jonboy

Yep, take my money :-) These are awesome!

" I had Gracie use her 0 AP Two healing flips to get back to 6"

Her snooze action is an all ability though?

Oops, you're right, I mistyped that. It was counted as an (all) in-game though, I confirmed with my opponent.

Most importantly, we're getting our own section on the forums!

Yes, I am very excited about my favorite models receiving faction status.

Now I have to finish painting my current gremlins, pick up Zoraida and save up for Gen Con :-)

Nice write up.

Something to consider with Shared Destroy the Evidence is the Pigapult (perhaps instead of the normal full contingent of Young Lacroixs). It is possible with the list you have there (minus the Lacroixs and the addition of the Pigapult) to accomplish 3-5 VP for Shared Destroy the Evidence on turn 1 and your first activation.

Thanks!

Oh wow, yeah, I could see how that would work. Time get him painted :-)

http://www.wyrd-games.net/showthread.php?41297-Bangin-in-the-Bayou-Ophelia-vs-Lilith&p=530721#post530721

There's the link to my battle report.

I ended up winning but it was close, the Young LaCroix were awesome and are now an auto include for me.

Appreciate the all the help!

35ss Scrap

Shared Destroy the Evidence

Me: Protege*Mature Nephilim*/Thwart

Ophelia LaCroix - 5 Soulstones

- Young LaCroix x3

Rami LaCroix

Francois LaCroix

Bert Jebsen

Gracie

Wong

Opponent: Bodyguard/Breakthrough

Lilth - 5 Soulstones

Mature Nephilim

Young Nephilim x2

Malifaux Cherub

Freikorps Strongarm Suit

Turn 1 Highlights:

Gained Initiative

Things weren't looking good for me, my opponent used the Freikorps Strongarm Suit to leap onto the neutral marker in the middle of the board. At which point he couldn't take the 2 AP required to flip the marker so he was forced to end his activation and use his Charge Up! ability to gain Armor 3. I don't normally play this aggressive but I moved up a Young LaCroix and used 2 soulstones to cast Ophelia's Right Between the Eyes spell twice, I managed to get him to 50%.

My opponent then moved the Cherub up, used Magical Extension to cast Transposition and switched the places of the Strongarm Suite and Lilith. I moved Rami up but was only able to get knock 2 Wds off Lilith.

Lilith activated and cast Illusionary Forest to block Bert and Wong from doing any damage and flipped the damage marker to gain 1 VP.

I moved Bert Jebsen up and tried to slingshot Gracie so she could make a pig charge through link and reactivate. Being new at this I forgot reactivate doesn't allow for immediate activation and left Gracie open to the Mature Nephilim who charged her and knocked off 4 Wounds taking her down to 2.

Upon Gracie's reactivate I hit him and knocked off a few Wds but forgot about Black Blood and she was down to 1 Wd.

Turn 2 Highlights:

Gained Initiative

At this point she was out of range for Link with Bert, I had Gracie use her 0 AP Two healing flips to get back to 6. In retrospect I should have moved Bert up to gain the range for Link and move him back to get her out of there. The Mature Nephilim destroyed Gracie much to my dismay.

I moved another Young LaCroix up and fired on Lilith but forgot about Whoops and when he missed on his third action using reckless, I ended up drawing severe and killed the closest Young LaCroix.

The Cherub cast Transposition on Lilith and the Strongarm Suit and switched their spots again. Lilith moved the Illusionary Forest to block Francois and Ophelia from getting to her and one of the other markers a Young Nephilim was defending.

At this point I was down two guys, hadn't scored any VP yet and not feeling good about the game.

Turn 3 Highlights:

Gained Initiative

I activated Bert who knocked off a few more wounds on the Mature Nephilim.

I then companion activated Wong and attacked the Mature Nephilim who knocked off 3 Wds to get him 1 and turned him into a piglet with a lucky Tome. I used his second attack to finish off the Mature Nephilim gaining 2 VP from Protege

Each turn I had been moving Ophelia and Francois up on the right side of the table getting closer and closer to a marker. I was able to slingshot Francois and flip one of the two markers outside of my opponents deployment zone.

Lilith cast Earthquake and knocked Francois and Ophelia into Severe terrain.

Lilith then charged him and promptly destroyed him.

The Young Nephilim charged Ophelia but only took off two wounds.

Turn 4 Highlights:

Ophelia Killed the Young Nephilim with one attack and then using her two remaining attacks got Lilith down to 4 Wds.

Strongarm Suit got back into the fray and was able to make it over to one of the markers outside my deployment zone. He didn't have enough actions to flip the marker so he used Charge Up! and shot Bert, he missed and Bert had a Ram to cheat on defense with to enable the It's all in the Reflexes trigger, I was in a good spot because I had a ++ on the damage flip but drew a Black Joker.

Turn 5 Highlights:

Strongarm Suit went first but couldn't flip the marker because I had moved Rami up into base contact, he used Charge Up! and killed Rami. (I know Rami is useless in Melee but he was the only model I had close enough that hadn't already gone to stop the Strongarm Suit from flipping the marker)

I moved Bert and Wong in to finish off the Strongarm Suit.

Lilith went for Breakthrough and move all the way into my in my deployment zone with Fast and ignoring severe terrain. (Also indirectly keeping Bodyguard going by getting far away from most of my models except for Ophelia)

On my last move I moved a Young LaCroix in to neutralize Breakthrough.

