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Post by WONDER WOMAN on Nov 30, 2014 10:07:05 GMT 10
Congratulations on surviving where 20 before you could not. You have made the merge! No mean feat in a game of this size.
Have you played this format before? What will your approach be for Battle 11?
Who are your potential targets and potential allies? I want to hear all about it.
Oh, and who might you like to see return from the arena to join you?
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Post by TWO-FACE on Nov 30, 2014 20:31:21 GMT 10
Congratulations on surviving where 20 before you could not. You have made the merge! No mean feat in a game of this size. Oh yeah, 32 players was a massive task, I'm stunned I made halfway, let alone this point. But as seems to be the case in most og my games I somehow find a way to get to a merge situation, but that's where my game falls apart as I have very few moves to make.
Have you played this format before? What will your approach be for Battle 11? Neither the pre-merge or the post merge formats. I probably approached this game too much like a standard Survivor format - especially the Catwoman decision - but I'm still here. There is a belief that the Thok group will stick together at the merge. If I win the battle I will be saving one of the non-Thok group to rebalance the numbers remaining. To win battle 11 I think the bigger names will target each other so I'm going to target the players that aren't being mentioned as being in control of this game (Harley, Wiccan, maybe Arkillo, Flash)
Who are your potential targets and potential allies? I want to hear all about it. If the Thok group decide on safety in numbers that would give : Superwoman, Ivy, Quinn, Wiccan, myself and possibly Flash. Batman may even return to make it 7-5 in numbers. Quinn, Ivy and Superwoman have all mentioned a mutual looking after each other so we guess they're our allies for now. As for targets we're not sure, we know what Scarlet and Starfire bring to the table, but so do everybody else so getting them out wouldn't be an issue. Maybe trying to chip at the Arkillo/Huntress/Nightwing trio is the play to make
Oh, and who might you like to see return from the arena to join you? Batman because he may be willing to side with the majority over others depending on how he felt about the last boot. Then Morbius because I don't mind him despite him booting me and he may have an axe to grind, then Mystique as I know nothing about her which puts me behind many other players in the merged tribe.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 1, 2014 15:24:35 GMT 10
For this challenge we decided to throw Whams at some of those who we thought would be least likely to get votes and then we topped a few others up. Personally we feel this challenge will be won by somebody flying under the radar, we doubt it will be us, but we're in the mix of not being taken seriously so it might help my chances to target them.
For the sidekicks we put Scarlet Witch as our first choice. It would be good to keep her out of the mix and expose Starfire, we feel the witch is the least trustworthy and people would be less likely to work with her than Starfire. Arkillo was our next choice as we're messing each other around with the idea of keeping each other immune, so we'll go with that. He is also another one we want out of the vote at this point. Lastly is Nightwing. If Nightwing and Huntress are a combo then we can remove one from the mix and expose the other.
As for this merged group we're not getting a lot of love. We're playing dumb about the last vote and having no connections, but people probably smell a rat and are also seem to be taking Ivys outburst as fact so we're not getting much game talk.
As for now Superwoman, Ivy and Harley are keen to talk and work together. Flash was happy to talk last night, but he's gone cold and we suspect he's playing both sides of a potential Thok vs rest divide. Scarlet and Starfire think I'm a moron and it shows. Harley tells me they're trying to get her to hate me. Batman is conversational but isn't giving much away to me. Nightwing is friendly, but the chat hasn't gone beyond game talk, he's sniffing for cracks. Arkillo is Arkillo. Putting statements forward and not giving away too much, but more than I expected from him. Huntress only sent me her first message today so we'll see where that goes. I never hear from Wiccan.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 2, 2014 7:39:37 GMT 10
We knew we were disliked by a few players in this game, but we weren't expecting the 2nd most whams in that challenge. That was interesting that we're seen that poorly. We wish we had more time to turn it around, but we don't think it would make too much of a difference as some people are set in their way. With the challenge we had hoped that one of Scarlet or Starfire had been left in the vote pool, but the numbers fell exactly as they needed to if there was a clear division. 2 in Thok and 2 outside of Thok and with Batman not voting, it seems to give the Thok group a 4-3 advantage. The Thok tribe (Superwoman, Ivy, Harley, Flash, Wiccan, myself) have a 6 way chat going where it has been mentioned that Huntress is the target for tonight. We've gone along with it because being in the majority helps us go further. If we were to flip and side with Huntress/Nightwing/Arkillo then that would also lead to working with Scarlet Witch and Starfire at some stage which isn't going to happen given our, deliberately, limited conversation which is laced with condescension. There are a number of coin toss situations today, but I doubt I'd have the time to deal with whatever fate brings, so I'm going conservative today
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 2, 2014 19:56:20 GMT 10
Dealing with this vote is the last thing I want to do tonight, I wish we could take a few days timeout But here I am I'm voting Huntress for this vote. She has pushed us to work with her, we've discussed options with her but two things stand out. 1) people had been hearing a lot from Huntress before she approached me with an idea to vote with her so her offer seems less about us and more about saving her 2) siding with her would lead to a majority including Arkillo/Scarlet/Starfire who, despite the ongoing issues we're having with most players here, are the three we trust least right now. There's speculation that she may have an item and if it's a doubler/negator then it's a tied vote. If it's an idol Flash (or someone else) is likely to go home, but then Batman would slot in to keep the Thok majority. Either way our fence sitting outsider role will be less believable after this vote.
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Post by TWO-FACE on Dec 2, 2014 20:49:44 GMT 10
Well we didn't expect BOTH the doubler and negator. Now to the Bat! Double boot next round doesn't bode well for Harvey Dent.
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