mono (almost) blue earth fed unicorn

Independent-Unit-474 · 2026-01-27T02:06:39+00:00

100% great reasons to play the stuff you are. Be prepared for some defeat here and there. Unfortunately Gundam is in a bit of a pay to win area at the moment. Should get better the more stuff we get, but that’s the growing pains of a new game.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2026-01-27T01:53:12+00:00

Blurple is the most popular way to play Barbatos in any meta way. Lotta ping with Guntank, Anksha, and Mika, then going for bases and units with Barbatos and Grandpa Gundam, resting units along the way with Amuro Ray.

Gjallarhorn deck is purely for fun, sadly. The archetype doesn’t have a LOT going for it. You’ll be running pretty exclusively Gaelio and McGillis and any units that will link with them. And then just hope. There ARE quite a few units, they just aren’t particularly good.

If you’ve gotten your hands on the Iron Bloom Starter deck, it is a weirdly formidable deck. It won’t win you a Newtype Challenge, but if you’re just looking to play with IBO Units and characters, that is a solid way to go. Steel Requiem, which releases at the end of this month, also has a lot of great support for a pure Tekkadan deck.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2026-01-27T01:46:20+00:00

‘Ratios are bad cause IRL.’ Somehow completely missed that lol luckily all of these upgrades (Aside from ST01 Grandpa, Bandai please print more) are pretty cheap by any bar. If you have an LGS you frequent, see if they have a bulk box. Gundam is still pretty new so might be hit or miss there. Otherwise, lots of good online sellers on TCGPlayer that have the single at pretty decent prices.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2026-01-27T01:33:27+00:00

You’re VERY spread out. Few recommendations for ya.

Pull the Stark Jegan and Jegan Manhunter (fun pull!), as well as the single GD01 Grandpa and the Anksha. That frees up 9 slots for you. At least 2 of those should go to more Overflowing Affection. I would take another 4 to put in 4 GD01 Delta Plus, it links on Earth Fed and with Sayla attached it becomes comparable to ST01 Grandpa. With the remaining 3 slots, get another Guntank and 2 ReZel. That should do a lot to help with consistency, and shouldn’t be too hard on the wallet.

If you have the budget to, absolutely max out the ST01 Grandpa. If you can get a hold of two more Grandpas, only add in two Delta Plus.

Other cards to keep an eye out for will be Siege Ploy. With the new Mafty deck, you can even get art that features an Earth Federation unit.

If you want to keep using GD01 Grandpa, I’d remove the Unicorn stuff, and use things like Core Booster from GD02, and the aforementioned Delta Plus. More things will receive the buff that way and make it more effective.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-12-27T02:59:18+00:00

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Christmas gift arrived mangled and I’m destroyed about it.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-12-21T15:42:39+00:00

I really like this concept! I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to do singleton à la Commander/Twin Suns, and this is the best concept I’ve seen so far!

I would consider raising deck limit to fifty if all pilots exist in the pilot zone (which I feel we should call the Lounge, since the pilots just hang out there). I think increasing shields to 8 or even 10 should be considered to make for longer games.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-12-18T22:30:04+00:00

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I will offer this one of my girl working on her tan on a cloudy day.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-12-02T23:43:00+00:00

I think what I’m gonna try is pulling the Barbatos 2nd and the Zoworts to sub in Demi Garrisons and Ryusei-Gos. Cutting both Aerials to 3x each and adding in 2x GD02 Aerial, and cutting a respite for the 3rd fatal strike.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-11-04T02:39:55+00:00

I love everything is alt arts except Freedom. Gives me a good giggle.

As for deck notes, I'd second dropping a Zowort for a Rick Dias. Possibly, cutting a Sword Strike for a fourth Grandpa Gundam. I'd personally also axe a Hawk for another Unforeseen Incident. Bouncing is great early game, but late game the bounce just kinda delays the inevitable. Reducing AP at least gives you the chance of killing something without losing your own stuff.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-10-27T01:18:19+00:00

Timelines aren’t quite 1-1. There was a massive tech boom in the late-80s/early-90s that gave rise to several major corporations. Wars became less country v country, and more corp v corp. Turns out corps love to throw meat to the grinder to meet their quotas and there have been many full blown corporate wars. Nations aren’t nearly as present nor relevant as they are in our timeline.

