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So, has anybody made any plans on which alts they'll use during the next incarnation of the game?

I've already made my picks like so:

Stormwolf: Large animal
Fireblast: Targetmaster vehicle
Crimson: Heavy attack vehicle
Air Blade: Targetmaster Air vehicle
War Blade: Tank
Turboblast: Medium Vehicle
Hyper: Light attack vehicle
Flame Strike: Heavy attack vehicle
Sky Raider: Fighter
Omicron: Walker vehicle
Scorcher: AA Tank
Novablaster: Spaceship


Has anybody else been tossing around with a potential new setup?

Jesus Prime -
The Legion -
Manhattan Project -
Error Threshold -
The King In Yellow -
Shadow Moses -
Rechargabel -
Saint Vitus -
Gram Negative -
Golden Ratio -
Unicron -
Locomotive Breath -

oh yeah, not even sure which of the 30 or so characters i'm gonna use yet but these 7 are the most likely the other 5 will most likely be tanks.

Blitzfix -
Hifix -
Blitzweld -
Sturmram -
Shieldwing -
Eyeshield -
Blitzwheel -

Rather than just picking "cool" alts, I'm also trying to balance my team as much as possible with the new tactics...

Faction: Decepticon

Brutallica - - Heavy Vehicle, Ram/Absorb/Charge

Scantron - - Spaceship, Strafe/Absorb/Dogfight

Chillout - - Headmaster Vehicle, Headmaster/Ram/Charge

Heatstroke - - Targetmaster Air Vehicle, Targetmaster/Avoid/Strafe

Styx - - Walker Vehicle, Fireblast/Charge/Catch

Sonicatrix - - Gizmo, Stealth/Avoid/Fireblast

Laser Scalpel - - Demolition Vehicle, Repair/Ram/Multi-Repair

Disrepair - - Heavy Rescue Vehicle, Ram/Repair/Absorb

Jumbotron - - Battlestation, Fireblast/Multi-Repair/Absorb

Shatterwing - - Interceptor, Avoid/Dogfight/Strafe

Timeframe - - AA Tank, Anti-Air/Ram/Fireblast

Flashburn - - Weapon, Fireblast/Anti-Air/Catch

1. Strong Air Animal [Drop/Ram/Avoid]


2. Noble Land Animal [Charge/Bite/Multi-Repair]


3. Fast Sea Creature[Ram/Avoid/Stealth]


4. Tank [Fireblast/Ram/Absorb]


5. Small Land Animal [Stealth/Avoid/Slash]


6. Nimble Land Animal [Stealth/Avoid/Bite]


7. Fast Land Animal [Avoid/Slash/Catch]

Noble Land Animal [Charge/Bite/Multi-Repair]


8. Hunter [Catch/Bite/Charge]


9. Noble Air Animal [Bite/Multi-Repair/Dogfight]


And alas, even though I drew up my v2 team based on the new Alts, I still wound up with three that don't have good representations.

10. Doe (A female Deer)

11. Wild Boar / Razorback

12. Orca / Killer Whale - This ones is still flexible, since I haven't finished his bio yet.

I'll probably regret choosing my alts based on aesthetics rather than tactics, but c est la vie.

Since I'm going from to :MAX: ...

Windracer:
Aurora:
Raider:
Aquila:
Stormflash:
Blaze:
Raindance:
Silverblade:
Frostbite:
Wildstrike:
Feralbrawn:
Snowfire:


And if we ever get extra character slots...
Timecharge:
Alcatraz:
Saberwing:
Echo / Ecco:
Leatherblade:

Windracer wrote:And if we ever get extra character slots...

Oh God, please! Caveat Emptor wants to live!

Jesus Prime wrote:

Windracer wrote:And if we ever get extra character slots...

Oh God, please! Caveat Emptor wants to live!

Hnh, as do Jason, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Orion, and Bellerophon.

Caelus wrote:

Jesus Prime wrote:

Windracer wrote:And if we ever get extra character slots...

Oh God, please! Caveat Emptor wants to live!

Hnh, as do Jason, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, Orion, and Bellerophon.

as do the 24 other characters i currently have "benched"

No idea, haven't seen the full alt listing yet. I'd like to have a few the same alts, though.

As I'm going RED:
I don't know if I will kill off any yet but this is what I have so far

Transistors or

Thundersky or


Spidertron or

Lightingstrike

Angelica

Ultrafire

Depthstalker

Spunky

Silent Strike

Curves

Bloodthirst

Waves

Eh I just picked out my main six

1. or or
2.
3. or or
4.
5.
6.

dont't know what alt to us in v2

I'm probably scraping my team and starting over come V2,
but
If I had to pick new Alts for my current team...

Disillusioned -
Zealot -
Limit -
Revolution -
Necropsy -
Bunzirra -
Dark Claw -
Disruption -
Rekon -
Tracer -
Gremlatron -
Kludge -

Not final decisions, but an idea of what I'm planning with some sort of balance of land, air and sea alts.

