How the hire rule works?

[Rillan]

***The other models hired by a crew must belong to the announced Faction, be specifically allowed by an Ability, or be Mercenary models (which will sell their services to any Crew). ****

Im a new player and after reading rules im so confused. Can someone make it clear enough please - What does it mean to be allowed by ability ?

For example: in Kaeris card there is nothing said about hiring someone/something. Which ability says she can hire this crew and cant hire another one ? Does same thing works with henchman ? For example Amina Naidu or any master can hire any henchman ? There are realy lots of cards and no clarification. 

 

[Paddywhack]

Most of the time you will only be able to hire models from the Master's declared Faction. So Kaeris  can only hire models from the Arcanists faction and any Mercenaries. She does not list any special rules on her card. Some masters like Yan Lo are also Dual Faction, meaning you can declare one of two different Factions for that master.  

So with Yan Lo you can:

• Declare him as a Ten Thunders and hire Ten Thunders models.

OR

• Declare him Resurrectionist and hire Resurrectionists models.

In either case he can hire Mercenaries as normal (paying 1 extra SS for any Mercenary models hired).

Yan Lo also has a special rule on his card that allows him to hire any model with the Retainer characteristic regardless of which faction you declare. So you could declare Ten Thunders and still hire Ashigaru (a Resurrectionist model) because it is a Retainer. Or you could declare Resurrectionists and still hire Komainu (a Ten Thunders model) because it is a Retainer.

There are not that many masters that have special hiring rules like that though and if they do you will see it clearly on their card or possibly on an upgrade. Hope that makes sense. 

[Franchute]

Some masters can hire out of faction. For example, McMourning can hire arcanist beasts even though he is considered guild and resurectionist. This is specified on one of his upgrade.

Kaeris does not have such ability.

[FoolishMonkey]

Marcus also has this rule in regards to beasts .

[Bengt]

12 hours ago, Rillan said:

***The other models hired by a crew must belong to the announced Faction, be specifically allowed by an Ability, or be Mercenary models (which will sell their services to any Crew). ****

Im a new player and after reading rules im so confused. Can someone make it clear enough please - What does it mean to be allowed by ability ?

For example: in Kaeris card there is nothing said about hiring someone/something. Which ability says she can hire this crew and cant hire another one ? Does same thing works with henchman ? For example Amina Naidu or any master can hire any henchman ? There are realy lots of cards and no clarification. 

 

As Kaeris lacks a special hiring ability she only goes by the first and last clause - any Arcanist (as Kaeris can only be your leader if you declared Arcanists as your faction) model and up to two mercenaries from any faction.

Some models also have their own restrictions, most commonly totems which are generally linked to a specific Master, and you can only have one totem. So Kaeris could hire one of: Eternal Flame, her own totem; Essence of Power, the Arcanist faction totem; Malifaux Child, a mercenary totem; Student of Conflict, another mercenary totem.