Ambuscade is trying to destroy the Handelabra team!!!! (community challenge with a prize!!!)

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In honor of Handelabra team releasing mini-expansion one I felt like it was time to have another fun community challenge... with a prize.

 

Breaking news: Ambuscade is mad at the Handelabra team for putting him into their video game and wants to prevent the future expansions. In response he has found out the Handelabra team's ancestors have settled in a small town called Silver Gulch in 1883 and has broken into Tachyon's lab and stole a time machine she has built. His plan take out the Handelabra's team's ancestors and make it so the video game has never been created. Unity, who had placed Mr. Chomps in charge of Tachyon's lab security, upset over the fact that this happen one of her creation's watch, has taken the spare time machine back to stop him. Plus she doesnt want to get fired from the freedom six, she enjoys hanging out with the freedom five too much.

Your mission. Take a team of heroes back in time to Silver Gulch with Unity to defeat Ambuscade and save the Handelabra team and allow them to release Rook City in a timely fashion for our enjoyment

 

Rules of the challenge:

As a community we must gather 100 points in defeating Ambuscade by playing either the card game or the video game. You must play aganist Ambuscade in Silver Gulch and one of the heroes must be Unity. When you win come here and tell the story of your epic battle to defend the Handelabra team. Please tell the story also not just saying who you won with. The community will get 1 point for each win againist Ambuscade by coming here and posting their story. 2 points if you beat Ambuscade on advance mode. Play multiple times are allowed.

 

Wait you said a prize????

Yes that is correct there is a prize to this challenge. I have talked to MigrantP about this and he has agreed. (Please confirm this MigrantP). Once the community has gathered 100 points. All participants will be entered into a drawing. They will get their name thrown into the hat each time they gather a point. So if someone gathers 5 points for the community, they get their name in 5 times. The Prize? 1 ( or possiblity 2. Up to MigrantP.) will get to participate as a guest host on the Sentinels of the Multiverse Live stream event in a live game with the Handelabra team. :O

 

Get to it Sentinels! Go save Handelabra so we can get Rook City ASAP!!!!

 

Community points so far: 1

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Is it 1 or 2 points per participant or per game? The reason why I'm asking is if multiple forum members take the challenge together. I like the idea though.

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morph147 speaks the truth, the winner of the challenge drawing will get a spot as a guest host! If it's very popular perhaps we'll do 2, we'll see how it goes. Maybe you'll get a chance to demo a Rook City deck on the stream for the first time, who knows?

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An easy victory for Legacy, Tempest, Haka, Visionary and Unity. Legacy provided much needed damage buffer and with several heroic interceptions kept Ambuscades pesky sonic mines and other devices from harming our heroes. Tempest and Haka began a count seeing who could destroy more of Ambucade's toy's tearing through them like paper instead of metal before pummeling Ambuscade himself. Visionary was hard at work distracting and confusing gunmen away from the battlefield instead bringing out helpful tumbleweeds and wagons. Unity with a slow start finished strong with a small army of golem's defeating Ambuscade in a hail of raptor bites, bullets and several lazer beams. With the villian defeated our heroes set the Handelabra team free and made sure they got back to work on finishing Rook City (and Multi-player).

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lets make it per game. Otherwise I can see 3-4 people sitting down somewhere and playing 10 games to get majority of the points. However If multiple people team up to beat him together then we can just make it so each member of the team will get their name thrown in the hat once.

Therefore if player A, player B and player C team up to beat Ambuscade then as a community we will get one point total as a commnutiy but for the drawing each of them will get their name thrown in the hat once.

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Sounds fair, thanks.

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Young Legacy, Tachyon, Unity, and Haka vs. Adv. Ambuscade 

Result: Victory

Lowest Health Hero:  Haka at 11

Things started off with a bang when Unity tripped a Sonic mine, but Haka countered with a Ground Pound, evening the playing field.

Multiple hypersonic assaults later and a Savage Mana just in time to eat the cloaking device meant Ambuscade was running low on health with little to show for it (all heroes above 20 health).  But then a series of explosive events occurred.  First, an explosive trap which blew up Bee-Bot who destroyed an explosive wagon.  It was fireworks all around, leaving the heroes at 14, 13, 13, 11, respectively and Ambuscade at 4.  One super-strength and inspired Backfist Strike from Young Legacy ended the fight.

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Haka, Tempest, Unity vs Advanced Ambuscade (Victory)

Team Morale: Low 

Method of Victory: Poetic Justice 

The day started as normally as it could when an ancient Maori warrior, alien, and teenage girl travel back in time to defeat an ex-actor whose hellbent on destroying a video game featuring their exploits. Which is to say, it started with Ambuscade invisible and little else. 

