Leagues are fun and a little stressful; every two weeks, you’re randomly matched with someone, and between the two of you, you set a time and a place and play a game. The theme this time is “new crew”, to encourage people to get out of their comfort zones.
I only have two crews at the moment; my usual Mei Feng, who I played last year, and my new crew, Rasputina’s December. She isn’t super new; I’ve been playing her since February, and I played her at CaptainCon. But, I only have the two crews, and Raspy is the newest, so there’s that.
I’ve been prepping some more December models, but I went this time with the crew I fielded the last time I played, where I crushed my BF Kasul. Why change a good thing? The team was — Rasputina as master, Wendigo as her totem, Bashe and Sightless Snow/Ceddra as enforcers, Blessed of December as hench(wo)man, December Acolyte and Silent One as minions, and Soulstone Miner as the model that mines soulstones for me to spend $$$.
December Acolyte and Soulstone Miner can move very far away very quickly, and Blessed of December and Ceddra have decent mobility on their own, and Bashe can chain through markers, and Silent One, Raspy and Sightless Snow can cast through ice pillars. Silent One, Raspy, Sightless Snow and Wendigo work together to flood the opposing side with ice pillars while the fast movers get in position for area control and the enforcers stake their claim on the center of the board. This is usually pretty effective, and it was tonight.
Strategy: Stuff the Ballots
In this strategy, we are vying for control of the city of Malifaux, and we want our side to win. Vote early, vote often. Raspy is uniquely good at this, as those models that share her Ice Mirror ability can interact through ice pillars. I scored the maximum of four points on this strategy; Levi scored twice.
Schemes: Let Them Bleed and Protected Territory
Both me and my opponent, who was playing Leviticus (keyword: AMALGAM) chose the same schemes from the scheme pool. “Let Them Bleed” triggers when you get two high value, non-master models on the opponent’s side below half health. My opponent got this, I did not.
“Protected Territory” fires first when you have two scheme markers entirely on the enemy side of the board and a certain distance apart, and second at end of game if you have two scheme markers and friendly models within three inches of them. I made both those points.
Game ended after a full five rounds, about three hours with significant chatting and going over the game with someone who’d come by to watch, though her crew wasn’t ready to play yet.
Tomorrow, Kasul has his team up with his new crew, and it’s a pretty deadly one with a lot of stuff going on.
I’ll leave you with my December crew’s theme song, “Dezember kommt (December is Coming)”. It’s in German because it sounds cooler in German.
