Well I thought I would throw this out before heading off to work.  Its a big one and I really went far out on this.  Oh and I decided to go with the goats head, hope you enjoy!

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“She’s here I tell you.  The scent of cinnamon & mint is still the air”

Takanosuke looked at Kujaku strangely that was met in kind.  “Excuse me?  Cinnamon & mint?”  Kujaku whispered.

“Yes, she thinks like a spoiled child…A very dangerous & diabolical spoiled child…” the bizarre looking old man answered

Kujaku turned to their other employer “I don’t get it?  We are just looking for a doll right?”

Hugo smirked, “Just a doll?  Giuseppe is the world’s leading doll maker & his works are coveted more than gold as they should be.  Is this cute little payment just a doll?”  The dark sorcerer motioned to the diminutive little Marionette dressed as child version of Hime.

“No, I guess not.”  Kujaku smiled as brushed the silken hair of her new prized possession.  

Sudden both the Marionette & Takanosuke dashed off into the shadows.  “Something is here, be on guard.”

“That is what we paid you to be, now earn your keep, silly woman.”  Hugo sneered.

“Oh Melody, my sweet precious Melody, time to come home to papa.”  Giuseppe called out as the bright pink ball seemed to fall from out of nowhere.

The old man didn’t have time to react & only the quick reaction of his own Marionette caught brunt of the attack.  Kujaku leapt forward to intercept a pair of arrows flying out of the dark.  

“Awwwww” as another would be assassin closed in from behind the ninja princess, only be sliced up by the Marionette that just took most of the damage from the trap.

Kujaku thought to herself “How could that doll move so fast or even move at all after that trap?”  Then more cries as Takanosuke & her own Hime-chan dispatched the other attackers.  

“Darn I was sure we would get her this time.”  Giuseppe bemoaned as he looked over a pot of cinnamon & mint used to bait the traps.

Quote “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”



Name: Giuseppe “The Creator” Balsamo
(Small Base - 30mm)
Rank: Lughnasadh
Place of birth: La Roche, Gabriel
Age: 69
Combat style: Magical Marionettes
Raza: Human
Height: 1.85m
Weight:  70kg
Pasttimes: Tinkering
Likes: Mechanical Design
Dislikes: Various Types of Children

Fluff: The greatest doll maker in Gaia Giuseppe is an odd man & lonely man.  So it a lifelong dream is to create the perfect child from the marionettes he crafts from magic & dreams.  And while most of the world only see his creations as wonderous toys, the Order of Yehudah knows better.  The Creator as he is known in the dark circles supplies the order with mystical marionette, while helping him search for his finest creation who ran away some many years ago.













Note: Giuseppe as well as all the Marionettes where to be the bases of Order of Yehudah boxset.  The Marionettes would be small maybe even true 25mm and maybe add one other Mystic to round out the group.  At first Giuseppe was going to be marionette/golem/gear medic support type but then I thought of something a little different.  With some of the Marionettes options you can really do some interesting activation tricks with this guy.  Marionette Opera is similar to Genma’s ability to avoid damage but it does also make him immune to states as long as he has a Marionette.  The art is of the Toymaker from the Castlevania video game and the Marionettes are from one piece of art for Touhuo Project a bullet hell game that has spawned a lot of art.  I wanted the have the Marionettes have a uniform look and this art had that and the figures have no real faces so it seem to work for me.  The Marionettes are a new combination of unit/equipment and so they are a rather new unit type.  I based them off of Aqua but at their base level they are weaker then him, but since you can pull from your Advantage card pool they can be cheaper and have other advantages.  All of these ideas came out of the TWWAU book so hopefully they are balanced but I figure I likely have to make adjustments.

Like always I welcome any questions, comments, and suggestions.  

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So we know Mijhail Mashen'Ka is a wanderer leader arbiter that might be light according to FRP.

Hellhound might be summon according to TWWAU and likely Dark but possibly Void.  Slight chance it could be Black Sun due to it being Undead.  As of it being more economical to do large sculpts more small sculpts via computer it really not the point if its faster and easier to do adjustments.  It why your seeing it more and more.  Heck I know for fact they did if for recent Succubi alternate for Hell Dorado.

Dagger it the complete mystery as his armor has no Lion or Cross motif, so Empire and Church seem to be out of the question.  Also his Armor is rather beat up and scratched as well as his cloth having tears and he is clearly human so I would guess Black Sun and Samael is out.  Maybe Azur or a Wanderer.  Before Kira I would have ruled out Wiss but she also shows signs of ragged clothing.  Oh well likely to get him no matter what if not for that David Hasslehoffe hair his sculpt is sporting.

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The hellhound actually just looks like a 3d computer sculpture and those always look rather plastic like Zero and the Hunter did when the first pictures came out.  Ot course with the advances in plastic I personally would not mind if it stabilized prices and helped get some of the larger models out in a reasonable time.

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Black Sun has two leaders if your going leave out Grim as a leader since Nk-X suffers the same way as the Grim.  But BS is a little deceptive in that so many of its troops are non unique and so that can make a decent party with even at least two different styles of play.

Still would love to see a few more units for BS like an proper Agent, Lynn's other bodyguard Velvataire or something, Sergio head scientist guy, maybe Slayer undead, and ultimately Necrogolem.

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Type-005 and Hamdria are level 4 so according to the RPG these guys are even weaker.  So yeah 15-20 levels unless they boost them a lot.

