Phantasmal Faded Timeworn Sidir

 A 50ss game of Malifaux on Vassal.

Strategy: Corner Carve a Path

Schemes: Load 'Em Up, Public Demonstration, Vendetta, In Your Face, Secret Meetup

My list:

Molly Squidpiddge & Necrotic Machine
Noxious Nephilim
Archie
The Forgotten Marshal with The Whisper
Bone Pile
3x Crooligan

Pool: 5
Schemes: Public Demonstration (Crooligans & Bone Pile), Vendetta (Bone Pile on Tannenbaum)

Opponent had:

Explorer's Society
Lucas McCabe Relic Hunter &  Luna
Sidir Alchibal
Jessie Halliday
Tannenbaum
Rough Rider
Cryptologist
Hopeful Prospect
Ruffian

Pool: 4
Schemes: Vendetta, In Your Face

Turn 1:

First round Noxious Nephilim walked to right from my top corner and kicked strategy. Crooligan was hiding behind top hill waiting for Nephilim to pass the ball. 

Archie was somewhere in the middle, ready to go where required.

And everything else was going down, left from the train. One Crooligan in the middle was taking some random fire from Explorer Society, but that didn't amount to much. A Night Terror had been summoned to the gathering, too. Fortunately Jessie and McCabe had blocked Sidir's 40mm base to get to perfect shooting positions.

Ruffian and Rough Rider were taking a strategy marker top, where Crooligan and Nephilim were going. Cryptologist and Hopeful Prosepct hanged about middle, and the remaining Explorers were coming at my Molly's throng.

Turn 2:

Resurrectionists win initiative, and Archie launches itself at Rough Rider and Ruffian. Two attacks, however, were not enough to remove either model. In fact, no damage was done at all at least to health. Opponent did at least burn multiple severes from his hand.

First turn Sidir had been given Timeworn Blade, and now it was time for Phantasmal Mask. I guess I was fortunate that he only killed summoned Night Terror. After his activation Sidir was back to eight health despite getting a severes and whatnot from Forgotten Marshal.

Who summoned Rabble Riser, by the way.

After Sidir activated Crooligan came to steal one soulstone. Then, Bone Pile healed Rabble Riser with bonus, walked and removed Night Terror's corpse for heals and then it charged Lucas McCabe. I thought it would be better in safety there than sitting at Df 4 against a stat 6 model who ignores Hard-to-Wound. But  still within 3" of Sidir for Public Demonstration. 

Rough Rider and Ruffian did their thing with strategy marker on top, and even brought Archie down to six health remaining. Noxious Nephilim and Crooligan did the same for my strategy marker. 

Below, Jessie was guarding Explorer's strategy marker. Crooligan, however, pushed my strategy marker past center line, just behind Bone Pile.

Both players scored strategym while Resurrectionists had their demonstration for 2-1 lead.

Turn 3:

Necrotic Machine activates and plants poison to Sidir. Opponent started to play the long game with Luna digging up treasures, so Crooligan in melee with Sidir teleports to Archie and kicks strategy marker even deeper. 

Lucas tosses Faded Mirror for Sidir and tries to kill Bone Pile. 

Molly activates for some fresh cards, and uses bonus to get Necrotic Machine away from melee and engage Sidir with some Rabble. She also manages to land Slow on the scary henchman. Sidir butchers unactivated Rabble Riser and again heals back to almost full.

Archie finally smooshes Rough Rider and heals a bit in the process. The heal is negated by Ruffian's gang weapons, however. Ruffian also kicked the strategy marker further to my side, but Crooligan re-located it towards top-right corner. 

Hopeful Prospect shoots a kid dead and cheers himself for a job well done.

Forgotten Marshal deals four points of damage to Tannenbaum, so Bone Pile is able to disengage and shoot Tannenbaum for Vendetta. Crooligan and Jessie kick strategy markers around while Cryptologist takes a run towards my strategy marker that's coming from the top.

Both players get strategy and Resurrectionists score Vendetta for 4-2.

Turn 4:

We didn't continue as opponent had wrong schemes for the situation - In Your Face was next to impossible. I don't know what scheme opponent originally had, but he changed it to Vendetta with Tannenbaum, which might be doable since Archie was at six health. 

It was very unlikely for opponent to get any more strategy points, while I at least had a chance for one more. Opponent could have denied my Vendetta by killing Bone Pile, although if it would have had time to activate, it would have buried itself.