Let me say that the Austringers look amazing. I love their poses, the coats, the lean faces with the native American feel to them. I even love the fact that one is heavier-set than the other. I do not however love attaching the leather straps onto them. Or the satchel. Or the knife that doesn't exist on the instructions. And I especially do not love attaching the legs to the birds, and then trying to pose the birds on their arms. One of mine looks like the bird is very drunk as it tumbles off his arm. Or it's about to pass out from laughing at another Hand that hasn't got a Mask in it....
The Guild Sergeants are nice too. Not as nice as the Austringers, and one does seem to be quite a bit shorter than the other, but as we know in Scotland, 'wee man' syndrome can go far (at the very least a movie alongside the acting heavyweight that is John Hannah). It however does not go as far as to get you included in this week's Wednesday night game against Molly.
This time I was prepared for the summoning malarkey that I knew BJ would be taking against me, and whilst the thought of 10+ feet of steel and harpoon launching would be fun, I had a suspicion that this time he'd be prepared (at least as prepared as Skar was, so the possibility of a Wildebeest herd). So I decided to try a different tack. So, in homage to Kristanna Loken's 'outstanding' performance in Terminator 3 (the first and last time that statement will ever be made), I donned my leather jacket, inflated my chest to DD and dusted off the Perdita crew...
We were playing Headhunter on a Standard deployment, and I'd chosen Hunting Party and Undercover Entourage on 'Dita herself. I'd taken Perdita with Aura Ancestral and Trick Shooting, Francisco with Wade In and Hermanas de Armas, the Enslaved Nephelim (I think he loves Perdita really), Santana, Papa Loco, Miss Terious (Death Marshall) and 2 Austringers. I think I cheated and miscounted, as I had 2 extra stones in the cache; I think I had forgotten to pay for Francisco's upgrades... However I had 2 stones left at the end so that's ok, right???? Plus, the Guild controls the soulstone trade, so what's a few extra stones between mates? So, with wide-brimmed hats on head and a few more crop tops than Francisco is used to seeing in the family we were ready to rumble.
Once we'd battered the chirpy Geordie twosome, the game started with an over-eager Belle making a bit of a move on Francisco and getting blown (hur hur hur) away by Perdita. Rule 101 of (undead) prostitution-the client comes to you or bad shit happens. This set the tone of the game and there were 14 (maybe more) casualties for Molly's crew. We ran out of head markers, we ran out of corpse markers, hell we eve ran out of scheme markers and that was with me generously leaving the job unfinished with Miss Terious. Francisco met his end to Black Blood after I forgot to Soulstone for damage prevention (but if I had then I'd have used one of my 'illegal' soulstones and that WOULD have been cheating) and Miss Terious got unlucky and was plugged by a Guild Autopsy who flipped a 12 and 13 on a -dmg flip, but other than that it was a great success. The Nephelim was the sneaky star of the show, dragging both Austringers out of combat after Molly had summoned the Necrotic Machine into the both, Influencing Papa Loco to lob dynamite that killed Sybelle and a Belle, and giving 'Dita a cheeky prod in the tush to put her into range to shoot Molly, giving BJ a serious scare. 'Dita did carelessly get herself slowed, which nearly lost me the game as I needed to cross the centre line to score with her (most girls prefer flowers or dinner...) but I was able to gather enough points to win 7-6 after I parked Santana and Perdita onto BJ's Cinvict Labour line for irritating VP denial. All in all, a great game and a damn good reminder that killing 14 models means sod-all in Malifaux if you don't score from both schemes.
I would really like to pick up my own Perdita model. Ben has done a fantastic job on the one I have, but I'd like to paint her myself, mainly with the jacket in red like my Lucius (and convienently like Ms Loken in T3). I'd also like to convert her to be bare (not bear) headed, maybe with the hat on her back.
Hopefully the next entry will have a finished lawyer and some pictures of the new models. I got £45 of GW vouchers from my work placement as a leaving gift, so I got a load of new paints including more black spray, so I can crack on with the painting side of things.
Until next time, remember to play to the schemes.
looks like 'Dita, right....?
