Mutant League 01/30/2007 AM Game 10: AceOfSpades vs. Dipset Byrd Gang

[mattbib]

Welcome to our first match of the day...

In the first corner we have AceOfSpades' Bloody Hellions (Emma Frost, Magma, Cannonball, Darwin, Hub, Toad, X-23)

vs

In the other corner is Dipset Byrd Gang's Exiles Supreme (Blink, Collective Man, Havok, Martha Johansson, Morph, Moonstar, Wither)

Both participants have submitted strategies:

[mattbib]

Phase One: And They're Off!

Emma starts off the match by psy-linking the team, and going into full psychic defense mode. At this point, she doesn’t care about attacking anyone, she’s going to protect everyone from a potential Martha Johannson attack. Emma is also aware of Dani, and will be ready to protect their minds from her illusion casting. (If Emma blocks access to the minds of others, I highly doubt that Dani will be able to pull their fears out to realize them.)

NOTE: While Martha has overpowered Emma in the comics, it has only been when she was in diamond form, and thus having now access to her telepathy. There is no way Martha would overpower a full-strength telepathic Emma.

Cannonball wraps one arm around Emma, and the other around Darwin and rockets off down the field towards the other team. Emma is still focusing on

Immeadiatly, as this psy-linking begins, Hub grabs onto Toad and X-23 and teleports two feet above where Martha is floating. As X-23 drops, she pops her claws into Martha’s little floating brain, and proceeds to tear it to pieces. Toad, being a bouncy creature hits the ground and uses his strongest jump to fly toward Havok. If there are Collective Men around Martha, Toad will bounce off them, or around them to get closer to his target. Hub, as she drops from the sky, teleports off to a far corner of the field. If Havok is not in the vicinity, Toad will just start kicking @$$ the way only the English can.

As all this begins to happen Magma calls forth the largest volcanic eruption she can around herself, within a radius of about 15 yards. If Blink tried bringing anyone over to my team’s side, she’s in for a little surprise, as they will find themselves face to face with a once-in-a-while emotionally unstable girl creating a volcanic eruption all around her. Anyone and everyone will get a face full of molten liquid. However, my lovely Amara will be perfectly unscathed from this encounter, she likes it hot like that. Even if the opposing team waits a second, they still may not realize where Amara is causing the eruption and may still teleport over.

Phase Two: The Bloody Hellions Bring It

Note: If Blink blinked Martha elsewhere (with the exception being if Blink blinked into Magma’s fiery inferno of death), Hub will have noticed and proceeds to get her two travel buddies and teleport above Martha again .

If Havok is not near Toad during these initial steps, Hub sees this and after a few seconds of letting Toad have fun, teleports the two of them a few feet above Alex.

Toad lashes out with his tongue and wraps it around Havok, secreting the pheromones that will put Mr. Summers under his control. If Blink is still nearby, Toad will use Alex to blast her with a full powered plasma blast at our purple friend. If Blink isn’t easily reachable, he goes for Wither, taking him out. And, if that isn’t feasible either, Alex will start blasting any nearby Collective Men.

After taking out Martha, X-23 will just go berserk at every enemy around her. If Wither is close, she will slash him to pieces. If there are Collective Men, then she will amass a collection of the Collective Men body parts… Gotta Collect ‘em all! She will target any enemy nearby except for Alex. If there is no one nearby she will be pissed off.

Magma by this point should have hopefully Kentucky fried some of Dipset’s team. In either case she makes her way across the field at this point, making eruptions all around her to both protect her from harm and potentially distract her enemies a little. It’s hard not to be distracted by a quasi-volcanic eruption moving towards you.

In any case, Martha should be out by this point, and Emma will turn all of her attention towards Dani, both attacking her and trying to dispel any of her illusions. Cannonball flies toward Dani and barrels into her, trying to knock her out. Sam also lets Emma out of his energy field by this point. Our resident ice queen goes diamond and starts beating the crap out of the dazed Dani.

Cannonball continues on towards any group of Collective Men that may be around, letting Darwin out right before he reaches them. The two of them join the fight against the (possibly) countless men.

Phase Three: Game, Set, Match

Martha is gone by now. So are Dani, and a good number of Collective Men/Man and possibly Wither, Morph, and Blink (depending on how some of my earlier gambits went.). Alex is still under Toad’s sway.

