Battle Report Short, #003

Swordsman, D-Man, Hellcat, and Manifold VS Sandman, Veil, Cammi, and Silverclaw - Team Swordsman won, but it was a very very very close fight all thanks to Veil's poisonous Smoke Cloud power. Team Sandman dominated the map once again with their Smoke Clouds, Barriers, and Mines, but thanks to really really bad rolls - four consecutive critical misses, a lot of attack rolls that missed by one - and Team Swordsman's team probs, Team Sandman lost. But they put up a very very very good fight, and the final act - Swordsman VS Veil - came down to Veil's failed Shape Change roll: if it had rolled correctly, Swordsman would've taken 4 damage from Veil's poisonous Smoke Clouds, thoroughly killing him (Swordsman was in his last two clicks, unprotected by reducers).

What I want to verify, though, is the legality of placing a Smoke Cloud market on a square occupied by an opponent - the rule book and PAC don't say anything otherwise, and it seems logical that you can do that, but still, worth confirming.

Battle Report Short, #002

Sandman, Cammi, Silverclaw, and Veil VS Gluttony, Firestorm, and STAR Labs Researcher with Pandora's Box - Quite amazed how Sandman's team dominated the map with Barrier and Smoke Cloud and Cammi's mines. Sandman's Poison proved to be quite the boon for taking down Gluttony, and his special Barrier/Smoke Cloud with free placement really made Sandman a very very mobile fig, while Veil's Poisonous Smoke Cloud is great for forcing opposing figs to move around the board.

What really saved the game for Sandman's team was the Sidestep+Poison combo - seeing how both Poison and Sidestep all happen at Beginning of Turn, you can Sidestep your fig into adjacency then declare Poison. It's peck-&-scratch tactic, but that's one free damage on top of an action token attack. Time to develop more strategies to accomodate this tactic.