New Addition to Sentinel Capture List

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Welcome V-Sandman, to the prestigious gallery of rogues who have been captured by the Sentinel! You've been a bad boy, but that's ok, you'll fit right in! Get to know your inmates because you'll be here a long time!

http://herolix.neomonsterisland.com/capture.html

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I had to re-update my Capture page because I forgot to add Thanos twice, so the capture total is up to date. Who has some great capture stories they'd like to tell?

[DS-00-0, FSD]

Shin,

What type of teams do you run with your Sentinals?

Are scenerios used? Build totals?

Just wondering as I've got 3 of these big guys resting in my game cabinet, waiting for some play. Any hints would be appresciated.

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Most of the Wizkids Site Scenarios work in favor of the Sentinels, as they are immune to knockback. I have spent months testing out 300 point builds. I like using 2 100-Point Sentinels with 100 points of support staff. U Elektra makes a great kitchen knife for taxing up to the figure you want to capture and whittling him down to fit in your Sentinel's hand the next round. R Invisible Girl is essential for keeping their defenses high. Bullseye makes a fantastic bop gun to waylay distant figures. SHIELD is good for boosting damage. I'll have more in my multi-part Sentinel FAQ's.

[Xanth]

Just remember though that 100 pt Sentinels are severely hampered if on an indoors map as they lack the damage value to break down walls and are too large to pass through normal doors.

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Until they get to their power spike or unless you got a handy SHIELD agent. i call em' batteries :) Pick them up, slam their head against the wall, no more wall! :)

[Manchine]

Pretty soon you have to make a scenerio where you have a group trying to free a whole bunch of captured characters. Make it you cant use anyone that has been captured.

:D ;) :p

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I love the Whully Hurricane scenario. The Sentinel's don't have to budge an inch :)

[Spock]

Who has some great capture stories they'd like to tell?

I played a Sentinel team in one tournament, and I ran up against a mostly X-man team.

I didn't do all that much capturing (just the non-X-men) but I got double points for all of my opponent's figures with the exception of rookie Vulture :-)

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It's a beautiful thing to walk off the board with your opponent's prize power piece :)

[dolemite199]

I once played in a "Bruiser' tournament, i.e. 500pts, DC/Marvel, and no fig could be under 80pts.

I knew there would be people playing OWAW Supes and Vet./Exp. Dr. Doom. My first oppoenet happened to be playing both of those guys (the Dr. Doom was expereinced). I was able to capture them both with my Mark-I sentinel with the help of Darksied and Rok. Batmans Outwit combonation. I got 798 VP's for just those two figures because I captured them. I did not capture his Vet. Firelord though. I just took pleasure in KO'ing it in one turn thanks to Darksied and my own Exp. Dr. Doom. I think 798 VP's for capturing two figures in funny!

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Great job! I'm proud of you!!!

[Joe Kerr]

I played my girlfriend the other day using a 100 point Sentinel and some Sinster Syn guys, she's not very good... She moved V Magneto to sit on top of the DC motorcycle so that he could throw it. She moved him right into the Sentinel's range, so I move the Sentinel out carrying E Whirlwind, he hits one of his attacks. On the next turn I pushed the Sentinel to capture Magneto, and on the next pushed to drop him off. Magento was carrying a V Catwoman, but since she has no range and was behind Magneto, she had no chance of getting Magneto back. Also on the first turn, I had Vulture fly out Bullseye, and he pretty much took care of her Man Bat that was carrying Bane, so he was useless. Leaving her with a rookie Bane, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman. Needless to say after Magento dropped, I felt bad for her. Oh well. :)

[Spidersense]

Originally posted by Joe Kerr
I played my girlfriend the other day using a 100 point Sentinel and some Sinster Syn guys, she's not very good... She moved V Magneto to sit on top of the DC motorcycle so that he could throw it. She moved him right into the Sentinel's range, so I move the Sentinel out carrying E Whirlwind, he hits one of his attacks. On the next turn I pushed the Sentinel to capture Magneto, and on the next pushed to drop him off. Magento was carrying a V Catwoman, but since she has no range and was behind Magneto, she had no chance of getting Magneto back. Also on the first turn, I had Vulture fly out Bullseye, and he pretty much took care of her Man Bat that was carrying Bane, so he was useless. Leaving her with a rookie Bane, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman. Needless to say after Magento dropped, I felt bad for her. Oh well. :)

Very nice! But just in case, realize that if you moved Sentinel off his starting spot, you would have had to move, capture, move back to start and then drop off. 4 turns instead of the 3 you mention.

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The number of movements trips up more people when it comes to the Sentinel.

[napa]

There was this guy in one tournament who 's unique Prof. X got captured. after a couple of rounds of Jean Grey and a few other X-men trying thier hardest to free old baldy the guy realized it was game set match and conceeded. watching that match was kinda ugly.

