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Let's start this thread off with team talk! Local place is doing 2015 points, only thing banned are feats. Winner gets Deadshot and the ability to create an event for the store to run next year. I won last year with Zombies. This year it won't be quite that bad. What would you run?
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CapnAndy posted:Oh, definitely. You can probably buy CUR sets for past releases for a pittance and then just cherry-pick the SRs and chases you really want/need. All solid advice.
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Dec 22, 2015 19:13
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zgrowler2 posted:I made the most joyous face reading that team list. I don't have most of those hulks  I'm leaning towards a swarm. Most builds end up with 27-30 figures. The venue loves tentpoles and a well played swarm usually baffles them
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Dec 23, 2015 04:12
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ManiacClown posted:Oh, Andy, you know I am naught but your greasepainted trickster god. Also, videos aside, I did too have those links in the OP! I'll use this list as a starter for the second post, though. Also also, good eye on the feats. I'm too tired this week. Morand, how are you on Iron Men? Varies. I had to sacrifice a loving ton of older stuff to fix a chimney awhile ago
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Dec 23, 2015 11:43
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zgrowler2 posted:My top vote is Ultrons, though Hydra+Hand, SHIELD, or Kree would also be great fun. I think more defensively oriented themes would wind up dragging the game out way too much. I did consider the Ultrons. I've played them quite a few times though and they basically play the same at any point value. They are a fantastic swarm but it's not much more then sidestep, everyone shoots, things die
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Dec 23, 2015 11:45
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Red posted:Sinister Six OP set incoming: It's a repainted spider-bot. There are 0 new sculpts in that kit. Here are dials. http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8536612&postcount=1 Morand fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Dec 24, 2015 11:22
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Tournaments are a large part. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from having home games though. We are just a prize motivated player base.
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Dec 25, 2015 00:51
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Just bought myself a Brainiac Retail Ship and Brainiac Entity with Christmas cash
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Dec 29, 2015 02:19
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Today was the annual 2016 year end game. I bucked the trend of powerhouses and ran Apokalips SLOSH Darkseid at 350 Brimstone at 275 4 SM/WW Parademons (should have been 5 but I forgot one in my bag all 3 rounds) 10 TW Main set Parademons 8 B&TB Parademon Grunts Lydea Mallor Steppenwolf Brutaal A belt with all but one slot on Darkseid I probably should have read that we were limited to 8 actions in a turn cause that boned me pretty hard. Not gonna give a rundown of all the rounds because I couldn't remember the exact teams if I tried. Andy did get his rematch against Apokalips with the Justice League in the third round. He ran SM/WW Lex TW Superman TW Wonder Woman TW Batman JL52 Green Arrow WOL Guy with Scissors Big Barda Mr. Miracle Orion TT Cyborg Wally Flash from Flash TT Green Lantern Sister Superior The leadership boosting ATA on everyone There may have been more. I won map because with a +27 you don't need to roll unless they have 18 dudes. I chose the garden and moved up cautiously with Darkseid and Parademon screeners. Brimstone also moved with screen and Brutaal came up. He had guy carry everyone after Superman rolled leadership. I went agressive trying to nail superman with Brimstone as I'd have a 13 on his 20 but could not missed. Moved up a ton of Demons as well to follow up later. The league ended Brimstone in a turn. Sister superior gave everyone a plus one attack and he unloaded with psyblast and superman. The generics took a massive beating from Green Arrow's EE. Lex also took shots. I outwitted lex's mastermind and had Brutaal hit for 6 and some healthy demons finished him off. He had superman try to come down to hit Brutaal but I made shape change. He then had Orion do a RS next to superman and hit Darkseid for 6 since he had Superman Ally. That hurt. Couldn't even use my mastermind since that's a defensive power I can use. The demons then exploded along with my dice as Orion died in a turn as well as batman and green arrow. Guy and flash managed to hurt Brutaal badly and Barda did a DPA to knock me end dial. Lydea moved up to base lantern and Wonder Woman and actually plink wonder woman for 2. One generic hit superman for 2 after invincible. Darkseid outwitted his Impervious and another demon hit for 4 more. He burned so much PC to KO Brutaal, even leaving superman exposed. Lydea managed to give everyone a -1 and Superman was KO'd which dropped despair. Time was called and I won on points thanks to that KO. Andy wanted to keep going to see how it would end. I couldn't though. We decided it was still 50/50 as the league was beat up yes but I was low on generics. Darkseid was going to heal with the belt when he could and depending on that that could have been big. Amazing nail biter of a game and Apokalips is now 6-0 with the Seid, Wolf, Brutaal combo
