Overall Environment and Villain rankings, including Rook City

restartt · April 12, 2012, 5:32am

""arenson9"":

I’ve gotten used to winning at Sentinels of the Multiverse. I’m familiar with all the heroes. I’ve got a pretty good idea how to use them effectively. I know what to expect from the villains and environments, so I know how to prepare for what might come.

The Chairman and, even more so, The Matriarch are on a different level. They’re beatable, but you really have to be on your toes. Coordinating what you’re doing just this turn is not enough. When constantly faced with an inability to clear the board of minions you’ve got to have a plan a few rounds in advance for how you’re going to survive. It’s like when you go against Dawn you know that if you can’t avoid her flipping you’ve got to at least set up some way to survive her being invulnerable, but more so because, particularly with The Matriarch, it just never stops. Fighting The Matriarch is like going up against a version of Dawn that has Forced Deployment cards, a permanent Backlash Field, and pulls an extra villain card every turn. And because of the new scaling rules, adding heroes doesn’t necessarily help.

If a group beats the Matriarch the first time they play against her without any coaching or looking at her cards in advance, I’d like to hear that story.

The matriarch actually didn’t seem that bad to us - as long as you have 3 people or less.
Tempest+legacy+bunker all have cards that reduce the damage done to them by 1. tempest kills every fowl every turn, everyone laughs as no damage is dealt to anyone, even with the fields in play, and then the other two players kill any cohorts. Rinse and repeat

arenson9 · April 12, 2012, 12:17pm

Ah, yes, the counterintuitive fact that when playing against Rook City villains, because of the scaling rules, having fewer heroes actually seems to be easier.

Let me know how it goes when you play with four or five.