C3G Battle Reports

[Tornado]

Yep. When I read your army I thought that is pretty good then I read the other army and thought GH got smoked.
That is just too many top notch designs to overcome without awesome gameplay and lucky dice.

[Ericth74]

Our group played our Thanos Infinity game last night. You can see the set up we used in the Thanos book. It was a 3 v 2 game, with me playing both Thanos and Thanos's army.

Teams were:

Thanos - 1200 pts

and his Army:
Quicksilver (to help grab gylphs)
Blob (to tie down enemies)
Ant-Man 30pts (filler)

vs

Team 1
Iron Man (Hasbro) 220
Black Panther

Team 2
Captain America 240
Scarlet Witch

Team 3
Thor
Kool-Aid Man (yes, you read that right!)


Thanos started with the Reality Gem. And the Power, Mind and Time Gem were placed on the map. Thor, Iron Man and Cap grabbed those gems to start the game. Thanos was able to kill Iron Man and grab the power Gem in the 1st round. The Reality Gem was huge for Thanos, I was able to move order markers off of Thor and onto Kool-Aid Man, who we quickly realized was a major liability in this game. In round 2 Thor took a couple of wounds and lost his gem to Thanos, and Quicksilver was able to grab the space gem and pass it to Thanos. Quicksilver died and Thanos got a Hex Marker placed on him. The Hex Marker was never a factor though. In round 3 Blob was able to tie down both Cap and Black Panther. At this point Thanos had all the gems but the Time Gem which Cap refused to give up, blocking every attack by Blob. In round 4 Blob and Ant Man went down, as did Kool Aid Man, who healed Thor. At this point Thanos had attacked Thor so many times and had done very little damage, no matter what I rolled Thor would block it or only took a wound. In round 5 Thanos went down but reset his life. Thanos bounced around the board but didn't do enough damage to kill anyone. Cap finally was able to knock the Gauntlet out of Thanos hand and Thor was able to pick it up and hit Thanos but quickly lost it. Black Panther was able to pick it up and take Thanos out for good. The game ended with 2 wounds on Black Panther, 2 on the Scarlet Witch, and 1 on Cap.

We all really enjoyed the game, although Thor's owner was annoyed early because of being forced to move so many order marker over to Kool Aid Man. I was 1 gem away from Thanos being able to Snap, but Cap wouldn't take a wound. We are going to try this game again but 2 v 2, still working out points.

Hero: Captain America - Cap blocked at least 8 attacks before finally coughing of the Time Gem, and by that point the game was just about over. Runner up was Blob, he couldn't wound Cap, but kept both Cap and Black Panther in the same spot for a few rounds, blocking everything Black Panther threw at him.

Zero: Iron Man - Tony grabbed the Power Gem turn 1, attacked and was blocked by Thanos. Thanos then wounded him, next turn he grabbed the Gem and killed him. He really did nothing.

Splash Moment: Blob has Cap tied up and everything is lined up for Thanos to grab the Time Gem, all Blob has to do it knock it away from Cap. Blob attacks and rolls 5 skulls on five dice. You guessed it, Cap rolls 4 shields and gets another auto shield for the block. Thanos was all set to use the space Gem and scoop up the last gem to complete the Gauntlet. I was so close.

[Tornado]

Sounds like a fun game.
Unfortunately KAM is usually the MVP for the other team. Oh no!

[Lazy Orang]

I've had fun with KAM. Don't own him yet, but I've used him testing (C3G and personal) and he's usually worked well for me.

[IAmBatman]

Cap standing up to Thanos is as classic as it gets.

[toyhandle]

That was a fun read, I was looking forward to it.
I do think though that since you had a separate army, there should have been a 4th Gem placed on the map at the start of the game.

Cap's weaknesses against Thanos are his lack of Flying/SS and Cap's SA having R5/A4 vs Thanos' Normal Attack of R6/A6.

Thanos' best weapon against Cap is the Space Gem, or even deadlier, Space Gem + Time Gem. Due to these weaknesses, you can trap Cap and pick at him from afar.

Some examples being Sanctum City Piers,

The arrow points to a spot on the map where there's a 2-hex pit 6 levels deep that Cap can't climb out of. Thanos can Space Gem Cap in there, and Time Gem to blast down with extreme height from atop that wall.
Or keep sticking Cap in the water below where he has to take 2 turns to get moving up the ladder.




EDIT: Some misinfo below:

On a competitive map,

Any of those 2-hex walls are places Cap would have to roll for falling damage to get down from. Stick him up on one and out-range him. Or if you use Knockback, set him up so even if he blocks your attack, he might still fall off a ledge.

Obviously, these are specific maps, and not every map will have places like this, but they're good to look for when using Thanos.

[Ericth74]

Originally Posted by toyhandle

That was a fun read, I was looking forward to it.
I do think though that since you had a separate army, there should have been a 4th Gem placed on the map at the start of the game.

Cap's weaknesses against Thanos are his lack of Flying/SS and Cap's SA having R5/A4 vs Thanos' Normal Attack of R6/A6.

Thanos' best weapon against Cap is the Space Gem, or even deadlier, Space Gem + Time Gem. Due to these weaknesses, you can trap Cap and pick at him from afar.

Some examples being Sanctum City Piers,

The arrow points to a spot on the map where there's a 2-hex pit 6 levels deep that Cap can't climb out of. Thanos can Space Gem Cap in there, and Time Gem to blast down with extreme height from atop that wall.
Or keep sticking Cap in the water below where he has to take 2 turns to get moving up the ladder.

On a competitive map,

Any of those 2-hex walls are places Cap would have to roll for falling damage to get down from. Stick him up on one and out-range him. Or if you use Knockback, set him up so even if he blocks your attack, he might still fall off a ledge.

Obviously, these are specific maps, and not every map will have places like this, but they're good to look for when using Thanos.

We played on the map Hilltop Bastian by Robber. Because we have been playing through the google app since March we tend to avoid maps with ladders, gets confusing. Maybe one day we'll figure out TTS and switch over to that.

I should have been more specific, Cap blocked 6 attacks from Blob and 2 from Thanos before losing the Time Gem.

We thought about placing a 4th gem for Thanos's army but decided against it, thinking Thanos would have too easy a time grabbing it. It would be like starting with 2 gems.

[tcglkn]

That sewer map is meant to be played with the walls uncapped. They’re just line of sight blockers, and there’s a rule where you can’t fly over them.

[toyhandle]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

That sewer map is meant to be played with the walls uncapped. They’re just line of sight blockers, and there’s a rule where you can’t fly over them.

d'oh! Thank you. That makes sense, being that those represent support columns within the underground.





And yeah, Hilltop Bastian doesn't really have any pools of water or dangerous height, so my suggestions don't really apply there.

[IAmBatman]

Yep. There are no hexes on top of those columns, so no spaces that can be occupied.

[tcglkn]

Ladders don’t work much better on TTS unless I’m just clueless (possible).

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I don't really know how to use ladders on there. Luckily, hasn't been too much of an issue so far.