~Master of the Barracuda SF - Sat, March 27~

A Mr E-Man Production

Featuring Dark Willow or Mr E-Lectric

Mission: Master of the Barracuda Strike Force – Thus Spoke the Reichsman
Contact: Barracuda
Location: Grandville

Date & Time: Saturday, March 27 @ 10:30PM Eastern/7:30PM Pacific

Level Range: 45-50

Combatants: 5th Column, Freedom Phalanx, Longbow, Paragon Police Department

Arch-Villain(s)/Hero(es): Ms Liberty, Numina, Schadenfreude, Invincible Reichsman, Black Scorpion, Scirocco, Captain Mako, Ghost Widow, Reichsman

Current Team Roster:

1: Dark Willow: Grav/Psi Dominator -or- Mr E-Lectric: Elec/Elec Brute
2: Diva Doom: Dark/Dark Corruptor
3: Torq: TBA
4: Drogoh: ???/??? Stalker
5: Lynner: Sonic/Thermal Corruptor
6: Fuzz Ball: WM/Dark Brute
7: Metalhead300: TBA
8: Obsidian Mist: Stone/WP Brute

Alternates:





Strike Force Stats & Info:

• This Strike Force requires a 4-person team to start & I will set it to No Temp Powers (which includes Veteran Reward Powers) & 0 Defeats
• 9 missions (4 talks)
• Badge(s): Arbiter & Master of the 5th Column Strike Force for No Deaths/No Temp Powers (no guarantees :smirk: )
• Merit Reward: 30
• Please note, this SF ends after the final Recluse Talk (not after the Reichsman mission)

• General Instructions: Stick together, listen to instructions & do not be afraid to offer your opinion on strategy!
• Mission One: Clear the ambushes in the end room (before going out to Ms Liberty).
• Mission Two: Pull Numina out of the room to be cautious.
• Mission Three: Talk
• Mission Four: Use the Ouro portals or the Flyer to exit after Invincible Reichsman spawns - the mission will time-out without anyone in
• Mission Five: Stick together & clear until the key drops - doing so around the dig area is best since the door is there.
• Mission Six: Talk
• Mission Seven: Talk
• Mission Eight - Part One: While this mission is not so much hard, there are a lot of chances for deaths to occur. First clear out all of the 5th Column & take care of any ambushes that occur when one of the AVs is rescued. Sac the AV, find the next AV, take out the ambush, etc.
• Mission Eight - Part Two: Grab your temp powers & don't be afraid to use them - you can recharge them (all except the Fail Safe Guns -4 uses- which only Stalkers can use). Stalkers gain Max Stealth to enter the two gun rooms to nuke the ambushes, Corruptors/Dominators have attack/holds for the ambushes, Brutes/Veats gain a team End Drain resistance power, MMs can keep Reichsman from phasing.
• Mission Eight - Part Three: We will be using the tunnel method. Reichsman will not leave the end room, so exiting into the tunnels when the ambushes start will keep them confined in a small area, making it easier for us to take them out safely. Everyone stay close & keep buffs/heals/debuffs running.
• Mission Nine: Talk (Remember the SF completes after this talk, not after Reichsman is defeated)
• Obviously this is still a work in progress.

Would love to give this another try, Will bring Storm Claud this time.
Unless you want the MM again.
I'll be away from game for the next few nights so I should be better rested come Sat

I could contribute a stalker.

I know I shouldn't :-) but I will be able to attend and will bring whatever is needed since none of my toons have this badge. I'm still wearing my wrist brace from the last time.

I'd love to participate, but I'll be in Baltimore that evening for a birthday party with a family friend. Good luck to the Master crew!

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

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Just checking to make sure Turg didnt sign me up for this again without my knowledge.

Not signed up. Good.

So...did you want me to sign you up Tux?

lol no. Just seeing Turg posting in this thread made me nervous since he signed me up that one time unawares. You run a heroes side one I will join if I am able.

I'm in for this. I'm not sure who I'll bring, I need to check which of my toons don't have the badge yet. I'd be happy to bring whatever would help make a successful run though.

Edit: Okay I checked and my Brute doesn't have it yet. So I'll tentatively say I'm bringing Fuzz Ball, a War Mace/Dark Aura Brute. I may switch up depending on the final team makeup.

I will either go with my Grav/Elec DOM Zanzibar Crocker (if i get some more lvls on him before then)

or my Thug/Poison MM Illegal Copyrighter

Count me in. I'll be using my Stone/WP Brute, Obsidian Mist. Level 46 now, should be 47 by Saturday.

Mr E my toon will be Lynner, lvl 50 Sonic/Thermal Corr.

Hey if you guys are bringing your dark aura brutes let me know and ill bring my fire/dark corr that way we can have even more darkness!

Just a reminder...

Darkness FTW I am brining Storm Claud Tonight
lightening cloud of doom!

crashed exiting - brb

Unfortunately, I had some fussy hardware earlier in the evening and I wasn't able to get either of my desktops up and running until about 15 minutes ago. If you guys weren't able to get the badge, feel free to blame me.

Sorry I took off so quickly after we finished last night but puter kept freezing last night and i had to ctl-alt-delete to get it going again. Then I discovered I could not write anything in the chat box. Bad night :-(

Sorry for not posting a follow-up to this earlier.

We had a rough go of it - two tries & we could not get through the first mission without a death.

So on our 2nd attempt, we decided to just continue on from there....and actually things got much better once everyone got more comfortable.

Last mission still had a bunch of deaths, but since we had already failed on the Mo, we were not as tight together in the tunnels as I would have liked us to be.

We finished with 30 deaths & I think the time was 2 hrs 35 mins (or there abouts).

Sorry, I was tied up most of Sunday, so I did not upload any screenshots - I'll try to do so tonight, including my very funny level 50 rez shots (can barely see me in there with the piles of 5th column all over the place).

Oh yeah! - Dark Willow hit level 49 in the 2nd mission & level 50 during the Reichsman mission!

I'll have something posted for next Saturday night. Just deciding on what to run.

Thanks again for joining everyone - sorry we did not get the Master of... badge, but I hope everyone had some fun at least.

Everything is peachy-keen now. I pretty much had to let it sit and come back after a while.

Thanks for running this, E. I think we did soooo much better on the second wave in the last mission than we did on the first!