DrNik Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 I've been playing Malifaux quite a while for now but started from Perdita and now i'm all on Arcanists. I have all the frozen heart and obvious stuff available for now (Acolytes, Snow Storm, Blessed, Hoarcat Pride, second pack of winter gamins, Essence of power, general upgrades) so I just would ask for some advice what else could be useful for Rasputina? Bishop or Angelica or performer (for more paralized)? Joss or Captain? Soulstone miner? Silent ones? I really like diversity but more interested in competitive play with her. But one can't win with only 1 master. How about more masters to balance Rasputina weaknesses (what are they btw?). How about Colette or Kaeris? Don't really like Ramos theme because don't wanna play robospiders but would have to buy for Joss... Heard Ironside isn't too tournament oriented. Also i recently bought Mei Feng crew box with Rail Golem, Metal Gamins and Willie. The idea was to better cover melee match ups (not really sure if it's correct), but in the end i would like to go deeper into Ten Thunders with Mei as a starting point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fictor Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 IMO Power Arcanist -> Colette > Marcus > Ramos/Raspi > Mei Feng > Kaeris > Iron And if you didnt have Silent pick one or two, are one of the best Arcanist miniatures SS/Power =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNik Posted February 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Colette is actually my number 1 pick for now. What models not from the starter does she actually need to play 50 SS? Didn't have old silent so i'm waiting for the new release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katadder Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 thing with arcanists you can win tourneys with one master I won with a fixed mei feng crew I nearly won with a fixed kaeris crew (damn reflip init RJ) So guess I like the masters from the bottom end of the curve. now to try and win one with ironsides Ramos however is a very good box as Joss sees alot of use in other crews for me (and howard does for other people). my ramos, ironsides, kaeris and mei feng crews all make use of joss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNik Posted February 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 2 hours ago, katadder said: I won with a fixed mei feng crew what list did you play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katadder Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Mei Feng - vapormancy, seismic claws, seize the day joss - bleeding edge tech, imbued energies kang - hard worker, imbued energies 2 rail workers 2 metal gamin (although I am now looking at alternatives for these) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmac Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Ha guess your opponents didnt bring much ignore armour then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNik Posted February 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Here's what i'm planning to use as range attack roster: Rasputina - main range attacker December Acolyte - for missions Essense of Power - Rasputina cast buff Silent Ones - miniRasputina with healing Snow Storm - movement and def buff Winter Gamins - arc nodes for spells And here's a roster for devour (taking as much paralizing figures as possible): Rasputina - paralized Bishop/Joss/Ama No Zako - paralized/paralized/devour Silent ones - paralized Wendigo - devour #1 Hoarcat Pride - devour #2-4 Angelica - paralized Performer - paralized Winter Gamins - arc nodes for spells What do you think? As for Mei Feng Box I ordered Metal Gamins, Willie and Rail Golem - anything else i would need? And for Colette Box - Coryphee. I also have Mechanical Rider and Blessed of December. And i'm thinking about Arcane Effigy, Molemen box and Firestarter - what do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Ice Gamin's main claim to fame is Bite of Winter and they have no benefit as Ice Mirrors over any other Frozen Hearts. So I wouldn't include more than one or maybe two and keep those close to your damaging models and use other models as Mirrors. Building a list around Devour is terrible. You need a (or a for Ama, though she can stone for hers it can also be cancelled by discarding) to get it off and Hoarcats will never hit anything with their 4 Ml. Also almost all of those models need various suits for their paralysed triggers. So in the end you have a list that wont paralyse very much and will Devour even less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Ama can stone for the devour trigger, but you need to get the paralysed off first. I'd recommend swapping her for either Hannah (Woot, more hand too) or Cassandra (woot, speeeeeeeed) as they can then copy an attack to paralyse someone, stoning for the trigger as needed. The Wendigo can paralyse too by copying Raspy. Just something to bear in mind. The silent one is a bad source of paralysis. Excellent model otherwise, but if you specifically want to paralyse people I'd look elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNik Posted February 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 1 hour ago, Bengt said: Ice Gamin's main claim to fame is Bite of Winter and they have no benefit as Ice Mirrors over any other Frozen Hearts. So I wouldn't include more than one or maybe two and keep those close to your damaging models and use other models as Mirrors. I mostly use them as cheap models i can put all over the deployment zone so i could control most of the table without even moving Rasputina. Even bought second box of them. 1 hour ago, Bengt said: Building a list around Devour is terrible. You need a (or a for Ama, though she can stone for hers it can also be cancelled by discarding) to get it off and Hoarcats will never hit anything with their 4 Ml. One of Rasputina upgrade can make paralized models suffer and it would be easier to cheat. 16 minutes ago, Tayne said: I'd recommend swapping her for either Hannah (Woot, more hand too) or Cassandra (woot, speeeeeeeed) as they can then copy an attack to paralyse someone, stoning for the trigger as needed. What you mean by woot? I have Cassandra from Colette box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 15 minutes ago, DrNik said: What you mean by woot? I have Cassandra from Colette box. Sorry, I should have been clearer. Hannah has Arcane Reservoir +1 as an ability, giving you an extra card in hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 If you have a recommended amount of terrain you wont be able "control most of the table" from your deployment zone (well except maybe with close deployment) regardless of how many Ice Gamin you have. But anyway, you should really try using Bite of Winter, that extra damage can add up. No amount of Shatter will help if you don't have any in your hand. Just blasting or punching whoever to death gets much easier with Shatter though. In my opinion "forcing" Devour takes more resources than it's worth and it should be used opportunistically with the Wendigo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katadder Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 yeah devour isnt something to rely on, although a fast raspy is good. my wendigo so far has managed to devour Pandora, Bishop and 2 terror tots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retnab Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Devour is very nice against Gremlins though... last time I played vs my Gremlins friend I had my Wendigo eat a full health Francois. My opponent won't be letting my Wendigo anywhere near him again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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