Most memorable moments

[Nostalgic]

Just wondering what some of you guys memorable games were.  I have a couple on which I'd like to reminisce ... 

In one game I had this grand vision of making morph an unstobable character.  I had him on a team with vision and strong guy.  I used two of his special cards, one allowing him to play a ko'd teamate's specials and another that allows him to mimic any card on the board so that he couldn't be cumulative or spectrim ko'd.  (Vision's 'android endurace' special and Strong Guy's 'Pile it on' special)    This was of course before I knew of the 'dead is dead' rule. This was also before those crazy x-babies existed...

I also had a game when using Namor's "watery grave" special which allows you to switch two equal value power cards on two of opponents characters resulted in the spectrum kO of both characters.  It was awsome! 

Other memorable games invovle me having one charcter vs 3 on the other team(thinking of silver surfer in one instance and war machine in anther) in which the character managed to take on the other team alone and win.  Good times.

[CCTelander]

Just wondering what some of you guys memorable games were.  I have a couple on which I'd like to reminisce ... 

In one game I had this grand vision of making morph an unstobable character.  I had him on a team with vision and strong guy.  I used two of his special cards, one allowing him to play a ko'd teamate's specials and another that allows him to mimic any card on the board so that he couldn't be cumulative or spectrim ko'd.  (Vision's 'android endurace' special and Strong Guy's 'Pile it on' special)    This was of course before I knew of the 'dead is dead' rule. This was also before those crazy x-babies existed...

We don't even play with the Dead is Dead Rule around here. We always viewed it as, primarily, an anti-X-Babies rule, and X-Babies have never been that big of a problem in our environment.

As far as "unstoppable" characters go, my oldest son once built a deck that had Jubilee (I think it was her), Beyonder, X-Babies, Holocaust (R). The whole freakin' deck was pretty much unkillable! He played a Battlesite with Grunge under it, played Danger Seeker on X-Babies, and he was off to the races! Of course it wouldn't work at all with the Dead Is Dead Rule in place.

I also had a game when using Namor's "watery grave" special which allows you to switch two equal value power cards on two of opponents characters resulted in the spectrum kO of both characters.  It was awsome! 

Other memorable games invovle me having one charcter vs 3 on the other team(thinking of silver surfer in one instance and war machine in anther) in which the character managed to take on the other team alone and win.  Good times.

Can't really think of any memorable moments from back in the day off tghe top of my head. Maybe seeing a few from others will jog a memory or two.

[rucker73]

Playing in a tournament against a much higher ranked opponent I was left with just the Heroes for Hire against his 3 remaining characters none with a grid higher than 7.  I had 4 missions won, 2 in reserve and 1 lost...  he had just hit his power pack on the previous hand.  HFH were on the ropes with 2 different powered hits totally around 12 on the permanent record, I drew my hand discarded down to 6 cards but had pulled an 8.  I ventured all 4 for the win and hoped for the best.  I defended his first attack, hit him with my 8 and waited to see if he would go for the KO, luckily he did, I took the hit (a 4 I believe) and announced my victory.

Just luck really that he didn't recall that winning via venture trumps a team KO.

[gameplan.exe]

Just now!

I was using Danger Room, my mom was using Department H.

It was down to Beast vs. Alpha Flight.

Here's the cool thing - earlier, I got Angel's AERIAL COMBAT into play on Beast, via the FIGHTING SPIRIT LIVES! Event.

At the very end, we each had 1 card, but she was already winning Venture (stupid Secret Directive!), but I wanted to try and get one more hit on Alpha Flight, since I knew I could take more hits without Beast dying - because at that point he had 38 hit points on him!

That's right, because of Angel's awesome MARVELS card, I took a 10A (Madison Jeffries), 8F (Wounded Animal), 1I(PC), 5F(PC), 6F(PC), and 8F(PC) !!!

So, I knew it was a gamble, and I knew she had a low card. In her low end (1-4), I'd already seen Multi, Int, & Str. If she had Int, I'd live. If it was Multi or Str, I'd die.

I hit her with my 7A. It landed.

She hit me with her 2S. Beast died. With 40 points on him. Nice.

[drdeath25]

Your mother beat you at Overpower?

[gameplan.exe]

 

If my mom wasn't competitive, I wouldn't play Overpower with her. Playing a game with some one who has no chance at beating me is not my idea of fun.

[BigBadHarve]

I love the fact that your mother plays overpower. I've tried to get my niece into it. While she likes the game, she hates losing and thus refuses to play.

Kids these days! Oy!