All too soon we learned that our portal home was clenching shut fast, but that crazed hunter was giving us this rundown in short order. We were popping traps left and right, raptor bots died and were reborn again, Hakas were chanted, and sonic mines were detonated all under the looming (never more than three turns away,) threat of being shut off in the past. Soon we were ignoring his automated turrets entirely and firing on him.

Things were manageable until the explosive launcher came out immeadiately after an explosive wagon and wiped out Unity's bots. That's when the panic started. Still we managed to hold on and chip away at his victory until a Savage Mana containing only the Cloaking Device took him out for the exact 2 damage we needed. 

The past is safe my friends. For now.

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Round 1:

“But why do I have to go?” Unity asked Tachyon, “Time Travel sucks, it’s all don’t blow up anything or you might never be born.”

“Someone has to stay here Devra, to keep this end running, and someone has to go and be able to repair the portable time distortion unit in the past.” Tachyon responded.

“But Maia is already going, she’s better at that than me.”

“Yes, But Maia can’t fashion parts out of rusty nails, you can.”

Devra smiled, “Well, you got me there.”

. . .

With a loud POP the three heroes emerged from the future.

Unity rubbed her ears.  “Ow, that was loud.”

The Wraith surveyed the territory, “It wasn’t noise, it was pressure, we displaced. . . oh nevermind.”

“There he is.” The Maori Warrior stated dryly, “On the roof of the Saloon.”

Sure enough Ambuscade was there, planting explosives on the buildings.

 

As the heroes approached, Ambuscade cloaked and ran off, The Wraith tracked him with her Infra red eyepiece while Haka destroyed his automated turrets.

“He’s moving toward the desert,” Wraith exclaimed, “we have to cut him off.”

As they ran between the stable and jail the world exploded, Ambuscade set them up well with his traps, and as he looked over the sight of his Explosives launcher at the rubble he smiled.

“You blew up my Bot!” both Wraith and Unity yelled, somehow they had all survived, but where was Haka?

“I’m right behind you.” Haka said, as if reading his opponent’s mind.

Ambuscade crumpled to the ground, and the heroes dragged him back to the time distortion unit, the past was safe for now.

 

(First match normal, Ambuscade was stealthed for like 80% of the match, Haka got Savage Mana and Taiaha out and Mere, and tons of cards.  Wraith got Infra Red and almost nothing else.  Unity’s hand stunk, but she got Stealth Bot out just in time for 3 traps, a ton of cards played and Explosives Launcher to chain and almost wipe Unity out if it wasn’t for Stealth Bot.  Then haka of Battle Savage Mana for 23 damage ended the match.)

 

Round 2  3 months later. . .

“But why do I have to go?”(Unity)

“Because we need someone who can repair the Time Displacement Unit to be in the past.”  (Tachyon)

“Humph, Time Travel Sucks.”

“Just don’t blow up your great great Grandfather.”

“We weren’t even here then.”

“Whatever! Just Go!”

“And they say I’m the immature one. . .”

. . .

“Well at least you are here Pauline, Maia was boring.” Unity stated sadly.

“Is that him on the roof?” Pauline asked.

“Yes, but that is him from before, we can’t get involved in that one.”  Haka said, surveying the town.

“Oh, then how do we find him?”

“This time I find you!”  Ambuscade shouted from behind them, and the bullets started flying.

. . .

5 minutes later

. . .

“That was easy, what a wuss.” Pauline said laughing.

“”Speak for yourself, he blew up the Displacement unit, and My arm is broken.” Unity protested.

“That’s just because you aren’t bulletproof,” taunted the young Legacy, “but seriously, can you rebuild it with that arm?”

“Yeah, don’t worry about it.”

 

(2nd Match Advanced, Ambuscade started out doing tons of damage, but with YL and Haka having awesome hands the Match lasted 4 rounds, and only Unity was really beat up, thanks largely to the locals.  Pauline threw down some major damage, with two flying smashes and surge of strength. even got the ring and charge out for the final round.)

 

Round 3:  3 weeks later. . .

“You have to be kidding me, my arm is in a cast, send someone else.” (Unity)

“Look, there is no one else to send, you have to go, just try to stay out of the way and behind your golems.”  (Tachyon)

“I don’t like you! Any of you!” (Unity)

 

“Okay, there’s the roof with Ambuscade #1, there’s me fighting Ambuscade #2, where is he this time?” Unity asked the Visionary.

“He’s in the Bar, setting up traps.” The Psychic responded.

“Good.  Hey Ryan, can I borrow those gauntlets?

 

The Bar was melting, but inside and still frozen solid was Ambuscade.

"I guess his luck ran cold."

“That should cool him off.”

“Hey guys, should we call him Ambuscicle now?”

“Devra, stop please.”

