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I've been wanting to start a molly crew for quite a while but have been hearing that she has a few problems. First that she's difficult to play, and secondly that she does'nt really have the models to make an effective crew due to her restriction to Belle's and Horrors. That being said I think I'd still like to try her. Any suggestions on building her crew for the best effect?

Unfortunately you have heard correct! :(

The limits on her units really don't allow you to take very useful stuff and her own abilities are also very limited.

My short experience using her (as a henchman) have only come up with a couple of decend tricks...

She can give an undead model +3 walk and this cast on her Necrotic Machine totem will mean it can then move 8 and channel her spell "The Philosophy of Uncertainty" (spelling?) which is by far her best spell which is an instant kill at the cost of sacrificing the caster. (Which will be the 2 pt totem when channeling). This is really rude but does require a high crow and usually a stone to ensure it goes off. I've managed it twice now against my regular opponents taking out a Snow Storm (11ss) and a Steamborg Executioner (10ss). At the time its highly assuming, to me, but next time I use her the totems gonna get whacked big time. So it does seem like a one time trick really.

The other decent ability she has is to use 2 courpse counter within 6" of her (as per the errata) to summon one of her said minions but only those on 30mm bases. The best option is either a new totem or sybelle as she is a belle and it doesnt state unique.

She also has the ability to copy another models 1 spell. But of course if shes your leader, its unlikely you'll want to copy much of your minions.

I have thought that to offset her high ss cost you could wait till you've managed to summon sybelle in and then send molly in to sacrifice herself to take a big enemy but that still seems like a waste.

I personally think shes best as a Henchman although still not the best use of 9ss! :(

A shame. I loved her back story and the model was kool. =/

 Zombie_Gremlin wrote:
A shame. I loved her back story and the model was kool. =/

Yeah its a definite shame as I'm big fan of the whole Seamus/molly background. Theres quite a lengthly debate on the official wyrd forum about how to "fix" her so who knows, she might get errata'd!

Yeah, sadly molly needs some work... Though with that being said, much like Lucius works well in a Lady Justice Crew and Collodi works well in a Zoraida crew, Molly works very well in a Nicodem and Seamus crew. think of how awesome it is, when Molly copies Reanimate, which is a better summon than the one she has, so you're getting it off (with the right crows cards) twice a turn, though since Nicodem and Molly both have a Ca of 7(crows), then you need a high weak, or low moderate and a soulstone to get it off. Also If you'd prefer to keep Nicodem casting Reanimates, then Molly can use Rigor Mortis to paralyze something, or Decay to heal your stuff and damage your opponent's...

Sadly she's not great on her own, and is very expensive