I don't play so I haven't given that much thought). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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