A 50ss game of Malifaux 4th edition
Strategy: Corner Boundary Dispute
Schemes: Frame Job, Leaver Your Mark, Breakthrough
My list:
(Really) Rusty Alyce, Rider Remade & Soul Battery
Marlena Webster
Hard Stop Herbert
Vee
Midnight Stalker
Scavenger
Prospector
2x Necropunk
Pool: 5
Opponent had:
Kastore, Awakened & Marathine
Barbaros
Leech King
Gwyll
White Eyes
Cavern Nephilim
Blood Vessel
Pool: 4
Necropunks and assorted aides began delivering strategy markers from left and right. White Eyes and Blood Vessel did the same on the opposing side.
Vee inspected Marlena and Midnight Stalker, and then Midnight Stalker made his gambit of leaping, walking and interacting a scheme marker to center point. Fortunately opponent thought it was Leave Your Mark and brought Barbaros in to attack him. Fortunately I had the cards to tie the score, and Midnight Stalker only lost half of his health with one attack + hunger token.
Prospector went to move Midnight Stalker a bit towards safety, but Marathine was able to get to him just fine. He did not die, but was left with two health remaining.
Outcasts got two strategy markers past the centerline, one of which was guarded by Rusty Alyce. Opponent had as well. Frame Job had given two points for Outcasts, while Returned took one point from Leave Your Mark for a 3-2 lead for Rusty Alyce.
Kastore stunned Rusty Alyce. The token was removed by Vee, but she was standing on the same platform as the Prospector. This gave ample targets for Barbaros, who walked to scale terrain to beat and bonus action Vee to death. Oh well. At least Barbaros was now in place, with a scheme marker next to him.
Marathine failed to kill Midnight Stalker, although Stalker was brought down to one health remaining.
Leech King summoned a Giant Leech to Midnight Stalker. He had to activate before he died, so he leaped on top of building to place a scheme marker, and then turned the Giant Leech into a fancy gucci bag with Work of Art.
White Eyes and Cavern Nephilim took two terrain pieces for Take the Highground. White Eyes yeeted third strategy marker past center line.
Necropunk and Prospector stood near Barbaros, preparing a Shielded. Prospector even managed to poke in a point of damage to Barbaros. Yay.
A whole throng of Amalgam models climbed on the big terrain piece to the left. Marlena, Scavenger and Necropunk all went there. Action points weren't quite enough to get ahead in strategy, but at least Scavenger was able to secure a strategy point for Outcasts as well, and the Necropunk was guarding an enemy strategy marker.
Rusty Alyce started to deliver a strategy marker towards enemy deployment zone.
Blood Vessel failed to jump to Gwyll with a Black Joker, which essentially robbed Neverborn a point.
Both took a point from strategy, but schemes went two for Outcasts and one for Neverborn, so Rusty Alyce took a further 6-4 lead.
Turn 3: Amalgam... uh... Detonates Charges. Returned... umm... Search the Area
Neverborn was in a nasty catch-22 at the start of turn - either they go to guard one of their strategy marker to the left and leave Midnight Stalker alive to go and throw enemy strategy marker to the right away, or kill Midnight Stalker and leave Necropunk to throw a strategy marker to the left away and leap to guard it. They killed Midnight Stalke
r, which was probably for the best.
Third turn turned out to be a race to deny Search the Area that seemed to be forming around the gallows near the center. Since Outcasts had more models, both expendable and otherwise, they were able to shove enough models to block Search the Area in it's entirety. However, this came at the cost of me completely forgetting about Detonate Charges, so neither player received any points from schemes.
Hard Stop Herbert was tickled to death by ping damage points.
However, during all these scheme failings, Outcasts were able to take the lead in strategy for a 7-4 lead.
Turn 4: Amalgam tries Runic Binding
Thanks to my blunder with Detonate Charges we played for a few activations. But when Amalgam was able to get two points from Runic Binding, we called it a game since there was no longer even a remote chance for a draw.
