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Good news! WizKids is heading back to Gen-Con this year! It's going to be pretty pared down. The current plan is to do battle royales, but no tournaments, and we'll be selling the con purchasables out of some other company's booth. Still, it's better than nothing... Origins is okay, but Gen-Con is the convention for me.
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As I am not going to any cons this year it doesn't make any difference to me but it's good to know that the relationship has been mended somewhat. Side note, today was the Kevin Bacon game. Figures only, minimum 6 figures on your team. Each figure added to your team must be connected to the previous one by a keyword and you can't use the same keyword twice. I did the Gotham City Underworld. JW Penguin has Gotham Coty with JW Deadshot who was 80 points so not to break theme has suicide squad with FL Harley Quinn at 50 who has Scientist with WF Lex/Joker Duo at 200 who has Gotham City Underworld with JW Mr. Freeze who has Armor with JW Firefly who has Arkham Asylum with JW Two Face I've wanted to play that Penguin and Mr. Freeze for awhile now and it took me awhile to find a keyword combo that could make this work. Basically I make Penguins for Mastermind Fodder. Lex and Joker are the hammer but everyone on the team is capable of dealing damage in their own way. Round 1 versus Hodgepodge OP Kit Firestorm OP Kit Green Arrow SLOSH FF Lex Luthor SLOSH FF Solomon Grundy WF Beetle WF Booster I won map and chose the premium cargo ship map because I thought I could do sidestep games with the blocking. That never worked, all it did was get me energy exploded twice but Lex and Jokers high defense prevented them from getting hit once, first one did hit though and I had to MM to a penguin. Two face healed it right back up though and then Lex and Joker KO'd Booster and Firestorm with a duo while Mr. Freeze gave Grundy fits. Eventually it was just his Lex versus his whole team and that was that. Round 2 versus a "Fun" team Shuma Gorath at his low value UXM Scarlet Witch SFOSM Mephisto at full CW Grand Prize Spider-Man The Spider Woman who becomes a Mystic. GOTG Mole Man The thing that pissed me off the most about this team is the guy playing it loves to rant and rave when someone plays when someone plays something with a piece they "Don't need". Which is vaguely defined as anything that he thinks is cheesy. Perplexing up an attacker? They don't need that. Playing a taxi with the ninja turtles? They don't need that. Then he does this but it's ok because he's just having fun. Anyway I won map and chose Guys bar from war of light. I counted out his movement and 5 square punch range and made sure I was one square out of it. He moved Shuma down 9 carrying mole man. Spider-Man moved next to him and the rest of the team moved down. Mephisto perplexed Shuma's defense to 19. I had one real shot at killing the drat thing and I took it. Perplexed Lex and Joker to a 7 damage. Sidestepped up and took a psyblast shot. 11 V 19. Cue literally every single prob that could be used being used. Shuma Prob, Harley Prob, Two-Face Prob because a roll had a 2 and 4 of my six theme probs. It was the very last theme prob I could possibly do that I broke through with boxcars for a crit and Shuma was oneshot. That was game as his entire team was built to be Shuma support. He moved Mephisto right into my face and he died to concentrated fire thanks to Mr. Freeze's ice wall giving him a -2 defense and basically negating those 19 regen clicks at the end. Julia and Spider-Man came down and while spidey was almost impossible to hurt with his senses, Harley's poison was his undoing though. In the end I wiped his team and lost nothing but some penguins. Round 3 versus Avengers UXM Scarlet Witch AOU Movie Scarlet Witch CW She-Hulk NFAOS Hulk at his lower value IIM Iron Man at 150 UXM Beast I lost map roll and ended up on the Bridge because Andy loves it so. First Round was positioning with Beast charging a wall to give AOU Witch a place to hide. I sidestep up into hindering while popping out a penguin. Andy clears. I perplex up Lex and Joker to a 10 range, sidestep, outwit Defense on IM and duo attack him to death. Sidestep again behind a wall. Beast comes up and outwits something on everyone including stealth on deadshot so that AOU Witch could shoot him. She Hulk and Regular Hulk also move up. Lex and Joker using Superman enemy copied by Harley to outwit beasts outwit and defense and duo him to death. Rest of team clears. She hulk charges Lex and Joker with a heavy but it gets masterminded to a penguin. Hulk then utterly smashes deadshot. She hulk gets poisoned and punched. Hulk gets his defense outwitted and Firefly hits the 9 he needs to smack hulk to his stop click and light him on fire. Lex and Joker clear. Hulk doesn't take any fire damage because he rolled for invincible. The witches move up with UXM blocking LOF from Lex to Hulk. Lex and Joker duo and kill UXM and She Hulk. Mr. Freeze psyblasts hulk who rolls a 1 and is KO'd. AOU Witch moves up and is duo'd for the win. If you've never played Lex and Joker you really should try them. They make any team they are on so much better.
