My plan was to write a blog last
week about the meta for the Heroclix Nationals which happened yesterday at the
2014 UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Yeah,
so that didn’t happen. So then I
thought, I know do one of those blah blah blah then I beat him with blah,
insert witty comment, blah type tournament reports, but they are pretty dull
and only really have any meaning to the person who played in the tournament in
the first place.
It says "Insert random image of Deadpool here", really not sure why...
So after careful
consideration I thought I would go with a kind of hybrid “this is what I
thought and experienced” type of thing – I have no idea if that will work at
all but here goes.
Robert Tinsley and I
travelled to Birmingham on Friday and arrived around 1pm. Having checked into our hotel near the airport
we found our way to the venue by walking through a very quiet National
Exhibition Centre. We got our tickets,
looked around, talked to Dave Salisbury, talked to some old friends, had very
expensive drinks in the bar and nipped back to the hotel via the shuttle bus to
pick up some clix before joining the Scottish contingent of the UK nationals in
the bar for some games. The guys were
really cool and it was a pleasure to make their acquaintance, look forward to
seeing more of them at future events.
Rob had a game with Superior Spider Man in the bar.
Saturday saw the last chance
National’s qualifier, which started in a less than optimal way. I opened my two boosters to find Lady
Deadpool, Deadpool and Bullseye along with Domino and others. When I opened up the cards I found I had the
card for Evil Deadpool and not Deadpool!
As a result my boosters were taken away and I got new ones. This time I had T-Ray and GW Bridge as my
rares as well as Domino and Lady Bullseye as uncommons. My final team was T-Ray, Domino and Lady
Bullseye. T-Ray did some good work but Domino was outstanding and I think she may even creep in to the odd constructed team on a Tuesday night.
I went 4 – 1 and finished 3rd
overall, playing some great games against brilliant people, including killing
Zombie Doc Ock 3 times, and Domino shooting my own Lady Bullseye in the head
when she was reanimated by the aforementioned Zombie Doc!
A pub meal and a pint made
me feel a little more human. The Black
Queen with a head in one of my prize support boosters made up my mind to play
Hellfire Club in the Nationals and I was ready for bed.
Sunday morning, having
checked out of our Hotel, saw Rob and I at the event and ready to go. The meta was somewhat different from what I
expected to see – less M10 Iron Man and Shuma teams, more hammers than expected
so M10 Iron Man would have been really good, and a few more team bases that
were not Hellfire Club, including Gold Team and New Mutants.
I guess I should really do a
quick round up of what happened;
Round 1 – Sam Grieves, Sam
had a good team against me with White Witch to ruin my day. Unfortunately White Witch found herself
facing a powered up Sebastian Shaw who promptly punched her through a wall and
the team base closed in for the kill. I never
managed to kill Phantom Girl though.
1 – 0
Round 2 – Tino Cazzato; From
White Witch to Agent 13! An unfortunate
Agent 13 hovered round the wrong doorway and found most of the Hellfire Club
behind it. With Agent 13 gone copycat
and Black Bolt followed.
2 – 0
Round 3 – Joe Lewin; I had
been hanging out with Joe all weekend as we know each other from the
Peterborough play group and he is good friends with Rob. This was a mirror match and after many
shenanigans we beat each other to a bloody pulp. Slightly better dice roles got me the win.
3 – 0
Round 4 – Elliot Weights;
Mono Bizarro, well that’s a tough cookie to crack. I realised half way through this that there
was no way I could kill Bizarro so it became a game of chase me round the map
till the time runs out. Time ran out, I
threw a 6 and Elliot threw snake eyes.
4 – 0
Round 5 – Alex Crowe; The
final (-ish, sort of). We were the only
2 guys on 4 and 0 and we both play at Patriot Games Sheffield (in fairness we
both play at Zoneout in Doncaster and Games Galore in Chesterfield too) so we
played and Alex’s team were very effective against team bases especially mine
as he used Brother Voodoo to make Sabastian Shaw go on a lot of healthy walks!
4 – 1
Due to scoring no points in
round 4 I ended up in 4th place but got some nice con exclusive
prizes for my trouble. A big thank you
to all of those involved in the running of the event particularly Dave
Salisbury and Dave Schofield it was a great weekend and we need to do it all
again soon.
We have just been given the
details of rotation for 2014 and these are below:
On July 1, 2014, the below
sets will rotate from Modern Age to Golden Age.
5 Figure Booster sets
DC HeroClix: Superman
Marvel HeroClix: Incredible
Hulk
Marvel HeroClix: Galactic
Guardians
Marvel HeroClix: Chaos War
OP Sets
Marvel HeroClix: Infinity
Gauntlet
Micro Sets
Marvel HeroClix: Avengers
Movie
DC HeroClix: The Dark Knight
Rises
DC HeroClix: Justice League
New 52
Fast Forces
Marvel HeroClix: Giant Size
X-Men
DC HeroClix: War of Light
DC HeroClix: The Dark Knight
Rises
DC HeroClix: Superman
Marvel HeroClix: Incredible
Hulk
Marvel HeroClix: Galactic
Guardians
Marvel HeroClix: Chaos War
DC HeroClix: Justice League
New 52
That’s all for now, it is
Penetrating Psychic blast for powers week next week and I will get a new blog
up soon.
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