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"When the Queen returns, let lose the Pigs!!!" - Ulix Hello folks, here we are with some battle report of a battle we played yesterday that lasted nearly 7h of playing, because both of us didnt want to make anymistakes, had the time and overthought every move twice before we made it. It was intense and exhausting! But also it was so much fun :D. It was a 50 Soulstone battle. The pictures are at Turn 1, End of turn 2 and End of battle. So here are the Schemes and Strategies and of course the Crews: Strategy: Turf War Schemepool: Deliver a message, Protect Territory, Take Prisoner, Bodyguard and a Line in the Sand. Deployment: Standard My opponents crew: Neverborn Titania (Behold my glory/The queens champion) Primordial Magic Barbaros The Thorn The Claw The Tooth Aeslinn Doppelganger (We later found out, that he had spent 2 Soulstones more than he could, but didnt chage it at all, because we were midgame) My crew: Gremlins Ulix (Husbandry) Old Cranky Old Major (Corn Husks) Gracie McTavish Gremlin Taxidermist Slop Hauler Before Turn 1: My opponent (Markus) immediately reveals both of his schemes, which are „Deliver a Message“ and „A Line in the Sand“. I am pretty happy about him revealing it, because i like to know what i am up to. In my case i didn't reveal any of my stuff and chose „Take Prisoner“ on Titania and „Protect Territory“, because my piggles can drop schemes for 0AP. I won the deplayment flip and wanted him to start the deployment. He won the initiative and wanted me to start the round. Turn 1: The first turn I pretty much had in mind, what I wanted to do. I just move some models forward with 1 AP and drop scheme markers for the “Triangle of Doom!”. I immediately spent a Soulstone to draw 2 additional cards and make sure I can summon 2 piglets and a Warpig if I met the requirements without too much interruption. So I moved the taxidermist and Old Cranky forward while dropping schemes. Titania sent forth his knights and immediately rushed in with Barbaros and “Challenged” everything withing 8'', which caught my Old Major within its zone. We advanced a bit and I let gracie take the lead as I used reactive on her to be able to move later on again and heal her up with the slop hauler that followed “the old pig knowing the way”. Major also dropped a scheme of complete the triangle of Doom for summoning the “War Wabbit”. Markus placed his Titania on top of a ruin to get the overview, while thorn and Tooth tried to flank me but got shot at from McTavish stand on this side. Ulix then activated to summon 2 Piglets and a War Wabbit spreading wounds and getting some more models on the field. Gracie was then challenged the first time from a knight and she couldnt do anything else then walking towards him and getting stabbed. The Slop Haulers heals right up everybody after Ulix cared about his piglets getting 2 dmg and healing 4 Pigs up. So Ulix got 6 dmg total and got 2 wounds back, sitting at 4. Turn 2: We both are eager to start the turn, but Markus wins the initiative, leaving me with a pretty bad hand, so I spend another Soulstone to draw and discard 2 cards. But no luck again for me...leaving me with one 10 as the highest card and then a straightline from 7 downwards. While I try to save Gracie from all the challenges pouring down on her giving her negative effects, I can`t get a hold of her or give her any healing effects and she is close to dying, but put up a good fight! I send forth Old Cranky to support my Gracie which is looking pretty rough at that time. And before I can protect him with my war wabbit, he gets slaughtered in 1 attack from Barbaros. and again Markus lets Barbaros walk in the middle of the Turf and get the “Challenge” up and running, effecting pretty much every model I have. This is where the tough time started...and where I screwed up pretty badly. And I wanted to hit my head on the table...plenty of times... Okay, time to go aggressive and let some pigs fly! I succeed on the cast and my pigs are now free to fly around! He also summons a little stuffed piglet, that sits in fron of Titania and 2 other models of him. But he lures the stuffed out with some challenges of the autumn knights and gets it to a safe zone to explode. I luckily flip the suit that makes it explode for 1 dmg in 4''. Markus then proceeds to attack Gracie and finishes her off after some heavy lifting to kill her. Unable to Call forth another Pork, I choose to activate Old Major and he goes forward and puts titania into a rough spot. I use ulix who succeeds the challenge trigger and cast prod on my war rabbit which happens to attack Barbaros with a ram...and succeeds so it immediately charges titania...which is