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Well the first batch of lv 41's are out there now - gratz guys/gals.

Ive noticed in E.V.I.L. that aload of people have just turned up before I7 with one of them saying they have came back "because they could smell I7". What do you know the next day its out. I would also like to add my I7 sweep stake prediction was a day out - i said it would be out on wednesday. Its nice to see CoV so busy .

YES YES YES YES YES! Hmmmm maybe abit to excited about the news

We've had some but they tend to be spontaneous i.e. not planned but both sgs having lots of people on. Kind of miss our little sg battles against Order of Reckoning. I was going through my screenshots and brought a wry smile to my face looking at the result of one such match.

Its beem quite difficult due to lots of people having breaks and doing other things of late but I try and speak to a villain supergroup and get something sorted for this Sunday.

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I got bumped into Sirens Call 2, was not happy with that and after not much happening i left

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Happened to afew late comers for my team - was just a matter of keep trying to get into sirens call 1 which they all managed to do.

Would hate something similar in warburg - i think i would lose count of how many times team would be destroyed by nova .

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Very well said stryker, it was a victory butonly by the objective 'defend sirens call from the villain invaders' and thats what we succeded in doing so.Kitetsu gave out a broacast telling the heroes they were going to gave up, form then on the battle was a victory.

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Well winning is subjective. Kitetsu was the organiser and although he may have given up (due to villains not listening) there were lots of other leaders fighting on. Im sure if one hero said they had given up you wouldnt class that as an uniformed decision. Besides the battle raged on all the way till some stupid time in the morning in which us villains out lasted you lightweight heroes (gone 4 am in the morning).

I would like to thank my team (Lord Viktor, Sr. GriS, Sister Chaos, Radation Man, Lord Kalistoh, Drakmarth, RoBoMaN and Miss Fire Bug) as well as melon baller for some top late night duals (just a shame only a select few got to watch them).

Also villains have control over sirens, just took abit longer than expected .

Well the Sirens Call invasion went well - had a full team of 8 although hoped we would gain a 2nd team but alas not to be. It was abit laggy which meant early on couldnt do much - just getting off a power was an achievement. Its a shame some of the villains lost the plot/idea of the event and started to do there own stuff which was to attack any hero they saw (instead of taking over the hotspots). Anyway I took afew screenies and here is one protecting the boat.

I know I enjoyed myself and offering myself as bait to lure Humanoid Guy into a trap was well worth it . Tactics went right out of the window with the sheer volume of heroes but I think I organise another session like this so can actually work and fight as a team.

Some heroes are saying we lost but I like to add that wasnt the case - I and a few others were still fighting at some crazy time in the morning till there were no heroes left. It was actuallly more fun due to such a good team balance where we all worked together. Even sweet chilli was unable to make an impact due to these villains not being stupid enough to fall into luring traps (putting a lone hero near the base ready for team mate to tp drone). Top class nite of pvp fun!

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That was great, got a really good SG team going, and it ROCKED. We managed to push the villains all the way back to the're base even though there was only 12 Heroes and 15+ Villian left (This was a little later on, after the lag fest of fun!)
We even claimed one of the islands next to the villain boat and named it Super Union Island. Although we lost it after a very long battle lasting about 20 minutes.

In all the night was great! and I managed to get 184 rep from 0 on my Chill

Killed Gutts, Max Khaos, and daddys little defect lots as well and alot of the E.V.I.L. SG.

Humanoid Doom, and BloodFever hit the ground a few times to. Although I think my most killed target had to be Chilling Twilight.

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E.V.I.L. was just very happy to kill that Humanoid Guy from the Super Union. And I loved it everytime you thought you had that pesky gutts he would escape or you would be killed just before you could get that final blow.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL HEROES WHO JOINED THE RESISTANCE!
THE VILLAINS SURRENDERED AFTER 2 HOURS OF NON-STOP LAG AND LOSING!
WE SURE SHOWED THEM!

SPECIAL THANKS TO:coston,SIRU JIM,Fire Starlet,X Electra X and all the other heroes who helped extremely hard during the defence!

Next time,we'll be more than ready to fight them!

Were you in this fight?
If so please post here and tell everyone what they missed!

These are some of my favourite screenshots that I took at the battle!
Enjoy:

A birds-eye-view of the first battle!

We're surrounded!

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I wouldnt say that - it was a stalemate as heroes didnt conquer the zone again. Communication broke down after working really well for an hour or so. No idea why but still plodded on. Felt that I was somewhat picked on, you heroes are all bullies .

Also villains still fighting and it 11.45 so just cause afew villains left dont mean the rest of us have surrendered .

Welcome Blind Strike.

As you probably have noticed there is a villain recruitment section ( click here ) which gives abit of information about various supergroups for villiains on union.

As it is customary for me I will throw down my sg (E.V.I.L.) for you to perhaps try out. A friendly bunch who are established and have a nice base and some great coalitions. If you have any further questions can give me an email or shout in game (global name is @Max Powerz).

Good luck with your villainary .

Just an idea but what about joining/merging into an existing villain pvp sg (started up by Kinslayer) called Last Legion Of Destruction . Im not sure how advanced the base is now but it atleast has all the basics in place.

Its normal, its one of the many base bugs .

Its on union server.

Im sure there will be alot more turning up. However I know alot of people from my sg wont be there from the start - it clashes with Dr Who!!!

That mean I probably play my stalker to start with (until more of EVIL turn up) and then maybe move onto corruptor. I guess it all depend on the opposition.

