Malifaux

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Well me and Morticia play semi regularly and use the crews right out the box without any additions - I use Lady J and she uses Seamus, and I regularly get my rear end handed to me, especially when she gets a defensive objective. Lady J is vicious, and I still chuckle when she dishes out a bucket load of overkill damage in a round, but she can be a little bit of a one hit wonder if your not careful and even then a crew with half decent ranged abilities won't have any issues. She's very easy for a beginner though, so expect your friend to do quite well initially as people get used to crews and abilities and all that noise.

LJ is extremely anti-rezzer. She shouldn't have any problems with ANY rezzer crew if played correctly... unless you flipped a crappy strategy... or bring the wrong crew for the job. But since you guys play with crews straight out of the box, it can be tricky because I always roll with 2 Austringers.

Her main weakness is her extremely low df of 5.

The trick to LJ vs Rezzers is Restore Natural Order, Last Rites and her paired pistols.... YES her paired pistols. My local lads are absolutely baffled why I shoot with LJ rather than smash things up in melee. Because of RNO and LR, that leaves her with no AP to attack... that is why she has to be played defensively until the Rezzer player has no resources to try and win the war of attrition. Let the rest of the crew kill the Rezzer's minions and activate LJ last to blow up all the corpse tokens / deal final wounds with RNO.

Also, bring a Student of Conflict for LJ. It really makes her extremely dangerous.

Of all the Rezzer masters, McD (McMourning) is the hardest master vs LJ. He is a combat / DPS nightmare and is as fast as LJ. He starts with a bigger SS cache too that makes killing him in 1 activation nearly impossible.

Is there any news of a book 4 anytime soon?

I got into Malifaux after book 2 was released so have only been through one round of rumors with book 3. Not sure if new books are a yearly affair.

There is a chance there might be no book 4 this year or if so much later this year... I just feel Wyrd are over stretching themselves with their releases though... I would think that when they have finished releasing ALL the models that are in their books, book 4 will roll out.