Saturday morning and a good time to reflect on a some of the
games of the previous week.
Now being the master of preparation that I am. I was all set
for my two games on Thursday night to keep a good track of what happened,
models, strategy schemes etc. So brought the camera notebook etc everything but
a pen. Classic. So for this Week you shall have to make do with what I can
remember from the games.
First Game Guild (me) vs Arcanist (Johnny Nicholls)
At Arkham
We went for a 30 ss game.
So I went for;
Perdita (Master)
Francisco Ortega, Santiag Ortega, Papa Loco, Death Marshal,
Judge. And left me with 3 Soulstones.
The Arcanists
Collette Du Bois (Master)
2 Coryphee, Cassandra, 3 doves and a lot of soulstones.
Strategies I got Slaughter, Johnny flipped Turf War. I
decared both my schemes of Bodyguard (Perdita) and Grudge (Cassandra). Johnny
undecalred was perfect performance and bodyguard.
The game really was a game of two half after initial
manuevering around the centre of the table the arcanist where looking likely
for the game. The Papa Loco had been obeyed early in the game and made straight
for Collette only for Dissapearing act shenannigans to insue, everytime he got
close he was buried and placed the full 6 inches away. The downside to this was
it taking up one of Collettes actions each turn to keep the mad bomber at bay.
I had played the Judge and Marshal to one side of my deployment area to harass
any possible flanking moves or to counter any undeclared schemes that johnny
may or may not of had. This backfired with both models dying early.However the
attack to finish them off left the coryphee and cassandra exposed to the Ortega
who closed the distance on them. Using ober to move Santiago into range. Hoping
to repeat the success of the previous turn the coryphee and Cassandra tried to
close the distance to Perdita trying to remove the threat, by the end of the
turn the 2 Coryphee and cassandralay dead to Ortega Gunfire. Santiago can be
devastating if models are left exposed to rapid fire. What followed was the
surrounding and final death of Collette over the next two turns.
Got two more games this week the second game on Thursday night
against Johnny He ran the same crew I switched out perdita for Lady Justice and
a Scales of justice instead of a Death Marshal. The game was far closer with Johnny
winning 6-4 on VP’s which was misleading as the game ended with the only two
models on the table being the Scales of Justice and Collette. The talking point
came in the last turn collette won initiative and attacked my judge in combat
and killed him. Looking at my hand I had a trigger card ready to cast Blades
and Bullets as my final action for the Judge’s slow to die ability. Collette
was on 5 wounds with only a single soulstone left. With the trigger card to
cast the spell and the red joker in my hand I thought I was in with a chance
and went to cast the spell and promptly flipped the Black Joker. Fate is
twisted.
Final game was against Andy at Lisburn Gaming club. Again 30
ss and I ran Perdita again this time against Rasputina. The game was a
refresher for Andy who has not played in a while but it did not show. My guns
proved useless against the amount of blocking terrain on the table and the ice
walls being carefully placed to maximise the protection to his crew. Had a
chance to assasinate Rasputina on turn three with the combined firepower of
three Ortegas including Perdita but a lot of weak damage flips and soulstones
being burned to prevent damage saw rasputina walk away. The game ended with me
tabled and Andy having a 4-0 victory. The game was highly enjoyable. The tactics used against me were sound and effective leading me to think of doing a piece on the some of the strange tactics employed by the various masters. Hence the reason I am not going into greater detail here.
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