Saturday, December 3, 2022

There is something wrong with my hand

 A 50ss game of Malifaux on Vassal.

Strategy: Standard Guard the Stash

Schemes: Vendetta, Hidden Martyrs, Spread Them Out, In Your Face, Public Demonstration

My list:

Seamus with The Whisper & Copycat Killer
Madame Sybelle
Bete Noire with Grave Spirit Touch
Gravedigger with Killer Instinct
Dead Dandy
2x Bone Pile

Stones: 5
Schemes: Vendetta (Bone Pile on Iggy), Hidden Martyrs (Bete Noire & Dead Dand7)

Opponent had:

Pandora, Tyrant Torn & Poltergeist
Candy
Dorian Crowe
Iggy
Hooded Rider
2x Sorrow
Wicked Doll

Stones: 5
Schemes: Hidden Martyrs (Sorrow & Poltergeist), Spread Them Out

Turn 1:

Game started with me having a card no higher than 10 in hand. Alright, no biggie.

Bete Noire walked near Dead Dandy, Seamus and Madame Sybelle in the middle and put some focus on them and walked towards center point. Pandora was about to stun her, so she had to Fade Away while she still could.

Dorian Crowe pushed most of enemy crew up for a bit and dumped his cigar on Candy. Way to provoke some temper tantrums!

I did some peek-a-boo Seamus things for a change and teleported, took a shot at Candy and teleported away. Opponent was able to play Red Joker from his hand to make the shot miss.

Hooded Rider rides with Candy, moves and charges Seamus and deals moderate damage which he blocks with a stone to one.

Copycat Killer runs from far-right near the strategy marker on my side, but doesn't teleport Seamus anywhere because I didn't want to lose Copycat Killer on the second round.

Grave Digger and Bone Pile were biding time on the left, waiting for Iggy to appear for some Vendetta.

Since Candy was a tad too far for Madame Sybelle to walk and charge, she instead walked, called Seamus from melee into safety and then took a second walk, positioning herself with a Dead Dandy so that Candy would not get my master within 4" of herself.

Dandy had tried to make a corpse for Bete to arrive next turn, but managed only to draw the silhouette of a corpse with a chalk. 

As a last activation for the round Candy got within 4" of Dandy and Madame Sybelle and even managed to Slow them. 

Turn 2:

My hand is kind of horrible, so I use a stone. Still, highest card I had was a ten. Two of them, in fact.

Madame Sybelle opens the turn and is stunned from Candy and then pushed by Pandora. She charges Candy and manages to deal a point of damage, wow! 

Pandora activates next and ruins everything. Seamus becomes Stunned and engaged in melee by a Sorrow that was summoned next to also stunned Dead Dandy. 

Fortunately Seamus manages to disengage, concentrate and shoot Candy that was engaged with Madame Sybelle. But even with two extra cards Seamus misses as opponent is able to cheat Red Joker to save her... again.

Wicked Doll and Dorian Crowe come to contest the middle-left marker along with Pandora so no chances for me to deny points there. 

A sorrow in the middle-left marker charged Gravedigger. While Dead Dandy had managed to make a corpse this turn, Poltergeist just removed it and even tossed Dead Dandy to hazardous terrain where he was then standing with two health remaining, and easily within 4" of a Life Leecher. 

Thus, Grave Digger made a corpse for Bete to appear and the two together killed the thing, which was a Hidden Martyr no less.

Bone Pile managed to land a hit to Iggy, and it was a little worrying that Iggy was reckless and brought himself to three, meaning moderate damage would now kill him next turn. Not good for Vendetta.

Copycat Killer tried to move Seamus to a little more defensible position, and another Bone Pile re-located itself to middle to heal Madame Sybelle. 

Hooded Rider, however, was able to ride, walk and charge Seamus, slapping him with full severe damage which was reduced to three. But after everything Seamus was not at four health remaining. 

Sorrow, Iggy and Wicked Doll had planted scheme markers, I had killed enemy martyr and I did not control any strategy markers, so it was a nasty 0-3 score for Neverborn.

Turn 3:

Well, look at that. Third round in a row with the highest card in my hand being a ten. This is probably some sort of a record for me. 

I had three pass tokens so I played that ten from my hand to cheat initiative. Seamus walked within 1" of building, teleported to another and took a double walk towards enemy bottom-right strategy marker.

Iggy uses reckless and goes to place a scheme marker. That would mean no Vendetta reveal for me. 

Madame Sybelle put on her aura and tried to charge Poltergeist, but the attack didn't really do anything. Activating Madame now was a mistake, I should have instead tried to shoot Iggy with Bone Pile. As it happened, Iggy activated next and went to two health remaining from being reckless. 

Pandora pushes Madame around and turns her into hazardous terrain and makes Bete Noire fade away once more and summons an additional Sorrow. Sorrows kill Copycat Killer, who leaves a corpse marker. Bone Pile could have taken three points of damage to heal two and try to scrape at a summoned Sorrow but I didn't think it was worth it and buried it instead.

One Sorrow went to contest strategy marker where Seamus was. Remaining Bone Pile went to control bottom-left strategy marker but was contested by Dorian Crowe. Grave Digger killed Iggy and left a corpse for Bete to reappear. She did so and went to control strategy marker. 

Hooded Rider and Wicked Doll also spawned some scheme markers, so opponent now had enough for Spread Them Out end condition. Situation was looking grim indeed.

Scores went to 1-4 for Neverborn.

Turn 4:

Woohoo! I got my first severe card to my hand this turn. And it was eleven. And it was the only one. Baffling.

But, opponent wins initiative. Sorrow close to Seamus activates and lands a stun on him and while I manage to dodge one of its attacks with my precious eleven, second attack hit home and would have killed Seamus if not for hard-to-kill. 

But, now Seamus was at one health remaining and Sorrow had Life Leech.

We ended the game there with a quite of a victory for Neverborn.

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