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Jan 4, 2016 00:33
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ManiacClown posted:It turns out WizKids is going to make Gale Force 9-style markers, though with a base on them so a character can sit on them and weight them down. They'll also serve as markers to indicate certain powers active, apparently. I guess they're going to come out in an accessory pack at first along with one on X-23 in the Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces. I like this as an idea. As yet another thing to fit into my clix bag it makes me weep
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Today was 500 points. I was lazy Skull Ship at 450 Bizarro at 50 I decided I wanted to play drone games Round 1 versus 250 point Enchantress with belt Black Alice Nightshade Faust Shadowpact ATA on all I held back and tried to spawn drones but he came right for me. The Skull Ship then just started single targeting PWing everyone and KOing them one at a time. Bizarro got hit once but that was it Round 2 versus Zombie Super Skrull Copycat Evil Deadpool with full Phoenix Force Blind Al Groot from GOTG Hi I'm a new player who's just learning the game. My loving rear end you are. He did take Bizarro with copycat. Anyway I won map roll and chose the prison. I then proceeded to sit in my starting area and spawn drones while my opponent farted around breaking walls. Eventually I got all 8 out. He still tried to break walls. He did eventually come and try to take a shot on copycat with Super Skrull but I hit shape change. My drones murdered his Groot and time was called. I am ok with a win like this against a team like that. Round 3 versus Deity Hades Artemis Hermes I lost map and ended up on the avengers tank map. He would not let me spawn drones as he'd heard they were mean. He came right for me and Artemis managed to hit me off top dial due to clever positioning, but she knocked me onto power reclamation and I healed up. Took shots and lost bizarro to Hades who became a suffering soul. Had Hermes down low but he ran to his snakes. Ran over and used tentacle attacks to KO the snakes and make more drones which Hades murdered with PW. Artemis had the misfortune of always seeming to be nearby when I was on steal energy or reclamation and I just kept healing. Eventually it was Hades versus the ship and I managed to get it done. So the ship is fun but I think a tentacle/drone strategy might work better with it as a vehicle. They just need to make me a LOD and robot keyworded Brainiac.
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Jan 11, 2016 00:55
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Heroclix.com has previews of the generic Witch and Warlock as well as Jason Blood and Etrigan. PLUS there's a definition of a new game term "Unique Modifier" which is basically just standardizing some poo poo which is useful.
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Jan 13, 2016 19:38
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So it looks like I'm gonna play in an actual ROC super qualifier. 400 Limited. My first thought on building some teams is that 400 is waaaay too easy to break. I made this without even thinking. Nick Fury x 2 Jason of Sparta Captain America General Lane or Bucky Soldier theme. Good luck if I win map.
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Jan 15, 2016 17:24
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The Grammar Aryan posted:There's an ROC Super Qualifier coming up in Durham on the 23rd that I'm going to. Current scuttlebutt is that the team to beat is a full dial Nimrod with Juston Seyfert. I gotta admit, that pairing's going to blow up a lot of stuff, and unless you really, really screw up or crit miss constantly, it's going to be an uphill battle for your opponent. The 2 nick team would wipe the floor with that team. No pulse wave, hypersonic, new directive, or Juston outwit if I am running General Lane, I'm going to own half the map and say you can't target me so there will be no moving up and punching me. Next turn you are going to take 10 clicks of penetrating damage and I am going to further counter everything you have. No way to heal means I win. That said, if you aren't running an eye team specifically built to screw monsters like that? I agree that things could be very difficult. 3 attacks a turn are nothing to sneeze at. CapnAndy posted:Seems like a Green Power Battery shuts that down quick enough. It's limited format right now. No resources. Only ATA's, Themes, and Bystanders. Morand fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Jan 15, 2016 18:57
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So no posts about the amazing Poison Ivy they previewed yesterday? Hi. I'm poison Ivy. I'm going to Mind Control your Superman to paste your batman and then he's going to base me. Did I mention he can't attack me now and if you attack me I'll be borrowing his impervious on top of my senses and shape change? No? Too bad.
