Shiting Loyalties Campaign

[Davos]

So my local group is starting a Shifting Loyalties campaign, since M2E competitive play is mostly dead in our area.  I'm planning on running Hannah as my leader, what other models would people recommend to take?  I have 24 ss left over (Hannah + I Pay Better already spent)

[Freman]

Basically any Freikorps that have useful abilities for Hannah to duplicate, like Librarians.

I'm not sure about I Pay Better in small games. Cards are too precious to easily discard.

I started with Rusty Alyce with From The Aether, as having a free model now and again can be very helpful, and giving her Instinctual as an upgrade allows her to summon every turn for a 7 and a 10.

[Adran]

Some of it depends on how serious you take it. I like trying to plan for stupid combinations assuming I can get the right items/upgrades, but that's a bit hit and miss on it working. ( I really liked the machine gun my Arachnid swarm was able to equip, to attack and damage was a lot of fun!)

Obviously if you're taking I pay better you want to have a decent number of Mercs to take advantage of the focus.

I personally like models such as Ronin that are a good alrounder (decent ml, sh and mobility as well as utility, although be careful about seppuku). I'm also a fan of models like Bishop (especially once you start being able to add things to him) that 3rd Ap lets him cover a lot of bases. Trappers and Hans are a couple of models that can take advantage of the focus.

 

 

[Davos]

I've only had one game of the campaign so far, but I've found my crew (Hannah + I Pay Better, Sue, Freikorps Engineer, and 2 Freikropsmann) might be a slightly to optimized for this...(my league is kinda casual...I think I missed up...).  The potential 9 card hand makes I Pay Better insane and I basically just roll into a ball of death, with a Freikorpsmann scheming while the ball o' death distracts.  Apparently, having 7 severes in hand for turn 3 is good...who would have known? 

My new goal is to buff up my Gunsdown Freikropsmann into demigood status. Also might pick up a Specialist and do the same to him...

[Davos]

6 hours ago, Adran said:

Some of it depends on how serious you take it. I like trying to plan for stupid combinations assuming I can get the right items/upgrades, but that's a bit hit and miss on it working. ( I really liked the machine gun my Arachnid swarm was able to equip, to attack and damage was a lot of fun!)

 

Yea, I took it seriously when I built my arsenal (thought the Freikorps package and Sue are really standard for me #Sueisbae) so I'm feeling a little bad about how optimized my crew is.  Though, I just found out one of our player's leaders is Archie, who now has +flips to all Melee actions, so I don't feel THAT bad anymore, since Archie on positives (and maybe nonreducible damage) seems utterly terrifying