Welcome to the 1st post! I thought that I would
start with a battle report for Malifaux – this involves a play test of the Yan
Low crew for Malifaux who are currently being play tested for balance and a “fun”
play experience.
Yan Low (Ten
Thunders) vs Seamus (Resurrectionists) – 4/10. 22nd October 2013
Turf War – Standard Deplyment
Scheme Pool - Line in the Sand, Bodyguard, Kill Protégé, Make
Them Suffer and Defend Territory
Ten Thunders
Yan Low + Path of Bones + Path of Ash + Path of Spirit
Izamu + Spiritual Fortitude
Toshiro the Daimyo + Command the Graves
Yin + Eternal Terror
Ashigaru
Ashigaru
Schemes - Make Them Suffer and Defend Territory
Resurrectionists
Seamus + bag o’ tools + red chapel killer + Mad Haberdasher
Mortimer + my favourite shovel
Rotten Bell
Rotten Bell
Punk Zombie
Flesh Construct
Bete Noir
Scheme Pool - Bodyguard, (Mortimer) and Make Them Suffer
Game Report
Turn 1
Ten Thunders crew moved forward to the centre of the table
but stayed in cover. Toshiro used “Teki o
Juden!” To push the Ashigaru forward but was blocked by terrain. Mortimer
placed a corpse counts and used “Fresh
Meat” to push the crew forward. Seamus turned the corpse counter into a new
bell and moved up under cover. The Bells then lured Toshiro into the middle of
the Resseraction minion’s crew and the Flesh Construct and Punk Zombie reduced
him to 3 wounds and kindly gave him the poison 2 condition – generous chaps
that they are.
Turn 2
The Resurrectionists burnt a stone to win initiative, imidatlly
activate the Punk Zombie to finish the job started last turn with Toshiro. Toshiro
who was out of range of Yan Low so he couldn’t be recycled. The Ten Thunders
moved forward and secured the centre of the table with Ashigaru using “brace” and Yin holding the middle. Seamus
used a focused hand cannon shot to reduce an Ashigaru to 1 wound who was then
lured away and killed by a Rotten Bell. Mortimer used Fresh Meat again to have
the minions surround the final Ashigaru. Izamu decided that was the right time
to involve himself and attacked Bete Noir who used “One with the Night” to avoid her death. Yan low remembered to use his
0 action to gain a point of Chi this turn and attached the second Rotten Bell
but was unable to kill her (missing once and doing 2 damage). Finally the Flesh
Construct reduced the wounds on the remaining Ashigaru is left with 2 wounds.
Both Ten Thunders and Resurrectionists score 1VP for Turf
War
Turn 3
Resurrectionists win initiative and activate a Rotten Bell
attacks and kills the Ashigaru. Bete Noir is placed near Izamu who activates,
reduces her to 0 wounds and she “One with
the Night” again. Yan Low uses “Ascendance”
to attach Spirit Ascendant. He then attacks one of Rotten Bells with Spirit
Barrage and kills her. Seamus, Punk Zombie, Flesh Construct and a Rotten Bell
all attack Yin and kill her. Bete Noir is placed back into play after Yin’s
death and Yin’s upgrade is attached to Yan Low. Mortimer walks twice to move
out of the Resurrectionists deployment area to.
Both Ten Thunders and Resurrectionists score 1VP for Turf
War.
Both Ten Thunders and Resurrectionists score 1VP for Make
Them Suffer.
Turn 4
Izamu once again activated, killed Bete and she used “One with the Nigh” to avoid death yet again
(one trick pony!). Seamus charges Yan Low and summons a Rotten Bell from the
only corpse counter within 6” of Yan Low. Seamus hits Yan Low 3 times with Bag
of Tools doing 3 wounds. Yan Low returns the favour and causes 3 wounds to
Seamus after damage prevention. A Rotten Bell then “Lures” Izamu so that Seamus
heals 2 wounds due to the failed WP duel. The rest of the Resurrectionists crew
attack Izamu (3 Rotten Bells, Punk Zombie and Flesh Construct) leaving Izamu
with 3 wounds and slow for the next turn. Izamu in kind hands out 4 repost
strikes in the hope that the hoards of zombies will just leave him alone (can’t
a magical suit of armour just get some alone time!).
Both Ten Thunders and Resurrectionists score 1VP for Turf
War.
Resurrectionists score 2VP for Make Them Suffer and
Bodyguard
Turn 5
The Punk Zombie finally kills Izamu, Bete Noir is placed
again. Yan Low moves and re-summons Yin and then attacks Seamus with Brutal
Khakkhara doing sever followed by red joker for damage. Seamus is left on 1
wound. The rest of the crew focus all attacks on Yin and kill her again.
Resurrectionists score 4VP for Turf War, Make Them Suffer
and Bodyguard
Thoughts on the
models
As an overview of the Yan Low crew it has some specialised
models and a lot of staying power. If Toshiro has survived for longer and been
adding positive flips to attacks for the crew they would have been formidable.
Model to model comments I would say the following:
Yan Low + Path of Bones + Path of Ash + Path
of Spirit: Yan Low was a tough cookie once he gets his upgrades going. Like
a lot of the Resurrectionists masters he is tought to put down and this is a
nice addition to the Ten Thunders faction. The new mechanics for re-summoning
ancestors is much better and prevents from an infinite supply of them. However
he did fell as if that is all he did. Most of the other masters can do these
things and then something else. I think if he had slightly better attack value
he would be great as a ranged attach master – maybe a bump on his damage
profile for spirit barrage. As a rules point of view one thing that I would
like clarified is the “Ascend” upgrades – is the limit of the 3 upgrades on a
master still in effect therefore meaning that if you start with all 3 upgrades
that you cannot then Ascend and add another.
Izamu + Spiritual Fortitude – Strong “tar pit” model that
can really hold his ground. Mostly worked really well – the only thing that I
would perhapse add would be a 6MI but I think that he would need to cost 1 more
SS for this (which I would happily pay). Would have been a great combination
with Toshiro.
Toshiro the Daimyo + Command the Graves – didn’t see a lot
of the model tbh but he looked fine – he actually survived quite a few attacks
coming in on him. Should be used as a support model and kept to the back of
fights. Both players agreed that they missed his limited summoning from 1.5.
Yin + Eternal Terror – frustratingly difficult to hit and
damage, with a terror test, neg flips on both attack and damage as well as 8
wounds Yin was very challenging to put down – would be strong if used with the
Grave Spirit. Might be worth changing to just negative flip on attacks.
Ashigaru – great model felt very well balanced for the
points. No changes needed.