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Well the incoming blizzard has nixed any chance of me making the ROC event on Saturday so I figure I'll share the three teams I was considering with you guys in case you are going to the Catskills or North Carolina. Team 1 Nicks (Soldier Themed) 2 Balls of Fury 50 point Cap from the original Avengers Fast Forces Jason of Sparta General Lane OR Aldrich Killian Gamma Bomb Basically you own half the map, can counter anything, and have a turn of nope you can't target me. Laugh so hard at Nimrod teams. Team 2 Debuff (No Theme) Red Son Wonder Woman at her lower value Rainbow Raider Nighthawk Prime Dr. Demonicus Atomica A 30 point Ultron Drone (Probably Age of Ultron for me) Gamma Bomb or Helmet of Fate The idea here is that Rainbow Raider hands out a -1 to all combat values. Attack anyone not named Wonder Woman, and feel free to enjoy an extra -1 Attack and Damage and Nighthawk says you won't be modifying any of this back up. Demonicus's pogs become nigh unhittable with a -2 attack and a +3 defense from the doc's +2 and WW's +1. Team 3 Koriander (Warrior Theme) LE Koriander SOG Starfire Red Hood and the outlaws TA x 2 Rocket Racoon AOU Thor at 100 (Jonah Hex also a possibility) Damaged Warbot Bat Signal Damaged Warbot 2 FI pogs The Outlaws ATA is an amazing overlooked TA. Says that you can't have LOF drawn to you by their highest point character. With their respective outsider TA's they don't care about any Nighthawk prime debuff nonsense. Thor can drop Jane or Jonah can drop the doc. If you get too hurt a pog can batsignal you on back to be healed. My buddy showing me this team is why I considered putting Aldrich on the Nick Force instead of Lane. It is literally the only way the nicks have a chance against this team.
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Jan 22, 2016 17:47
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Figures.com got a WF Brick to open. They revealed the dial for Will Magnus (Gives Metal Men avengers/jla ta effect), Monsieur Mallah with detachable Brain, and Alloy who can break off into other metal men instead of being KO'd
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Jan 25, 2016 18:27
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Scott Porter did another unboxing today. Opened a Supergirl as a female fury. No dial info but an amazing trait and special power. Trait - When Supergirl hits with an attack, after actions resolve give each hit character an action token. If one or more hit characters were unable to be given an action token, remove an action token from Supergirl. If one or more hit characters can use the Batman Ally, Justice League, or Superman Ally team ability, heal her of one click. Special attack power - Scatter the human rabble: Supergirl can use Super Strength and Quake. When Supergirl has 2 action tokens, she uses Quake as a free action. Starts with 12 Running Shot, 11 Psychic Blast, 18 Invincible, 4 damage. Apokolips continues to be the most amazing army. Sadly they are very much an army and not a strike force. Critical mass needs 800-1000 minimum. As it goes higher it only gets more ridiculous.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:59
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CapnAndy posted:200 on the nose. 3 lines . 200/150/100
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Jan 26, 2016 17:53
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Red posted:Chase KC Wonder Woman gets reviewed. Hahaha. 140 points for a 13 attack. Why the hell not. Serious note I do like then 25 point effect. I thought they were going to make her an entity which would make me cry but making her an uber medic that then decides she needs to kick rear end is ok with me.
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Hahaha! I'm counting this as a win by proxy. And you didn't steal anything, I posted it and said feel free to use and you did! Congrats on the win!The Grammar Aryan posted:I played in the Super Q in Durham over the weekend, despite the horrible sheets of ice, and decided to steal Morand's double Nick soldier team, with Lane instead of Killian. Let it be known that if one Nick can get the job done, two Nicks can clean the map handily. And yes, I laughed heartily at a Juston/Nimrod team that nearly threw in the towel when I ported up the map and completely shut down his team. I definitely wouldn't have done nearly as well if I had gone with the Amazons team, especially with the low turnout- only 11 players altogether.
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Jan 27, 2016 18:39
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Hugoon Chavez posted:Hey goones, I'm thinking about getting into heroclix because I am a giant nerd, and it's kinda cheap to start + I love the characters already. I think they are finally putting out a new rule book and starter sometime this year so I would wait for that. In the meantime just nab pieces that look cool or ask us what works and we'll help.
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Jan 27, 2016 18:42
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Waffles Inc. posted:mercy Boosters. Out of my 2 pre-release boosters I pulled all 4 shifting focus supermen. I was not the only one to do this either
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Mutant Headcrab posted:Mostly. You get five of the six chases. Most reports I've seen indicate that Superman is the odd man out. I've heard that there is a second God Pack with all primes and superman. It's all hearsay though. Not seen a picture.
