by BananaCrapshoot
Hello Champions. Recently we finished season X of the Side Scheme‘a Draft League we call the Scheme league. Each season we change up for format and for season x we had something special for the players. We took all the products released so far and tried to weave a semi-cohesive story using elements from all the scenarios/campaign boxes we could. The campaign was well received by our players so we wanted to share this with the rest of the community.
For the league we have 2 player teams, and players are allowed to play solo two handed if they want. So we draft heroes and aspects and play each of these 2 player/2 handed. However this is fine if played solo By you! the 2 player focus is just how we run the Scheme league.
If you want to play through the campaign here you go-
Prologue:
The heroes get a call from Nick Fury that someone has taken over a secret research facility and appears to be attempting to steal an infinity gem stored there.
Your team travels to this research facility just a few kilometers outside of Las Vegas and find the place completely destroyed.
Then your quinjet is hit and crashes to the ground. When you regain your bearings a tall metal figure stands before you with a purple glowing gem in his grasp. He’s surrounded by warriors from a distant past and you hear a powerful roar not too far away. Ultron Drones swarm as as they fight begins.
Scenario 1: Expert Ultron with temporal, power stone, and experimental weapons.
Track player health, total threat on main scheme at end of game(if main scheme has multiple stages include threat threshold from previous stages) also track total rounds for tiebreakers
Win on first attempt -5 points
Win with both players alive - 3 points
End game with 0 threat on main scheme - 3 points
If you finish with :
(0-4 points)- pick an out of aspect event in your card pool and you may add it to your card pool for the rest of the campaign
(5-10 points)- pick an out of aspect support or upgrade and you may add it to your card pool
(11 points)- pick an out of aspect ally and you may add it to your card pool
You can play as many copies as you want of that one card split between teams decks. If you unlock a higher tier reward you also get the previous tiers too.
These cards are unlocked per team and not per player. But they are apart of your deckbuilding card pool for the rest of the campaign.
A battered Ultron lay seemingly “lifeless” on the ground. You take the power stone and call Fury on comms, he instructs you to get to a nearby city to a safe house and await extraction.
when you get to the city you hear a menacing laughter from the distance. A figure riding what appears to be a stream of fire and smoke approaches, the laughing gets louder and you see it’s the Green Goblin coming at you throwing pumpkin bombs and cansiters of gas all around. He’s closing in on you and you prepare for the fight.
As you are about to engage goblin a beam of light appears from the sky and more minions appear. Outriders and black order lackeys approach your flank! You dig in for an even tougher fight.
Scenario 2: Expert Mutagen Formula with Armies of Titan, Goblin Gimmicks, Power stone
Win on first attempt -5 points
Win with both players alive - 3 points
End game with 0 threat on main scheme - 3 points
If you get 0-4 points - pick one basic upgrade condition from RoRS(1 each player)
If you get 5-10 points flip that upgrade to the improved side
If you get 11+ points pick 1 tech upgrade from the RoRS campaign(1 per team, not 1 per player)
You defeat wave after wave of goblin thralls and fight back the armies of Titan. But as you are about to defeat goblin there’s a huge explosion under your feet Green Goblin laughs crazily as he takes the power stone from the ground. He looks to the heroes and says “predictable heroes fell right into my trap!”
He takes flight and leaves. As he does his glider turns to jelly and the whole area appears to change. Almost as if you stepped through a portal to another dimension. All of a sudden you see what used to be the White House in front of you, but it’s all red. Before you stands the Red Skull and in his hand is the reality gem.
Your team has regained their composure by this point. You ready yourself for incoming assault.
