by Isaac Arnold Berkovits
80 Starfox chase
10 Mjolnir
70 Captain America (Sam Cap)
75 Clone Shredder
+10 Ocean Resurrection
10 Carnage
10 FF Giant Girl
10 Uncommon Giant Girl
18 4 IDs (Professor X, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Chamber)
5 Boxing Ring
= 298
Maps:
Underground Cavern
Sporting Arena
Wizkids Offices
Round 1 (1-0): vs Matt Esbrook, one of the 4-Point Gamers Club
275 Uni with 4 Eternals and Invisible Plane. On the Halfworld map, he can hide very effectively.
I won map and picked Sporting Arena because an open map is really good against a one man army so they can’t run away. He knew this and decided that he had a really low chance of winning and went for all of my ID characters instead of my actual team. I went first so I did the move that I did in all of my games which was move into the Boxing Ring and surround Starfox. He moved behind the Invisible Plane with Running Shot and took out Carnage and a Giant Girl (the purple one). I went up with Samcap and called out Wolverine and hit Uni to his 165 point line with Jean Grey and Outwitting his defense and Perplexing up her Attack and Perplexes to his Attack. I hit him past his STOP click with a Shredder ping. He then took out Jean Grey and my last retaliator with his double target and he Perplexed up his damage and defense. Afterwords I tried to Flurry with Starfox because he had picked up Mjolnir before and he rolled Shape Change and hit so then I cleared with everyone else. He cleared and I called out Professor X and he hit Shape Change again! I pinged him with Shredder and tried to Flurry again and he rolled Shape Change yet again. He took out the Professor and I turned him into 4 Eternals with Wolverine. I think he was Makkari, Sersi, Starfox and Thena. He then took out Wolverine with two of his Eternals, and Perplexed up Sersi’s damage by 3 and he took out Samcap. I then took out the Eternals with Shredder and Starfox.
Round 2 (2-0):
Starfox, Riddler, Sam Cap, Mangog, Renet Tilley.
I ran up into Boxing Ring and then he used Renet to carry out Sam Cap to call out Wolverine to take out Carnage and purple Giant Girl, but not FF Giant Girl. Then I rushed Starfox and Mangog and took them out with Sam Cap calling out Chamber. I used Clone Shredder to ping his three remaining characters, as I left him behind in the Boxing Ring. He cleared and I called out Jean Grey with Clone Shredder to take out Sam Cap and win the game as Renet couldn’t hold off my entire team.
Round 3 (3-0):
275 Goblin King, Carnage, Symbiote Object, 2 id’s.
I used purple Giant Girl to take out his Carnage after he over-extended to get the Symbiote. He attacked me a lot and missed a lot of Shape Change and Super Senses and he had the advantage at that point but I had hit too much and he had missed too much and I was ahead. He ran away and I chased him. He pushed to try one last attack and I took him out in the two free turns that I had. This is usually a worse match-up for me and I feel lucky to have triumphed.
Round 4 (4-0): Bradley (from my local venue, Highlander Games in Boonton, NJ)
75 pt Professor X, 2 Wolverines, Lila Cheney, Cyclops, Boxing Ring, the usual IDs
He won map and picked Underground Cavern. He moved up his team into the Ring which was placed right next to mine so there was a big open space in the middle of the map. I carried up Sam Cap with purple Giant Girl and moved up Starfox carrying Shredder Clone. Samcap then called out Brood X and Perplexed up his Attack by two and Damage by one. He did two to each of the Wolverines and I had Shredder take them both out. I then got Royal Hatchling pogs and clogged up the space. He then Mind Controlled with his Prof X and moved my team around so that they were all closer to his team. He called out Rusty and had him and Cyclops hit Shredder to his last click and then Perplexed up everyone’s defense. I called out Jean Grey and did a Running Shot on Cyclops and missed. I then free TK’d Starfox right next to Cyclops and had Jean next to him. He Flurried with a Perplex to Attack and took out Cyclops and healed 3 from Steal Energy and rolling a Four. I retaliated on Rusty and took him out with Carnage and Giant Girl. He did another Mind Control and time was called because we had each been playing slow because we had to think really hard about positioning on the Underground Cavern map.
Round 5 (5-0):
Claw Shredder, Mini Shredder, Peace Machine, Overdrive, 4 ids, Symbiote, Carnage.
