Free) Donald Pierce Poisons Major Force and Queen Bee.

1. Black King will attack Major Force (9 vs 13). Roll is a 8(6,2) for the hit. Major Force takes 3, 2 after Toughness and is KO'ed.

Recap
HIVE
2. @The General (11/11) M20
6. @Queen Bee (1/7) J14
7. @HIVE Trooper(V) (5/5) L20

KO: Prometheus, R HIVE Trooper, E HIVE Trooper, Major Force

Hellfire Club
2. @Black King (2/10) L13
3. Donald Pierce (4/7) J13

KO: Wade Cole, Tessa, Black Queen, Emma Frost

HO: N22
LO: H8, K14

Map

1. HIVE Trooper targets Black King (9 vs. 15). Roll is 6,4 for the hit and the KO.
2. The General targets Donald Pierce (12 vs. 15). Roll is 4,3 for the hit. DP takes 2 clicks after toughness. the General takes a push click.
3. Queen Bee will try to finish off DP (6 vs. 13). Roll is 2,2 for the miss. Queen Bee pushes herself to death.

Go ahead and take 2 turns in a row.

Recap
HIVE
2. @@The General (10/11) M20
7. @@HIVE Trooper(V) (5/5) L20

KO: Prometheus, R HIVE Trooper, E HIVE Trooper, Major Force, Queen Bee

Hellfire Club
3. Donald Pierce (2/7) J13

KO: Wade Cole, Tessa, Black Queen, Emma Frost, Black King

HO: N22
LO: H8, K14

Map

Isaac, does anybody show up at Star City Games for 11:00 Heroclix on Saturday usually?

Lately we haven't had many people. Usually 3-4 at the most and sometimes no one. I've been trying to brainstorm ways to increase attendance and plan on talking to Jared about some of them based on how the event tomorrow goes.

I think I'm going to try and show up tomorrow at Star City. I kind of want to play at Extremes at 4:30, but that time doesn't work out too well for me.

Turn 1

1. Donald Pierce will move to O18.

You clear

Turn 2

1. Pierce will make his last stand taking a shot at The General (8 vs 14). Roll is a 6 (5,1) for the hit. The General takes one click.

Donald Pierce has been a monster for me this game. Too bad Black King decided not to show up.

Recap
HIVE
2. The General (9/11) M20
7. HIVE Trooper(V) (5/5) L20

KO: Prometheus, R HIVE Trooper, E HIVE Trooper, Major Force, Queen Bee

Hellfire Club
3. @@Donald Pierce (2/7) O18

KO: Wade Cole, Tessa, Black Queen, Emma Frost, Black King

HO: N22
LO: H8, K14

Map

That's cool. I'll be there and hopefully we'll get some other players since we're back to actual LE figures now.

1. The General to put DP out of his misery (11 vs. 13). Roll is 6,4 for the hit and the KO.

Good game!

Recap post to follow...

Yeah, I was concerned about DP early on in the game. That time that Major Force missed with the HO, may have been a blessing in disguise. Those Poison clicks with Flurry looked nasty with his Armor Piercing.

That early hit on Emma Frost was crucial. After that, you didn't have a lot that could hurt me. I left Black King alone until I knew I could focus on him. Even so, I think the Hellfire club is a bit underpowered. They have little mobility and the Fork SA is only OK. You were essentially playing at a 100+ point disadvantage against this team.

Yeah I knew I was going to be at a disadvantage as soon as you were able to get in close between Queen Bee's Poison/MM combo and The General/Major Force. I wanted to get rid of Prometheus early b/c of the Outwit and other useful powers he has but in the end it didn't make much difference. The sad thing is I rolled pretty well and you rolled below average and still won. Major Force's critical hit on Tessa was huge. Otherwise I would have rolled away from the Poison using Combat Reflexes and been on Stealth/Probability Control. And Black King is just a hard piece to use. You want him to get hit but his values are so low to start with that there's a good chance he'll be halfway through his dial before he can attack.

Looking back I might have tried a different lineup w/ the old White Queen and a flyer like Black Queen. Not having any flyers really hurt me. Donald Pierce though is an ideal candidate for Armor Piercing. I've actually used him in a game before and he does a lot better than people expect. Actually this game went pretty much how the tournament where I used the Hellfire Club went. I did ok, rolled fine but in the end just didn't have enough firepower or damage to pull out wins.

Good game!

Should I add a second fork to the Hellfire Club, or was it just a bad matchup?

I think the main problem is that the Hellfire club doesn't do a lot of damage up front. Plus they have little mobility. I was thinking that you could add a "Castle" move to your "Fork" move. Once during the game, you could have two figures exchange places.

Exchanging places has a kind of teleporter surreal feel to it.

How about this instead.

This would give them an extra move an attack ability.

I can replace this with the Hellfire guards starting position which doesnt do much.

That would probably help some. Honestly I think it was a combination of the Hellfire Club not having the ability to do lots of damage AND a bad matchup. I was hitting for 1 and 2 and he was hitting for 3 and 4 and so while I made a lot of attacks and rolled well I just didn't do enough damage.