I'd say no, but you should ask on the WES to be safe.

PS for my money, it's almost impossible to police intent... and regardless of intent, purposefully not playing the game shouldn't be a possible strategy, no matter how viable. That's something I feel Wizkids should be responsible for, though (not that I'm holding my breath).

By "frustrating and unique" do you mean "top tier power builds?"

Honestly I think its a waste of time to play against the team, but no one should really complain that they go into a game with no better than a 50% chance of winning. If you lose so what? You might have lost a match on a 50-50 roll later in the game any way.

I understand if someone becomes upset about the waste of time, but if you got upset about losing to the team at a large competitive event because you lost I would consider DQing you.

I'm not saying police intent. He should absolutely be allowed to play it unless they specifically rule otherwise with ample time and notice. I am saying I would think he is a dick based on intent, but he should never be DQ'ed

Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, I agree with you then.

This comment almost went over my head... good job, sir.

Sadly, some of the most annoying teams start that way. I'm sure the Structural Integrity Field teams were a similar thing when it first came up.

Exactly. If I were "that guy," I'd be worried about seeing anyone I faced later that day as some people take this way too seriously.

Also agreed. Whether people hate him for it (as many did for people that used the Superman Yo-yo, SIF-team, or other builds that forced significant rule changes), the option has been created and needs to be addressed.

Bottomline, if one could consistently win with it, you'd see a ton of people playing it.

I have to wonder how folks' attitudes would change in that situation.

That would make it sif 2.0. We know people's attitudes about that (by looking at sif). Mostly I've seen that regarded as an inexcusable failure of the rules team. I personally view this the same way (actually I have for a while, noted on any of my posts regarding the capture vs OMA endgame).

Note that the problem is the rules team, not the player with the team being used.

cant you just possess a sandman a bunch to get around that and first turn smoke cloud for the roll off

fyi i think this is really funny and im glad it exists, just because the idea of three grasshoppers staring down some huge metabeast team and saying "NOPE" and bailing from the fight being supported by the rules owns

I disagree the choice was made by GD, they have known how this mechanic functions for along time.

If they didnt want it to work that way they have all kinds of wording options they could have used and have used in the past to force the character to be KOed if all other friendly characters are off the map.

I stand corrected. I have been around long enough to know that Gd and rules team are different.

Same problem, different figure.

For some reason, up until now, I was thinking that only one Entity could possess any given figure, but I don't see any such restriction on the trait... so you could potentially have 9 Entities (several hundred dollars worth of figures that would have cost around $2,000 when they were new) on one figure and choose 1 power and 1 stat between all of them (with the exception of 2 for Ion). Wow... both on the variety of options and the complete waste of money. LOL!

But is it a waste... if you're having fun?