Battle of Champions 2 [HH]

[jodokast]

...this time with more champions!

First a look at the battlefield.  It's some ruins from an old fortress or some such.


This time around I put the champions into teams for the early rounds since the battlefield was a little small for the number of players.
Team 1: Leonidas, Han Solo, Waldo, and Prince of Persia


Team 2: Barbosa, Clint Eastwood, Wesley, and Gandalf


Team 3: Gordan Freeman, Legolas, and James Bond


Team 4: Jack Sparrow, Iron Man, Indiana Jones


Team 5: Gnome, Cyclops, Chell


Team 1 start position


Team 2 start position


Team 3 start position


Team 4 start position


Team 5 start position


Overwatch with players in place.


Luke ran up the stairs and got onto the wall


Cyclops ran up the slope and got on top of the wall as well.


Waldo ran up the stairs as well.


Wesley jumped up onto the wall.


Where he checked the chest...


...And he found some armor!


Gandalf tried to animate the practice dummy, but only made it spin.


So he got ready to defend himself from attacks.


Jack Sparrow ran into the throne room.


Clint Eastwood opened a chest...


...and it blew up in his face!


The Gnome found a new sword...


He tried it out on the spider, but it disintegrated.


Iron Man flew up onto the wall and took a shot at Luke, which got blocked.


Legolas started up the stairs…


…and took a shot at Jack, wounding him.


Then he used his elf abilities to become invisible.


Leonidas followed Waldo, still a little bitter about being killed by him last game, and shouted, “THIS IS SPARTA!!”


Chell used her portals to launch herself up onto the walls.


She took a shot at Wesley, but missed.


Barbosa threw his sword at Iron Man…


Iron Man caught the sword and dropped it, with the appropriate amount of disdain for such simple weapons.


So Barbosa went to fetch his sword.


Gordon Freeman pulled out a shotgun from his inventory.


He shot at Han Solo, but missed.


Indy went over to lend Jack some help.


James Bond started to jump up onto the wall.


He got his arms on the ledge…


But he couldn’t hang on.


Prince of Persia took off running toward Clint Eastwood.


Overwatch after round 1.   Somehow I lost the picture for Han Solo’s turn, he basically ran to the spot where Gordon shot at him.


Luke attacked Iron Man, but failed to hurt him


Wesley went after the Prince, but his landing was a little rough, and his attack was blocked.


Han shot Gordon!  Revenge is sweet!


Chell shot a portal under Wesley, dropping him over by the Gnome.


She then tried to drop a cube on him, but Wesley caught it.


And threw it back in her face, knocking her from the wall and wounding her.


Cyclops removed his visor and blasted at Wesley, but missed.


Clint shot at Chell and missed.


Iron Man took two shots at Luke.  One was blocked, one was a hit.


Waldo ran along the wall towards James Bond


Jack retrieved Barbosa’s sword.


Legolas checked a chest…


He found a medkit!


Then he shot at Indy


Indy took a hit, Legolas took cover

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Gandalf checked a chest…


He also found a medkit!  Those things are popular!


Then he called down lightning upon Iron Man, frying him a little.


The Gnome tried attacking Wesley, but was blocked by Wesley’s armor.


Indy tried whipping Legolas, but missed.


So he whipped the arch and did a swinging kick, only to be blocked.


Gordon pulled out a Gauss gun, since the shotgun didn’t seem to work.


It had a malfunction, but Gordon was unhurt.


Barbosa tried to get his monkey, Jack, to retrieve his sword, but the monkey had other plans.


So Barbosa wrestled for sword himself, and won.


Leonidas continued to follow Waldo, shouting “Revenge shall be mine!”  He was really unnerving the guy playing Waldo.


Bond moved forward, shot at Gandalf, and missed.


This Prince of Persia attacked Chell, who rolled out of the way.


Overwatch after round 2


Legolas shot at Iron Man, but the arrow plinked off his armor.


Han finished off Gordon Freeman, for the first fatality of the match.


Han then took cover behind the column


Chell shot a portal under the Prince


And then another portal under Clint Eastwood


She tried to make a pile-up on top of Wesley.  The Prince fell and was hurt, but Eastwood landed on the wall.


Eastwood shot at Jack, but missed.


Iron Man had a systems failure and couldn’t attack.


Wesley attacked the Gnome, wounding him


He tried to jump up the wall after Cyclops, but slipped and fell.


