Close Air Support - August 28 - 31 - Season XVIII

Moon Roach

CLOSE AIR SUPPORT:

This Event:
Sam Wilson Captain America

New Characters:
Uncanny X-Force

This Week:

All New X-Men
X-Force

Most Wanted
Mohawk
Patch
Classic
Dark Avengers

Marvel NOW!
Dark Avengers

Dark Avengers
Classic

Single Player Rewards

1. All rewards from the previous rank +
2-5. 5000 , 100 ,
6-10. 2000 , 100 ,
11-25. 1000 , 50 ,
26-50. 1000 , 50 ,
51-100. 500 , 25 ,
101-200. 500 ,
201-300. 250 ,
301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140
401-500. Standard Token, 70

Progression Rewards:

25. Standard Token
50. 100
100. +3 All Boosts
200.
300. Event Token
400. 25
500. 1000
575. 25
650. Event Token
725. 50
800.
850. 1000
900. Event Token
950. 1000
1000.
1300.

Alliance rewards:

1-2. 5000 , 250 ,
3-10. 5000 , 100 ,
11-25. 3000 , 100 ,
25-50. 2000 , 100 ,
51-100. 1000 , 50 ,
101-250. 1000 , 50
251-500. 500 , 25
501-1000. 500
1001-10000. 250

Ending Time Countdowns

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jojeda654

Psst...Sam Wilson still uses the Falcon tile icons and emblem.

Moon Roach

jojeda654 wrote:

Psst...Sam Wilson still uses the Falcon tile icons and emblem.

That's the downside to changing the naming convention from Falcon (Sam Wilson) to Sam Wilson (Falcon). And Captain America (Steve Rogers) becoming Steve Rogers (Super Soldier).

Until they have a Sam Wilson icon, and Steve Rogers, come to that, I'll still be using the icon that represents the superhero, not the civilian identity.

Though if a mod or dev comes along and changes the icons, who am I to stop them.

fmftint

4* pattern has been broken, 1300 point cover should be Antman

Pattern has gone 1st-->1000-->1300

Quebbster

fmftint wrote:

4* pattern has been broken, 1300 point cover should be Antman

Pattern has gone 1st-->1000-->1300

4* release tournaments are exempt, they use the second newest 4* as the 1300 point progression - in this case Deadpool. Sam will be the 1300 point progression in the next 4* release tournament. Ant-man will be the 1300 point progression in Hollowpoint kiss this weekend with Carnage as the 1000 point progression reward.

Moon Roach

Here the Holy Spread Sheet (not to be confused with the Shroud of Turin, which doesn't allow filtering on columns) suggests Blade / Loki / Doctor Octopus and Daken / Rocket & Groot / Falcon.

The inclusion of one of those suggests a need for an extra column...

:edit: To clarify, it's suggesting [Blade or Loki or Doctor Octopus], and [Daken or Rocket & Groot or Falcon]. I need a new "it's really this guy" column to somehow prevent suggesting both Wolverines (X-Force and Patch) or both Deadpools, or both Sam Wilsons. (But it wouldn't suggest both Wolverines, as they share an active colour.) Or I can take the simplest option and just ignore duplicates.

Blade and Daken are doing okay for me right now.

Rojas66

Moon Roach wrote:

Here the Holy Spread Sheet (not to be confused with the Shroud of Turin, which doesn't allow filtering on columns) suggests Blade / Loki / Doctor Octopus and Daken / Rocket & Groot / Falcon.

The inclusion of one of those suggests a need for an extra column...

:edit: To clarify, it's suggesting [Blade or Loki or Doctor Octopus], and [Daken or Rocket & Groot or Falcon]. I need a new "it's really this guy" column to somehow prevent suggesting both Wolverines (X-Force and Patch) or both Deadpools, or both Sam Wilsons. (But it wouldn't suggest both Wolverines, as they share an active colour.) Or I can take the simplest option and just ignore duplicates.

Blade and Daken are doing okay for me right now.

Thanks for the tip, I will try it out later

Unknown

what will the fastest team be for this event? plz I need to know in order to shield hop

TxMoose

raisinbman wrote:

what will the fastest team be for this event? plz I need to know in order to shield hop

wondering the same thing - patch/daken can climb but they aren't fast and neither is grocket and storm is meh (only level 120). I may just switch over to 166s at some point.

meekersX

raisinbman wrote:

what will the fastest team be for this event? plz I need to know in order to shield hop

I wonder how well 4 Deadpool + Patch would work. Of course, this is only idle wondering for the likes of us non-whales!

scottee

raisinbman wrote:

what will the fastest team be for this event? plz I need to know in order to shield hop

1. Buy a time machine.
2. Run Daken/Sentry.
3. Disco!

Moon Roach

The Holy Spread Sheet is something I use to minimise the number of overlapping active powers in my team. The theory is that on defence the AI can't make a wrong power choice if there are no choices. And on offence you're less likely to experience a totally dry board.