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TMNT3 Fast Forces Preview (Part 1): http://wizkids.com/heroclix/2017/01/23/tmnt-heroclix-shredders-return-fast-forces-part-i/ Is it me, or is the flavor text getting lazy as poo poo? Or maybe the TMNT stuff is just not a priority, what with the repetition in the third set. Red fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Eh there's only so much you can do. Most of those are just kinda ho hum terms for whatever the power is. You still get some fun stuff like the Riddlers power names in the JW fast forces set. Really looking forward to these starters later in the year, getting a PAC, double sided map and a bloody rulebook again finally.
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They also announced the other Con LEs for the year: For the first time ever, HeroClix players will have the opportunity to win: * 2017 DC Comics HeroClix: Plastic Man Con LE Prize Figure * 2017 DC Comics HeroClix: Zeus Con LE Prize Figure * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Spider-Carnage Con LE Prize Figure * 2017 TMNT HeroClix: Cyber Shredder Con LE Prize Figure * 2017 DC Comics HeroClix: Penguin B Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 DC Comics HeroClix: Penguin C Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Rockabilly MODOK Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Dropbear Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Homicide Crab Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Rocket Raccoon Con LE Bystander Token * 2017 Marvel HeroClix: Squirrel/Squirrel Man Con LE Bystander Token On top of that, HeroClix players will now be able to purchase: * DC Comics HeroClix: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali Con LE Set* * DC Comics HeroClix: Colossal Sinestro Throwback Con LE Figure * DC Comics HeroClix: Doomsday Con LE Figure** * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles HeroClix: Bebop and Rocksteady Con LE Figure I'm happy to see WizKids is kind of going to be at GenCon; I can't go this year but hopefully they'll still be there next year if I can swing it. Regardless I may need to throw money at some kindly goon for some of those for purchase LEs (to say nothing of shelling out for Plastic Man if this one isn't poo poo). Morand posted:If its not too late for your event. I like this team the best. I liked that one a lot too, the game was rescheduled for tonight so I'm bringing that for one game and this for the other: Freedom Force Avalanche Crimson Commando UXM Mystique Spider-Woman Stonewall Super Sabre It's a bumper car team to just shove people into the death wave all day long. Sanschel fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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LE Bystander Tokens to replace pog effects are a very cool idea (I guess they got sick of modders and poker chip printers eating their lunch), but I really hope they're a participation prize or something, because otherwise that's gonna be one gently caress of a booby prize.
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CapnAndy posted:LE Bystander Tokens to replace pog effects are a very cool idea (I guess they got sick of modders and poker chip printers eating their lunch), but I really hope they're a participation prize or something, because otherwise that's gonna be one gently caress of a booby prize. I believe that we'll be handing out the bystander tokens in the same way that we did the ID cards last year - top half of side event players getting LEs, bottom half getting bystander tokens, and then battle royales being one LE and three bystanders. Also, apparently my Joker's Wild event is scheduled for Origins. This is news to me! Guess I'll need to get to work on the deck...
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Man, we get a Spider-Carnage before getting a proper Ben Reilly Spider-Man. Boo. That said, I hope Muhammad Ali's dial is the greatest of all time.
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Sanschel posted:On top of that, HeroClix players will now be able to purchase: I kind of want all of those. I can't make it to any convention, though. If that Bebop/Rocksteady piece is based on the 87 toon or the arcade game, that's going to be a must-have.
