I've decided to set myself a challenge. I'm going to assemble a team to take on every villain! 4 heroes, +the current villains nemisis, making their way past every villain in the app.
I have my team picked, (Parse to mitigate nasty villain stuff, K.N.Y.F.E. to tear through the boss, Haka to deal with minions, and Sentinels for tanking and healing), my villains (all of them), but I'm not sure on the environments.
I'm hoping you can help me figure out who to put where.
(Also, if anyone's interested, I'm happy to post updates here)
Here are some of my suggestions Citizen Dawn at her home location of Insula Primalis, Grand Warlord Voss at Wagner Mars Base, Mad Bomber Blade at Megaopolis, Plague Rat at Pike Imdustrial, Ennead at Tomb of Anubis, and Gloomweaver at the Realm of Discord.
The art seems to indicate they at least share the spots – while Cramped Quarters Combat and Targeting Innocents do show or mention Voss, Impending Casualty and Rooftop Combat show Omnitron. On the flip side, Self-Destruct Sequence references Omnitron while Villainous Weaponry shows Voss.
These are comics. Of course they are going to fight main villains on multiple occasions in multiple locations. From a story perspective and main arcs, Omnitron has more major battles on Mars and Voss had his main invasion in Metropolis.
Based on a lot of artwork from various decks Omnitron was taken down in Megaopolis or at least mostly faced there. Cosmic Omnitron in his character artwork indicates it was at Wagner Mars base.
As Foote noticed, per Christopher and Adam, Omnitron and Wagner are meant to be linked, and Voss and Megalopolis are meant to be linked. Yes, the heroes run into them in different places, but this is the intention.
You are, of course, welcome to do whatever you want, though.
well, the MDP is blades place, so perhaps move Blade there?
Then Ruins of Atlantis makes for a lot more 'thematic' touches than some of the other environments - all the villains could be searching down there for something (except maybe the Dreamer). Ambuscade would be a good choice, hunting The Kraken perhaps.
You can also put Voss at Dok'Thorath as 'the fight being taken to Voss himself', and Megalopolis is 'generic big city setting' so any villain could be found wreaking havoc there. Chokepoint, or even Deadline if you don't like him in The Endlings.
The Block, likewise - Its like Arkham, any villain might just end up there. -
You could move Plague Rat to The Final Wasteland, and put Spite in Pike - given that Spite clones for Tactics Broken City were supposedly found under the ruins of Pike Industrial.
There is also an uncertain amount of time when the Citizens of the Sun used the MDP as their base of operations for some reason. Idk if the Baron rents the thing out or if it was taken, but either way could make for some fun storylines to create games around.
"However, after his series of failures, Baron Blade granted the use of his floating fortresses to any villain who could offer him additional power or information."
Kismet probably goes in The Block since I believe she did time there and Kaarga Warfang would be a good fit for Dok'Thorath Capital since that's where she captured Skyscraper
The Block is what I refer to as a "universal" environment. Meaning that you can play just about every single villain there and the storyline that emerges is pretty much the same and it works. "Villain escaped from prison! Gotta re-capture them!". I think in Comic lore that you would be hard pressed to find someone who hadn't spent at least some time in the Block at some point.
Metropolis, Silver Gulch, and Final Wasteland are a few others I'v considered for that "universal" catagory. The story is kinda premade in a way.
Any villain can work in any environment story wise, it just depends on how much backstory and imagination you want to lend to it. I almost aways have a story scenario built for our games when I play it with friends. And we use a randomizer for our games, so it's fun trying to piece together narratives from the combinations you find. We had a game a week or so ago with Plauge Rat in Dok'Thorath. Seems very strange and doesn't really fit right? Well, the story became that an unknown actor has unleashed the Plauge Rat toxin onto another world, creating havok amongst the people infected, and inciting an already tense political situation as they all went crazy. Our heroes are trying to contain and cure the people of the world. In this situation, the Plauge Rat villain card is pretty much Patient 0 for the toxin release, and not actually THE Plauge Rat we all know and love.
Storytelling is what makes the game so good. Sometimes you just gotta tell your own though.
