Next week, Thursday the 21st of February - Tax Brackets!

• 1050 point constructed tournament (but see below); three actions per turn.
• Retirement is not in effect.
• No feats or battlefield conditions.
• Your force must consist of exactly six characters, one each from the following brackets:
  1. 1-50 points
  2. 51-100 points
  3. 101-150 points
  4. 151-200 points
  5. 201-250 points
  6. 251-300 points
• No colossal characters (Sentinel, Sinestro).
• Any Questions?

Note: The minimum force build possible with these six brackets is 756 points. The maximum force build possible with these six brackets is 1050 points - a 294 point difference. I don't recommend that you play a force of less than 900 points, but whatever works for you!

Andrew came up with the tournament format but neglected to give it a name, so you have my lame offering there.

Next week, Thursday the 28th of February!

• 200 point constructed tournament.
• Retirement is not in effect.
• No battlefield conditions.
• Four actions per round.
• Any Questions?

Keep in mind that the new tournament rules (described here) will be legal from the 27th of February. That includes no soaring, no survivor points calculated in the win, and changes to thematic teams.

Who won "Tax Brackets" (did you find another name?) and with what?

It is always nice to know what is going down.

Hi BB,

I won Tax Brackets with my theme team of "Figures I've wanted to play, but hadn't yet put in a team, plus Storm"

284 Ganthet
250 Apocalypse
199 V Kang the Conqueror
150 Tony Stark LE (Armor Wars)
100 Storm (M&M)
50 Ambush Bug

I threw the team together without thinking it through much, and found out on the night that it was surprisingly effective. I should have realised that with the double perplex, double outwit, huge range and high damages, but I wasn't really thinking when I picked the figures.

Also, the fact that I missed only one attack in the first game, and only two in the second (and both of them in the second game I needed a 10 to hit anyway), and that Modoc / Andrew couldn't roll a hit against me in the second helped me a lot. 8)

I got a Maestro out of it though, so I was happy.

I've still been thinking about the way that we use battlefield conditions at Tin Soldier (or rather, the way that we don't) and whether there's a good way to bring them back in.

An idea: We only play two rounds normally. Why don't we give every player a bye, to make it "officially" three rounds?

Then each round you have a choice of using one of your two BFCs, or the "blank".

What do you think?

I've been wondering if we should start bring in BFC's as well, as there doesn't seem to be an influx of new players to be confused by them recently, and this sounds like a reasonable way to do it.

Count this as a yes vote.

edit - I did realise however that giving everyone a free bye every week is going to change everyone's win/loss record, if we choose to stick to the standard 'bye = win' rules. So I guess that will have to change.

I'd also like to vote for some simple format for next weeks game, as a friend of mine without a huge collection of figures is coming along, and I'd prefer that he didn't get scared off 8)

Easy enough to just not count byes for statistical purposes! Even a "real" bye probably shouldn't be counted for a statistical win/loss record anyway.

You mean Thursday the 6th, right? Because this week (the 28th) is pretty darn simple.

Yea, this week would have been good for him, except he doesn't want to make the trek in there on a week I'm not there, so he's planning to come next week.

Thanoseid's team looks awesome and I imagine everyone else managed to play models that they just would not field at any other time.

Thanks for the feedback. This forum makes a local Sydney Heroclix community an open arena. It would be nice to see new Tourney players but the competitiveness of the core group (which I love) is a challenge that many players will not find comforting. I found it tricky with other venues 'house rules' merely because without the ability to prepare, having a fun time at a sanctioned constructed event can be tricky.

The only games I get in are comps. This thread is a life-line. Ta.

I am cool with BFC's, no BFC's whatever - I do think that feeding any info online will encourage players who can't necessarily turn up every week to get an idea of what is going down so as to be prepared when the opportunity arises.

No prob - I'll see Hardie on Wednesday so I can make sure to mention it then. Should be enough time for him to come up with something new guy-friendly.

That's the point of this thread - I'll probably start maintaining the SGC thread too, so that both CBD/inner west venues are easier for folks to turn up to.