-BBH

[Nate Grey]

All my beatdowns playing Overpower Online have been memorable. LOL Its amazing seeing all these crazy cool trick plays and never-before-seen strategies (at least to me they are) being used against me. Way too many to list but you guys know who you are. 

[gameplan.exe]

This wasn't a huge play, in terms of the final outcome of the game, but it was nice to see the strategy payoff.

I was using an INT team of Beast, Shi'Ar, Reyes, and Cerebro[R]. I was using 5-8 of the Any-Power power cards, but also using 2 of Reyes' 7Any-Power CC, and also 2 of Shi'Ar's 5Any-Power AA - so I thought, "What the heck, i'll go ahead and use Warstar. Afterall, I only have, like, 2 Fighting attacks in my deck..."

So, I put it in, and... voila! I used it to kill Venom via Spectrum KO!

* WARSTAR (JF) <MN> {VR} [OPD]
        All Any-Power cards on Target Character's Permanent Record become
            Fighting cards for remainder of game.

[gameplan.exe]

This just happened last night, but it will remain one of my most memorable moments. 3 factors came together to create the biggest case of momentum shift I have ever seen in Overpower. It wasn't just a great comeback, that was a close victory. It went from near defeat to utter landslide!

Cable & Callisto were left against Sunfire Storm & Dazzler

Cable was up 6-1-0
Storm was down 1-1-5

1) Cable had Strong Guy's PILE IT ON in play via Battlesite. He also had a 3F, 4S, and 6E on his permanent record going into this last hand... and he drew the EMPATHIC HEALING Event, which forced him to swap his record onto Callisto (who had no hits of her own) and it KO'd her. Equally important, is that it let me swap a 10A and 9IS off Storm and onto Dazzler, who had only a 1Int Power card on her. This was crucial, because of what was placed to Storm, which I'll mention in just a bit.

2) Storm drew her hand and it included POWER LEECH, first of all, and I'd already see all of the possible avoids out of his Battlesite, so he could only have had a personal Avoid to prevent it from landing. But, more importantly, it also had the REBEL FORCES REGROUP Event, which put Storm's Missions to 1-6-0... the Perfect Storm was coming...

3) Lastly, was that there was exactly 1 card left in the Draw Pile, so after I drew to replace the Event, I had no Draw Pile, but I didn't have to reshuffle my Power Pack... and I had both GATHERING WINDS (OE) and WEB-HEADED WIZARD (BQ) placed! (Team Overpower) - In this deck, I have exactly six Energy icons in my Power Pack...

When I played the (OE) the first time, I drew a 7E, 6E, and a 7E. When I used the (BQ) and then the (OE) again, I drew a 6E, 6E, and 7E - that's right! I had in my hand, 7E, 7E, 7E, 6E, 6E, 6E!!!

I was actually able to pile up 35 points to KO the Battlesite before I wailed on Cable and got him to KO also. Even after burning so many hits on the Battlesite, I still won 27-11, winning by both KO and Venture.

[Bullio]

My most memorable match was against a friend of mine's brother.  It was around Classic, but was before the implementation of "dead is dead" (or we just hadn't heard of it yet).  He had a deck that had totally earned the title of "unbeatable."  I can't remember the exact lineup now that I think of it, although it did change a couple times through the years.  Professor X and Thing were definitely in it at the time.  I want to say Dr. Strange and Sabretooth are the remaining characters, but I'm honestly not sure.  All except Strange were 3 stat, though I think Strange started as 3-stat until he got the IQ version.  It might even have been Alpha Flight in place of Sabretooth.  Like I said, hazy memory.

I had recently gotten my hands, finally, on the promo Onslaught hero through an online trade (acquiring this card was the sole reason I even started trading online, though I had done quite a number of trades before I finally got it) and was really anxious to build a deck around him (I was pretty obsessed with the character and that specific card at the time).  I had a pretty fun strategy in mind for him and X-Babies (who wound up in reserve), so they were an obvious addition.  I had recently managed to pull a Spider-Man: Symbiotic Costume from a pack of Classic and decided to show it off a bit by putting him in the deck.  Onslaught's IQ stat didn't have much backup with this lineup, so I ultimately settled on Leader as my fourth.  This deck utterly destroyed every deck his brother threw against it, thus leading me to believe I had a truly nice deck going that probably had an honest chance at beating the unbeatable.

