Thematic victories

A google plus game I was in yesterday had an interesting result.

We were facing the Matriarch, and in the last turn before she was defeated she played a darken the skies bringing back all her dead birds. The Naturalist finished off the Matriarch and destroyed the mask freeing all the birds from her control without killing them. We all agreed this was a pretty perfect victory for the Naturalist. He got to save the world and defend the helpless animals forced into the conflict.

Does anyone else have stories like this? I don't mean the obvious hero got the final blow on their nemesis.

I enjoyed that game. ;)

Wow, that sounds like a perfect victory for the Naturalist :D. It'd be even better if he could take some kind of avian form and was in it when he finished off Lilian :D.

Having Haka spew a minion-heavy villain's minions back at them tends to be pretty satisfying - villains like Voss and the Chairman. "Oh yeah? You like to send all your guys after me? Well here, have them back! SPLURRRGGGGHHHHHH!!" :D.

I had one awesome fight, with Haka, ExPat, Ra, and someone else (I don't remember exactly, but their incap let them destroy environment cards, I think; this was before Infernal Relics, I think) VS. Plague Rat in Insula Primalis. At a certain point in the game, Plague Rat was still at 65 HP, Haka was down to 1, and everyone else was incapped. I still won.

As it turns out, Mere + 3 dominions + 2 extra powers per round + a free environment destruction each round is a pretty good way to build up your hand size. It turned into what I imagined to be a down-to-the-wire, no-holds-barred beatdown between Haka and Plague Rat. No one else there (conscious, anyway), nothing getting in the way; just an extremely pissed off Maori in Barbarian Rage mode and a giant rat man beating the crap out of each other. Each round it went something like:

Plage rat plays a card, deals damage. Deals a little more damage at end of turn.

Ra's turn: Haka punches Plague Rat. Draw a card.

Expat's turn: Haka punches Plague Rat. Draw a card.

???'s turn: destroy an environment card. Draw 3 cards.

Haka's turn: play elbow smash, rampage, or Haka of Restoration; punch Plague Rat; draw a card. draw a card.

Environment happens. Not very relevant.

Repeat.

It was an awesome turnaround, and still one of my favorite victories.

Oh, and then there was one game where Dawn played "Channel The Eclipse" with her damage buffed by 3. While she had 5 HP.

"Will my powers kill me? Certainly. But they will surely kill YOU fir-" DED.

I think you may mean Channel the Eclipse there - Return with the Dawn is the one that brings Citizens back to life at the end of her turn. Channel the Eclipse is the play-an-extra-card-but-later-hit-yourself one :). Anyway, somehow it's just more satisfying when the villain screws themselves up and finishes the job (or at least does most of the work) themselves >:).

Any time that the Police Backup or The Kraken take out the bad guy is awesome.

Haha yeah, or the T-Rex - I think we had Apostate go that way once :). I think he got taken out by the inhabitants of the Final Wasteland too once, when Unforgiving Wasteland was out >:).

I'm not sure if it was the killing blow but it was certainly close:  The other day in SotM: VG against Dawn, only Dawn and one other citizen were in play. Wraith had Throwing Knives in play with Micro-Targeting Computer and Dawn was down to less than 10 HP. I only had two targets so I threw the last one at Tachyon who redirected it at Dawn with Synaptic Interruption. It was the classic "You missed"..."Did I?"

Damn, you’re right. Fixed it.

Had a game end today where Akash gut shoved out into space by Setback bumbling around as usual. Mechanically, Setback used wrong place and time to redirect Oxygen Leak's damage at Akash. So, Mother Nature was defeated by being sucked into the vacuum of space while trying to invade Mars.

Completely unnecessary as we could have had Oxygen Leak hit Akash first for enough to kill her, but that way was much more fun. ;)

Had a game earlier where Ambuscade was defeated by one of his own sonic mines through the magic of redirection.

I love Mr. Fixer vs. Ambuscade, those mines are like free candy.

The other day three of us were playing against Gloomweaver.  Our team was Mr. Fixer, Unity and Fanatic.  But the real awesome was when we picked to fight Gloomweaver in Rook City.  Turn 2 we drew Tony Taurus, and our we rapidly realized that he was instrumental to burying Gloomweaver's relics at the bottom of the deck, thus ensuring our victory.  Tony Taurus won us that game, and Fanatic spent almost the entire game protecting him with her special protection power that hurt her.  It was essentially what happens when a Call of Cthulhu game crosses over with superheroes.  We even began to ship Tony and Fanatic together in a very unresolved sexual tension fashion.  Taurus reliably kept all relics out of play.  And we finished when Fanatic, with ONE HIT POINT, triggered her ability that did as much damage to the enemy as she had damage on her.  So she nuked the evil shadow god back to its realm with the power of her faith.  It was beautiful.

That is an awesome match.  I've used Chastise on Taurus before, but not that well.

It always feels good to beat Voss when is Mistbound. It's just too perfect.

Citizen Dawn is on two HP, she merges with the sun.

Ra glares at her.

Couldn't help but add "Honey, you might use some of the powers of the Sun, but I am The God."

Awesome!

Omnitron down to 6 hps or so, but there's a huge pile of drones and an electro-pulse explosive fully capable of killing all the heroes and whatnot so I can't just whale into it. Hunkering down under a meteor storm for safety, and an Oxygen Leak comes out with 11 cards in the environment trash

In my head, Bunker just blasted a hole in the window and vented everything into space.

How did the Oxygen Leak do anything when the Meteor Storm was making everyone immune to damage?

