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Red posted:I went out of my way a year or so ago to get an old Junkpile (but not the whole 2099 set), because he's a character I like, and it's a great sculpt. I rarely play him, and when I do, he's slow and useless - but I love the guy: Man, I really wished that guy was better. I tried to pair him with Doom 2099 a lot as MM fodder, but that fig isn't good, either. I eventually put a spare Doom 2099 sculpt on the meatsack Doom dial and enjoyed it much better.
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Pff. I love battle royales and having multiple players on a map, but it definitely works better with an even number of players, and it does start taking a while for your turn to come around - helps to institute a time limit to keep things moving, and since you have so many players to go through, you should still have plenty of time to think about your moves. Multiple player games are fun because you are all playing the same game, and politicking becomes an aspect - trying to convince one opponent that another opponent is the biggest threat so they make a better target than you, etc.
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Feb 3, 2016 15:44
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Huh. The mystery of not knowing an opponent's dial, or not knowing what you might lose if you push, seems like a big part of the game. But it also makes for agonizing decisions that indecisive jerks like me take too long to make. I'm trying to decide if knowing everybody's dial all the time would make things better or not. To be fair, much of my fun is in playing the characters and teams I want to play, as they say. So maybe it won't matter that much. But it does take away some ability to surprise an opponent. Also trying to decide how I feel about the whole 'specialist' thing. Yeah, I see the appeal of being able to cram more dudes and fuller theme teams onto your force, but I don't know if more characters is compelling if all the dials are one-note boring dials. Then again, the generalist dial may not be as interesting if it's visible and no longer has the ability to surprise someone with its versatility. But maybe I'm overestimating the need to have your opponent not know things.
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Feb 5, 2016 02:35
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I mean, the Con Artist would be considered a specialist. The Con Artist was the worst. A shitload of cheap perplex and outwit might make things suck more.
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Feb 5, 2016 03:15
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I see the point of people saying that you never need to buy new figures again. Just have one fig with a dial that has the numbers 1-12 on it. Then any card can be used for them. Everyone is saying Print and Play is dead. Did I miss that?
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Feb 5, 2016 15:35
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I thought maybe they could turn the dial 90 degrees to fill up that dead space on the back, and perhaps make it easier to read.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:37
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"Targeting the square" is only a thing with Telekinesis, I think. I think your judge is right. Although it shouldn't be, because it's still a close combat attack and those don't require line of fire.
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Feb 22, 2016 17:45
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The Grammar Aryan posted:The real prize is the Jean Grey out of the FF. 50 points, Willpower, full-dial TK, and the first three clicks have a special TK she can use for free if she has no action tokens.She can TK up a KC Shazam, he can HSS somewhere, get back to where he was, then she can TK him back to where he started. Or, you know, less abusive uses of power, I guess. Cheap Jean Grey TK yo-yo of a HSS beatstick. And the game comes full circle.
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Apr 26, 2016 21:54
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Full Set List Poster for Civil War. SLOP deets. Lack of FF and X-Men means Thunderbolts and Young Avengers can get in, I guess. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 16:25
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The event has to be a poo poo show if it wants to remain comic accurate.
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May 3, 2016 16:56
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I feel like it's only worth buying bricks if you buy a case and get 2 bricks.
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May 4, 2016 22:33
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Batman With A Bomb (Bombman? Bombat? Wombat?) seems to work like the straight-jacket, although I've never seen anyone actually use that.
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Jun 3, 2016 00:36
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So I'm going to Origins for the first time in many years. Anything cool happening clix-wise that would require me to bring some teams? EDIT: Never mind, found a list of Side Events (because there's no point for me to attempt the big tourneys - I'm not that good and I hate meta play). There are Golden Age tournaments that state "You may not include any non-character game elements except standard objects on your force and all starting force game elements you use (not including Sideline) must be able to begin the game on the map." Does this effectively prohibit everything except actual figures and standard objects? No feats, no resources, no BFCs, no Entities? I feel like many of us have been searching for a succinct way to create tournaments that prohibit doucheplay but there's always some loophole to exploit. Does this mean that characters who generate bystanders can't generate them because they don't begin the game on the map? Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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Jun 8, 2016 22:04
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Oh, cool. So no ATAs, even if they are on the character card, because they are an optional extra expense?
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Jun 9, 2016 00:34
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I'm an armchair goon at best, but I shall try! Also, this will give me something to actually build teams for since my venues just keep doing sealed events forever.
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Jun 9, 2016 03:47
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Do keywords count as game elements for the side events? Or can I build 5 different Avengers teams for the Lil Clix event? EDIT: Never mind, they do not. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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Jun 11, 2016 07:35
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All right. I am at Origins. I am about to play in a BR. I am the fat guy with a lovely beard wearing a black tshirt and shorts. OH WAIT. I have a They Live shirt on.
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Jun 16, 2016 16:46
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I saw you today, Morand, but it was in the midst of the tourney so I didn't bother interrupting. Congrats! I instead played in the Golden Age Escalation thing, and wouldn't you know it turned out to be the ONE side event that didn't have the stipulation about no non-character game elements, which was most of the draw for me. So I'm playing against resources and poo poo. Went 0-1-1. I'll be doing a BR tomorrow sometime.
