Episode 28 - The Chairman
Heroes
Villain
Environment
Claim your heroes and get ready to rumble.
* - The "Parse needs Fixing" thread included a claim about Parse being especially good against The Chairman.
(Edited hero order here to match that in play)
As the one who wrote the strategy guide that spun off the far more popular "Parse needs Fixing" thread, I'm tempted to jump in . . .
I’m in for Argent Adepr.
Expat, please
Opening hand: Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Speed Loading, Shock Rounds
I'd like to play, but have no preference between Parse and Expat. I'll take whoever is left when the next person joins.
Tachyon and #10 OX still available.
I'll take Omnitron-X.
Edit: Starting hand - Slip Through Time, Reset, Gaussian Coil Blaster, Singularity
I'll jump in as Tachyon since the deckbuilding game is wrapping up.
Edit: Starting hand is Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Synaptic Interruption, Hypersonic Assault
Looks like I'm Parse.
Starting Hand: Targeting Arrow, Critical Multiplier, Segmentation Fault, Snap Decision
THE CHAIRMAN - ROUND 1
The Chairman (35)
The Operative (45)
Start of Turn: (nothing)
Play: Undivided Attention; Operative hits Expatriette for 4 melee [25]; Chairman hits Tachyon for 3 melee [24]
End of Turn:
Operative puts The Fence [underboss] (6) into play
The Fence puts The Thief [thug] (2) into play
The Thief finds nothing to destroy.
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Effects:
- The Chairman is immune to damage (Chairman)
- The Heroes cannot win the game (Operative)
- Whenever a villain card is destroyed the Operative deals the hero with the highest HP 3 melee damage (Operative)
- Reduce damage to the Chairman and Operative by 1 (adv Operative)
- Whenever a hero card is destroyed the Chairman and the Operative regain 3 HP (Fence)
(Start of Turn)
- If there are at any underbosses in the villain trash, flip the chairman's character cards (adv Chairman)
(End of Turn)
- Reveal cards from the top of the villain deck until an underboss card is revealed. (Operative)
- Deal the hero target with the lowest HP 5 melee damage unless their player discards 1 card (Enforcers)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Thief and put it into play (Fence)
- Destroy a hero ongoing or equipment card (Thief)
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Chairman (35) (immune) (DR1) "Can't I even take a little resort vacation without these 'heroes' interfering?"
Operative (45) (DR1)
Thief (2) [thug]
The Fence (6) [underboss]
Villain Trash: Undivided Attention, Enforcers (x2), Hired Gun (x2), Informant (x2), Crooked Cop (x2), Thief
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Argent Adept - 24
Expatriette - 25
Parse - 26
Omnitron-X - 25
Tachyon - 24
Isn't there a Thief out too? And how could the Enforcers be played: they start out in the trash.
Argent Adept's opening hand: Arcane Cadence, Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata, Polyphoric Flare. But I'm going to wait to take my turn.
Apologies. Misread something and got the setup wrong. WIll modify and modify the post. 
[FIXED. No Enforcers, but Fence brings out a Thief and a few heroes take damage from a one-shot.]
Argent Adept
HP: 24
Hand: Arcane Cadence, Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata, Polyphoric Flare
In play:
Trash:
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: Arcane Cadence.
Eydisar’s Horn to hand, Alacritous Subdominant to top of deck, Scherzo of Frost and Flame to bottom of deck, Akpunku’s Drum to discard, and play Arcane Cadence.
Silver Shadow to hand, Alacritous Subdominant to top of deck, Xu’s Bell to bottom of deck, Polyphoric Flare to discard, and play Arcane Cadence.
Musaragni’s Harp to hand, Inventive Preparation to top of deck, Cedistic Dissonant to bottom of deck, Alacritous Subdominant to discard, and play Arcane Cadence.
Instrumental Conjuration to hand, Vernal Sonata to top of deck, Telamon’s Lyra to bottom of deck, Instrumental Conjuration to discard, and play Inventive Preparation.
Use a power: Vocalize on Inventive Preparation. Each player may look at the top card of their hero deck, then replace it or discard it. I reveal Vernal Sonata and keep it.
Draw a card: Vernal Sonata
End of hero turn:
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HP: 24
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x2), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Silver Shadow, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration
In play: Inventive Preparation
Trash: Arcane Cadence, Akpunku’s Drum, Arcane Cadence, Polyphoric Flare, Arcane Cadence, Alacritous Subdominant, Arcane Cadence, Instrumental Conjuration
Additional effects: Each player may look at the top card of their hero deck, then replace it or discard it.
Parse reveals Extrasensory Awareness on top of the deck and replaces it.
Are we not taking turns in the listed order above? I thought that's how we always did it in these?
Apparently the turn order changed between the first post and the villain turn. I assume we're going with the villain turn list.
Got it. Expat looks at top card, Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, discards it
Expatriette
HP: 25
Hand: Arsenal Access, Speed Loading, Shock Rounds, RPG Launcher
In play:
Trash:
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: Arsenal Access. Reveal Tactical Shotgun and Flak Jacket, Put Shotgun into play, shuffle deck
Use a power: Load Speed Loading
Draw a card: Unload
End of hero turn:
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HP: 25
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Shock Rounds
In play: Tactical Shotgun, Speed Loading
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access
Additional effects:
Expatriette, do we want to kill the Fence already? He's relatively harmless, as Underbosses go.
(Apologies if I jumped the turn order when I shouldn't.)
Parse
HP: 26
Hand: Targeting Arrow, Critical Multiplier, Segmentation Fault, Snap Decision
Play:
Trash:
Effects:
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Start:
Play: Critical Multiplier
Power: Pinpoint Shot - deal 2 projectile damage to the Thief [X]; Operative smacks Parse for 3 [23]
Draw: Extrasensory Awareness
End:
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HP: 23
Hand: Targeting Arrow, Segmentation Fault, Snap Decision, Extrasensory Awareness
Play: Critical Multiplier
Trash:
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
Agreed. I don't think we want to flip him yet. I took care of the thief - let's get a little buffer out for the next theif to destroy and try to wear the Operative down until we can get rid of the Contract. I'll start using Extrasensory Awareness next turn, so hopefully we can bypass a few of the underbosses and/or Prison Breaks.