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Capturing a mutant, sadly enough, can sometimes be less points winning than capturing a non-mutant. A Doomsday puts you over the top more than a U Nightcrawler.

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Crud on a stick, I just realized I have to take Nightcrawler off the list. I never captured him, I just shot him. God, I'm so depressed I may commit suicide...

[napa]

Don't do it man, you have so much to live for (such as capturing all the new muties coming out in explosion).

[Spidersense]

I was impressed that you caught Nightcrawler...

My Sentinel (100) had his first capture last night. It was a E-Arcane. He rolled for Impervious (I let him, but should I?), and hit it once. I finally grabbed him and made it back to my starting squares and dropped him off on the last turn (of 10). The key was basing my opponents Klaw and Bullseye so they couldnt snipe at the Sentinel. I was in the middle of two other players. I lost the game by about 50 points because the guy on the team I didnt capture Arcane from, didnt lose a guy and basically knocked off a bunch of other figs. It was a fun way to play though.

Sinestro (100) didnt fare too well in game 2. I kept him near home and tried to use RCE on a couple of figs. It is very hard to survive when you are in the middle of two players and you have a Klaw/Bullseye on your left and a Klaw on your right and no figs block line of sight. I should have just picked one side an unleashed Sinestro and my other main gun, The Key on them. Sinestro is MUCH harder to play because he doesnt have that power spike. I know he can be played, I just havent got the feel of him yet. One mistake I made was having Key mind control Bane to hit his taxi right off the bat. He was right next to the medic, so he just healed right away. I should have MCd the taxi to bring Bane over to Sinestro's loving embrace.

[StealthArmor]

Love the sentinals
Im undeafeted in tourneys using them 2 and 0
The first tourney i won was a 300 point x-men vs sentinal tourney
200 point had to be sentinal or x-men/brotherhood 100 points didnt matter dc ok .
my team was 2 rookie harleys and 2 mark 1 sentinals and a shield medic and rookie robin. i was the only one to play sentinals that day.
best thing to happen in that tourney was some guy thought he would be smart by starting in the mall . he started on the side with he little room with all of his figs in there but he couldnt fit all of them so his dual pyros had to start other side of the wall to the right. i set up to the left of him in the outer room. he charged with unique wolverine first turn for a blade attack on one of my sentinals he hit and rolled a one for damage :rolleyes: i was still in my starting area. he then used jean grey to tk out cyclops for an rce attack and cyclops missed. he runs quicksilver out and ties up one of my harleys. my turn i capture quicksilver first and then i capture wolverine.

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As far as Impervious goes, I believe that the target does get to make his roll. The same for Super Senses. The Capture ability does target a figure.

The trick to capturing Nightcrawler would be to pin him down in a pocket where elevated terrain is behind him and Sentinels are in front of him. Then he has no where to run, since HSS doesn't let you change elevation. Waiting till he's pushed helps, but rarely happens. I just took Mighty Nighty off my capture list. So sad. So sad.

[StealthArmor]

then i run robin around just before the door entrance. his turn he moves the twin pyros at an angle where they can shoot a sentinal. and pushes cyclops to shoot a sentinal to damage it not to rescue he hits doing some damage. my turn i push the first sentinal to drop wolvie off then push my second sent to move to btb with cyclops (sent still has quicksilver captured) robin puts a smoke screen down between the pyros and the sents. his go , he has to attack with jean grey this time he frees quicksilver and quicksilver breaksaway and goes to the harleys again. my turn i capture quicksilver again with the sentinal who just dropped wolverine who still hasnt moved and capture cyclops.his turn his two pyros are out of range so he moves hem in the room for a shot. my turn i move the sentinal with cyclops back to the start and drop off qicksilver with he other one then move robin into btb with the pyro twins.

that was game over then.

[StealthArmor]

I also captured juggernaut, firelord, sabertooth, hulk i think a pyro ,jean grey, bullseye and some more .

the second tourney i won i used a mark1 sentinal 2 rook harleys and a rook robin. that tourney i dont think i captured anyone i just shot people from 12 range , everybody ran from me that tourney. it was 2 group games of 5 people each. out of the 10 people there there were 5 firelord teams. one person also played 2 mark1 sentinals but he didnt last long. the 1st and 2cd place teams from each table ended up playing on the winners table.
i got lucky and was drawn on the first table with only one firelord team. i started next to a batman team and couldnt do ranged attacks against her so i scared her ito going into the wherehouse with the other teams, i just sat back and sniped then .

2cd game only 2 firelord teams made it through i basicly sat back and sniped people at 12 range on that game. that was played on the mall map and everyone got stuck by the fountain ,i was lucky that game as the guy that went before me on the first turn went the other way on the first go, he had dr strange and firelord if he woud have come after me he would have hurt me bad.


sentinals are great with the right support.