Galaxies Most Wanted Playthrough (with some home rules)

Okay!  I've been deck testing for quite a while.  Usually when I play other villains, it's with our gaming group on game night.  Because we're testing villains now, I'm going to try to log what happens with their schemes and minions.  I've been avoiding Galaxies Most Wanted, except for Drang.  Well, we're going to try to play through this crazy mess of a campaign, and I'll be testing out the Gideon's Gaming home rules for this campaign.

Thor - Aggression + Rogue - Protection vs Drang (expert)

Drang:  I've played Drang before, so we tried expert.  Drang is straight forward.  No home rules here.  Some people use Drang as a test deck scenario, but it's too short to get your heroes built out. Thor got rid of Drang's spear on the first hand.  Man, Expert Drang hits plenty hard.  

Main Scheme: We didn't flip a lot, so Rogue was able to keep the main scheme from advancing past 1B.  She was thwarting and defending the whole game.  

Minions:  Those Assassins are brutal.  Expert Drang hits hard, but his minions can really overwhelm you.  At the end there were three minions out, and two of them were tough.

The Badoon Ship: Hit us three times.

The Milano: mostly we spent this for Thor to get two good plays (usually an upgrade and an event) every round.  Several times it was exhausted by a treachery card.

Thor:  Thor built quickly, and started throwing damage out.  He cleared the board once with a Honed Technique + Dive Bomb.  Everyone was happy with that.  At the end, Honed Technique + Browbeat did 9 damage to bring Drang down to 6 hp left.  We all liked the way HT worked.  It's expensive, and we all liked the trick with resource requirement.  It's so powerful and thematic, and it really feels like Thor arriving in Wakanda.  Ka-Smasha!  

Rogue: Okay she's always super fun for me to play.  Rockslide, Iceman, and cards like Mutant Defenders really saved the day for extra defending.  Anna Marie pulled Thor's Godlike Stamina to heal several times.  But...  At the end, after Thor's final attack...  Oh yes, I did it!  Rogue lifted Thor's hammer!  Actually I don't think this was quite legal, because Mjolnir was in Thor's play area.  I used Superpower Adaptation to look through Thor's discard pile, and there it was --I pulled Hammer Throw out of Thor's discard pile.  I was really looking for Dive Bomb (which I knew was there) to defeat Drang, but I just couldn't resist, and we thought it was more thematic.  The whole table really liked that move.  I think this was the premise of an episode of Marvel "What If," except in the episode, Thor died.  Anyway, big high fives all around.  Go Rogue!

Gamora - Aggression + Quicksilver - Protection vs The Collector (I) with home rules

The Collector I:  Here is the first notoriously bad villain in the box.  I really like the home rules, but the scenario still feels like a slog.  I don't mind building up over a longer time, but I know my gaming group are going to be disappointed with this one.  

Main Scheme:  This is definitely different.  

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