So not only is this my first full Malifaux game but to be honest I think it's only my 3rd or 4th tabletop game ever, haha. I have always been a bigger fan of card games instead of the miniatures but this game is a chance to kind of mix it up and go with both, at least for me. In the next few paragraphs I'm going to be try to describe 2 games, my first 2 full Malifaux games!
Game 1:
We are both using box sets but his is slightly modified, I'm using Marcus, Myranda, Sabertooth, and a Rattler. While he is using Teeth, a Hog Whisperer, 4 Bayou Gremlins, and 1 Warpig. As you can see he has the distinctive model advantage especially since I believe the Warpig is completely disgusting with the Whisperer.
Were just doing a normal kill stuff game, just to get our minds about us and we start to deploy. To make a long story short we both deploy and spend our first activations walking twice and attempting a LEAP here and there. On the 2nd turn he engages my Rattler with the WarPig and thanks to Charging, Stick em in the Ass, and Reckless Fast my Rattler was completely decimated. And from there the same thing happened to my Sabertooth. Shortly after my two beaters were destroyed Marcus and Myranda succumbed to swarm.
In conclusion, I didn't use any Spells, and Triggers, or any Abilities, I also never used any of my Soulstones and I used my Control cards in the most greedy manner possible, after the game we took some time out, and I read my cards carefully and developed a gameplan, trying to remember to use things better.
Game 2:
The first of our activations were used walking twice and attempting to LEAP once again, however this time I walked to a nearby terrain forest piece and on the 2nd turn when the Warpig Activations started I was prepared, the WarPig missed his attacks thanks to some nice flips on my end and was shortly thereafter dominated by Comapion and a 3 STriking Sabertooth (previous game I failed to notice the extra 2 strikes). Activations ended, some shots from the Gremlins were missed and the next turn ensued. With his WarPig gone my opponet felt slightly less confident, he used the "Self Sacrafice" blast the gremlins have and was successfull with one and missed the other, leaving him a Whisperer, 2 Gremlins, and Teeth. At this Point I decided Marcus should turn Teeth into a beast and use ALPHA, I had a Red Joker in my hand so needless to say I now controlled a Som'er Teeth. I activated his spell Gremlins Luck which was successful. I put him down to 1 and had my opponet discard his hand, from there the carnage ensued and I destroed all but one tiny little Gremlin, which to be an ass, I DEVOUR'd to end the game. Needless to say, the domination I felt Game 1 was returned 10 fold AFTER I read my cards in this game.
(If any of the names are wrong for spells/abilites/models I'm sorry, I didn't have the cards offhand, haha)
All in all that was only a 25 point Scrap and I enjoyed every second of it, the game is very entertaining and has quite a bit of luck AND skill placed into it, I'm definitly looking forward to playing more games and increasing my army size.