Infinite Gremlins (well... a lot)

[Natty]

Ultimate Gremlin Summoning Brawl Crew:

So'mer Teeth Jones
Zoraida
Doppleganger x2 -16 points
Giant Mosquito x2 -6 points (because they are out of faction)
Gremlin x3 -9 points (because they are out of faction)
Candy - 8 points

Then, depending on the size of the game, add in distracting units, such as Teddy, to kamikaze into the middle of the table and slow the opponent down while you get your summoning machine rolling.

Turn order:

Turn 1: Activate So'mer and use every single 11+ in your hand to summon 3 more goblins, burning soulstones during the first turn to summon if you don't have enough cards and/or activate Zoraida first to look at your next three cards if you have a high mask and see if you can summon with the top of your deck.

Activate the two mosquitos and kill two of the newly wounded gremlins and summon two more mosquitos. You draw 4 cards from So'mer. Keep any high cards for summoning 3 more gremlins next turn.

Activate the doppelgangers and copy So'mers healing ability. Make 4 healing flips on your mosquitos.

Move all of your defensive units out and all but 1 mosquitos out (that mosquito will be used to summon more mosquitos. Make a healing flip on a gremlin with Candy and move her out, reactivating harmless.

The rest of the game, Candy should stand a few moves in front of your masters reactiving harmless and making 1 healing flip per turn on a gremlin that moves by. If people get close to your masters, use Candy offensively, but otherwise she is just a defense 7 harmless distraction that makes a healing flip a turn.

Turn 2: Summon 3 Gremlins with So'mer. Make 5 healing flips with the two doppelgangers and Candy to heal 5 of the Gremlins. Rinse, repeat.

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Now, you should end up summoning 3 Gremlins per turn by using every single high card in your hand and burning your soulstones and Zoraida's look at the top cards trick. Most of those Gremlins will be leaving your deployment zone fully healed, and every single Moquito should leave your deployment zone fully healed.

"How do you win?" you may ask... well, let me tell you.

With all of your moquitos leaving fully healed, each turn, burn 5 wounds off one by casting gremlin's luck and make them discard their hand. Then, attack with your neverending stream of gremlins. Sure, they may suck, a lot, but with no hand to cheat cards, they are sure to hit eventually. Also, with no hand, Teddy's terrifying and the gremlin's deliverance become really powerful because they can't cheat away their 5s or 6s that they weren't using anyway because they have been discarded.

Don't forget Zoraida sitting there with conduit obeying a model and poisoning every turn. Once they get close to you or the game is nearly over, use the doppelgangers to copy obey and healing, only make one healing flip and then obey them to charge the wrong direction or obey your own Teddy 3 times for extra attacks.

[Justin]

It could work.

Needs a lot of high cards though. That's often a thorn in the side of my gremlin summoning.

Clever using the dopplegangers to copy take a swig.

[tenabrae]

It doesn't really affect your strat at all but teddy's immune to influence = no obey without pandora there to nerf him.

[Natty]

It doesn't really affect your strat at all but teddy's immune to influence = no obey without pandora there to nerf him.

Haha. I am so used to using Pandora that sometimes I forget that immune to influence is a real ability that people need to care about.

=)

[Natty]

Needs a lot of high cards though. That's often a thorn in the side of my gremlin summoning.

Not drawing high cards is the thorn in the side of everyone's strategy.

The hope in this crew is to use the 5 soulstones from Zoraida to summon when you don't have enough high cards and then have so many guys on the table the opponent never gets to your deployment zone to attack your masters (so you don't need the soulstones for defense). Plus, you get to draw 2 cards every time a mosquito turns a gremlin into another mosquito, so that should help. Also, if you're summoning 3 per turn, chances are that 1 of the casts will succeed off the base flip without needed to cheat.

It's not the best crew ever, but come on! What sounds like more fun to play than a crew summoning 3 gremlins per turn while making 5 healing flips?

[Omenbringer]

Just noticed in your points calculations above that you are adding a SS to the cost of each Skeeter and Gremlin. As long as you have Som'er in there they wont cost the additional SS so you have 5 extra SS to spend or cache.

[Justin]

Not drawing high cards is the thorn in the side of everyone's strategy.

The hope in this crew is to use the 5 soulstones from Zoraida to summon when you don't have enough high cards and then have so many guys on the table the opponent never gets to your deployment zone to attack your masters (so you don't need the soulstones for defense). Plus, you get to draw 2 cards every time a mosquito turns a gremlin into another mosquito, so that should help. Also, if you're summoning 3 per turn, chances are that 1 of the casts will succeed off the base flip without needed to cheat.

It's not the best crew ever, but come on! What sounds like more fun to play than a crew summoning 3 gremlins per turn while making 5 healing flips?

Yeah, of course getting high cards is good with anything, but that was kinda my point...If you're drawing the kind of cards needed to do that summoning, you could make anything work.

Just noticed in your points calculations above that you are adding a SS to the cost of each Skeeter and Gremlin. As long as you have Som'er in there they wont cost the additional SS so you have 5 extra SS to spend or cache.

That's actually debatable. The rules are unclear on this, so it's whatever your group decides at this point.

For the record, I play the same way you do.

[Omenbringer]

Well in that case shouldn't the Neverborn models should cost an additional as SS as well since they are out of faction with Som'er.

Also Lalo, cant remember if it has been asked or answered before (would find it hard to believe if it hasn't) but does Zoraida pay the SS markup on out of faction models that are under 4 WP. Pretty sure she does but have always thought that she shouldn't.

[Justin]

Well in that case shouldn't the Neverborn models should cost an additional as SS as well since they are out of faction with Som'er.

Also Lalo, cant remember if it has been asked or answered before (would find it hard to believe if it hasn't) but does Zoraida pay the SS markup on out of faction models that are under 4 WP. Pretty sure she does but have always thought that she shouldn't.

You choose one faction and all models from that faction are chosen normally, all other models cost one more. At least, that's the interpretation his group must use. (and it's a perfectly valid one)

Yes, she does.

[Omenbringer]

Cant wait for the new errata to drop, hopefully it will clear this up officially.

Like I said I figured she did, though I am wondering if that is how she was originally intended.