I love Asura, I hate Asura
Asura Roten is a bit of a problem. Asura Roten might be my favourite model in Malifaux 4th Edition. Ok, let me back up a bit. As I mentioned in my previous blog post about the Ancestor Keyword, I decided to start playing Resurrectionists in 4th Edition after trying and failing to find anything in my beloved Outcasts that I still really clicked with in the new edition. Masters like Tara and especially Hamelin losing much of the complexity and depth that made them engaging for me to experiment with and learn meant that, even though I liked a lot of Outcast crews in the edition, there were none that I truly loved. I chose Resurrectionists to switch to in part because I already owned a bunch of models, many because they were usable in some capacity in my Outcast crews in 3rd Edition. Asura Roten and the Mindless Zombies was one such box, so I was running her almost from the jump in my Resurrectionist games. My dilemma here is that Asura brings exactly the kind of gameplay I was looking for...
