Post by JAMIE MADROX on Nov 24, 2014 6:22:45 GMT 10
And to continue our new naming convention of different names per round we'll use letters this time Okay I owe you this one, no fancy graphics or it'll never get done, let me just use yours here. And it'll be a good catch-up on the first phase too maybe. Let's start with now and work backwards maybe? Actually let's be even more backwards and start with the not-us tribes.
Kapow! aka DC Villains 2.0
I would be surprised if these four don't make up four outta the final five of this tribe. The way info has trickled through the duellists, Joker & Two-Face are somewhat of a pair. I've had the gut feeling that the girls were always the true core here. Maybe Ivy is less in that foursome (i.e. Cat/Superwoman/HQ/Ivy) but they never had to decide that. Deathstroke was an absolute idiot to go back there in Round 1. He wanted to stick it to them for not giving him a chance? Well good job, chances are, DC Villains will win this game now and it can be traced right back to that dumb decision back in Round 1.
Could we tempt these away if they win a duel? Probably not without some hard social graft or some big dynamic I've missed. The tribe I've gotten to know the least about is Marvel Villains, would Scarlet rejoin Deadpool & Mystique or was she on the other side of the Loki split? No clue. Morbius might come on over to us if he clicked with our DCV better than those DCV and they were to boot him, but I think he's probably safe enough. Sunfire? idk. All I know is she hates Bats.
Whamm!
Well now. This tribe could go a lot of ways. Either our three hook up with just one more person and they are safe all the way through. And there ought to be a window considering how small Marvel Villains ended up. Unless DP & Mystique were the pair? Or maybe the other two duos team up and start targeting our trio. And let's not forget Arkillo wasn't originally a Marvel hero.
Now the good news is that should they start losing members and it's from our trio, well they should immediately come to our tribe. Hell even if it's from the other four, we are a better looking destination than DCV2.0 or the tribe that just kicked them.
I would like to believe our three will stick together and come through this and pick up another ally or two along the way.
BAMF!
Well aren't we just the multi-cultural tribe up in here? I could probably put Canary & Bats in different groups too, since one of them probably just cast a vote for the other one last round. I will have to get to the bottom of that sooner or later but for now I'm working to the assumption that those two are not the bestest of buddies.
And then of course we have Wiccan. If I had have updated in here more regularly, I think he would have featured a whole ton. He blames me nearly exclusively on his exit. Of course I had something to do with it - but he credits me too much. I had a whole lot more to do with Nova leaving the round before and Wiccan staying, than I had to do with him getting the vote in the Kitty round. Where is my love for that part? Nope. How soon we forget. So now it's too late and the trust is just never going to be there. I'm reaching out of course and seeing if there might be a way past that but it doesn't look like there'll be. So for me right now, I'd see him leave now, and we hang onto Bats & Canary and with any luck they'll be in no mood to work together later. Or just powerless to do much with it even if they are willing.
Which means Beast & I have to throw our lot in with Superwoman and Harley. Knowing that DCV are gonna come out of the other tribe on top, I'd love to take them down a peg or two from our end, but the way we are set up with Wiccan / Bats / Canary, I just don't see much of a way that we can.
I also don't want to think or try to plan too far ahead, but if we were to assume the general winners from each tribe will be the DCV core, the Marvel hero core, and a foursome of Superwoman, Harley, Beast & I - well then I'm already in the bridging group between the other two tribes. I could certainly roll with that later. I will have a huge target on me but meh. Better to be alive with a target tan out with none. Lots of chances in the next format to maneuver around any target.
I should probably talk about Superwoman & Harley some. I don't buy Harley's "oh we are supposed to play the challenges?" schtick for a minute. I'm a whole lot more comfortable with Superwoman's threatening but sharing presence. I think if this was a Day 1 set-up, I'd be looking to align with her but not HQ. But gotta play it as it lies and that means taking them as a package deal.
Flash!