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Today was 500 points you could use resources if you wanted to. I had the absolute worst choice lock for this event. I really wanted to do an all Bizarro team but I couldn't make it work even with a resource. I was going to use a power battery with an Axe, Boxing Glove, Scissors, etc. Basically anything that would let the cheap guys have a shot at doing damage. Eventually scrapped the whole thing and scrapped using a resource and decided to go with Spider-Verse SFOSM SR Spider-Man Old Man Spider Spider-Punk Spider Man Noir Spider Knight Deadpool Black Cat (For defenders TA) Basically a glorified defend chain with lots of mobility and offense. Round 1 versus Mystical. Exodia the Forbidden One at his lower value OP Strange at 150 Mephisto at 45 Wong from an older set that I can't recall I lost map and we were on Odym. The fact that exodia can be outwit saved me. We danced around a bit and I KO'd Wong with a spider HSS. Exodia broke his bonds and shot spidey to his last click after outwitting my perplex. Made it a point to focus fire on exodia but could hit and he pulsed the whole team for 1, KOing spider man. Spider punk went after Strange and Mephisto to get rid of perplex. Nailed mephisto for KO but not Strange. Strange hit punk and exodia finished him off but I was finally able to hit exodia and once he was off that 19 and pulse the hits just kept on coming. Noir having outwit really made the difference. Never saw him hit any strongest monster clicks. Came down to Strange versus the rest and even though he made a ton of shape change rolls, eventually I got him. 1-0 Round 2 versus TMNT Villains Cartoon Shredder Cartoon Bebop Cartoon Rocksteady Alopex Irma at full Alpha One 2 Thugs Squirrelanoid Omega Drive I lost map and ended up on the negative zone prison map. He was trying to set up a killbox and I was trying not to get pulled into a killbox. He moved down into a corner. I moved up with old map spider carrying the crew while spider picked up an ultra heavy. He moved his goons to block my hyper routes to alpha one. I blew up a wall with noir and opened a new lame and KO'd alpha one. From here, every roll was turning up spider men. Opponent rolled 3 straight ones to try and pick up the omega drove. I one shot rocksteady by rolling a 6 twice on a blades roll. Just all the rolls went my way and while he did knock old man spider to his last click that was the most damage he did. Just ridiculous rolls Round 3 versus the Secret Society of Super Villains. Vandal Savage at his lower level Count Vertigo Fiddler Shade at his lower level Prime Cheetah I won map and chose the qward armory map because it was the first map I pulled out of my bag. He miscounted my swing and it cost him vandal to and outwit and ultra heavy strike from spider man. From there I picked off his pieces one by one, without the vandal boost he had a very hard time hitting me. So for a team I kinda threw together it turned out to do very well. Letting spider knight share his amazing defense while also giving out ESD basically makes you immune to range attacks. I've played against that SR Spiderman so many times, it was nice to run him too.
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I'm doing an interesting event here in a week. Two teams, two characters each starting at 200 points and finishing with 300 points. For the first team I'm thinking of going with staple Mary Marvel and adding enchantress at the 50 point line. Not sure what I want to do for the 300, Gipsy Danger has a lot of damage and a unique ability but it could fall fast to two characters like Mary Marvel. Thoughts?
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Posigniat posted:I'm doing an interesting event here in a week. Two teams, two characters each starting at 200 points and finishing with 300 points. For the first team I'm thinking of going with staple Mary Marvel and adding enchantress at the 50 point line. Not sure what I want to do for the 300, Gipsy Danger has a lot of damage and a unique ability but it could fall fast to two characters like Mary Marvel. Thoughts? I'm kinda confused by this event. Do you bring in the 300 point team once the 200 point one is KO'd? Does the 300 point team HAVE to be one figure? Different note, apparently summertime is gonna be utterly packed with clix as they've announced a new Thor Set quote:Marvel Heroclix Mighty Thor booster brick And while theres no official confirmation Pat Yapaco is being as subtle as a brick about Beta Ray Bill being in the set so I am guessing that was his second champ choice. Kinda intrigued by the weapons. More equipment, or will we get a return to relics and roll for worthiness?
