Those Foamy Cliffs

 A game of Malifaux4th edition. Since 4th edition requires a bit more terrain, especially terrain heights, I'm going light with the pictures since some of our terrain choices

Strategy: Standard Plant Explosives

Schemes: Make It Look Like an Accident, Search the Area, Public Demonstration

My list:

McMourning, Malpractitioner & Zombie Chihuahua
Rafkin
Leftovers
Kentauroi
Flesh Construct
Batsch & Amalie
Oskar
Dapperling

Pool: 6

Opponent had:

Sonnia Criid, Unmasked & Kazamir
Samael Hopkins
Witchling Handler
Hex Bow
2x Thalarian Queller
2x Witchling Stalker

Pool: 4

Turn 1:

Schemes: Search the Area (both)

This game my opponent was a beginning player in third edition, and this was very first game of fourth edition he had. I knew this so I left Rogue Necromancy home.

However, at the end of first round it became clear that opponent was quite overwhelmed by the system, and I get it - if you last game was a year ago and it was third edition, first you got to learn again how models interact with each other, how they attack, what are raises and all the basic mechanics around them. 

I wasn't quite aware of the starting point on turn one, so I was able to grab quite the headstart building up scenario and schemes. I had picked up Search the Area purposefully so that I'd just build up for Breakthrough next turn, not scoring points just yet.

Hex Bow and Samael proved to be ideal combo, and together they were able to shoot Flesh Construct off the board on turn one. Their side of the board also had Witchling Stalker and Thalarian Queller against Oskar and Batsch & Amalie. I guess Leftovers were there, too, but they were kind of all over the place anyway.

Remaining models were on the right. McMourning was able to walk and charge a Witchling Stalker, carving a Little Gasser out of it. It was an honest mistake, it completely slipped my mind that Sonnia summoned models by killing them... yeah. 

Someone was able to land the killing blow on the hired Witchling Stalker, so at least Witch Hunters sort of lost power by having a summoned model instead of a hired one. 

McMourning took in quite a bit of damage, as Witch Hunters directed most available attacks on him. This caused most of their crew barely leaving deployment zone. 

Oskar and Leftovers had brought a strategy marker past centerline, and Dapperling did a scheme marker on my deployment zone, and Kentauroi did one on the centerline.

Scorest went 1-0 for Resurrectionists.

Turn 2:

Schemes: McMourning picks Breakthrough, Sonnia keeps Search the Area.

Witch Hunters kept focusing on my models, and while they did respectable damage - both Kentauroi and McMourning would be gone in the end phase - it was clear opponent wasn't playing the scenario or schemes at all. I asked if he needed a hand with those. I had scored two points from Breakthrough after opponent's first activation so it wouldn't matter that much if opponent revealed his scheme to me, and we figured out a way to move forward a tad more aggressively. 

Since Search the Area for Witch Hunters looked next to an impossible one this turn, we decided to focus on building up Harness the Ley Line for next turn. After all, Witch Hunters had pretty much claimed the right half for them to do whatever. There was only Dapperling around.

McMourning died mostly because he black jokered Vial of Goo to poison a Witchling Stalker. He charged and killed it with two strikes, but without that black joker that would have been four points healed. Without thinking I went ahead with summoning one more Little Gasser, which got turned into a Witchling Stalker, which got turned into a Witchling Thrall.

Elsewhere my attacks were meager in their results - but I think by now every single one of my models had dropped their explosives to enemy table half, except for the Flesh Construct who died before being able to. Only Batsch might have been holding on to his explosive, I don't remember.

Scores went 4-0 for Resurrectionists, but at least Witch Hunters were now in way better position to play turn three. 

Turn 3:

Schemes: Late McMourning picks Frame Job with Rafkin, Sonnia takes Harness the Leyline.

Oskar died, Dapperling died, and I think opponent still had the same number of models with which they started the game. I had to make most of my action points.

For a while it looked like Rafkin wouldn't get to frame any jobs, but fortunately Sonnia deliberated on figuring out a way to go and scorch Batsch & Amalie or shoot Rafkin. But Rafkin was standing there, easy to shoot, so he got two points. 

Witch Hunters also had to spend quite a few actions securing their Harness the Leyline, so they weren't able to pick up or drop that many strategy markers just yet. Strategy went to Experimentals.

Scores went 7-2 for Resurrectionists.

Turn 4:

Schemes: Both pick Scout the Rooftops.

Since we were quite exhausted at that point, turn four was mostly theorized through. Claiming two points from Scout the Rooftops would have been an easy job: Opponent already had required terrain pieces, only the scheme markers were missing.

There was zero chance Experimentals wouldn't get their extra points from strategy, but that wasn't too hard for Witch Hunter either. They also had plenty enough actions points to rob me from a regular strategy point and claim it for themselves. Barring any unexpected results, most likely end scores looked like 8-6 for Resurrectionists.