Tachyon reveals Pushing the Limits and replaces it. That makes for a perfect buffer for the next thief. Or Synaptic Interruption.
I can edit turn to hit Operative, but she'll just heal it back when the Thief destroys something
I put the heroes in the same game play order as they were taken up by players.
I also look forward to seeing this game played out since I think I have only played against The Chairman once previously. I expect that it will be educational towards future games. (And also the reason I messed up the initial set-up, once again my apologies for the confusion.)
OX reveals a Reactive Plating Subroutine. I think I want to replace it, although I'll take advice from more experience players. (I've moderated a game against the Chairman, but never taken him on as a player.)
(Sorry -- in the course of the day, I missed it was my turn)
Start: Nothing
Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster
Power: Timeshift myself to put the Reactive Plating Subroutine into play
Draw: Reset
End: Nothing
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HP: 25
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine
Hand: Slip Through Time, Reset x 2, Singularity
Trash:
On Argent Adept's turn, reveal Pushing the Limits. Replace it.
Tachyon
HP: 24
Hand: Blinding Speed, Fleet of Foot, Synaptic Interruption, Hypersonic Assault
Play:
Trash:
Effects:
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Start:
Play: Fleet of Foot - Everybody draw! Draw Pushing the Limits. Play Pushing the Limits. Play Synaptic Interruption
Power: Rapid Recon - top card is Quick Insight. Replace it.
Draw: Quick Insight, Pushing the Limits
End:
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HP: 24
Hand: Pushing the Limits, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault
Play: Pushing the Limits, Synaptic Interruption
Trash: Fleet of Foot
Effects: May play an additional card during play phase, may draw an additional card during draw phase
Argent Adept draws another Vernal Sonata.
Parse draws Updated Intel from Fleet of Foot
Expat draws Assault Rifle
Environment - Insula Primalis
(Raptor looks up at incoming hero transport - "Look Boss. Da plane!")
Play: Pterodactyl Thief [5]
Effects:
At the start of the environment turn, destroy all equipment cards. Put cards destroyed beneath Pterodactyl Thief card. Then Ptero-Thief card deals each hero target X sonic damage, where X = the number of cards beneath Ptero-Thief card.
When the Ptero-Thief card is destroyed, return cards beneath the card to the players' hands.
THE CHAIRMAN - ROUND 2
Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'...
The Chairman (35)
The Operative (45)
Start of Turn: (nothing)
Play: The Broker [underboss] (5)
End of Turn:
Operative puts The Muscle [underboss] (8) into play
The Fence puts Thief [thug] (2) into play
The Broker puts Informant [thug] (2) into play
The Muscle put Enforcers [thug] (6) into play
The Thief destroys Tachyon's Synaptic Interruption
The Enforcers threaten Parse with 5 melee damage, so she discards a card
(They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.)
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Effects:
- The Chairman is immune to damage (Chairman)
- The Heroes cannot win the game (Operative)
- Whenever a villain card is destroyed the Operative deals the hero with the highest HP 3 melee damage (Operative)
- Reduce damage to the Chairman and Operative by 1 (adv Operative)
- Whenever a hero card is destroyed the Chairman and the Operative regain 3 HP (Fence)
- When a hero card is played, play the top card of the villain deck (Informer)
(Start of Turn)
- If there are at any underbosses in the villain trash, flip the chairman's character cards (adv Chairman)
- Play the top card of the villain deck (Broker)
- Deal each hero target 2 melee damage (Muscle)
(End of Turn)
- Reveal cards from the top of the villain deck until an underboss card is revealed. (Operative)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Thief and put it into play (Fence)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Informant and put it into play (Broker)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Enforcers and put it into play (Muscle)
- Destroy a hero ongoing or equipment card (Thief)
- Deal the hero target with lowest HP 5 melee damage unless they discard 1 card (Enforcers)
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Chairman (35) (immune) (DR1)
Operative (45) (DR1)
The Fence (6)
The Broker (5)
The Muscle (8)
Thief (2)
Informant (2)
Enforcers (6)
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Argent Adept - 24
Expatriette - 25
Parse - 23
Omnitron-X - 25
Tachyon - 24
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Pterodactyl Thief (5)
Tachyon will lose Synaptic Interruption to the Thief.
I thought about the possibility of the Informant a little too late; I should have gone for the Scherzo of Frost and Flame, so I could kill her without a card play.
Parse discards Segmentation Fault for the Enforcers. Omni-X's next damage is boosted by 1.
Argent Adept
HP: 24
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Silver Shadow, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration
In play: Inventive Preparation
Trash: Arcane Cadence (x4), Akpunku’s Drum, Polyphoric Flare, Alacritous Subdominant, Instrumental Conjuration
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: None.
Use a power: Vocalize on Inventinve Prepartion. Each player may look at the top card of their hero deck, then replace it or discard it. I reveal Cedistic Dissonant and keep it.
Draw a card: Cedistic Dissonant.
End of hero turn:
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HP: 24
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Silver Shadow, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration, Cedistic Dissonant
In play: Inventive Preparation
Trash: Arcane Cadence (x4), Akpunku’s Drum, Polyphoric Flare, Alacritous Subdominant, Instrumental Conjuration
Additional effects: Each player may look at the top card of their hero deck, then replace it or discard it.
Omnitron-X draws Self-Sabotage from Fleet of Foot, then reveals and replaces Rocket Punch from Inventive Preparation.
Parse reveals and replaces Buffer Overflow from Inventive Preparation.
Tachyon reveals and replaces Fleet of Foot.
Expat looks at and replaces Hairtrigger Reflexes
Expatriette
HP: 25
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Shock Rounds, Assault Rifle
In play: Tactical Shotgun, Speed Loading
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access
Additional effects:
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: RPG Launcher. Destroy Pterodactyls. Deal 2 Fire Damage to Thief (dead) and Informant (dead). Operative deals 3 damage to Expat and Omni (both at 22). Top card of villain deck is played
Use a power: Tactical Shotgun Broker (1)
Draw a card: Hairtrigger Reflexes
End of hero turn:
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HP: 22
Hand: Unload, Assault Rifle, Shock Rounds, Hairtrigger Reflexes
In play: Tactical Shotgun, Speed Loading
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher
Additional effects:
It's turns like that that make me want to play Expat more.
