The Overpower Dojo

TEAM CHARACTERS & THEIR CARDS (last is Reserve):

BISHOP       6-7-4-3 (20)
   Spectrum Blast, Plasma Gun, Body Armor

QUICKSILVER  7-6-3-2 (18)
   High Speed Impact, Rapid Rip Off, Mutant Momentum

CABLE        7-7-4-5 (23)
   Really Big Gun, Blaquesmith, Bodyslide

X-BABIES     5-5-4-1 (15) Not Spectrum/Cumulative KO'd with Power cards
   Li'l Longshot, Li'l Colossus, Li'l Rogue

ARTIFACTS:
SERPENT CROWN (Energy Rating increases to 7)
SUPER SOLDIER SERUM (Fighting Rating increases to 7)

ALLY:
J. JONAH JAMESON (5I-3I)

TEAMWORKS:
6E-SF x 2, 7E-SF x 2, 6F-SE x 2, 7F-SE x 2

POWER CARDS:
7E x 2, 7F x 2, 6E x 2, 6F x 2, 5E x 2, 5F x 2, 4M x 3, 3S x 3, 2S x 3, 1M x 3

MISSION & EVENTS:
RACE AGAINST CRIME
   No Intellect Power cards may be played.
   Switch any Front Line Hero with the Reserve Hero.

HOMEBASE:
MARVEL UNIVERSE (Opponent's Team is -1 to Venture Total)

BATTLESITE, ACTIVATORS & SPECIALS:
MORLOCK TUNNELS
   Mr. Sinister x 2: Cloning Process [OPD], Malleable Maneuver
   (Dark) Beast x 2: Analyze, Animal Dexterity
   Storm x 2: Morlock Combat, Hurricane Winds
   Sabretooth x 2: Wildcat Attack, Dangerous Mind
   Marauders x 2: Vertigo, Arc Light
   Morlocks x 2: Tar Baby, Erg
   Beyonder

C O N C E P T :

Feel very sorry for our trio of macho male Mutants...they've been 
assigned the task of babysitting for the mischevious X-Babies. 
Everything was going fine until the little ones got out of sight for 
only a brief moment, just long enough to find the entrance to the 
Morlock Tunnels and bound down into the sewers. Cable, 
Bishop, and Quicksilver have followed and found them, but now 
they've got to help each other survive being surrounded by Mr. 
Sinister and his nastiest cohorts. If only the guys had thought of 
giving the Babies a stack of OverPower cards, that woulda kept 
them occupied...!

S T R A T E G I E S :

Notice the No-Nonsense Special setup. Each Character has 
THREE SPECIALS and all other cards are usable by at least 
two people, 3 in most cases. KO's won't hurt this team too much 
as you can potentially play all of any one person's specific cards 
pretty quickly.

For maximum opponent frustration, try to Place an AVOID 1 
ATTACK on every Front Line Character. Or at least placing on 
two of them will bottleneck your opponent's attacks, which can 
be very advantageous for you, especially since the Battlesite 
has a few cards that can render the third one immune to all but 
one type of attack. Oh yeah, placing Avoids is great preparation 
for the Battle you decide to play VERTIGO, too!

Of course SERPENT CROWN and SUPER SOLDIER SERUM 
are meant for boosting the X-Babies up to Cable-like stats; after 
you realize who your opponent's main target is on your Front 
Line, place the Artifacts on the other two X-Men, then try to 
keep them alive until the Babies make it to the Front Line.

When the SWITCHEROO EVENT comes up, hopefully there is 
one of your guys up front that has taken some hits and has 
played at least two of their Special cards; move them to 
Reserve. Or pick the guy that has filled one of those criteria. Pay 
close attention to the Character that comes to the Front Line on 
your opponent's team; they may be a defensless, easy KO for 
you now.

T W E A K S :

If you don't play with them, take the AG's out. This cuts the 
Front Line's Specials down to two each, even better for those 
scenarios where you can sacrifice a guy who has played all their 
cards in order to steal Venture. Of course this still leaves the 
X-Babies with three cards, in which case I would probably bring 
them to the Front Line and stick Quicksilver in Reserve, keeping 
both of his OPD's since he could conceivably come to the Front 
Line ("Switcherooooooo!") before you draw the second one. 
This set-up might be better if you want to Artifact-boost the 
Babies earlier and definitely have them up-front when Vertigo 
comes up (so you can put the Power card hits safely on their 
Record), but I prefer to have the Really Big Guns up front early 
in the game.
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