Game Report 23.04.15 50SS Levy vs Nicodem

Game report - 23.04.2015


50SS Levy (daniello_s) vs Nicodem (Eoghan)

Deployment: Standard Deployment
Strategy: Collect the Bounty (Gaining Grounds 2015)
Schemes: ALITS, Bodyguard, Breakthrough, Murder Protege, Plant Explosives
 
Eoghan brought:
Nicodem (6SS pool) - Undertaker, Love Thy Master, Maniacal Laugh
Mortimer - Corpse Bloat
2x Canine Remains
2x Rotten Belles
Bete Noire - Decaying Aura
Nurse

I took:
Leveticus (3SS pool) - Tally Sheet
Rusty Alyce - I Pay Better
2x Hollow Waif
Freikorps Librarian
Lazarus
Sue
Abomination
Hans
 

Eoghan picked Bodyguard (Mortimer) and Breakthrough - both not revealed.
I picked Bodyguard (Librarian) and ALITS - both not revealed also.

Table setup:

Nicodem won deployment flip and allowed me to deploy first. I was hoping to deploy second and try to snipe out Mortimer's upgrade so I wasn't too happy about the fact I have to deploy first.

Crews deployment:

My plan was to use Levy's killing nature to score small points on Nico's minions when the rest of the clue will hang around Sue and her Man in Black aura and support Levi with fire support. Plan was good but as usual I didn't stick to it...

Turn 1
Levi won initiative but handed it over to Nicodem.
As usual Motrimer hurt himself and also he dug out a bone so Nicodem could summon Punk Zombie and Flesh Construct.
Hans sniped Bete. Sue cast Man in Black and she resisted two Lure attempts from Belles. Unfortunately for some reason I decided to move whole gun line forward (under Sue's protection) but again I don't know why I did that instead of moving double walk Librarian safely behind the building on the left (as I did) and then move there Levy to play a peek-a-boo game - unbury him in the corner of the building - shoot something - kill somethin - score VP points for strategy.
Anyway - Flesh Construct and Punk Zombie moved towards gallow and I decided to shoot - I drop their wounds to last remaining but Nurse fully healed Flesh Construct paralyzing him as well.
Canine remains run behind building on the left.

Upkeep phase - no VP points for either side Score after turn 1: Levy 0 - Nicodem 0

Turn 2
Levi won initiative and I made second, this time grave mistake - instead of activating Sue to defend from lure I activated Lazarus who shot Flesh Construct and killed nearby Punk Zombie with blast.
Then Belles lured Sue 4 times so she ended up in the middle of Nicodem's team. To be honest my hand wasn't to good and Belles were flipping good cards like crazy...

In this moment I knew I'm in BIG trouble.
Nico summoned Punk Zombie, made him fast and then summoned another Punk Zombie.
Eventually Sue was killed in the hail of blows. Levy killed one of the Punk Zombies.
Canine Remains moved behind the building, I moved Librarian behind second building and drop the Scheme Marker on the centre line
Both crews scored 2 kill points this turn so no VP was scored this turn.

Upkeep phase - no VP points for either side Score after turn 2: Levy 0 - Nicodem 0

Turn 3

Nicodem won initiative and immediately Belles attempted to Lure Alyce - I tried to defend her as much as I can but again they Lured me 4 times making me discard 2 cards in process! All my cheats were beaten by Nico's cheats... So Alyce was not in the trouble...

She tried to hit Flesh Construct but I was out of cards in my hand and Construct had positive flips form being close to Nico so she did nothing. Nicodem summoned one Punk Zombie and gave him Fast condition.
Alyce survived beating from nearby Punk Zombie but I had to use 2 soul stones to prevent damage.
Fast Punk Zombie moved and charged Lazarus hurting him a lot. I charged Punk Zombie with Abomination but I did nothing.

After that Lazarus killed Punk Zombie and Bete appeared next to him. Lazarus swung at her but missed. So I tried to heal him with his 0 action - Black Joker! Sweet...
Bete finished Lazarus and I was about to call the game but the I decided to kill Bete with Lazarus. So I shot her. Because she was engaged with Abomination I flipped for randomized target - first shot hit Abomination but poor construct dodged the bullet. Second shot was aimed at Bete but she flipped crazy good for defence. Third got Abomination and killed it...

After that I called the game...

I made many mistakes during that game. I really should play guerilla-Levy game (shoot, kill, hide) and I really shouldn't lose Sue so easily.
The fact also is that Rotten Belles are waaay to good. 5SS for a model with crazy high Ca action with crazy high range? Come on...
But as I said I made to many mistakes to win this game - another lesson has been learnt hard way :D

Also I'd like to thanks my friend - Michal from Reycast for priding me with the nice terrains for Malifaux.
I'm planning to expand those terrains further as quality of his products are just awesome.
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Till next time!

 

Game Report 16.04.15 45SS Viks vs Nicodem

Game report - 16.04.2015

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!