Man she's a great hero.
Just to check, you elected not to use Speed Loading, correct?
Villain deck plays Undivided Attention per Informant response to play of RPG Launcher.
Operative deal 4 melee to Expatriette. 25 -> 21
The Chairman deals 3 melee to Omnitron-X 25 -> 22
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I believe this attack and damage occurs *before* the Operative responds to the Thief and Informant being killed.
Operative will then hit Argent Adept and Tachyon for 3 each in retaliation for death of thugs. (24 -> 21)
Argent Adept - 21
Expatriette - 21
Parse - 23
Omnitron-X - 22
Tachyon - 21
Parse
HP: 23
Hand: Targeting Arrow, Snap Decision, Extrasensory Awareness, Updated Intel
Play: Critical Multiplier
Trash: Segmentation Fault
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1. (currently Omni +1)
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Start:
Play: Extrasensory Awareness
Power: Extrasensory Awareness - reveal the top 3 of the villain deck; discard Prison Break; replace Perfect Human Specimens (top) and Rook City is Mine! (second) on top of the deck; don't shuffle
Draw: Buffer Overflow
End:
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HP: 23
Hand: Targeting Arrow, Snap Decision, Updated Intel, Buffer Overflow
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness
Trash: Segmentation Fault
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1. (currently Omni +1)
Extrasensory Awareness reveals:
Rook City is Mine! (Play the top 2 cards of the Environment Deck)
Perfect Human Specimens (Chairman and Operative regain 6 HP)
Prison Break (Put all the underboss cards from the villain trash into play)
Discard Prison Break, put Perfect Human Specimens on top, Rook City is Mine second, don't shuffle. I'll update my turn as well.
Awesome to get rid of a Prison Break so soon!
You could also leave it on top, as it has no effect now.
True, but I think we'd want to kill the Broker at least this turn. Also, I'll take the extra damage
The Perfect Human Specimens also has no effect this turn; but if something goes wrong (I have no idea what would), Prison Break is out of the deck.
OK, I think the following will be right. I've had a 3rd-grader around all day (he had no school), so my brain is a bit fried.
During Tachyon's turn, I draw Self Sabotage. During AA's turn, I reveal & replace Rocket Punch.
HP: 22
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine
Hand: Slip Through Time, Reset x 2, Singularity, Self Sabotage
Trash:
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Start: Gaussian Coil Blaster does 2 damage to the Operative [43, I think], 1 damage to the Enforcers [5], and 1 damage to the Muscle [7]
Play: Slip Through Time
Power: Timeshift the Rocket Punch into play
Draw: Focused Plasma Cannon
End: Play Focused Plasma Cannon. Rocket Punch does 2 damage to the Operative [41] and 1 damage to the Muscle [6]
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HP: 22
Hand: Reset x 2, Singularity, Self-Sabotage
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Focused Plasma Cannon, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch, Slip Through Time
Trash:
I don't think we want to get an Underboss into the trash yet, but if a consensus of the other players says that one of the Coil Blaster or Rocket Punch damages should have been directed at the Broker to kill him, do so. Further, if a card requires sacrifice of an ongoing before the start of my turn, Slip Through Time can be the first thing consumed.
I think the Operative only took 1 point of damage from each attack. Did you take her DR1 into account?
Umm… no.
that's why I said I thought it was right. Guess she's at 43 rather than 41, then. Sigh.
Also, keep in mind that the next villain card will just heal the Operative back to full. It doesn't hurt to beat on the underbosses a bit, even if we don't kill them.
Honestly, I really think we should take out hte Broker, if only because we know there isnt a Prison Break for two rounds and Broker+Informants really screw our attempts at deck control
I could get behind that.
Another Informant would kill my next turn, as well. So I could also get behind taking out Underbosses.
Done. Change damage on my turn as follows:
Gaussian Coil Blaster does 2 to the Muscle and 1 to the Broker (dead). Rocket Punch does 2 to the Muscle and 1 to either the remaining Underboss or the Enforcers, in that order.
Tachyon
HP: 21
Hand: Pushing the Limits, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault
Play: Pushing the Limits
Trash: Fleet of Foot, Synaptic Interruption
Effects: May play an additional card during play phase, may draw an additional card during draw phase
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Start: Tachyon deals 2 damage to herself
Play: Quick Insight. Draw Fleet of Foot, Synaptic Interruption, Hypersonic Assault. Discard Synaptic Interruption, Pushing the Limits.
Play Fleet of Foot - Everybody draw!. Draw Research Grant.
Play Research Grant
Power: Use Research Grant. Draw HUD Goggles, Blinding Speed. Discard Blinding Speed.
Draw: Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch
End:
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HP: 19
Hand: Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault x 2, HUD Goggles, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch
Play: Pushing the Limits, Research Grant
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits
Effects: May play an additional card during play phase, may draw an additional card during draw phase
I figured I woud hang on to these Hypersonic Assaults until I have a way to get through the Operative's DR
Parse draws Quick Calculation from Fleet of Foot. I can play a Targetting Arrow to give everyone a +1 against one target for a round. That should let you get through Operative's DR so long as there are no Crooked Cops around. Let me know when you're ready for it.
Expat draws another RPG Launcher
Operative retaliates for The Broker being killed by hitting Parse for 3 melee [20]
Environment - Insula Primalis
River of Lava enters play - Each player destroys one of their equipment cards or else is dealt 5 fire damage:
Argent Adept - [16]
Exapatriette - trashes Shotgun
Parse - [15]
Omnitron-X - ? (will presume that OX will sac a component since the 5 damge would otherwise destroy them anyways)
Tachyon - [14]
(Adept, Parse, and Tachyon do not have any equipment in play to my knowledge - so they're taking the 5 damage.)
Start: If each player discards the top 3 cards of their deck destroy this card.
I'll trash the shotgun
Ugh. I always underestimate Insula Primalis. Adds a lot of damage to the proceedings.