I had a good talk with Paul at SGC this weekend, and the new regime looks like they'll be very friendly to clix. May even get some new players from the customers at Good Games near Central... apparently there are some guys who buy boosters there but didn't know about tournaments.

I was thinking even something as simple as a "No Cardboard" game might do the trick.

That's one of the issues I have with the SGC games is that half the times the newsletter and webpage doesn't have the game format (ie last week), and other times since I don't find out about it until friday I've already made plans.

I knew about the shop, as it's right near my work, but I've never checked it out. I think I'll go look at it tomorrow.

Cheers,

Do you guys know about Games Empire?

They are a neat tiny little game shop in a tiny local 'shopping centre' next to Macquarie Uni. Young, keen polite operation. I buy the girl's Lego there.

Honestly, I have been quiet about them because they are pretty good, have a great little website and they sell' Clix and... singles. You can see what they have online, which makes comparing prices quite easy and their pricing is weird. I managed to swing a few little deals by buying there. It is not the sort of thing I'd talk about in another retailer's premises.

It costs me about $40 to travel in and out of town, park and then I always try and buy some boosters at TS (or SGC, but I can't seem to swing it at the moment). 'Clix is like drugs. Gets me by but better with kids. As I am an impoverished single parent/full time student/lone homemaker the bucks are (seriously) scarce so buying a couple of figs after Uni is as good as it gets, a lot of the time. I was selfish. I bow my head in shame.

GE have attracted a few keen afficiandos of the game but these younger gamers FEAR competetive play and 'the sort of players' that most definitely include all of "us".

They want to start getting into the Organized Play thing too.

I'm in my last semester and planning to be both employed and living "in Sydney" by June (or I will probably implode). Back in the game, so to speak.

I will also probably be running a stall at Marrickville Markets on Sunday. Books, books, books and miscellany. Genre stuff (lots and lots), a little decent Lit. If anyone is curious, I will get together a rough list by Saturday night. Happy to sell off whatever 'Clix I can (my Trade list is innacurate, just too damn busy) but I have a lot of stuff. I will probably have to do this more than once to survive the next 13 weeks.

I wasn't aware of them, but Macquarie University is well outside of my usual stomping grounds. Their singles collection is interesting (some nice prices, but $35.00 for Power Ring? Egads!); it's unfortunate that they don't have Sinister listed, that's what I'm most interested in at the moment.

Maybe you should get some regular games organised there? Light-hearted, fun stuff that won't intimidate the younger players.

I can definitely understand how regular tournaments might put them off. I remember my first tournament - I played the Dr Strange and Morgan le Fay and I was destroyed by Rory with OWAW Superman + Invisible Girl, and another team of Green Lantern carrying Stealth/Blades characters. If I didn't have a lot of perseverance I might not have ever come back. Fortunately I was getting in a lot of clix games at UNSW at the time.

I'd like to see more active work done to encourage clix in Sydney. At the very least, it would mean more people to trade with!

As I said - strange prices. I did not post thinking you (or I) or any of the TS or SGC types would be able to be involved in thier organised play. But it was the site and the ability to mail order locally that is GE's strength. The fact that they have a growing scene is why their singles collection is worth a mention now. It has got better and better over the past year.

Box for $2, Ahab... and if you have $7.50 they seem to have at least one Cuckoo. Of course, I would not have mentioned it if I had $7.50.

I could play after June, maybe, but I hope to be somewhere nearer town. Organize? Me? Ha ha ha! I believe I have logged my time in that arena.
My organizing time is well and truly tied up. My kids love daddy's Heroclix (thank God). Do you have any idea how tricky it is to teach Mina (with Luci around)? I almost wept when the Batman intro set was announced and it is out around her 8th birthday.

I have a Clix Blog but I am working on it before it goes public. I do try and encourage though you are truly mighty. Don't forget, I tried to drag you into the game a while before tempatation (the Surfer?) overwhelmed you and you transformed into glorious-'Clix-robot-awesome-rep-guy. If you did not have so much rep I would not mention it.

What are you after from Sinister?

Your trade list does not have a Sinister reference. I posted this as a reply because the TS scene is now aware of what you are after but not specifically.

I should have just edited my last reply... sorry.