Reply To: Hobby Wekkender 08/06/18 #3 Hit me with your Best Shot!

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Malifaux Mini Bat rep: Neverborn Vs Arcanists –  50 Soul Stones.

Matty chose to use the Neverborn for this game and chose a compact but powerful crew with some nice (or nasty from my side of the table) tricks. With only 50 Soul Stones to spend Matty opted to do without upgrades, figuring his choices had enough natural synergies together to give me a hard time.

From left to right

Baby Kade, Teddy, Lilith (His Master), Mature Nephilim, Barbaros and a Young Nephilim.

As for Myself I chose my go to Arcanist Crew led by Ramos, He is one of those paradoxical leaders who has a lot of powerful offensive abilities but extremely vulnerable. Fortunately Ramos isn’t a one trick pony and does have some great support abilities too, not least being able to create mechanical spiders.

As with Matthew, I thought it more prudent to rely on each of my characters natural synergies rather than spend valuable resources on upgrades. I also chose fewer powerful characters which gave me the numbers edge…. All I had to do was avoid combat.

My Crew from Left to right

Electric creation, Gunsmith (yeah he is Jesse James from WWX but I like the model and it was going to waste because Matty preferred the Alt JJ sculpt), Joss, Ramos, Howard Langston, Brass Arachnid and a Union Miner.

It turned out to be a very quick game. Matty won the initiative and made me start to set up first. I dcided to spread my Crew across a wide front so I could get to the Scheme markers on the flanks quickly, whilst Matty chose a more central deployment.

 

We edged cautiously towards each other, both aware of each others big guys and the damage they could do and how important it was going to be not to suffer early casualties with such small crews. The exeption was Lilith who used her long move to cross half the table and claim the scheme marker in the centre. Joss killed the Electric Creation, which dropped two scrap counters which allowed Ramos to create two Steam Arachnids

Fortunately for me Lilith had moved within the effective range of Howard Langston, his nimble move taking him into base contact and then killing her with flurry, I hadn’t expected that but a lucky flip of the red Joker (which causes severe + moderate damage) landed 11 points of damage and took her out of the game and nerfed the remaining Nephilim….

Matty answered by bringing Teddy and Baby Kade into play but made a mistake in pulling Howard Langston towards Baby Kade and had to save him with the Young Nephilim.

Meanwhile I concentrated on grabbing the objectives on the extreme flanks and used a steam Arachnid to grab a third. That left the objective the Mature Nephilim was sitting on (and I was going nowhere near that bugger) and the now vacant one in the centre (although it was still claimed by the Neverborn).

Barbaros charged Ramos and while he did damage him it was minimal. In turn Barbaros was dispatched by Joss. As the final turn drew to a close my remaining Steam Arachinid claimed the objective in the centre.

Archanists 5 vp’s – Neverborn 2 vp’s