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Malifaux has all sorts of combos and tricks and I'm constantly finding new ones (for me) and being hit with things I never even thought of. I figured we could share so we could see learn from our shared pain.

I'll start with the one that triggered this thread.
Over in the beginner pitfall thread I saw the Killjoy bomb mentioned with Hamelin and Tara and that reminded me of an insane first turn I suffered about three weeks ago. I was playing Arcanists and my opponent was playing Kirai. We had standard deployment and his 2nd or 3rd activation was Kirai. She walked up and to about the center summoned in a Seshin, Seshin was sacrificed and a Hanged is summoned (as expected) as Killjoy is popped out of the sacrificed Seshin. Killjoy then proceeded to do his thing. This was my introduction to Killjoy Bombing. My opponent's first turn summoned a 9ss model and shoved Killjoy down my throat completely dictating the flow of the rest of the game.

So what nasty tricks have others encountered? Please share so we all can learn and maybe even be entertained.

Obviously this comes from that thread too. I was playing a KIlljoy bomb Tara crew against lynch. On turn 1, I buried Killjoy with fast, and on Tara's reactivate, I unburied him, killed Huggy on my 1AP charge, then charged Lynch, killing him. I scored Assassinate and Vendetta on Turn 1. 6 points in the bag.

Another one I pulled is; Having Abuela marry Samael into the family, then walking him up ahead of Perdita and Franny. Either you kill him and let the others run amok, Or you face his 3/4/5 rapid fire pistol. If you charge him, you have to eat Perdita and Franny.

Otherwise it's the Ortega invincible Firing squad; Perdita, with Franny, Samael, and Nino, behind a bit of terrain they can shoot through.

A good combo I've seen is Tara+Death Marshall against a Nico crew. The Nico crew advanced the Izamu the player took forward. It got buried by a Marshall. Tara then unburied him and red Joker'd Nico off the board.

My personal favourite trick is to deny my opponent max Reckoning points. Take 5 models that won't all be killed and can easily score reckoning. This works even better if Assassinate/Vendetta are in the pool.

Depends on what you mean by Nasty.

I've won a game of head hunter on turn 2 before. Plant explosives and frame for murder were in the pool got both, and picked up a head. Then killed myself off on turn 3 netting the win.

I had Madame Sybelle with Bleeding Tongue charge Joss and a wounded Howard.

Firstly she swung at Joss and got the Comply trigger, which I then made Joss hit and Kill Howard.

Then I swung again and stoned for Crows. Joss didn't have the cards or the stones and so the insta-kill Trigger went off.

Much joy was had!

Another trick is to Charge Ramos and comply him to blow himself up