Anzenmezzeron Hell Games, a Maleghast Actual Play, Episode 2: Goregrinders vs Deadsouls

[@IStealYourZs]

You've now officially produced about 50% of all Maleghast content there is on youtube. Keep it up!

[@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm]

Who’s the other 50%?

[@chillyavian7718]

@@Sentient_Scarab_SwarmZaktact I think

[@VGM00021]

Old Maggie hungers. She needs a feast.

[@BillNyeTheBountyGuy]

This map certainly feels favored towards the Dead Souls with the indestructible pain wall.

[@Threvlin]

Love seeing games like this actually get played, the extra animated embellishments are extra fun on top.

[@abcdefghijklmnop1974]

“The _WHEEEEEL_ !”

[@aidanbeesley3221]

Glad to see another round of Anzenmezzeron Hell Games uploaded. IMO, I think this map was heavily favored towards Deadsouls, who are in my opinion the weakest faction. Surprised they were able to pull out the W, but then again I guess Maggie will do that to you.

[@vadandrumist1670]

Since there is so little YT content in which to learn from, could you provide for me your insight into the factions and how they rank?

[@aidanbeesley3221]

@@vadandrumist1670 I admittedly don't have that much experience with the game, so I don't know what my rankings are worth. I haven't even played a game as or against every faction yet. That being said, the reasons why I think Dead Souls are weak are the following: 1. Difficulty in Isolation. Because Isolation is depending on adjacent units, which can be from diagonals and not just cardinal directions, it's easy for competent opponents to keep their units together. So if you do want to Isolate enemy units, then you'll need to spend your time doing so, and that's time you aren't damaging your opponents units. Additionally, the only Dead Souls units that can actually pull are the Thralls and Chosen. The Thralls are extremely squishy and can only pull 1, so they may not be able to fully Isolate a unit. The Chosen can only situationally pull more than that. 2. Lack of damage. It's very hard for the Dead Souls to do damage. The Banshee is far and away the best damage dealer, though admittedly the Uizigheist is good as well. The problem is that the other two units can only deal one damage on their main attacks. They do make up for this with Doom, but for everyone but your Necromancer, it's a 4+ chance to Doom on hit, leaving it to a coinflip whether or not it actually goes off. Your Necromancer, on the other hand, only has guaranteed Doomed on Isolated units, and you can see my point about Isolated units above. Additionally, Doom can be cleared by killing a unit (which might be easier or harder depending on your faction, which you can read below), or by any other miscellaneous way of clearing negative tokens. 3. Matchup dependent durability: Dead Soul's Durability is...weird. Their non-Thrall units have very strong defenses at 5+, but they all only have 3 hp. They do, however, have Magic armor. This makes the Dead Souls very matchup dependent. They do amazingly against Gargamox, who are all about Toxic damage. Against Carcass or Igrigori, who all do basic damage however, these units are at a legitimate risk of getting one shot. This makes the Dead Souls an extremely matchup dependent faction. This point is only confounded by preexisting terrain. If there are a bunch of walls already, you're eating good. If not, you're shit out of luck and will need to spend 2 turns just terraforming the map. 4. High skill floor: This is probably the most subjective point of mine, but Dead Souls are just a hard faction to play. They require a lot of careful planning to make the most out of their abilities, and a bad player will get bodied easily (I'm him, I'm the bad player). 5. A useless Tyrant. The Dead Souls Tyrant is far and away the worst in the game. Defense 2+, 6 HP, and pitiful damage output.

