And here we have another Gargantua and flyingicarus production. Welcome! Basic idea is we're playing six games of 1000 points each (actually each must average 950-1050) based on random mini-games we wanted to try (ex. Hot vs Cold, Swords & Arrows vs Guns & Blasters). We've predrafted 2/3 of the characters. We're predrafting 30 feats (allowing ten mystery feats---a mystery feat can be one of the predrafted feats but can only be used once). Winner gets to choose the pairing & initiative, loser gets map choice. The winner will also get a prize (TBD) that can be used in the finale. The finale is an all out brawl using 8 figures at a time with our standard replacement rules.

The pre-determined 30 feats are:

Feats: Nanobots, Thunderbolts, Stunning Blow, Armor Piercing, Protected, Drag, Pummel, Ambidexterous, Mental Shields, Trick Shot, Automatic Regeneration, Brilliant Tactician, Vendetta, Force Field, Camouflage, Dissent, Inside Information, Fortitude, Pounce, Shellhead, Saboteur, Siphon Power, Lucky Break, Repulsor Shield, Extended Range, Endurance, LMD, Elite Sniper, Alpha Flight, Contingency Plan

We're rolled for initiative on game 1. The first pairing was Hot vs Cold...where the cool prevailed. Currently going on in another post: Armor vs. Robots.

Here we have DC vs. Marvel's Mystics. I get Marvel. My team is:

Dr. Strange SI 149 (Siphon Power to Mystics)
Enchantress HoT 141 (Endurance)
Clea 59 (Mystery feat #3-Dissent)
Scarlet Witch Av 35
Wiccan 54
Nico Minoru 84 (Contingency Plan)
Shaman V 66 (Dissent)
Loki HoT 208 (Brilliant Tactician)
Hela 200 (Inside Information)

996 total

Salem, Massachusetts.

"Brrr....I wish these tights offered better protection from the cold!" Wiccan says.

"Here is some coffee, young one," Clea offers, "But it's not the chill of winter you feel but the chill of the dead calling out for their unjust deaths."

"Not helping me, Miss Clea," he replies.

The best of the group band together in plotting.

"Their group is formidable. Not insurmountable but formidable," Shaman says.

"True, Shamam and yet a gross underestimation. We will need all of our skills to find this piece of the Evil Eye," Dr. Strange says.

"Doth thou believe yon mages a threat to three of Asgards greatest?" Loki asks.

"Unbelievable!" Enchantress notes.

"And yet true," the Scarlet Witch says as she peers into the scrying pool she created. "Even with my limited magical frame of reference I can feel their magic...it's incredible."

"Can we beat them?" Nico Minoru asks.

"Defeat them and send them to Valhalla. The souls of so many mages will be delicious," Hela says.

Circe (LMD)
Zatanna
E Dr. Fate (Inside Info)
Dr. Alchemy (Saboteur)
Spectre (Repulsor Shield)
Tempest
Felix Faust (Force Field)
V Enchantress (Camouflage)

983

Figures used: Binary, V Fire, Firehawk, Firelord, V Ghost Rider FF, V Human Torch FF, V Pyro, V Starfire, V Sunfire, V Wildfire, M-11, Bi-Beast, Ultron HOT, Danger, Jocasta, Robot, Gold, Hourman, E Robotman, V Red Tornado, E OMAC, Circe, Zatanna, Dr. Fate, Dr. Alchemy, Spectre, Tempest, Felix Faust, Enchantress

Feats used: Ambidextrous, Auto-Regen, Brilliant Tactician, Camouflage, Drag, Force Field, Fortitude, Inside Info, LMD, Repulsor Shield, Saboteur, Shellhead, Vendetta
Mystery Feats: Alias, Force Field, Rip It Up, Thwart

The Temple should be an appropriate map for this bunch.

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/map.jsp?map=IA

Good map for this kind of group but it lacks letters & numbers to define it. I'm willing to use it but I think great confusion will arise from it.

You're right. I hadn't noticed that. That's too bad. Let's go for the less appropriate Zoo map instead.

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/map.jsp?map=ZOO

“Stonehenge. No place on earth has more inherent magic power,” Felix Faust said.

“And we will be keeping a close eye on you, Faust. It is not yours for the taking,” Dr. Fate cautioned him.

“Now Fate, do you really think you can control all of us?” Circe asked him.

“That’s right. There are three of us, and only one of you,” Dr. Alchemy pointed out.

“Not so,” Zatanna said. “Fate has allies too,” she added as she, Tempest and the Enchantress joined the group.

“Zatanna, are you sure we can trust the Enchantress? She’s never been the most stable,” Tempest whispered to Zatanna.

“She’s also not deaf,” the Enchantress said, annoyed. “And don’t worry. For now, my evil side is under control.”

“Then perhaps we are fairly evenly matched, Fate,” Faust said. “But I think we could still stand a chance a beating you, if we were to attempt it.”

“I would not advise it,” a new voice said from above. The villains looked up to see the Spectre towering over them.

“Ulp,” the three villains said in unison.

Fair enough. To be different I took the gold color.