My memory of most of the game is somewhere between hazy and nonexistent, but I remember it came down to my S-M:SC vs his Thing.  We were really close to power packs; I think the next hand would have been PP for both of us.  The game had been really tense up to this point, and my victory relied on removing one card placed on Thing: an 8S.  I had the two turns following my current turn predicted.  I remove his 8, he plays a placed Clobberin' Time, and I play a 7 for the win.  Victory, after defeating my and his brother's decks so many times with his headache-inducing deck, was finally in reach.  I forget the exact circumstances, but there was literally no other way for these next two turns to play out.  I played something, I think a 6 something, to remove the placed 8 and planned to follow-up next turn with a 7 something that I knew would win me the game.  I played my 6, and he responded with something like "you're going to force me to play this, aren't you?"  And out comes Guardian Angel from his hand.

Fuck.

Events after this are hazy as well, but the next turn played out as I predicted.  Clobberin' Time hit, and then I played...something.  I think the 7, because I think it was the only thing I had left to play.  I lost the game, and I knew I lost it as soon as he played Guardian Angel.  If he didn't have that card I would have won, no question.  We both knew it after the game was over.

My only other rather memorable playing moment was trying to setup a tournament/weekly playing event at the local comic shop.  There was precedent for such events as it had run M:TG night every Wednesday for a couple years, so I hoped there might be some interest in an OP event.  There wasn't.  The only person that showed up was my friend's brother (the one with the unbeatable deck).  While we were there we played a game together and then left.

The owner of said comic shop, who might as well have been family considering how often I was at the shop buying OP packs and flipping through singles, also gave me a near full box of Classic as a get well present.  I didn't get much of interest from it, except for Black Panther.

Most of my other memorable moments mostly involve lucky pulls from packs.  The aforementioned S-M:SC and Black Panther (traded BP not long after), Nerves of Steel, Devourer of Worlds, Venom IQ (he was a personal favorite), Super Sonic, Shaman (was a big card in our group), Atomic Flame, Darklands Army...I'm sure there are a couple others that I can't recall right now.  Managed to complete a couple subsets such as all X-Men and Image heroes, and acquired almost everything I really, really wanted through trades before the game went OOP (though I've kept my eye on ebay every so often for rarer stuff I didn't get and wouldn't mind having for collecting purposes).  I can also say I owned Beyonder at one point, and got him in what I recall to be a really great trade (though I can't remember what I traded for him).  I eventually traded him off for Mindwipe and a couple other cards (I think Prof X IQ was one of them).  Black Panther and Beyonder are probably the two cards I most regret trading away.  The remainder of my memorable memories involve starting and doing a lot of online trading, browsing the web (a new thing for me at the time!) for OP sites (and eventually making my own), and subscribing to OP Alliance.

[steve2275]

If my mom wasn't competitive, I wouldn't play Overpower with her. Playing a game with some one who has no chance at beating me is not my idea of fun.

family card night!!!

[Demacus]

I remember this one game I was playing back in school... bear in mind, I'm not a cheater, I didn't plan to cheat, it just kinda happened as something my friends thought was pretty funny.

I forget who my line-up was, save for that Dr. Oct was in the front line.  This was right after the I.Q. set released and I was using at least 1 character with an intellect stat.  My opponent hand't seen the new stats yet and I guess it threw him off his game.  He and I were going back and forth, mostly sans strategy due to the friendly nature of the game.  After he KO'd my Dr. Oct, I slid my reserve to the front and just set Dr Oct down in front of me (we were unaware of a specified "dead heroes" pile.)  A turn later, he was verbally planning his attack out, and in his mutterings I heard him say "...even if I kill him, then Dr. Oct will come to the front line and he's just obnoxious."  I almost laughed out loud, mostly cause he couldn't remember that he'd already KO'd Dr. Oct, so, since nothing was on the line, I went with it, let him kill my character, slid Dr. Oct back to the front and put the newly KO'd character in front of me, like I did with Dr. Oct, wondering if he'd forget that he killed him as well...  Ultimately, we didn't finish the game cause the bell signaling the end lunch rang, and I asked my opponent how many more times he planned on killing my team, cause he'd gotten Dr. Oct twice and someone else once...  He looked shocked, as the rest of the group who played started laughing, then my opponent got flustered and shouted "I've never played with Intelligence before!"  That simply got an even bigger laugh.  The next day, he came in with a new team and handily thrashed my team for good measure.  Made for a pretty funny story, though.  We used to yell "I've never played with Intelligence before!" at each other as we passed in the hall for the rest of our high school careers.

[gameplan.exe]

Dem, that's a funny story 

[Nate Grey]

Great to read these memorable stories. Keep'em coming.