Hello world. I picked up Sentinels of the Multiverse yesterday and have, since, played four games. Two by myself. One that was apparently bad and unrecommended. I would point out at this point that I've thoroughly enjoyed the game, but really, who would buy a game, play it four times including twice on their own in two days, and then specifically hunt out that game's forum to say that they didn't like it? ...Well, jerks would.
I actually picked up Sentinel Tactics first, a few weeks ago - and still haven't played it yet, because a great deal of my skirmish gaming time has been going to Imperial Assault recently. (I've got a campaign going with my sister, it's close to the end, but she gets to play Empire next time.) Right beside it was a set of plastic-packed dirt cheap promo expansions, so I thought "how could I lose?" and grabbed a couple. Turns out they were for base Sentinels, not Tactics. And thus, I ended up with Miss Information and the Final Wasteland before anything else.
(...Which isn't really a good combination, thematically. "Mr. Parsons, I know you're currently in a horrifying wasteland surrounded by New Jersey Devils, tikbalangs, and Slenderman, but you really need to go get a 'cat' out of a 'tree'. Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha.")
While I had no idea what I was looking at, and frankly looking at Miss Information's cards to get an idea of what the game is like is a losing bet to start with because her mechanics are strange and unusual, I was intrigued enough to pick up the game a few weeks later, and still haven't fought Aminia to date. Well, like I said, she's tricky. I started at my weekly game night where five of us, playing Haka, Tachyon, Fanatic, Bunker, and the Wraith took down Baron Blade in the Wagner Mars Base with unusual ease. I suspect that the Wraith getting her Micro-Targeting Computer and Razor Ordnance on the first two turns was a strong influence, while Haka doing what Haka does cleaned up pretty much anything other than Baron Blade in short order, and Fanatic pulled out Absolution on her first turn, wailed on the Baron with it for a while while burning down her own HP with Embolden, and then pulled out an 18 point Wrathful Retribution to finish him off. So he didn't get to do much or, to be honest, present much of a threat after his first two Slash and Burns - it was really Mars doing most of the damage. But I honestly like Baron Blade, so I do hope he gets his chance to pummel a team I'm playing to the skin of our teeth before long.
Other games were my sister (Fanatic: she's a big fan of 'rend, slaughter, devour your enemies!' recently) and myself (Tempest and Tachyon) against Baron Blade in Megalopolis, where he managed to get nine cards in his trash before flipping, but then got worn down by withering police fire; myself in a Sidekick-randomised game where the app decided to give me Tachyon and Tempest again, but to add Legacy to the play, against Citizen Dawn on Insula Primalis, where she proved tenacious by starting out with Citizens Hammer and Anvil and getting Return With The Dawn on her first play; and myself with the Visionary and Ra against Omnitron in the Final Wasteland, where I learned why two heroes are not really enough heroes.
I said that I honestly like Baron Blade, but really that's not unusual, because I honestly like all of the characters. I'm proving quite taken with Dawn's harsh cult-of-personality zealotry, and while I originally thought that Aminia was going to be a fairly typical femme fatale, I then read her incredibly tragic backstory and may have "aww!"d aloud. I had expected that Haka would end up being my favourite hero character - I've a friend who's big on Hawaii and Hawaiian culture, and described Haka to him as "a Polynesian Hulk", which drew his attention - but Tachyon ended up stealing my affection. Faster than I could notice, natch. While her cards and mechanics work beautifully - a good Lightspeed Barrage in the late game is a wonderful finisher - I'm also tremendously fond of her always-on-the-go cheerful Dr. Horrible quoting personality. (I'm still curious as to who the "dude" on Fleet of Foot who is most definitely "not (her) nemesis" is.)
...Anyway, I'm sure none of this was new, interesting, or enlightening in any way, but since I always like babbling and listening to babbling about games I like, here is some babbling about a game I like, and since I'm sure almost everyone who visits this forum also likes that game, maybe you'll like 'listening' to said babble. Thank you and goodnight.