45SS Viks (daniello_s) vs Nicodem (Eoghan)
Deployment: Corner Deployment
Strategy: Turf War
Schemes: ALITS, Distract, Protect Territory, Take Prisoner, Deliver Message
Eoghan brought:
Nicodem (5SS pool) - Undertaker, Love Thy Master, Reaper's Grin
Mortimer - Corpse Bloat
2x Canine Remains
Hanged
Izamu the Armour
I took:
Ash Viki (3SS pool) - Sisters in Fury, Sisters in Spirit, Synchronized Slaying
Blood Viki - Mark of Shez'uul, Oathkeeper
Malifaux Child
Freikorps Librarian
Vanessa
Sue
Johana
Void Wretch
Eoghan picked Protect Territory (revealed) and Deliver the Message (not revealed).
I picked Protect Territory (revealed) and Deliver the Message (not revealed).
Table setup:
Crews ready to fight:
Turn 1
Nico won initiative.
Generally (as usual) turn was about moving towards centre with stronger models and to the side with weaker (Canine and Void Wretch) to drop scheme markers. Mortimer generated two corpse markers which Nico happily changed to Punk Zombie and Hanged... In this moment I knew it's gonna be tough fight :D
Upkeep phase - no VP points for either side Score after turn 1: Viks 0 - Nicodem 0
Turn 2
nicodem won initiative
Again Mortimer hurt himself to generate Corpse Marker which was changed to Punk Zombie.
We moved closer to the centre marker and in the same time we dropped some Scheme Markers on the sides. Sue, Vanessa and Librarian together seriously damaged two Hanged.
Blood Viki at the end of the turn used sling from her Sister and charged Izamu killing him and nearby Punk Zombie. Second Punk Zombie charged her back but she survived.
Upkeep phase - Nicodem - +1VP for Startegy; Score after turn 2: Viks 0 - Nicodem 1
Turn 3
Nicodem won initiative with very high card so I had no chance to snatch initiative back.
Nicodem activated, summoned Punk Zombie and make two Punk Zombies Fast, then chain activated newly summoned guy nearby Blood Vik and Flurry her. First attack missed, second hit but with low damage, third flipped Red joker for damage and Blood died violently.
Sue killed second Hanged and Vanessa finished other Hanged.
Mortimer hid behind building and hurt himself again. Ash was buffed by Child with +2 MI damage and charged Zombie to be within 2'' from Mortimer as well. She killed Punk Zombie but missed Mortimer.
Canine moved in 1'' from Ash.
Upkeep phase - Viks - +1VP for Startegy; Nicodem - +1VP for Startegy; Score after turn 3: Viks 1 - Nicodem 2
Turn 4
Nicodem won initiative with very high card again...
Then he summoned Punk Zombie and casted Fast and Decay on him. Punk Zombie chain activated and Flurry Ash but thanks to my high cards on my hand and two SS preventions she survived.
After that Ash cast Sisters in Fury and killed with Whirlwind triggers Mortimer, Punk Zombie and Canine.
Other Punk Zombie charged her but she survived on the last wound.
After that it was time for a healing time: Librarian 2x healed Vanessa (and thus Ash - 4 wounds healed), Child failed to heal Vanessa and after that Vanessa fully healed Ash.
In the meantime Sue killed second Canine.
At the end of this turn things looked brighter for me :D
Upkeep phase - Viks - +1VP for Startegy; Score after turn 4: Viks 2 - Nicodem 2
Turn 5
This time I won initiative... and I screwed it massively.
I wantd to jump Ash in base contact with Nicodem and then Delver the Message so I used her Dragon's Bite but I forgot that Delver the Message needs 2AP... So after this massive fuck up I took two swing on Mortimer hurting him a bit.
The Nicodem summoned Canine, Crooligan and Hanged. He chain activated and Delivered the Message to Ash.
I moved closer to the centre securing VP points from Strategy and so eoghan did - Hanged, Canine and Punk Zombie moved towards centre.
Upkeep phase - Viks - +1VP for Startegy; Nicodem - +2VP for Deliver the Message, +1VP for Startegy; Score after turn 5: Viks 3 - Nicodem 5
Flip for turn 6 - 13! So we kept going into next turn and I hoped to get VP points for Deliver the Message.
Turn 6
Nicodem won initiative... but it appeared that he was out of soul stones and no high Crows on his hand! So he discarded 3 corpse markers to heal 3 wounds and draw 3 cards. Still no high Crows.
He tried to summon something 3 times but failed.
Because nothing could charged my Ash I decided to try killing models near centre marker. Sue killed Hanged. Unfortunately Punk Zombie hid behind hard cover and Canine was out of LOS so Vanessa and Librarian couldn't do much plus Johana was to far away for charge (we played centre piece of terrain as a Severe Terrain).
Ash finally Delivered the Message and took a swing on Nico wounding him slightly.
Flip for turn 7 was unsuccessful and game finished there.
Upkeep phase - Viks - +1VP for Startegy, +2VP for Deliver the Message, +3VP for Protect Territory; Nicodem - +3VP for Protect Territory, +1VP for Startegy
Final Score : Viks 9 - Nicodem 9
I'm absolutely in love with Sue. She (in my crews apart Levy there is no 'he' :D) brings a lot of good shooting and anti-Ca protection. It was the first time I used her so I totally forgot to use Hurt for extra cards but she was fantastic anyway.
Rest of the crew did good as well. Blood Viki died to soon but that happens often :D This time Ash was a work-horse.
Nico is a true bastard with his summoning and chain-activating upgrade so I was really happy to get a draw in this game.
Till next time!
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