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Morand posted:I'm kinda confused by this event. Do you bring in the 300 point team once the 200 point one is KO'd? Does the 300 point team HAVE to be one figure? Apologies, you start with one duo team at 200 points and win or lose your next match is a duo team at 300 points.
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Ah. Well Mary and enchantress are fine for 200. For 300 I'd avoid similar one giant piece and one smaller piece builds. Jaegers look great, but will fall to a decent 2 man team. I'm a big fan of Lex and Joker from World's Finest. You could do them at 200 and SLOSH Bizarro at 100. You'd have 2 outwits, perplex, and the capability for major damage with duo attack, plus Bizarro with HSS follow ups and being the best MM fodder for Lex and Joker Morand fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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Morand posted:And while theres no official confirmation Pat Yapaco is being as subtle as a brick about Beta Ray Bill being in the set so I am guessing that was his second champ choice.
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As of now, what is the cut off for modern stuff? I havent played in awhile, but I have tons of stuff from DC Legion of Superheroes to the War of Light thing. Is any of this stuff worth anything? I did sell the Butcher entity for like $140 on ebay some time back and a few of the zombies when that was a thing.
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Flash is currently the oldest Modern set; we're probably due for another pruning in June, especially with the insane release schedule this summer. That doesn't mean your stuff isn't worth anything; plenty of venues (probably most of them, honestly) play Golden Age so there's still demand. It'll just be worth less than it was.
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Anybody interested in a War of Light Gravity Feed for Dicemasters? I've also got a GF box of SLOSH, but I almost never play the Legion of Super Heroes, so I could be part with that as well.
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Morand posted:I'm kinda confused by this event. Do you bring in the 300 point team once the 200 point one is KO'd? Does the 300 point team HAVE to be one figure? It's probably Relics actually using the Owner mechanic for them that they created and then only used on The One Ring. That said: Asgardians with super boosters, including motherfucking Surtur, who's sure to have sweet-rear end translucent fire coming off him like nobody's business? Beta Ray Bill and getting to have what's probably a relic of Stormbreaker? Oh, my wife and bank account will be SO pissed at me when this set drops. The anniversary sets might have to get a pass for it. My daughter will be happy with me, though, as we get to do an unboxing video for a case! I'm going to need another display shelf.
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Morand posted:Different note, apparently summertime is gonna be utterly packed with clix as they've announced a new Thor Set ...I can't afford to get back into Clix...I can't afford to get back into Clix... quote:And while theres no official confirmation Pat Yapaco is being as subtle as a brick about Beta Ray Bill being in the set so I am guessing that was his second champ choice. *Internal Volume Intensifies* ...I can't afford to get back into Clix...I can't afford to get back into Clix... ManiacClown posted:Asgardians with super boosters, including motherfucking Surtur, who's sure to have sweet-rear end translucent fire coming off him like nobody's business? Beta Ray Bill and getting to have what's probably a relic of Stormbreaker? *Internally Screaming*  ...I wish I could afford to get back into Clix. Money and space is at a major premium right now.
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We did a 300-point sealed with TMNT 3 last night, 5-8 boosters per person. I got super lucky, and pulled Shark Shredder, which was a big want for me, and one that I figured would be the hardest to get a hold of. Ended up running Sharky, Space Raph, Casey, and a Kraang. Heck of a team for sealed, but I was judging, so I was just playing bye rounds. Still, that Shark is a freaking nightmare - free penetrating damage when he moves next to people, plus Charge and Sidestep to keep him moving, and giant size to make the break away rolls easier... gonna have fun with that guy. Ultimately, the tournament was won by someone who was running Wyrm, Shredder Clone, and Space Mikey. Just too much damage that you don't have to roll for to handle, on that team. A friend who'd owed me from the last Turtles set gave me Lord Dregg, and then I bought a gravity feed, and ended up pulling Space Leo (another huge want) and another Shark Shredder. So I'm halfway through collecting the space turtles, and have some good trade bait to try to land a Mini Shredder.