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Unless they change the Hellhound it is a Gwyllgi or Infernal Hound in TWWAU, a low level 3 undead spectral creature.  I guessing its a Dark summon or maybe even a Void Summon.  Its price leads me to believe like others its small like Styx.  From its description is definitely a Prowler.

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Okay dokay cleaned up and adjusted Devi so I hope it helps.  Anahata is now more powerful in that its almost impossible for one unit or even two units to AP drain her to a defenseless state.  It also simplified the action so no questions about what is an action.  Nirvana should be now be cleared up so that any damage bonuses the attacker had will be reflected back on them, including Primal.  But any special effects like negative states, double damage, or any other stuff doesn't effect the attacker.  Nirvana isn't as scary as one might think, unless she is a leader and that becomes cheaper.  Oh and yeah that Attack value is her knowing her special passive combat technique like judo where the she uses her opponent to hurt themselves with there own force, that was why she primarily Dam 0.  Plus she is to feature Counters and that is automatically -2 attack off the top.  No other way to really show her as pacifist protector angle without adding a lot of rules to her already complex specials or jacking up her base defense beyond what is normally seen.

Will get to Giallo after work, but for now I leave you with something I need some opinions.  Right now my next character is done but I need to do some fluff.  But I'm not sure what symbol I will go with as he belongs to the those dastardly Order of Yehudah!



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No it counts as a basic Ranged Attack for Intangible but still gets Sealed.  As for Kagemaru, his Shadow Warrior only works for basic Attacks and Charges you know hand to hand combat.

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No the charge is suppose end when you first reach the target.  The over passing is only for non targets in the way.  Also would create problems if you don't have enough room to clear the target.

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Saw this on the main CS site and thought I would post it here for all our German & European players.

The Anima Tactics German Championships is taking place in November 2013 – International participants welcome

The annual Anima Tactics championships take place on November 24th 2013, 10:00 a.m. at the Dreieich Convention near Frankfurt intl. airport. Registration opened on June 1st, 2013 at: http://www.tabletopturniere.de/t10702.

Here is the full story.  Anima Tactics German Championships

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Hmmm, sure would make Bridget's special rather useless. 

In the end I doubt it will happen and really doesn't need to happen.  In modern or future settings it fine as you should have tech to help gauge distance. 

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Yup spacemonkey is right, I'm not irratated since this is standard for any of the big models.  I was laughing at the Oct 12' release date since I knew it would never make it.  I'm guessing it has to do with being all metal.  Most large figures have gone either plastic or mix resin metal.

No I'm more irratated that it's unlikely Legion's Catastrophe token mechanism for when he is damage will likely not be fixed when released.

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That is likely because Vayls is an older model then Wolfgang. 

I always thought normal default is one Resistance roll per action unless it is stated otherwise like with Iosara.  As for Vayls if we treat it like Kerebas's Blood Tokens it would stake and one roll at the higher effect value.  But of course nothing is sure as I can't find an example of that play in the book, but I do think its the normal default of Vayl's attacks so it is factored into attack much like how a +2 Attack 2d10 is added to any special charges along with its bonuses. 

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That is like comparing apples to oranges (mmmmm oranges ).

No one takes two agents for 40-50 levels because they are weak, take up resources, give VP, and reduce your parties power when killed. 

For that same 40-50 levels you can get 3-5 models (1 Djinn, 2-4 Agents), that give no VP, can be replaced once killed, drain opponent's resources, and possibly hurt your opponent.  All for a relatively low cost, similar to Adler, just not as extremely abusive.

As top players that is laughable since this game is too small to really have a good level of compitition.  Really only seem to be the HELLS tourney and that might only have one or two really serious players and a bunch of "social" players that might have this as a third option.  I mean when the list of the top players came out there were many comments here about why this character or that character didn't show up.  Or why a certain organization with their new org adv.  I could be the few top players just stuck with whats tried and true without really expanding beyond the Dinah, Lilth, XII list.  I mean I didn't see much Gears like the Legacy or even much Black Sun with Clover.  Some of those part time players might not go out of their way to get every model like maybe you do (yes I admit I'm likely a worst offender). 

In the end if this was 40K, Warmahordes, or even Malfaux with a few major tournies worldwide then I would take away more what is seems to be the trends in this game.

As for the Djinn maybe a nerf could be you can only maintain Ash Slaves that the Djinn created if they are in his Control Zone.  You can still make god awful amounts of them and set them out to be meat walls or recourse drains and all that good stuff.  Yet if the Djinn hangs to far back then the Ash Slaves are gone during the next Upkeep.  I mean I not sure I know of any continuous ability with upkeep that works outside of the activating units Control Zone other then Ash Slave. 

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Your list isn't overpowered as it more Alder is overpowered himself.  Many would take Lilith or Yuri over Griever.  As for the Black Lion this is much like Konosuke in that most don't know how to deal with him but really his attacks aren't that accurate and if he gets sealed while in a death trance then he is bye-bye.  Lilian+Macbeth combo is every defensive and not really that offensive.  Valentine by herself is okay but could be matched with Danielle for that ranged support role.  As for Adler well I'm sure you can see the problem with him.  Heck you could dump Kronen in there for a nice Att 7 / Dam 8 basic attack coming from a guy that can easily take the sacrifice. 

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