While I have not played with any of the new content (but I got my box last night!) I'm curious how the Mad Bomber will do against the Ennead. It is a large team, each with their own high hitpoints... but Bomber Blade is a damage output machine. I could see him becoming a supernova of detonations if the Ennead procrastinates on taking him out.
Ambuscade/Chairman (15/85)
Seems a simple case of easiest villain vs. hardest villain, mais no? Ambuscade can be quite a crafty villain, though, and the effects of damage immunity are somewhat hard to predict. Most likely, the Operative and Hired Guns will team up, blow up all of Ambuscade's toys, and murder the exposed hunter. If Ambuscade can set up a huge chain reaction with Charged Attacks, that's his best chance to blow through the minions and try to murder the Operative, at which point he may succeed at sniping the Chairman from cover. Sonic Mine could be significant.
Cards needing interpretation: Enforcers, Informant, Thief.
The Ennead/Mad Bomber Blade (40/60)
Mad Bomber Blade is armed with nothing but his lunacy and a few ongoings. If Blade charges up his attack quickly, he can take the whole Ennead down in a few huge swings. If the Ennead can organize and take down Blade's first side quickly, the advantage shifts to them. Nuit in the lineup gives them a defensive advantage, while Atum and Set give them an offensive one.
Cards needing interpretation: Osiris, Consider the Price of Victory.
Cosmitron/Spite (75/25)
This matchup is a mess of confusion, thanks to Spite. You're telling me we're going to have Cosmitron saving victims? So he can kill them himself, presumably. Cosmitron is quite powerful enough to batter through Spite's resistances. The only hitches come in interpreting what Spite's cards are supposed to do in a villain-on-villain environment, which may give one side or the other a huge advantage.
Cards needing interpretation: All the victims, bouncy drug, power-punishing drug.
Omnitron/Akash'Bhuta (55/45)
This matchup breaks depending on two things; targeting intelligence, and the makeup of the environment deck. Surely, Omnitron would recognize that you attack AB by attacking the limbs, right? The environment, of course, plays a huge role in games with the nature deity, determining just how aggressive she is. Nevertheless, she probably won't see the Electro-Pulse Explosives coming. Terraforming stands to be really fun as well.
Cards needing interpretation: Rejuvenating Entropy. If that kills Devices, Omnitron may be sunk.
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$15 on Apostate
$5 on Citizen Dawn
$35 on Grand Warlord Voss
$15 on the Chairman
$5 on Mad Bomber Blade
$15 on Cosmitron
$10 on Omnitron
Interesting!
Apostate Vs. the Rat: 20 on Apostate
I'm thinking that the rat just doesn't have what it takes to outlast Apostate. He coudl get lucky with some of the infections, but I'm putting my money on the guy who can out-crazy Fanatic.
Baron blade vs. Citizen Dawn: 10 on Blade
I love the Baron's style and panache. the guy really gets the "mad" part of mad science. So even though I think he stands a serious chance of being crushed by the Citizens, my money is on him.
Gloomweaver vs Voss: 20 on Voss.
Voss is terrifying. A fiery head and zombie minions are NOT going to stop voss's legions.
Ambuscade vs. the Chairman: 20 on the Chairman and his operative.
He'll hide, he'll set some traps, and he'll get in a few shots. None of that will matter.
Ennead vs. Mad Bomber Blade: 5 on Bomber blade:
If it goes wrong for Blade, it will go wrong quickly. But I think he'll show them. He'll show them ALL.
Cosmic Omni vs Spite: 20 on Spite
You know what? He's going to do it for the children.
Omnitron vs Akash'Bhuta: 5 on Omni
I'm going with technology over nature on this one. Obviously, the environment will play a huge role.
$10 on Apostate
$10 on Citizen Dawn
$20 on Grand Warlord Voss
$20 on The Chairman
$10 on The Ennead
$10 on Spite
$20 on Omnitron
Looking forward to seeing these play out!
Just a reminder,
The death match begins tomorrow and you have a little more than 24 hours to get in on it! So get those initial bets in.
Eh, why not.
15 on Apostate
10 on Baron Blade
15 on Grand Warlord Voss
20 on The Chairman
15 on The Ennead
10 on Cosmnitron
15 on Omnitron
I'm going all in on the underdog - 100 on Abuscade for the upset.
I know, I know, it's like a Cleveland Browns fan drafting Brandon Weeden in the first round of a fantasy football draft out of team loyalty ...
Ambuscade gets a bad rap as "easy" but I think like Baron Blade he is just weak against heroes who can focus all their efforts against the one target they need to get out of the way, in his case the cloaking device.
Hopefully we will start seeing some fight results soon... I'm tempted to start running some of them myself since it will be at least until Saturday for me to get to try the Infernal Relics characters with my friends.
I gots ta know if I was right!
The first two face offs are done and I will work to get the other’s done soon. These battles take longer than I had anticipated but they are very interesting. Also, if you plan to run your own battles, please do not post them here to reduce confusion about the official results. Here are the first results.