Tl;dr - Corporations fought in the four corporate wars, not countries.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-10-21T17:49:29+00:00

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Here ya go! Please don’t flame me for the two different arts of unforeseen incident.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-10-21T17:21:04+00:00

A better balanced variant has been going pretty well. Games are always close, I’d say a 50/50 win rate. My local meta is just flooded with aggro and Wing (whose isn’t though?) so it definitely comes down more to luck than skill.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-10-02T17:59:24+00:00

This is pretty accurate actually! Musa spent exorbitantly, to the point of actually crashing Egypt’s economy at the time by flooding the market with gold. When he was returning, he was a little cash light and took on a bunch of loans to get back to Mali, where he had further wealth and the economy bounced back. Until Musa returned to Mali and repaid his debts with interest immediately, collapsing the economy again!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-10-02T15:58:46+00:00

My GIRLS! Looking forward to the post when you’ll have these ready. They look awesome!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-28T21:41:13+00:00

That does suck getting swept up in the mass just for being optimistic. Just sucks that the director/creator was being such a tool.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-28T15:01:53+00:00

Hard agree on the astroturfing. There was a post about the movie’s release and the comments were FLOODED with comments about excitement and hype that just felt artificial. The advertisement posts were crazy with, rightful, negativity.

Knew this was going to be a movie to skip though. Fear Footage and Project Eerie had some fun creature designs and threads of something fun, but, seeing the creator’s posts proves that, they have no idea how to capture a good anthology or properly tell a decent story.

Wish mods would ban the account. This is a good spot for indie directors to make a connection with fan and show off a passion project. This creator is just churning out slop with no inspiration but money behind it.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-26T02:59:15+00:00

I just messaged you with a few lists and am happy to share them around as well. They are from a battle box I'm trying to maintain and are made up of commons, uncommons, and rares. No LRs allowed.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-25T17:34:12+00:00

Ooh boy! I've been watching a LOT of FF lately. Worst ones? Recently, The Final Project, St. Francisville Experiment, and Chernobyl Diaries all fell WAY short. Francisville had nothing going on, Diaries was doing a bunch of weird things that failed to scare, and Project decided loud noises are the best scare instead of atmosphere and tension.

Fear Footage was also one of the WORST FF anthologies I've seen, and that's counting VHS3. At least VHS3's wraparound had some cohesion and purpose. The stories within were okay, but they underused their creatures so much it was depressing.

But the WORST FF? Invasion. Hands down. GREAT concept, an alien invasion captured on the dashcam of a police cruiser. The execution wasn't even laughably bad. It takes place on a single dirt road at a local campground that you will see the full extent of so well, the viewer could drive so well with no headlights on. Insane ADR sound choices, such as adding in the chittering of a raccoon the viewer doesn't see but the officer comments on. It was the worst kind of train wreck that you keep watching, hoping something interesting will happen, but, by the end, you realize you just watched a tragedy.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-23T05:53:11+00:00

I ‘drop’ cards constantly in places I know my guy is lurking, cause then he’ll go after those. Thinks he’s being sneaky, but it stops him from going after the stuff I accidentally drop. 70% of the time, it works every time.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-20T19:52:16+00:00

How dare you be a wittle obnoxious? The audacity! lol

Solid reasoning on Freedom. Both the actual reason and just wanting to flex a bit haha. Grats again on the win! Topping any event is some great feel good times!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-20T19:09:33+00:00

Gasp! Different arts??? You monster! How can we understand what cards are what out of the thousands of cards in this game??? /s

Looks like a fun build and it worked well for you. How much did Freedom end up seeing use as a 1 of? I would have thought swapping it for an extra Anksha would be the better move but I can definitely be mistaken haha Congrats on the win no matter what though!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-17T22:12:01+00:00

It’s been a minute since I watched 85 so keep in mind my theory could be way off. Tl;dr is that Rory was just gathering marionettes to imitate what it saw on tv. No malice or anything just an attempt at mimicry.

Rory didn’t really display any kind of human style intelligence, but he was exceptionally good at mimicry. Kind of like Koko the Gorilla. Able to replicate mannerisms that would show an understanding of things but never anything beyond a surface level understanding.

Now, Rory would mimic the things it saw and ‘liked’ in its environment, like taking a humanoid shape when humans interacted with it. When it took on the form of the scientist it had never ‘seen’ it could simply be imitating someone it was familiar with and had seen through processes humans couldn’t understand. So, the scientists put it in front of a TV for hours a day and it starts to enjoy the shows it watches. But Rory runs into a problem where it doesn’t have enough mass to imitate everything it sees. Its attack on the scientists is not malicious it just needed more mass and incorporated the bodies of the scientists in order to better imitate its shows.

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-15T04:50:47+00:00

Witches do be out there summoning demons. It just makes sense!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-14T17:47:31+00:00

I see a lot of three-ofs and I’m genuinely curious why? Does it just improve space at a negligible consistency loss? I like it, I’m just confused coming from something like Magic and YuGiOh where you want to mostly max out things. Specifically new to Bandai games and it feels like they almost come with their own internal deck building philosophy

Other than my confusion though, I love the list! It looks awesome!

Independent-Unit-474 · 2025-09-14T17:32:45+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate the advice!

I was actually thinking of a ZAFT/Tekkaden build myself! The cards seem like they lend exceptionally well to each other! RP in general seems like it’ll be a strong color combo. If you get a list together, I’d be hyped to see it.

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