They won't happen - you can only throw characters that cost 30 points or more.

Also, another nice Unrestricted trick: Put Shakeoff on Living Monolith, throw him to turn him into a Giant, then do a breakaway and deal some damage that is not affected by FBS.

I agree completely - when I build a 300 point X-men team I'll likely pick the DR Colossus over this one - who seems well suited to 500+ point games where he has plenty of backup & ammo. That said - it won't stop many of us from trying especially considering Colossus is a Common figure that meets the FLOOR requirement by himself.

Have to say, Katana definitely deserves honorable mention status, and for the love of CARP, V METAMORPHO. You insist on the E [and have in other threads], and I can understand that he is more featable because of points saved. But to pay 10 points for +1 AV, DV, AND Damage should be considered over Shapechange. Especially if you're going to add Camoflauge, which lowers the point differential from 10 to 2, and is also relatively unreliable [he has to be next to blocking terrain].

How did Ultimate Cap not make the cut?!?

Not a bad idea with the special power. Espcially with an object as well.

You missed two very important Fastballer's

Bouncing Boy-come on he is a ball for crying out loud. Dodgeball anyone?

Secondly, V. Banshee. I listed this team in Unrestricted format.

400pts.

Colossus 158
+Armor Piercing 10

V. Banshee 90
+Nova Blast 10
+Endurance 5

V. Sunfire 75
+Cont. Plan 12

Marvel Girl 40

BFC Communication Breakdown.

Mutant Theme team.

First off, Armor Piercing makes sure that Colossus gets through Impervious and Invulnerability.

If you are using Communication Breakdown, then use it against your attack value. Then it cannot be modified. So once you throw Banshee, after he takes his click of damage, he would still have a 9 attack. Also once he takes that click of damage, he loses Psychic Blast for Pulse Wave. He can immediately make a Pulse Wave attack, triggering his Nova Blast, which uses unmodified damage value. So he is Nova Blasting for 3 damage. This is where Sunfire comes in, he uses Contingency Plan to add to Banshee's range giving him a possible 11(6 with Pulse Wave). Banshee also doesn't take the pushing damage from Nova Blast thanks to Endurance.

Enjoy, and watch your opponent cringe. I also have changed out Marvel Girl for SR Scarlett Witch to give me another chance with her Prob Control.

I can see that working reasonably well, actually.

On turn one, Spider-Man moves, grabs an object, and Outwits whatever seems most dangerous on your opponent's force - HSS or TK, most likely.

On turn two, Spider-Man Outwits your opponent's damage reducing power. Colossus uses Fastball Special to throw Spider-Man, dealing two clicks of damage if he hits; Spider-Man drops the object in his square (Shield Disruptor, Laser Turrent), and then pushes either to do two damage or to use Webbing.

That leaves Spider-Man with a hittable 16 defence, but Shapechange gives him a decent chance to avoid attacks. If he does get hit then he's got Leap/Climb and Super Senses to get to safety again (taking his object home with him ), and if he stays safe he can Flurry instead.
Nice!

Something else I realized about the Shake-Off Monolith trick: When you are doing a breakaway anyway, you may as well make a Running Shot - Monolith may have a 0 damage thanks to the FBS penalty, but Energy Explosion damage is not dependent on damagevalue but rather of the number of times a figure is hit - so you'll deal 1 damage as long as you roll high enough.
Add in some Armor Piercing to enhance the effect of both Shakeoff and EE and we're in business!

I can only respond with this:


But since you brought it up:



Not a bad choice at all - especially if Colossus targets a "soft" opponent - one Cap is likely to KO with his first attack and activate his SP getting a free attack in the same turn!

I generally don't look at the Avengers Captain when building a team - mostly because of the sculpt that threatens to blind me whenever I stare too long at it.

Agreed with the Giant thingy... Giant's don't have the Starburst damage symbol and it would be odd to see Colossus throwing 10 times more sized character than he is.

Colossus: "O-o guys, it's Galactus. This will be a tough fight to all of us!".
Cyclops: "If you would throw one of us the damage done to Galactus would be much more greater."
Wolverine: "Agreed".
Moloid: "OK guys, enough said. It has to be me! I mean, i am the KING OF DAMAGE!".

Colossus, Cyclops and Wolverine laugh all together.

Had to have that comment

...This is true. However, when a Giant has Earthbound (as with Living Monolith) he loses the Giant damage symbol and gains the starburst symbol. As has been mentioned several times already, in the article and in this thread, Colossus can FBS an Earthbound character that is normally a giant....

...sigh.

Not to mention that the MOLOID

• CAN NOT
• WILL NOT
• AND NEVER WILL

GET USED WITH FBS!

He doesn't meet the prerequisites for the power.

Sometimes I wonder - if everyone bothered to read the rules would we even need judges at all?

How about Black Panther as the ball? Does this work? BP Perplexes up his own AV, Colossus chucks him, hits the target, clicks to 2nd click, Outwits the opponent's defenses, attacks with B/C/F with a 9 AV (-2 but still +1 for the Perplex).

A 17 DV with toughness is not bad, he can use Leap / Climb to get out of Dodge if necessary, and who knows what he might have as a Wildcard power (well, X-men for one!).

It does not work. The effects of Perplex end if the Perplexed takes damage (or is healed) or if the Perplexer loses Perplex. If Colossus FBS's BP, both happen.
On the other hand, 8 AV with B/C/F is not too shabby either.

One nice thing about Colossus is that you can have a limited TKer on your force without having to have just a limited TKer on your force. When perhaps facing Poor Teamwork without an ignoring theme, Marvel Girl is pretty much useless... but Piotr is still valuable.

In fact, has anyone checked into this - It appears Colossus would have no problem with the TK Strain card, as he would only be losing a single square of TK range from his SP with that card in play... but what about Poor Teamwork? Since he's treating the friendly character as an object, and TK Option 3 never mentions targeting that object (your target is the opposing figure), can you still use Fastball Special as normal with PT in play? Food for thought.