Toad and Alex go after anyone they can that is on the other team. Plasma blasts are going to be flying everywhere as more and more of the Collective people are picked off. If Toad feels like someone is going to take him out though (i.e. Wither or Morph getting closer) he will first have Alex blast them, and then he will snap Alex’s neck.

Magma targets Morph, he may be pretty durable, but there is no way he could take the ground swallowing him up. If Magma can see him, he’s gone. She has the ground just bury him.

Hub teleports herself and Darwin near Wither. Darwin, may get affected by Wither for a millisecond, but then he will be fine. He proceeds to beat the bejeezus out of Kevin.

Now for Blink. Blink is scary, but Emma can take her out. Emma mind-screws Clarice in the not good way. If Emma is not able to do this, Hub goes and picks up X-23 after she has dropped off Darwin. The two of them try to port after Blink, and Laura will try to slash her whenever possible. Blink has to stay in one place long enough to attack, and Hub and Laura will get there in order to slash her. If Blink tries getting near Toad, he’ll spit at her face to slow her down. Magma will also try and lava blast Blink once she takes Morph out.

Only a few Collective Men should be left, and this is just the clean-up then. Emma fries their cerebral cortexes. Cannonball goes bowling for them. Darwin adapts and pummels them. X-23 keeps adding more parts to her collection. Toad makes some stupid comment and spits at them, or kicks them hard in the gonads. Magma makes them wish they lived in Antarctica cause they get hit by lava. And Hub.. she rests.. and rests.. and provides transportation when someone needs it.

[mattbib]

The whole team is a threat except for Toad.

Phase 1 (All this happens at once and immediately)

Collective Man starts as a giant (30 collective men) and Morph starts off as a giant as well. They both run to the opposing team. They block any assaults and projectiles on there way. They should be there in no time. If Cannonball starts the battle blasting off he is swatted like a fly. Collective Man stomps Darwin again and again. HE picks up Darwin and just tosses him miles away. Morph stomps Toad. They are taking out the battle. When they run it causes tremors and it should knock some of the opposing team down. This should also knock down X-23, Magma, Emma and Hub. Emma should be on ground using telepathy. Hub starts the battle on ground, so this should knock dim down as well. Emma frost shield affect Collective man if she is triing to mess wit h40 minds at once. Morph has the brainwashing tech in his head.


Blink with Martha Johansson psi-shielding Blink, Havok and Wither. Blink blinks Wither to a certain spot on the field. Blink blinks Havok and Moonstar to the opposing team to attack. She teleports the rest of the team 200 yards away.( back) This is to stop Magma from attacking from under and Cannonball charging ahead. And if Hub teleports to my team he is blinked as away to where Wither is. 5 collective man are protecting Blink and Martha Johansson. If Cannonball is charging and he some how gets past Morph and CM 30 he is blnked back to his team. SIDENOTE: Blink is holding Martha Johansson and MJ is psi shielding any coming assaults from Emma. Which she is struggling to do.


Emma Frost is most likely triing to take out Blink and the rest of my team telepathically. MJ is protecting her as much as she can. Havok sends a powerful plasma blast towards Emma. She should be triing to attack my team telepathically, so she is in human form and diamond form. Blink blinks the plasma blast right at Emma and if for some reason she switches to diamond form MJ makes her go to sleep. So either way it goes she is out the battle. Because Havok blast would fry her and in diamond form MJ could take her out the battle. SIDENOTE: Martha has by bested Emma in telepathic battle before only when she was in diamond form. This was during Morrison’s run in New X-men.


Moonstar sends telepathic illusions to Hub as soon as the battle starts. She sends illusions about when Cassie Nova killed 16 million mutants. Hub will see this and he will want to teleport over there and be distracted. Wither will be over there waiting with 5 collective man. They will grab Hub and Wither will touch him with both hands. While the Collective Man beat him up and Wither touching him. If he teleports away. HE will still be hurt or out the battle. Blink blinks him away from the battlefield.End of phase 1 Toad, Darwin and Emma out the battle. Cannonball swatted away, Magma and X-23 recovering. Hub injured or out battle.

