quote:Originally posted by Blacula: P.S. Is there a maximum tally we can add points to a character to IB? Other games I've seen have had a maximum of 20 I believe which prevents someone from just sitting on a character all game and making them unbeatable. Might make the game a bit fun/faster for everyone too since it could become a chore to start misusing points from a character who's on like 97 or something.
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq: I agree with Blacula about having a max number and that hero gets to retire with honors.
quote:Originally posted by Blacula: Quis: I'm not sure the concept of retiring a hero with honors will work with this game since it would very quickly become a race to raise 25 characters to the 'retirement' stage, which could be reached with still about 35 left-over characters in play. Kinda takes away from the whole hurt/heal aspect of this game.
Good points, guys. Let's set the cap at... wait, we have to figure this out first, since it's a +1 -1 game. But no retirement. I'll go back and edit the first post to reflect that.
quote:Originally posted by Blacula: P.S. Is there a maximum tally we can add points to a character to IB? Other games I've seen have had a maximum of 20 I believe which prevents someone from just sitting on a character all game and making them unbeatable. Might make the game a bit fun/faster for everyone too since it could become a chore to start misusing points from a character who's on like 97 or something.
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq: I agree with Blacula about having a max number and that hero gets to retire with honors.
quote:Originally posted by Blacula: Quis: I'm not sure the concept of retiring a hero with honors will work with this game since it would very quickly become a race to raise 25 characters to the 'retirement' stage, which could be reached with still about 35 left-over characters in play. Kinda takes away from the whole hurt/heal aspect of this game.
Good points, guys. Let's set the cap at... wait, we have to figure this out first, since it's a +1 -1 game. But no retirement. I'll go back and edit the first post to reflect that.
After crunching some numbers, we have 96 Legionnaires with 5 points each, total 480 points in the game.
480 / 25 is 19.2, so let's set the cap at 25 points each Legionnaire.
quote:Originally posted by Blacula: P.S. Is there a maximum tally we can add points to a character to IB? Other games I've seen have had a maximum of 20 I believe which prevents someone from just sitting on a character all game and making them unbeatable. Might make the game a bit fun/faster for everyone too since it could become a chore to start misusing points from a character who's on like 97 or something.
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq: I agree with Blacula about having a max number and that hero gets to retire with honors.
quote:Originally posted by Blacula: Quis: I'm not sure the concept of retiring a hero with honors will work with this game since it would very quickly become a race to raise 25 characters to the 'retirement' stage, which could be reached with still about 35 left-over characters in play. Kinda takes away from the whole hurt/heal aspect of this game.
Good points, guys. Let's set the cap at... wait, we have to figure this out first, since it's a +1 -1 game. But no retirement. I'll go back and edit the first post to reflect that.
After crunching some numbers, we have 96 Legionnaires with 5 points each, total 480 points in the game.
480 / 25 is 19.2, so let's set the cap at 25 points each Legionnaire.
What do you think?
It's too early in the morning for me to do much maths here but the other games I saw maximums usually seemed to represent double each character's starting score (usually 10). Our characters start at 5 and a 10 maximum seems too low so I'd recommend leaving the maximum at 20 IB.
I also think a lower maximum would make the game more exciting and force players to spread their love around rather than just focusing on one or two pet characters.
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I liked Postboot Brainy much more than any of the other versions too but, like you said, it's better to take out the big guns first. I'm also tired of the idea that Brainy is an ubiquitous presence on this team and they can't survive without him. IMO writers use him as a crutch way too often and its high time we got to read a Legion without him for a while.