 

(Round 3 advanced: it was epic, started with Cryo Bot and Champion Bot and an Explosives Wagon, healed Cryo Bot twice to get more insane freezing, while AZ was turning plenty of fire damage into cold for Ambuscade.  Match was toast once Visionary got Twist and WtM on Cryo Bot, for my favorite combo ever, and then put Wrest on the Wagon, and cocoon on herself and we blew up the wagon.)


 

5 points! Round 1 was normal because last night I got stomped by Ambuscade, it was ridiculous.

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A team of Legacy, Tachyon, the Visionary, and Unity foiled the machinations of Ambuscade in Silver Gulch.  The game was won in Advanced Mode.  :)

The Visionary had been discussing aspects of the changed timeline with Legacy and Tachyon, not realising that Tachyon's new intern, Unity, was listening closely from an adjoining room.  As Vanessa described how her powers had seen many possible futures, Unity wondered if it was possible to replicate such abilities.  She started to build an experimental psi bot.  Just as she'd completed her first attempt, Legacy interrupted the Visionary: his danger sense was warning that Freedom Tower was about to come under attack.  Taking a moment to focus her abilities, the Visionary looked into the future, trying to see the source of the threat.  "Hey, I can help!" Unity cried, charging in with the psi bot.  Little did she know that the interraction of the Visionary's talents with the unstable temporal fields her bot was generating would rip a hole in time.  The four heroes were pulled through, along with the villain who'd just been about to attack them.
 
Ambuscade looked around the dusty Western American town where he'd landed.  Most of his preparations were useless now.  Still, some of his tools and toys had fallen through the portal with him - and, if he was unprepared for this backwater from the past, the heroes were doubly so.  They didn't have the facilities of Freedom Tower to help them either...  Acting quickly, Ambuscade placed a trap in a narrow alleyway, then moved two automated turrets into a position that would send the heroes down that alley seeking cover.  (Well, probably not Legacy, he knew, but if the leader of the Freedom Five was stupid enough to stand in the way of the fire, all the better.  No one could be truly invulnerable to turret fire, not even Paul Parsons.)  Ambuscade hoisted an explosive launcher on his shoulder and began the hunt.
 
Tachyon looked around at the team's new surroundings: a dubious-looking town in the style of the Old West.  The swirling dust made her blink rapidly (how else?), so she quickly pulled on her goggles.  "Devra, you know I like to experiment as much as anyone, but that new bot needs a lot more testing before it's deployed outside the lab."
 
The intern smiled sheepishly.  "Hey, look on the bright side.  Won't going this far back in time help Vanessa to make even better changes to the future?"
 
The Visionary sighed.  "It does not work like that.  This may not even be the past of the world with which you are familiar - or mine, for that matter.  By the time we find out one way or the other, that portal will most likely be closed.  We should return to your timeline while we have the chance."
 
Legacy nodded.  "We have responsibilities-"  He cut himself off abruptly, eyes widening, then barked out a single command: "Move!"  Turning, he leaped into the air, aiming for the figure suddenly visible on the roof - but Ambuscade had already launched a rocket at the team.  All Legacy could do to protect the others was catch and hold it as it exploded.
 
Legacy being tied up with the explosive, Ambuscade ordered the turrets to move and direct fire at the rest of the heroes.  They fled down the alley as he expected.  He sneered as the scientist woman babbled rapidly.  His English wasn't so good that he could make out every word of such quick speech, but he told himself that she had to be panicking.
 
Tachyon, of course, was doing nothing of the sort.  "Thereisn'tmuchmetalhereforyourbots," she told Unity, eyeing the wooden edifices all around them, "butoncewetakedownthoseturretswe'llhaveplentyofscrap."  She grinned wolfishly.  Turning around and running back towards the turrets, which were following them down the alleyway, Tachyon launched a supersonic assault.  Pieces of metal began to fly off in all directions.
 
"I predict that turret will succumb first," the Visionary said quietly, pointing at one of the artillery platforms.  Focusing her mind, she blasted it with psychic energy.  No harm in helping her prediction to come true.
 
 
Unity nodded and began to exert her technopathic powers, pulling pieces of scrap metal together.  With Tachyon and the Visionary's help, she assembled a swift bot and a raptor bot.  Whimsically, she gave Mr. Chomps a small metal cowboy hat as a finishing touch, and made her robotic version of Tachyon exclaim: "Interns should not create time portals!"
 
Meanwhile, all this commotion had drawn the attention of residents of the town (which, unbeknownst to both Ambuscade and the heroes, was called Silver Gulch).  One in particular, a large man with a gatling gun, opened his mouth in a grin that showed both gaps and gold teeth, and sprayed bullets at heroes, bots, and villain alike.  "Matthew!" he hollered.  "Cyrus!  Get on out!"  The jailbreak couldn't have been better timed.
 
