Strategy: Wedge Recover Evidence
Schemes: Ensnare, Take the Highground, Harness the Leyline
My list:
Hamelin, Piper & Benny
Nix
Fumigator
Tunnel Rats
Ratcatcher
2x Stolen
2x Prospector
Pool: 3
Opponent had:
Colette, Star of the Show & 3x Mechanical Doves
Shadowlark
Cassandra Felton
Blackbird
2x Showgirl
Altus Keene
Irena Keene
Pool: 2
Plague started and got strategy point with Tunnel Rats.
Colette walked, Sleighed a decoy marker near Tunnel Rats and bedazzled them twice, drawing up secrets with both.
Hamelin walked, gave a walk for Tunnel Rats to get out of likely Ensnare, summoned rats and moved rats and Nix with Piper's Dance.
Irena walked, charged a Malifaux Rat and blasted away one of the earlier scheme markers.
Benny summoned rats and resupplied.
A Mechanical Dove walked and charged and killed Tunnel Rats with crow trigger.
Fumigator took a double walk to stand next to deployed enemy strategy marker. Caustic Mist summoned a new Tunnel Rats and did damage to Colette, and we erroneously (I think?) delivered Shadowlark to Fumigator. Wordening could use some clarification. I would've considered "attack" to refer to attack action, but opponent intuitively associated damage to attacks.
Showgirl walked to beckon Shadowlark closer, but quickly regretted that because of hazardous.
Rat Catcher double-walked on top of terrain and summoned a couple of rats.
I tried to stall with Malifaux Rats, but opponent just activated Mechanical Doves
And then Shadowlark went to town with Fumigator, leaving it to one or two health remaining.
Stolen took a double walk to enemy strategy marker and summoned a couple of Malifaux Rats.
Altus zapped a couple of Malifaux Rats with arced Shatter Illusions.
Last Stolen and a Prospector didn't do very meaningful activations, but another Prospector went to control the Highground.
A Showgirl and Cassandra go to Keene siblings.
Nix ran on top of terrain inside enemy deployment for scheme.
Performers failed to score points. Plague got two.
Shadowlark, Colette and Blackbird kills a Stolen, played whack-a-rat and seriously damaged Tunnel Rats, as well as picked up strategy. After Irena picked up another strategy, I didn't even bother for this round.
Hamelin and Benny summoned quite a few rats that were eventually cleared out by Altus and Mechanical Doves. Hamelin managed to black joker Haunting Melody on Nix, which was especially bad for Search the Area.
Tunnel Rats moved and escaped the venue by walking and using Secret Passage to drop a scheme marker for Search the Area now that
Cassandra and Showgirl were beating Benny, who summoned more rats. Benny was able to damage Showgirl down to one remaining, but Altus was able to heal her back to full.
Shadowlark and Colette put down the required decoy markers for Reshape the Land one pointer.
Nix placed two schemes for Search the Area, which Plague scored with one point thanks to Hamelin's black joker.
Plague got a point from scheme, while Performers got a point from strategy as well as one from their scheme for a 3-2 lead for Plague.
For strategy extra point, Tunnel Rats dropped a scheme with trigger before being killed by Mechanical Dove... again.
It shouldn't have been that hard, but it took Prospector, Benny, Stolen AND Hamelin to kill one Showgirl. And it happened at a good point too, because opponent could have revealed Public Demonstration. Benny got tome trigger from his rat summons, and planted it on the centerline. With the marker that Prospector dropped last turn, Plague was able to score two points from Breakthrough.
Fortunately opponent wasn't that effective with attacks, either. I lost only Rat Catcher, second Stolen and the Tunnel Rats, plus every rat my crew was able to summon.
In three turns I had managed to kill a Showgirl. Strategy was not looking good.
But, Plague did manage to get the extra points for Recover Evidence, and two for Breakthrough. Performers also got the extra evidence point as well as regular point, but Public Demonstration failed. Scores went 6-4, so chances were it wouldn't matter that much that I was so far behind on attrition.
Turn 4: Plague picks Frame Job, Performer picks Detonate Charges
Plague managed to kill the other Showgirl, too, and Hamelin picked up both strategy markers.
I also had the opportunity to bluff each possible scheme with my first move - moving with Prospector's bonus, dropping a scheme and charging Cassandra Felton. This could be Frame Job, build up for Assassinate as Cassandra was barely above half of her health, or even Public Demonstration since Prospector was a minion.
Irena came to butcher up the Prospector, netting Plague two Frame Job points.
Arcanists managed to get just two scheme markers to Benny Wolcomb, but they also picked up two strategy markers.
Game ended in a 9-6 victory for Plague.
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