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Midwestern Henchman Eldmor has written up an article for new players to help them purchase the right crew box. Do you agree with his choices?

http://midwestwargaming.com/malifaux-welcome-malifaux-starting-faction/

I agree with them minus Colette. I have been playing Malifaux for a hot minute and still she gives me fits when playing her. There is so much to do and in a very specific order. If he took her off the list I see it as being quite helpful.

A newer player who sees that and decides to start with Colette I feel would be very discouraged from continual beat downs right off the bat from their buddy who starts with Perdita, Lady Justice or Marcus.

I actually started with Colette!

I think its fairly accurate, her list seems to have a very deep playstyle, one that looks like it will take me a lot of time to master. What I have heard so far is that she can and will win lots of games, once you figure out how to use her, but she is very hard to use. I anticipate getting my butt handed to me a lot before I pick it up.

I did actually pick my army based on model appeal entirely however.

From my *very* limited exposure, I think that link is mostly right it seems

Guild - Yes

Neverborn - Yes

Arcanists - No. Id take out Colette for sure. Shes very combo/doing things in a specific order. Her stuff can fight but its highly finesse and fragile when hit. Replace with Rasputina. Shes very straight forward. Cast cast cast, blow up stuff with ice

Ressers - Yes

Outcast - Yes

Gremlins - Cant speak to as i have never owned any

Ten Thunders - Yes to Misaki. I got Shenlong also but hes fairly confusing. Ive played for a long time and he doesent seem straightforward at all

I would actually agree with taking Colette out as well. Though not because I think she is all that tricky to play (I think she is middle of the pack for difficulty among arcanist masters as far as difficulty), moreso because some of her features can easily become crutches and learning the normal mechanics of the game is probably a better idea. Her crew can
1.) Place markers without interacts (using practiced production), which allows for some schemes to be much more trivial than normal.

2.) Interact while engaged, which again also makes some schemes and strats much easier.

3.) Take 0 interacts, which again makes getting markers down much easier.