Phase 2 (All this happens simultineasouly and immediately)

With Emma out the battle. The next target is Cannonball and magma.
Havok starts blasting at Cannonball to keep him busy and MJ starts messing with his mind. This will set him. This sets him up for blink. She blinks Cannon ball right into Magma. Magma is knocked out from the force. This would cause Cannonball to let his guard down. Havok blasts him as well.
Moonstar is sending X-23 illusions about her traumatic time with Weapon X. She is also distracted this allows my team too swoop in and to finish her off. The collective man and Morph dispose of her.My team is now victorious.

Notes:
Emma is defended against with Havok and MJ.
Cannonball or Magma defended against by Collective Man and Morph.
Everyone is defended against in the opening salvo.

[The Fury]

No comments yet?

For shame.

Both strategies are good. Few problems on both sides but good.

[Brian M.]

I'm rolling this one over in my head. I'll comment and ask some questions here soon.

[Frodo-X]

Tough one. The early steps create an interesting issue; Havok is sent to the other team, where Magma is creating the volcano around her. So, if Havok gets offed then and there, Toad can't use him later, nor can the Exiles Supreme.

I'm not sure who it favors. Need to think for a while.

EDIT: Voted for the Bloody Hellions. When Havok and Moonstar are sent to their deaths at Magma's hands, I think it favors the Bloody Hellions. With them dead, Moonstar can't do her thing to Hub, meaning not only is Hub still functional, but Wither and some Collective Men are waiting outside the battle for a fight that isn't coming to them. So the Exiles Supreme are without Wither, Dani Moonstar, and Havok, plus some Collective Men.

[Dipset Byrd Gang]

good azz battle ace of spades> Iwas expecting the best from you and I got the best.

[Dipset Byrd Gang]

Cannonball is knocked across out for a minute by Collective man(30)/Morph at the beginning of the battle by my startegy. This is whe nhe rockets across the field. Emma and darwin too.

[Mineralogy]

Wow! This was a surprisingly pitched battle! I had to resort to working it out sequentially in Wordpad. :)

Here is the way I see things playing out, based on each leader's instructions:

Emma remains out of diamond form and psi-shields the team; Cannonball picks her and Darwin up and extends his blast field to protect them, then heads downfield. Havok and Moonstar are blinked into the Bloody Hellions' starting area... right into Magma's lava-powered crazy factory. Moonstar dies instantly (*snf* :(), but Havok is an energy absorber and immune to intense heat (if Wikipedia is to be believed), so he's fine.
Either of the giants trying to "swat Cannonball like a fly" will backfire since he absorbs kinetic energy while blasting and is difficult to stop. I don't mean to be a killjoy, but I also don't buy the giants creating powerful enough tremors to knock anyone down just by jogging across the field. Hub appears at Martha with X-23 and Toad; the 5 Collective Men bodyguards and Blink will probably prevent X-23 from immediately killing Martha. Hub teleports Toad back toward Havok.
Havok blasts at Emma, but she is protected by Cannonball's blast field. Martha attacks psionically, but since Emma doesn't need diamond form for protection due to Cannonball, Emma probably fends it off. So Emma is still active. Moonstar is dead and so cannot lead Hub into a trap. Toad arrives at Havok and attempts to take control; this may be difficult if Magma's lava field is still active and Havok is standing in it.
Let's assume Toad does take control. Unfortunately, as per Dipset's instruction, Morph, having reached him, immediately stomps on Toad. Toad is either crushed dead or severely incapacitated. Let's assume that Toad saw the shadow coming down on him and, as per AceOfSpades' instruction, snaps Havok's neck. So now both Toad and Havok are gone.
No-Girl attempts to mess with Cannonball's mind, but since Emma is still active, he is psi-shielded. Meanwhile, Magma is crossing the field. Cannonball was originally going to take Moonstar out around this time, but she's dead, so let's assume he moves straight on to attacking Collective Men. This means he has released Darwin and Emma, and is in the process of blasting. So when Blink blinks him directly in front of Magma, the plan probably works. Magma is taken out. Cannonball remains active, however. Let's be fair and assume Magma succeeded in burying Morph under 10 tons of hewn earth before she got taken out; Morph is effectively out of the fight. And Martha can't mess with Cannonball due to Emma's shielding.
The giant, merged Collective Man finally takes out Darwin now that he's out of Cannonball's blast field. Darwin can adapt, but since CM just flings him far the hell away, Darwin can basically be considered out of the fight. Since Hub was never taken out, she has basically been hanging around providing harassment and counteracting any of Blink's escape maneuvers; so X-23's attempted assault on Martha will continue no matter where Martha is taken. But the multiplying Collective Men, and possibly Wither and Blink, are probably keeping X-23 busy for now.
After being released by Cannonball, Emma leaves diamond form to psi-attack Blink. But Martha is shielding Blink, so I see Martha and Emma ending up locked down in a psi-battle with each other while their enemies try to attack their physical forms and their friends try to defend them. I think this boils down to whichever TP gets taken out first, since that leaves their team undefended against a nasty telepathic attack and would probably signal their defeat.
So at this points we have Emma, Cannonball, Hub, and X-23 versus Collective Man and Men, Blink, Martha, and Wither. Both Wither and Hub are out of their league and go off to have a slap-fight in the corner. Emma and Martha are too busy fighting each other to bother with anyone else. Do X-23 and Cannonball succeed in destroying Martha's brain? Do Blink and the Collective Men succeed in knocking Emma out?

