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[AmLash]

Hello Anima Forumites!

I bought myself the card game (for the artwork) and afterward heard of the miniature game, and wanted to try it out as

1.) I like the Artwork very much!
2.) The Minis are awesome, and I can use them in my Pen & Paper groups
3.) Never tried a tabletop war game, so might start with it (won't paint though, I probably pay someone else as I dont have the nerves for it, if someone can recommend me a good painter in europe/austria, I am all ears)

Anyway, I started looking through the wiki and the party builder and tried to come up with minis I like and efficency of a good party, the latter which can be difficult to grasp for a tabletop newbie as I am. I for one fell in love with the wanderer faction (Kujaku Hime, Tsubasa Kurokami, Anna Never) and was sad to hear that if you play wanderer, you don't gain any faction benefit (only that you can play light or dark, but thats...meh)
So I started to look through the factions and made a list of minis that I like (end of post). Which faction would you recommend to me that gives me a nice bonus for the wanderers?. Are there any house rules for wanderer bonuses?
I would need a 200 point and a 300 point army that is focused on wanderers and get's a faction bonus, but I have no clue of what kind of characters I would need. Maybe some synergies with my favorable wanderers would be very nice! And also I can't spend too much money! And as my FLGS don't sell these minatures, it's a bit of a hassle to order online.

Are there more factions planed? Are there more minis planed? It would help me choose!

Wanderer
-Kujaku Hime (must)*****
-Takanosuke ***
-Tsubasa Kurokami ****
-Anna Never ****
-Cenette **
-Drake *
-can only include one wanderer, two at most (exeption=teams)

Azur alliance
-Kerberos ***
-Wolfgang Metzger ***
-seems to prowley to me

Black Sun
-Clover ****
-Deimon **
-Lynn Steiner **
-don't like the undead stuff
-like the free agent faction bonus

Church
-Gemini **
-Grey **
-Lostaroth Marchosias ***
-Nero **
-Saint Astraege ***
-Saint Evangeline **
-Sarah Reinhold **
-Xavier **
-Female Church Agent ***
-a bit too churchey and orderly

Empire
-Griever ****
-Iosara **
-Yuri Olson ***
-like the improved critical faction bonus
-don't like too much armor
-can't get enough characters to like too much...

Samael
-Aoi Inukai ****
-Dinah ***
-Kairos **
-Konosuke ** (*** if he wouldnt be so expensive)
-Female Samael Agent **
-don't like the mostly summoner stuff too much as I like melee a bit more than ranged or summons)

Wissenschaft
-Cordelia Rosalind ***
-Rayne **
-Valis Ul Del Vilfain *****
-XII **
-don't like the guns or robots at all, Rosalind is an exception

Summons
-Al Djinn **
-Elhaim, Maiden of Light *
-not too much of a fan, as characters are better looking for me


Thank you for reading the post until the end, I know it's a long one!

[Ape2020]

Strangely enough I would head toward Black Sun with this starting out:

-Lynn Steiner
-Deimon
-Kujaku Hime (must)*****
-Takanosuke ***
-Tsubasa
250 levels
-Anna Never ****
-Cenette **
-Drake *
300 levels

After that you could go with the following:
-Shinobi x2-x3 (Act like Black Sun Agents for Free Agents)
-Clover


Or for more selection at a lesser cost per model
-Wiss Org Starter Set
-XII
-Kujaku Hime (must)*****
-Takanosuke ***
-Anna Never ****

Black Sun is rumored (or hoping) to be getting Velvetaire Lynn's other bodyguard and Bridget, Clover's personal assist/secretary.  Maybe even a proper Black Sun Agent.  

Many others are also rumored but right now the only units that we know of that are for sure due out are Fate Wiss mini-gear support, Sigma Zero Wiss big combat golem both we have stats for but not set date for release.  Azur is set to get in august Juliette Kaime a super cheap arbitor support unit. In Sept Undead Verrier believe to be a Black Sun flying unit and Frederick Adler a dark Empire character.  

-Ape2020
 

[AmLash]

Hello Ape2020!

thank you for the fast reply! The list of rumored minis is awesome! The assistant of clover would be really nice to accompany him - would you recommend him instead of lynn steiner? If not, why? As I come from a pen&paper background (DnD) there are certain roles that must be filled in a party, but I can't take the same approach to anima:tactics, or can I?

I noticed that you recommended lynn steiner in a 200p party. I think I read in the rules that leaders can only be included in +250p parties, but I could have misread something.

Also, a friend of mine likes ninjas more than me (he may play them) so I would like to stay more on the "samurai" side(nice katana style: hime, clover, anna, tsubasa, etc.) , with takanosuke as an exception as he comes kinda free with hime.

It's really hard to have many Wanderers, and get into an organisation, without taking the shinobi route, right? What do you think of the Wissenschaft Manipulative advantage and a party that looks like this:

-Kujaku Hime & Takanosuke 90p.
-Tsubasa Kurokami 45p
-Rayne 45p
-bunch of advantage cards
200p
-XII 60p
-Lorenzo 50p

or this

-Kujaku Hime & Takanosuke 90p.
-Tsubasa Kurokami 45p
-Cordelia 45p
-bunch of advantage cards
200p
2xIgnis Fire Demon 60p
-Valis Ul Del Vilfain 60p

[Ape2020]

Sorry I forgot the Leader limit so I would bump you games up to 250 since it just easier to go the Black Sun route without undead.

Nothing is wrong with Clover except your interest in many wanderers and his 70 level cost.  Sadly until we get Bridget or actual Black Sun agents you need Shinobi, or at least one.  So you could go this route:

Deimon
Shinobi 35 levels
-Kujaku Hime (must)*****
-Takanosuke ***
-Anna Never ****
200 levels (Lower Shinobi 20 levels)
-Clover ****
-Tsubasa Kurokami ****

As for Wiss your first line up works the best since Ignis only really work in Combat Mastery Empire teams.  If you take Valis then I go with either the major Djinn or better Ahriman or skip summon creature altogether as she is still great without them.  Maybe go this route:

-Kujaku Hime & Takanosuke 85p.
-Valis Ul Del Vilfain 55p
-Lorenzo 50p
-30p advantage cards
200p
-XII 60p
-Rayne 45p
-35p advantage cards

-ape2020