Elemental my Dear Arun – Round 1 – Raid the Vaults
So here it is! My first tournament game of Malifaux. I was matched up against Cadmus Breakfast, a name I’ve seen around the discords for a little while, playing Arcanists. As mentioned, I’m playing Bayou. The strategy was Raid the Vaults (one I’ve played in person, hooray!) on flank deployment and the scheme pool was: Let them Bleed, Take Prisoner, Protected Territory, Ensnare, Information Overload. My pre-game thought process was as follows. I wanted to play Ophelia. She’s my favourite master and if there’s any strategy she can perform on it is Raid the Vaults. She’s probably the sturdiest crew in Bayou and this map is relatively open, lots of good sightlines for the guns. Playing around with Ophelia in advance I found I preferred the title version (Overloaded) to the standard. Ophelia1 is extremely good at putting out a lot of damage in a small area, but the totems become a bit of a liability threatening to give up activation control without much in return. In Ophelia2...