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Jan 29, 2016 17:47
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You guys kind of want that Kyle Rayner if you are at all a fan of the character
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I played in three pre-releases because my weekend was free. I learned that if I am not at my normal venue I roll and pull like absolute dogshit! First venue I ran Eyebeam Superman with all his sideboards Prime Ivy Mentallo? (Doom Patrol guy) Occultist Black Cat Rolled lots of 3's and 4's and my opponents made lots of defensive rolls and I went 1-2 which wasn't fun. Ivy was my absolute stud with her Mind Control but my dice just poo poo the bed hard. Second Venue I did a little better Major Force Klarion Poison Ivy Lost my first round against a Mary Marvel who would not miss. Won my next 2 games pretty handily and even got to do a 7 square poison once. Klarion's cat was the best secondary attacker I could have asked for, he had a massive KO list. Today I did completely amazing Pulled 2 SR's out of my boosters in the form of Alloy and Platinum. Ended up running Alloy at 200, Platinum, and Tin. This team was rock solid. Alloy had either a 14 AV or 21 D depending on what I needed. I even surprised a few players by perplexing alloy's range to 6 and getting a shot they thought they were safe from. I got that bye round 1 so I never played Andy so who knows what would have happened! In my head I need to win map and choose a wall filled indoor map to limit his yo-yo. If Alloy can get first hit with his ultra? That's basically game as he gets knocked on an 18 invuln click with charge. If he doesn't miss and I get knocked off my 11 with perplex click? I'm hosed and he's gonna win. But enough of that. The post game was more awesome! The store had extra boosters and let us buy extras from which I pulled even more SR's! Joker, Mallah, and my very own KC Supeman. Yeah I'm done with pre-releases I think.
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Feb 1, 2016 02:45
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Hugoon Chavez posted:So I gathered a couple of friends to give my new minis a spin in our first game. I've read the rules and understand most of them so I'm confident in that I can explain the game to them rather well. There's no specific rules for 3 player games. I've never enjoyed anything that wasn't 1 v 1 just cause I find that it normally becomes 2 v 1 and then 1 v 1. If you want to straight do a 2 versus 1 then the only fair way I can think of to do it would be to give the one double the points you get. So if you each are doing 300 he'd get 600. Honestly I'd just do some 1 v 1 games until you get the basics down. Then figure out if you want to do 3 player games
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Feb 3, 2016 11:23
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Wizkids just previewed the other half of the WF fast forces. I personally love the weapon drop object. It's a less convoluted and less broken utility belt.
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Feb 3, 2016 20:23
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The Grammar Aryan posted:Yeah, and I'm really impressed by the Batman and Nightwing they've got there. For 125 points, you get a decent, flexible Batman, a Nightwing with Sidestep, Leap/Climb, Outsiders, and can copy the Batman TA, and that weapon drop object. That's a whole hell of a lot of utility for the cost. Every Nightwing in the set has been completely rock solid. The main set one is no slouch either!
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Feb 4, 2016 00:33
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thebardyspoon posted:Was the Wonder Woman/Superman set produced in very small quantities or something? It's the one set I didn't bother getting anything from as I had little money at the time and I meant to get a CUR set from ebay later but there's none of those and even the sellers I usually get some stuff from have just a few rares for high prices this far out and no SRs, one is even selling the basic commons for £4.99 each which is pretty crazy. I have a pile of extras from that set sitting in my car. If you pay for shipping you can have them.
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Feb 5, 2016 14:40
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thebardyspoon posted:Yeah I'm up for that, thanks. Would you be able to guesstimate how much shipping would be? I'm in the UK, it's fine if that makes it not worth the hassle though. Alot? I'd expect 40-50 American?
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Feb 6, 2016 01:14
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thebardyspoon posted:What's the pile like? Might still be worth it maybe. Thanks for the offer in any case anyway. I'll look through it tomorrow
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Feb 6, 2016 01:44
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I dragged my extras out of my car. It's a mix of Nick, TW, SM/WW and such Notable pieces include prime Atom from SM/WW, Rare Thanos from GOTG, Captain Marvel Prime from same set. TW SR WW. A pile of cur's from each set. I'll basically charge shipping to take them all off my hands.
