Arming the Patrician starter

I'm starting to put my Patrician starter together and Vesper-On have supplied the starter with a good range of options when it comes to weapons. The wrists are tiny enough that I don't fancy my chances of magnetizing the weapon options while staying sane, so that's kinda off the table at the moment.

There's the Noble who can be armed with a pistol, two Barnabotis who can have pistols or swords replacing their hand weapons and finally the two city guards who have a wealth of options to choose from.

Tentatively, I was thinking of leaving the Noble as is (sword and hand weapon), giving one Barnaboti a sword and another a pistol, and giving one city guard a musket and the other a halberd.

Now, the problem here is that the musket is tremendously expensive at 25 points and with Reload(3) isn't going to be doing a lot of shooting during the match. In fact, it's more than a 100% more expensive. Halberd at 10 points is more affordable, but still pretty expensive. I haven't played the game, so I'm not sure how big a deal Long Reach is. In Alkemy it's pretty amazing, but here hitback works differently and Long Reach dudes don't seem to give out ally modifiers unless in base to base.

Noble 55
Barnaboti, Sword 35
Barnaboti, Pistol 40
Venice City Guard 20
Venice City Guard 20
== 170

vs

Noble 55
Barnaboti, Sword 35
Barnaboti, Pistol 40
Venice City Guard, Musket 45
Venice City Guard Captain, Halberd 36
== 211

Any advice?

03 ene 12

Yeah. Put them together in whatever way that looks nice so we can play. :P

03 ene 12

I think you should wait until you play 3 or 4 games, so you can decide it better.

04 ene 12

i'm with ubersoldat. in fact, finally you must decide it thinking about your strategy and what rol you want to play your characters (attack, defense, ... )

05 ene 12

Well, I'll be more concrete than the others in the advice: Arm the City Guards with a simple sword.

When playing, you'll notice that City Guards are the best troops that exist in what they do, and that is engaging powerful enemies and keeping them at bay until your own powerful characters can get there and take care. And that can only be made properly and economically with a sword (long range does not engage miniatures).

Selenio.

13 ene 12

After reading what Selenio posted, I highly recommend you to take the musket. At least that would give my troops a fighting chance. :P

17 mar 12

I have yet to get a set but would long pins work so that the different options could be painted individually and then slid into place via the arm being hollowed out and a log pin fitting the hollow attached to the weapon options? a thought.

William

19 mar 12

Adding to what Gardensnake mentions about pinning, I've always wanted to try magnets. Has anyone ever tried anything like that with models similar to ours?
This way you can keep changing your weapon options easily depending on your game, instead of having to buy many copies of the same model (wait, now that I think about that...)

20 mar 12

I'm afraid that your models are too delicate for magnets or long pins to work very well. I've used magnets a lot but the realistically proportioned wrists make their use pretty impossible. I had a lot of trouble even pinning the models and I consider myself pretty good in it (since I'm paranoid I pin basically every join in every mini I build and I tend to build quite a few).

30 mar 12

The smallest I've seen and used are 1/32 and they are twice the size of all their arms. Oh could glue one to the wrist and one to the hand with out drilling them in all together. That's sounds like that would look funny. I think pinning is the better option.

On that note why does the Rashaar, Giuld, and Nobles starter come with extra parts but the Doctors don't? I love magnetizing things.

30 mar 12

Well, you can always change the color of the cristals of the cannons and controllers to give them different uses...

I'm playing a campaign with the Ospedale at this moment, and last night I received quite a beating in front of a very clever Guild player... Ouch! This doesn't have anything to do with this thread of messages, I know, but I'm still aching and I needed to rant :). Ouch!

Arming the Patrician starter

Lemminkäinen

Silveri

ubersoldat

BakjaK

Selenio

Silveri

Gardensnake

The Duke

Lemminkäinen

Dayminkaynin

The Duke