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MK HeroClix, the 27th of September, Marvel Reboot

Welcome to the new style MK HeroClix post. I have decided to split the DreamClix section away from the MK HeroClix post. The new DreamClix post will be replacing the Cosmic Cosplay post. On weeks when was HeroClix does not happen the MK HeroClix post will be just a HeroClix news post and I might throw is a DreamClix idea to as a post filler.

First off the HeroClix news for this week. This week there were previews of Warblade, Hush, Hush as Bruce Wayne and August General in Iron from DC Batman. Also the next dozen HeroClix set have been revealed at this year's Alliance Open House:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• DC Batman (new mechanic Vehicles)
• DC Batman Streets of Gotham
• DC Batman No Man's Land (Event set)
• 2012 Seasonal Holiday Figurea (Mephisto, Holiday Elf and White Lantern Batman)
• Star Trek Tactics 2
• DC Batman Gotham City Strategy Game (Switch Dials)
• Marvel The Amazing Spider-Man (New mechanic Wild Dials)
• Marvel Iron Man 3
• DC Teen Titans (new mechanic Team Dials and Switch Dials)
• Marvel Wolverine and the X-Men
• Marvel Fear Itself (Event Set)

The only sets that were missing were Assassin's Creed, the second Street Fighter set and the rumoured BioShock set. The fans vote was cut down to just Deaths Head, Ghost Rider (Alejandra Blaze) and Sleepwalker in the final round on Friday last week and we are currently waiting to see who won.

As the brothers could not make it me and Darren switch to are game this week, which was got wrong. I thought Darren ment when he said begin two teams in case the brothers do not turn up was being the Marvel Reboot team and the 500 points Marvel vs DC we had as a back up for the last game. He ment begin two Marvel Reboot teams. I manage to done size my 500 points team, but it does not follow the  rookies only and nothing over 100 build rules. Mine first team was my original Marvel Reboot team which was a Young Avengers team who were:

Vision (013 Marvel Chaos War) 95
Speed (021 Marvel Chaos War) 55
Iron Lad (030 Marvel Avengers) 75
Hulkling (009 Marvel Avengers) 72
=297 points and two re-rolls.

My second team was a cut down of my 500 point X-Men team that ended up being:

Cyclops (008 Marvel Giant Size X-Men) 110
Beast (010 Marvel Giant Size X-Men) 95
Wolverine (029 Giant Size X-Men) 90
=295 points and two re-rolls.

We had four games of the the evening. The first game was my Young Avengers vs his Marital Artist team who were:

Mockingbird (005 Marvel Chaos War Fast Forces) 25
Gamora (033 Marvel Galactic Guardians) 79
Daredevil (032 Marvel Hammer of Thor) 81
Ronin (031 Marvel Avengers) 55
Hawkeye (010 Marvel Fantastic Forces) 61
=301 points and one re-roll.

I lost this game but I did KO Mockingbird, Gamora and Hawkeye. The second game was my X-Men team vs his Martial Artist team. I lost again, but I did KO Hawkeye and Gamora. The third game was my Young Avengers vs his FF team who were:

Mr. Fantastic (101 Marvel Chaos War) 90
Invisible Woman (102 Marvel Chaos War) 80
Thing (103 Marvel Chaos War) 70
Spider-Man (104 Marvel Chaos War) 60
=300 points and two re-rolls.

I lost yet again, but I did KO Thing. Mr. Fantastic's trait was super nasty and really messed up my team. "FUTURE FOUNDATION: Friendly characters possessing the Fantastic Four team ability can't use that team ability. Instead, they can use the following team ability: FUTURE FOUNDATION TA: When a character using this team ablility takes 2 or more damage from an opponent's attack, give the attacking character an action token after actions resolve. If you can't, deal them 1 unavoidable damage." On the fourth and final game it was my X-Men team vs his FF team. I tried taking down Mr. Fantastic but he kept on running away and I ended up being totally white washed.

Next week should be 500 points, there must be only four figures on your team. No more and no less.
Sadly due to time, time Sunday's DreamClix 7 post will mostly likely be cut down to half size. Well that is it for this week. Until next time, Mecha Up.

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Here is a link to the DreadBall KickStarter. It will end at 10PM GMT on Sunday so be quick if you want in with the action.

Neoscream's Life from the week of 17th to 23rd of September

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Welcome to another week of my life, in a newer style. For those new  to the blog, the "Neoscream's Life" posts are basically a weekly dairy of mine. The week before last was I started playing Blood Brothers and redid the way I did the Neoscream's Life post, but did last week bring.

It was a chaotic week a work this week as we had a bunch of new staff that needs training and new vouchers starting. New staff plus vouchers equals a nightmare. I done about 38 hours this week.

