wednesday game night 06.06.07

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The Game: Well, I tried to mix things up for our Heroclix match and it didn't go to well. I thought it would be fun to think up some sort of Heroclix football scenario. What ended up was a glorified version of - hmmmm how do I word this that isn't offensive to a certain populace? I give up, I'll just call it what it was called in 3rd grade - smear the queer. Queer meaning the odd man carrying the football whom you tackled and then stole said football from. That is the only meaning "queer" has for me so please don't leave any nasty comments about "queer" being a derogatory term. I love everyone. I love you, man.

Phew, moving on. The football started in the middle of the map. A player scored one point for picking up the football. Another point was given for every round that the player had the football. Read the game summary to see how this turned out.

The Map: I kept it very simple with a pretty wide open flat map. Boring to play on, but what are you gonna do.


The Teams:

Jeff: For Jeff's team, he used clix with red costumes. Atom (V), Shazam (R), Elongated Man (V), Red Tornado (R), and Mon-El (R).


Adam: Another clever theme team. This time it was "princesses, a prince and knights." Black Knight (V), Starfire (V), Wonder Woman (V), Black Panther (R), and Starman (E).


Chris: Rockin' robin, tweet! Tweedle dee deet! Rockin' robin... Chris chose a bird theme for his team. Falcon (R), Hawk (E), Nighthawk (E), Red Robin (U), Dove (V), Raven (R), Black Canary (V) and Mockingbird (V).


Dan: My problem is I can't think up theme teams on the fly. I tried this time and failed again so I just went with a random assortment of clix. Blackhawks (V), Sunfire (E), Wolverine (U), Titanium Man (E) and Dr. Light (V).


Game Highlights:

Turn Order: Jeff, Adam, Chris, Dan

Jeff:
Average Roll: 8.2
Number of Rolls: 10
Number of Hits: 7
Hit Percentage: 70%
Damage Dealt (after reducers): 18 clicks
Average Hit % (7 games): 52%
Damage Dealt (7 games): 130 clicks
Average Roll (7 games): 7.18

Adam:
Average Roll: 6.96
Number of Rolls: 27
Number of Hits: 16
Hit Percentage: 59%
Damage Dealt (after reducers): 40 clicks
Average Hit % (7 games): 67%
Damage Dealt (7 games): 239 clicks
Average Roll (7 games): 7.03

Chris:
Average Roll: 7.25
Number of Rolls: 16
Number of Hits: 10
Hit Percentage: 62%
Damage Dealt (after reducers): 15 clicks
Average Hit % (7 games): 50%
Damage Dealt (7 games): 99 clicks
Average Roll (7 games): 7.14

Dan:
Average Roll: 6.97
Number of Rolls: 31
Number of Hits: 19
Hit Percentage: 61%
Damage Dealt (after reducers): 39 clicks
Average Hit % (7 games): 54%
Damage Dealt (7 games): 164 clicks
Average Roll (7 games): 7.03

First Hit: Adam didn't waste any time on his first turn. Poor little Billy Batson felt the heat from Starfire on a running shot for 4 damage. Awww, what did the kid ever do to you?!!

Critical Hits: None

Critical Misses: A couple from Adam and I both. Starfire was the unlucky one for Adam rolling the snake eyes elongated man. The killer with this one was it was a reroll graciously granted from Chris via Raven. Starfire also crit missed on Atom, who was also the bane of my night. I rolled two consecutive crit misses on Jeff's Atom. One with Blackhawk and the other with Dr. Light. Ray Palmer why do you just go *pop* out of existence again.

Most Damage in a Single Attack: About 8 different attacks by different people throughout the night, each hitting for 4 damage.

Favorite Team: It was a tough choice, but I gave the nod to Chris and his tweety bird team.

Hardest to Hit: Without a doubt it was Jeff's Veteran Atom. For 64 points you get a clix that starts out with a top of the line 18 defense. The next click after that it goes up to 19! But wait, there's more! Can you believe a 20 defense on the next click! Thankfully he never made it onto that 20 defense click otherwise we never would have hit Atom after that.

Most Valuable Clix: MVC goes to Atom of course for the reasons mentioned above. He won the game for Jeff.

Game Summary: After the football changing hands a couple times in the early stages of the game, it came to rest in the hands of Atom. Crazy high defense = hard to hit = lots of points for Jeff. Nine points in fact, which was enough for him to win the game. I was basically a non-factor. By the time I got to the football it was already taken by Atom. Spent most of the game, along with everyone else, trying to hit him. Once Atom was KO'ed, Adam took charge of the football for 8 points. Chris scored 4 thought the course of the game. I finally scored 1 point after KO'ing the last clix in the game, which ended it immediately. D'oh! Points were tallied and Jeff waltzed away with the victory. It was a different game type to play, but I don't think we'll play that one again.