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Maximum of 20 points per Legionnaire! Andromeda -5 Atmos -5 Blok -5 Bloodclaw -5 Bouncing Boy -5 Calamity King -5 Catspaw -5 Chameleon (Boy) -5 Chameleon Girl -5 Chemical Kid -5 Chemical King -5 Chlorophyll Kid -5 Color Kid -5 Colossal Boy / Leviathan -10 Comet Queen -5 Computo -5 Cosmic Boy -5 Crystal Kid -5 Dawnstar -5 Dragonmage -5 Dragonwing -5 Dream Boy -5 Dream Girl / Dreamer -5 Earth-Man -4 Echo -5 Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) -5 Element Lad / Alchemist -5 Ferro (Lad) -5 Fire Lad -5 Firefist -5 Flederweb -5 Gates -7 Gazelle -5 Gear -5 Glorith -5 Harmonia Li -5 Impulse (Kent Shakespeare) -3 Infectious Lass -5 Inferno (Sandy) -5 Insect Queen -5 Invisible Kid I -3 Invisible Kid II -5 Karate Kid -5 Karate Kid II -5 Kid Psycho -5 Kid Quantum I -5 Kid Quantum II -5 Kinetix -11 Kono -5 Light(ning) Lass / Spark -5 Lightning Lad / Live Wire -6 Magnetic Kid -5 Magno -5 Matter-Eater Lad -5 Mon-el / M'Onel -5 Monstress -7 Nemesis Kid -5 Neon (Celeste Rockfish) -5 Night Girl -5 Nightwind -5 Pete Ross -5 Phantom Girl / Apparition -5 Polar Boy -5 Porcupine Pete -5 Princess Projectra / Sensor Girl -5 Quislet -5 Reflecto -5 Reflex (Devlin O'Ryan) -5 Rond Vidar -5 Saturn Girl -5 Sensor (Postboot) -5 Shadow Lass / Umbra -5 Shikari -5 Shrinking Violet / Atom Girl -5 Sizzle -5 Spider-Girl -5 Star Boy -5 Stone Boy -5 Storm Boy -5 Sun Boy -5 Superboy -5 Superboy (Kon-el) -5 Supergirl -5 Tellus -5 Theena -5 Thunder -4 Timber Wolf -5 Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel / Triad -5 Turtle -5 Tyroc -5 Veilmist -5 Visi-Lad -5 White Witch -5 Wildfire -5 XS -5
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That's how I feel about Lyle. I remember we had a versus game run by Portfolio Boy back then, where Lyle managed to beat every single Legionnaire in a round-robin type battle. Final matchup was between him and Element Lad, and while Lyle COULD win... It just seemed too much.
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Maximum of 20 points per Legionnaire! Andromeda -5 Atmos -5 Blok -5 Bloodclaw -5 Bouncing Boy -5 Calamity King -5 Catspaw -5 Chameleon (Boy) -5 Chameleon Girl -5 Chemical Kid -5 Chemical King -5 Chlorophyll Kid -5 Color Kid -5 Colossal Boy / Leviathan -10 Comet Queen -5 Computo -5 Cosmic Boy -5 Crystal Kid -5 Dawnstar -5 Dragonmage -5 Dragonwing -5 Dream Boy -5 Dream Girl / Dreamer -5 Earth-Man -4 Echo -5 Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) -5 Element Lad / Alchemist -5 Ferro (Lad) -5 Fire Lad -5 Firefist -5 Flederweb -5 Gates -7 Gazelle -5 Gear -5 Glorith -5 Harmonia Li -5 Impulse (Kent Shakespeare) -3 Infectious Lass -5 Inferno (Sandy) -5 Insect Queen -5 Invisible Kid I -2 Invisible Kid II -5 Karate Kid -5 Karate Kid II -5 Kid Psycho -5 Kid Quantum I -5 Kid Quantum II -5 Kinetix -12 Kono -5 Light(ning) Lass / Spark -5 Lightning Lad / Live Wire -6 Magnetic Kid -5 Magno -5 Matter-Eater Lad -5 Mon-el / M'Onel -5 Monstress -7 Nemesis Kid -5 Neon (Celeste Rockfish) -5 Night Girl -5 Nightwind -5 Pete Ross -5 Phantom Girl / Apparition -5 Polar Boy -5 