P.S. Night Tricker is listed but may be snatched into my team for the greater good .

Im gonna be interested to what people also have to say on this subject. I don't feel spine stalkers are overpowered at all but playing one may make me abit bias.

I have discussed this subject with Atreides last night but to no avail. I argue that it is his tactics that are leading to his downfall and need to change (at the mo he is reliant on the stalker getting off his AS) - he needs to prevent the AS in the first place. He can see the stalkers but doesnt use for example caltraps (or even trip mines) as his standing point which will then get rid of hide. He feels his current tactic of getting some distance is gonna allow him to survive (or get the kill) which I feel is very risky and easily overcome.

For some reason my views/opinions are wrong or dont hold any truth due to the fact that I haven't played a blaster to any high level. I feel any good stalker worth his salt won't have any problems getting the 2nd hit (which is all that is normally needed) in before he can gain his distance. I tried to prove my point last nite by getting him 4 times without using any ranged attacks but apparently this hasn't changed his mind.

Personally I dont think having fly will really aid you in combating stalkers (well the ones you really want to get being spines). I will just as easily use impale which is minus fly.

Examples of ways other stalkers with your powers try to combat stalkers (including Spines) are making traps which lure the stalker in such as the use of mass trip mines/caltraps. Another tip would be to team with others - going alone is possible but you stand a far better chance in a team and communicating - if you can reveal the stalker by shooting them, then one of your team mates could help take him down.

I could go on listing other tips and tricks but they wont always work as there is almost always a counter - I just suggest a change in tactics as I dont think there is much difference between the tactics used against spine stalkers and other stalkers. Allowing a stalker to use AS is pratically suicide - they can and will kill you and if they dont im sure his/her team will .

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Some funny randoms there...one match I'm allied with one person and against another and in the second they switch. Fighting against or teaming with an Ice/Ice blaster though will be fun. Cause they are great except against ice tanks with maxed out res and some def . Also you can't argue with having any controller on your team.

Shame though we are going to do this before the free respec. Hopefully by gimped out build will get me through with enough lives to that date.

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personally i'd say u cant argue with having the s4 winning scrapper on ur team who 1 french guy said "You're the overall best scrapper I've ever seen. Amazing."

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Yeah must excuse the poor french to english translation - he must have got confused

May have been mentioned elsewhere but if someone in your team fails to turn up does everyone in that team lose a life?

Those that have enabled hero/villain chat will be able to see it. However as it is automatically set to disabled (and the fact many people are not even aware of it) many people would probably not see the broadcast.

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i fear you're too late Max. this must be a first =)

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I have a horrible feeling you may be right. I suppose its ok as long as there isn't a second .

Anyone fancy a pentad match again tommorow around 8 ish (Tuesday). I think some of the pvp arena practise people want to test out some pentad stuff and think could be good fun to give them a nice little challenge. Kind of short notice but if you can make it give me a shout or reply here. If you need any more encouragement Dr Death will be there for us to kill .

Dont think anything exciting has really happened this week, gained afew new members and I believe Pigeon Prince is back to so will get him back in the sg asap.

Yep like toughguy said, have a peek at that and see what takes your fancy.

Have none of your coh mates made the jump to cov? Thats another way of deciding and one alot of people tend to use. They tend to join the supergroup they seem to team up with the most or whose friends are in (got lots of members this way ).

P.S. If you cant decide I reckon a mini paper scissor stone tournament is in order to settle the issue .

P.P.S. Join E.V.I.L.

Managed somehow to beat the crummy base bug through pure fluke - woot . Thus as a result of this I have changed the base abit too (both decorative and actual stuff) so you may notice new items such as extra teleporters which will take us to all of the available zones.

The supergroup is quite quiet but thats only due to the test server event - its just annoying everyone seems to have created names with no association to there E.V.I.L. toons - having great difficulty in finding people I know .

Its such a shame because if was abit more organised we could easily create various pvp builds and see what actually works well in pvp by taking advantage of the test server - as I am sure you are aware you can create any toons and get them to lv 40. Would have been nice to have 2 pvp teams going at each other and would also give a great opportunity to see how heroes vs villains fair at the same level with no advantages such as more enhancements, more levels and accolades.

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Also is there any Invun powers i should skip, atm i'm planing on all of them and am very restricted on powers.

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These are just my opinions:

Resist Physical Damage - Its only a small boost to resistance which you can survive without quite easily.

Resist Elements and Resist Energies - Having them is beneficial but again I find you can survive without them quite easily.

Now I reckon a number of people would also recommend unstopppable but i think that is a great power (especially when I7 comes and you can see when its about to run out).

If you were to be PvP'ing then you may change your mind e.g. having resist energies be useful against energy blasters etc.

Hope this helps .

Hmmm well I think */Axe tanks are fairly rare anyway - I know one that does have it but I always felt having it would be a waste of a power (personal preferance) - it didnt seem that powerful and was concerned that it would just ruin my nicely herded mobs. However with the changes to taunt it may be a useful way of keeping aggro thesedays.

Dammit I was having such a good day too and now you'v ruined it - gutted with this news

You dont need me to tell you that you be missed greatly - Union surely has lost one of its best pvp'ers.

Had some absolutely fantastic times and still cant believe you are leaving. Its having great people like yourself that I have managed to stick around so long. All I say is that its been a great pleasure teaming and pvping with ya and can only hope the Coh bug gets you and makes you return.