Making Gambit Playable

[gameplan.exe]

I was thinking of maybe working something around Charm.

Maybe a front line of Reavers, Gambit, X-Man with The Ray in reserve

Use Fatal Attractions to best laid plans your BJ/JW specials and an activator to maybe give you a venture boost...  and bet large.

You should have enough D from X-man and Reavers to fight it out as well.

Would work even better if you could play Thief of Hearts in the same battle that Best Laid Plans is played

I like this concept. I might try it but with Gambit, X-Man, Reyes, and Magneto (R).

I'd go with Krakoa as the Battlesite, using Wolverine's FD as the OPD. Then, I could potentially get into a fight with any one of my front line in a STANDOFF with one of their front line, except they wouldn't be able to attack me. Krakoa has some other good defensive / card advantage cards in it, including Sunfire's SOLAR FLARE, which will get you a small Venture advantage, in case it goes down to a tie.

(you can, in fact, win a Venture with you at 0 and your in the negative, right?)

[rucker73]

nope.  No one can go negative.  You would tie if you don't get any venture points.

[gameplan.exe]

oh. Well that is lame.

I suppose you could just go with OUTER SPACE and use Adam Warlock's FD card with Shi'Ar's +/- 3 to Venture total. That just would have the same X-flavor I so enjoy 

[rucker73]

Gotta love your team X dedication.  lol

I'm an Avengers/Street level guy (Spidey, Daredevil, Punisher)

But I find that it can be tough coming up with a lot of competitive teams just using those guys...  although at this point it seems as though everyone has been an avenger at some point.

Do you use X-men villains too?  Or just the heroes?

[gameplan.exe]

 i only us their villains if they've had a pretty significant stay as one-time heroes. so, i'll use a bunch of them in the theme of Age Of Apocalypse, since so many of them were flipped there. otherwise, i'll make other teams like the Fall's Edge Compound team, since Sabretooth and Mystique were both "tempered" with the headgear Forge made. ya dig? Bastion's right out! i have the Any Hero, but i actually use the X-Babies' AO for a proxy

[BigBadHarve]

nope.  No one can go negative.  You would tie if you don't get any venture points.

Actually, I'm not sure about that one. I have never read it anywhere that you can't go into negative venture....

If anyone has text to support that, I'd appreciate seeing it.

-BBH

[gameplan.exe]

BBH, did you ever try out your Gambit team with Callisto, Sentinels, and Morlocks in R?

[steve2275]

i have gambit rogue and storm teaming up with ghost rider
im having a hard time choosing a reservist tho

gambit and storm can alter ventured missions draw 1 card

[The Dude]

To Rucker,

About liking street level heroes. We actually did a tournament once in the last few months of the tournament circuit where your team (although not battlesite) had to be based on a real comic theme. The tournament was in a comic shop so backing up your build was easy enough if challenged. Anyways, being the major Cap fan I am, I did a "Streets of Poison" team with Cap, Bullseye, Typhoid Mary and Black Widow in reserve that came in second. I was quite proud of it and it was one of the most fun tournaments I ever played in.

BTW if you haven't read it Streets of Poison is a tremendous six issue arc about Red Skull trying to take over Kingpin's crime territory and pulling all the Cap and DD characters into the mayhem. It is filled with lots of cool hero vs hero and villain vs villain fights (Cap vs DD, Diamondback vs Widow, Crossbones vs Bullseye, Kingpin vs Skull, plus the only Cap vs Bullseye fight I know of). Highly recommended reading.

[gameplan.exe]

Incidentally, I did pair Gambit with the Starjammers in a comic-related team.

Gambit / Starjammers / Jubilee / Deathbird for some Gambit & The X-Ternals fun! I used Age Of Apocalypse (of course) and AnyHeroes (because I found no suitable Battlesite that fit their AoA books well).

It worked pretty well. I did use the Super Soldier Serum on Jubilee, too. Getting it into play before Deathbird came up was pretty easy. It has good umph from Jubilee, too (w/THE MARVELS).

Just perusing old topics and I came across this one, so I thought I'd update.

I actually did find a great Battlesite for this team: Wundagore Mountain. I only use the 4 X-Men, but I've found it to be quite enough, quite fun. Along the same lines of using a BJ/CW line up and getting Wolverine's FD into play (mentioned above), I've used the X-Ternals line up with the AX and DZ off my Battlesite to create "lock down" fights, along with Jubilee's AV and Starjammer's CH.

Also, I use Quicksilver's 11S as the OPD, because it's fun to kill some one with two cards (w/'Jammer's 11A) 

[BigBadHarve]

Hey Ncannelora,

I have a new Gambit team that I'm happy to test out against you, if you like.

-BBH

[gameplan.exe]

Hey Ncannelora,

I have a new Gambit team that I'm happy to test out against you, if you like.

-BBH

Maybe we should do just that! now that I have a ps3 again, my wifey has a second way to watch Netflix, which would then make the laptop available to me and OPO again. I doubt it'll be tonight, but I'll get ahold of you the next time I get online to play