When I had only fought Akash once, I was really looking forward to doing the Wasteland battle. Then it came up in the Episodes here, and we mopped the freaking floor with her. It was just sad. The Block? Yeah, I guess it makes sense in a way, but I'd find it weird. I've always considered the Block to be the "safest" Environmnet, so I'd probably lose by not taking it seriously. Silver Gulch sounds perfect though, I'll probably fight there. Though I'm a bit worried about the possibility of an autoloss to Lost in the Past.
The Block cycles itself pretty effectively, so it makes Akash flip a lot. Potentially dangerous if you're fighting her on Advanced.
A prison riot can potentially make her play a lot of cards at once.
Yeah last game against Akash was in the block and she almost got a turnover victory. She was on the destruction side when she played the card that destroys all environment just after a prison riot. We ended up with a 6 card play in one turn including two cards that reveal and put limbs in play... All that when she had 6 hp left guess she felt like going out with a bang.
Just had a game against Akash in Silver Gulch where my heroes were making a comeback with Unity, Nightmist, Haka and Argent Adept (already incapped) and just when things were looking good, she plays Disrupt the Field on her flip side with 4 Silver Gulch cards out. 2 Primeval Eruptions, Allies of the Earth, and 7 limbs later (there might have been another card or 2), and I was toast and she had healed almost 60 points of damage.
She can be one of the most fun and most aggravating villains to fight because of the potential for those superturns.
Akash Bhutan is the only villain who has triggered the lose condition in silver gulch which sucked because we were using that scenario to teach new people the game. They were not amused.
I guess mixing Nature/Chaos elementals and timey-whimey gimmicks don't go together so well… When nature calls the clocks ticking… (Please forgive ramblings from a tired mind that doesn't find sleep.
That goes back to all the conversations we've had around what villains and environments should be used for teaching… 
Wow, how did she heal around 60hp from that? Allies of the Earth only heals her when environment targets enter play and the only way she could've got out environment targets on that turn is via the card played from Disrupt the Field (however many of those ended up coming out via Primeval Eruption's "Play the top card..." thing), and surely you'd need to play every target in Silver Gulch at least once to get back that many hp?
By misreading Allies of the Earth as "Villain Target" instead of "Environment Target". In this case the Living Rockslides toasted my team but good to know for the future. I will have to add some Akash situations in the biggest rule botch thread, it seems like I make mistakes against her more than any other villain. But yeah, we were still toast from all of the limbs.
Ahh, whoops, lol. I used to mess up (and occasionally still do) remembering to discard from the environment deck/play from the villain deck when a card from the other deck enters play/is destroyed (depending on what side she's on, obviously). Usually I remember soon enough to sort it out with no repercussions though (ie the game state hasn't changed since it was only a turn ago and nothing else has come out since then, or whatever). As we play with only three heroes, the limbs never do more than two damage each (assuming no damage buffs present in the environment, of course). This means it's generally pretty easy to tank it, especially if you have someone like Legacy or the Scholar present. Piling the damage onto one limb at a time tends to work better than whittling them all down at once because otherwise the minute a Rejuvenating Entropy enters play all your hard work gets wiped out :P.
Most recent rule botch I can remember making is against Kismet, when she played Lady Luck on her first turn and we then repeatedly forgot about it and happily nuked various Jinxes that had been played on us, only to remember several rounds later "Oops, we should've been doing the Lady Luck thing every time I was trying to destroy those things..." :P.
Well that went of the rails a bit... Anyway, I've been suggested by one of my friends and common team-mates that Iron Legacy would be an interesting promo, but I don't know if it would fit story-wize. IL seems like a "special one-time event" style story villian in my eyes. But a possible revenge plot with a much more frocious IL could be awesome. Of course the same could be said for Voss.
I do really like the idea for Citizen Dawn, her being gone and a sort of power vacuum and the Citizens are rushing to fill it. Or, and this could be interesting, a Citizen we have not met (CItizen Dusk, anyone?) could have replaced Dawn when she had to unfortunatly 'retire' due to their 'suggestion'?
Maybe Citizen Dusk is her husband or brother or something. Brother would probably make more sense, I suppose, unless they chose their own names when they became "Citizens"...
Personally I hope a dawn promo will have her be called something like citizen war and expatriette be citizen peace or vice versa, an idea I got from the thread where people were trying to come up with her connection to the glowing doves, doves being a symbol of peace hope and so forth. Althoug if there is a dusk to Dawn's dawn, I think its more likely to be expatriette than a random citizen/Dawn's brother/husband/father/whatever
They did; that's been confirmed. Amanda Cohen's mother happened to be named Dawn, but she came up with the Citizens concept, and it's entirely possible she might have called her paramour "Dusk". Then again, perhaps he had a completely different codename; we've just come up with the idea of calling him "Dusk" as a way of reference.
Isn't there a fluff quote from Citizen Dusk on a card somewhere? I thought I'd seen the name somewhere other than on this forum...
Pretty sure you have not. The name rings true because it reflects Dawn's existing ethos, but we totally just made it up.
Well we just got a promo card for Setback with nemesis icon, hit points and base power revealed. Me wants to speculate that we will see nemesis icons, hit points, base powers and character card art for the Vengeance heroes within the next week and a half.
It's not like we really needed to see a nemesis icon for Setback....
New here, and this seemed like the place to post it...
You may have all already discussed this but, who is "Mainstay"?
On the Dreamer's card Whipacorn part of the flavor text(see below) is attributed to mainstay, do we have any idea who/what this character is?
RA: Why does it have a whip for a horn?"
Mainstay: "For whipping!"
-Nightmare world #4