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Feb 6, 2016 20:05
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Take it all or take none. It's in a giant bag and I don't want to sort it all out. First Dibs to Bardy as he was first to ask. I'll shoot you an email, if you don't want them then Maniac can have them.
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Feb 7, 2016 03:54
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Found some more extras. Add SR Faust to the pile of notables in my big pile of extras
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Today was 600 point gang fight. One person on your force had to be over 100 points, everyone else had to be less then 101. I traded for all the metal men after pulling the 2 SR's last pre release and I ran them Alloy at 275 Doc Magnus Mercury Copper Lead Iron Gold Platinum Tin I just wanted to see if the Metal Men could hang in an event. They did so well in the pre-release I had to try. Round 1 versus Nekron at 600 I won map roll and chose the prison to limit him taking shots at me before I was ready. I basically clumped up around Platinum on my side of the map. Managed to get first shot with alloy but lost platinum to his next strike. Knocked him to blades and he went for Tin, with everyone taking a penetrating click as he rolled low. Alloy came in and hot for 5 more. I lost Mercury before it was all said and done but the Metal Men were able to take down Nekron. Round 2 versus WOL Hal Jordan Parallax OP Kit Amanda Waller OP Kit Deadshot Bucky Bronze Tiger HOT Jimmy Woo Green Lantern Ring This was a team by a new guy and he had a plan with it which is more then I usually see him having his teams. He used Amanda to give the squad keyword to Parallax so Amada could leadership tokens off him and get nano bomb bonuses. Sadly he made several misplays during the game. I won map roll and chose the prison. He could have blown up walls to remove tokens all the time from Parallax but never thought of it. He moved Deadshot well into charge range and lost him to Alloy. He outwitted charge when I had 2 tokens. The list goes on. I took his team but lost nothing. This summary sounds obnoxiously arrogant but the recap wouldn't be much more then, and then he moved up and I killed a thing over and over. Round 3 versus Mystical Malekith at 350 JL Enchantress at 50 Klarion the Witch Boy Apprentice Dr Strange with Eclipso equipped Bat Cowl as relic Won map roll again and placed us on the prison. Slow start as he tried and failed to nab the cowl with Malekith and I stayed bunched up. He was able to take a shot on Alloy and hit my 22 with Malekith. I took 5. Ran back to the doc and was healed for 4. He positioned a bit and Malekith ended Iron, he then perplexed his defense to a 20. Doc managed to hit an 8 and put alloy top dial. Alloy and tin perplexed my attack to a 15 and hit Malekith with an ultra heavy. Did 6 after impervious failed, took mystic click. Copper moved up and based most of his team with platinum lending out an 18. He popped off teekl to try and hit copper. Copper hit SC though. He managed to hit alloy onto a sidestep and responsometer click. I sidestepped, nabbed a heavy and finished off Malekith. Doc then healed alloy top dial again and that was basically it as he'd lost his biggest offensive threat. Finished 3-0 with 1799 points. The metal men kicked all sorts of rear end and I was amazed. I remember them being an awful joke team and now they are ultra cost effective. Did not play Andy, he lost in the first round to the Mystical team I beat in the finale. He had a hydra squad that was built to ruin high defense teams and would have been very difficult to beat. Morand fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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DaMangoSentinel posted:Opened a case last night and was a little disappointed. Didn't get either the SR Batman or Superman, but I did get the duo. Chase was Wonder Woman, my least wanted KC figure and Prime was Superman, my least wanted Prime from the set. A lot of collecting ahead. Any interest in doing a prime for prime swap? I've got poison ivy's coming out my ears and kinda want that Superman.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:45
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DaMangoSentinel posted:Already have a Poison Ivy on the way, actually. 5 bucks on Ebay was too hard to pass up. Anything else you are looking for? I've got a buttload of CUR from this set. Feel free to PM Morand fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Feb 13, 2016 17:19
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Silliness aside, you can now double up on cards that have good effects to maximize the power that lets you choose a different inspiration and let everyone use it. Superman and Wonder Man? OK my whole force has invincible their whole dial now. Shazam and Captain Marvel? Sure hope you like my whole force having Quint/Power Cosmic.
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Steve Vader posted:"Targeting the square" is only a thing with Telekinesis, I think. Characters occupying a square within x squares and LOF may be targeted as if they were adjacent. You aren't drawing LOF to the character, its the square they are in. The judge was wrong. Stealth offers no protection against giant reach
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