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Parker vs. Zipp [48ss] - "The Ballad of Beauregard Buckets"


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Battle Report - Outcasts (The Barrows Gang) versus Gremlins (The Sky Pirates)
Standard Encounter
Strategy:
Turf War
Schemes: Assassinate, Bodyguard
Deployment: Corner
Pool:  48 Soulstones

The Barrows Gang
Cache:  
4ss
* Parker Barrows
- Coordinated Heist [2ss]
* Mad Dog Brackett [9ss] (Bodyguard)
* Doc Mitchell [3ss]
* Sue [8ss]
* Johan [6ss]
* Big Jake [5ss]
* "Fan the Hammer Fillion" (Bandido) [5ss]
* "Scarface Sally" Torres (Bandido) [5ss]
* "Bushwhacker Bonnie" Clyde (Bandido) [5ss]

 

 

The Sky Pirates
Cache: 7ss
* Zipp
- The Gift of Gab [1ss]
- Hovering Airship [1ss]
- Rambling Diatribe [1ss]
* The First Mate [9ss] (Bodyguard)
- Where the Captain Can't See [1ss]
* Earl Burns [3ss]
* Iron Skeeter 1[6ss]
-  Poorly Handed Explosives [0ss]
* Iron Skeeter 2 [6ss]
- Treasure Map [0ss]
* Iron Skeeter 3 [6ss]
- Airship Spotlight [0ss]
* Stumpy (Bayou Gremlin) [3ss]
* El Kabong (Bayou Gremlin) [3ss]
* Beauregard Buckets (Slop Hauler) [5ss]

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Lured by promise of treasure, two crews of roguish ruffians drew down in the North Hills outside Malifaux City. At stake, a small graveyard, long abandoned  and haunted by a solemn statue at its heart - and buried in one of those graves? A small fortune of soulstones hidden awayin the time of the First Breach.

Someone cue the dramatic music on the Aethervox....


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At home in the North Hills, the Barrows Gang moved to claim the cemetery for themselves, seizing the Initiative and Scouting the Field to take up advanced positions in the wooded rubble surrounding the small burial ground. The wandering balladeer named Sue moved forward, hat  tipped low....

MEANWHILE ABOARD THE AIRSHIP INFAMY!

Captain Zipp and his crew came in for a landing, not yet aware they were not alone. Rocketing downward to the cemetery, he was caught in an ambush by 'Bushwhacker Bonnie" Clyde, the ruthless robber diving out of concealment in the woods and taking a practiced shot at the green menace before diving back into cover; as one of the Iron Skeeters flew in to support their Captain, "Scarface Sally" Torres joined her sister-in-arms, rolling out of the treeline and pausing only to fire a skillful shot at Zipp. As another Skeeter swooped down from the sky, "Fan the Hammer" Fillion focused and fired on it, and Parker Barrows decided enough was enough - twirling his Colliers he unleashed a hail of bullets into the air to cover his people  from any attacks by these sky pirates. The rest of the two now-warring gangs pushed forward, the First Mate leaping and scurrying to croak menacingly but fruitlessly at the lurking bandits and the far-less-mobile gremlins and outcasts loping forward at a slower pace.

The small graveyard soon became a warzone. Zipp seized Bonnie and rocketed her up into the sky, throwing her out of the cemetery's walls to land with a vicious thud, then opened fire wildly to no avail; Sue took aim and fired a telling shot that wounded the Sky Pirate captain and made him realize that he may have let his ego overwhelm his common sense - but by then he was hemmed in. Parker Barrows grinned and took aim at the scrap between Zipp, Bonnie, and one of the three Skeeters, Bonnie ducking as her boss's bullets struck home , before quickly sliding out of the knot of opponents at the graveyards' center. Parker fired again, only grazing one of the Skeeters but severing a satchel strap and causing a very dangerous bit of payload to fall to the ground... right in time for Parker to improvise as only he could and take aim at the crate of explosives... a loud, thunderous explosion rocked the cemetery,  wounding Zipp yet again but causing two of his Skeeters to go up in explosions of fire and scrap. The Bandidos and the Bayou Gremlins traded volleys and increasingly-serious injuries and the First Mate dove in to duel with both Johan and Big Jake; the surviving Skeeter dueled in close-quarters with Mad Dog Brackett on the outskirts; Sue focused and fired at Zipp but the canny Captain evaded and rocketed away to seek the solace of slung slop.

Healed and rallying, Zipp seized the initiative and flew back into battle, commanding the crew to Drop the Pianos in a  bombastic barrage  - but lacking pianos, they instead hurled a great chest of scrip overboard to the Captain's horror - and soon to Parker's as the heavy payroll chest crashed crushingly down upon him with the force of furious, bloody-red Fate. Groaning and taking only small solace in the fistful of scrip he shoved into his pockets as he rose to pursue, Parker brought another dropped charge of dynamite to a ballistic climax  - but this time for naught. The First Mate was severely struck by Johan's hammer and soon leapt away to safety . Drunk and despondent, Doc Mitchell pulled a flintlock to shoot at the fleeing, nearly-dead Zipp.. but Parker gunned the old man down for his temerity. With Mad Dog still struggling, Johan charged forward and sunders the last Skeeter with a severe strike of his hammer, the machine falling to earth and erupting, leaving both the Barrows Gang members smoldering as they walked away with no care for the explosion behind them. Unfortunately for Zipp, he finds out the Man has Come Around, and Sue cuts him down. Earl lashes out at Parker and bashes at the outlawbrusingly with his wrench before being gunned down for his trouble, and soon the stump-legged sharpshooter loses a duel to a badly-battered Bonnie Clyde and the First Mate becomes material for a new pair of boots at the buckshot of Mad Dog's shotgun. Scarface Sally shoots down the banjo-bashing lunatic El Kabong, and as the smoke clears it leaves only one green soul left standing. Some are born to greatness, some achieve greatness...and some have greatness forced upon them.... some, such as the humble slop-hauler Beauregard Buckets.

As the Bandits drew in, Buckets steeled his resolve in the face of a battle already plainly lost. The bandits shot at him, hemmed in his escape and threw dynamite at his feet with the demand to put his hands in the air! Facing the end, Beauregard Buckets did the only thing he could as the charges exploded athis feet and he deftly dodged death: He hurled scalding, noxious slop at his tormenters' leader... and the heat and fumes and filth laid low not only the battered Parker Barrows but Bonnie Clyde behind him. Cursing as their Boss fell to flung foulness, the Bandits opened fire with all they had - but Fate favored Beauregard Buckets - the Gremlin Who Survived.

He may have lost the battle, and his new employer, and a pound or two of flesh besides... but he had a story to tell, and though swift use of Stones would save Parker Barrows and Bonnie Clyde, neither they nor any of the other Barrows Gang would ever forget that day , the day the Boss was bested by Beauregard Buckets!

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Scorecard!
Turn 1 : Outcasts 0 - Gremlins 0
Turn 2: Outcasts 1 - Gremlins 1 (+1 Strategy / +1 Strategy)
Turn 3 : Outcasts 2 - Gremlins 2 (+1 Strategy / +1 Strategy)
Turn 4: Outcasts 7 - Gremlins 3 (+1 Strategy, +3 Assassinate, +1 Bodyguard  / +1 Bodyguard)
Turn 5: Outcasts 10 - Gremlins 3 (+1Strategy, +2 Bodyguard / +0)
Turn 6: Outcasts 10 - Gremlins 5 (+0 / +2 Assassinate)

 

Final Score:

OUTCASTS:  10

GREMLINS: 5

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