The battle descended into a frantic farce.  Legacy sensed the danger of the trap that Ambuscade had planned and managed to save the rest of his team from being hurt by it, at the cost of taking all its damage himself.  All around him, the Hayes brothers took potshots wherever they could.  Focusing on Ambuscade now, tackling the villainous hunter into a wall, Legacy had little attention to spare and thus could not protect Unity's bots from the town's deranged gunmen.  Thankfully, with continued help from the Visionary and Tachyon (the latter looking increasingly frazzled as she pushed her speed to the limit), Unity was able to rebuild them as soon as they were destroyed, and even add more to their number.  Eventually, they drove off the Hayes brothers, and turned to find a badly-wounded Legacy still grimly grappling with Ambuscade.  The hunter struggled but could not reach the activation mechanism of his cloaking device.
 
"Any time now... would be good, team," Legacy managed.
 
Unity gave Mr. Chomps the honour of incapacitating Ambuscade.  In the absence of a sheriff appearing in this little town, her cowboy-hatted dinosaur was the next best thing.
 
The team of heroes managed to get back to the portal before it closed, the Visionary taking care not to leave any advanced technology behind.  Or... had she quite managed?  As the portal winked shut, Cyrus Hayes opened a single eye.  That hand-cannon he'd managed to get from the strange masked man might just be what he needed to tip the town in his favour...

 

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Barely

But VICTORY!!!!

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Ouch!  Ambuscade laid low the one prey that mattered most to him.  :(

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Great stories, those are a lot of fun to read!

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I count 13 points from posts to this point.

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I can attest it is a fun prize, go forth and win, heroes!

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Guise, Guise, Guise, Guise, and Guise all met in Silver Gulch, 1883.   Once they saw each other they spontaneously combusted and when the smoke cleared there was Legacy, AZ, Haka, Tachyon, and Unity.   It started rough with Ambuscade cloaking to begin as he his devices and him ripped into the heroes before they knew it.   Unity decided it was best to hide behind the Explosive Wagon while waiting for Ambuscade to come out.  Once he as he was scout into the open the heroes ripped into Ambuscade.   He only lasted one turn longer when he found his Cloaking Device again.  

Edit: this was on advanced.  

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Still Lost one But Victory, Pulls out armed and dangerious, put out like 3 guns took out both Explodsives and I dropped like 15hp in one turn and Lost RA

 

 

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After Ambuscade's escape, Unity immediately followed on her own. Exasperated, Tachyon grabbed whoever was in the Tower (Young Legacy, Tempest and, over protests that he'd prefer it if Unity was stuck in the past where she couldn't do as much damage, Absolute Zero) and followed.

Ambuscade set up sonic mines and an automated turret to stop the heroes before vanishing and attacking them with his rocket launcher.

Inspired by Legacy, Tachyon revealed presents for Unity, a pair of construction pylons, while Tempest used his hurricane to reveal Ambuscade in the billowing sands and everyone proceeded to destroy the weapons. Unity brought out a platform bot, bee bot, Champion Bot and Swift Bot, although Tachyon rewired bee bot into an explosive against Ambuscade (Exoerimental Sucker Punch) causing Sheriff Pratt to seek shelter back in his office.

Once revealed Ambuscasde was not much of a threat, especially as Legacy kept slamming him up against the walls of the town jail. Finally, Unity used a powered sockwaveto finish him off. Kicking sand over Ambuscade's unconscious form she was heard muttering "That was for Mr Chomps."

Easy victory for the heroes, non-advanced.

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Unity, Bunker, Absolute Zero and Ra were victorious against  Ambuscade in Silver Gulch. We definitely got some help from The Law, but AZ kept trying to hit Sheriff Pratt with a cold snap. Luckily Pratt usually found some protection from the cold through either a barrel or a trough (Don't ask how; he doesn't like to talk about it). And when AZ triggered a sonic mine with a cold snap, stealth bot made the ultimate sacrifice, so Bunker and Ra could still attack. And Bunker and Ra were willing to give up a staff (or two) and a grenade launcher for Unity's bots. (After all, they had spares). And Mr. Chomps was quite hungry.

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Advanced Ambuscade escaped again, leading to three of the Freedom Five (Legacy, SS Tachyon and Wraith) accompanying Unty back into the past. Ambuscade immediately hid behind his cloaking device, while Tyler Hayes shot up everyone. Eventually this triggered Ambsucade's charged attacks in a flurtry of destruction that left Unit vulnerable to Cyrus Hayes who shot her in the back, taking her out of the fight without her bots having a chance to contribute (except foa Bee bot who damaged ambuscade's superhuman metabolism).

From there it was a fairly slow grind until Legacy developned an immunity to bullets and stood inspiringly in Ambuscade's path as the Wraith sniped him and Tachyon delivered the final blow.