Air
Starcomet-

Highrider-

Bahamut-

Cybuster-

Land

Clawshot-

Grimmjow-

Volcanon-

Bladelock-

Master Tech-

Sea
Dracolaser-

Granzon-

Neovolt-

Starlock wrote:Not final decisions, but an idea of what I'm planning with some sort of balance of land, air and sea alts.

You are a wiser player than I...

-Maximus Prime-
Heavy Vehicle [Ram/Absorb/Charge]

Blazer Prime
Heavy Rescue Vehicle [Ram/Repair/Absorb]

Meds
Light Rescue Vehicle [Repair/Avoid/Ram]

Revver
Medium Vehicle [Ram/Charge/Catch]

Sonicblast (Although I'd like to have a different fighter jet alt for him, but I'm gonna go with this for now)
Interceptor [Avoid/Dogfight/Strafe]

Searcher
Targetmaster Air Vehicle [Targetmaster/Avoid/Strafe]

Boltbrain
Heavy Vehicle [Ram/Absorb/Charge]

Steelwraith
Targetmaster Vehicle [Targetmaster/Ram/Fireblast]

-Speed Demon-
Racecar [Catch/Avoid/Charge]

-Bigrig-
Medium Vehicle [Ram/Charge/Catch]

-Burnout-
Light Vehicle [Avoid/Charge/Stealth]

-Rapidfire-
Racecar [Catch/Avoid/Charge]

All of these are subject to change, of course, if any changes to the Alt Rotater are made in the future.

EDIT 09/05: With the addition of the Topkick pickup, Boltbrain will now become a Topkick.

EDIT 09/10: Good thing I re-checked the alt list or I never would have seen that Mkall added the Aston Martin Vanquish to the 'Bots list! So now Revver is going to be what he was meant to be all along: the Vanquish.

EDIT 10/19: Changed -Bigrig- to the Dodge Nitro since it was the closest one to a regular Hummer H2 as I'm going to get.

my team in a nutshell

Terrorcons form the Gestalt
Abominus

Cutthroat
Large Air Animal [Drop/Dogfight/Avoid]

Sinnertwin
Large Animal [Slash/Charge/Bite]

Blot
Large Animal [Slash/Charge/Bite]

Rippersnapper
Sea Creature [Bite/Avoid/Slash]

Hun-Grrr
Large Animal [Slash/Charge/Bite]

CLONES

Wingspan
Large Air Animal [Drop/Dogfight/Avoid]

Pounce
Large Animal [Slash/Charge/Bite]


Powermasters form DREADWING

Darkwing
Targetmaster Air Vehicle [Headmaster/Avoid/Strafe]

Dreadwind
Targetmaster Air Vehicle [Headmaster/Avoid/Strafe]

Firecon

Sparkstalker
Small Animal [Avoid/Catch/Charge]


Headmaster Jr.

Horri-Bull
Headmaster Creature [Headmaster/Bite/Avoid]


Triggercon

Windsweeper
Interceptor [Avoid/Dogfight/Strafe]

the non-canon alts are subject to change if the canon becomes available. if more extra slots ever become open i will get a medic,tank,Walker Vehicle,or a Shuttle.

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might make blue that ship
might make green and bug into fighter jets
notsure about red and white
prolly leave the others as they are

The only ones of mine that will have to change are

TK-421 - Was Sith infiltrator will be or (Star Wars based char so....

x5-452 - Based on Max from Dark Angel, Has to be a bike so i will wait to seethe as yet un realised bike alts for the cons *crosses fingers*

Prisoner 655321 - Was energon Rodimus (which was repainted to be a prison truck at one point i beleve) - I'll probably just choose some big truck thing in the end as his alt is now bot only.

Red5 - was this alt which i thought looked X-wing-esk, as i can't have that or , i'm going for , which to my twisted mind looks like a short x-wing...

Haven't really thought about it untill now but looking over the list I'd go for:

Stormspark -

Dawnraid -

Artillerus -

Pyreblast -

Gwix - Not really happy about this one, but it's the only bike the cons have.

Devastis -

Quickfang -

Retcon -

Patchfix -

Mudstomp -


And I will probably kill off the other two, will replace them with one from the interceptor list and one undecided.

For 3 of my characters(Vaynelock, Caniac, and Cacciatore) i may have to wait and see what overlaps for the Maximal's land vehicle

Vaynelock/Caniac -
Cacciatore -
Raphael Prime(keeping his)-
Ryche(possibly keeping his, possibly changing)-
Fanga Fett(keeping his)-
Zippo(will keep his aswell)-
Amaranth(may keep current type)- Or gain a new alt with(if it overlaps)
and Enforcero may be changed to this-

The fates of my other characters have yet to be decided

I'll be going Maximal so

Airhawk -

Rapidblast -

Darkwave -

Clawtooth -

Skylift -

Wreckwheeler -

Lightway -

Hardspark -

Nightspeed -

Rapidwreck -

Ri-Block -

Primehawk -

Dreath

Bombcorpse

Scarscream

Postmortem

Morbid-Core

Rotorskull

Hallow

Gorgoroth

Asphyx

Skurge

Carcass

Enthline