Hello all, This will be a much abbreviated Batrep.
My wife and I have recently taken this game up and don't have much in the way of models. My wife has a Perdita box only, and I just picked up Seamus and Molly (have a dark debts box on the way also) and we threw some hot wheels and wooden trains (graciously loaned by our 3 yr old) onto the kitchen table and took them for a spin. Note this was not our first game, but it was my first game with Seamus.
Crews:
Seamus
Rouge Necromancy
2 belles
Strat: Distract, Schemes: Assassinate, eye for an eye.
Perdita
Nino
Santiago
Papa Loco
Strat: line in the sand, Scheme: Breakthrough
Deployment was roughly Seamus near the middle with a belle right next to him, A belle was on the farther right side and the rougue necromancy was on the far left side.
Perdita's crew basically deployed in an even line across her deployment zone.
Rounds 1 and 2 were just a lot of positioning. The RN, seamus and a belle moved up to about the dead center of the map, taking cover behind some "burned out" vehicles and trains. My lone belle was on the far right flank trying to seduce nino. Perdita had come right up the middle and was perched on top of a train engine looking right down on seamus and a belle. Papa loco was just off center trying to come around the train engine to throw his dynamite at seamus and co. Santiago was moving over the the left side to support nino vs the belle. Somewhere in round 2 the someone undressed resulting in papa getting reduced df, which seamus capitalized on by shooting him in the face with his handcannon and pinging him with wrack with pain.
Round 3 is where the fireworks were. Perdita won init and started blasting away. She hit seamus 2 times for 8 damage total, and hit the belle once for 3 points. The RN scrambled up the train and started wailing on perdita, 1 claw swipe and 2 fang strikes missed the elusive master (ok so he TRIED to wail on her). Seamus finishes off the crazy old man, hitting the RN in the explosion. The 2 belles converged on the left flank to roll around with nino and santiago.
Round 4 saw the RN take all 5 of his swings at perdita hitting her exactly 0 times. The perdita activates and simply walks away from him while he flails futilely at her. She then practially flies across the board just touching my deployment zone. Seamus attempts to give chase. The belles continue to attempt to get someone's clothes off on the left flank, but they Ortega boys aren't going for it. Nino finally manages to kill the belle he had been working on since round 1. Santiago gets confused and doesn't know quite what to do (confusion on AP and arming the bombs and how many were needed to get points etc etc.)
Round 5, Perdita runs clean to the other side of my deployment zone. RN moves over to help the belle. Seamus continues to run after Dita and gets a shot off that (unsurprisingly) misses.
Somewhere in here I missed a turn but thats basically what happened, game ended with Perdita in my deployment zone Seamus chasing her down. Nino and a belle were in a CC duel that was going no where fast and the RN was menacing santiago.
Game ended in a 2 - 2 tie, I had eye for an eye and she had breakthrough. Overall it was an awesome game, I really look forward to messing around with Seamus and crew but I can't wait to see what they do with him in 2nd ed.
Hmmm.. OK so maybe not so abbreviated