[@rileyr1831]

Not the original person but Ive been testing minmaxed everything with friends over the last couple days Imo the list is looking like Fair -Abhorers / Deadsouls Strong - CARCASS Play if you like Winning - Gargamox / Goregrinders ??? - Igorri (probably top tier, not tested) Deadsouls and Abhorers have to significantly outplay you to win the match. Deadsouls permenantly loses the damage race to miss danage since they have no HP and no armor. But can rely on gimmicks to snowball into a win if they catch your necromancer once or have map advantages. Overly reliant on thier own necromancer. Abhorers relies entierly on stalling the gane out until you can trigger both mirical and 6 soul revive. But is very weak to getting thier necromancer assassinated. Making robbery very easy and very common. Needs inquisitors to function. A fairly easy unit to kill. CARCASS has access to checkmate situations with Devil Bullet + STG. And Double Tap. Gunwight's with support from a Hot Chamber ammo goblin are second best thrall in the game. However CARCASS is very reliant on large amounts of souls so you need to avoid obliterate at all costs. Gargamox win condition is a straight forward damage race. But you cheat by applying slow to anyone that would actually win that race by getting into melee with you. Disgusting, Extremely strong faction. Carnifagous blade and Rotten units are expectional. Spreading strain into armies with bad defenses can almost wipe them outright. Goregrinders have the easiest win condition in the game. Grind thier gore. Warheads are a despicable, absolutely illegal thrall unit with the bladed upgrade and make especially Goregrinder v Deadsouls almost unwinnable due to sheer math and lack of armor. The Tyrant with Machine heart takes entirely too long to die and deals insane danage its whole life. Then can be psuedo ressurected using Blood Boil. Best necromancer in the game. If you're "tied" with well built goregrinders by like round 4 or 5 you lose. Fully charged Spine Devil Blade and Berserk is an instant 5 damage without strength. And Apoplexy can keep your strength at infinity until you need it. Will only ever lose if its a blowout and a key piece foes down early without getting value. Most often to Gargamox since they can slow the initial charge and force them to use the map / avoid berserk token self damage. Igorri has a strong baseline with exteemely volitile ups, and few downs. Strong but havent been tested enough to get a verdict on

[@aidanbeesley3221]

@@vadandrumist1670 I don't know if I can provide a ranking (besides putting Deadouls on the bottom) but there are six official factions in Maleghast. In the order that the book presents them, you have: CARCASS: Your ranged shooty shooty gun boys. I'd consider them one of the better factions, though they'll be less mobile than every other faction due to their Reloads after shooting. Goregrinders: Fast Melee boys. They will run into your face and stab you repeatedly. Probably the most mobile factions. Also have the ability to simply not die Gargamox: Pestilence and AOE damage. They love filling the map with hazards and generally being annoying shits, but I love them Deadouls: Bad. They deal shit damage, can't survive at all, and have one of the worst units in the game in their Tyrant. Abhorrors: Anime Catholics. Absolute tanks of units, who get stronger as the game goes on, with one of the best Tyrants in the game. Kill all of their units before turn 4 (which is easier said than done, admittedly). Igrigori: The only faction I haven't played, centered around buffing up their own units and creating a bunch of supersoldiers. Probably pretty good.

[@marlutteyestrelt3441]

In a roleplaying style Hunt campaign (imagining using the ICON template for a Hunt adventure) having the Dead Souls make a temporary territorial truce with the Gore Grinders to take down the invincible Old Maggie Necrotroll would be an incredibly roleplaying scenario that I'm imagining in my head as this actual play took place, and how they would try to combine their powers of flesh demon blood boiling rage and ultimate Doom against the seemingly unbreakable and unmovable troll hag.

[@vadandrumist1670]

And upon victory, bringing their forces against one another in a bid to claim the remains, perhaps even with a third faction (or more) that had been laying in wait for just this moment.

[@marlutteyestrelt3441]

In Anzenmezzeron, creatures like Old Maggie or the Bone Feeder are used as territorial thresholds landmarks and their absence creates power vacuums for the forces of the great houses to make their move expanding their domains as soon as they are relocated or eliminated entirely. @@vadandrumist1670

[@non3particular537]

Maleghast is my second favorite heavy metal strategy game! Right behind Brutal Legend.

[@Hobomice]

Hell Yeah, Deadsouls Time!

[@KillerOrca]

Hell yes, more reference!

[@signor_zuzzu]

From this to a walless map it's heaven or hell for the Dead Souls

[@noahdigit430]

I hope you make more videos like this in the future. Would love to see the other factions in action.