Plague Rat vs. apostate
Plague Rat wins the coin toss and opens up with a very ho hum 3 turns in a row of ongoing trifecta (Afflicted frenzy, Shadowy Ambush and Sewer Fiend). That 1 irreducible damage is nice but when it is not supplemented with some carnage, its is a drop in the bucket. Meanwhile apostate was smacking the uber rat down. Since Plague Rat wasn’t initially infecting anyone, he was not healing. Apostate seemd to be reading Plague Rats deck and dumped out three demons including two pilfering imps that were quickly dispatched after stealing two ongoing’s from the rat. Finally he got going with Ravages and tooth and claws coming out left and right. He Infected Apostate and then promptly infected all of his demons. Unfortunately Demons are too squishy and plague rat kept massacring them every turn. Thus He was only healing a measely point from Apostate. At least Apostate kept smacking himself while the rat was finally coming into his own
Having replenished his Shadowy Ambush ongoing, Plague Rat was getting around 2 cards a turnbetween it and the useless infect cards (I rules they do not work on relics but do on demons). Then Apostate pulled out his apocalypse card and blew up the world. Apostate had been fighting with one hand behind his back this whole time. He only had 2 relics in play ever at any one time until the end, but it was all a trick to draw his enemy out . After the reset, the gloves came off and with scum and villainy, Apostate pulled a Profane summons. Now there were 4 relics in play. 2 Relic relic spirit spams later and it was like Plague Rat was playing in slow motion. He had lost the advanatage and could just watch as his claws carved up the spirits, knowing he was sealing his doom. 2 Spirits hit the trash, and apostate now had all 7 Relics out. To his credit, Plague Rat managed to flip apostate with damage, but that was his last turn before succumbing to the pimped out might of Apostate.
Highlights: Plague Rat getting 3 cards played in one turn, Apostate punching himself in the nuts 3 times in one turn from infection and 2 inflicted frenzies, and Apostate pulling out a world destroyer when Plague Rat had nothing in play.
Take aways: Plague Rat may have had a chance if not for his slow start. He had to get aggressive immediately, and Apostate had to be slow on the relics. He got one of those but not both.
Apostate is going to be a monster to beat. I think his games are going to come down to whether a villain can wipe him out before he gets reliced up. Otherwise there is not much that can be done.
Dawn vs. Baron Blade
Unlike the pendulum blow out that was Plague Rat and Apostate, Dawn and Baron Blade played cat and mouse. She started with some strong cards including Citizen Spring, Citzen Assault, and Citizen Summer. The Baron had only his defense platform but he laughed at the competition thinking he was impregnable. Dawn won the toss and started the beat down of the platform. The Baron remain impregnable for the first turn and unleashed some cannon fire, raking all of Dawn’s citizens. The environment conspired to play a much larger role in the is combat. The first four turns released 4 diffferent distortions, so that the villains never knew what wascoming next. The Baron got out his bbatalian and smacked Dawn around pretty hard with them for the one turn they were out.
Dawn for her part managed to kill the Baron’s defense platform. She also was working with zombies for much of the fight after getting return with the dawn into play. She also foolishly assisted the baron in a 2 card discard, while blinding him temporarily. He chuckled evilly and then played two back to back Hasten Dooms. The moon was looming awfully largely and Dawn had lost all her citizens. In desperation she burst into full Nova mode and invulnerability. This helped her get citizens back in play but they were dropping like wheat to the Baron’s Backlash field thresher. A zombified autumn finally took it out. The count was 13 cards in the Baron’s discard. He was down to 9 life and a hungry T-Rex was eyeing him for lunch. His play, flesh repair nanites and gains 10 life, delaying death for a round. 14 cards in the trash. Dawn and the T-Rex bring him down to one life. The Baron’s last real turn and the deciding play of the game was a living focefield and then he flipped from environment damage. Sure all damage dealt to him was reduced by one, but once the impulsion beam was gone, he didn’t have a snowball’s chance with Apostate of surviving. A thorough battering lator and the Baron is killed by, of all things, Mystical defenses.
Highlights: The baron wiping Dawn’s entire force off the map with 2 Hasten Dooms, the Baron’s Clutch gain 10 life, and Mystical Defences taking the Baron out.
Take aways: The Baron’s deck decided his fate, not Dawns. I’m not sure if I like that, but that’s the way it goes.
While Dawn can pump out the villain targets many of them are very squishy until Citizen truth hits the table.
Environments probably picked on the Baron more than Dawn, but his death, was inevitable. The environment really pulled off a mercy killing. Dawn was going to whack him on her turn no matter what. Saying that, there were several turns where the time slow gimped Dawn’s damage output until she could bring it back to normal with citizen dare.
This is so cool!
So close!
That is totally awesome... I could tell you wanted the rat to win, so would I, and I'm glad the underdog put up a valiant fight and gave Apostate a few infected wounds to worry about. Apostates design intimidates me a litte and I think he could go the distance.
As for Baron Blade, I'm not ashamed to lose that bet... he came within an inch of doing what I predicted and was mostly defeated by bad luck. Ultimately it is for the best when the moon does not crash into the earth, right?
Every mad scientist needs to lose once in a while. It keeps them angry, inventive, and hungry!
Say, any update on the deathmatches? Some of us have a lot of virtual money riding on this ;-)
Are there more battle results for this thread?
Perhaps the community should continue them, unless Brax reappears, and possibly add in the new villains. This is too much fun not to carry on in some way.
No fair ressurecting this thread, I thought people had gotten Shattered Timelines already before I saw the date :( But it is in time to set up bets for an expanded roster...