Game Report 29.03.15 50SS Viks vs Seamus

Game report - 29.03.2015

50SS Viks (daniello_s) vs Seamus (Mike)

Deployment: Standard Deployment
Strategy: Headhunter (Gaining Grounds 2015)
Schemes: ALITS, Bodyguard, Assassinate, Make Them Suffer, Vendetta
 
Mike brought:
Seamus (3SS pool)- Bag of Tools, Decaying Aura, Necrotic Preparation
Sybelle - Not too Banged Up, Bleeding Tongue
Copycat Killer
Rotten Belle
The Hanged
The Yin
Chiaki the Niece
Nurse
 
Before we flipped for Strategy/Schemes and announced Factions I knew two thing: no matter of what I'll play Viks and use Killjoy for the first time. When Strategy/Schemes were flipped I had a moment of hesitation cause I knew Levy would fit better in this game but nevertheless I've decided to stay with my Viks and Killjoy.

So I took this crew:
Ash Viki (4SS pool) - Sisters n Spirit, Sisters in Fury, Synchronized Slaying
Blood Viki -  Mark of Shez'uul, Oathkeeper
Vanessa
Ronin
Ronin
Hodgepodge Effigy
Killjoy
Malifaux Child  

Mike picked Assassinate and Bodyguard (Chiaki).
I picked Make Them Suffer and Bodyguard (Vanessa)

Table was setup like that (big thanks to Mike for bringing his terrain - the table looked really nice).

Turn 1 - crews are ready for the bash

We both moved forward. I knew Sybelle and Belle can Lure me into open where Saemus and Copycat can kill anything in the blink of the eye with their pesky guns so I decided to move Ronin forward behind the obelisk and second Ronin around the windmill. Vanessa and Child would stay behind the hedge and Viks would go closer to the building in the middle section of the table. And after that I realized that Seamus can easily shorten the distance to Ash (Back Alley... it really should be 2AP action not 1AP... :D) and shoot her. So it happened. I got 4 damage in my face. Then Copycat got into base contact with Seamus with 0 action and shoot Ash twice - one miss but the other I had to prevent damage so Ash ended up with 5 wounds. Blood Viki killed Belle but Seamus raised other Belle from the corpse and that newly arrived Belle engaged with Blood,

Upkeep phase - no VP points for either side Score after turn 1: Leveticus 0 - Lilith 0

Turn 2

I won initiative and I did realize that Mike will get 3VP for killing Ash shortly so I had two options - either run away with her or go for fun swinging her katana. So I did :D But I made a mistake - I buffed Viks with Sisters in Fury and then charged Copycat. What I really should do was to move Ash, charge Seamus and try to trigger Whirlwind to kill Copycat, then chain activate Blood, burn Oathkeeper, kill Belle and charge Seamus. That could work as Blood would have 4 attacks in total. Well, mistakes were made so I paid the consequences later :D.
Ash killed Copycat, Blood killed Belle. In retaliation Yin killed Ash - there was my second mistake - I should unbury Killjoy now but I didn't do that.
Vanessa shot Yin hurting her a bit (4 wounds remained).
Seamus engaged Blood but she survived attacks (heavily beaten , but survived) and then he summoned another Belle. Ronin stepped back and picked the head token. Hodgepodge covered her with the Mist. Second Ronin came closer to pick the other head token. Sybelle jumped close to that head token.

Upkeep phase - Seamus +1VP for Strategy, +3VP for Assassinate; Viks +1VP for Startegy, +1VP for Make Them Suffer. Score after turn 2: Viks 2 - Seamus 4

Turn 3

I lost initiative flip so I knew Blood will die now. But she survived... On the last wound but survived.Unfortunately Seamus made her attacks be on -2MI against him. I burnt Oathkeeper and hit Seamus with 3 attacks but couldn't kill him (7 wounds inflicted).
Belle lured Ronin which allowed Seamus to heal 2 wounds.
Vanessa then aimed at Hanged and shot him twice with 6 damage inflicted but also was able to blast Yin (severe damage on Hanged) killing her. Hanged charged Blood and killed her triggering Horror test on Child, Vanessa and Hodgepodge. If I were unbury Killjoy now I would have to take horror test on him to and as my hand was drained (I had last card, 3 tome...) I decided not to do that. Result of horror tests was horrible - Child and Vanessa were Paralyzed...
I flurry Belle with Ronin (don't ask about the results of those attacks...) and sacrifice her to bring Killjoy. Sybelle attacked him, triggered 1 action and walked him close to the Hanged and then walk to engage Ronin.
As an act of desperation Hodgepodge charged Belle with small success. I decided not to attack Sybelle and Hanged as I was afraid to fail Horror tests so Killjoy did nothing (I should attack as I would loose the remaining activation and wouldn't be Paralyzed on the next turn anyway) and Ronin did double defensive stance.

Upkeep phase - Seamus +1VP for Strategy; Score after turn 2: Viks 2 - Seamus5

Turn 4
I lost initiative. Seamus charged Killjoy killing him and after that I called the game.

Final Score : Viks 2  - Seamus 10

It was my second game against Seamus and I must say he is tough as nails. But if I didn't make this mistake when declaring the charge against Copycat not Seamus. Also I've just realized one thing - since he shot me with his 10'' range gun then he was also in the range of my charge, even without initial walk action. So I could buff Sisters with Fury, charge Mister S. with Ash, kill Copycat also, chain activate Blood, burn Oathkeeper, kill Belle and finish (or even try to) Seamus... How could I miss that... Seems like I played Levy way too often lately :D

Till next time!