Turn 6 Highlights:

Gained Initiative

I moved Ophelia out of the severe Terrain into range of Lilith and used Two Dirty shots, missing the first but scoring the second with Dumb Luck which knocked off 4 Wds and killed her.

Killing allowed me to gain two VP from Thwart because my opponent failed to get Bodyguard and Breakthrough.

Endgame

Me:

2 VP Protege

2 VP Thwart

Opponent:

1 VP Neutral Destroy the Evidence Marker.

Big thanks to the community for the help with my crew selection.

Pay no attention to this guy, my gremlins are going to take him down

Maybe something like this?

Outcasts Crew - 35 - Scrap

Ophelia Lacroix

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4 Pool

3 Young Lacroix [6ss]

• Bert Jebsen
  [6ss]
  
  
• Gracie
  [7ss]
  
  
• Rami Lacroix
  [6ss]
  
  
• Raphael Lacroix
  [6ss]
  
  
• Wong
  [6ss]
  
  

I agree with Omenbringer on this. However, I'd only take the slop hauler with this many high soulstone models (for gremlins) against Lilith just so that you can get the chance of knocking her defense of 8 down to 4. Try to get some young in there simply because they're really cheap and that they can drop really good damage for their price. Tiny will help protect them from Friekorps ranged attacks and Dirty Shot will help them take out those high defense Terror Tots or help you land some more blows on Lilith.

I think you should maybe consider switching out Rami for Raphael depending on the Strategy if you go up against Lilith simply because if Rami has range to Lilith and Lilith took the puking worm, than Lilith has range to him and possibly your entire crew. It's mostly just a personal preference though. I tend to get more use out of Raphael than Rami when it's a strategy that requires interact actions and the enemy is going to be closing the gap really fast. (On a side note though, the saddest death I've ever witnessed was when Raphael got ganged up on by three terror tots. It was just three turns of failing to walk away with Wade Out and then three ap of trying to cast Gremlins Bleed Green and then hoping to squeel away when they attack.)

Good point on Raph, I generally do get quite a bit of use out of him, I know you mentioned Lillith but his bullet proof would help against Von Schill's team too. Also if I'm right and my opponent takes Lillith, he's going to take all Nephilim.

---------- Post added at 09:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:49 PM ----------

Yes the Hog Whisperer can buff Gracie however you are paying a lot of points for largely a one time buff. Even Soeey! or the healing from Sooeet Nothin's isn't that great when you dont have Skeeters upfield assisting. There is a bit of potential for Survival of the Fittest but most of that crew you posted dont really contribute well to that (they are to durable and Valuable).

The Slop Hauler is definitely a large target (especially from a Freikorps Trapper shooting From the Shadows. Additionally, utilizing him for healing will require one of two things:

1. The crew to cluster close to him limiting mobility and increasing the potentcy of damaging :auras :pulses and :blasts.
   
2. It will require the use of Ophelia's 0 action Oooo! A Girl!. This will reduce her abiltity to buff the rest of the crew with more useful things like Dumb and Lucky, Like Herding Squirrels or her own damage potential via Bent Gun Barrel. Granted she has Instinctual so can do two 0 actions but almost any of those will provide more nag than just dragging the Slop Hauler along.
   

Yeah, if he takes all those Nephilim, black blood could put a hamper on things since they will be flying around in melee.

Looks like I'll finish up my Young Lacroix before Saturday (Fairly new at all this, still have quite a few gremlins left to paint)

Yeah, I was thinking the hog whisperer could help beef up Gracie with fly and reactivate (though Gracie has that too) as well as being to heal Gracie. I just wasn't sure if it would be worth it over my other options.

With the hauler I wanted some extra healing but he always ends up being a big target so I'll think some more about that.

Yes, Von Schill has been a thorn in my side but I've been successful so far :-)

Appreciate the comments, thanks.

---------- Post added at 09:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 PM ----------

I can see why the Hog Whisperer is in there and that is to give some Sooey's to Burt/Gracie. Unfortunately, you're not going to be getting many of those in with Ophelia. Som'er has plenty of those going with Skeeters and speedy Piglets to get up in people's faces for Burt to leapfrog onto. How about a list like this?

Hmmm looks good, I worry about firepower though against Von Schill/Freikorps. Though I would definitely have more tricks with Som'er, skeeters and another pig.

I didn't think about Bert's Link to Gracie and how useful that could be along with the Skeeters and Sooey....

Decision, decisions, I appreciate the comments!

Going up against either Lilith and her Nephilim or Von Schill with a Freikorps team, I wanted to get Gracie, Bert and Wong into some action and figured Ophelia would fit better than Som'er, thoughts? Thanks!

• Bert Jebsen
  [6ss]
  
  
• Francois Lacroix
  [5ss]
  
  
• Gracie
  [7ss]
  
  
• Hog Whisperer
  [5ss]
  
  
• Rami Lacroix
  [6ss]
  
  
• Slop Hauler
  [4ss]
  
  
• Wong
  [6ss]
  
  

Update: I found one! Can't delete this post so this update will have to do.

Hello!

New to Malifaux and can't get enough of the gremlins and their pigs. Looking to round out my crew with the female hog whisperer, preferably unpainted but I'll take what I can get.

I know its going to be tough to find but I'm optimistic.

Thanks!