Jack attacked Barbosa but was blocked.


Waldo had enough of Leonidas and attacked him, but he missed.


And his momentum carried him off the wall


Leonidas hopped down, ignored Waldo, and tried to attack James Bond, but he was out of range.


The Gnome attacked Wesley, but dropped his saw.  So he summoned a lawn jockey to help him, but the jockey stubbed his toe on Wesley’s armor.


Gandalf checked another box and found some dynamite!


He tried to whack Jack, but missed.


Luke finally got a good swing on Iron Man and finished him off.


Cyclops drilled the Prince with a blast, finishing him off as well.


Indy whipped at Legolas, relieving him of his bow.


Then he whipped again, wounding Legolas


Bond climbed up next to Legolas and shot at Indy, but missed


Barbosa attacked and killed Jack!


Overwatch after the 3rd round


Gandalf attacked Indy but missed


Legolas jumped down, retrieved his bow, and used his medkit


But Cyclops blasted him, re-wounding him


Han shot Wesley and wounded him.


And then he found some armor.


Indy curb stomped Legolas finishing him off.


Then he used his whip to steal Bond’s gun


Waldo also tried to attack Wesley, but missed


Wesley got up and finished off the Gnome.


Then he took the Gnome’s saw and attacked Han, but was blocked.


Luke used the force to drop a rat on Gandalf’s head in order to cause a stray attack to hurt someone, but the attack missed.


So he tried to jump down and attack Barbosa, but slipped on the landing.


Clint took another shot at Chell, but didn’t hurt her


Leonidas attacked and wounded Cyclops


Chell took a much needed drink from the tap


It was so good she forgot to attack


Barbosa ran to attack Indy, but tripped over his own feet and hurt himself when he hit the throne


Bond tried to kick the gun out of Indy’s hand, but couldn’t get his leg high enough.


So instead he tried to punch Indy, but didn’t hurt him


Overwatch after round 4

[jodokast]

At this point all the teams were disbanded.
Eastwood pulled out a Winchester and killed Chell


Barbosa thrust his sword through Indy and into Bond, killing Indy and wounding Bond


Leonidas finally got his revenge, wounding Waldo


Gandalf summoned lightning and killed Barbosa


Cyclops called Phoenix who attacked 6 out of the 8 remaining players.  Gandalf was wounded and Waldo was killed.


Cyclops then blasted Bond, finishing him off as well


Han finished off Wesley by finding the weak spot in his armor


Luke attacked Gandalf but failed to hurt him


Overwatch after round 5


Luke used the force to cause Cyclops to blast Gandalf, but it didn’t work


So Luke finished him off the old fashioned way, with a lightsaber to the face.


Clint took a shot at Cyclops but failed to hurt him.


Han grabbed Wesley’s sword and attacked Leonidas, but was blocked


Cyclops used the portals to leap up onto the wall


Where he blasted and killed Clint


Leonidas shield-bashed Han, wounding him


But when he tried to follow up with his spear, it slipped.


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Leonidas tried the shield bash again, but failed to wound Han


So he grabbed his spear and headed for higher ground


But Han wasn’t ready to let him go and gave chase


Cyclops grabbed Chell’s portal gun and tried to use it to launch Han into Leonidas.  He missed.


And Han landed safely on the wall.


Luke checked a chest on his way to the action and found a battle droid.


The droid targeted Cyclops…


But it had a serious malfunction


Cyclops blasted at Luke but missed


Han jumped down and attacked Cyclops, but armor saved him


Luke called in an X-wing strafing run, but missed everyone


So he attacked and wounded Leonidas


Leonidas removed his helmet and dropped his shield and hurled his spear at Cyclops


He hit Cyclops, but Cyclops’ armor held against the attack, barely.


Overwatch after round 8


Cyclops tried to do a fancy backflip while shooting lasers, but under-rotated and fell on his face


Han took advantage of that and killed him


Then Han took some cover


Luke picked up Han’s discarded gun and shot and killed Leonidas


Luke then used the force to blow the tap off the keg, spraying drink everywhere, and soaking Han


Overwatch after round 9, down to 2 men, both from Star Wars incidentally


Luke shot at Han, but he didn’t do enough damage


He threw the gun at Han and tried to convince Han he “was not the minifig he was looking for.”