bad for me, because I have take Prisoner and I dont want to attack or kill her. McTavish binds thorn and Tooth and eats some markers too, as do my piglets while dropping schemes for 0!!! This was a pretty awesome ability for me, digesting around 8-10 markers in the whole game and getting healing out of it. His Doppelganger than copied the spear of the Claw and tried to throw at my war wabbit with a little bit of success. Old Major just does some movement action and making sure my charges are devastating, again leading the way for my slop hauler and ulix taking a ride. We both score for Turf War victory points: Gremlins 1 – Neverborn 1 Turn 3: We both know this is a crucial turn and really want to begin to get most activations out of our models, before some of them are killed. Again this time I use a Soulstone to get some better cards, but can find myself with a 12, which enables Call forth the pork. Because of his doppelganger, he is allowed to cheat the initiative, which he does and immediately let Barbaros walk in to challenge AGAIN (dude, this one is getting on my nerves pretty badly...) and he even manages to finish off the slop hauler, whos plan was to slop Barbaros up and then rush him with my pigs...but DENIED! So I have a pretty bad situation at hand. All my models are under this effect and I burn my cards like hell! McTavish does a good jo keeping the other knights at bay, while eating some schemes. His Titania then activates and does her AoE skill where everyone is forced to make a WP duelor a scheme is put in basecontact. I flip THREE 1s in a row and get schemed all along! This sounds not too bad, but whenever I activate a pig, I suffer 2 dmg when a scheme is in base contact...so he leaves me with no other choice, than call forth the pork and immediately propper care for my pigs. He then Prods the war wabbit, which is at 7 wounds, hitting his Primordial Magic for 2 and then for...a Black Joker...oh my gosh...this was bad timing for sure...Markus then activates his Knights and Aeslin doing some nice damage to the War Wabbit leaving it with 3 wounds remaining...my choice is clear now. Activate the war wabbit, take 2 dmg and eating this strange magic thingy and chew on it like it was gum! First attack...fails, I have no cards to cheat and he spends some of his cards to make this even harder. But then I flip a solid 10 and he is unable to cheat it to a number I cannot beat. The war wabbit did his job! He gets a mouthful and falls to sleep his wounds off. 11 wounds healed at this time! PHEW! That was close...but Titania still within my pigs binding them to her...He wasn't as relieved as I was after this attack as you can imagine. By this time he heals all of his wounds on Titania through schmes and it is useless to hit her anymore. But he takes his revenge and lets tooth and thorn finish off my McTavish in a pretty brutal way...even the gator was stunned...or slowed from that ability of thorn...i do not like it... And now Target No. 1 has become Barbaros, because he is draining my cards. I activate the War Pig, charge Barbaros...with minor success because he became Titanias Champion as he killed the Slop hauler. The taxidermist gets to work now and gets pushed away, so he charges in and skins this dude alive! More corpse markers and finally free of this annoying model. The dust of war clears out and while having summoned 4 models with a value of 16 Soulstones, I still do have less than Markus. Not a single model killed except for the primordial magic. I then send out a piglet to eat some schemes, while he uses thorn to pull this piglet into engagement and finish it off with a spear through my porcine friend. The other piglet just runs around dropping schemes and eating his to prevent dmg on activation. End of Round 3. Models lost: Gremlins: Gracie, Slop Hauler, Old Cranky, 1 piglet, 1 stuffed piglet, Neverborn: Primordial Magic. We both score for Turf Points: 2:2 Turn 4: Again we both want to begin and the doppelganger allows him again to start the round. Seeing his Titania in the middle of 2 War pigs (one of it a war wabbit, which he still denies the “pig” trait, because it is fluffy!) and old major makes him rethink his positioning...he decides to use titania first and immediately uses the scheme AoE effect again. I dont have any use for my high cards and with some lucky flips I manage to deny all of his potential scheme markers with only 1 card to cheat. He does some damage to my pigs while dropping 1 scheme again. I activate Ulix who sits behind the big pigs and proper care and prod the hell out of my war pigs, getting crows and rams again to heal and rush around. I use proper care again and immediately a Soulstone to prevent dmg. Luckily enough