Speedster is proving his salt in the duels. I'll keep chatting with him. I don't think he has any reason to have any great love for me personally, but he might just look at our tribe as a place he can survive. Chances are he has one of the reward clues too.
Kapow! aka DC Villains 2.0
I would be surprised if these four don't make up four outta the final five of this tribe. The way info has trickled through the duellists, Joker & Two-Face are somewhat of a pair. I've had the gut feeling that the girls were always the true core here. Maybe Ivy is less in that foursome (i.e. Cat/Superwoman/HQ/Ivy) but they never had to decide that. Deathstroke was an absolute idiot to go back there in Round 1. He wanted to stick it to them for not giving him a chance? Well good job, chances are, DC Villains will win this game now and it can be traced right back to that dumb decision back in Round 1.
Could we tempt these away if they win a duel? Probably not without some hard social graft or some big dynamic I've missed. The tribe I've gotten to know the least about is Marvel Villains, would Scarlet rejoin Deadpool & Mystique or was she on the other side of the Loki split? No clue. Morbius might come on over to us if he clicked with our DCV better than those DCV and they were to boot him, but I think he's probably safe enough. Sunfire? idk. All I know is she hates Bats.
Whamm!
Well now. This tribe could go a lot of ways. Either our three hook up with just one more person and they are safe all the way through. And there ought to be a window considering how small Marvel Villains ended up. Unless DP & Mystique were the pair? Or maybe the other two duos team up and start targeting our trio. And let's not forget Arkillo wasn't originally a Marvel hero.
Now the good news is that should they start losing members and it's from our trio, well they should immediately come to our tribe. Hell even if it's from the other four, we are a better looking destination than DCV2.0 or the tribe that just kicked them.
I would like to believe our three will stick together and come through this and pick up another ally or two along the way.
BAMF!
Well aren't we just the multi-cultural tribe up in here? I could probably put Canary & Bats in different groups too, since one of them probably just cast a vote for the other one last round. I will have to get to the bottom of that sooner or later but for now I'm working to the assumption that those two are not the bestest of buddies.
And then of course we have Wiccan. If I had have updated in here more regularly, I think he would have featured a whole ton. He blames me nearly exclusively on his exit. Of course I had something to do with it - but he credits me too much. I had a whole lot more to do with Nova leaving the round before and Wiccan staying, than I had to do with him getting the vote in the Kitty round. Where is my love for that part? Nope. How soon we forget. So now it's too late and the trust is just never going to be there. I'm reaching out of course and seeing if there might be a way past that but it doesn't look like there'll be. So for me right now, I'd see him leave now, and we hang onto Bats & Canary and with any luck they'll be in no mood to work together later. Or just powerless to do much with it even if they are willing.
Which means Beast & I have to throw our lot in with Superwoman and Harley. Knowing that DCV are gonna come out of the other tribe on top, I'd love to take them down a peg or two from our end, but the way we are set up with Wiccan / Bats / Canary, I just don't see much of a way that we can.
I also don't want to think or try to plan too far ahead, but if we were to assume the general winners from each tribe will be the DCV core, the Marvel hero core, and a foursome of Superwoman, Harley, Beast & I - well then I'm already in the bridging group between the other two tribes. I could certainly roll with that later. I will have a huge target on me but meh. Better to be alive with a target tan out with none. Lots of chances in the next format to maneuver around any target.
I should probably talk about Superwoman & Harley some. I don't buy Harley's "oh we are supposed to play the challenges?" schtick for a minute. I'm a whole lot more comfortable with Superwoman's threatening but sharing presence. I think if this was a Day 1 set-up, I'd be looking to align with her but not HQ. But gotta play it as it lies and that means taking them as a package deal.
Flash!
Speedster is proving his salt in the duels. I'll keep chatting with him. I don't think he has any reason to have any great love for me personally, but he might just look at our tribe as a place he can survive. Chances are he has one of the reward clues too.