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.

The Joke Crew (part 6): The Fluff

''bons baisers d'Arkham Asylum (Malifaux)''

The Batman Arkham Asylum's crew in Malifaux A.K.A ''The Joke Crew''

A little bit of fluff:

''The Joke'' was Dr.McMourning's best friend when they were still both sutdying at an earthside university of medecine, both were good in their domains but they really excelled at being pranksters... One day a joke ended badly in the science department and ''The Joke'' was exposed to an experimental army gas...Hospitalized, he woke up disfigured and expelled by his university for breaching the code of behavior with his pranks and endangering himself while doing so.

''The Joke'' left to himself in the streets became a criminal, at first he got in a lot of trouble because of his physical appearance but the edge given by his madness made him an underworld boss with equally deranged people joining his cause.

...flash forward...

''The Joke'' judged too dangerous to be kept earthside was sent in the newly built Arkham Asylum on Malifaux where the most dangerous and insane criminals would be sent, far away from civilization.

Because of its confinement, nobody knew a few weeks later that the Asylum was raided by Neverborns; ''The Joke'' made it alive with some prisonners...Enough Prisonners for him to experiment on a little hilarious science project of his own.

Unbeknown to him, a Malifaux Vigilante was about to put an end to ''The Joke''s madness...

But until then, My joke crew will be on the gaming boards!!

The Joke Crew (part 5): Killjoy (as a Titan)

In the videogame, the Joker creates a serum that can transform people into monstrosities of muscle and rage...I needed some large beefy model to represent a titan...

Luckily I traded some warmachine for some Malifaux and got myself a Killjoy, and if Killjoy doesnt look like he's Mr.Bodybuilder 2011, he sure looks big and titanesque!

As an added bonus, he needs a model to be sacrificed to be brought into play, absolutly perfect with the theme of ''The Joke'' injecting a serum to a hapless clown and transforming him into a bloodthirsty abomination!!

Killjoy is one heck of a easy model to paint, I was lazy but still I'm satisfied with the end result...And the ''Fun Times'' tattoo adds a little humor to the beast.

On the field: like all the models (except Nurse and McMourning) I didn't try it yet, but it sure looks like its going to be a loooooot of fun to play!!

The Joke Crew (part 4): Miss Pack (Harley Queen)

One of my favorite thing out of 'Batman Arkham Asylum' was Harley Quinn (And I think its most boys favorite too!) So I needed to have an ''Harley Queen'' for ''The Joke''...

There was a nurse that would have been absolutly perfect...if it was'nt for a facial mask she was wearing, removing all the character from the mini, too bad, she had a perfect haircut.

Miss pack it was.

This Miss Pack technically should still be a WIP, I forgot to finish many many things...But for now it will do.

On the field: Nurses are the ultimate support models...And with the lethal drugs they use, their abilities fit nicely with the theme of The Joke Crew.

(''The Joke''s base and ''Harley Queen''s one go together to give a hint of my inspiration ;))

The Joke Crew (part 3): Samurai Punk Zombies

I needed basic ''clowns'', the one that would fight ''The Batguy'' with close combat weapons...Well, samurai punk zombies did the trick after a nice paintjob.

On the field: Didn't played with them yet, but I faced them while playing against José and they are more than resilient.

If they go low on life ''The Joke'' will transform them in a Titan.

Joke Crew (part2): Convict Gunslinger

The Convict Gunslinger is exactly what I was looking for: a good looking mini with guns that I could hire to bring some firepower to the crew...As it turns out, the mini fits perfectly and was a real blast to paint!

On the field: While I didn't try him yet (waiting for the rest of my crew's v2 cards to be back), he brings firepower to the resurrectionists, a rare thing.

''The Joke Crew''

from left to right:1st rank:canine remains x3
2nd rank:Convict Gunslinger and 2 zombie punks (as clowns)
Dr.McMourning (as ''The Joke'') and Miss Pack (as Harley Queen)
3rd rank: Killjoy (as a Titan)