Avengers (Hulkbuster) vs Midnight Sons 21/09/21

 Avengers (Hulkbuster) vs Midnight Sons 21/09/21

Hey folks :-)

So continuing my momentum I did another two write up from today's games. This is the first of two. I did this write up first as I wanted to show I do win games sometimes haha 😁

Today I played vs Alistair. I've played Alistair a few times but I think I've only done one write up vs him. I wanted to try Hulkbuster out so I have a 3d proxy til the actual model comes out next month, then I'll buy that. I'm still doing my Sam Spam/Dark Dimension pair which I'll do in the next write up, just wanted to try something different 🙂

So we roll for priority and Al wins.

Avengers (Hulkbusters):

Hulkbuster (Leader), Black Widow, Okoye, Cable and Iron Fist.

TTCs: Bitter Rivals, Patch Up, Heroes For Hire, Avengers Assemble, Advanced R&D

Midnight Sons:

Blade, Venom, Dr Strange, Ghost Rider

TTCs: Patch Up, Bats the Ghost Hound, Deal With the Devil, All You've Got, Siege of Darkness.

Game Setup/ Deployment:

Secure: Mutant Madman Turns City Centre Into Lethal Amusement Park

Extraction: Skrulls Infiltrate World Leadership

Threat: 18 

So as before Al wins priority. We decide to try the upcoming new way of doing crisis and do it randomly. Al draws Skrulls, I draw Mutant Madman. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this process yet, I don't know if it's as bad as I think it is, time will tell I guess. I don't really have a plan persay being the first game with Hulkbuster, but I do know I want Cable on the same side as Venom.

Alistair deploys first with Venom, Blade, Dr Strange (behind the tanker), and Ghost Rider (from left to right). I counter with Cable, Hulkbuster,  Black Widow, Okoye and Iron Fist (who is just out of the camera shot).

Round One:

Dr Strange moves forward to the Mutant Madman trap and takes it.

Black Widow walks twice to the middle and searches for the Skrull and finds it first attempt.

Venom walls twice and takes the trap for the team.

Cable places himself forward and attacks Venom twice for 5 damage. Okoye then plays Advanced R&D to give a power to Black Widow. Then I play Avengers Assemble to move Hulkbuster, Cable and Iron Fist forward and Black Widow back.

Blade moves up and attacks Cable but causes 0 damage but does apply Bleed.

Hulkbuster moves and attacks Venom for 2 damage and dazes the symbiote. He then moves and flips the trap for me.

Ghost Rider moves and uses the Midnight Sons leadership to place forward 1 and attacks Iron Fist for 0 damage.

Iron Fist attacks Ghost Rider and flips the trap token to me.

In the cleanup phase Ghost Rider takes a damage from my trap.

Round ends 2 - 4 to me.

Round Two:

Venom gets stuck right in and pulls the Hulkbuster in. He attacks twice and Cable throws his shield in twice making Venoms attacks do 0 damage but does apply Bleed. He then throws a nearby terrain piece causing 3 damage.

Hulkbuster returns the favour and throws terrain at Venom and causes 1 damage. He then uses hit and run to do 4 damage to Venom and move back out of range of a So Many Snacks then shakes Bleed. 

Blade uses his leadership to teleport forward 1. He attacks Cable for 2 damage and Patches Up Venom for 3 health. He then attacks Cable again for 0 damage. 

Black Widow double moves backwards away from combat. 

Ghost Rider uses the Midnight Sons leadership to teleport foward 1. He attacks Iron Fist for 1 damage and applies Hex. He then flips the trap token to his side and attacks Iron Fist again for 0 damage. 

Cable places backwards toward Hulkbuster and double attacks Venom, KOing him. 

Alistair passes. 

Iron Fist double attacks and dazes Ghost Rider. 

Dr Strange places forward and double attacks Okoye for only 1 damage but does push her away. 

Okoye walks over to the trap beside Iron Fist and flips it back to me. 

Round ends 4 - 8 to me. 

Round Three:

Ghost Rider gets the round going by using Hell on Wheels to go after Black Widow. He then uses the Midnight Sons leadership to place forward 1. He attacks and dazes Widow, causing her to drop the Skrull which he collects. He then moves S back towards the board centre. 

Okoye double attacks Ghost Rider for 5 damage but not enough to take him down. 

Dr Strange walks and heals Ghost Rider 3 damage. He then attacks Okoye for 0 damage. 

Iron Fist double attacks the Rider but causes 0 damage. 

Alistair passes. 

Cable double attacks Ghost Rider but only pushes through 2 damage and applies Incinerate. He then uses Patch Up on Hulkbuster to heal 3 damage. 

Blade moves and flips the trap near me to his side the moves away and uses the Sons leadership to teleport 1 further. 

Hulkbuster moves and flips the trap back to me. He then uses hit and run to do 3 damage to Blade, moving onto the further away trap and flipping that to me. 

Round ends 7 - 11 to me. 

(I did take a pic, but for some reason it didn't come out properly 🙄😕) 

Round Four:

Ghost Rider runs first again and attacks Iron Fist for 0 damage then uses Hell on Wheels to move away and moves S afterwards to go further. 

Hulkbuster moves up and throws nearby terrain at Ghost Rider to daze him and drop his Skrull token. Hulkbuster then shoots Blade for 2 damage and pushes him, ending the turn by picking up the Skrull. 

Blade attacks and dazes Okoye and advances M from the trigger. He attacks Hulkbuster and causes 1 damage and Bleed. 

Cable places forward. He attacks Dr Strange twice causes 0 damage but does apply incinerate. 

Dr Strange attacks Iron Fist 1 damage and a push. He attacks Cable for 2 damage and push and then uses Sons leadership to place. Alistair then plays Siege of Darkness on Blade and Strange. Blade attacks Hulkbuster but causes 0 damage. Dr Strange attacks and dazes Cable then flips the trap token. 

Iron Fist moves and attacks Dr Strange but causes 0 damage. He places beside Strange from the attack and attempts to flip the trap but fails. 

Black Widow moves twice towards Alistairs board edge. 

Round ends 9 - 15 to me. 

(just straight up forgot a pic this time 🤦‍♂️) 

Round Five:

Blade attacks Hulkbuster causing 1 damage. He attacks again causing 3 damage and advances M from the trigger. 

Hulkbuster hit and runs Blade for 2 damage and pushes him away, moving further back then makes a move action to move S. 

Dr Strange attacks Cable for 2 damage and applies an activated token. He then attacks and dazes Iron Fist. 

Black Widow double moves and flips a trap to me. 

Okoye tries to flip a trap and fails, then double attacks and dazes Dr Strange. 

Game ends 10 - 20 to me. 

Well that was a fun game. I think Al was on the backfoot from the go with Venom facing down both the Hulkbuster and Cable. Both had long range energy attacks which he really really. doesn't like. Cable buffed the Hulkbuster with his shield a few times which made it very hard to break the big fella down. Overall I thought Hulkbuster was fine. His leadership didn't come up once, I think he might just be better as a team member than a leader, will see with more tests. 🙂