DreadBall is doing well. The Striker deal has massively improved since I first pledge. Back then it was 12 male Corp players, 12 Orx players, 10 Dwarf players, 10 Veer-myn (Ratmen) players, two female Corps players, 10 MVP (which one is a KickStarter and special event exclusive), Refbot, all the other bits from the box game, 3 PDFS (Main Rulebook, Season Two Rulebook and Creating DreadBall), KickStarter only green counters, a KickStarter only Trophy, 44 Hex Bases, signed print and a DreadBall Ticket. But it now is (as I post this) 14 male Corp players, 14 Orx players, 14 Dwarf players, 14 Veer-myn (Ratmen) players, two female Corps players, two Robot players, two Juwan players, two Z'zor (bugs) players, two Asterian players (as from the early hours of the 25th of September), 16 MVP (which two are a KickStarter and a special event exclusive. Also was updated to 17 as I post this), 1 downed Dwarf token, Coach Renton (a KickStarter exclusive coach), Refbot, all the other bits from the box game, 3 PDFS (Main Rulebook, Season Two Rulebook and Creating DreadBall), KickStarter only green counters, a KickStarter only Trophy, a sheet of Decal, 44 Hex Bases, signed print and a DreadBall Ticket. And this will increase over time. Mantic have reviled fantastic concept art of the Cheerleaders which will be a future stretch goal. Cannot wait until they come and I plan on getting these extras. So far I am only pledging for Striker ($150)  plus buy one get one free on two packed of Robots ($25) so I end up with robot 18 figures and an extra pack of bases ($5) so I have bases for 4 fourteen man teams (for two games). I am also thinking of maybe getting an MDF pitch and cards (but with the fate you do not get the cards until 2Q 2013 is putting me off), the keeper, the coaches and buy one free on the female Corps and Asterians. However I know I need to be careful with my money and not to over spend.

In was a nightmare getting the trike tires pumped up, but I managed to do it in the end. First we picked up the wrong connector for the pump, then the slow release of the pump to the tire coused the tires to loss about half the pleasure you pumped into it. So my dad picked up a foot pump with a quick release. The foot pump broke after just one pump. Face Palm, cheap metal fame. Lucky my dad managed to get the tires pumped up with it, but we will need a new (better) foot pump.

There was no 7TV game as Richard was not free during the weekend. In face Richard could not do coffee ever. We should hopefully get a game next weekend.

Now for the Watch, Listen and Read section:

Monday
Watched: Episode 4 of season nine of New Tricks.

Tuesday
Watched: Episode 1007 of WWE Raw.

Wednesday
Listened: Episode 333 of Anime Pulse.

Thursday
WLR: Nothing.

Friday
WLR: Nothing.

Saturday
Watched: Episode 683 of WWE Smackdown.

Sunday
Watched: Episode 4 of season seven of Doctor Who and episode 5 of season two of Iron Man: Armoured Adventures.

Jsica and KittyStar

SallySparrow in "Pony Express"

Lastly this last week's Cosplay Deviants sets. On Wednesday there was a video of the fantastic deviants Jsica and KittyStar. The video is called Her Prize and in it they cosplays as cat girls in sailor or school girl uniforms and had just stopped playing a game of the Cosplay Deviants card game. The set on Saturday was a set from the deviants SallySparrow. The set is called Pony Express and in it she cosplays as human version of Derpy Hoove from My Little Pony.

As SallySparrow's new set is her three, time is time for a mini DreamClix idea section for an idea for her Cosplay card. The character equipped with her card should gain the Cosplay keyword and the Cosplay Deviants Team Ability. The special give should be "All adjacent friendly characters with the Past or Brute keyword has Willpower." The cards half cost list should be: Derpy Hoove, Lisbeth Salander and Alice Liddell.

Well that is it for now. Until next time, Mecha Up.

DreamClix 7, Fowler's Armed Escort

Welcome to the all new DreamClix 7. This is where I post ideas and rough dial designs of HeroClix figure based on random Manga, TV Shows and computer games. Also there is a  my 7TV team update (now once a week and tagged onto this post) and in the future I am also plan on doing some house rules and self made Special Effects, Extras and Guest Stars. Oh and update news of changes to the DreamClix Dial Designs Page. (In or after Christmas it will include DreadBall as well).

This week DreamClix ideas are Agent Fowler from Transformers: Prime; a duo figure of Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki from Naruto; Shiva from Final Fantasy IX; Kinuba from Battle Angel Alita; and Jaga from Thundercats.

