18th - Yan Lo vs Kirai

My second battlereport is a rematch with Markus and Kirai. The Scheme Pool was an interesting one and the Strategy made it even more interesting. It was clear to me that the scoring the Strat was very difficult against Marcus and his Ressers with my Crew, but I always was close behind in Strat-Points.

But instead of spoiling now, just read through the report and make your own opinion. 😊

Deployment:     Flank

Strategy:           Collect the Bounty

Schemes:         Claim Jump

                            Eliminate the Leadership

                            Frame for Murder

                            Hidden Trap

                            Accusation!

Crews:

Ten Thunders (Frame for Murder (Goryo), Accusation!):

1. Yan Lo (Fortify the Spirit, Misdirection, Reliquary) 5 SS
2. Soul Porter
3. Izamu the Armor (Equality)
4. Yin the Penangalan (Smoke Grenades)
5. Chiaki the Niece
6. Komainu
7. Tengu
8. Goryo (Proxy: Onryo on green 50 mm Base)

Resurrectionists (Eliminate the Leadership, Claim Jump):

1. Kirai (Spirit Beacon, Swirling Aether, Absorb Spirit) 6 SS
2. Lost Love
3. Night Terror
4. Yin the Penangalan
5. Datsue Ba (Admiration, Spirit Whispers)
6. Genbu the Tortoise/Izamu the Armor (Wronged Spirits)
7. Philip and the Nanny (Haunting Cries)

Deployment:

I won the deployment flip and decided to deploy second.

  

Turn 1:

I lost the Initiative flip and had to go first.

• 1^st Activation (TT): The Soul Porter pushed Yin and Izamu.
• 1^st Activation (RE): The Night Terror walked once and activated his aura.
• 2^nd Activation (TT): The Goryo summoned a Seishin and took a walk Action.
• 2^nd Activation (RE): Yin dropped a Scheme Marker and walked.
• 3^rd Activation (TT): The Seishin activated and walked a bit.
• 3^rd Activation (RE): The Lost Love walked twice.
• 4^th Activation (TT):  Tengu took 2 Walk Actions.
• 4^th Activation (RE): Philip and the Nanny discarded the Scheme Marker and placed another one.
• 5^th Activation (TT): Komainu walked two times.
• 5^th Activation (RE): Kirai summoned a Seishin, after that a Shikome on the new Seishin and discarded a card to heal the Shikome for two damage. Last AP of Kirai was used to summon a second Night Terror on the first one.
• 6^th Activation (TT): Chiaki walked twice.
• 6^th Activation (RE): Shikome walked once.
• 7^th Activation (TT): Izamu walked two times.
• 7^th Activation (RE): Second Night Terror walked.
• 8^th Activation (TT): Yan Lo killed my Seishin, walked and attacked the Lost Love for 2 damage (forgot about Ikiryo), Markus discarded one card and summoned Ikiryo in base contact with Yan Lo. Yan Lo used his (0) to gain Spirit Ascendant.
• 8^th Activation (RE): Ikiryo attacked Yan Lo for 2 damage and sacrificed herself.
• 9^th Activation (TT): Yin double walked and used her (0) Action on the Lost Love but missed him.
• 9^th and 10^th Activation (RE): Izamu dropped a Scheme Marker and walked. Datsue Ba tried to summon a Seishin but failed and after that walked twice.

Turn 2:

Markus won the Initiative and started this turn.

• 1^st Activation (RE): Lost Love walked into safety.
• 1^st Activation (TT): Soul Porter pushed Yan Lo and Izamu.
• 2^nd Activation (RE): Night Terror walked and put up his aura again.
• 2^nd Activation (TT): Tengu walked once and put down a Scheme Marker.
• 3^rd Activation (RE): Philip and the Nanny discarded two Scheme Marker to draw Cards.
• 3^rd Activation (TT): Goryo summoned a Seishin and walked towards the middle of the battlefield.
• 4^th Activation (RE): Second Night Terror walked and activated the Aura.
• 4^th Activation (TT): Seishin walked behind the Goryo.
• 5^th Activation (RE): Yin double walked and used her (0) successfully on Yan Lo.
• 5^th Activation (TT): Izamu walked twice to engage Datsue Ba and the Shikome and hit the Shikome for 5 damage, but again forgot about Ikiryo and Markus summoned her next to Izamu.
• 6^th Activation (RE): Ikiryo killed Izamu with two hits and got hit back for 4 damage.
• 6^th Activation (TT): Yan Lo discarded a card for Chi, hit the Seishin with his – flip (nice cards by the way 11, 10 for hit /13, 13, 10 for damage), focused, casted on Ikiryo, which had one life left, and killed it with the Red Joker. He also used his (0) to ascend the Ash Ascendant.
• 7^th Activation (RE): Shikome placed and a Scheme Marker and didn’t use her second AP.
• 7^th Activation (TT): Chiaki walked and removed the – flip-Condition on Yan Lo.
• 8^th Activation (RE): Kirai swirled Izamu and Shikome, summoned The Hanged on the Shikome and activated her Aura to give + flips to damage flips.
• 8^th Activation (TT): Yin walked, missed The Hanged with her (0) and an attack.
• 9^th Activation (RE): The Hanged missed Yan Lo with his Whispers from Beyond, because I used a Soulstone for a tome.
• 9^th Activation (TT): Komainu walked twice.
• 10^th Activation (RE): Datsue Ba used her (0) on Izamu to take a Walk Action, walked herself and attacked the Goryo for 5 damage, killing him for 3 VPs for me, because he was my Sucker, but also summoned a Gaki.
• 11^th Activation (RE): Izamu put down a Scheme Marker, walked once and used his Melee-Expert to hit the Komainu for 2 damage.
• 12^th Activation (RE): Gaki tried to attack Yan Lo but missed.