It doesn't take into account anything else, though I am toying with how to include synergies, e.g. Scarlet Witch's blue makes purple so is good if your team includes a character that uses purple, but is a complete waste if it doesn't.

Anyway, if anyone cares, there's a version on Google docs. Any suggestions for improvements are welcome. All I ask is that you don't change what's there, if through incompetence I've set permissions incorrectly.

If you're not familiar with spread sheets, click on the dropdown arrow in the header, and you're presented with a list of options, Active, Passive, N/A. Turn off Active for the active colours of the primary character, e.g. Yellow, Red for Sam Cap, see who's left and play around.

TxMoose

problem is, forced to use a loaner, I'd rather get the best pair regardless because if I can get a good pair covering at least 5 colors (i.e. fist/Cyclops) I'd rather use them than the loaner's abilities. looking forward to using this for real characters though. looks interesting to use. love this kind of stuff.

wymtime

TxMoose wrote:

problem is, forced to use a loaner, I'd rather get the best pair regardless because if I can get a good pair covering at least 5 colors (i.e. fist/Cyclops) I'd rather use them than the loaner's abilities. looking forward to using this for real characters though. looks interesting to use. love this kind of stuff.

You also have to keep in mind Falcaps passive. Even at 1 cover when you match blue you will buff a special tile, so IF can be very useful. Daken and Xforce can be even better. Match green for strike tiles blue to buff, and then finish them with Daken blue.
Another buffed combo would be Storm, Groot. It cost 9 AP for black but and 10 AP for Groot but you need he blue tiles. Not as effective of Falcaps abilities though

cyineedsn

wymtime wrote:

You also have to keep in mind Falcaps passive. Even at 1 cover when you match blue you will buff a special tile, so IF can be very useful. Daken and Xforce can be even better. Match green for strike tiles blue to buff, and then finish them with Daken blue.
Another buffed combo would be Storm, Groot. It cost 9 AP for black but and 10 AP for Groot but you need he blue tiles. Not as effective of Falcaps abilities though

The loaner buffs a single special tile by 30. Not 300, not 100, but 30... it'll "help", but it's not going to be that big a deal..

TxMoose

wow. someone lost a ton of points quickly today. lined up a fistbuster for my first hop - was ~45 in my queue. returned 8 points. dang that had to hurt. hb was only 166 so I knew it might come in under the posted value but dang. still got 60 out of my hop, but lost one between there. nothing but fistbusters and 300+ xforces worth any pts out there right now in 1.

lukewin

TxMoose wrote:

wow. someone lost a ton of points quickly today. lined up a fistbuster for my first hop - was ~45 in my queue. returned 8 points. dang that had to hurt. hb was only 166 so I knew it might come in under the posted value but dang. still got 60 out of my hop, but lost one between there. nothing but fistbusters and 300+ xforces worth any pts out there right now in 1.

I was considering going for the DP. Shielded at 953, won 1 match, climbed over 1k, fought another match, and despite being pretty quick, came out to an attack, so I won't be going for 1300. I'm in 1 too, and will probably get beat down pretty good. If I can finish t25 with just some pushing and a 3 or an 8, I'd consider it, so that I can have a GSBW dupe started better off. If t25 doesn't look possible, probably won't bother. Probably won't bother b/c I assume a lot of people are going for 1300, so 1k and change won't break t25.

Unknown

Got to 900~ on my stream...true healers suck so much....pulled out the ol' iron cage

TOFU3

I didnt see many high level Falcon(CapA) in this event. Last time in DPX event Pool Party i met some maxed or high level.
It makes me easier to climb up to top rankings and also to get the 1300 reward.

TxMoose

raisinbman wrote:

Got to 900~ on my stream...true healers suck so much....pulled out the ol' iron cage

funny - I'm running fistclops. gave up on patch/daken about 650 on - not enough nuke ability, not fast.

TxMoose

TxMoose wrote:

wow. someone lost a ton of points quickly today. lined up a fistbuster for my first hop - was ~45 in my queue. returned 8 points. dang that had to hurt. hb was only 166 so I knew it might come in under the posted value but dang. still got 60 out of my hop, but lost one between there. nothing but fistbusters and 300+ xforces worth any pts out there right now in 1.

ok, twice in one event - that sucks. really having difficulty finding t10 alliance guys to queue or leaderboard guys to queue. limped my way up to 974 and at this rate will take me 4 more matches to get there. tough. that and having to take on nothing but fistbusters up high. hate to take on a fresh queue during a hop but had to get something after single digit match and a loss. hope he was shielded by the end of the match.