50SS Leveticus (daniello_s) vs Colette (Owen)
Deployment: Corner Deployment
Strategy: Headhunter
Schemes: Convict Labour, Exhaust Their Forces, Show of Force, Set Up, Undercover Entourage
Owen brought:
Colette (6SS pool) - Cabaret Choreography, Practiced Production, Arcane Reservoir
Joss - Imbued Energies
Cassandra
Howard Langston
Performer
Steam Arachnid
I brought:
Levi (4SS pool) - Pariah of Bone, Oathkeeper, To Earth Return
(killing machine)
Madame Sybelle - Scout the Field, Bigger They Are
(model to be kept 6'' of the table centre for Show of Force purpose, damage dealer, Waif anchor)
Yin - Scout the Field
(model to be kept 6'' of the table centre for Show of Force purpose, Wp de-buffer, Waif anchor)
The Hanged
(damage dealer, Waif anchor)
2x Rotten Belle
(support models who would try to lure enemy closer to me)
Dead Doxy
(support model to help position my models with her Take the Lead action, Waif Anchor)
2x Hollow Waif
(Levi's life insurance)
Owen picked Convict Labour and Undercover Entourage (Colette)
I took Show of Force and Undercover Entourage (Levi)
My plan for a game was to utilize my movement shenanigans to drag single enemy model close to my models, stick Wp de-buff on it and kill it. Then I would pick up the head marker and do this trick again.
Also my crew had 3 models with Terrifying (All) characteristic and Levi's range attack is against enemy Wp I knew the key to the game will be correct use of Yin which had a debut this game.
Deployment (Colette deployed first; Levi's crew is at the bottom of the picture):
Turn 1
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Owen moved his models towards the centre but kept in mind to stay out of LOS from my models in case if I decided to lure him. Howard took a wide swing on my right flank. Colette's crew also dropped some scheme markers so those could be removed later for Practiced Production purpose and she summoned first Dove.
- I moved towards the centre of the table as well. Thanks to Call Belle action I was able to lure Arachnid closer to me once. Apart of this nothing interesting happened that turn.
Upkeep phase:
No VPs scored by either side.
Score after turn 1: Levi 0 - Colette 0
Turn 2
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Between high mobility of his crew, Practiced Production and Prompt action Owen put enough scheme markers for Convict Labour. Howard flanked me on my right even more.
- I was able to lure Arachnid between my models and kill it but thanks to my poor control hand and Owen's good hand I had to spent more resources on doing that so I wasn't able to pick the head this turn.
Yin also put Gnawing Fears on Joss and Owen had to Prompt him out of the danger zone (as far as possible from my crew). I have parked Sybelle within 6'' of the centre to start scoring Show of Force.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Show of Force
Colette: +1VP Convict Labour
Score after turn 2: Levi 1 - Colette 1
Turn 3
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Yin activated first and put Gnawing Fears on Cassandra. She also attacked Cassandra with The Fear Behind the Eyes and put on Cassandra No Escape condition (so no Walk/Charge actions for her till the end of the turn). Knowing that Cassandra is in the grave danger Owen used Prompt to push her into safety. I was happy from this outcome as Colette had to activate early this turn.
- Howard moved up to the far corner of the table so I decided to shift a pressure on him. I lured him once but second time failed (my control hand was terrible again despite stoning for cards). If second time was successful, then he would be in range for other Belle for additional lure and then I planned to moved Hanged there, drop Howard by half wounds and then Levi would sacrifice Waif to get into position for finishing Howard. Plan was good but cards said no... Anyway I moved Hanged and Levi closer to Howard to threaten him on next turn.
- I picked the head marker this turn.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Headhunter, +1VP Show of Force
Colette: +1VP Convict Labour
Score after turn 3: Levi 3 - Colette 2
Turn 4
Initiative: Levi
Key actions/moments:
- Hanged attacked Howard twice. I think I made a mistake here as I should activate Levi, burn Oathkeeper, walk once and attack Howard 3 times with Levi. Anyway heavily bruised Howard run away behind LOS blocker before I was able to finish him off.
- Yin discarded Scout the Field and attacked Colette behind LOS blocker giving her Gnawing Fears. I was lucky with flips as the third time in the row I had bad control hand after stoning for cards.
- As Owen kept hiding his models away from me I wasn't able to lure anything and pressed forward towards centre of the table to 'lure' him out his way ;)
- Levi bored to the teeth by now attacked the only possible target - Dove lurking nearby and killed it.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +1VP Show of Force
Colette: +1VP Convict Labour
Score after turn 4: Levi 4 - Colette 3
Turn 5
Initiative: Colette
Key actions/moments:
- I suspected that Owen has Entourage on Colette and I was right. Owen started to set up scheme markers for this. I knew she will use Disappearing Act to hop into my deployment area as she did later this turn. To put some pressure on her Sybelle discarded Scout the Field and attacked Sybelle once hurting here a lot. Cassandra borrowed Prompt from Colette to push her in LOS of scheme markers and prepare her to 'jump' ;) Hanged walked once and attacked Colette but missed. Then Colette used Disappearing Act to get into my deployment area.
In return I lured her twice. Owen immediately moved Dove to block any more lures on Colette so my Doxy used Take the Lead to push Dove away. Then other Belle lured Colette once only because Performer used her lure on this Belle to drag her away from Colette and I had to walk once to see Colette again. Thankfully lure was successful and I walked her away from my deployment zone.
Yin walked once and put Gnawing Fear on her again, then attacked her and dropped her below half of her wounds.
- I positioned Levi incorrectly the bottom of turn 4 and Howard was able to move and charge him killing Levi. Thankfully Waif was close enough to centreline and Levi was able to re-spawn within Owen's half of the table.
- Game ended on this turn.
Upkeep phase:
Levi: +2VP Undercover Entourage
Colette: +1VP Undercover Entourage
Final score: Levi 6 - Colette 4
Few comments after game:
- It was very tough game as Owen played very well and kept his models away from LOS and reacted very good with Prompts to move threatened models into safety.
- I'm happy with performance of my crew although I might replace Sybelle with Rusty next time as she will bring additional fire power to my team at the cost of losing some movement shenanigans between Belles.
- Yin is good... really good ;) Her Wp de-buff works great and I'll be happy to take her again if I decide to run Bone-Levi.
Till next time!
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