To be fair, I didn't see the power of the combo, I saw the HOLY CARP LEADER AND MODOK AND DOOM AND MONKEYS ON THE SAME TEAM I LOVE THAT. I fully expected to get my butt kicked by HSS mokers, which made it post-worthy that I actually won my three games.

Of course, I lost the tournament prize to another guy who went 3-0 who ran THREE BRILLIANT TACTICIANS on his Illuminati team. I'm glad I didn't have to play that particular nightmare of a team.

Did they give you the Theme team probs for it?

Yeah, the Illuminati is good for that. We have an Intelligencia keyword house ruled on the clix cave.

I cleared it with the judge first days in advance, who is big on giving characters the keywords they canonically SHOULD have. I got 4 theme probs, plus Leader and Mad Thinker. It didn't come into play nearly as much as I thought it would, though. The second game, I burned through almost all of my theme probs trying to land a hit on E-2 and wound up failing. I rolled fairly well - most of the times I made sure to set up LOS on prob, I didn't need it. Which is extremely rare for me, as I'm notorious for rolling like carp. Another of our regulars was incredulous that I went 3-0, because I never do.

Awesome story!

Here's my 800-point Intellegentsia team that I've currently been wrecking faces with:

116 mu044 The Leader
015 +Mental Shields
144 mm090 M.O.D.O.K.
015 +Mental Shields
093 sn027 Wizard
015 +Mental Shields
053 ff086 Mad Thinker
015 +Mental Shields
096 ff013 Awesome Android
059 sv086 Red Ghost
050 sv021 Super Apes: Peoter
050 sv020 Super Apes: Mikhlo
050 sv019 Super Apes: Igor
015 ct012 A.I.M. Agent
014 ct013 A.I.M. Medic
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800

If I end up in a 1,000-pt match, the Starter/Classics Dr. Doom is a shoo-in. If they ever make an Egghead... I'll have to completely go back to the drawing-board, I guess. Lulz.

"Fall of the Hulks: Alpha" is a great read, even if you - like me - don't care about Red Hulk or any of the surrounding Loebian nonsense. It's just a fun comic about what the heck the super-villains have all been doing while the heroes were off fighting each other. I <3 Jeff Parker. If I could afford duplicates of all these figures, I'd mod them into their little scuba-suits, too!!!

So the only un-made INTELLIGENTSIA figure would be Egghead?

I'm loving that team...going to spring it on a pal soon!

Much respect for running the Intelligencia. I would have also house ruled that it was a theme team. Taking down both chase Superman isn't always easy, but isn't there a rule that you can't double TK a figure?

Jackstar mentioned that team. I was wondering how it lost. Now I know: it didn't.


I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the cash/credit made it feel a little better.


I'll see you next week. I'm making an effort to try out my superawesome10101010101newfangledpiece I just got in the mail.


And after that.... I'm going to throw down my "Gauntlet" at you.

The rule is, they can't be given a non-free action after being TK'd twice (paraphrased).

Actually, no...it's that a figure cannot use TK after being TK'd.

You can be TK'd twice and do whatever you wish.

edit: unless we're talking about house rules

No, you're right. I guess it was wishful thinking.

WOW! As if you needed any more of my respect, TB! That's got to be one of the coolest teams I've ever heard of. I loved that Intelligencia one-shot. Jeff Parker has got to be my new favorite writer at Marvel. If you haven't been reading Agents of Atlas (and Incredible Hercules, R.I.P.), you really ought to.

I especially loved how the Leader just "took it" when Doom betrayed them. All of the other guys had too much ego and fought back, but the Leader knew he was doomed.

Such a great underdog tale, really. I guess all that wildcard Mystics T.A. really works in your favor on a team like that!

Man. COOL!

Correct! I didn't have access to the rules. I knew it was something about TK twice.

You can bet I would have had Mental Shields all over the place if I had room for it, but I only had 11 points left, and there was no way I was going to not have Mystic Doom (I swapped the sculpt for a regular Doom, because I hate the meatsack but I like a magic-geared Doom). I probably could have made a lot better use of the Hydra TA than I did, but MODOK was usually my first gun out there, and it was good to have another TA to copy. I was just impressed MODOK actually performed well for me for once - he usually whiffs because I love him so and he must hurt me. I loved that he aced Thor pretty much on his own.

And yeah, I've despised Red Hulk with a passion and dropped the Loeb book, but it's amazing how much teaming up Leader with MODOK will do to get me back into the Hulk fold. I love Agents of Atlas, but for some reason I can't get into Herc. I think I just have too strong a distaste for Amadeus Cho.

The cash helped, as well as Jan offering to trade his spare prize for some fig he needs later. I'd like to have Thor The Reigning, I think.

Did you just shell out cash for a Nekron or something? And by Gauntlet, do you have some Spider-Villain action to throw at me?

Also, holy ####, Web of Spider-Man! WILL THEY REMAKE MYSTERIO WITH SPECIAL POWERS? DARE WE DREAM? And if so, will the sculpt suck so much that he'll need to be replaced with the awesome original sculpt? I'm cool with that - I've got LOTS of spare Mysterios.