THE CHAIRMAN - ROUND 3
The Chairman (35)
The Operative (45)
Start of Turn:
- The Chairman flips (Broker is in trash)
- The Muscle hits all heroes for 2 melee
Argent Adept [14], Expatriette [19], Parse [13], Omnitron-X [20], Tachyon [12]
Play: Perfect Human Specimans (no effect since Chairman and Operative are at full HP)
End of Turn: The Operative puts The Deputy [underboss] (9) into play
The Fence puts Thief [thug] (2) into play
The Muscle puts Enforcers B [thug] (6) into play
The Deputy puts Crooked Cop [thug] (5) into play
The Thief destroys Omnitron-X's (Slip Through Time)
Enforcers A threaten Tachyon with 10 melee damage unless she discards a card (Sucker Punch)
Enforcers B threaten Tachyon with 10 melee damage unless she discards a card (Lightning Reflexes)
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Effects:
- The Chairman is immune to damage from environment cards (Chairman)
- Increase damage dealt by thugs by 5 (Chairman)
- The first time The Chairman is dealt damage each turn, deal the source of that damage 5 melee damage (Chairman)
- The Heroes cannot win the game (Operative)
- Whenever a villain card is destroyed the Operative deals the hero with the highest HP 3 melee damage (Operative)
- Reduce damage to the Chairman and Operative by 1 (adv Operative)
- Whenever a hero card is destroyed the Chairman and the Operative regain 3 HP (Fence)
- Reduce damage dealt to the Chairman, Operative, and Underbosses by 1 (Crooked Cop)
(Start of Turn)
- Deal each hero target 2 melee damage (Muscle)
- All Crooked Cops regain 3 HP (Deputy)
(End of Turn)
- Reveal cards from the top of the villain deck until an underboss card is revealed. (Operative)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Thief and put it into play (Fence)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Enforcers and put it into play (Muscle)
- Search the villain trash for a card named Crooked Cop and put it into play (Deputy)
- Destroy a hero ongoing or equipment card (Thief)
- Deal the hero target with lowest HP 5 melee damage unless they discard 1 card (Enforcers)
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Chairman (35) (DR2)
Operative (45) (DR2)
The Fence (4) (DR1)
The Muscle (4) (DR1)
Enforcers A (5)
The Deputy (9) (DR1)
Thief (2)
Enforcers B (6)
Crooked Cop (5)
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Argent Adept - 14
Expatriette - 19
Parse - 13
Omnitron-X - 20
Tachyon - 12
Tachyon will discard Lightning Reflexes and Sucker Punch to the Enforcers
Argent Adept draws Syncopated Onslaught from Fleet of Foot.
Argent Adept
HP: 14
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Silver Shadow, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration, Cedistic Dissonant, Syncopated Onslaught
In play: Inventive Preparation
Trash:
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: Silver Shadow. Activate the Accompany text of Inventive Preparation. One player, other than me, may play a card now.
Syncopated Onslaught enters play.
Use a power: Vocalize on Syncopated Onslaught. Tachyon and Omnitron-X deal +1 damage until the start of my next turn.
Draw a card: Syncopated Onslaught
End of hero turn:
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HP: 14
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration, Cedistic Dissonant, Syncopated Onslaught
In play: Inventive Preparation, Syncopated Onslaught
Trash: Arcane Cadence (x4), Akpunku’s Drum, Polyphoric Flare, Alacritous Subdominant, Instrumental Conjuration, Silver Shadow
Additional effects: One player, other than me, may play a card now (pre-boost).
Tachyon and Omnitron-X deal +1 damage until the start of my next turn.
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This sets us up nicely for a Hypersonic Assault, I think.
I can use the card play to take out the River of Lava unless Tacky was going to Blinding Speed it. Altenately, I could get out the Assault Rifle so we can start taking out the Cops before Tacky's turn. Also, if I got one of the boosts, I could use Shock Rounds and get out Hairtrigger to really good effect this turn
River of Lava doesn't seem worth taking out - does anyone mind discarding the top 3 cards of their deck?
I'm happy to give one of the boosts to Expatriette rather than Omnitron-X. Remember that any villains taken out before Tachyon's turn lead to retaliation damage. Ideally we get a bunch of villains down to low enough health that Tachyon can take them out after nullifying The Operative's damage.
I have no objections to discarding, since I've got 2 Resets in hand and REALLY want to go fishing for either an EDU or a Tech Advancement. ablative Coating would be nice, too.
Ok, assuming Expat gets the +1 and plays Assault Rilfe from AA
Expatriette
HP: 19
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Shock Rounds, Hairtrigger Reflexes
In play: Assault Rifle, Speed Loading
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Tactical Shotgun
Additional effects:
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Start of hero turn: Play Shock Rounds onto Assault Rifle
Play a card: Hairtrigger Reflexes
Use a power: Assault Rifle Crooked Cop (2), Enforcers B (3), Deputy (7). Shock Rounds deals 2 damage to Chairman (no damage) Crooked Cops (dead), Thief (dead), Enforcers A (3), Enforcers B (1), Deputy (6), Muscle (3), Fence (3), Operative (no damage). Operative deals 3 damage to Omni (17) and Expat (16)
Draw a card: Quick Draw
End of hero turn:
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HP: 16
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Quick Draw
In play: , Speed Loading, Hairtrigger Reflexes
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Tactical Shotgun, Shock Rounds
Additional effects: Whenever a non-hero target enters play, Expat deals that target 1 projectile damage
I assume that the DR stays in place on the Shock Rounds even after the Cops are dead, based on games with Akash after you kill the Carapace. If we can reduce all of the Underbosses to 2 HP or less, Tachyon can wipe the board with all of them
No, the DR goes away as soon as the Cops are dead, so, eg, the Deputy takes an extra point of damage. I'm not sure what you're thinking about with the Carapace, but perhaps you're remembering that Akash'Bhuta's self-damage when the Carapace dies is reduced. That's a different situation: The Carapace is still in play when the self-damage is dealt.
I would take it as the DR dropping once the Crooked Cop is destroyed. The case with Carapace is that the Carapace itself is inflicting the damage and thus is still there providing protection while it also inflicts the damage.
I have the villain pile with the following point values and DR currently:
Chairman (35) (DR1)
Operative (44) (DR1)
The Fence (2)
The Muscle (2)
Enforcers A (3)
The Deputy (5)
Thief (X)
Enforcers B (1)
Crooked Cop (X)
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Tachyon still has +1 damage
Expatriette has +1 damage and Hairtrigger Reflexes is in play.