I moved up into Boxing Ring and he made a positioning error with his Shredders and wasn’t able to take out all my collasals (only one) so i took out Claw Shredder with Starfox and Wolverine Flurries and it was his turn. He called out his Wolverine and missed Sam Cap a lot and wasn’t able to do any damage except for the remaining Shredder ping but couldn’t take out Giant Girl. He retaliated with Carnage but I rolled Super Senses on Starfox and his Symbiote pog just missed it’s attack. It was my turn and I was able to take out his Wolverine. I thought that points would matter in this game. We had a round of clearing and then he took a turn and missed my Sam Cap yet again. We had both taken relatively long turns and it was my only game that went to time.
Round 6 (5-1):
Uni-Mind w/ Thanos/Starfox/Makkari, Lockjaw, Symbiote Object, Pym Pocket Tank, 3 IDs, Invisible Plane terrain. Dan Powell chose Genosha map
On this map, he placed the Terrain so that Uni/LJ has a very nice hidey hole which is very hard to target, and can’t be gotten to with close combat. It’s very important to pick the side of the map where that’s a lot harder to do, but I didn’t see that, so this game was very tough and I just couldn’t get enough attacks on Uni.
So, I made the Top 16 cut at 5-1.
Top 16: vs a guy from the Lex-Man team.
He won map roll (+13), went on WK offices to get Mjolnir and the Mirror more easily, and also to limit LOF to the GGs.
60 Yellowjacket, 80 Starfox + 10 Mjolnir, 50 Tigra + 8 Mirror, 80 FF GG x 8, 20 Unc GG x 2, IDs
– I chose Tigra for Shredder Clone’s non -2 attack.
– Moved up, put Starfox on Mjolnir
– He moved up, put Starfox on Mjolnir. Advanced/spread out some GGs. Left Yellowjacket in back row with LOF to 3 or 4 GGs.
– I picked up MJ
– He picked up MJ. Advanced/spread out some GGs
– Both cleared. Advanced/spread out some GGs
– I went for a flanking strategy by having Starfox carry up Sam Cap, who brought out Chamber. Perplexed up AV+2, Dmg+1, hit him for 4 with Knockback into a wall, but I forgot he had toughness so he was on his last click, but he forgot to heal when I took out his Giant Girls so Shredder Clone took him out a turn later.
– His Fox carried Tigra into Empower position, then he retaled around 6 times. He hit two and took out Chamber
– Then we just battled in one of the rooms and I took out his Tigra and he couldn’t get through my Shredder Clone before I was able to take down all the Giant Girls and finally Starfox.
Top 8: vs Kent Munson
He picked Wakanda map with his Cosmic Theme team.
75 Jakar, 80 Starfox w/ Mjolnir, 65 Unseen. 10 Flora Colossus, IDs
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His 2nd turn he double-TK’ed Starfox and Unseen and took out Carnage and a Giant Girl. I had Starfox carry up Chamber and took out his Starfox. There was some back and forth but I finally got through Jakar for the win. This full game was on Twitch.
Top 4: vs Matt G
He picked Muir Island map.
Pip/Mini Shredder/Sam Cap/Pym Particle Tank/Mangog/Surtur/Carnage/IDs
– I put Boxing Ring on my side, just inside building
– He put his 3 colossals in the corner, into an L shape
– I Sidestepped then his Pip carried up Sam Cap and the tank went along for the ride.
– He called out Professor X but I think he missed? Also his Mini couldn’t Sidestep to ping me because he doesn’t have improved move.
– My Starfox carried Clone full board to ping and take out all 3 Retals. My Sam Cap called out Wolverine and I think took out Mini, who I then ported to the other side of the map to be based with Clone.
– His Mini called out Jean Grey and Tk’ed Mini away, then Mini walked most of the way back to the room.
– We battled on the Boxing Ring as Starfox carried Clone back over for some pings and Sam Cap called out another ID.
– He was down to his Pip and Tank. He retreated but I was up on points so he came back over and I finished them off.
Finals: vs Abdul Manikram (from Highlander Games also!)
He chose Wakanda map with his Cosmic Theme team – Starfox/Infinity/Groot/Groot/U
I really want to say Go Watch the Video on Twitch! This game was tough as him going first on a wide open map gives him the advantage.
-First turn he equips Mjolnir to Starfox, I move up into the Boxing Ring
-He takes out both Giant Girls. Starfox carries up Sam Cap, who calls out Chamber to take out Starfox. The game was hanging on his missing Super Senses!
-I Sidestepped, then pushed Carnage to KO to bring Clone as far as possible.
-I don’t remember how I did 3 damage to Infinity and Unseen, but they were both on their last clicks, and I was able to Shredder move to take out one, then sidestep to take out the other.
-He was down to just Groot, but a bunch of Walking Woods who did 4 Flurries (8 attacks!) on my team, some of them pushing to KO. If they all hit, I think he’d have the win but fortunately some missed and I survived for Starfox to take out Groot and win.
