This one helps us a lot by forcing a fight in the center. Since this extract can’t be picked up but has to be secured and can be worth 4 points your opponent can’t ignore it. Research Station Attacked! – 16 points – E shapeĪ central scenario that counters the many run away strategies currently popular in the meta. So the crisis that we pick here are not influenced by point values we want, but entirely based to either counterpick or favour us in the matchups. I am a firm believer that if a roster wants to perform well it should not care about point values or the type of crisis played. If we want to create situations where the opponent is forced to fight with us, or is heavily punished for running away, we have to bring the right crisis to make this happen. So how can we prevent this? By selecting the right crisis that will allow us to deploy and use our fortress, but also by calling in some outside help that can play on the wider scenarios and bring in models that fit the X-force game plan as well. The downside is, that while this fortress of death is trying to mow down the opposition your opponent might be running circles around you and scoring points. this is the strength of a list focussed on rapid fires and dice fixing, When that happens you can turn on your dice fixing from the leadership, zemo and the bonuses the models themselves bring and really pump out some good damage numbers. Since defense dice have worse odds than attack dice, the opponent will be rolling 0-1 blocks on defense often simply because of the overwhelming number of rapid fire attacks. You might think that this is not that consistent to achieve but in practise it turns out it actually is. Your opponent can’t score points if they are dazed or KO’d. Keeping Zemo within 2 of these models will not only increase your damage output but your survivability as well, making you very strong in a straight up brawl. The third Bang! attack or Bang!,Bang!,Bang! comes up more than you might expect. With his range 4 Bang! attack he has the possibility to create up to 2 more attacks per action. Deadpool is another model that can catch opponents off guard by how much damage he can deal. From this position Cable can bodyslide by one to place himself a further 2, combined with his range 5 there is almost nowhere where Cable can’t reach out and attack an opponent. Using Cat and Mouse to place Cable 2 further up the board after deployment can make the opponent real hesitant to leave their deployment zone. The long ranges on their attacks will help you to enable this gameplan right from the start. As described above the core of models have lots of ways to tilt the dice odds in their favour. X-Force wants to win by quickly removing some key pieces and out-attrition their way to victory. More on this later on how and when to best use the leadership bonus. And if this was not enough the leadership will add another reroll where most needed. On top of this Deadpool is rocking a reroll on defense and attack rolls, Domino can create crits out of skulls and Zemo is boosting their morale as well while within 2 and creates another reroll on defense and attack. With Cable and Domino incinerating the opponents models, a ton of rapid fire attacks and Bang! attacks you will quickly start melting the opponents models and activations. This core is hyper focussed on one thing, rolling lots of dice and fixing them, both on the offense and on defense. The core of a X-Force roster (until new releases are added) revolve around Cable, Domino and Deadpool and their dance partner Baron Zemo. So I ask you, do you like to change the odds in your favour? Want to keep rerolling dice till eternity? Do you like to threaten your opponent on the first activation of turn 1? Then X-Force is just the affiliation for you! More on this in chapter 2: Character selection and Tactics cards.
This series will not focus on X-force alone but will branch out a bit into another affiliation to help the X-force core on scenario’s where spread out play is more beneficial on the crisis combination. In this series I will try to guide you through my thought process in building a hybrid X-Force roster. Hey guys! Utilit圜ookie here and back with another affiliation series, this time: X-Force!