Omnitron-X needs to indicate what piece of equipment was sacrified to the River of Lava.
Got it on the DR. Thats why I ordered it it that way so Chairman wouldnt hit me
Parse
HP: 13
Hand: Quick Calculation, Targeting Arrow, Buffer Overflow, Snap Decision, Updated Intel
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness
Trash: Segmentation Fault
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
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Start:
Play: Snap Decision
Power: Extrasensory Awareness - reveal the top 3 of the villain deck; discard The Contract; replace Undivided Attention (top) and Rook City is Mine! (second) on top of the deck; don't shuffle
Draw: Syntactic Analysis
End:
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HP: 13
Hand: Quick Calculation, Syntactic Analysis, Targeting Arrow, Buffer Overflow, Updated Intel
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision
Trash: Segmentation Fault
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
Prepatory stuff: I draw Disruptive Flechettes from Fleet of Foot and lose the Focused Plasma Cannon to the River of Lava. (I think multi-target damage is more useful than irreducible right now.) I also know that the following pieces of my turn won't change based on the reveals from Parse.
HP: 22
Hand: Reset x 2, Singularity, Self-Sabotage
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch,
Trash: Focused Plasma Cannon, Slip Through Time
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Start: Gaussian Coil Blaster does 1 damage each to The Fence [1], The Muscle [1], and The Deputy [4]
Play: Reset - Shuffle trash back into deck, draw Elemental Exochassis. Play Elemental Exochassis.
Power:
Let's talk for a bit: I can timeshift somebody (like AA to help him fish for an instrument or me to fish for components), or I can Rocket Punch to put the Deputy and the Enforcers at 2 HP each. I'm not sitting on a whole lot that's useful right now in my hand, so I'm tempted to Timeshift myself, but want to hear from other people first.
The benefit of taking the Deputy down would be we dont have to keep killing the cops and can start wailing on Chairman/Operative next turn, epecially with a second Hypersonic in Tachyon's hand.
I'm also inclined to get it down to where we can wipe the board and start going to town, but maybe the Extrasensory Awareness will affect things.
I'm tempted to vote for the Rocket Punch: If the Extrasensory Awareness turns out reasonably favorable, I can see clear to doing some serious damage next turn and the turn after.
Extrasensory Awareness reveals:
Rook City Is Mine!
The Contract
Undivided Attention
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Additional Note: Assuming The Contract gets discarded the Operative will reveal the remaining six cards of the villain deck the next turn, not find an underboss, and then simply shuffle all six. Since the group can count cards the current four unrevealed cards are Prison Break, Rook City Is Mine!, and two copies of Perfect Human Specimans.
Contract definitely gets trashed. I'm inclined to put Undivided Attention on top and not shuffle. Any objections?
If we're pulling out Hypersonic Assault, then Undivided Attention is not harmful, so that sounds fine. Rook City is Mine would also be OK.
Good point on Hypersonic. Undivided Attention goes on top.
Since Operative wont look for the Contract until after the villain plays a card, we have a 60% chance of being able to discard Prison Break in the next Round. At that Point, we basically have 3 rounds before before the trash reshuffles
In light of all the above, let's take the Rocket Punch putting the Deputy and Enforcers to 2 HP each; draw Technological Advancement.
I'm willing to discard for the environment deck. (Not posting what in case Tachy gets another Fleet of Foot.)
Current Villain Status:
Chairman (35) (DR1)
Operative (44) (DR1)
The Fence (1)
The Muscle (1)
Enforcers A (2)
The Deputy (2)
Enforcers B (1)
A Hypersonic Assault (+1) will clean out the underbosses and thugs, and also be sufficient to hit the Operative and the Chairman past their DR.
We're looking to be in pretty good shape.
It's been pretty instructive for me to run the Chairman and see how the villain deck operates. Also useful to see at least one approach for a hero team to counter the various threats that roll out. It appears that deck control is very useful, play of damage immunity cards eventually vital, and how someone like Legacy with Next Evolution in play or another high HP "tank" could alleviate a lot of damage.
I can also see how a single villain card play, especially with the Chairman flipped, could put a world of hurt on a group of heroes.
Tachyon
HP: 12
Hand: Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault x 2, HUD Goggles
Play: Pushing the Limits, Research Grant
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch
Effects: May play an additional card during play phase, may draw an additional card during draw phase
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Start: Pushing the Limits is destroyed (too dangerous with the damage buff up)
Play: HUD Goggles
Play: Hypersonic Assault, 1 damage to Chairman (34) Operative (43)
2 damage to: The Fence (X) , The Muscle (X), Enforcers A (X), The Deputy (X), Enforcers B (X)
Power: Use Research Grant. Draw Pushing the Limits, Supersonic Response. Discard Supersonic Response.
Draw: Sonic Vortex
End:
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HP: 12
Hand: Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Pushing the Limits, Sonic Vortex
Play: HUD Goggles, Research Grant
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits x 2, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch, Hypersonic Assault, Supersonic Response
Effects: The Chairman and the Operative may not deal damage until the start of Tachyon's turn
Tachyon, shouldn't your Playbsection at the end rea HUD goggles and Research Grant, not Pushing the Limits?
It sure should! Good catch, updated the post.
Environment - Insula Primalis
Start: If each player discards the top 3 cards of their deck, destroy River of Lava (assuming this will be done).
Play: Obsidian Field
Effects:
- Increase all damage dealt by 1. (Obsidian Field)
- At the end of their turn 1 player may discard 2 cards to destroy Obsidian Field (Obsidian Field)
THE CHAIRMAN - ROUND 4
The Chairman (34)
The Operative (43)
Start of Turn:
Play: Undivided Attention - No effect since the Chairman and The Operative feels strangely lethargic suddenly.
