Firstly a massive thank you for Ash at Zone out in Doncaster for saving the day by letting us have some of his War of Light Month 2 yesterday so we could run the tournament, I owe you one dude.
So Nick Johnson asked me to pen a few words about last weeks Night of the Sentinels scenario. The concept was simple several players fielded Sentinels while the rest of the players had a small number of points to build forces to take on the Sentinels as a combined rag tag team. The idea was to have a number of Sentinel robots from across Heroclix history fielded against our band of heroes. There were some basic problems involved in the execution of the whole thing however, and it was not as much fun as it should have been.
Resistance is futile, seriously I have bought a friend, you are screwed...
We know that the Alpha Class Sentinel has an impressive stat line and some bonkers powers on both dials, most notably the inhibitor field where it becomes impossible to have power actions but it was in fact the Threat Engagement Package and some great rolls from Sam Brameld meant he was able to neutralise any threats on the table before they were able to do much and then run away without fear of a counter attack. There was also a lack of co-ordination on the part of the heroes as one third of the good guys charged the Alpha bad ass while the other two thirds tried to get in position to deliver a crippling blow to the big robots.
We will be trying this again in the future with some alterations to the rules etc for the scenario in order to make it a little less one sided. For now Sentinels 1 - Good Guys 0.
So that is the "Monster Robots" part of the blog what about the gods? I have been reading comic books since the late 1960's and am a hopeless fan boy in regards to a number of strange things that Marvel has thought of over the years. This has included a number of its all powerful villains like Thanos. Imagine my joy when I saw this little lot this morning:
If you think I'm doing a caption for each of these you must be nuts!
So we have Annihilus, the Beyonder, Thanos and the Black Order in the Guardians of the Galaxy set! The Beyonder and Thanos can't use resources/relics but make up for it with their stats and abilities. Annihilus on the other hand starts the game with the cosmic control rod attached if it is part of your force. However, as much as I loved all of these things, the figure that had me going WOOOOOO the most was the Dire Wraith. I know, I know you're all going "what the hell is a Dire Wraith?" - These are an evolutionary off shoot of the Skrulls and were the mortal enemy of Rom - Spaceknight. The inclusions of the Dire Wraith hopefully means we will get Rom as well which would be fantastic!
Anyway that is all I have time for tomorrow is 400 point theme team, see you there.
