Battle Report 12.04.2017

Battle Report 12.04.2017

Flank, Turf War
Claim Jump, Search the Ruins, Quick Murder, Frame for Murder, Accusation

This will be my last Report before our next tournament in Vienna. This time it was against our LGS owner, Tris. He is the missing one, if you are looking for our local Top4J. You know Ben from my battle report who by the way, has his own blog. http://starwarsmalifaux.blogspot.co.at/p/home.html

You now Markus from my final tournament game, Michael from my last battle report and know you will “meet” Tris. Pre-impressions of the game: I don’t like to blame the cards because there is most of the time a way to play around a bad hand. To save letters later on and for you to be not confused way none of my attacks went through, I tell you now that the highest card I drew after turn 1 until the end, was a 9.

But actually I didn’t lost this game because of that, but because I took the wrong schemes as you will see.

Still it was a funny game, my first against Nellie so I learned a lot about this master. And I would have taken the wrong converted master if I couldn’t laugh about it.

PS: Next report will also picture a new table. This one is just the only one upstairs in the store, so that visitors can have a look.

 
Guild: (Search the Ruins, Frame for Murder)

• Nellie (Embedded, Delegation, Misleading Headlines) 4 SS
• Phiona (A Debt to the Guild, Transparency)
• Burt Jepson
• Witchling Thrall
• 2x Ronin (Frame on one of them)
• Printing Press
• Johann

Outcast: (Search the Ruins, Quick Murder)

• Leveticus (Desolate Soul, Pariah of Bone, Oathkeeper) 6 SS
• Hans (Advanced Sight)
• Strongarm Suit (Scout the Field)
• Winged Plague
• Thorn
• 2x Hollow Waif
• Crooligan
• Canine Remains
• Abomination

Deployment:

Tris won the flip and deployed first. 

 

Turn 1

Tris won the flip for Initiative and let me go first.

• 1^st activation OC: Winged Plague double walked to the left corner.
• 1^st activation GD: Printing Press focused and gave Nellie Evidence.
• 2^nd activation OC: My dog walked once and placed a Scheme marker.
• 2^nd activation GD: Tris skipped activation for a hand card
• 3^rd activation OC: Hans walked once and took a focus shot on the Ronin beside Nellie (flipping Severe on a plus leaving her on Hard to Kill. (This is the Frame chosen)
• 3^rd activation GD: Johan walked towards the left corner.
• 4^th activation OC: First Waif double walked.
• 4^th activation GD: Ronin walked behind the house near the center.
• 5^th activation OC: Thorn double walked to engage this Ronin and uses her (0) to place a Scheme marker.
• 5^th activation GD: Thrall pushed to Johann, walked once and casted on the Plague, missing it.
• 6^th activation OC: Abo walked towards the center.
• 6^th activation GD: Tris skipped activation.
• 7^th activation OC: Crooligan walked in the position for Levi port.
• 7^th activation GD: Ronin with 1 wound left dropped a scheme marker near Nellie and walked out of Los.
• 8^th activation OC: Second Waif double walked.
• 8^th activation GD: Burt went reckless, double walked and shot the Crooligan once for 2 damage.
• 9^th activation OC: With no good target in range, Levi just walked twice and took a focus shot at Burt, missing him. Waifed himself.
• 9^th activation GD: Nellie pushed as (0), fasted Phiona and the Ronin (plus heal) and the attacked Crooligan once, missing him.
• 10^th activation OC: Strongarm double walked to center and took his (0)
• 10^th activation GD: Phiona walked and charged Strongarm dealing him and herself 1 point of damage.

Turn 2

Tris won initiative.

• 1^st activation GD: Printing Press focused and gave Nellie Evidence and let her chain activate.
• 2^nd activation GD: Nellie, afraid of frame, used her damage and her condition cast on the Crooligan (pushing him with trigger), tried to fast Burt but failed. And then tried to incite the Crooligan, but also failed. (He had only high cards he didn’t want to waste.
• 1^st activation OC: Strongarm dropped Oathkeeper and charged Burt Jepson with the extra damage (0). Bringing him to 1 wound with the first attack. But then missing twice because Tris cheated a Queen and the RJ to safe him.
• 3^rd activation GD: Tris skipped it.
• 2^nd activation OC: Levi dropped Oathkeeper sacrificed Crooligan for port, took a focus shot at Phiona to slow her and then shot at the Ronin double focus with soul stoned Crow and BJed the damage….
• 4^th activation GD: Thrall failed in killing the Plague.
• 3^rd activation OC: Plague flight to the middle in safety.
• 5^th activation GD: Phiona used her (1) to jump towards the Strongarm and hit him once for moderate.
• 4^th activation OC: Thorn “lured” Burt towards her and attacked him twice, hitting him once, but he redirected the hit to the Ronin.
• 6^th activation GD: Tris skipped it.
• 5^th activation OC: Dog walked a placed a Scheme Marker. (should have taken Claim Jump :P)
• 7^th activation GD: Johann double walked to engage Strongarm.
• 6^th activation OC: Abo double walked in base contact with the enemy scheme marker.
• 8^th activation GD: Ronin activated, but failed Thorns WP duel and disengaged towards the Strongarm.
• 7^th activation OC: First Waif double walked.
• 9^th activation GD: Ronin (Frame) engaged Levi.
• 8^th activation OC: Second Waif walked a bit.
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  9^th activation OC: Hans shot Nellie twice for some damage.

Both scored Turf War. 1-1

Turn 3

Tris won initiative.

• 1^st activation GD: Printing Press focused and gave Nellie Evidence and let her chain activate.
• 2^nd activation GD: Nellie, again afraid of frame, used her damage and her condition cast on the Strongarm. And with the failed WP duels Phiona also hit him once and because of my bad hand they get him down to exactly 1 wound, slow and the condition for 2 damage as soon he activates…. Luckily I flipped a high card for resisting against incite. So I won some time.
• 1^nd activation OC: Levi attacked the Ronin with 3 wounds left, dealing 1 point of damage… and waifed himself.
• 3^rd activation GD: Ronin double walked towards the center.
• 2^nd activation OC: Thorn was able to hit Burt once to kill him.
• 4^th activation GD: Thrall charged Waif hitting her once.
• Other activations OC: The whole rest of my crew used all of their AP to kill the Ronin with 2 wounds, giving Tris 2 Points for Frame.
• Other activations GD: The rest of Tris Crew moved around and killed some of my models.

Both scored Turf War and Tris got his Frame points. 4-2 for the Guild

 

Turn 4 and 5

Tris won Initiative.

To not overstrain the word “failed” I will put down the last two turn in a few sentences.

None of my models got a single attack through but got hit very oft. Bad flips and even worse hand.

Levi dealt 0 damage over the last two turn. Have never seen something like this. :D It was crazy.

If I had won only 1 flip in turn 5 I would have scored at least Search the Ruins, but no.

The game ended 9-4 for Guild because I could score the strat.

So what to say about this game?

First of all my decision which Schemes to take was crap. Tris played it really good so even with normal hand cards the game would have been hard to win. And that Tris apologized for the game says enough. But that’s Malifaux, where bad things happen and because of this, we love it. I learned a lot about Nellie which is good for the upcoming tournament and I learned to use Thorn in a better way than I did before.

If I sum it up, it still was a good game. J