March 27th ''Malifaux March Madness'' Tournament (game1)

March Malifaux Madness...The first 2v2 Malifaux Tournament at Gamers' Vault, and a success in my opinion :)

I'll post the full scenario in a next entry.

So I teamed up with my friend Ivan in a ''Arcanist-Outcast'' alliance to extract treasures and mysterious object from Malifaux graveyards...

Our list:

Me: Steamborg Executioner, Cassandra, Performer + Mannequin and as a master, Colette Dubois.

Ivan's list: Von Schill's Freikorps

Game 1:

Opponents: Josh and José playing Leveticus and Nicoderm

If you've seen zombie apocalypse movies, then you can imagine how Ivan and I felt when a couple of activations in the game the board turned into a sea of zombies...

An insane game that started as bloodbath and was one until the very end.

I lost everything but my master and a mannequin by the end of turn 2.

Here's 4 pics to try and represent as much as possible the onslaught of game 1.

Deployment: mysterious object in the middle, my arcanists in the top left corner, José rezzers on the bottom left, Josh's Leveticus in top right and Ivan's Von Schill Crew in the bottom right.

Finally I got to play with the beautiful graveyard terrain (I usually always forget about it).

Turn 1: Cassandra gets to the relic and gets it, Steamborg Executioner follows to provide support.
Nicoderm's vulture explodes revealing Killjoy...Things got nasty and at the end of Killjoy's activation, the Steamborg was but a wreck of scrap and corpse counters.
Cassandra lived to score 1vp for the Arcane Team!

In an attempt to avenge the loss of her Steamborg, Colette made the monstrous Neverborn disappear, a poor Zombie Samurai Punk that was too close to the treasure for its own good will suffer the same fate...Both opening their eyes at the end of turn 2 to realize they're not on the battlefield anymore, or at least, not where it matters.

(for those who know Killjoy, notice how he's going to start killing the unsuspecting hollow waif ;))

Von Schill, proving he's worth the gold he's paid, jumps out of a nasty melee to get to the treasure before Mortimer...All that in a pure Indiana Jones style!

Sadly for the Arcanist Team, Von Schill will suffer a rain of attacks from everything the resurrectionists can send at him...And finally its Leveticus himself that will move in for the kill in a desperate attempt to save the day for the zombie team.

And he did!!!
With a final score of 1vp to 1vp, my army fully wiped and tons of models dead, the Resurrectionists wins with the tiebreakers one of the bloodiest game of Malifaux I've seen (and one of the coolest, Colette Dubois was absolutly amazing, being able to deal with killjoy and killing zombies after zombies, a one-girl army!!)

Thanks to Josh, José and Ivan for this great 1st game of the tournament.