Henchmen and Henchwomen

My last game with S&M was a reversal of the ones before; where in many cases I luckily managed to win because the game didn’t go to time. This time, Molly (and Sybelle and Sebastian and a pile of corpses were left facing 4 models with 7 or less wounds between them. Molly, calm and serene as ever, would have knocked them off of the board. But she didn’t. It was the end of the game. S&M outschemed me and won in style, he timed his all-or-nothing perfectly. Good game S&M and Ms DuBois. That’s what I call playing.

Until this game I felt I had “only had eyes for Sybelle”, and that I had been playing a Molly and Sybelle list. I felt Sybelle had become a bad habit and Molly and I really wondered who the real mistress was at times!

So this game was the first time that I took along other Henchmen.

Sebastian hid, got me soulstones and cards from recycling my weak summoned models, planted schemes and administered coup de grace to opponents. He cost 8 stones with “those are not ours”, but no “transfusion”. Recycling old summons for stones and a card seems a good deal, except that it used up corpses (a sacrifice leaves no corpse.) Transfusing  poison to that stupid mechanical bird would have instant killed it. Not taking transfusion was a mistake on my part.

Mortimer, should have done a lot more. He cost 9 stones, no upgrade. He should have ruined Colete’s and the performer's schemes with chatty – “ Boo this show is awful, get of the stage!!”. But he didn’t. He had a fight with the Duet. Which he lost. Along with two punk zombies (summoned), who were also killed by the Corphee.

Were I running score cards for the Henchwoman and Henchman they would be:

Sybelle

Cost 8 stones.

Impact on game: Shrieked (for the blast), whipped, called Belle and sped up those around her. She rightly had opponents on their knees and on their backs or face to the floor. She was well worth the money. My favourite Henchwoman. I now love her more than ever.

Sebastian

Cost 8 stones (7+1)

Impact on game: ran schemes, kept me in stones when I had drawn 4 crows in 3 hands + 4 extra draws. Finished a model. Summoned a remains. Anti synergistic with corpse effects (I did not take any this game).

Mortimer

Cost 9 Stones

Impact on game: dropped schemes, died like a high cost minion/costly good time. I didn’t place or use him well.

I’m going to keep running Molly as a “Molly, Sybelle and a two belle entourage”. Look man, I am into Sybelle. That's just how it is. Expect more Sybelle protecting Molly, more shrieking at my own models (to get blast on other models in combat and trigger black blood attacks)  more of Sybelle just taking punishment and popping corpses. Its going to be dirty and messy.

I will definitely use Sebastian again, perhaps in a sustained quality summon list (aka punk zombie spam, blender, horror, black blood spray – e.g. summon punk zombies and have them slice and dice your own horrors to trigger black blood - but only 1" range and not 3").

Mortimer I’m going to try again. I can see that his chatty is an auto-include for head hunter, or other situations where you can guess where the interact will be going on. But he clearly isn’t good for ultra-violence. Nor is he needed in a Molly-Horror/Forgotten Life list to find corpses. There are plenty of those.

I can see potential, but he certainly isn’t my Sybelle.

From now on its BJ with Molly and Sybelle. There’s no shame in it.