Collecting a faction.

[Lady_Soria]

Getting back into Malifaux after taking a break back in ME3 and I was wondering how you guys prefer to grow your collection, do you prefer to stick to a few Masters in a faction and some.minis that cover weaknesses or do you feel you need to collect all the Masters even the ones you don't like for whatever reason? 

[Nathan Sells]

I'm a big fan of saying I'll only collect a few Masters and weakness covering models. Then slowly convincing myself that I do in fact like all of the Masters and will probably get them one day. Unless something shiny in another faction gets me first. 

[Regelridderen]

I’ve just ordered my 15th or 16th master across 5 factions.

I go with models/themes first, which means I’ve got an average of three masters in each - give and take Dual masters.

I only play two of them on a regular basis, quite a few will probably never see a tabletop, some serve as loaners/intros.

And I never order a new keyword till I’m seeing the end of my current paint project. 

[SEV]

One year ago, I convince my girlfriend that we can get in to this game by buying only a master each...

Than I buy compulsively everything in factions (NB and Bayou)... But I don't plan to buy the master I really don't like (for their esthetic or their game play)... Unfortunately there's really few of them in those faction.

Than, recently I buy Nighmare Colette, because I love the sculpt and it's a cool painting project... But Colette seems really cool to play... And I got Rasputina in a bundle... so maybe the Arcanist are opening their arm to me 😋

And than, there's this new faction full of awesome models and overpower crew... I already NEED to have a Trex for Titania... How can I resist?

Reality check : my basement is full of seal boxes... and I'm waiting for my new order (with all the free puppets, maybe I could play Lady J... Her puppet self is really nice).

 

[touchdown]

I don't know how I ended up here but I like having 4 masters per faction. I'm certainly not a great player, so I couldn't manage to be good with all 8 anyway. 4 gives me the options I need while keeping it limited to few enough that I have an handle on how each of them play. I do like having all the versatile though.

Currently have the Viks, Von Schill, Leveticus, and Parker in Outcasts; McCabe, Misaki, Mei Feng and Asami in 10 Thunders, planning on getting Maxine and Anya in ES + a 4th I haven't decided yet.

[Mycellanious]

There isn't a wrong way to collect models. I find a Keyword I like and master them before moving on to the next. I've been playing 3 years and just bought my 3rd crew last week. 

[Adran]

I generally only collect the Masters that I like, or that have models in the crew box that I want (I wanted Silurids for Marcus, so bought Zoraida for example). This lead to a very eclectic collection at various points in my hobby (At the end of first edition I had 95ss of Resurrectionists models, and no resurrectionist master, and thats in old money, so about 150ss worth now). By the end of 2ed there was about 4 masters I didn't own because I didn't like them. My purchasing of new models has slown down this edition, but there are at least 6 of the explorers that look interesting, and once I can start going out again and playing I may well start gettign them.

There is no right way to do it. Nothing in a faction is so "must have" that I would buy it if I didn't like it. 

[regleant]

1 faction. Started with 3 intentional masters and no plans to collect others. Then I saw the Nightmare boxes and picked up 2 more Masters....

 

still no interest in the others of my faction because I simply don’t like the play style. If it doesn’t gel, then it simply won’t play well, even if it’s objectively “better.”