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bolnerap
2017-08-15 00:50 UTC
#1
Trickster Kismet vs. America's Greatest Legacy, Freedom Six Unity, Dark Watch Expatriette, Ra: Horus of Two Horizons, and Freedom Six Bunker, in Dok'Thorath Capital, with a randomized start.
Welp, no reason to hold out on this one with the randomized start. Jump in!
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TakeWalker
2017-08-15 01:21 UTC
#2
Pretty easy. Good team for Trickster Kismet. A couple pointers:
If Legacy starts with Next Evolution, give him the Talisman, set it to psychic and never look back.
Always keep one Jinx in play on her front side, or she gets extra card plays.
If you don't get Next Evo, DW Expatriette is a good candidate for that first Gung-Ho...
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bolnerap
2017-08-15 01:45 UTC
#3
Mint with Legacy at 10, Unity at 1, DW Expat at 3, Ra at 10, and Bunker at 16. Mostly I just sold out for damage.
I never saw Next Evolution, but Legacy started with Motivational Charge, Heroic Interception, and then drew into lots of damage one-shots.
Unity started with two of the "reduce damage dealt by this hero" Jinxes, which just made me laugh. Turret Bot and Platform Bot soon entered the fray and did their thing.
Expat started Arsenal Access / Reload / Reload / Hollow Points, and Arsenal Accessed into the Assault Rifle. Unfortunately, she started with the Talisman, so I didn't get to do much damage with her until we flipped and flipped back the Talisman a couple rounds in. Once that happened, though, she cut loose.
Ra started with the Staff and a bunch of damage one-shots, so he equipped up and went to town.
Bunker started with Grenade Launcher / Heavy Plating, then eventually drew into Flak Cannon.
Environment played two Freedom Fighters and one Gene-Bound Ravagers, so nothing big.
I used the Talisman's deck stacking power every round and had her play Jinxes whenever possible. Unfortunately I had to let her play a couple of lucky cards, but this team could keep up with 10 healing no problem.
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Arcanist_Lupus
2017-08-15 02:46 UTC
#4
It took me a turn to figure out that I should have played Next Evolution, but Take Down was an excellent first play anyways, and for the rest of the game I was golden. Got out both Imbued Fire and Inspiring Presence, and Dok'Thorath spent most of it's time punching Kismet and then roasting in Ra's Flame Barrier. Kismet mostly played jinxes.
MC
McBehrer
2017-08-15 06:53 UTC
#5
Pathetically easy mint. There wasn’t even a strategy; it was just a curb stomp. Lowest hp was 15.
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TakeWalker
2017-08-15 12:06 UTC
#6
Lucky.
My Unity got two "Kismet hits you for using powers" Jinxes and spent the game doing literally nothing.
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scifantasy
2017-08-15 13:46 UTC
#7
A few notes from my Mint (and then a replay):
Unless you get the Next Evolution trick, give the Talisman to Expatriette and let her tank the damage. Yes, this means she might get incapp'd early. She has an Ongoing destroyer in her incap powerset. Worth it.
I have never found FSix Unity's power to be a fair trade, though I guess if she gets a couple of "reduce damage dealt" Jinxes, that might push it into worth while. But on the other hand, Inspiring Presence is probably going to show up too.
Ra is reliable blow-it-up, but if he does get incapp'd, he also has an Ongoing killer.
There's nothing much to FSix Bunker here. Nothing special, anyway. It's probably not worth using his power to kill Jinxes, but give him his usual time and a suite.
America's Greatest Legacy lives up to his name as always. My favorite trick was Gung-Ho into Motivational Charge, especially with Surge of Strength and Inspiring Presence in play. Even without the Legacy Ring, that's pretty powerful.
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Reverend_Pete
2017-08-15 13:49 UTC
#8
Mint.
A first turn Heroic Interception let Unity get multiple bots out right away...Platforms, Raptors & Bee Bots, oh my! The Bee Bots were great to make the warring factions on Dok'Thorath hit Kismet and then disappear before hitting the heroes.
Expatriette had the Talisman, and played Flak Jacket a couple of times to keep the damage away.
Motivational Charge kept everyone healed up, Ra burned things and Bunker was on Jinx removal duty.
The only snag was when the Defiant Looters showed up and stole the top of Kimset's carefully stacked deck, causing a Karmic Disjunction to let loose a slew of Jinxes instead. But the heroes persisted, and won.
Legacy at 24HP, Unity at 19HP, Expatriette at 22HP, Ra at a full 29HP and Bunker at 26HP (and only damaged because he used External Combustion to end the game).
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Melkhor
2017-08-15 14:43 UTC
#9
Ugh, I am BADLY out of practice at playing against Trickster Kismet and boy did it ever show in this game! I made some key misplays and engaged in far too much hot-potato talisman flipping like I was fighting her regular version and ended up eating a LOT of pain because of it. Barely managed to pull home a Mint with Unity and Expatriette down and Legacy, Ra and Bunker all hovering perilously at around 4-6 HP, with all of them having been down to 1 or 2 as well during several points of the game. Definitely need more practice going up against this version!
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Blackfang108
2017-08-15 15:38 UTC
#10
My first game went well, despite an early Lady Luck and Inconceviable Obstruction being played early.
I was able to pop Lady Luck, but then proceeded to gain exactly zero ongoing destruction until several people went down, and then I died.
Second game was a comfortable near-mint.
Have I mentioned how much I dislike the random-seed one-shots?
MI
MindWanderer
2017-08-16 00:01 UTC
#11
Kismet is such a dork. Sure, curse one person to deal damage to themselves, and then reduce the damage they deal! Golem Unity is happy with that. And Expat drew no guns the whole game, but she had the Talisman's power to use instead. The only damage she dealt was with Hairtrigger Reflexes against the one card the Environment got to play because Bunker seldom had anything better to do than use Adhesive Foam Grenades. Fortunately, he did get a Grenade Launcher out the same round I was happy with Kismet's next two cards and had Expat aim just for the heck of it, which meant that she one-shot the soldiers as soon as they hit the table (because she was also Inspired and Imbued). Legacy started off making Unity play more bots and then switched to Bunker's Grenade Launcher, which resulted in a massive slaughter (3 bots + 2 grenade launchers, all Inspired and Imbued = unhappy Kismet). She never flipped, although Expat was down to 3 HP, because I never bothered protecting her. Unity was at 10, the others were in their 20's.