Porcupine Pete -5 Princess Projectra / Sensor Girl -5 Quislet -5 Reflecto -5 Reflex (Devlin O'Ryan) -5 Rond Vidar -5 Saturn Girl -5 Sensor (Postboot) -5 Shadow Lass / Umbra -5 Shikari -5 Shrinking Violet / Atom Girl -5 Sizzle -5 Spider-Girl -5 Star Boy -5 Stone Boy -5 Storm Boy -5 Sun Boy -5 Superboy -5 Superboy (Kon-el) -5 Supergirl -5 Tellus -5 Theena -5 Thunder -4 Timber Wolf -5 Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel / Triad -5 Turtle -5 Tyroc -5 Veilmist -5 Visi-Lad -5 White Witch -5 Wildfire -5 XS -5
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That's also what I liked about Postboot Brainy - he failed sometimes. I liked that Lyle beat him at times, showing there was run for both scientists in the Legion. Then it was Lyle who started getting overused
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I can't imagine Lyle beating Jan in a fight but he is one of my top 3 fave Legionnaires of all time so I am watching you vote him off with a heavy heart.
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Maximum of 20 points per Legionnaire! Andromeda -5 Atmos -5 Blok -5 Bloodclaw -5 Bouncing Boy -5 Calamity King -5 Catspaw -5 Chameleon (Boy) -5 Chameleon Girl -5 Chemical Kid -5 Chemical King -5 Chlorophyll Kid -6 Color Kid -5 Colossal Boy / Leviathan -10 Comet Queen -5 Computo -5 Cosmic Boy -5 Crystal Kid -5 Dawnstar -5 Dragonmage -5 Dragonwing -5 Dream Boy -5 Dream Girl / Dreamer -5 Earth-Man -4 Echo -5 Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) -5 Element Lad / Alchemist -5 Ferro (Lad) -5 Fire Lad -5 Firefist -5 Flederweb -5 Gates -7 Gazelle -5 Gear -5 Glorith -5 Harmonia Li -5 Impulse (Kent Shakespeare) -3 Infectious Lass -5 Inferno (Sandy) -5 Insect Queen -5 Invisible Kid I -2 Invisible Kid II -5 Karate Kid -5 Karate Kid II -5 Kid Psycho -5 Kid Quantum I -5 Kid Quantum II -5 Kinetix -12 Kono -5 Light(ning) Lass / Spark -5 Lightning Lad / Live Wire -6 Magnetic Kid -5 Magno -5 Matter-Eater Lad -5 Mon-el / M'Onel -5 Monstress -7 Nemesis Kid -5 Neon (Celeste Rockfish) -5 Night Girl -5 Nightwind -5 Pete Ross -5 Phantom Girl / Apparition -5 Polar Boy -5 Porcupine Pete -5 Princess Projectra / Sensor Girl -5 Quislet -5 Reflecto -5 Reflex (Devlin O'Ryan) -5 Rond Vidar -5 Saturn Girl -5 Sensor (Postboot) -5 Shadow Lass / Umbra -5 Shikari -4 Shrinking Violet / Atom Girl -5 Sizzle -5 Spider-Girl -5 Star Boy -5 Stone Boy -5 Storm Boy -5 Sun Boy -5 Superboy -5 Superboy (Kon-el) -5 Supergirl -5 Tellus -5 Theena -5 Thunder -4 Timber Wolf -5 Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel / Triad -5 Turtle -5 Tyroc -5 Veilmist -5 Visi-Lad -5 White Witch -5 Wildfire -5 XS -5
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but the other games I saw maximums usually seemed to represent double each character's starting score (usually 10). Our characters start at 5 and a 10 maximum seems too low so I'd recommend leaving the maximum at 20 IB.![[Frown]](frown.gif)
I like the Postboot version, but not the Retroboot or Threeboot ones.![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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