Monday, February 21, 2022

Undivided Attention

Had a 50ss game of Malifaux on Vassal.

Strategy: Turf War Corner Deployment
Schemes: Outflank, Detonate Charges, Research Mission, Let Them Bleed, Bait and Switch.

My list:

Seamus with the Whisper & Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
Mortimer
Bete Noire
Jaakuna Ubume
Rotten Belle
Dead Dandy

SS: 5

Schemes: Detonate Charges, Bait and Switch (Kitty Dumont)

Opponent had:

Jakob Lynch & Hungering Darkness
Mr Graves
Kitty Dumont
Illuminated (2)
Beckoner (2)
Tanuki

SS:4

Schemes: Detonate Charges, Research Mission

Turn 1:

No real interaction between crews happened on first turn. Dead Dandy and Tanuki tagged their closest strategy markers. Ten Thunders had a scary bunch of models in the middle - Illuminated, Lynch, Mr. Graves, Beckoner and even Kitty Dumont were all easily directed to centermost strategy marker. Another Illuminated, Hungering Darkness and Beckoner were coming from bottom-right.

I only had Madame Sybelle in the middle, but Seamus and Bete Noire were relatively nearby when they were going to greet Hungering Darkness. Seamus had dropped a scheme marker just in case. Top-left had Copycat Killer, Mortimer and Jaakuna Ubume, although they were too far from anything. I 

Turn 2:

Resurrectionists win initiative, so Bete Noire is able to go and interact with bottom-right marker. Beckoner then lures her closer for Hungering Darkness to charge her. She faded away. Seamus took a shot at Beckoner and managed to kill her right away, switching bottom-left marker to neutral. 

Lynch and Mr. Graves eat three of my soul stones and four of Madame's health. Almost one health and one soul stone per action point. 

Beckoner in the middle lures forward Dead Dandy who had walked forward to plant a scheme. Illuminated charges him, but, well, he is disguised.

Jaakuna takes a walk and projects her voice on Beckoner and Illuminated, dealing three and two damage. But then there was Tanuki to soften the blow on Beckoner. 

Kitty moves upwards, where Mortimer interacts a scheme and finds a zombie from beneath the soil. Copycat Killer just hangs around.

Both score strategy for 1-1

Turn 3:

Madame Sybelle is first to activate and puts on Undivided Attention. 

Hungering Darkness is then able to charge Seamus, and whops him down to five hit points remaining. Luckily Illuminated comes, too, and heals him up a little. 

Lynch and Mr. Graves are at Madame Sybelle again, and thanks to some poor flips she is still standing, albeit Resurrectionists have no more soulstones. Two health.

Mortimer charges Illuminated in the middle and manages to kill it. This opened way for Mindless Zombie to run to engage Beckoner. Tanuki tries to remove Mindless Zombie, but its furry fury is not enough. 

Kitty claims top-left strategy marker. Then Copycat Killer switches places with Seamus. Seamus advances, and it takes two attempts to get terrorizer to succeed on Kitty. Since he still has one action point left, he makes strategy marker neutral.

Bete Noire jumps up from corpse that Beckoner left behind last round, charges and walks to bottom-left strategy marker and makes it neutral.

Dead Dandy makes a scheme marker out of Mindless Zombie.

If Jaakuna had succeeded on first lure against Beckoner, I could have got both schemes this turn. But as it happened, it took two attempts to put Beckoner into position for Detonate Charges.

Scores go 3-1 for Resurrectionists.

Turn 4:

Soon enough things escalated beyond hopelessness for Lynch. When it was certain that Ten Thunders wouldn't score strategy or deny Resurrectionists third scenario point, we called it a game. 

I would have scored Bait and Switch, and opponent could have plausibly scored Research Mission, but that would have still meant 5-2 situation. 

(But no, Madame didn't survive.)

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