First off is Agent Fowler from Transformers: Prime. Special Agent William "Bill" Fowler is the type of guy that Theodore Galloway wishes he could be. A former US Army Ranger, he's the tough-talking, robot-dissing designated liaison between the United States government and the Autobots, who's got the guts to face down the Decepticons himself. And he doesn't need any military escort! He can pilot his own damn helicopter! And his own damn jet plane! Fowler is leery about trusting the Autobots to handle the Decepticons by themselves and believes that Earth can handle its own mess, but for now, while he chews them out and slags them off, he's willing to let them have a chance. He should have Probability Control and a trait called "I can pilot my own DAMN jet!".
I can pilot my own DAMN jet!: If Agent Fowler is piloting a vehicle, the vehicle can use Leadership.
He should have about four clicks of health and combat values of Speed 5, Attack 9, Defense 16, Damage 1 and Range 4 with one target. He should not have a team ability and his keywords should be Autobots and Soldier. The next Transformers: Prime idea should be Cliffjumper.

Next is a duo figure of Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki from Naruto. Izumo and Kotetsu first appeared disguised, trying to convince those planning to take part in the Chūnin Exams not to bother. Team 7 recognised that they had cast a genjutsu on the area, prompting them to give up in light of the group's skill. Seemingly somewhat impressed, Kotetsu attempts to attack Sasuke Uchiha with a kick, which Sasuke reciprocates in kind only to be stopped by Rock Lee. As they retreat and undo the transformation, he agrees with Izumo that the candidates this year seemed very interesting. Later, they and other chūnin arrive as invigilators of the first exam. Then, they sat on the outside of the examiners watching them for obvious sign of cheating, telling anyone who was caught five times that they had failed the examination. At one period in time during the exam, he threw a kunai onto the paper of a candidate that had failed, frightening Naruto as it had flown right past him. They should have the duo symbol, Barrier, Incapacitate, a special called "Fouls Entrance", Outwit and Stealth.
Fouls Entrance: Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki can use Mind Control, but may only give the target Move actions.
They should have about six clicks of health and combat values of Speed 8, Attack 9, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 4 with one target. They should have the Ninja team ability and their keywords should be Leaf Village. The next Naruto idea should be Hidden Rain Ninja.

Next is Shiva from Final Fantasy IX and X. Shiva is a frequently recurring summoned monster who usually takes the shape of a blue-skinned woman with clothing of the same color. Her signature attack, Diamond Dust (sometimes called Gem Dust), deals Ice-elemental damage. Along with Ifrit and Bahamut, she is one of the only summons to appear in every main series game from Final Fantasy III through Final Fantasy XIII (although in Final Fantasy XII she appears as an airship instead of a summon). She also appears in every main series side-story and sequel that features summons, with the only exceptions being Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- and Final Fantasy XIV. Although enjoying regular appearances throughout the series, Shiva, like most of the popular summonable entities, has never been given any significant back story, being simply described as the "Ice Queen". She is, however, shown to have a lover named Shivar and a daughter named Shivan in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, although this is the only appearance that either of them have made in the entire series. In Final Fantasy XIII, Shiva is embodied in a pair of sisters called Nix and Stiria. Shiva has occasionally been shown as one of the more "friendly" summonable entities, only requiring being fought to gain her services in a few Final Fantasy games, and she usually does not display malicious intent when doing so. Shiva's basic physical characteristics are that of a willowy humanoid female with pale skin and long, blue hair so to invoke an image of ice and cold. This image is reinforced in later summon sequences by the addition of arctic winds, freezing temperatures and large ice crystal formations. Shiva invariably wears only enough clothing to retain her modesty, along with boots and other minor aesthetic pieces. She carries no weapon in most appearances, and implements her main Diamond Dust attack with arm gestures, a snap of the fingers, and/or force of will. Later games in the series allow Shiva to carry out physical attacks in the form of kicks and punches. She should have the giant symbol, Barrier, Incapacitate, Energy Shield, Shape Change, a Special called "Heavenly Strike" and a trait called "Summoned" (the same as Valefor's trait).
Heavenly Strike: Shiva can make range attacks as if she has "Three Targets". After making a range attack, all hit targets receive an action token.
She should have about eight clicks of health and combat values of Speed 9, Attack 10, Defense 19, Damage 3 and Range 6 with one target. She should have the Mystics team ability and her keywords should be Aeon, Mystical, Summon and Eidolon. The next Final Fantasy idea should be Ifrit.

Next is Kinuba from Battle Angel Alita. The unbeatable champion of the Coliseum who defeated his challengers sixty-three times. He is assassinated by Makaku, who forfeits his powerful body. He should have the Giant symbol, Sharp Shooter, Indomitable, Toughness, Psychic Blast and Blades. He should have about six clicks of health and combat values of Speed 6, Attack 10, Defense 17, Damage 3 and Range 2 with two targets. He should not have a team ability and his keywords should be Robot, Sports, Celebrity and Brute. The next Battle Angel Alita idea should be the Power Body version of Makaku.