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Torrent posted:We did a 300-point sealed with TMNT 3 last night, 5-8 boosters per person. I got super lucky, and pulled Shark Shredder, which was a big want for me, and one that I figured would be the hardest to get a hold of.  Yeah you should pretty easily be able to swing that Shark Shredder for any other chase. He looks really fun
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Double posting for BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES http://wizkids.com/heroclix/2017/02/03/marvel-heroclix-deadpool-and-x-force-swarm/
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Red posted:Is this set going to have Sketches? Maybe? They haven't said one way or the other. They did preview Negasonic Teenage Warhead and she's got a black and white paintjob though. http://wizkids.com/heroclix/2017/02/06/marvel-heroclix-deadpool-and-x-force-negasonic-teenage-warhead/
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Morand posted:Maybe? They haven't said one way or the other. Well, that's how she originally looked. I wasn't planning on buying into this set, but if it's heavy on stuff like Swarm, I'm in like Flint.
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Swarm looks dope as hell, and I'm glad he's a little pricey as a figure since that'll diminish his meta value making him probably affordable. Just for having Terror Inc and X-Statix this set is the best clix set ever, I hope I can scrounge the dough to get a CUR and some choice SRs
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Morand posted:Maybe? They haven't said one way or the other. Boo! Do the good version of her!
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CapnAndy posted:Boo! Do the good version of her! They even used the comic cover with the good version! That's what the Rare Prime is going to be isn't it? 
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So I'm the newest Scott Porter Deadpool unboxing, HeroClix's first Plansewalker was revealed: http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8806007&postcount=1562 I think it's an interesting idea, but I wish it wasn't actually identical to the Magic mechanics. I'm also concerned about how this might affect the meta; after a refreshing few years when a huge variety of figures can have a lasting and noticeable influence on the meta game, I don't want to see it get pigeonholed to just one of a few Title characters and a pit crew, especially as resources get phased out. Unless of course it's just a Deadpool meta joke and never seen again. Sanschel fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Sanschel posted:Unless of course it's just a Deadpool meta joke and never seen again.
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Yeah this kinda looks like something they want to do again, that card has a lot of thought to it and seems to establish quite a few rules for future figures. Taken on his own though, Interesting dial. He can only really heal if he attacks otherwise he's basically just mitigating the 1 damage he'd take. Still for 70 points that a pretty solid dial with interesting effects. The slo mo bullet time is one of those things you might see once ever. He's always better distracting. He's definitely priority one to KO though, you basically buy a free turn if you do.
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I think the fact that the rules are so crazy involved and long winded would make it a way funnier joke if they never use them again. Kind of an interesting idea but I wouldn't want to see them alot if they are a thing going forward. Maybe one or two characters per set so like Thor and Loki in the Thor set coming out later this year. Could be a good way to make the villains who basically work alone or are the big guys in massive story arcs work better in clix. Man, thought I wouldn't want any of the chases from this Deadpool set but I definitely want D.E.A.D.P.O.O.L. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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thebardyspoon posted:Man, thought I wouldn't want any of the chases from this Deadpool 
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He's an ultra chase so I'm at peace with not getting that bad boy but yeah that's pretty cool too. D.E.A.D.P.O.O.L. will probably be a little more affordable.
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Morand posted:Yeah this kinda looks like something they want to do again, that card has a lot of thought to it and seems to establish quite a few rules for future figures. The point cost is insane without the wild trait(s). It took me a minute to figure out how this works, but it seems like I'll have to expect that this DP goes apeshit on the third turn.
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Red posted:The point cost is insane without the wild trait(s). Turn four, actually. He can't activate more than one title character ability per turn, so if he's going for the big 6-cost attack, that's three turns of the +1 ability to build up, and then he can fire it off. I'm not really a Deadpool fan, but, man, I'm looking forward to a lot in this set!
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Torrent posted:Turn four, actually. He can't activate more than one title character ability per turn, so if he's going for the big 6-cost attack, that's three turns of the +1 ability to build up, and then he can fire it off. Ah, you're absolutely correct.
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thebardyspoon posted:I think the fact that the rules are so crazy involved and long winded would make it a way funnier joke if they never use them again. Kind of an interesting idea but I wouldn't want to see them alot if they are a thing going forward. Maybe one or two characters per set so like Thor and Loki in the Thor set coming out later this year. Could be a good way to make the villains who basically work alone or are the big guys in massive story arcs work better in clix. Yeah, with
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