Hi folks, looking for some advice really, just had my 3rd game of Malifaux, and got hopelessly destroyed by the dreamer. The issue is, i felt like I was lacking damage among other things, and I got deleted off the board in fairly short order. some info of the game -
Standard deployment - guard the stash.
scheme pool was - claim jump, framed for murder, accusation, undercover entourage and marked for death. I took claim jump and Framed for murder (izamu)
the crew i picked i was
Reva - Blood mark, Guises
Philip and the nany - Haunting cries
Datsu ba - Spirit whispers
Izamu the armour - Unnerving aura
Shikome
The drowned
The drowned
His crew, and this is going by memory with little knowledge of Neverborn, and my first time seeing the dreamer.
The dreamer
Baby kade
Teddy
Teddy
Terror tot
Terror tot
Daydream
Daydream
Turn one he summoned the the twins Lelu and Lilitu, hid them behind a building and healed them up to full over a couple turns we both moved towards the middle, my turn 2 I killed my corpse candle to give Izamu disguise so he couldn't be charged and positioned him close to the middle ready to "tank" some damage and the rest of my crew a couple inches behind, his turn 2 he pushed 2 teddies towards me at light speed they then forced some WP duels (my hand at this point was really bad, despite soul stoning) I lost the duels and the teddies could be placed and Izamu died which was ok, I got framed for murder, just wanted him to be more of a speed bump and maybe get a turn to swing. My turn 3 comes, I get adversary on a teddy and manage to kill it off, but otherwise tickle my opponents crew, his turn 3 the dreamer turns into lord chompy bits after some pushes gets on reva and murders her, and the twins make short work of what i thought to be tough Drowned. This game i just felt like i didn't have the damage to deal with the threats he was putting on me, and also I felt like I had no answer to WP duels.
My current collection is.
Masters
Reva
Molly
Henchmen
Detsu ba
Vincent st clair
Philip and the nanny
Enforcers
Izamu
Carrion Emissary
Bete Noire
Yin
Minions
3x Shield bearers
3x Rotten Belles
3x Crooligans
3x The Drowned
2x Shikome
* Necrotic machine
Peons
5x Mindless zombies
3x Seishin
2x Corpse candles
(P.S I haven't used molly yet, still trying to wrap my mind around the game, and the choices of crew for given scenarios so wanted to keep to one master, also I have the hanged, and goryo on order)
Sorry for the wall of text, is there something I'm doing wrong when putting a crew together? Out of my current models what would you have taken instead? Are there some specific models I'm missing?
I would appreciate any insight you could share, and thanks in advanced!