End of Turn: The Operative fails to find an underboss and shuffles the villain deck
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Effects:
- The Chairman is immune to damage from environment cards (Chairman)
- Increase damage dealt by thugs by 5 (Chairman)
- The first time The Chairman is dealt damage each turn, deal the source of that damage 5 melee damage (Chairman)
- The Heroes cannot win the game (Operative)
- Whenever a villain card is destroyed the Operative deals the hero with the highest HP 3 melee damage (Operative)
- Reduce damage to the Chairman and Operative by 1 (adv Operative)
(Start of Turn)
(End of Turn)
- Reveal cards from the top of the villain deck until an underboss card is revealed. (Operative)
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Chairman (34) (DR1) (Can not deal damage - Hypersonic Assault)
Operative (43) (DR1) (Can not deal damage - Hypersonic Assault)
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Argent Adept - 14
Expatriette - 16
Parse - 13
Omnitron-X - 17
Tachyon - 12
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+1 damage dealt (Obsidian Field)
Updating for myself since I I wont have access to my deck today - Expat discards Shock Rounds, Reload and Submachine Gun from the top of her deck to River of Lava
I discard Sarabande of Destruction, Alacritous Subdominant, and Inspiring Supertonic from my deck for the River of Lava.
Argent Adept
HP: 14
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Musaragni’s Harp, Instrumental Conjuration, Cedistic Dissonant, Syncopated Onslaught
In play: Inventive Preparation, Syncopated Onslaught
Trash: Arcane Cadence (x4), Akpunku’s Drum, Polyphoric Flare, Alacritous Subdominant (x2), Instrumental Conjuration, Silver Shadow, Sarabande of Destruction, Inspiring Supertonic
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Start of hero turn: Syncopated Onslaught expires.
Play a card: Instrumental Conjuration. Search deck for Xu’s Bell and put it in play. Shuffle my deck and draw Instrumental Conjuration.
Use a power: Xu’s Bell.
Activate Perform of Syncopated Onslaught: Two players deal +1 damage until the start of my next turn.
Activate Accompany of Inventive Preparation: One player, other than me, may play a card now (post-boost).
Draw a card: Cedistic Dissonant
End of hero turn:
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HP: 14
Hand: Inspiring Supertonic, Vernal Sonata (x3), Polyphoric Flare, Eydisar’s Horn, Musaragni’s Harp, Cedistic Dissonant (x2), Syncopated Onslaught
In play: Inventive Preparation, Syncopated Onslaught, Xu’s Bell
Trash: Arcane Cadence (x4), Akpunku’s Drum, Polyphoric Flare, Alacritous Subdominant (x2), Instrumental Conjuration (x2), Silver Shadow, Sarabande of Destruction, Inspiring Supertonic
Additional effects: Two players deal +1 damage until the start of my next turn.
One player, other than me, may play a card now (post-boost).
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Who can best use the boosts and card play? Presumably Tachyon should get a boost again, so her Hypersonic Assault will punch through.
EDIT: Omnitron-X and Expatriette get the damage boost. Still wondering if anyone wants a card play.
Parse discards Reveal the Flaws, Exploit Vulnerability, and Data Mining for the lava.
Well, since Obsidian Fields is out, Hypersonic will punch through anyway. I would say Omnitron and Expat are set up to do the most damage this turn. As for the card play, I dont have anything in particular that makes the most sense to play so I would advise to give it to someone else
I'm assuming Expat will get one of the +1
Expatriette
HP: 16
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Quick Draw
In play: , Speed Loading, Hairtrigger Reflexes
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Tactical Shotgun, Shock Rounds
Additional effects: Whenever a non-hero target enters play, Expat deals that target 1 projectile damage
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Start of hero turn: Move Shock Rounds from Trash onto top of deck
Play a card: Quick Draw. Locate "Pride" and put into play. Shuffle my deck
Use a power: Assault Rifle Chairman for 4-1 (31) and Operative for 4-1 (40)
Draw a card: Hollow Points
End of hero turn:
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HP: 16
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Hollow Points
In play: , Speed Loading, Hairtrigger Reflexes, Assault Rifle, "Pride"
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Tactical Shotgun, Quick Draw, Submachine Gun, Reload, Shock Rounds
Additional effects: Whenever a non-hero target enters play, Expat deals that target 1 projectile damage
I think i'm going to give the card play to Parse, and suggest maybe a Targetting Arrow or Syntactic Analysis. EDIT: Targetting Arrow might not be the best, as it would expire at the start of her turn.
Card play from AA: Syntactic Analysis on Omnitron-X (plays Disruptive Flechettes and Defensive Blast)
Parse
HP: 13
Hand: Quick Calculation, Targeting Arrow, Buffer Overflow, Updated Intel
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision
Trash: Data Mining, Exploit Vulnerability, Reveal the Flaws, Segmentation Fault, Syntactic Analysis
Effects: Whenever Parse discards a card from hand, select a hero target. Increase the next damage dealt by that target by 1.
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Start: Discard Buffer Overflow (+1 to Tachyon's next damage) and play Quick Calculation - reveal Targeting Arrow, Impossible Shot, Recompile; Impossible Shot goes to the bottom of my deck, the others go in my hand
Play: Targeting Arrow - deal 2 damage to the Operative [35]; all damage against the Operative is +1 until my next turn
Power: Extrasensory Awareness - reveal the top 3 of the villain deck; discard Prison Break; replace Perfect Human Specimens (top) and Rook City is Mine! (second) on top of the deck; don't shuffle
Draw: Targeting Arrow
End:
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HP: 13
Hand: Quick Calculation, Targeting Arrow (2), Recompile, Updated Intel
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision
Trash: Data Mining, Exploit Vulnerability, Reveal the Flaws, Segmentation Fault, Syntactic Analysis, Buffer Overflow, Quick Calculation, Targeting Arrow
Effects:
Syntactic Analysis on Tachy could be really useful to help fish for Lightspeed Barrages.
I was hoping to get Omni-X an EDU out of turn so he could build up faster. With all these targeting arrows, more instances of damage would be nice.
Makes sense to me, I don't think there is ever a bad choice with that card
Yeah... I need to get home & get deck in hand to do the discards & draws. I'll have at least one EDU before my turn is over thanks to my tech advancement.
Edit: Discard Disruptive Flechettes, Innervation Ray, and Self-Sabotage for the River of Lava. Reveal Defensive Blast and Disruptive Flechettes from Syntactic Analysis; put both into play.