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Jun 18, 2016 04:33
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So is Print and Play gone forever or something? I got a cardless Indigo Sinestro and I'd like to print one out. I figure it has to be preserved somewhere.
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Jun 20, 2016 05:06
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Torrent posted:
That's okay - it'll teach me to read each event more closely rather than assume the same stips for the first three I read will be in place for all of them. I had built for the Li'l Clix event, too, but my team wasn't Modern Age, so that's another thing I missed (I had 5 100 point teams of Sinister Syndicate stuff!) I was the guy who played all-Marauders in the Escalation. In retrospect (although, honestly, it was kinda in pre-spect, too), Arclight and Harpoon don't make a great 100 point team, even if their points work exactly and I was just trying to simplify. I really just need to play a full Marauders squad complete with Morand's Sinister at some point, so I can add Juggernaut and Brotherhooders to it if I want. Thanks for running these events! I love the softer side of the game. It's where I live. And I'm glad to see an effort made to celebrate that side of it, too, even if people still try to rough it up anyway. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 21:13
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thebardyspoon posted:War of Light is in the print and play section on the Heroclix website? It is? I could've sworn they took down Print and Play. Thanks! EDIT: Maybe they just stopped updating it and that's what everyone was worked up about. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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Jun 20, 2016 21:23
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Do you not have to pay the points for the weapons if you're paying for the resource on the Punisher Van? Spider-Man with a handgun is bothering my sense of theme-liness. Although I guess he's never been Batman about it.
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Jun 25, 2016 17:49
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Got an email saying the Superior Foes pre-releases have been cancelled because WK product was on a train that tragically derailed in Texas.
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Jul 2, 2016 00:58
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I have a Morlun I'd like to turn into Superior Spider-Man.
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Aug 17, 2016 20:27
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I don't care much for the sketch variants, but I got a Sketch Thug. I'm thinking about keeping that around so he is actually Coked-Up Thug.
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Aug 18, 2016 20:44
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I got to play for the first time in ages today. Speed Demon rolled 4 straight 1s in breakaway attempts, which kinda fit Superior Foes. Still managed to beat the Foot Clan.
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Aug 22, 2016 05:47
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I was curious if Old Stilt-Man's legs fit with the New Stilt-Man's legs, but it seems even New Stilt-Man's legs don't fit with New Stilt-Man's legs. I managed to get it together enough to play him yesterday, but it's very fragile. Pick him up by the base and not his immense sculpt.
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Aug 23, 2016 00:54
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So I went 2-0-1 today and somehow lost to a guy who went 2-1 - a guy I also beat. I likely wouldn't play Night Nurse anyway, but they kept saying they input the stats into whatever program they report to, and it said he beat me, because he beat me on points. I always thought it was record first, and then points as tiebreaker. This was confusing and probably wrong, but I decided not to be a dick about it. Although it reminded me why I hadn't bothered to go there since sometime last year. vvv We did roll off. I won the roll off. The lady said she had to enter a tie into whatever system she was using to "report accurately" so the roll off was disallowed. And for some reason, whatever system she was using was apparently telling her the other guy won. I didn't understand, and she was sheepish about it. Steve Vader fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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Sep 9, 2016 03:49
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Dudes. He means the Tbolts in their original villain costume. Yes, Fixer is Techno, but we don't have Norbert in the original outfit. Nor Mimi. We don't have Angar The Screamer yet either.
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Sep 23, 2016 22:07
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Perhaps we are seeing a gamewide shift towards lower point costs for everything, so you don't have to play a 1000 point game to play a full team.
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Oct 14, 2016 19:37
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Wow. That existed for maybe 10 panels in that Circle of Four storyline (I think that was the name). Now I want it. Dad-blast it. I was one of the 6 people who read the Red Hulk series.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:16
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I haven't gotten to play in a while. Do the super cheap JSA pieces seem as broken as I initially thought they'd be?
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Nov 18, 2016 02:51
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I played for the first time in many months. 600 points, one fig had to be 250. I decided to make a ridiculous Soldier team based around Black Lantern John Stewart bringing back people and machines from the dead. I ran the War Wheel at 275 with him, as well as Jonah Hex (a Confederate soldier he was going to force to make amends) and Frankenstein (he's a bag of dead parts anyway). First game, I lost to AoA Magneto and Phoenix Prime, but the second game I rolled against Darkseid and Validus, and I had a lovely time because Jonah Hex basically shot Darkseid twice, one in each eye, to end the Omega Beam threat. War Wheel backup helped, of course, but I like calling shots for Jonah Hex because there's always something fun about the games whenever I play him where I get to do a little trash talk about how badass he is.
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Jan 9, 2017 02:24
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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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Jan 24, 2017 20:13
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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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Feb 2, 2017 02:54
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Ms. America? Did they announce an America Chavez LE and I missed it?
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Mar 1, 2017 03:58
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I pulled the Ultra Chase Rainbow Unicorn Deadpool. I am so torn, because it is awesome, but I also like money.
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Mar 3, 2017 08:02
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Also, it seems you can now be given a Theme Prob token even if you've taken an action already that turn.
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Mar 3, 2017 20:59
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I don't know. All that 'squeezing in free actions at the beginning of turns' stuff always felt pretty cheap.
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Combat Abilities Don't Exist Anymore. I wonder how that's going to shake out.
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