So the U.S. is semi-paralyzed by coronavirus concerns at the moment. Guess I’ll spend some of this time publishing some Heroclixin’ stories and whatnot.
So I went to one of my favorite venues last year for some games. As usual, I brought multiple teams. And because the judge is chill and the turnout was small, he let me run each one.
1st F.U.N. fight:
Punisher Van vs. Nicos
The event: Golden Age
My theme: Marvel Knights
My team:
Punisher [WizKids M19-011] 75
Punisher Van [WizKids MP16-004] 75
Elektra [Avengers Black Panther Illuminati 037] 75
Daredevil [WizKids MP18-007] 50
SIDELINE: Elektra [Avengers Black Panther Illuminati 030], Elektra [Avengers Black Panther Illuminati 037]
I faced Bill’s team of Nicos: Nico Minoru [Hammer of Thor 047], Nico Minoru [What If 031], Nico Minoru [What If 106], Nico Minoru [Battleworld 045] and Sister Grimm [Battleworld 005] on my ROC Prison map.
I drove the Van up the stairs, giving Bill decent first shots. And, to use his words: “You never should’ve told me it exploded.”
You see, Bill loves a Kuriboh team that I’ve run afoul of before. He also plays aggressively with little heed to his own team’s survival sometimes, so he went full force with an Outwit and BCF and Penetrating Psychic Blast and succeeded in detonating the Van well before I could get Elektra or Daredevil out of range.
Punisher went on to fail every breakaway to Running Shot, so it was DD and Elektra who scored the KOs for the win.
2nd F.U.N. fight
Scarlets vs Brutes
Scarlet Spider [WizKids M19-009] 75
Scarlet Spider [Avengers Assemble ] 60 x 3
SIDELINE: equipped Jocasta [Age of Ultron 039]
I faced George’s Lobo [WizKids DP19-002] @125, Skurge [The Mighty Thor 029b], Grizzly [Deadpool & X-Force 012] with the Bloodaxe special object on my ROC prison map.
I began with nothing but Sidesteps. That gave George all the time he needed to get equipped. Nothing I could do about that.
TURNING POINT
Lobo dropped Dawg and I lost when I A) picked Outwit/Perplex from Jocasta (instead of Precision Strike) intending to save it for the Main Man and then Dawg got his Impervious roll. From there, any bit of damage dealt was healed either by Steal Energy (from the Bloodaxe) or Dawg as Skurge was unhittable, dealing mass range shots and even Grizzly took out my top Scarlet. Never had a chance.
Bill didn’t even want to play that team with his Nicos and dipped. But I’d brought one more team…
3rd F.U.N. fight:
Cyclops [Xavier’s School 052] @50
Lila Cheney [WizKids M17-015]
Dust [Xavier’s School 056]
Oya [Xavier’s School 031]
Kitty Pryde [Regenesis ]
Armor [Giant-Size X-Men ]
Prodigy ID 3
Jubilee ID 3
Wolverine Bounty ID 5
SIDELINE: Prodigy [Xavier’s School], Jubilee , Wolverine [Xavier’s School 053]
George dropped Skurge from his earlier team and boosted Lobo to full cost (200 points).
I got a Leadership early to take a token off Lila, so I decided to block George’s duo in the doorway. But I made my first error and put Armor in front and she got one-shot (Exploit). Bye 18 Defend.
Options were bad and worse: No LOF for Oya’s 2 targets, no shot for Cyke, only a single attack for Dust, and Lockheed’s EE would hurt me.
So I evac’d to another cell. With the team out of actions and her full of passengers, Lila had to leave the dragon, who died.
Lobo came out to the courtyard and that’s when I had a shot.
First, Dust Sidestepped out and took out a pillar of blocking to clear the LOF to Grizzly.
Then Kitty Sidestepped to be an Enhancement battery.
Then Cyke PPBlasted Lobo for 4.
Then Oya got her two-target double shot with 4 damage, plus 1 penetrating to Lobo.
Wore Lobo down to STOP, twice, then ID Wolverine got 7 on 2nd Flurry for the win.
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This was the game where Oya vaulted from being a figure that just kinda barely made it onto my favorites of 2018 into being a Top 15 of the decade piece. 