Hello, all!
Just wanted to say thanks for the help. As an update, my gf has been haunting this forum since I opened it, and reading all the grrat advice you guys gave. We played a game yesterday, (removing assassinate, and reckoning from the possible pool of victory conditions) and it was a tight game the whole way through. This game was the most fun she's had with malifaux yet because she felt that even though her pieces were dying, that it was with intent.