I have no idea. It seems like a complete and total stalemate! Haaaaalp! :confused:

[AceOfSpades]

Okay.. so.. sorry it took so long to comment, I was at school all day.. time for my constructive debate

Havok and Moonstar are dead instantly. I don't care if Alex is resistant to heat, he still has lava shooting up and squelching him... he's gone.

Cannonball would not be swatted down by any Collective Men... He can take a punch from Gladiator if he wants to, who gives about Morph or the Collective Men. If anything, the giants are likely to break bones trying to stop him.

I was ready for Blink to blink Martha away.. I said Hub would follow with X-23 and Toad in tow. They teleport above Martha (and I guess Blink too). Which will end up with Martha getting spiked with adamantium claws and Blink having a frog land on her. Even if there are five Collective Men, my attack comes from above.

So Martha is down too. And Maybe Blink

Emma can go psychic by that point and mind blast Blink (as the run-in with Moonstar is no longer viable) and their teleporter is down.

And none of my people are close enough (or on the ground) to the giants to get knocked down anyways. Wither and the rest of the Collective Men would be mince-meat

[The Fury]

I'm voting for Ace here, while both are good, I think his opening move to remove MJ from the match and Protection of Emma most the match is good enough to win.

[AceOfSpades]

Hub appears at Martha with X-23 and Toad; the 5 Collective Men bodyguards and Blink will probably prevent X-23 from immediately killing Martha.
Blink and the Collective Men will not be expecting an assault from above. Which would allow X-23 time to pop her claws into Martha. Toad lands on Blink, stunning her. And then X-23 carves up the Collective Men

Hub teleports Toad back toward Havok.
If Havok is dead, which he should be despite any form of heat resistanance (molten rock has got to do something) than Toad focuses on whomever else he can, at that point it is Blink, who is under him.

. Unfortunately, as per Dipset's instruction, Morph, having reached him, immediately stomps on Toad. Toad is either crushed dead or severely incapacitated. Let's assume that Toad saw the shadow coming down on him and, as per AceOfSpades' instruction,

Toad is not near Magma, and I don't think he ended up anywhere near Morph either.. so this shouldn't even happen.

. Meanwhile, Magma is crossing the field. Cannonball was originally going to take Moonstar out around this time, but she's dead, so let's assume he moves straight on to attacking Collective Men. This means he has released Darwin and Emma, and is in the process of blasting. So when Blink blinks him directly in front of Magma, the plan probably works. Magma is taken out. Cannonball remains active, however.
Blink should be a little bust with X-23 and Toad at the time, seeing as how they landed on top of her. Not only that, but with Dani gone, and Martha gone already, Emma's next target was Blink. Blink is definitly gonna be hurtin in the head

The giant, merged Collective Man finally takes out Darwin now that he's out of Cannonball's blast field. Darwin can adapt, but since CM just flings him far the hell away, Darwin can basically be considered out of the fight.

Darwin may get thrown out of the fight. He may not. The giant Collective Men could have been hurt be Sam blasting around, and Darwin maybe adapted to become heavier or something like that. He wouldn't get thrown as far.. IDK.

