Martyrs, martyrs everywhere

 A 50 soul stone game of Malifaux.

Turf War with Flank deployment. Scheme pool: Vendetta, Claim Jump, Hidden Martyrs, Let Them Bleed, Research Mission

My list was:

Seamus & Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
Grave Golem
Dead Doxy (Vendetta on Obsidian Oni)
Mourner with Grave Spirit Touch (Martyr)
Rotten Belle (Martyr)
Gravedigger

Pool: 6
Schemes: Hidden Martyrs, Vendetta

Opponent had:

Asami Tanaka & Amanjaku
Ama No Zako
Shadow Emissary
2x Yokai (Hidden martyrs)
Obsidian Oni
Akaname (Claim Jump)

Pool: 7
Schemes: Hidden Martyrs, Claim Jump

Turn 1:

Ten Thunders brought their both scary models on high vantage points. Obsidian Oni and Yokai near the middle, and one additional Obsidian Oni is summoned by Asami as a hand grenade. It sets up Dead Doxy, Grave Golem and Mourner on fire. Akaname interacts with closest marker to Ten Thunders. The second Yokai speeds up to charge Rotten Belle that had arrived in base contact with strategy marker on the bottom left. Amanjaku follows Yokai around. 

Gravedigger and Mourner both do Blasphemous Rituals, and hand out focus +2 to both Grave Golem and Madame Sybelle. Resurrectionists had made a nice little blob of three models in the middle. Grave Golem tried to look menacing and distract-ey, while Dead Doxy was aiming to get a strike at her vendetta target.

Gravedigger interacted with my closest strategy marker. Copycat Killer and Seamus do their movement shenanigans and interact with top-right strategy marker. Then Seamus thought it would be a good idea to draw the attention of Shadow Emissary by taking a random weak damage shot at it.

Turn 2:

Resurrectionists gain initiative, and first to activate is Madame Sybelle who goes to take a swing at Obsidian Oni. I had overestimated their durability, and she hit the thing for five points of damage in. That meant Dead Doxy might ruin my Vendetta with a moderate damage as Obsidian Oni had two health remaining. This was especially worrisome, as my lowest card in hand was 6. However, Doxy scores only weak damage and scores Vendetta.

Loud bang of the flintlock had indeed aroused the ire of Shadow Emissary. When the mauling ceased, Seamus was at around half of his health remaining, plus me having three stones less. Time to escape! Copycat Killer took a random shot at Yokai that did some damage in. Then he switched places with Seamus. 

And that's when Ama No Zako charged to my master. Great. What's even better - after the Ten Thunders henchman had activated, I had zero soul stones left and Seamus was down to one wound remaining. And that was only because Hard-to-Kill.

Seamus Terrorizes Ama No Zako away from him and heals a bit. Then he takes a shot at Yokai engaging Rotten Belle, killing the oni. 

Obsidian Oni takes a swing at at Dead Doxy and she dies. But it's notthe exotic axe/maul/mace-thingy that had hit her, oh no. It was the horrible stench caused by Akaname. Doxy was at two health remaining, burning, and then poisoned.

Asami summons Katashiro, which flaps furiously at Madame Sybelle.

Grave Golem interacts with marker in middle and tries to attack Yokai. Rotten Belle interacts with marker on bottom-left.

Then it's end of turn. Both players score strategy, and opponent reveals Hidden Martyrs on Yokai. I had done my Vendetta earlier, so scores go 2-2.

Turn 3:

Ten Thunders win the initiative. It's beyond me why opponent picked Ama No Zako to activate first. I mean... there was this 12" teleporting, four action point, Def 4 master two weak hits from being dead, and Ama No Zako had essentially 3 action points and stat 6 melee attack. It's beyond me.

Yeah. I lost my master turn 3 before he got to activate.

At least Shadow Emissary fails to kill Copycat Killer thanks to an untimely Black Joker.

Grave Golem kills the remaining Hidden Martyr Yokai.

Madame Sybelle removes the vendetta Obsidian Oni and Katashiro. Then Akaname, and a summoned Jorogume pile in on the undead lady in leather. Akaname would have only needed to land one weak damage on Sybelle for her to die to its stench, but in the end Sybelle was left alive with three health, burning and poisoned.

Mourner takes a couple lucky Feed on Griefs on Akaname, killing it.

Rotten Belle interacts with strategy marker on the bottom-left and charges Ama No Zako, failing right at the Terrifying check.

Resurrectionists score strategy, taking the lead at 3-2.

However, opponent concedes. After all, Ten Thunders had lost all key models for schemes and was behind in points, and likely to kill Rotten Belle.