Master and Faction locked in, Samuel our Henchman organized a 50 soulstone tournament for us at Card Geeks. Designed to help the newer players who had smaller hiring pools, the locked Master and Faction leveled the playing field. With a showing of 12 players, this is the best turnout yet and we are really pumped that the group is growing steadily. The following are pictures and my account of how the games went from my angle.
I locked in Leveticus (Outcasts) but I am allowed to tweak my crew from game to game. To be fair, 80% of my Crew remained constant.
1st Game - Patrick playing Jack Daw of Outcasts
For this game I brought the following crew:
- Leveticus + Desolate Soul
- Rusty Alyce + Desolate Soul
- 2 Waifs
- Friekorps Sapper
- Friekorps Librarian
- Ashes & Dust
- Johan
Strategy: Extraction
Schemes:
- Claim Jump
- Accusation
- Leave Your Mark (selected)
- Search the Ruins (selected)
- Mark for Death
Arriving at Malifaux Central, the Outcasts take the field |
Defeng plays off against Eugene |
Turn 2 |
Turn 3 |
Game 2 - Sam Kan and Shenlong of Ten Thunders
For this game I switched out my crew to include Hans and a Winged Plague.
Again, my Crew was fairly similar to the previous one except I wanted to try something a little different.
Strategy: Interference
Schemes:
- Claim Jump
- Accusation (selected)
- Frame for Murder
- Set Up
- A Quick Murder (selected)
Turn 1 |
Did I also mention he has a really beautiful Crew painted up.
Turn 1 |
Turn 2 |
Turn 3 |
End game - 7-0 win to me. |
Looks like the Outcasts were out enmasse!
I took the following:
Schemes:
- Claim Jump
- Dig Their Graves
- Leave Your Mark
- Hidden Trap
- Tail Em
This game was rather interesting as we had a lot of elevation due to the new terrain that Eugene got in time for the tournament. They are also very beautiful out of the box! Having split the board into 2, the guys actually mentioned that I could deploy from the side of the table rather than opposite of XY. Since I had a fair few shooters, I took the change.
Split the force into two groups since Tara and her Void crew would be able to just dance around the walls, allowing me to redeploy Levi where he was needed. Much to my chagrin however, I came to realise that he can be attacked while he is Buried, allowing XY to take between 5-7 buried strikes at me, ensuring that Levi will die! This forced me to play totally differently. I ended up placing him on the wall, giving me good LOS to majority of the board.
With Channel and Desolate Soul, I was able to snipe off a few of his Void Wretches giving me Abominations in return. However that turned out to be pretty lousy as it gave him Scheme Points from Dig Their Graves.
However, since I could not Bury this entire game (or risk being eaten to death by his multitude of buried units), I played Levi quite defensive. Alyce and the Sapper both supported my CA and between both, I managed to weaken majority of his smaller Wretches to low enough wounds before capping them off with Ashes & Dust. Props also go to XY for taking over my Ashes forcing it to attack Johan. Thankfully though, Johan managed to survive the attack and kept me in the game.
Once I got control back, I managed to send my Winged Plague to go score Leave Your Mark. I was rather surprised that XY didn't send his Wretch to take care of my Winged Plague on the flank. However, I did hold back by letting Alyce go last. If XY sent a Wretch up the flank, I would make short work if it.
By the time the day finished, most of us were tired but content. These were the results:
First place - Eugene Ng
Second place - Keith Maki Lee
Third place - Patrick Poh
Painting raffle - Defu
Lucky draws - Austin Leong, Foo XiangYing
Next up will be another Henchman Hardcore in August organised by Table & Dice!
Turn 1 |
With Channel and Desolate Soul, I was able to snipe off a few of his Void Wretches giving me Abominations in return. However that turned out to be pretty lousy as it gave him Scheme Points from Dig Their Graves.
Turn 2 |
Turn 3 |
End game - 6-2, victory to me |
First place - Eugene Ng
Second place - Keith Maki Lee
Third place - Patrick Poh
Painting raffle - Defu
Lucky draws - Austin Leong, Foo XiangYing
Next up will be another Henchman Hardcore in August organised by Table & Dice!