Next is Jaga from Thundercats. Despite his responsibilities, he is a very relaxed individual. He has always been kind to Lion-O and speaks highly of him to his father. Jaga always encourages Lion-O to do things the way he thinks they should be done, and not worry about what his father and brother will think. He should have Hypersonic Speed, Leadership, Combat Reflexes, Outwit, Super Senses, Perplex and Probability Control. He should have about six clicks of health and combat values of Speed 10, Attack 10, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 4 with one target. He should have both the Thundercats and Mystical team abilities and his keywords should be Thunderian, Animal and Mystical. The next Thundercats idea should be Prince Lion-O.

Now for this week's Dial Designs which are a Cosplay card of Monkey of Steel; Shadow Hunter from CosmicBreak; a generic City Guardsman from Fairy Tail; the area map for Dragon Ball (sorry I try to do it next week as a bonus); and a pilot card for Kaname Ohgi from Code Geass.

Now for the DreamClix Dial Design Page updates. This week I added (or will be adding after this post, two more redo dial designs for One Piece, a feat from One Piece, two missing One Piece dials, one more Battle Angel Alita dial, added two missing Bleach dials, fix two Bleach dials and the five four dial designs from this post.

This post's 7TV Team is my 200 ratings Kung Fu Detective School. With this upgrade I added two more Ninja (one being the civilian figure I use in the photos for the 150 rating team) and one more Civilian Medic. Again ones of the Civilians will be used as something else next ratings upgrade. Here are the picture of the 200 points team and group shots of the Extras:

The Team

The Ninjas

The Medics

Lastly some house rules for a new Heroes only Extra: Armed Police. If you read my Neoscream's Life posts, you would have see we use Soldiers with the Body Armour special effect instead of the Military Training one. I have decided to alt the idea a bit. Instead of altering the Soldier, I will alter the Riot Police. Replace the Truncheon with Rifle. Remove Shield upgrade. Add a new upgrade "Upgrade to Police Sniper (1 per full 10 Armoured Police) - gain the Concealment and Eagle Eye special effects (+10 rating)". New rating cost of 12/0. One other thing I was thinking about giving the is a rubber bullet round upgrade the ups the rifles Strength, but give it the Stun special effect for no extra cost. Might need testing.

Well that is it for now so until next time, Mecha up.

MK HeroClix, Caprica's Batman

Welcome to the new style MK HeroClix post. I have decided to split the DreamClix section away from the MK HeroClix post. The new DreamClix post will be replacing the Cosmic Cosplay post. On weeks when was HeroClix does not happen the MK HeroClix post will be just a HeroClix news post and I might throw is a DreamClix idea to as a post filler.

First off the HeroClix news for this week. This week there were previews of Socialist Red Guardsman, Sasha Bourdeaux and the Black Queen from DC Batman. Also it has been reviled that the set after DC Batman, DC Batman Streets of Gotham, will be a 24 figure, single figure booster set with Damian Wayne as Batman of Tomorrow as the marquee figure for the set.

There was no HeroClix this week as Darren cancelled. So this week game has been pushed back to next week. It should be Marvel Reboot. 300 points, rookies only, no figure over 100 points and no Captain America as he is still in the ice.

Now for the bonus DreamClix idea due to no HeroClix this week. When I tried to do the Cosplay card design for deviant Caprice for next Sunday’s DreamClix 7 post I found that I stated I was doing an idea for her and never do one. So I will do it now and do another deviant on Sunday. From her profile: “Interests: I'm a pretty open minded person who has a variety of interests. These range from anime, manga to Japanese culture to playing video games. I love to attend anime, comic, and sci-fi conventions. Also I like drawing and painting. About me: Spending my non working days painting, drawing manga, cooking and watching anime. I have always been a Seattleite and miss living there. I have a slight obsession with coffee....” Her special should be: All friendly characters adjacent to this character that shares a keyword with this character gains a +2 to their speed values. Her half price list should be: Nana Komatsu, Ai and Rima Touya. She should have the Cosplay Deviants team ability and the Cosplay keyword. Well that is it for this post.

Until next time, Mecha Up.

Neoscream's Life from the week of the 10th to the 16th of September

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Welcome to another week of my life, in a newer style. For those new  to the blog, the "Neoscream's Life" posts are basically a weekly dairy of mine. The week before last was I started playing Blood Brothers and redid the way I did the Neoscream's Life post, but did last week bring.

First off is some blog news. I have done some changes to the planned changes that I talked about in the last post. I have decided to cut down the number of 7TV team posts I do a week by merging it with the originally planned DreamClix post to from a DreamClix 7 post instead. I am only doing five ideas and five designs due to time, but I am adding some home made 7TV rules. All of these changes are to save time due to studying CompTIA A+ and other things.

Nothing happened at work to talk about apart from working over 30 hours.