Strategy Points after this round: 3-2 for Markus so he got the VP. Markus also scored Claim Jump so it was 3-2 for me after this round.

Turn 3:

I won Initiative this time and activated my first model.

• 1^st Activation (TT): The Soul Porter activated and charged the Gaki for 3 damage and 2 Chi for Yan Lo.
• 1^st Activation (RE): The Gaki activated and hit Yan Lo for 2 damage.
• 2^nd Activation (TT): Yin casted her (0) against the Hanged but missed him, attacked the Hanged for 1 damage and Markus summoned Ikiryo, which Yin missed with her last attack.
• 2^nd Activation (RE): Ikiryo killed Yin with a flipped Red Joker and sacrificed herself.
• 3^rd Activation (TT): Komainu placed himself next to Izamu, accused Izamu and tried to attack the Night Terror but Black Joker on damage prevented the damage.
• 3^rd Activation (RE): Philip and the Nanny put up a Scheme Marker and discarded it again for card cycling.
• 4^th Activation (TT): Tengu walked and I wanted to accuse the Gaki, but it already activated which we realised later, so he didn’t do anything with his second AP.
• 4^th Activation (RE): The first Night Terror walked and put up his aura.
• 5^th Activation (TT): Yan Lo walked, used Rebuild Corpus to resummon Izamu, heal 3 damage on him and gave him Armor +2.
• 5^th Activation (RE): Yin walked, used her (0) again against Yan Lo, and used her Ca-Attack against Izamu, hitting for 1 damage and the Condition to not walk or charge.
• 6^th Activation (TT): Chiaki walked and removed the Condition of Izamu.
• 6^th Activation (RE): Hanged walked and hit Yan Lo for 4 damage, the no-heal-condition and 1 VP for Eliminate the Leadership.
• 7^th Activation (TT): Izamu charged the Night Terror and killed it.
• 7^th Activation (RE): Lost Love tried to heal but failed both.
• 8^th Activation (RE): Kirai placed herself next to Kirai, tried to hit Yan Lo but the Black Joker prevented it. The second AP hit the Komainu for 2 damage and the Gaki-summoning Condition (Soulstone spent to neutralize the cover) and her last AP was used to swirl the Night Terror and Izamu.
• 9^th Activation (RE): Datsue Ba killed the Komainu with trigger to summon a Gaki, so there were two new Gakis.
• 10^th Activation (RE): Izamu dropped a Scheme Marker and removed accused-condition.

The remaining Activations consisted of walks. Strategy this round was 3-2 for Markus. So the score was 3-5 in Markus’ favour through scoring Claim Jump and the Strategy.

Turn 4:

I won Initiative again and decided to go first.

• 1^st Activation (TT): Izamu couldn’t charge because I placed him engaged with Yin the previous turn, so he had to walk and killed the Hanged and Markus summoned Ikiryo. Izamu tried to hit her, but failed.
• 1^st Activation (RE): Ikiryo killed Izamu with two attacks, but the Armor hit back and killed her too.
• 2^nd Activation (TT): The Soul Porter killed the Gaki and pushed Yan Lo.
• 2^nd Activation (RE): The remaining Night Terror walked, engaged Chiaki and activated his aura.
• 3^rd Activation (TT): Chiaki tried to walk out of the engagement twice but failed both (don’t know why not just kill the Night Terror) and attack him with her (0) for 1 damage
• 3^rd Activation (RE): Lost Love walked and healed the Night Terror to full life.
• 4^th Activation (TT): Tengu walked
• 4^th Activation (RE): Kirai used her Swirl on Lost Love and Izamu, placed herself using her last soulstone and attacked Yan Lo for 0 damage but the adversary condition.
• 5^th Activation (TT): Yan Lo gave Chiaki Armor +4 and walked in safety.

Datsue Ba killed Chiaki with a focused attack by cheating the Black Joker and Izamu killed the Tengu.

Markus scored again the Strategy and Claim Jump. Therefore, the score after turn 4 was 3-7 for Markus.

Turn 5:

I won again Initiative and Yan Lo ascended his last upgrade and moved to the farthest point he could reach. Markus managed to get Izamu to Yan Lo but he remained with 2 life left and we called the game done at this point and the score didn’t change since the previous turn.

Markus won this game 3-7.

  

It was a very hard game for me, a big mistake was to pick Accusation against Markus which is always a bad choice, because he tends to outactivate me and Kirai’s Mobility allows to easily get rid of the condition. It was my first try of the Reliquary and I really think it is worth the point if Yan Lo has one Upgrade-Slot left. The Strategy was like I expected it a tough one for Yan Lo because of the number of Enforcers I am running.

I hope you enjoyed my report and my next battlereport should hit my page on Sunday.