I was all
ready to cut ties with the Neverborn. I put my monster models away on the shelf. I lamented
the removal of the masters I had played for the last several years from the
faction (ok, technically Dead Man’s Hand masters regained their faction
allegiance at the end of the beta, but you know what I mean.) I spent most of my
engagement in Alpha/Beta testing Guild or Ten Thunders. I even had a
#notmyNeverborn locked and loaded, ready for release along with M3E (there
would have been T-Shirts. It would have been great.)
And then I
thought of a Neverborn crew.
Admittedly,
the beginning of this Kickstarter had something to do with twisting my mind
back in the direction of Malifaux’s twisted natives. I’ve always wanted to do the
Dreamer as HP Lovecraft and these models make good proxies.
(He’s a little too old, as he’d be 16/17 in Malifaux today. Also, of course, he was born in
Rhode Island instead of London like the Dreamer. Maybe in his dreams he reverts
a bit in age? The above is a picture of him as a nine year old. L Sprague de Camp described him as a brown-eyed tot with with
long golden curls…)
Anyways, I’m
getting off topic. Dreamer’s fun, but having bought his Nightmare Edition metal
box in M1E that I never painted or played I 1) Don’t have any Alps to summon 2)
Lost one of Coppelius’s face tentacles a long while ago and 3) don’t have a
Widow Weaver or Serena Bowman to use as henchmen. So, it’ll be a while until I can
field a Dreamer crew realistically (assuming those models don’t all suck, which
is possible. People who tested Neverborn in the beta can let me know.) So,
basically, I was just planning on using the models as an art project and nothing
else.
Then, of
course, the Easter Sale happened (it’s still happening, btw. Go buy stuff. I
guess. You don’t have to.)
This year’s
new limited edition alternate model is a really cool/gross alternate sculpt of
the Stitched Together. They’re pretty cool, and I started to feel the gribbly
little claws of the Neverborn worming their way back into my soul. I looked
them up in the beta files. They’re pretty good. Not as killy as they used to
be, but nothing is in M3E. That’s one of the points. But the final straw came
when I glanced at the Dead Man’s Hand files to see what ended up becoming of
Lillith and Collodi. I don’t care for the former, but the latter seems like a
pretty good compromise of some of the M2E stuff and not wanting him to be completely
unbalanced. The Dreamer, I realized, only casts 13 stones to hire for some
reason (I mean he doesn’t do much damage, but he’s a summoner. I’m just
surprised, is all.) He can only summon 2 nightmares, but Collodi can hire all 3
of the Stitched Togethers if you want at base price, all of which can do Lucid
Dream to help feed Dreamer and use the cards you mill for your life gambling
attack.
And a crew
was born.
I mean, it’s
Dead Man’s Hand, so obviously you have to have your TO allow you to use it, but
I kind of want to because it keeps one foot in both worlds of M2E and M3E for
me. Dreamer is there to resummon any of the Stitched that die during the game.
He can do it from literally anywhere on the board, since his summoning
mechanics have the summoned Nightmare appear next to an enemy who fails a WP
duel. I think it may be better to only come with two Stitched and have Dreamer
summon the third one so it can pop out in the fray later on. He can summon
Insidious Madness later on in the game to run schemes if necessary, although in
M2E anyways the Marionnettes were able to do a lot of the heavy scheme runner
lifting on his own.
Anyways, a
list.
Nightmares and
Puppet Shows
Collodi-Inhuman Reflexes 2SS
4xMarionnettes 0SS (Hurray for free totems)
Dreamer 13SS
Brutal Effigy 4SS
2xStitched Together 12SS
Vasilisa
8SS
Another Effigy 4SS
Cache 7SS
The second
effigy slot can swap around to something different depending on matchup. If I
know I’ll need condition removal, Arcane is an obvious choice. I think Lucky
would be a good all-rounder choice. There may be other options, who knows. To
be determined. I think it’s good. Let me know what you think.
Collodi and Dreamer list is a nice idea. But why don't you take Dreamer as your master? Collodi can summon marrionettes, Dreamer can get Chompy for free and summon up to 5 models. Teddy and Hinamatsu are very good in this list too.
ReplyDeleteHinamatsu is a total monster in this game now. Kyle, you talked about comparing Henchman-run games after reviewing Widow Weaver. But I did a test run with Hinamatsu and actually beat Perdita.
ReplyDeleteWow, I'll have to giver her a go and see what she can do!
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