The Iron Campaign (part 6)

OK, so it’s quite a bit later than Monday, when I intended to post this. I apologize for overpromising and underdelivering. Here’s the 1000-point Stark team I chose this time:
Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20 + Improvise 7 + Thunderbolts 5
V Iron Man (Armor Wars) 172 + Thunderbolts 5
Hulkbuster 165 + Unstoppable 5
LE Iron Man (Supernova) 160 + Stunning Blow 10 + Thunderbolts 5
U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters) 100
Anthony Stark 100 + Thunderbolts 5
Guardsman 32
R Mandroid Armor 28
in a battle royale on the Great Arena map against (clockwise from my left):
BRYCE’S
The Mighty Thor 286
Doom (Secret Invasion) 249
Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188
Iron Man (Avengers) 154
Super Skrull: X-Men 106
PAUL’s goofy clix
Bizarro #1 (Arkham Asylum) 199
Mordru (Cosmic Justice) 109
Ch’p 82
Plasmus 80
Impossible Man 72
Batzarro 69
Mr. Mind 68
Red Ghost 59
Super Apes Peotor 50
Ambush Bug 50
Val-Or 23
Joe Chill x 2
and more I can’t recall.
and TIM’s villains
Mordru 245 (Crisis)
Immortus 157
Clown Prince of Crime (Arkham Asylum) 150
Circe (Arkham Asylum) 149
Doctor Destiny 99
and one more I can’t remember.
By round 3, the “shock the turtle” effect would come into play (in which every round a “shock barrier” would move a square closer to the center of the map, dealing 1 unavoidable damage to anyone caught in it and thus shrinking the effective map size). That’d keep me from hanging back to use my range advantage for very long.
And It Went a Little Something Like This
Paul, hoping I’d do his dirty work for him, helpfully Outwitted Bryce’s Iron Man’s Invulnerability and I took the bait, delivering a 5-click Stunning Blow to unhelmeted Tony.
Bryce, while a very sharp player for one so young and relatively unseasoned, made a critical error in pushing to retaliate. Although he hit my powerless FCBD Iron Man (thanks to Doom’s “Powerless” super-Outwit option) for a whopping 5 clicks with Mighty Thor, he’d planted both Thor and Doom where they’d take Shock-the-Turtle damage next turn.  I concentrated my efforts on keeping Doom’s Powerless countered while I finished off Bryce’s Iron Man and then Thor for an insurmountable lead before time ran out.
The next day, I had to field a different 1000-point team because Bryce accidentally walked off with my U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters).
Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20 + Improvise 7 + Alpha Flight 0
V Iron Man (Armor Wars) 172 + Alpha Flight 0
Hulkbuster 165 + Unstoppable 5
LE Iron Man (Supernova) 160 + Stunning Blow 10
Spider-Man (Avengers) 111 + Alpha Flight 0
Anthony Stark 100 + Alpha Flight 0
Guardsman 32
R Mandroid Armor 28
My plan: sit back and pile on Improvise tokens until targets present themselves. With the Mandroid’s TK, I had some flexibility in attack options.
There were three players, so I got the first bye.
MORRISON
14-15 year-old occasional player. Very skilled.
His team: AVENGERS
Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20
Namor (Secret Invasion) 150
Dr. Strange (Secret Invasion) 149
Hercules (Secret Invasion) 142
U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters) 100 + Vendetta 6
Spider-Girl 77
Spider-Man (Secret Invasion) 50
After watching Conrad squander his Green Lantern team’s range advantage by rushing down to the center of the map, there was no way I’d repeat such an error. Using Perplex and TK, I took superlong-range shots with V AW Iron Man, trying to hit Iron Man’s 21 DV (double-Perplex+terrain). I constantly missed, but Morrison was completely unable to retaliate due to my range advantage. It was only a matter of time, then before I either hit his Iron Man or another character.
So he ventured out to destroy my Kinetic Accelerator and thus opened up the battle for true. It ended with my taking his Iron Man and Dr. Strange while losing none.
CONRAD
14-year-old occasional player. Not very skilled.
Ganthet 286
Kyle Rayner (Crisis) 182
Alan Scott 171
Green Lantern (Crisis) 157
Colossus (Mutations + Monsters) 158
Again I played a highly conservative game, only venturing out to blow up a Meteorite. The game turned when Conrad TK’d Alan out to Running Shoot V AW Iron Man for 4. That left the soft Alan open for severe punishment and KO. Hulkbuster managed to barely survive Conrad’s focused onslaught to preserve  my win (although even losing him would have meant a ONE-POINT MARGIN of victory).
Win/loss: 2-0
Iron Campaign: 10-10. First goal reached! Now I’ll try to end with a winning record before my sparring partners get COMPLETELY sick of the red & gold.