There was a Player vs Player event this week on Blood Brothers which eat most of my time this week, but I my main character and my familiars have done some heavy leveling. It is too addicted, it is a nightmare to get things done.

On Friday I was jokingly doing a web search for a figure of dwarf on a motor bike, to see if I could jokingly do my Blood Brothers team as a 7TV team. I tried Mantic Games as I know they have a sci-fi Dwarf range for Warpath. On the website I found something coming out soon (now just out) for a future 7TV I am planning. But that was not the only thing I found! I spotted a Kickstarter for a new game they are working on called DreadBall. At first it looks like a Sci-fi version of BloodBall. I had played BloodBall one and it have been a game I would like to try again, but never got around to do so. And if you have not notice I am a Sci-fi, well to be truthful I technology fan. So a Sci-fi Blood Ball was sounded great. I did some resource into DreadBall and found it is a very fast base sports board game that can be played in an hour (instead of three hours that BloodBall takes). With a strong likely hood of a robot team from the season two expansion and see how it plays, I decided to back it at Striker level (and the BOGOF offer if the robot team is added) on Sunday. The game (season one) should be out by December this year and the Season Two expansion should be out in the second quarter of next year. Here is a link to the Kickstarter.

I tried to get on my Trike on Sunday, but sady both the back tires are flat and sadly I cannot attach the pump we bought when I got the trike and my mum realised that we forgot to get a tire repair kit. So we have to pick up some parts parts from to sort out the problem.

Now for the Watch, Listen and Read section:

A.J. Lee, the super hot GM of WWE Raw

Monday
Watched: Episode 3 of season nine of New Tricks.
Read: Finished chapter 1 of CompTIA A+ Certification Seventh Edition by Mike Meyers.

Tuesday
Watched: Episode 1006 of WWE Raw.

Wednesday
Watched: Episode 47 of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE.
Listened: Episode 332 of Anime Pulse.

Thursday
WLR: Nothing.

Friday
WLR: Nothing.

Anomaly in "Future Queen"

Saturday
Listened: Episode 6 the Unofficial One Piece Podcost After Dark.

Ethereal in "Asgardian"

Sunday
Watched: Episode 3 of season seven of Doctor Who, episode 682 of WWE Smackdown and episode 5 of season two of Iron Man: Armoured Adventures.

Lastly this last week's Cosplay Deviants sets. On Wednesday there was a new set from the new Deviant Anomaly. The set is called Future Queen and in it she cosplays as Chibiusa aka Sailor Chibi Moon from Sailor Moon. The set on Saturday was a set from the deviants Ethereal. The set is called Asgardian and in it she cosplays as Sif from Marvel comics.

Hope people enjoy the new format. Well until next time, Mecha Up.

DreamClix 7, Late Night Posting

Welcome to the all new DreamClix 7. This is where I post ideas and rough dial designs of HeroClix figure based on random Manga, TV Shows and computer games. Also there is a  my 7TV team update (now once a week and tagged onto this post) and in the future I am also plan on doing some house rules and self made Special Effects, Extras and Guest Stars. Oh and update news of changes to the DreamClix Dials Page.

This week DreamClix ideas are a duo Pilot/Support card of C.C. from Code Geass; Stein with Scythe from Soul Eater; a Pilot card of Hayato Kobayashi from the original Mobile Suit Gundam; and Near from Death Note.

First off is C.C. from Code Geass. I had done her profile before (two days under one year ago), I will not be doing it again. Let's look at her Pilot card first. She should gain the Geass keyword and the Wild Card team ability. She should not have a Prerequisite. Her standard Special Ability should be: "C.C. cannot be the target of Mind Control or Perplex. This power cannot be Outwitted." Her Mecha Ability that she gains if she is in a Type-10R Burai (Command Type) or Z-01/A Lancelot Frontier should give her Perplex that cannot be Outwitted. Now let's look at her Support card. Her prerequisite should be there most be a character called Zero or Lelouch Lamperouge or Lelouch vi Britannia on your force. She should not modify the theme team re-rolls and her special should give all characters with the Geass keyword Shape Change. The next Code Geass idea should be a Sutherland with Cannon.

Next is Stein with Scythe from Soul Eater.This is the Marge form of Stein and Scythe. They should have two Traits "Merge" and "Split", Blades, Combat Reflexes, Change, Leap Climb, Willpower, Outwit and Support.
Merge: If this character is outside of play and there is two characters with no action tokens on them adjacent to each who are #SE-019 Death Scythe and #SE-021 Franken Stein, you may give one of them a free action to replace both characters with this one. Stein with Scythe begins on the same click number as the character that was give the free action to and cannot use the Split ability this turn.
Split: Give this character a power action if it has no action tokens and replace it with #SE-019 Death Scythe and #SE-021 Franken Stein. Each replacement character is assigned an action token and cannot be give an action this turn. They each begin a number of clicks from the starting line equal to the click number.
They should have about the same number of clicks as both Death Scythe and Franken Stein and they combat values should be Movement 9, Attack 11, Defence 18, Damage 3 and Range 2 with two targets. They should have the DWMA team ability and the keywords Scientist, DWMA and 'Meister with Weapon'. The next Soul Eater idea should be a duo figure of Soul and Black Star.

