So this Thursday we're having a Battle Royale. 500pts Golden Age. As far as I know, anything goes.

I've been really begging for a chance to use my LOTR Two Towers Gandalf the White I spent $20 on in order to use for an earlier Golden Age tournament that never happened. So despite all logic I am stubbornly trying to make this one work.


So here is the team I have so far.

215pt LOTRTT Gandalf the White
120pt BMAO Bane
135pt TT Dr. Light
30pt Skadi's Warbot
=500pts.

The idea is to just brawl until Bane and Dr. Light first hit their stop clicks. Then pop off Gandalfs Epic Action to heal them up to as full as possible and give them an extra use of their stop clicks. Essentially forcing my opponent to have to kill Bane 3-4 times and Dr. Light 2 times and Gandalf just once. Giving me theoretically enough staying power to remain a relevant threat in the Royale.

I'm confident nobody at the venue is going to be even aware of what Gandalf does, or that he's supporting two stop clix characters on the field. So they shouldn't automatically head straight for Gandalf if I can make Bane look like the more obvious threat.

I just feel like the set up is gimmicky, and I'd do better with a resource and mystical theme team.

What do you think?

I think you're right on that point.

take off war bot and use book of skulls dr light with angrirs hammer think about it

That's really not a 'think about it' moment. Stop Click+Steal Energy is good, we understand that.

Most people are probably going to be aware of what Bane does and so they won't mess with him until they can drop him in one turn(or Pulse Wave him). Ditto on Dr Light, and since his power says 'until next turn' rather than 'until YOUR next turn' he's probably going to get double-teamed.

If you're really hot to play the Gandalf that seems like a good team for it, but it's not going to be competitive in a multi-player game.

Only reason I didn't consider Book of the Skull is because I only have 3 guys on the team with no Splitlip so I wouldn't get the 4 hammer bonus, and I'd have to take up actions to drop hammers. So I usually don't consider Book unless I have 50 spare points to throw in Splitlip.

The only thing I fear about a mystical theme team is that mystical guys tend to be very squishy, so I don't think I would get much use out of Gandalfs epic action.

Maybe Gandalf the White just isn't capable of being a golden age competitive figure?

If that's the case I might as well run the above team just for fun.

In a normal event maybe, he makes them very hard to kill. But in a multi-player format you can get focused down too easily.