Hamelin en torneos

So, then we come to the "interesting" part of the tournament. We had 1 player who took Hamelin in two seperate rounds. The ruling we used is the same one I believe Dan (Nilus) will be using at Adepticon, which is that Hamelin's ability "Lure Malifaux Citizen" is changed to "once per turn per crew". Ok, no worries there.

So, I would like to offer a caution to any Henchmen out there who will be running a tournament in the near future. Expect Hamelin to be taken, and expect the cries of cheating and cheese to run rampant. After the first game where out local player took Hamelin, I received a number of complaints and the player received a very low sports score for the round. I decided, when I saw Hamelin pop up a second time, that I would "babysit" the game to make sure things ran smoothly. Hamelin is tricky, and this creates a very difficult situation for both players. Basically, its a no win scenario:

1. If the Hamelin player knows what he is doing, he will try and state multiple actions at the same time to speed up the game. For example, the Hamelin player may say:
* "I move my rat 5 inches (marks 1 wound) and then impetuous attack you (flips 2 cards for the )
2. If the Hamelin player does not know what he is doing, then the game will resolve very slowly.

In the first situation, the Hamelin player is not doing anything wrong. The issue comes up that if the opponent is not familiar with Hamelin, this will look a bit like cheating. It especially looks that way when the rats start dieing and spawning new rats... the near-unending-loop starts up and becomes overwhelming.

In the situation where the Hamelin player is not familiar with his crew, playing can slow down to a crawl, which gives the appearance of slow playing. This becomes particularly difficult when times are tight (as they are for the Adepticon tournament).

The biggest issue we saw was 3 fold.

* Hamelin play can look a bit like solitaire once the opponent has fully activated their crew. Hamelin's play with the death/spawn/sac/spawn cycle requires little or no interaction between opponents
* Hamelin's playstyle is time intensive and can reasonably eat up the clock without giving an opponent time to take turns (the Hamelin games did not get past turn 4)
* A player who is not familiar with Hamelin could/may figure out the trick to combating him, but the round would end prior to being able to enact the strategy

This can leave some very frustrated players during the tournament.

• Si el jugador de Hamelin sabe lo que hace, puede parecer que te está timando
  
• Si no sabe lo que hace, el juego se hace demasiado lento

Owen Ojo De Lobo escribió:Porque son "las raras de cojones"

deadeye escribió:Quién dice prohibir dice limitarlo o marcarlo de cerca exclusivamente a él. No hay que practicar xenofobia con Hamelin por estar enfermito . A ver si el Arekku me deja el Rising Powers y me leo más profundamente las reglas para hacerme una idea mejor de porqué es tan lento y tan malo maloso. Aunque en una primera lectura que le hice se me ocurrieron combos hasta a mi, que soy bastante malo en eso