Scenario 3: Expert Red Skull with legions of hydra, bomb scare, and hydra patrol,
Win on first attempt - 3 points
Win with both heroes alive - 3 points
Win with no side schemes in play at end of game - 3 points
Defeat the sleeper - 2 points
If you got 0-4 points- you have 3 units (as a team) to spend
On campaign upgrade from GMW to add to your deck
If you got 5-9 points -you have 7 units (as a team) to spend
On campaign upgrade from GMW to add to your deck
If you got 10+ points- you have 10 units (as a team) to spend
On campaign upgrade from GMW to add to your deck
*Note you only get the credits for the level you reached not those lesser ones also
After a tough battle against Madame Hydra, hydra minions and Red Skull himself. You stand, but are unsteady after the string of battles you’ve just endured. Red Skull, on his knees in front of you. The area reverts back to its real state, you are still inside the city where you fought green goblin. You look to the side and see Norman Osborn on the ground, lifeless, but you don’t see the power gem.
Red Skull coughing, stands to his feet, grasps the reality gem and his eye go wide as a blade plunges through his bak and is protruding out of his chest. Corvus Glaive rips the gem from his hand and tosses the limp body aside. A portal opens and Thanos steps through. Ebony Maw glides over to the group from where Normans body was, you notice the power gem in his grasp. The rest of the black order appears through the portal and Thanos places the 2 final gems into the infinity Gauntlet.
“I am here to prove my love to lady death, and with the infinity gems I can prove to my beloved that I am deserving of her love.” Thanos begins monologuing. “I will defeat you pathetic heroes and then nothing will stop me from wiping half of the lives in this universe from existing”
Thanos clenches his gauntleted fist, waves his hand forward, the black order and the mad Titan approach you.
Scenario 4: expert Thanos with the children of Thanos, black order, the infinity gauntlet
* begin this game with the same Health you ended the previous scenario, If your health was higher than your starting HP, begin at your starting HP*
- special rules-
1. When you defeat an elite minion remove them from the game
Win on first attempt - 3 points
Win with both players alive- 3 points
Gain 1 point for each elite minion you removed from the game.
If you got 1-4 points - each player may add 1 copy of Schwarma to their deck
If you got 5-9 points- you get the Cosmo campaign ally from MTS to use for your team
If you got 10+ points- each player may add a Norn stone campaign upgrade from MTS to their deck
After going blow for blow with the mad Titan and defeating his children and the black order. Thanos decides enough is enough and he’s about to use the gems to just kill you all. The heroes, injured and tired from the gauntlet of fighting they’ve done this day, Are about to black out from exhaustion. Thanos goes to snap and He appears to suddenly freeze just before he can snap. The heroes regain their composure and pull themselves to their feet at the sight of Thanos’ skull being crushed, his body goes limp and the gauntlet falls to the ground. A hand picks up the gauntlet and puts it on.
“Now, this is the moment, the council has indicated. We can now conquer an infinite number of worlds in a infinite amount of timelines” Kang the conquer says. “You have fought well today heroes, and it is in this moment where you will be defeated and stop me from conquering no longer”
Scenario 5: Expert Kang with Anachronauts, master of time, and the infinity gauntlet
* special rules*
- if the players lose the game you lose the scenario/campaign and are defeated (1 attempt only, you are fighting for every life in every past, present, and future in every timeline here folks)
- In player order at the end of step 12 of the game set up, in player order, each player discards cards from the top of the encounter deck until you discard a minion, put that minion into play engaged with you. Do not resolve any when revealed effects. Then shuffle the discarded cards back into the encounter deck.
— when you enter stage 2 the infinity deck is considered to be in another game area so it does not effect stage 2 Kang.
Epilogue:
Endless versions of Kang continue to descend upon the heroes. You gain beat back wave after wave. Defeating the Anachronauts and finally taking the infinity gauntlet from Kang the Conqueror.
More Kangs are approaching you, now wary as your team has all the infinity gems.
A bunch of portals open up around you and a bunch of Reed Richards appear around you, all with their own infinity gauntlets glowing with immeasurable power.
The army of Kang’s react to this by slowly disappearing to wherever it is in time defeated Kang’s go.
“Great job heroes, sorry it took us so long to get here. I know you guys had a rough day but we were dealing something even worse than Kang, and we need your help”
A portal opens and on the other Side you see a vast cosmos but in the center of your view is a world being devoured.
Reed Richards steps through the portal offering you to follow….