I manage to heal my pigs up and survive this with my Ulix. He proceeds to pull out his titania with aeslin as she shoots into this engagement and hitting titania twice but one time with the trigger to pull her out. The this cast goes against the war pig blocking LoS for his doppelganger and Claw to attack my ulix who sits at 1 Wd with 1 Soulstone left. At this point he tells me, that the way is soon clear enough to kill of my master, even though I know that he has the deliver a massage scheme. He the unleash a flurry of spearthrows on Ulix with Claw and Doppelganger copying it. As the wall of pork stands, Ulix denies nearly every single attack and is able to defend his 1 Wd. But then 1 attack comes through and he is unable to deny it...i got 0 Soulstones left for dmg prevention or my pigs go rampant...lets hope for the best. He is on only 1 -flip and the first card he reveals is a red joker...Okay, he is gone, nevermind. He flips the 2nd card...and it is a Black Joker. I mean what are the odds? Holy Smokes, my master lives!!! (Which turns out later on is pretty bad...in this case) He had his turn already, but he lives for another round! My pigs freed again because titania is finally gone, I charge EVERYTHING in LoS immediately, gaining bonus on every single attack and dmg and manage to eat the Tooth alive with my warpig. Old major just goes a bit forward before he is engaged with the thorn and titania. My piglet drops a scheme and eats his, again :D. End of Turn 4. Casualties this round: Gremlins: McTavish Neverborn: Tooth We both score for Turf War Points: 3-3 Turn 5: We flip for initiative and he wins again. I had the luck to draw a red joker two very low cards and 3 average. He softens up my war wabbit with aeslin pulling it towards them while dropping scheme markers. 2 are now on the centre line. My turn. I immediatley recognize that if I can eat 1 scheme marker from the centre line and let my master die, he cannot win anymore. Worst case he pulls away my old major and I still got 1 scheme marker for protect territory. We didn`t know how the ruling was, so I didnt activate ulix to prod and proper care for a suicidal action. In fact this was a possible option, because nothing states the opposite (had it cleared out in the forum later on). So in this case I waste a whole activation of my master and charge my own master with the last piglet alive. I cheat his defense down and dont use the trigger and my own piglet finishes off its own master...unable to charge thorn which is behind a pillar, I must take the charge action, ut with major still alive the pig cannot charge own pigs and so he charges into the lovely couple that shared spears all the time. The doppelganger and Claw. Without damage but binding 2 models with one piglet I am pretty happy about this outcome, although I was not able to eat the scheme marker in the middle. His Doppelganger hits with her fists, because she is unable to do anything else. My Warpig kills of thorn and manages to walk in the middle to eat a scheme marker. By then he suspects me to have “take prisoner” and has one chance to do something against this. He tries to walk away from the piglet and succeeds and I put down my red joker to deny it...he doesn't even try again, because he could only walk and not get the cast down at this point. Score: Neverborn: A Line in the Sand (revealed): 0 Deliver a message (revealed): 0 Turf War: 4 Gremlins: Protect territory: 1 (I was stupid...i thought the markers must be WITHIN 6' of the deployment zone...) Take Prisoner: 2 Turf War: 4 This brings us to a total of 4-7 for the porcine Horde, with a great sacrifice of Ulix. All in all we had a blast playing this game and it was much fun! The last games I had the feeling that it nearly always comes down to “kill the enemy crew and you win” but this time I didn't have that feeling. Of course it is nice to deny your opponent options by killing models, but it is not the only way to do so. That is what I liked most after this match and what keeps my hopes up that malifaux isn't just killing off the opponent. We had a great time and I hope you enjoyed reading this battle report. See you in the Bayou!

As it happens, my beloved Rezzers lost the scuffle against Guild and that has lead me here. To play Guild for 2 months and report on my games and thoughts. I got to choose a master freely that I wouldn't yet have from the Guild faction as per by the rules of the scuffle by me and Dirial and I chose Lucius. Now the situation at the moment is that I am awaiting for the rest of my crew and bases to arrive so I can start painting and playing with the bureaucratic machine that is Lucius. So here we go. First step towards wearing the Badge: That's it for now.