Next is a Pilot card of Hayato Kobayashi from the original Mobile Suit Gundam. Hayato was one of Amuro Ray's neighbors on Side 7. Short and stocky and with a tendency towards insecurity, Hayato often measured himself against the his friend Amuro's accomplishments. After surviving the attack on his Side 7 home, Hayato eventually started co-piloting the Guntank alongside Ryu Jose, acting as the gunner while Ryu acted as pilot. After Ryu's tragically heroic death to save Amuro from Hamon Crowley, Hayato had to pilot the Guntank modified for use by one pilot, even during the latter part of the story in which the White Base joins the main Federal fleet up in space. In the last part of the second compilation movie, Soldiers of Sorrow, Hayato was assigned to a second Guncannon (C-109) which he piloted all the way through the third movie, Encounters in Space. It's at this part of the story that Hayato confessed his hopeless struggle to be as good a pilot as Amuro to Fraw Bow, which serves as a precursor scene to the two becoming slightly more romantically involved as the final part of the story played out. He should gain the Earth Federation Forces team ability and his prerequisite should be the Earth Federation Force keyword. He should not have a standard Special Ability and his Mecha Ability that he gains if he is in a RX-75 Guntank or RX-77 Guncannon should be: "When you make an attack roll for the character, if the result on either of the two dice is a 1, you may reroll one die before determining the attack roll result. You may reroll one once per attack roll." The next Gundam UC idea should be the Magella Attack Tank and ita turret.

Next is Near from Death Note. In Death Note, Near is the younger of L's two possible successors raised in Wammy's House, Watari's orphanage for gifted children, in Winchester, England. Of the successors, Near is more level-headed, calmly assessing the situation, while the other, Mello, is more emotional and quicker to act. Much like L, Near shows various odd behaviors during his normal life. He is usually seen hunched over rather than sitting. He also constantly plays with various toys, which he uses in his theories, as well as idly twirling or stroking strands of his hair. He shows a great respect for L, basing much of how he solves crime on L's methods, even to the point where he only takes cases that he is interested in rather than trying to pursue justice. The Kira case- as a case L died trying to solve- naturally becomes his first one. Near uses the Wedding text font "N" and "L" to represent himself and the fake L, respectively. In the aftermath, he used Old English MT font "L" like the original L did. Sometime after L's death, Near works for the United States under the SPK (Special Provision for Kira) team that is established to investigate Kira without the help of the new "L" Light Yagami. After already catching Light offguard by revealing the fact that he knows the original L is dead and unnerving him by reminding him of his former nemesis when they communicate, he soon manages to deduce that Light, posing as L, is actually Kira. After dismissing the outright capture or killing of Light as disrespectful to L's memory, he finds that Teru Mikami is Kira's proxy. Distracted momentarily by Mello, who kidnaps Kira's TV spokesperson Kiyomi Takada before being killed by her using a Death Note fragment, Near is able to switch Mikami's Death Note with a forged one, allowing him to set up a final confrontation that leaves Light exposed. Near admits that neither he nor Mello could have surpassed L alone, but have managed to do so by working inadvertently together. He rejects all of Light's ideals as a god of the new world who kills for the greater good and refers to the Death Note as "the worst murder weapon in all of history". Ryuk kills Light with his own Death Note soon after as a Death Note owner must eventually be killed by the Shinigami possessing them and with Light in prison he reasons he will be unable to satisfy his interest any further. Near then himself takes L's alias, keeping on the surviving members of the SPK as his subordinates with Roger, the head of Wammy's House, acting as the new Watari. In the epilogue of the manga, he is shown eating a bar of chocolate, as he pursues a new case, possibly in memory of Mello. He on his own should not be a good a L with his dial, but if both Near and Light (or L) is on the field at the beginning of the game, he should be better. Let me think about this! He should have Stealth, Perplex, a special called "N" and a trait called "It takes more than one mind to being down Kira".
N: If there is a character called Mello on the field, Near can use Outwit.
It takes more than one mind to being down Kira: If a character called Near is KO'd, Near gains a +1 to both his Attack and Damage value when targeting a character with the Mystical or Underworld keyword.
He should have about five clicks of health and starting combat values should be Movement 7, Attack 8, Defence 17, Damage 2 and Range 0. He should have the Police team ability and the keywords Detective and SPK. The next Death Note idea should be Rod Ross.

