I agree and endorse this statement.

The Kree and Skrulls agree on something??? Surely this must be the end of days.

I don't know about an auto-win, but it does help them. That said, I think a little meta is going to happen somewhere. The Green Lanterns have the KC Chase and Kyle Rayner handy (though I'm personally looking forward to fielding more Kilowogs and Salaaks and Guy Gardners), the Skrulls have two zombies, the Kree have Supreme Int, and Darkseid has a ton of really awesome figures. The fact that we can all draft figures doesn't hurt either. I'm actually waiting for docsilence to save up enough points so I can play that 3000 point Grand Prize Thanos. Oooh! Wait...save up to 5600 points, and we can play Thanos with Nekron. Now I need to go get a Thanos and Nekron.

A little meta is going to happen, but it's balanced out a little that we're not really in control of our own armies once the fights have been set up. We're more facilitators for side rp battles than player-characters vying for control. Especially since not only can we play our own battles, we can play our "opponent's" battles too. What do you mean that I shouldn't play a 1000 point team of all Indigo Recruits?

Team 1: Nova Corps

Force Build 8649091 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
GG	001	Nova Prime		150	$0.25
GOTGM	011	Irani Rael		60	SELL
HA	044	Air-Walker		201	$1.49
IC	138	Firelord		97	$3.50
GG	100	Super-Nova		142	$0.50
WF	008	Booster Gold		70	SELL
WKD	D-025	Adam Strange		100	SELL
AN	041	Indigo-1		84	$1.50
WOL	018	Munk		85	SELL
SLOSH	019	Amethyst		80	SELL
GOTG	031	Nova		60	SELL
GG	201	Nova		100	$1.62
GG	015	Nova Corps Centurion		100	$0.75
GG	015	Nova Corps Centurion		100	$0.75
GG	210	Nova Corps Denarian		80	$3.50
GG	210	Nova Corps Denarian		80	$3.50
GG	002	Nova Corps Recruit		50	$0.69
GG	002	Nova Corps Recruit		50	$0.69
GG	002	Nova Corps Recruit		50	$0.69
GG	002	Nova Corps Recruit		50	$0.69
GG	002	Nova Corps Recruit		50	$0.69
WOL	004	Indigo Tribe Recruit		40	$1.61
Force Total:				1879	$22.42

VS

Team 2: Brainiac

Force Build 8649091 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
D10A	012	Brainiac		350	$3.17
CW	100	Vision		185	$1.49
TT	042	Indigo		150	$0.76
CW	208	Ultron		160	$6.50
AOU	029	Ultron-8		120	$4.95
AOU	052B	Ultron (Future-Drone)		120	SELL
DOFP	001E	Sentinel		125	SELL
DOFP	001E	Sentinel		125	SELL
CW	002	Iron Man Drone		70	$1.25
CW	002	Iron Man Drone		70	$1.25
CW	002	Iron Man Drone		70	$1.25
CW	003	Ultron Drone		60	$0.99
CW	003	Ultron Drone		60	$0.99
CW	003	Ultron Drone		60	$0.99
CW	003	Ultron Drone		60	$0.99
AOU	014	Ultron Drone		50	SELL
AOU	014	Ultron Drone		50	SELL
AOU	015	Ultron Drone		50	$2.45
AOU	015	Ultron Drone		50	$2.45
Force Total:				1985	$29.48

Map: Surface of the Moon
Result: Nova Corps wins (lost 242 points)
Brainiac looses (lost 1985 points)

"Vanguard advance." Irani Rael ordered from her command post in the rear.

"Irani you coordinate our force from the rear while I, uh..." Richard Rider fumbled for the right term.

"I'll coordinate our force from the rear while you go fun off an be a big hero. Sir." Rael smirked at her commanding officer. The Xandarians would have been lost - were lost - long ago if not for this brash human carrying their torch and reigniting the Xandarian Nova Corps. He was their champion and their chosen one. All of Xandar knew it and loved him for it. But she and Rider both knew she was the tactician of the the corps. They respected each other immensely, largely because they knew their roles well and didn't interfere with each other.

The Nova Corps flew into action, meeting the Clockmaker's forces between Rimbor and designate (0,0,0) on a rogue moon. The polished gleam of their helmets competed with the shined chasses of the Clockmaker's drones for the stars reflected light. "Commander Rael, we have incoming reports from Knowhere! And from Voorl!" Panic evident in his voice, Rael quickly looked at the reports. They were being assaulted at home by the Fearmongers, the Mad Titan and the Kree.

"Cut off communication of outside reports to the battlefield."

"Ma'am?" the corpsman's voice actually cracked.

"They're busy. We can't disengage and the battles will be long over before we could get there. Those worlds are lost, corpsman. Those troops out there have to concentrate on this battle. Success is even more crucial now and I won't have our men distracted by despair. Is that understood?" her voice was cold and collected, as it needed to be. This is why she has this job. "Now cut off outside comms. Let our boys work."

