Double Teddy

[Dimitri]

Intro

Hi guys! I play malifaux for since February 2016. I started with neverborn and tried Collodi, Lilith, Pandora and Dreamer. I ended up playing only with Dreamer and enjoying a lot thematic crews even in tournament competitive environment. I ve been in 3 tournaments with not great results but with the last being significant better that the other 2!

Topic

I ended up loving the presence of Teddy and Widow Weaver around Dreamer. Everybody who played with these models knows that Teddy kills but he dies fast. When my Teddy dies he draws fire from 2-3 models turn 1 or turn 2. So he gives the opportunity to my Dreamer to afford some space to summon. Thats why i will start hiring 2 Teddies. So the second one actually makes it into the heart of the battle, or even better if my opponent's crew split fire between them, both of them make it into mêlée!. I bought the past days some more boxes of stitched together. I used to summon 2 at the tops. Now i have 9 of them and i also have a handfull of wicked dolls. So the next piece of the puzzle comes to play. My favourite Widow Weaver will utilise the scrap markers stitched provide to create some wicked dolls for activation control/healing/poison shenanigans or one late Teddy to take care of some enemy models. This doesn't prevent me from summoning my other favourite summons (insidious, twins and copelious). This idea focuses on old school spam techniques, blocking parts of the board and mobile soft cover for the miserable df my crew has.

My word...

I will attend to a tournament these days to check it under pressure and hopefully catch unaware other players. I will also try it with the local champions that i do respect their advice. I will let you know how it worked! If you have similar ideas or tried something similar let me know! 

[Joel]

The first dreamer lists I ran in M2E were 

dreamer (summoning)

2 teddies

widow weaver

2 insidious madness

daydream

 

it worked ok, and I'd probably make some alterations here and there if I were to go back to it, but it did end up feeling formulaic and samey in every game 

[elder]

Do not forget to give the widow "On the dreaming wings" upgrade.

[Dimitri]

Hi guys! I tried it and i Iiked it. Iagree that it feels formulated. I didnt do well in the tournament but not because of the 2 teddies. I played vs asami/molly/somer. So all 3 games were close but i had 1 draw and 2 loses. 

[MrMerrey]

To, me this feels like you would be too focused on trying get all that summoning done to actually complete the Strats and Schemes.

 

Did you find you had enough free AP to focus on S&S effectively?

[Dimitri]

Good point MrMerrey. I had a problem there.

[Joel]

I had no problem with that due to starting with the madnesses - only issue was Levi whose attrition game is simply better.