Now for this week's Dial Designs which are Zero from Mega Man; a MR-1 Civilian Knightmare Frame from Code Geass; a generic Thug from Fairy Tail; an AD Police K-Suit from Bubblegum: Crisis Tokyo 2040; and the standard version of Lord Death from Soul Eater.

Now for the DreamClix Dial Design Page updates. Last week I redid seven of the One Piece dial design from the old format to the new one and done images for three of the team abilities. From this week on I have decided to change how I do the DreamClix Dial Design Page updates. I will be doing five dials the original way I have been doing it from were I am currently at (currently at One Piece), five missing dials starting from the beginning and the five new dials from today's post. So this week I done five more redid dial designs for One Piece, added Battle Angel Alita to the page with five dial designs and the five dial designs above. Please check them out as there are several changes that have been done. I also noticed as I was doing the last three One Piece dials I have been saying OK instead of KO on the dials. I will be trying to remember to use the right one in on all new dial designs, but I will not be redoing all the ones I have already done as it would be too big of a job to do.

This post's 7TV Team is my 100 ratings The Empire team. The Empire as in Star Wars. these were a group of Imperial Guard I picked up back during the Warhammer 40,000 Armageddon campaign. I kept them all this time and when I got 7TV, I found a use for them, a team for 7TV. Here is what the 100 points team looks like:

The Star of the show, Darth Vader (sadly no image of him on his own as the camera did not like him at all)
Evil Mastermind
Move: 6
Def: 4
Hits: 3
Str: 5
Agi: 3
Int: 4
Mor: 5

Attacks: Brawl 5+, Light Saber (Hand Weapon) 3+.
Special Effects, Star Qualities and other notes: Insane Confidence, I Will Return!, Force Field (5+), A Good Offence, Luck (2), Leader (1), Boffin (1)
Rating: 67
Model: Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Steel Legion Colonel.

Extras, 4 Storm Troopers
Security Guards with SMGs
Rating: 8 each
Model: Game Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Steel Legion Imperial Guard.

There is no preview image of a 150 points team as there is no plan on doing one.

Lastly I will will be doing house rules and self made Special Effects, Extras and Guest Stars in the future. However I am not doing it this week it for this week, but here is some of my future plans: rules for Armed Police, Two Weapon Fighting special effect, The Good Doctor and the other characters from the game me and my friends are playing as Guest Stars for their own evil Program Guide.

Well that is it for now so until next time, Mecha up.

MK HeroClix, the 13th of September, The King of Chaos

Welcome to the new style MK HeroClix post. I have decided to split the DreamClix section away from the MK HeroClix post. The new DreamClix post will be replacing the Cosmic Cosplay post. On weeks when was HeroClix does not happen the MK HeroClix post will be just a HeroClix news post and I might throw is a DreamClix idea to as a post filler.

First off the HeroClix news for this week. This week there were previews of Robin and Nightwing from DC HeroClix 10th Anniversary; Big Barda (last year's fan's choose winner), KGBeast and the Invisible Jet from DC Batman; and Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Wolverine, Cyclops and Iceman from the HeroClix TabApp sets. Also started last Friday (meaning the first round is over or soon will be) is this year's fan's vote. This time it is for a place in a future Marvel set. The first rounders are 3-DMan, Annihilus, Death's Head, Executioner, Ghost Rider (Alejandra Blaze), Hellcat, Ikon, Major Victory, Mangog, Silver Sable, Sleepwalker and Xemnu. I am voting for Deaths Head. He is a character I never thought would have been done due to heavy links to the old Marvel Transformers comics and the old Marvel Doctor Who comics and many links with the rest of the Marvel Universe just like the human character Circuit Breaker who appeared in Secret Wars II before Transformers. So I classed them as none Marvel when doing the Marvel wish list last week. Please oh please do not let them do the sculpt as Deaths Head 3.0, please keep it original version. Oh and both the HeroClix 10th Anniversary sets and the TabApp sets are out in the USA now.

Now the second round of this year's fan's vote is up. The survivors of the first rounders are Deaths Head, Ghost Rider (Alejandra Blaze), Ikon, Mangog, Silver Sable and Sleepwalker. I am voting for Death's Head.

This week's game was 400 points, one figure most have the Deity keyword. I decided to try out Chaos King this week.

Chaos King (051 Marvel Chaos War) 350
Scarlet Witch (006 Marvel Chaos War Fast Forces) 50
=400 points and no re-rolls.

There was no Michael this week so we each took a bye while the other two played. In the first round it was me against Adrian while Darren took the bye. Adrian was using an Avengers team who where:

Iron Man (217 Marvel Supernova) 160 + Stunning Blow (Feat) 10 = 170
Hercules (016 Marvel Secret Invasion) 142
Scarlet Witch (057 Marvel Averages) 35
Black Panther (106 Marvel Universe) 27
=374 points and two re-rolls.