OK, so it’s quite a bit later than Monday, when I intended to post this. I apologize for overpromising and underdelivering. Here’s the 1000-point Stark team I chose this time:

Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20 + Improvise 7 + Thunderbolts 5
V Iron Man (Armor Wars) 172 + Thunderbolts 5
Hulkbuster 165 + Unstoppable 5
LE Iron Man (Supernova) 160 + Stunning Blow 10 + Thunderbolts 5
U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters) 100
Anthony Stark 100 + Thunderbolts 5
Guardsman 32
R Mandroid Armor 28

in a battle royale on the Great Arena map against (clockwise from my left):

BRYCE’S

The Mighty Thor 286
Doom (Secret Invasion) 249
Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188
Iron Man (Avengers) 154
Super Skrull: X-Men 106

PAUL’s goofy clix

Bizarro #1 (Arkham Asylum) 199
Mordru (Cosmic Justice) 109
Ch’p 82
Plasmus 80
Impossible Man 72
Batzarro 69
Mr. Mind 68
Red Ghost 59
Super Apes Peotor 50
Ambush Bug 50
Val-Or 23
Joe Chill x 2
(and more I can’t recall)

and TIM’s villains

Mordru 245 (Crisis)
Immortus 157
Clown Prince of Crime (Arkham Asylum) 150
Circe (Arkham Asylum) 149
Doctor Destiny 99

and one more I can’t remember.

By round 3, the “shock the turtle” effect would come into play (in which every round a “shock barrier” would move a square closer to the center of the map, dealing 1 unavoidable damage to anyone caught in it and thus shrinking the effective map size). That’d keep me from hanging back to use my range advantage for very long.

And It Went a Little Something Like This
Paul, hoping I’d do his dirty work for him, helpfully Outwitted Bryce’s Iron Man’s Invulnerability and I took the bait, delivering a 5-click Stunning Blow to unhelmeted Tony.

Bryce, while a very sharp player for one so young and relatively unseasoned, made a critical error in pushing to retaliate. Although he hit my powerless FCBD Iron Man (thanks to Doom’s “Powerless” super-Outwit option) for a whopping 5 clicks with Mighty Thor, he’d planted both Thor and Doom where they’d take Shock-the-Turtle damage next turn.  I concentrated my efforts on keeping Doom’s Powerless countered while I finished off Bryce’s Iron Man and then Thor for an insurmountable lead before time ran out. Fairly easy win for the Stark team that put it at 8-10.

The next day, I had to field a slightly different 1000-point team because Bryce accidentally walked off with my U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters).

Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20 + Improvise 7 + Alpha Flight 0
V Iron Man (Armor Wars) 172 + Alpha Flight 0
Hulkbuster 165 + Unstoppable 5
LE Iron Man (Supernova) 160 + Stunning Blow 10
Spider-Man (Avengers) 111 + Alpha Flight 0
Anthony Stark 100 + Alpha Flight 0
Guardsman 32
R Mandroid Armor 28

My plan: sit back and pile on Improvise tokens until targets present themselves. With the Mandroid’s TK, I had some flexibility in attack options.

There were three players, so I got the first bye.

MORRISON
14-15 year-old occasional player. Very skilled.

His team: AVENGERS

Iron Man (Secret Invasion) 188 + Brilliant Tactician 20
Namor (Secret Invasion) 150
Dr. Strange (Secret Invasion) 149
Hercules (Secret Invasion) 142
U Iron Man (Mutations + Monsters) 100 + Vendetta 6
Spider-Girl 77
Spider-Man (Secret Invasion) 50

After watching Conrad squander his Green Lantern team’s range advantage by rushing down to the center of the map, there was no way I’d repeat such an error. Using Perplex and TK, I took superlong-range shots with V AW Iron Man, trying to hit Iron Man’s 21 DV (double-Perplex+terrain). I constantly missed, but Morrison was completely unable to retaliate due to my range advantage. It was only a matter of time, then before I either hit his Iron Man or another character.

So he ventured out to destroy my Kinetic Accelerator and thus opened up the battle for true. It ended with my taking his Iron Man and Dr. Strange while losing none.

CONRAD
14-year-old occasional player. Not very skilled.

Ganthet 286
Kyle Rayner (Crisis) 182
Alan Scott 171
Green Lantern (Crisis) 157
Colossus (Mutations + Monsters) 158

Again I played a highly conservative game, only venturing out to blow up a Meteorite. The game turned when Conrad TK’d Alan out to Running Shoot V AW Iron Man for 4. That left the soft Alan open for severe punishment and KO. Hulkbuster managed to barely survive Conrad’s focused onslaught to preserve  my win (although even losing him would have meant a ONE-POINT MARGIN of victory).

Win/loss: 2-0

Iron Campaign: 10-10. First goal reached! Now I’ll try to end with a winning record before my sparring partners get COMPLETELY sick of the red & gold.

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