I've managed to paint the Month 1 purchases, which was slightly past the deadline, but due to college hand-ins was a necessity.
I'm relatively happy with how the crew turned out, although I may need to revisit Colette and a Performer to pick out their eyes if possible. The only model that it is unpainted is Miss Step, but she didn't turn up until last week, so it will take a bit longer.
So to the pics:
The finished crew.
Colette
Cassandra
Performer 1
Performer 2
Mannequin 1
Mannequin 2
Corphyee Duet
Corphyee Duet (Dance Together)
Mechanical Doves
Overall I'm happy with how they look, I'm looking forward to seeing them on the battlefield. They have had plenty of outings so far, with mixed success.
I used them in all of the games at our first tournament, in Game 1 I played Kit (Hamelin) which was a closely fought draw, 5-5. I faced Hamelin and Ashes & Dust for the first time which seemed to be a bit of a nuisance, we both got suckered into killing the frame for murder targets, Angelica and Nix, killing them off quickly for maximum VP's. The game feel pretty evenly matched, it would have been a good one to fight further to see how it would end, but due to time it finished in turn 3.
Game 2 was against Michael (Lilith), which I lost. I had rather foolishly taken Covert Breakthrough as a scheme, which I should have thought about, as being a tournament with timed rounds it was going to be tight to get the models into the opposing deployment zone. I only managed 1 VP from this scheme, causing the loss. I felt with another turn I may have snuck it, but alas. The one cool moment was Colette using Now You See Me, on an enemy scheme marker jumping out of range of a charging Lilith, then using Disappearing Act on herself to jump into a Mechanical Dove which had flown into their deployment zone, moving over 20" in total her turn.
I had a bye in round 3 so had to wait it out, which allowed me to do a spot of photography and watch the other games. Whilst pondering my choice of crew. I had used the same models for the first two games, and although I was tempted to switch it up and take another master against Martin, the likes of Kaeris or Ironsides, (still haven't tried Marcus) I decided to keep going with Colette.
Game 4 was a really closely fought game, and my chance to avoid the wooden spoon, I was playing Martin, and it was looking good for me throughout the game, I was ahead on VP's, Models and it seemed that fate was on my side as i had some great hands, and had done a good job in neutralising Martins Crew (Lucius). I score maximum points early on for Public Demonstration, was scoring a lot for Stake a Claim, and maxed out for Catch and Release. Things were looking rosey until the Doppleganger mimicked the Corphyee Duet's attack and then flipped Red Joker on them for damage killing them off on the final turn, forcing me into using Colette to hold one of the claim markers and moving her away from the last performer and scoring him maximum points for Take Prisoner, losing me the game by 1 VP, rooting me to the bottom of the leaderboard, winning Martin the tournament...grumble!
Its been a good month of gaming, and hopefully with more to follow. The Archaists have been great fun to play with so far, and I have perhaps been bitten by their bug, pledging my services to the M&SU by purchasing Ironsides, Kaeris and Rasputina, along with trading for Marcus, and picking up the Cult of December range to go with the Ice Witch herself.
I've used them all once (apart from Marcus) with mixed results, Kaeris had a great game against Lucius (Martin), Ironsides had a less than stellar showing against Von Schill (Sean) and to start June off with a bang, Rasputina gave Lynch a beating (Stewart).
Hoping to get started on painting of Month 2's purchases soon (Angelica and Silent Ones), with hopefully some pics to follow.
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