Not noted in previous post: Disruptive Flechettes does net 2 damage to each of the Chairman and the Operative.
Edit: Missed that I had a Syncopated Onslaught affecting me; adjusting all damage instances accordingly.
HP: 17
Hand: Reset, Singularity, Self-Sabotage, Technological Advancement, Disruptive Flechettes
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch, Elemental Exochassis, Defensive Blast
Trash: Reset, Disruptive Flechettes, Innervation Ray, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes
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Start: Gaussian Coil Blaster does 2 damage to the Chairman [26] and 3 damage to the Operative [34]
Play: Technological Advancement. Search my deck for an EDU; shuffle; draw Rocket Punch
Power: Rocket Punch the Operative for 4 [30] and the Chairman for 2 [24]
Draw: Bio-Engineering Beam
End: Nothing
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HP: 17
Hand: Reset, Singularity, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Rocket Punch, Bio-Engineering Beam
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch, Elemental Exochassis, Defensive Blast, Electro-Deployment Unit
Trash: Reset, Disruptive Flechettes, Innervation Ray, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement,
No ongoings to destroy, but Disruptive Flechettes deals 2+1(Obsidian)+1(Syncopated)-1(DR) damage to Chairman and Operative, putting them at 28 and 37, respectively.
If we don't take them out this round, my plan is to play Vernal Sonata next round, so Tachyon can put a Hypersonic Assault on top of her deck which O-X can then Timeshift into play.
Operative should be at 29, she would have taken 3 from the Disruptive Flechettes
Flechettes go off before Parse's turn.
It would still get the boost from AA and Obsidian fields though, so should do a net of 3, since Syncopated activates before Inventive
Here's my account of damage to Operative:
I missed Parse's damage earlier, sorry.
Np, I missed the irreducible too
On environment turn, discards top 3 of deck: Lightspeed Barrage, Hypersonic Assault, Nimble Strike
Tachyon
HP: 12
Hand: Blinding Speed, Hypersonic Assault, Pushing the Limits, Sonic Vortex
Play: HUD Goggles, Research Grant
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits x 2, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch, Hypersonic Assault x 2, Supersonic Response, Lightspeed Barrage, Nimble Strike
Effects: The Chairman and the Operative may not deal damage until the start of Tachyon's turn
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Start: Hypersonic Assault's effect wears off
Play: Pushing the Limits
Play: Hypersonic Assault, hits the Operative for 3 (25) and the Chairman for 1 (23)
Play: Sonic Vortex, hits Operative for 4 (21) and Chairman for 3 (20)
Power: Use Research Grant. Draw Accelerated Assault, Research Grant. Discard Research Grant.
Draw: Sucker Punch, Fleet of Foot
End:
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HP: 12
Hand: Blinding Speed, Accelerated Assault, Sucker Punch, Fleet of Foot
Play: HUD Goggles, Research Grant, Pushing the Limits
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits x 2, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch, Hypersonic Assault x 3, Supersonic Response, Lightspeed Barrage, Nimble Strike, Sonic Vortex
Effects: The Chairman and the Operative may not deal damage until the start of Tachyon's turn
I think I got the damage right. HA hits Operative for 1 + 1 (Obsidian Field) + 1 (Critical Multiplier) + 1 (Targeting Arrow) - 1 (DR). SV hits Operative for 3 + 1 (OF) + 1 (Taregting Arrow) - 1 (DR).
Chairman's at 23
I know what I'm playing next turn!
Where are you getting the Chairman's HP? O-X had him at 24 before your turn, which would put him at 20 after your turn.
Shoot, spent all my time paying attention to the Operative and messed up the Chairman. Fixed it. My bad.
Yeah. I totally forgot about the Obsidian Fields. Thanks rocks!
Extrasensory Awareness reveals:
Rook City Is Mine!
Prison Break
Perfect Human Specimans
Discard Prison Break. Perfect Human Specimens on top.
Environment - Insula Primalis
In Play: Obsidian Field
Play: Obsidian Field
Effects:
Increase all damage dealt by 1 (Obsidian Field)
At the end of their turn, 1 player may discard 2 cards to destroy this card. (Obsidian Field)
THE CHAIRMAN - ROUND 5
A very large hedgehog sticks it's head out of the underbrush and shouts "Dinsdale!"
The Chairman (20)
The Operative (21)
Start of Turn:
Play: Perfect Human Specimans -
Chairman heals to 26 HP
Operative heals to 27 HP
End of Turn: The Operative fails to find an underboss and shuffles the villain deck (3 cards)
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Effects:
- The Chairman is immune to damage from environment cards (Chairman)
- Increase damage dealt by thugs by 5 (Chairman)
- The first time The Chairman is dealt damage each turn, deal the source of that damage 5 melee damage (Chairman)
- The Heroes cannot win the game (Operative)
- Whenever a villain card is destroyed the Operative deals the hero with the highest HP 3 melee damage (Operative)
- Reduce damage to the Chairman and Operative by 1 (adv Operative)
(Start of Turn)
(End of Turn)
- Reveal cards from the top of the villain deck until an underboss card is revealed. (Operative)
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Chairman (26) (DR1) (Can not deal damage - Hypersonic Assault)
Operative (27) (DR1) (Can not deal damage - Hypersonic Assault)
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Argent Adept - 14
Expatriette - 16
Parse - 13
Omnitron-X - 17
Tachyon - 12
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Obsidian Field (x2)
+2 to all damage dealt
Parse puts Syntactic Analysis on top of her deck. If she gets the card play, I'll be able to Recompile to get Syntactic Analysis back and can use it on Tachyon.
Put Shock Rounds on top of deck
Expatriette
HP: 16
Hand: Unload, RPG Launcher, Hollow Points
In play: , Speed Loading, Hairtrigger Reflexes, Assault Rifle, "Pride"
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcher, Tactical Shotgun, Quick Draw, Submachine Gun, Reload,
Additional effects: Whenever a non-hero target enters play, Expat deals that target 1 projectile damage
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Start of hero turn: Put Hollow Points next to Assault Rifle
Play a card: RPG Launcher. Destroy Speed Loading. Deal net 5 fire damage to Operative (22) and net 4 to Chairman (22)
Use a power: Assault Rifle Chairman for net 6 (16) and Operative for net 7 (15)
Draw a card: Shock Rounds
End of hero turn:
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HP: 17
Hand: Unload, Shock Rounds
In play: Hairtrigger Reflexes, Assault Rifle, "Pride"
Trash: Liquid Nitrogen Rounds, Arsenal Access, RPG Launcherx2, Tactical Shotgun, Quick Draw, Submachine Gun, Reload, Hollow Points
Additional effects: Whenever a non-hero target enters play, Expat deals that target 1 projectile damage
Sweet. If Tachyon concurs that it's the best move, I'll give the card play to Parse for the Syntactic Analysis.
