Interesting.
I spent time going over my collection to see what dupes I could use to build a fairly strong team. I was seriously considering using WXM Shadow King on Hope Summers, but decided to hold onto that idea for an OP tourney, I think that team would be painful to play against.
So, I also decided I'd try to use figures I had never used before. I've been trying to use more of my collection lately and have a lot of fun finding awesome Clix I had overlooked previously (ASM Daimon Hellstrom, WXM Lillandra, etc)
I took a look at my collection of the Spider-man set. I have quite a bit of that set and many dupes (six Dr. Strange!!!!), I had never used the ASM Dr. Strange and decided this would be a good time to get rid of one of them if I lost. I kept looking at my team and ended up adding ASM 13 Frank Drake and 13a Hannibal King to the team and tossed in a CW Donald Blake.
Looking at the team I also realized I could use the Midnight Sons ATA. I had looked at ATA's before but like I have mentioned, we don't really play super competitive teams, People will use figures like Brother Voodoo, Superboy Prime or Fantomex but it's not highly competitive.
So, my first match was against a mish mash team of:
JL 056 Timetrapper
FI Monkey King
IC Firelord
IN 021 Johnny Alpha
He took the opportunity to play a lot of silver age figures and this was a fun game. He was not happy at the ATA I was using which is:
All three games I had to remind the other player that they actually couldn't make a ranged attack against my team, well, except for Donald Blake. He got smashed a couple of times. I had looked at the ATA's before but wow, did I miss that one?! Even if my three guys got based and took damage, chances were I could either TK the wounded to Blake for a heal or hurt the attacker enough to KO
him and then heal.I ended up winning but it was a fun game. I offered to let the guy keep his team but he declined and stated he brought the team and was ok with losing the team.
The next guy I played ran a team of :
IIM 047 Titanium Man
CA 015 Red Guardian
The other player was a newer guy at our shop but not new to Heroclix and seems to run themed teams. This was a fun game but without being able to knock enough of my team off their first click and keep them off, he ended up getting KO'ed. I also think the sheer number of actions he gave up, 2 to 4, really helped me win.
This player had wanted the Time Trapper and after I made sure he had another Titanium Man, I kept him and gave him the Time Trapper.
The last match was against the best player in our shop, who also judges our OP Tournaments. He was running WXM Deathlok Prime and BSI 008 Vox Handyman.
This match was fun and eventually we maneuvered into position and his Vox Handyman moved in for an attack. He hit pretty hard, knocking Hannibal King onto his fifth click, which is pretty nice, 11 attack with BCF and Super Senses for defense. I rolled for attack and hit, and rolled a six for BCF. One shot the Vox Handyman!
The next turn, Deathlok was able to running shot into adjacency and use Sharpshooter to hit turn the tables in his favor. Deathlok ended up winning but that was a great match.
All in all, very fun games and the lesson to learn is use ATA's.
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