Lessons learned by a Newbie: Trading on HCRealms

I have made a few trades and gotten some good deals. However, most every offer included my Fear Itself Colossus and the offers just didn't make me want to trade him away. I realized I wasn't going to trade him unless it was a crazy offer, and what I was looking for were not high dollar Clix, so I removed him from my H/W list.

I spent some time looking over older sets: GSX, IH, CW, Sinister, Mutations and Monsters and found a lot of cool figures that might be fun to play and actually do some good things in matches. I added them all to my H/W list and posted that I had some ASM chases, FI stuff and a BM GCPD Cruiser/Tank I bought in a moment on crazy.

I got a ton of good offers, quickly. I ended up making 5 trades.

The first offer I got was a ton of stuff for the ASM Anti Sinister Six chase. It is a very cool figure and I was really psyched when I opened it but look at what all was offered:

CW

Nick Fury
Ant Man
Dinah Soar
Iron Man Drone

And my choice of:

Thor Chariot, CW Mr. Sinister or CW Giant Man.

Wow. I decided to take the CW Giant Man. I cannot wait to get these figures!

Here are two of the figures I got in another of the trades I agreed to:

This is the figure I wanted as soon as I saw it, what a cool sculpt and the dial is cool, too. I will definitely play him Saturday.

IH Daredevil 31

I found him when I was searching through the older sets. Cool sculpt and the dial is cool, too. Daredevil with mind control? Ok, don't remember that but it's from a storyline in the comic. Going ot play him Saturday, too. 

I figured out how to organize my cards.

I finally decided to buy a notebook and card organizer sheets for my mass of Clix cards. I decided to organize the cards by points, which is awesome. This will make it a lot easier to build teams.

Yeah, it's awesome.....until I buy a new booster and need to put those cards into my set.

One plus to finally organizing my cards is I can easily study figures I would maybe not really look at. I've mentioned I am partial to Marvel figures and only sometimes play DC based figures.

But, remember those four Teen Titans boosters I mentioned? Well, yeah, I bought one of them and picked one up when we went to Tampa and actually got some cool figures. More on them later.

I have also bought a booster of Batman here and there and while going through my cards, came across the card for Grifter. I had bought the first couple issues of WILDCATS and thought Grifter was kind of cool so I actually looked over his card.

8 10 18 2

7 11 17 2

7 10 17 2

7 9 16 2

7 8 16 1

7 9 16 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Speed) Quickfire: Give Grifter a ranged combat action. After actions resolve, if this power is showing, he may make a second ranged combat attack as a free action.

So, first click is good, but that second click is awesome, 11 AV, Perplex up the damage and Flurry... Wow, sounds good to me!

And one of the Super Rares I pulled from Teen Titans:

Psimon:

7 10 17 2

6 9 17 2

6 9 17 2

6 8 16 2

5 8 15 2

5 7 14 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Psychic Shields: Psimon and adjacent friendly characters can't be targeted with Penetrating/Psychic Blast.

(Speed) Ultimate Control: Psimon can use Mind Control. When he does, modify his attack value by +2 and, if he targets more than one character, he is not dealt unavoidable damage.

(Defense) Sadistic Arrogance: Psimon can use Energy Shield/Deflection and Willpower.

So, basically, you get +2 to his attack roll when he uses mind control and IF he attempts MC twice, he does not take damage for attempting mind control. 

Nice!

One thing I noticed is that the HCRealms Unit forums has tons of comments for Marvel based figures but far fewer comments for the Teen Titans and Batman sets. I haven't spent much time reading over the sets, I sort of thought the Teen Titans set was kind of weak with a lot of 5 click dials, but there are some cool figures in that set.

I'll have to try some of these out this weekend!

Went to a Fear Itself Tourney yesterday...

Got the email from the shop in Valdosta and so I contacted everyone local to see who wanted to go. Three others rode up with me so there were a total of 8 players in the tournament.

I was the first to open my boosters and I got some dupes but did manage to get a 020 Red She Hulk, Monkey King, Attuma and Greithoth. I had traded for a Greithoth last week so already had one. I had also completed a trade for my Kuurth on hcrealms.com but perked up when I noticed someone had a spare Kuurth. One of the few figures he didn't have was Greithoth so we made a trade.

The Mighty Red She Hulk has a cool Special Power:

MIGHTY BIG-@$$ SWORD: Red She-Hulk can use Blades/Claws/Fangs. Give Red She-Hulk a close combat action that does not generate knock back; when she does, on a result of 4-6 on the d6 roll, after actions resolve, deal the same amount of damage to an opposing character adjacent to the target but not adjacent to Red She-Hulk.

It sounds great but I know if I used her, I'd never see two opponents next to each other. Of course,that isn't going to stop me from trying it, at least once.

I knew from the last tournament and from studying the Fear Itself figures, that there isn't a lot of range in the set, and since we were using two boosters of FI, I imagined that most people would be using melee figures. Although that can be remedied by using the hammers, I still decided to use figures that had range.

I used 24 Greithoth, 16 Black Widow and 17 Ms. Marvel. I usually try to build a team that has as many figures as actions during a turn. I couldn't come up with a good five figure team with my boosters so decided to run this team.

How did I do? Well, I didn't win, but these two games were two of my most fun games I have ever played. Both of my opponents always win or come in second at the tournaments so I was up against some tough competition.

The first match was tough. The other player placed a Thule Priest and Iron Fist with in striking distance before I could drop a hammer. I decided to eliminate 20 percent of his team before he had his hammers. It worked but I was hammer down.

He then placed Valkyrie in range and again I decided to ko her. However, I was not able to knock her out and ended up getting wiped out by Tanarus. Tanarus is an amazing figure, he has always done extremely well in the games I have seen him used.

I was happy I did pretty well and took most of his team with me. If I had made an attack roll on Valkyrie, I may have won, but that extra round Valk had put a pissed off Asgardian with BCF and Flurry in my face...

In my next game, I was rocked pretty early and the game ended up with my Black Widow against Angrir and Iron Fist. She managed to take out Iron Fist and after Angrir took a swing at her and she hit her Super Senses roll, I thought I had made a decent showing. She started chipping away at Angrir. He hit, I made my Super Senses roll and hit him again. I started to think I might actually possibly win....

He rolled for regeneration. He rolled a #^%^^&&*$ 6!! He hit, I rolled Super Senses. I ended up rolling 4 SS's in a row before an attack finally went through. The next round he smacked Black Widow into oblivion but I thoroughly enjoyed the game. If only.....

That was a fun trip and some very fun games.