Totally missed the Mastermind on his last click as well...

I've never been able to use Mastermind effectively. It's me, not the power, but, we just don't work together.

Dang, I'm good!

I didnt plan on getting one anyway, BUT my feelings go this way. I do not like paying 200+points for a fig with JUST mastermind is to easy to get sperated from your goons(unless you have ranged mastermind). No move and attack, Its FRIGIN DARKSIED!!!!!!! why no running shot? or Quasers phasing abilityesque type thing to go with the boomtube. His numbers are nice and his powers are fitting but he just looks so Vanilla for being the bad ### supervillan.

Speaking of, I think it's pretty awesome that the old Darkseid can gank this Darkseid away from his supoort

That's because it's always being outwitted.

Ha, that's actually not the issue. I just don't understand how to use the power. It's not something I can really speak to, because I don't really know what I'm doing wrong, I just know I'm doing something wrong.

Yea, I don't see Mastermind outwitted too much, even though it's pretty nasty (see Nick Fury and Baron Zemo from the Cap set...)

If there's no stealth involved, I see it outwitted all the time-- or the possessor laughing as his minios take hits for him.

It's a great power.

An extremely busy, trying, but ultimately successful week has kept me from doing much more than lurk and occasionally drop a post here or there. The addition to Thrumble's Hulk thread was probably the most I've written here in one spot since before this past weekend.

I may find myself in the mood- and I should have the time - to get back into the thread later tonight. It's been a wearing week and I sincerely feel I deserve to enjoy the weekend.

On another note:

Congratulations to the Emersons!

Now, I guess I should go see this new Darkseid...

"I love Earth cause i can do what i want, and no one cares!"-Zoidberg

See, for me I have never seen it as a great power. Since you and your opponent are both building teams to the same point value, you realistically have about the same number of clicks of life. Just about any other defense power either increases the difficulty to make you take clicks of damage, reduces the number of clicks of damage taken or purely avoids the damage.

All mastermind does is move them around. If you start the game with 20 clicks of life, I don't care if you assign the 4 clicks I just gave you to another character since either way you are now 16 clicks from losing.

I made the Howling Commandos take damage for Nick Fury and Baron Zemo in a build + Sealed tournament...

Congratulations to Chirocker and Mrs. Chirocker.

On Darkseid: He's amazing. 12 attack and 11 range is great. Outwit and Psychic Blast is great. His special power is INCREDIBLE. He's penetrating damage resistant which is interesting, and his trait is optional so it makes landing on his last click much easier. I think he'll be super playable. Probably worse than the Crisis one, but the Crisis one filled a different role on a team and was off-the-walls good.

The best defense powers are the ones that guarantee that you won't be taking damage when you aren't expecting it. That's why Stealth, Hypersonic Speed, Barrier, and Mastermind are so good. You can set up a plan and often be absolutely certain that you'll still be on the click you need to be on next turn. It requires planning, but the payoff is huge. Mastermind on a tentpole means that you basically can't play it in a low-point game, but it's better than Impervious if you can support it.

Btw, we went plan A =]