How I went from building a fun team to a 14 AV, 7 Damage in one shot...

I try to build competitive teams that don't suck all of the fun out of the game. I'm not playing Heroclix to win at all costs. I like to win, of course, but would much rather lose a fun game than win a game where the other guy is unable to do any damage.

That being said, I ended up playing a team where one character was able to attack with a 14 attack and 7 damage....

Last week at our local shop, it was announced that this weeks tournament was going to be 600 points, Silver Age, no team bases allowed; in other words, just about anything goes.

One of the guys, who had just returned from Comic Con, said he may be tempted to play his new Zombie Galactus. Youch!

That statement stuck in my head all week but I wasn't sure I was going to make it this week. Friday night, I sat down and looked through the units section to see if I could build a team that could be fun but stand a chance against Zombie Galactus.

At 400 points, Zombie Galactus has an 18 Defense with Invincible.

I also knew that a couple of the regulars would pull out their usual powerful teams, so I decided to look through my pieces and see what I could come up with.

I have been wanting to play some of the pieces from sets that have recently come out but haven't been able to since new sets are being blown out monthly, for example, I am dying to build a team from the Captain America: Winter Soldier set. The synergy there looks like a lot of fun, but decided to pass as I'd need some big damage if I was going to face a Colossal. Plus, I figured I wouldn't run up against a theme team ( I didn't) so using the Black Widow wouldn't add much.

I thought of using WOL to build a team, Weaponer is fun, but decided not to use him. I always end up trying to use new figures, or at least build most of my team from figures I haven't used before.

So, I decided to check out the Wolverine and the Xmen set. I hadn't used much of that set (well, I've used Shatterstar and Korvus quite a bit but not recently...) and remembered a trick that was used on me back at a Fear Itself Tournament involving Valkyrie being placed in a spot where a friendly character had been KO'ed.

I had also seen a post on HCRealms where someone used WXM Magik  to teleport acorss the map carrying a Pog. The Pog would be KO'ed and Valkhyrie would be placed there, ready to attack.

And the cool thing was I haven't used FI Valkyrie or WXM Magik. They were in!

While looking at the WXM set, I saw Fantomex. When WXM came out, I used him and he did well, but didn't use him correctly and then it became evident how nasty he was so I never ended up using him again. I added him to the list, especially since he is a favorite of one of the local guys who plays powerful teams.

I had also read about someone that used DP Black Talon to mind control Shatterstar to port next to the enemy which would then mean you could use Shatty to Flurry and BCF on your first move(assuming your opponent went first).

So, I was thinking you'd be able to have two attacks on your first move, hopefully catching your opponent by surprise.

But, I kept working on my team and checking the units section and then had some evil inspiration and this is the team I ended up playing:

WXM Magik 102 pts.
FI Valkyrie 130 pts.
WOL Despotellis 30 pts.
DP Weasel 27 pts.
AVX Scarlet Witch 100 pts.
WOL Entity 25 pts.
WXM Fantomex pts.
AVX Phoenix Force pts.
FI Old Woman 3pts.

In one word: brutal.

Here was how the team played:

Magik would use her special to 'port out carrying the Old Woman and Despotellis, and the Old Woman would take the one damage and be KO'ed. Valkyrie would then use her special to move to that spot and attack.

Fantomex would have placed Eva and sometimes Eva was able to move up close enough to outwit before Valkyrie attacked.

But Fantomex was just nasty with what I played. He had the Entity so I'd replace his 3 damage with 4 from Entity. Then with Weasel's cool enhancement, he'd already be at 12 attack, 5 damage. Scarlet Witch would then perplex him  up by one, and his Ranged Combat Expert would add to whatever was left. Also, depending on where the Phoenix Force was, he was at 13 Attack, 7 damage or better.

13 attack, 7 damage. With two probs from Entity and Scarlet Witch.

I didn't lose but I didn't feel too guilty as some of the other pieces played were:

Brother Voodoo and Iron Pharoah (on the same team!), Fantomex, Black Lantern Anti Monitor, Con Ex Impossible Man (who is quite cool and very comic accurate, but still it counts, right? It is a Con Ex!) and Con Ex Hulk and Red She Hulk.

Here is my team:

And here is Tony's team, this was the first team I faced today, what's funny is I kept hitting BLAM, and after dealing 14 clicks to it, we stopped the game and realized he had played him at 600 points! :)