The battle raged on the surface of this unnamed moon. The high mobility of the Clockmaker's drones only served to better position them for the highly synergetic assault of the Corps, thanks to the combined power of the Xandarian Worldmind. They fought as one. As blows were dealt on both sides, Sam Alexander used his special stealth rig to sneak up behind enemy lines and launch a devastating burst (pulse wave). In response, the primary Brainiac unit present powered up.

"Tactical mode depleted. Combat mode initated." it intoned dispassionately.

"Uh, oh. Didn't someone tell the rookie not to hit that thing?" Captain Strange announced over comms while scoring several shots into drones. "Focus fire on Brainiac prime, we can't let him cut into our lines."

"Hey, captain, I've got this." Booster Gold flew right in front of him to take a shot. "Focus fire on Brainiac prime, we can't let him cut into our lines."

Before any shots could connect, Brainiac unleashed a powerful surge of energy that ate into the Nova Corps, seeming to turn the tide of battle. But the following volley of concentrated fire from practically the entire Corps whittled the monstrosity down until Nova Prime himself dealt the final blow.

Firelord's power cosmic disintegrated drones in single shots while Air-Walker's use of it made him a blur on the battlefield, damaging drones all over the moon's surface. Garthan Saal launched an impressive battle with the more powerful General Vision, before finally succumbing to its superior firepower. As all the drones finally fell, a single Ultron unit stood standing until Robbie Rider (gg100 substitute) rocketed like his brother across half the moon to impart his momentum into its chest.

"Great job, brother. Another victory for the Corps!" Nova Prime led his men in a roaring cheer.

"Sir, I have ...bad news." Irani Rael sent on private comms to her commander.

speaking of meta, all that worldmind. my goodness they are a force to be reconned with. I had 22 leadership rolls. 22! who cares if it only works on a 6. and nova prime was attacking every single turn thanks to adjacent recruits.

and if you don't own irani rael, you're doing nova corps wrong. I couldn't count how many times that blanket +1 defense (coupled with denarian pseudo-ss) saved their bacon
I agree as well, actually. I said as much last turn. I won't be using the teambase anymore unless i'm looking at a severe uphill battle on the homefront
yeah, 25 indigo recruits would be way unbalanced. literally they'd lean the map right off the table

joking aside, every team has some dangerous pieces and both players get to set their own agreed meta for each match. homegames ftw

Agreed on that Worldmind with so many Novas... we are beginning night #3 of Novas vs. Clock maker tonight and those traits stack like crazy.

I didn't mean to call anyone out btw, just sharing my opinion on team bases in general.

Just finished the Ungara battle with some friends at our weekly clix meetup, will post momentarily.

We built our Nova Corps team tonight and it is such a random collection of golden helmets I can't wait to see how it plays. Once we ran out of official Novas, we decided to recruit a Nova from as many HRS-based planets as possible. We've got officers from most of the galaxy, even Titan. Probably won't play the match til Friday but we're really psyched for our 0, 0, 0 fight.

Battle of Ungara

Kree

Force Build 8649264 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
GOTGM	008	Ronan the Accuser		275	SELL
GOTG	040	Martyr		160	SELL
CW	027	Genis-Vell		200	$0.75
GOTG	019B	Dr. Minerva		125	SELL
GOTG	101	Captain Atlas		120	SELL
Force Total:				880	$0.75

Sinestro Corps

Force Build 8649264 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	019	Bedovian		115	SELL
WOL	013A	Romat-Ru		77	SELL
Force Total:				192	$0.00

Green Lantern Corps

Force Build 8649264 2
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	027	Graf Toren		170	SELL
WOL	013B	Tomar Tu		99	SELL
WOL	017	Boodikka		75	SELL
WOL	015	Arisia		75	SELL
WOL	043	Hannu		160	SELL
GLGF	009	Salaak		100	$4.50
Force Total:				679	$4.50

Clockmaker

Force Build 8649264 3
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
AOU	030D	Ultron-14 (Drone)		30	SELL
AAOU	012	Ultron Mk 1		120	$4.00
AAOU	012R	Ultron Mk 1		65	SELL
AAOU	007	Ultron Sentry		40	$5.00
AAOU	007	Ultron Sentry		40	$5.00
Force Total:				295	$14.00

Map: Central Port (DC 3x3 map)

Results: The Kree/GLC/Sinestro Corps win

Brainiac was routed, but the Sinestro Corps took advantage with a sniper shot on Toren, which led to him being KO'ed by an Ultron Prime that came in the game after the 120pt Mk 1 went down. Prime also managed to KO Boodikka before Genis-Vell and Captain Atlas finished the robots off.

Clockmaker lost 300
GLC lost 245
Kree and Sinestro lost 0

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Hey, Salaak got on there! Awesome. Those treacherous Sinestros shot at us? And after you said they were willing to put their differences aside. Tsk tsk.

Graf had KOed one drone and was pushed from shooting another when Bedovian got TK'ed over into range. Hannu attempted to avenge him and landed a shot but couldn't finish him before the Clockmaker's forces were KOed.