Since Hub was never taken out, she has basically been hanging around providing harassment and counteracting any of Blink's escape maneuvers; so X-23's attempted assault on Martha will continue no matter where Martha is taken. But the multiplying Collective Men, and possibly Wither and Blink, are probably keeping X-23 busy for now.

I still think the element of surprise worked in X-23's favor when she rained death from above.

After being released by Cannonball, Emma leaves diamond form to psi-attack Blink. But Martha is shielding Blink, so I see Martha and Emma ending up locked down in a psi-battle with each other while their enemies try to attack their physical forms and their friends try to defend them.

So at this points we have Emma, Cannonball, Hub, and X-23 versus Collective Man and Men, Blink, Martha, and Wither.
Martha is gone. Blink is gone. Magma is probably still alive, if Morph gets near her, he's gonna get toasty. Darwin is who knows the hell where. and Toad is probably still alive.

[AceOfSpades]

good azz battle ace of spades> Iwas expecting the best from you and I got the best.

thanks man... I knew I had to work hard to fight against your strategy .. Blink is always a bother to go against:p

[Dipset Byrd Gang]

I thought the same thing. I feel good about this match. I missed with that Havok and Moonstar move to your team. That cost me the battle. will debate in a minute.

[AceOfSpades]

I thought the same thing. I feel good about this match. I missed with that Havok and Moonstar move to your team. That cost me the battle. will debate in a minute.

Yeah, I was hoping my ploy with Magma would turn out good for me... and I think it did, was hoping you'd teleport your entire team over again, but two characters out of seven at the start is still good. Especially when Havok and Moonstar had the potential to hurt me if they hadn't been burnt to a crisp

[The Lucky One]

Hmm... are Collective Man and Morph able to start the match as giants? I would think CM would have to combine and Morph would have to grow.

Regardless, Ace's strategy seemed to take more contingencies into account. Dipset's had some cool ideas, but it relies on some stuff I don't think is feasible (with the force Cannonball blasts, I can't see even a giant Morph swatting him down), and I think the Havok/Mirage attack against Magma definitely hurts him. (Dani, you were on a team with Magma... you should know better!) For those reasons, I have to vote for Ace this time. But good game, both of you!

-D

[mattbib]

Hmm... are Collective Man and Morph able to start the match as giants?No, they're not.

[mattbib]

Congratulations, AceOfSpades! You'll continue in the upper bracket, facing Mikl C & Hi-Fi in next Monday's AM Game 13. Dipset Byrd Gang moves to the lower bracket, where next Thursday afternoon he'll face the loser of tomorrow's PM L7:L8 (Siddon & venuscameback vs. The Lucky One).

[The Lucky One]

Congratulations, AceOfSpades! You'll continue in the upper bracket, facing Mikl C & Hi-Fi in next Monday's AM Game 13. Dipset Byrd Gang moves to the lower bracket, where next Thursday afternoon he'll face the loser of tomorrow's PM L7:L8 (Siddon & venuscameback vs. The Lucky One).

Wait... I'm facing S_G and Joe Acro tomorrow, aren't I? And I thought the loser of that match gets eliminated?
:confused:

-D

[venuscameback]

Wait... I'm facing S_G and Joe Acro tomorrow, aren't I? And I thought the loser of that match gets eliminated?
:confused:

-D

we're having a re-match, huh?

bit of a problem given I already submitted a strategy prepared for Novaya Havoc & Nyssane's team

...

I'm sure Matt just listed the wrong opponents - I think Dipset plays whoever wins in your match vs. S_G and Joe Acro, with the loser of that match being eliminated

[mattbib]

I'm sure Matt just listed the wrong opponents - I think Dipset plays whoever wins in your match vs. S_G and Joe Acro, with the loser of that match being eliminatedYeah, that's it...I was just looking at the wrong match on the schedule.

It should have read:

Congratulations, AceOfSpades! You'll continue in the upper bracket, facing Mikl C & Hi-Fi in next Monday's AM Game 13. Dipset Byrd Gang moves to the lower bracket, where next Thursday afternoon he'll face the winner of tomorrow's PM L7:L8 (The Lucky One vs. Sophisticated_Gamer & Joe Acro).

[AceOfSpades]

Great Job Dipset.. I was really looking forward to this match, and I wasn't disappointed. I was actually terrified of Blink, so you definitely instilled fear in your opponent.:p

Hope you do great in your next match