Kari Why Won't You Die Already???

 A 50ss game of Malifaux

Strategy: Standard Raid the Vaults

Schemes: Outflank, Protected Territory, Espionage, Deliver a Message, Hold Up Their Forces

My list:

Kirai & Ikiryo
Datsue Ba
Kari Zotiko
Lost Love
Gwisin
Drowned
Gaki
Enslaved Spirit
Seishin

Pool: 7
Schemes: Hold Up Their Forces, Espionage

Opponent had:

Broodmother Nekima & Blood Hunter
Hayreddin
Hinamatsu
2x Young Nephilim
Black Blood Shaman
Terror Tot

Pool: 8
Schemes: Espionage, Protected Territory

Turn 1:

Nekima grew up a Terror Tot into a Young Nephilim that engaged to stall Datsue Ba, Lost Love and Gaki down the bottom-left quarter. This kind of worked, except that the Young Nephilim (or Elder Tot?) died to combined attacks of those three models. 

Drowned, Kari and Gwisin hid inside a tiny forest for whatever reason. After all, opponent didn't have any relevant ranged actions, let alone gun actions. But hey, concealment, yay!

Enslaved Spirit took a bold stance, standing alone within about 2.5" of the center point. 

Kirai had been chain-ganged further a little bit, and she summoned a Goryo on board that charged a Yonug Nephilim, delivering moderate damage. It was also engaging Nekima some 5" past the centerline.

A Seishin-walked Ikiryo charged managed to Black Joker her attack against Hinamatsu, so I just offered a Def 3 target to a Stat 6[+] combatant. Oh well.

Blood Hunter managed itself close to centerline to the left, and another Young Nephilim went to center-left strategy marker.

Turn 2:

Surely enough Ikiryo went down, but not without a fight. Hinamatsu slashed her half of her hit points until a new and improved Mature Nephilim removed Ikiryo. Nekima also left Goryo that had been summoned earlier with only two points remaining before blasting Datsue Ba, Gaki and Lost Love with Blood Has Been Spilled. 

Ikiryo's sacrifice was valiant enough, as this made it possible for the as-of-yet-not-killed Goryo to engage Nekima, and hired Enslaved Spirit to engage the emergent properties of Young Nephilim.

Kari got beaten up by Hayreddin - real bad. In fact it took a moderate damage block and a damage block over an instance of Black Blood to keep him alive. This forced both Kirai, Lost Love and Kari to patch the henchman up. 

A summoned Enslaved Spirit did free Kari from the melee against Hayreddin, and Seishin gave a free walk for my namesake so that Lost Love was eventually able to teleport to her and plant a scheme for Espionage.

Hayreddin had also engaged Drowned, who had his back taken by Kirai. Yeah, that's what the ability means, I assure no one. Drowned dropped a scheme marker on the centerline and charged back to Hayreddin.Witnessing all those weak damages by Drowned and Gwisin was painful because of Black Blood, but the minions endured. 

Black Blood Shaman didn't get close enough to center-left, so Datsue Ba was able to charge the Young Nephilim guarding the place, thus contesting it.

Kirai did have the center-right strategy marker as well as the top-right one, and managed to score both schemes for a 3-0 lead on turn two.

Turn 3:

Hoo boy. Was it a massacre.

Goryo, both Enslaved Spirits and Gaki - all gone, most before they got to activate. But Neverborn got casualties too - more important names at that, Hayreddin, Hinamatsu and a Young Nephilim. 

Enslaved Spirits bought time for Kari to patch herself up almost to full health, so a single strike from Mature Nephilim quite didn't make the sea captain go down.

At the end phase Datsue Ba was at one health remaining thanks to all the black blood that had been spilled in her proximity. But that was one point too many for Neverborn to score a point this turn, while Resurrectionists did gain their second.

Opponent wasn't able to get schemes this turn either, so we decided to end the game with 4-0 victory for Kirai. Three models to go around just didn't seem enough for Nekima to contest strategy.