Hats Meet Again

 Had a 50ss game of Malifaux on Vassal. Strategy was Plant the Explosives with Corner deployment.

My list was:

Seamus + Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
Mortimer
Bete Noire
Dead Dandy
Rotten Belle
Dead Doxy
Gravedigger

Pool: 3

Schemes: Breakthrough, Detonate Charges

Opponent had:

Jakob Lynch + Hungering Darkness
Kitty Dumont
Mr. Tannen
Mr. Graves
2x Illuminated
2x The Depleted
Tanuki

Pool: 2

Schemes: Claim Jump, Breakthrough

Turn 1

Not much to mention of the first turn. Gravedigger gave Focused +1 for all of Resurrectionists sans Copycat Killer. Mortimer and Seamus plant scheme markers "just in case" if I'd get to use them for Detonate Charges.

Turn 2

Bete Noire plants a strategy marker in the top right quarter, and Lynch does the same for top left quarter. Lynch also shoots Bete Noire, who buries herself. Dead Doxy charges Lynch, which has Kitty manipulating Mr. Graves with her hair, and then Mr. Graves charges Doxy. 

I decide to take the long road to opponent's deployment zone with Gravedigger. I figure I should be able to reach it in time with equal to 16" inches of movement per turn. 

Rotten Belle and Seamus place the schemes required for Detonate Charges close to Hungering Darkness in the middle. Rotten Belle was also denying opponent from scoring Claim Jump... had the scheme been on Hungering Darkness. Opponent reveals how Mr. Tannen had crept within 2" of the centerpoint.

Both players score a scheme and a strategy point.

Turn 3

Seamus plants an explosive in the top right quarter and then takes a shot at Jakob Lynch, using Focused. Still it was a complex flip. Lynch had Concealment and Don't Bite the Hand, as well as Cover from Mr. Graves. Seamus had Redchapel Killer and focused, so it was a straight flip, which Seamus barely wins after cheating. Damage flip suffers from Cover and accuracy penalties, but none of it really mattered when Red Joker comes up. Lynch spends a soulstone to block a point of damage. Ouch.

Lynch then tries to remove Dead Doxy from board, but fails to do that. Doxy had a real chance of killing the enemy master, but botched the attempt. She only got two points in, bringing Lynch down to one hit point.

Madame Sybelle charges Tanuki and ties up the furry little guy as well as Hungering Darkness and Kitty Dumont. All three had explosive tokens. However, Mr. Tannen nullified that with delirium. Tanuki was then able to place a required strategy marker, and heal Jakob Lynch for three points.

Mortimer drops a strategy marker in lower left quarter. Bete Noire expels herself from a corpse made by Mortimer and charges Mr. Tannen, killing him.

Rotten Belle is engaged by an Illuminated. Both players score strategy.

Turn 4

Lynch has quite of a start when he disengages from melee and shoots Copycat Killer. With penalty flip to damage he does the same Seamus did a round earlier - Red Joker. And with last action point, he succumbs Dead Doxy to darkness. 

Madame Sybelle continues to tie up Kitty and Hungering Darkness. Kitty, however, just walks through her and kills Rotten Belle instead. Darkness flails at Sybelle ineffectually.

Tanuki takes a run towards my deployment zone.

Gravedigger and Dead Dandy manage to secure my Breakthrough, and Seamus plants an explosive to lower left quarter. Then he jumps 10" and shoots Kitty dead.

Mr. Graves drops a strategy marker about in the middle of board.

Resurrectionists reveal Breakthrough, and scores go 4-5 for ressers.

Turn 5

Tanuki walks to my deployment zone and drops a scheme. Lynch goes and picks up my strategy marker, which forces me to either gain strategy point or breakthrough end condition, but not both.

Hungering Darkness with last remaining enemy explosive token is unable to leave the melee in the middle, so Resurrectionists manage to win this match with points 5-6.