Dr. Strange SI O23 (Siphon Power to Mystics)
Enchantress HoT P24 (Endurance)
Clea T23 (Mystery feat #3-Dissent)
Scarlet Witch Av R23
Wiccan Q23
Nico Minoru N23 (Contingency Plan)
Shaman V S23 (Dissent)
Loki HoT P23 (Brilliant Tactician)
Hela N23 (Inside Information)

Objects: HO N16, P 19 LO K20, R16

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/...&f9p1=x-103y91

Circe (LMD) F2
Zatanna G2
E Dr. Fate (Inside Info) H2
Dr. Alchemy (Saboteur) H1
Spectre (Repulsor Shield) E2
Tempest G1
Felix Faust (Force Field) I1
V Enchantress (Camouflage) I2

HO N16, P19, J8, P10
LO K20, R16, K8, L12

And first move. I think I'm even more inclined to be cautious in this game than I have been in the others, but here goes:

Faust Barriers I9, J9, K9, L8 (yeah I know, again with the Barriers)

Enchantress to K8, taxiing Faust to J7

Fate to I6, taxiing Alchemy to I7

Zatanna to J8, taxiing Tempest to K7

Circe to J6

Spectre to I8

Circe (LMD) @ J6
Zatanna @ J8
E Dr. Fate (Inside Info) @ I6
Dr. Alchemy (Saboteur) I7
Spectre (Repulsor Shield) @ I8
Tempest K7
Felix Faust (Force Field) @ J7
V Enchantress (Camouflage) @ K8

HO N16, P19, J8, P10
LO K20, R16, K8, L12

"All right, Fate, you win this round, but now that we're here, where's the Evil Eye? Now what?" Circe asked.

"I would say, that's what," Zatanna said, pointing. "Either someone has decided to open a zoo right next to Stonehenge, which I doubt the zoning board would approve, or else we have an anomaly on our hands."

"And the amount of magic I am sensing from the other side of the cages is...unsettling," the Spectre said enigmatically, "as if another great convocation of mages awaits us there."

"Well to be honest, that's kind of what we were expecting, wasn't it?" Tempest asked.

"Well, come on troops. We aren't getting any younger," the Enchantress said. "Though I guess some of us don't have to worry about getting older either," she added, glancing at Circe.

Strange rolls for perplex. 5. Shame it will probably be wasted.

Loki to K20, stealthed all the way, baby. He'll bt up the dvs of the Mystics: himself, Hela and Strange.

Wanda carts Shaman to K23, she's K22.

Lack of movement is a bit of a problem with these mystics, eh?

Strange uses his perplex roll to up his dv + 2.

Enchantress ups her own dv + 1.

Nico will adopt pc this way.

Dr. Strange SI O23 (Siphon Power to Mystics)
Enchantress HoT P24 (Endurance)
Clea T23 (Mystery feat #3-Dissent)
Scarlet Witch Av @ K22
Wiccan Q23
Nico Minoru N23 (Contingency Plan + 1) (Power: PC)
Shaman V K23 (Dissent)
Loki HoT @ K20 (Brilliant Tactician) (Stealthed)
Hela N23 (Inside Information)

Objects: HO N16, P 19 LO K20, R16

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/...8p2=x-568y-130

"They are an incredible force," Dr. Strange notes, "We must take caution."

"Bah! And where's the fun in that?" Loki asks as he disappears to the rooftop.

Strange shakes his head.

Clea's arm comforts him. "Did you expect anything less from the Trickster God?".

Don't you just love a turn's beginning...when everything is possible?

Alchemy will Barrier the same squares that Faust had done. Everyone else just clears.

Tempest will Perplex Spectre's DV up to 19

Faust Makes his own 17

Circe (LMD) J6
Zatanna J8
E Dr. Fate (Inside Info) I6
Dr. Alchemy (Saboteur) @ I7
Spectre (Repulsor Shield) I8
Tempest K7
Felix Faust (Force Field) J7
V Enchantress (Camouflage) K8

HO N16, P19, J8, P10
LO K20, R16, K8, L12

Strange rolls for perplex. 6. Argh...good rolls and I just don't know what to do with them.

Enchantress tks Hela to L19, she'll make his range 11.

Hela destroys barrier in I9.

Nico gets tk and moves Strange to M19. Strange makes his damage 5.

Strange on Spectre. Needs 7 + 1, rolls 7. Loki rerolls 6. Wanda makes it 10. Imperv is 1. 3 to Spectre.

Shaman barriers K-O18.

Dr. Strange SI @ M19 (Siphon Power to Mystics)
Enchantress HoT @ P24 (Endurance)
Clea T23 (Mystery feat #3-Dissent)
Scarlet Witch Av K22
Wiccan Q23
Nico Minoru N23 (Contingency Plan + 1) (Power: TK)
Shaman V @ K23 (Dissent)
Loki HoT K20 (Brilliant Tactician) (Stealthed)
Hela @ L19 (Inside Information)

Objects: HO N16, P 19 LO K20, R16

http://www.ianparmenter.com/hcutils/...8p2=x-568y-130