I'm going to guess that Bunker skipped his turn so that Oxygen a Leak could deal damage at the start of the next environment turn. 

Ahh yes, true, it does its damage at the start of the turn…yeah, taht makes sense - hide for a round so the drones and EPE do nothing, then have a hero skip their turn so the Oxygen Leak murders everything when the environment's turn comes around. Cool :).

Just had a crazy game against Advanced Voss. It was Haka, G.I. Bunker, Visionary, Ra, and Tempest versus Voss. For a second, it looked like the heroes would fail. A Forced Deployment had put over 10 minions into play, and on that turn Voss played another Forced Deployment. Fortunatley, Tempest had an Into the Stratosphere in his hand. Even with Panzer Buster, I wasn't quite able to kill Voss in that first round with 39 HP, and so Haka Ground Pounded instead. Bunker killed the minions in play with an External Combustion so that Voss wouldn't win at the start of his turn, and also did Panzer Buster. My plan was to ignore the army and go straight for Voss, but I ended up doing so much more. Visionary had taken heavy damage, and had been in a cocoon for most of the game. Ra and Tempest did damage to Voss.

At the start of the next villain round, Forced Deployment brought out all the minions Bunker had killed. At the end of the villain turn, Voss had 13 minions and Vyktor in play. Haka used a Haka of Battle and a Taiaha to smack Voss and whittle down the Guard. Bunker finished off the guard with Gattling Gun, went into Turret Mode and hit Voss with the Omni-Cannon. Visionary had demoralize and hit almost everything for 1. That's when I realized I could do it. I could kill Voss, and all the minions. By the time it was Ra's turn, Voss was down to four HP,and so Ra weakened the Psi-worms that Visionary couldn't damage. On Tempest's turn, Tempest murdered everyone with Electrical storm, a Chain Lightning, and Grievous Hailstorm. Voss was utterly defeated and peace was restored to the Multiverse.

I had a fun game against the Chairman with Knyfe, Captain Cosmic, Skyscraper and Naturalist. He managed to get us all down to about 3-5 hp before we get him to flip and at this point he still had the operative out. As cosmic I kept throwing out constructs to soak damage to the lowest hp, Knyfe (Promo) kept discarding the bottom card of the villain deck trying to pitch the jailbreak cause that would have been the game.Skyscraper managed to get the Link that deal irreducable damage to the character you put it on and one other target. We started putting it on the operative and having her attack the chairman and then the chairman retaliated against the first target who dealt him damage hitting the operative for more. We kept doing that until Operative was down and then just started putting that card on the Chairman himself so he dealt himself damage and then retaliatd against himself. Naturlist just kept healing himself to draw damage directed at the highest HP.

That skyscraper combo sounds strong. Good one to note

Skyscraper is strong like bull in china shop.

I absolutely love this trick. Having tiny Sky bug both baddies until they rip each other's face was a perfect revenge for all these days in extensive care for poor defeated heroes.

In a game, today,  Guise managed to collect Mad Bomber Blade's bombs and hide them in his briefcase - helped by his awesome physique (beefcake card). I didn't ask details. Blade, understandably, flipped.

And just like the Ennead are all each others' nemeses, the Chairman and Operative should be doing +1s to each other. Ooh, I like it!

I just had a game last night with Cap Cosmic, Tempest, and Skyscrapper against Voss in the Dok-thorathian capital.  We picked the game to be thematic to start with, but it ended with Tempest wiping the board of all Voss's minions and Skyscrapper in Huge form Uppercutting Voss, then choke slamming him and finally clapping to take him down.  It felt very satisfying.

And Captain Cosmic stands in the background, points at himself with his thumb and says, "And I helped."

The 03/10/2015 Handelabra fight was Spite in Atlantis. The team was winning very handily, but left him at 1 point for the environment turn.

The kraken's tentacles reached in, grabbed him by the neck and dragged him off into the depths. Classic comic book ending. The heroes walk away saying, "There's no way he could survive that."

Wrong, of course... he'll be back.

If you are looking for a thematic challenge, find three Legacy decks, and play the battle for Megalopolis. Legacy, America's Newest Legacy and World's Greatest Legacy vs Iron Legacy for Megalopolis.

Just had a fight against the Chairman in the app. Victory, but all other heroes were incapped with DW Fixer at 1HP.

I did this once and I am still not clear on how it triggered a very long damage loop where Ambuscade kept damaging himself thanks to charged attacks. It was very satisfying, however.

This is a good example of one of the reasons that I'd like there to be a log in the game that one can refer to in order to see what happened.

This is fantastic, I love it when the game helps to turn itself into a story!

Grand Warlord Voss in Wagner Mars, everyone low health, we lose our equips to dust, Wraith finds double deployment, Fixer plays Grease Gun and we get Voss down a bit lower.  Oxygen leak comes into play.

So Voss's 11 minions come running in to save their leader, slip on the grease, and crash into the outside wall, breaking a hole in it and getting all of them and Voss horribly sucked into space.

We just skipped our turns.  Figured we spent the time getting emergency oxygen masks and finding things to hold on to.

Awesome occurance today.  Miss Information was being annoying, and we just had to wait her out so she would flip.

We ended up with massive hands, and when we realized she would flip PW Haka played a second Haka of Battle on Expatriette, and she played Hairtrigger, and everyone (Parse, Legacy) did everything they could to boost her damage, and on flip Expatriette dealt Miss Information 52 damage.

PW Haka is truly a team player.