Weekly One-Shot #30: Mars Attacks!

A good base set fight against Advanced Omnitron at Wagner Mars Base against the team of Haka, Absolute Zero, Bunker, Fanatic, and Wraith.   Good luck!

Phew, got Mint, but I had everyone in single digits at one stage, and only AZ was able to get out of the single digits (ending up with full Health).

The only spoiler I'll give is that I really hate Technological Singularity.  I was very lucky to avoid the second one, at least...

Mint.

Key for me was getting out an Infrared Eyepiece ASAP.  Omnitron (like most villains) isn't nearly as much of a threat if you can keep the nasty cards away.

Haka had fun with Punish the Weak, Absolute Zero mostly skipped his turn to keep the Self-destruct Sequence at bay, Bunker drew a bazillion cards via Ammo Drop, Fanatic Emboldened Haka, and Wraith Eyepieced like it was going out of style.

I did manage to win by destroying a Cryo Chamber, which is a card I rarely play! Fun times!

Mint! I Emboldened Bunker, which with Heavy Plating, Flak Cannon, and Maintenance Unit resulted in a profit of 1 HP while still dealing 3 projectile damage. In my last turn I replaced the HP recovery with a 12-damage Omni-Cannon, which was sick.

Infra-red Eyepiece is so vital to prevent Omnitron from destroying your stuff. I successfully managed to bury both Technological Singularities and the second Sedative Flachettes that way. I also didn't see a Pervasive Red Dust, perhaps due to having played two Adhesive Foam Grenades. Thus my match was not at all hero-threatening.

Tried last night and failed at the wire. I guess I'll have to try more deck control. Kept getting my stuff blown up, though.

Mint. I guessed well at when the Technological Singularities would show up and managed to avoid taking any damage due to them. 

Got what ended up as a comfortable Mint here at the end, though it still felt more than a little hairy as the four cards left in Omnitron's deck when he finally went offline were: Technological Singularity, Terraforming and Electro-Pulse Explosive x2.

I didn't manage to dodge the first singularity, but thankfully, a Meteor Storm was up to at least shield me from the damage, and I think the Pervasive Red Dust hit me no less than 3 times!

Mint.  No Infrared Eyepiece here - just a brutal smack down.  I timed a Throat Jab to shield us from the first Technological Singularity, but it still hurt.  Game ended after a round of Divine Focus, a 14 card Haka of Battle (which nearly killed me, because Interpolation Beam was out, Haka was at 4, and Omnitron was getting +1, which I had forgotten about.  Fortunately, I had left Smoke Bombs out for just this eventuality), and a 3 card Inventory Barrage won the day.  

Actually, Fanatic killed herself to keep her Divine Focus out, but she was wearing her Aegis of Resurrection, so she got better.

I got mint despite a bug with Pervasive Red Dust forcing me to get hit by it 3 times before I could get rid of it properly.  (Hint:  Have the only equipment in a character's trash also be in play).  I had to exit the game, start it again, and it would do Pervasive Red Dust and I had to choose not to discard cards.  This happened twice. :(  Needless to say it was a VERY long game.

Mint.

Inventing a new and improved Infrared eye piece allowed me to keep Omniton's worst cards buried. I played as much equipment as I could just in case Pervasive Red Dust appeared, but as it didn't I'm really glad I buried both Technological Singularities. Once The Wraith and Bunker were setup, it became a cake walk. Everyone ended with about 20hp.

Mint. Yeah, this one was pretty straightforward -- Infrared Eye-Piece FTW. My only (extremely) minor misstep was trying to use AZ's base power to attack when I had the Cryo Chamber out, so I wasted a phase, but aside from that, no real surprises. Though I did get more use out of Punish the Weak than I usually do. Which is to say I usually don't bother with it, but it was handy for getting over the DR advanced mode brings.