Looking at Chaos King originally I was worried about his starting 10 Attack and 17 Defence plus only one click of 12 Attack for a 350 points character, but I thought it would be nice to see him in play once. He performed much better than I thought he would , and teamed with Scarlett Witch and being very protective of Chaos King made him nasty and he was better than what I thought. In fact he was super nasty and he ripped apart Adrians team. This led to a white wash with me as the winner and Chaos King only taking five clicks of health. In the second round it was me against Darren while Adrian took the bye. He was using a Defenders team who where:

Dr.Strange (028 Marvel Galactic Guardians) 196
Black Knight (031 Marvel Chaos War) 90
Hellcat (039 Marvel Ultimates) 38
Brunnhilde (204 Marvel Sinister) 69
=373 points and two re-rolls.

Again Chaos King ripped apart Darren's team team, but this time without as much help Scarlett Witch and losing less clicks of health. In the third and final round it was Adrian against Darren. For some reason I cannot remember who won, but I guess Darren won the game.

Next week should be Marvel Reboot. 300 points, rookies only, no figure over 100 points and no Captain America as he is still in the ice.

This was under the DreamClix section originally, but I decided to keep the last of the three wise list with the main HeroClix post. This time were are looking at the Other stuff (e.g. Street Fighter, Star Trek, Tolkien). This wil not be a big list, the reason why it was changed from just being Street Fighter. I would like to see Sakura and Ibuki from Street Fighter, a Star Trek: TNG Away Team set, a Klingon Away Team set, a Borg Away Team set and Borg Ship for the Star Trek HeroClix.

Well that is it for this week. Until next time, Mecha Up.

7TV Teams: Tau Invasion Force (150)

The Ethereals (or Aun in Tau) are the leaders of Tau society. Their arrival started the unification process between the various Tau tribes and coincided with the implementation of the concept of the Greater Good. They first appeared during a siege between the Tau of the plains (later known as the Fire Caste) and the Tau of the city of Fio'taun (later known as the Earth Caste). The Ethereals brought the two sides together to negotiate and convinced them to follow the Greater Good. Their power over the Tau is such that an Ethereal could tell a Tau to die and that Tau would do so quickly and gladly. The many people would give much to learn the secret of the Ethereal's power. There is strong implication from the similarities between an organ possessed uniquely among Tau by the Ethereals, and an organ which Q'orl use in pheromonal communication that this ability may be due to deliberate engineering in the Ethereals' past. The Ethereal sometimes lead the fire caste into battle to provide inspirational leadership, so the warriors can achieve more. However if the Ethereal falls in combat, the remaining Tau are struck with grief that causes them to lose battles or they get extremely enraged and charge forward, either way after a Ethereal falls the Fire Warriors lose all discipline and efficiency. On their foreheads resides a small organ, smaller than the ones the other castes have. Studies on the organ show no biological function, but it's suspected that the ethereal studied is a dud, or that the way the Ethereal control the Tau is more esoteric in nature. As the leaders of the Tau, the Ethereals are enigmatic and studious, yet unfaltering in their authority and their drive to further the Greater Good. They are mystics and philosophers, possessed of knowledge and wisdom not shared by their more practical subjects. As such they had some part to play in the Tau rapid development, and to this day guide their species in its dynamic expansion, or the castes revert to the savagery that once threatened to destroy them.

Now for the 150 ratings team:

The Star of the show, a Tau Ethereal

Mysterious Stanger

Move: 6

Def: 4

Hits: 3

Str: 3

Agi: 3

Int: 7

Mor: 4

Attacks: Brawl 4+.

Special Effects, Star Qualities and other notes: Insane Strike From The Shadows, Hypnotise, A Good Offence, Signatire Weapon (Honour Blade), Luck (2), Leader (1), Mind Blast

Rating: 57

Model: Conversion from a Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy figure and random Tau parts.

Co-Staring, a Tau Crisis Suit

Failed Experiment

Move: 7

Def: 5

Hits: 2

Str: 5

Agi: 3

Int: 2

Mor: 2

Attacks: Brawl 4+.

Special Effects, Star Qualities and other notes: Fearsome, Large, Body Armour, Energy Blast, Luck (1)

Rating: 45

Model: Game Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Tau Crisis Suit.

Extras, Tau Fire Warriors
Paratrooper
Rating: 36
Model: Game Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Tau Fire Warriors.











Krot
Desert Rat
Rating: 12
Model:  Game Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Krot Warriors.

Below is a picture of what the 200 rating team will look like.

Next time will be The Empire (100). Until next time, Mecha up!