Rats in the Green

Had two 35ss games of Malifaux during my visit in Kuhmo.

First game was:

Molly + Necrotic Machine
Philip & Nanny
3x Crooligans
Rabble Riser
Gravedigger

Pool: 3

Schemes: Search the Ruins, Breakthrough

versus

Seamus + Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
2x Rotten Belle
Dead Doxy
Mourner

Pool: 3

Schemes: Take Prisoner, Detonate Charges

Strategy: Reckoning

Molly had a strong start with getting focused +1 almost everywhere - sometimes with multiple focuses. First turn is surprisingly uneventful otherwise.

Turn 2

Rabble Riser kills Mourner, who had charged to tease a Crooligan I had deployed relatively middle. Seamus fails to kill the charging Rabble Riser, which Molly then lets activate gain. Rabble Riser tries to get rid of Copycat Killer, but fails thanks to Hard to Kill on the leprechaun. Someone eventually kills the Riser, and a Rotten Belle goes and takes one Crooligan as a prisoner.

Points go 1-2 for Seamus.

Turn 3

Opponent kills Necrotic Machine and Gravedigger who were keeping company to Molly in the middle of the board. Suddenly Molly was standing alone next to Seamus, Madame Sybelle, Dead Doxy and Rotten Belle, as even Philip & Nanny started speeding towards enemy deployment zone.

Whoopsie. Anyway... one more question? Does your flintlock make a loud noise when you pull the trigger, mr. Seamus?

However, the crooligans had been doing their thing for a while now and Molly was able to score both Search the Ruins and Breakthrough.

Points go 3-3.

Turn 4

Seamus' gang splits to hunt Molly who continuously escaped engagement with premonition. Madame Sybelle and Copycat Killer are attempting to speed towards the prams and the reckless children all around them. No points were scored on turn 4.

Turn 5

Seamus fails to kill Molly and catching the prisoner is unfeasible, and there isn't enough action points to do Detonate Charges, so we don't continue as Molly had secured two points from the end schemes already.



Game 2:

Second game was Hamelin vs Seamus.

My list:

Hamelin + 3x Stolen
Nix
Obedient Wretch
Rat King
Rat Catcher
3x Malifaux Rat

Pool: 3

Schemes: Detonate Charges, Dig Their Graves

Opponent had:

Seamus + Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
Dead Doxy
Rotten Belle
Mourner
Gravedigger

Pool: 2

Schemes: Dig Their Graves, Search the Ruins

Strategy was Turf War.

Gravedigger starts by giving entire Resurrectionists crew focused +1 with Blasphemous Ritual.

Seamus shoots five points of damage in to Hamelin, which has me a little worried for his safety. To give some other concerns for opponent, Nix ran right in the middle of Resurrectionists, close to Madame Sybelle and Seamus.

Hamelin pulls off two lures against Madame Sybelle with double crows, meaning four blight tokens on the first turn. Other than that rats just swarmed the middle.

Turn 2

Nix bites two more blight tokens to Madame Sybelle, and then tries Bleeding Disease for six points of damage. This succeeds. Madame Sybelle and Seamus maul Nix down to two hit points remaining, and then Gravedigger comes to stitch up Madame Sybelle. There were enough failed duels nearby that eventually Nix had healed back to five, much to the annoyance of my opponent.

Hamelin closes in, slaps a scheme marker near Sybelle and tries to finish her off with Bleeding Disease, which doesn't succeed. Stolens and Obedient Wretch, not to mention many a Malifaux Rat try to kill Sybelle for Dig Their Graves, but it just won't happen. Fair enough, given the odds on which Nix survived.

Points go 1-1 from strategy.

Turn 3

Madame Sybelle brings Nix down to one hit point remaining, and then Nix kills Madame Sybelle. Seamus makes short work out of Nix. Both players had scored Dig Their Graves now. Dead Doxy backtracks and flips strategy marker back to resurrectionists, as Sybelle's death had flipped it to neutral.

Then a misplay happened when a single Stolen succeeded to two-shot Mourner dead. Impressive for Stolen, but we flipped the strategy marker again although Stolen is insignificant. All in all this essentially lost one action point from Dead Doxy next turn, which might have affected game.

Scores go 3-2 for Outcasts, which should've been 3-3.

Turn 4

Seamus kills three models in one turn by finishing a Rat Catcher who had come to attempt to score Detonate Charges, then charging Stolen and then shooting last surviving Stolen. I don't think I've ever done such a feat myself. Copycat Killer and Rotten Belle kill a Rat King who had wandered into the fray to score Detonate Charges. I do my first Rat King summon and put it back where the first one died.

Hamelin uses Black Staff to smack Gravedigger dead and secure the middle zone for Turf War.

I reveal Detonate Charges, and we end the game when outcasts went 5-3.