[@Bigfourthing]

Another great and informative actual play, keep it up!

[@msmcl71]

My boy’s dead soul!

[@lucasoliveira-kg4nq]

Next time, goregrinders and abhorrors

[@toastgoats7545]

The banshee (probably) being a reference to THAT jumpscare from the bongcheong-dong ghost sold me on deadsouls

[@11dragonkid11]

My god, I haven't heard that thing in such a long time already, so that's what it was called

[@estevanphillips6889]

This game has absolutely sucked me in.

[@Bluecho4]

Much like how the Banshee sucked 11dragonkid's necromancer into Old Maggie.

[@OgieSifter]

Oh man I actually got to try out my heretic build against my buddy's dead souls. Had two carcass barrelorms an enforcers, a humonculus and a chop doc with my igorri necromancer. It was so much fun mutating units with formation. The humonculus breaking walls down with ball of limbs and auto absorb corpses was too good. My necromancer got pulled through walls but a mutated barrel form in formation with a clean shot is a beautiful sight when your necromancer is being a bullied, from there it was a domino effect of humonculus busting down walls swallowing corpses and mutating, lost a barrel form and a chop doc and the wards made flashbang not very effective but luckily fleshwhip was a decent substitute with the physical splash damage an sweet sweet corpse drops

[@avozsaj]

Played my first game two weeks ago. Rolled a 2 on 8 out of 9 attacks.

[@mellowyenace5885]

super glad this is coming out as Im getting into this game. thanks for putting out these examples

[@iris7eye]

deeeeeeadsooooooouls lets go

[@galling2052]

these games are great! more pls

[@evanrhamey9566]

More maleeghast my dude!

[@rulerofeverything6294]

Straight from maleghast's sewer systems

[@Evilawn]

Looooving these.

[@Eruidraith]

This looks like it was fun! This game looks pretty great

[@flamebeast3351]

Yooo I too was also experimenting with the the beyblade build the other day

[@mellowyenace5885]

would love to see the igorri mutation factory in action

[@gentlemenplease5898]

Damn keep up playing it the gore grinders i wanna see one victory from my favorite units

[@tysenfromwork4145]

my two favorite factions yeeeeeeeee

[@elios7623]

stg painwheel is my spirit animal

[@joshuachamplin1310]

Thank you for the content.

[@Foundthottage]

Do NOT believe the propaganda!! Old Maggie is cool! She just needs some kindness and she'll cheer up and join your team! Make your warlord hug her!! There's no risk!!

[@vadandrumist1670]

So, these warlords you've got here, are they specific characters with lore? Factions are one thing, but it would be nice to have investment in the characters as well.

[@klaceekoolstra2658]

Awesome!!!Big Like 💙🌼

[@grimmking3599]

What is he referencing when painwheel is showed off? I don't recognize the music or the laugh.

[@11dragonkid11]

Skeleton Warriors

[@DragonsHoardOfPlastic]

This game looks pretty fast in these videos, but how fast does it actually play out? I'm hoping to get some friends into it, and a short match time would be perfect for my group.

[@11dragonkid11]

around and hour or 2, mostly an hour

[@DragonsHoardOfPlastic]

@@11dragonkid11 Awesome, thanks 👍

[@wolfar8278]

I dont think that the 2nd choosen should have been able to put those two adverse terrains there as they were placed in range 4, not 3 Also pog rare dead souls W

[@estevanphillips6889]

They also can’t place the terrain under a unit.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Hey I am learnin the system and I didn't get something- how does the "Deals damage again" work? Is it a sequence of 1 dmg after the other or is it additive? Like the chainsaw attack of Carnifex- does it just deal 1 damage 3 times (which would make it blocked by armour) or does it deal varied damage depending on how good you rolls: aka it can deal 1, 2 or 3 damage at once depending how well you rolled?

[@11dragonkid11]

It always deal damage separatedly unless it is mentioned otherwise.

[@p_ecora6647]

what's the song at 9:00

[@kaipoh265]

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