Dr. Stinson is on board. Move Hypersonic Assault to the top of my deck.
Ok. I'll play Recompile on Argent's turn. Discard Updated Intel, Quick Calculation, Targeting Arrow. Draw Syntactic Analysis, Gauge, Exploit Vulnerability, Data-Mining, Reveal the Flaws, Gauge. Tachyon's next damage is +3.
Parse
HP: 13
Hand: Data-Mining, Syntactic Analysis, Targeting Arrow, Exploit Vulnerability, Gauge (2), Reveal the Flaws
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision
Trash: Data-Mining, Quick Calculation, Recompile, Targeting Arrow (2), Buffer Overflow, Exploit Vulnerability, Reveal the Flaws, Segmentation Fault, Updated Intel
Effects:
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Start: Discard Gauge (+1 to Tachyon's next damage - now +4) and play Syntactic Analysis on Tachyon (reveal top two cards and play/draw/discard them in any order)
Play: Reveal the Flaws - Damage dealt by heroes is irreducible
Power: Extrasensory Awareness - reveal the top 3 of the villain deck; discard ?; replace ? (top) and ? (second) on top of the deck; maybe shuffle
Draw: Impossible Shot
End:
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HP: 13
Hand: Data-Mining, Targeting Arrow, Exploit Vulnerability, Gauge, Impossible Shot
Play: Critical Multiplier, Extrasensory Awareness, Snap Decision, Reveal the Flaws
Trash: Data-Mining, Quick Calculation, Recompile, Targeting Arrow (2), Buffer Overflow, Exploit Vulnerability, Reveal the Flaws, Segmentation Fault, Updated Intel, Gauge, Syntactic Analysis
Effects:
Pending Syntactic Analysis from Tachyon and Extrasensory Awareness reveals.
Question: Does Tachyon benefit from the +1 to Operative boost? It goes away at the start of my turn, but Snap Decision (which allows Tachyon to play some cards) was played before Targeting Arrow (whose effect ends at the start of my turn...after Snap Decision happens?)
Syntactic Analysis reveals Hypersonic Assault and Lightspeed Barrage. Put both in my hand.
I believe playing Hypersonic Assault now will make it expire at the start of my turn, and I want at least a couple more Bursts for Lightspeed Barrage.
EDIT : It occurred to me that the Critical Multiplier would actually buff my self damage from Pushing the Limits, so I'll put the Lightspeed Barrage into play and hit the Operative for 9 base + 4 CM + 1 TA + 2 OF - 1 DR = 15. That should take care of her.
I know Parse & Tachyon still have some stuff to deal with, but I'm headed to bed soon. Lacking other information, I think I'm getting one of the SO damage boosts since I'll have lots of instances, but that didn't appear to be decided.
Technological Advancement back on top from Vernal Sonata.
HP: 17
Hand: Reset, Singularity, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Rocket Punch, Bio-Engineering Beam
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch, Elemental Exochassis, Defensive Blast, Electro-Deployment Unit
Trash: Reset, Disruptive Flechettes, Innervation Ray, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement,
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Start: Gaussian Coil Blaster deals 4 (1 + SO + 2xOF) damage to each of the Chairman and the Operative.
EDU draws Technological Advancement.
Play: Technological Advancement. Go fishing for the other EDU, shuffle, and draw Slip Through Time
Power: Rocket Punch to deal 5 damage to the Chairman and 4 damage to the Operative.
Draw: Bio-Engineering Beam
End: Nothing
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HP: 17
Hand: Reset, Singularity, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Rocket Punch, Bio-Engineering Beam, Bio-Engineering Beam
In Play: Gaussian Coil Blaster, Reactive Plating Subroutine, Rocket Punch, Elemental Exochassis, Defensive Blast, Electro-Deployment Unit x2
Trash: Reset, Disruptive Flechettes, Innervation Ray, Self-Sabotage, Disruptive Flechettes, Technological Advancement,
Extrasensory Awareness reveals:
Rook City Is Mine! (x2) and Perfect Human Specimans
Operative (X) and Chairman at (7) after Omni-X turn.
Tachyon still to go this round as things wind down.
Tachyon
HP: 12
Hand: Blinding Speed, Accelerated Assault, Sucker Punch, Fleet of Foot, Hypersonic Assault
Play: HUD Goggles, Research Grant, Pushing the Limits
Trash: Fleet of Foot x 2, Synaptic Interruption x 2, Pushing the Limits x 2, Quick Insight, Blinding Speed, Lightning Reflexes, Sucker Punch, Hypersonic Assault x 3, Supersonic Response, Nimble Strike, Sonic Vortex, Lightspeed Barrage
Effects: The Chairman and the Operative may not deal damage until the start of Tachyon's turn
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Start: Hypersonic Assault's effect wears off. Tachyon deals 4 damage to herself.
Play: Fleet of Foot - Everybody draw. Draw Lightning Reflexes
Play: Hypersonic Assault - deals 3 damage to Chairman (4)
Play: Accelerated Assault - deals 3 damage to Chairman (1)
Play: Sucker Punch Chairman (X)
Power: Use Research Grant.
Draw:
End:
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I think that might have been the smoothest Chairman game I've had.
Awesome, finishing him off with a Sucker Punch.
That was a fantastic game. Parse totally owned that
Extrasensory Awareness and Hypersonic Assault ruined the Corporation. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent game, all!
Indeed, well done all around! I've always wanted to Sucker Punch / Wrathful Gaze a villain into the ground, and now I finally have 
Nice work!
Sucker Punchng the villain to death is something I try to do as often as I can. It's just beautiful.