Han started charging, but slipped…


Han got up to attack, but the force was strong with that one, so he failed to attack and kill him.


Han told Luke, “Darth Vader is your father!”  Luke replied, “Dude, Revenge of the Sith totally ruined that surprise.”  Then Han attacked and missed.


Luke attacked but was blocked by Han’s armor


Then he used the force to leap on top of the wall


Han threw his sword at Luke, but missed


He then retrieved his saw and dove for cover


And he came to a stop behind the emptied keg


Luke used the force to drop a piece of the arch on Han, but Han was under the arched part and was safe


Then Luke ran over and attacked, but missed


Luke then used the force to try to make Han cut himself with his saw, but the armor was in the way.


So he chopped him with the lightsaber


Finally ending the match


Luke got so many moves there at the end because he went second one round and first the next and his heroic feats all succeeded, sort of.

[NapalmKing]

That was awesome
Too bad though I was rooting for gandalf

[lawmaster]

Nice battle even though both the people I was rooting for died

[enders_shadow]

WESLEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, it wasn't as enjoyable as last time because everyone ganged up on him, but the team idea was nice.

[Zahru II]

This was an awesome battle!

[Swordsalmon]

Alright, time to review! I'm not going to say a ton, but here we go!

Gameplay: I'll admit, the first two turns were pretty boring. However, it really picked up around turns 3-4, and became really cool. I liked the mechanics with the portal guns, and all the crazy feats in turn 4 were nice. But how could anyone see Waldo? I'm giving it a 3, because the first two turns were just a bit boring.

Photography: All the pictures are beautiful and clear, especially considering the sheer amount of them. 5

Violence: There's no blood and little gore, which I personally don't care much about. It was an appropriate amount of violence for the amount of characters. 3

Writing: This is the low part, because there's no Excuse Plot, and not any sort of description in the writing. You gave a bit of detail to what was going on, but it was definitely the weak part of the game. 2

Overall Appeal: WALDO!!! The inclusion of him makes everything better. I liked most of the champions in the fight, and the battlefield was cool. It looks like you and the other players had a good time! I just wish you had some sort of story to it.

Overall Score: 3/5 (Average of scores, rounded)

Also, I now need to make my own Waldo minifigure. ^_^

[Silverdream]

Gameplay: I thought this battle went on for too long. I'm sorry, but I lost interest after a while and began to talk to girls on facebook. I guess for mechanics the chests and portal gun were interesting, so I'll round up. 2.

Photography: The photography was clear and good. 5.

Violence: There wasn't much violence honestly. Although I like the sillyness of these battles, in terms of violence it doesn't really hold up. 1.

Writing: There wasn't a story, and there doesn't need to be. This was silly, and silly is good good good good. 3.

Overall Appeal: I would've removed one or two of the teams because after a while I lost interest. Although it's clear you put effort into a variety of characters, you could've just kept the more interesting ones.

Overall Score: 2.5

[piltogg]

Gameplay: like 2 maybe?  I'm not too fond of the format in general.

Photography: The photography fine 4.

Violence: what violence?  2.

Writing: I believe it twas a comedy of sorts, and therefore you get a 2.

Overall Appeal: I was tempted to not even read it. 1.

Overall Score: 2.2
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[Lord Mercat]

This was an awesome battle! Damnit though, I was rooting for Westley.

[Ross_Varn]

Personally, I thought it was a great battle, but the judges have spoken! Your final score is-

9!

We'll see how you come out in the finals. Thanks for the entry.

[Theblackdog]

I loved this battle -- the characters' unique abilities were nicely represented, and hero vs. hero fights are always fun.  I guess my biggest problem is that for some reason you decided to take Westley over Inigo Montoya.  

Also

Indy tried whipping Legolas

I'm pretty sure that's a fanfic somewhere...

[Brikboyz]

That was awesome
Too bad though I was rooting for gandalf

Dude everyone roots for Gandalf.

[jodokast]

Thanks for the comments guys.  I guess I should have stated at the beginning that I hosted this battle over facebook for a lot of my non-brikwars friends in the style of a forum battle.

I made about 40 characters available for selection and each player picked who they wanted, so it's not my fault Inigo didn't make the cut.

And I agree with the judges about it being short on description and violence, but it was on facebook (have to be careful what you put on there) and there were almost 170 pictures to narrate, so I rushed that part a little.