Lonehawk
02/24/2003, 08:34
Yesterday (23 Feb) I ran a very successful tournament in West London. I was lucky enogh to have 23 players turn up, what we believe to be a record for a UK event.
The format was 300 pt constructed, with the house rules that:
a) 250 points must come form the same team
b) 1 non-aligned figure up to 50pts in value could be drafted in to fill the gaps
c) No duplicates of named characters
d) teams could be DC or Marvel, but not mixed.
e) wild card teams used the team ability of their opponent.
The format seemed to work. No less than 86 different figures were selected representing 60 characters from all three available sets. The most popular teams were Avengers and Sinister Syndicate (5 each). Only two DC teams were run (one Batman Ally and one JLA) but both did very well going 3-1 and finsihing 4th and 6th respectively.
The winner was Dave Kirkham, who went 4-0 doing a maximum 1198 damage with his Minions of Doom team (E Ultron, E Klaw, V Doombot and guest star E Logan). 2nd place went to Andrew Davidson's (Warden on these pages) Sinister Syndicate team (U Ned Leeds, E Mr Hyde, E Dr.Octopus, V Bullseye, E Boomerang, E Vulture and guest U Elektra). The fellowship went to Rob Edwards (Batman Ally).
Special mention must go to James Bemmers team of E Black Panther and 8 Doombots. This team was doing great until he ran into an FF team and Thing dumped a motorbike onto the Panther. The result - three invulnerable folks vs. 7 remaining 'bots doing 2 damage each! Also notable was the third round match up between Dave and Jack Dermsomboon's Avengers. With time running out it came down to B2B slugfest between Dave's Doombot and Jack's E Panther. Amazingly the bot won, although both players made a lot of friends for the show.
A longer report, and more info on the teams will appear on my website www.adventure.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk in the next few days.
As I mentioned the format was very successful and proved popular with the players. So much so that we'll probably do it again in April once we've all got our X-Plosion figures. Maybe the X-men will do better then...
Thanks
Steve
The format was 300 pt constructed, with the house rules that:
a) 250 points must come form the same team
b) 1 non-aligned figure up to 50pts in value could be drafted in to fill the gaps
c) No duplicates of named characters
d) teams could be DC or Marvel, but not mixed.
e) wild card teams used the team ability of their opponent.
The format seemed to work. No less than 86 different figures were selected representing 60 characters from all three available sets. The most popular teams were Avengers and Sinister Syndicate (5 each). Only two DC teams were run (one Batman Ally and one JLA) but both did very well going 3-1 and finsihing 4th and 6th respectively.
The winner was Dave Kirkham, who went 4-0 doing a maximum 1198 damage with his Minions of Doom team (E Ultron, E Klaw, V Doombot and guest star E Logan). 2nd place went to Andrew Davidson's (Warden on these pages) Sinister Syndicate team (U Ned Leeds, E Mr Hyde, E Dr.Octopus, V Bullseye, E Boomerang, E Vulture and guest U Elektra). The fellowship went to Rob Edwards (Batman Ally).
Special mention must go to James Bemmers team of E Black Panther and 8 Doombots. This team was doing great until he ran into an FF team and Thing dumped a motorbike onto the Panther. The result - three invulnerable folks vs. 7 remaining 'bots doing 2 damage each! Also notable was the third round match up between Dave and Jack Dermsomboon's Avengers. With time running out it came down to B2B slugfest between Dave's Doombot and Jack's E Panther. Amazingly the bot won, although both players made a lot of friends for the show.
A longer report, and more info on the teams will appear on my website www.adventure.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk in the next few days.
As I mentioned the format was very successful and proved popular with the players. So much so that we'll probably do it again in April once we've all got our X-Plosion figures. Maybe the X-men will do better then...
Thanks
Steve