Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission three.

Hey, this is like the opening shots of one of those '90s Batman films. Only cool, actually...AND NO BAT-NIPPLES!

Back from Christmas and continuing the series.

Next day was a 800-point game using the Ragnarok event dial. Here’s the team:
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
V Drax 184 + Protected 8 + Unstoppable 5 + Cannonball 4 + Alias 3
Adam Warlock (Secret Invasion) 160 + Contingency Plan 12 + Invigorate 10
Phyla-Vell 138 + Protected 8
Star-Lord 90 + Contingency Plan 12
Gamora 73 + Protected 8 + Maneuver 8
Rocket Raccoon 65
Lila Cheney 6
Lila Cheney 6
= 800 points. Threw in a pair of pogs because I had room (after nearly maxing out on the 10% feat limit) and because Lila, being a space-faring teleporter, will probably meet them sooner than later.
FIRST MATCH vs. Paul and his Robots:
Air-Walker 201 + Armor Piercing 10
Beta Ray Bill (Hammer of Thor) 159
Skull-Brother 75
Bi-Beast 73
Ahab 68
M-11 59
Phalanx Soldier 31
Phalanx Soldier 31
Phalanx Soldier 31
Phalanx Soldier 31
Phalanx Soldier 31
On the Asgard map, I had to dig through Phalanx hordes while weathering Air-Walker and Beta Ray Bill attacks. Was simply unable to finish off any piece over 31 points, and the final condition of the Ragnarok event dial erased all the victory points I did score. (Paul clearly built his team for this event dial, a point I will certainly make when I cover Ragnarok in my ongoing “Building for the Event Dial” series.) Lost both pogs, Star-Lord and Gamora. 0-1.
SECOND MATCH vs. Azul and his
Psycho-Man 151
Enchantress (Hammer of Thor) 141
Ronan the Accuser (Hammer of Thor) 130
Green Arrow (Crisis) 104
Gambit 90
Miss Martian 76
Amanda Waller (Arkham Asylum) 75
V Scourge 21
He was tired of the Asgard map (as was I), so he picked my Dockyard. I picked the land end to force him down the narrow causeway.
Had to deal with Psycho-Man first. Fortunately, one of the early conditions of Ragnarok gives Outwit and consequently offered a chance for Star-Lord to take an early, though unsuccessful, shot. That scared Azul enough, I think, to TK Psycho-Man to base and attack Star-Lord for solid damage. But the rest of my team was able to dogpile him for the first KO.
Azul’s relative inexperience continued to work horribly against him as he brought Amanda Waller and Green Arrow in close, leaving her without Mastermind fodder and him pushed off his Stealth click. That cost him Amanda (c/o Star-Lord). I was working on Ronan (actually passed up an easy KO of him to chase after a fleeing Green Arrow) when time expired. Lost no one. 1-1.
THIRD MATCH vs. Bryce and his
The Mighty Thor 286 + Spotter 5
Thor (Hammer of Thor) 226
Fenris Wolf 140
Hogun 96
Asgardian Warrior 37.
There was a Vendetta feat in there, too, but it was on The Mighty Thor and therefore mostly useless due to almost no characters with higher points to target.
This young but savvy player wasted no time attacking. On the Asgard map, I managed to dodge some big early damage with PC and Super Senses. When Fenris Wolf missed his strike, I took the opportunity to dogpile him with Gamora and Drax and Star-Lord for the first KO.
From there, Bryce’s rolls really went cold while I started landing repeated shots with Phyla-Vell (thanks to Adam’s Invigorate) to whittle down the Thors. Got a full-power heal on Drax to take him from near-KO to back useful. Wiped out the whole team, losing only my sacrificial pogs.
Win/Loss: 2-1 in this tournament, 5-3 overall. Not bad! (I somewhat wish I’d tried out the Guardians of the Galaxy alternate team ability for this game to defend against the “Treacherous Loki” condition that gives any character Outwit for a round. But…I didn’t. :p )
Still more coming from that weekend…keep watching this space!

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