I'm a big fan of keeping the Corps spacey. The only earther I've ever deployed for them is guy because he's the general (though it doesn't hurt that he's also the greatest green lantern ever)

The best thing about this chapter is the excuse to play all these great characters and dials that are commonly overlooked. Space stuff ftw
No real surprise there.

*Booster Gold looks around the room exhausted to tired to pander to the camera and approaches the podium. He was at a press conference to explain his week and a half abscence*
*A reporter stands up and asks sir what are your plans for the Kree Empire*
*He stares thoughtfully at the reporter "I have no longer a want or need to feud with the Kree because I knoe what it's like to try and satisfy a parental figure as my own father has been sick for a tad and for that I have mutual respect for the Kree. That is why im proposing a 2 week ceasefire between the Nova Corps and the fair Kree

Team 1: Shi'ar/Spartax Alliance

Force Build 8649561 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
SLOSH	001	Cosmic Boy		90	$0.24
SLOSH	002	Saturn Girl		94	$0.40
SLOSH	003	Lightning Lad		104	$0.39
SLOSH	010	Polar Boy		78	SELL
SLOSH	018	Ultra-Boy		165	SELL
SLOSH	022	Gates		60	SELL
SLOSH	035	Shadow Lass		78	$1.33
SLOSH	047A	White Witch		87	$14.49
SLOSH	048	Tellus		82	$6.67
SLOSH	208	Phantom Girl		80	$2.99
FL	004	XS		82	SELL
SM	022	Sun Boy		79	$0.37
CR	022	Dawnstar		60	$1.50
WXM	023B	Cerise		60	$6.99
Force Total:				1199	$35.37

With: Green Lantern Corps

Force Build 8649561 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	104	Guy Gardner (Green Lantern)		120	SELL
WOL	R200.08	Scissors (Green)		8	SELL
SI	035	Howard the Duck		35	$4.75
WOL	R200.05	Crossbow (Green)		10	SELL
WOL	015	Arisia		75	SELL
WOL	043	Hannu		160	SELL
GL	005	Katma Tui		89	$2.99
Force Total:				497	$7.74

VS

Team 2: Brainiac

Force Build 8649561 2
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
AOU	052AE	Ultron (Future)		200	SELL
Force Total:				200	$0.00

Map: Alien City (again!)
Result: Shi'ar/Spartax wins (lost 0 points)
Green Lantern Corps wins (lost 0 points)
Brainiac looses (lost 200 points)

Phantom Girl emerged from Ultron's chest in a crackle of disrupted electrical energy just before giant emerald scissors wielded by Guy Gardner sliced the robot in half. "Yahoo! That's how you get it done." The Fist of the Lanterns cried.

Amongst the massive assembled army of Imperial Legionnaires, a glowing green crossbow wisps away to nothingness, sucked back into the green ring on Howard the Duck's feathered finger. "Why'd I even bother coming here? This is ridiculous. Are at least one of you nutjobs named Coffee Lad?"

Team 1: Nova Corps

Force Build 8649641 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WOL	041	Parallax (Hal Jordan)		250	SELL
WOL	043	Hannu		160	SELL
WF	064	Green Lantern		170	SELL
GG	100	Super-Nova		142	$0.50
AVAS	039	Nova		141	SELL
SMWW	024	Circe		115	SELL
WKD	D-023	Wonder Girl		110	SELL
SMWW	034	Doctor Fate		110	SELL
GG	201	Nova		100	$1.62
TT	049	Bunker		89	$4.50
SLOSH	019	Amethyst		80	SELL
GG	210	Nova Corps Denarian		80	$3.50
GOTG	210	Nova		75	SELL
TMNT	033	Michelangelo		75	SELL
WF	008	Booster Gold		70	SELL
WF	028	Blue Beetle		60	SELL
GOTG	031	Nova		60	SELL
GOTGM	003	Nova Corpsman		45	SELL
Force Total:				1932	$10.12

VS

Team 2: Brainiac

Force Build 8649641 1
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
WKD	D-G003	Skull Ship		0	SELL
IIM	001A	Iron Man		300	$0.54
FI	300	Iron Man		250	$4.97
AVAS	050	Iron Man		242	SELL
AOU	050	Iron Man 2020		202	SELL
AVX	104	Phoenixbuster Iron Man		175	SELL
IIM	101	Iron Man		124	$4.00
AQS	002	Iron Man		100	SELL
AOU	017	Iron Man		90	$1.95
AOU	030	Ultron-14		120	SELL
AOU	054B	Ultron-18.2 (Drone)		120	SELL
Force Total:				1723	$11.46

Map: Svartalfheim
Result: Nova Corps wins (lost 995 points)
Brainiac looses (lost 1968 points)

My ultrons/brainiacs/iron men are not putting up a great fight!

Also, I'm hoping after all the initial big battles are fought, that smaller battles will become more normal...