choose 3 x-men to defend helms deep

Originally posted by darthgoober
Truth be told I see Pyro as being the most effective in this particular scenario. ALL armies carry torches and nothing can top the effectiveness of playing upon a living creature's primal fear of fire for dispersing large groups. 10 bucks says he'd have the army running home in terror of something like a Demon construct within a half an hour.

Originally posted by george '06
Nightcrawler would be fun to watch, teleporting the ladders out from udner the invaders while they try to climb

😂

Nah, Blink would be funnier.......

Its actually quite funy because I can picture it in my head. 😂

cyclops{less flexible but more range and power and precision than havok, plus better hand to hand and good leader, great long and shirt range destructive power and can shoot down magical flying creatures and missile like objects as well as dish major damage against advancing forces, also optic blasts dont tire him like plasma blasts from havok}

wolwerine{best berserker, healing factor will always keep him up and adamantium skeleon will provide resiliance to edged weapons, plus uber cutting claws make him the best close range engaging choice, also he hardly tires}

nightcrawler{amazing athlete/agile/swordsman to go up against swords, has spatial awareness and stealth and teleportation can precisely take out high priority targets and multiple targets out of brawling range as well as war engines etc and can almost never be targetted himself}

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Good thread.

I'd go with Colossus for the pure physical strength. He could bulldoze into armies of Uruk-Hai and knock them straight dead.

Wolverine for the quick slice and dicing. He could cut them up faster than they could swing a sword. He could just run along the top of Helms Deep killing the Uruks as they tried to climb over.**

I'd like to have Beast as a 3rd but you need range to balance it out so I would choose Cyclops.

**If Cyclops doesn't destroy the ladders before that.

Beast would probably get slain by a single Uruk 😛

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Beast would probably get slain by a single Uruk 😛

Beast would be slain by Colossus falling on him.

'Oh no, tovarisch!!!'

😆

can nightcrawler just drop off stuff in Limbo as he passes through?

I saw that people weren't picking Pyro because he'd be vulnerable to a stray arrow. Wouldn't the same apply to anyone without massive durability or healing (ie the Summers bros)?

Crossbows don't fire arrows.

Nightcrawler.

Just him. He can tp hoards into mount doom before they know what hit them.

Originally posted by cdtm
Nightcrawler.

Just him. He can tp hoards into mount doom before they know what hit them.

...

1) He can't teleport so far.

2) It would exhaust the shit out of him, if he did so many jumps in the row with the "passengers". Hell, it'd kill him.

3) His bamfs aren't instantaneous, plenty of time to take him down.

Especially considering the number of times he'd need to repeat them to beat the vast distance between Helm's Deep and Mt. Doom.

Throw Wolverine out there and he cuts people up.
Have Gambit and Colossus hanging back while Colossus hucks massive pieces of charged rocks at orcs.

Colossus could also reinforce walls or create vast pits just outside them.

I mean he'd die in the attack, but he could do change the battlefield enough to put a stop to things.

A scenerio like you, you want someone like Nitro or Ice Man.

But I guess the point is no area attacks.

The Wolverine types, then. They could fight for days, and go through pretty much anything.

Just noticed Pyro is here, which means area attack bombs.

The Helms Deep wall, including the roundish citadel wall looks to be around 1.5 to 2.5 times the length of a football field. As much as Wolverine doesn't tire or Colossus doesn't get injured, how are two human-sized melee fighters going to be effective at covering such a large front? The sheer number of Uruk-hai would easily dog pile on top of Logan; or Piotr will become waist deep in dead orcs, further limiting his movement.

Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, and Pyro then.

Pyro sets up walls of flame, while the other two set up oil and torch's around choke points, and then immediately take out the leaders (Doesn't matter how big an army is, without leadership. Death of leaders end wars.)

Originally posted by gauntlet o doom
The Helms Deep wall, including the roundish citadel wall looks to be around 1.5 to 2.5 times the length of a football field. As much as Wolverine doesn't tire or Colossus doesn't get injured, how are two human-sized melee fighters going to be effective at covering such a large front? The sheer number of Uruk-hai would easily dog pile on top of Logan; or Piotr will become waist deep in dead orcs, further limiting his movement.

Colossus swings Logan like a bat.

Originally posted by -Pr-
Colossus swings Logan like a bat.

A flaming bat, if Pyro's there. 👆