Reply: King of Tokyo:: Strategy:: Re: Monster Batteries: Useless and should be removed? Strategies?

by edgd00

Monster Batteries may seem crappy at first but you need to know how to use them and only use them if they fit your strategy. Just last night I was playing a 6 player game and Monster Batteries came out early. No one wanted to buy it but no one wanted to sweep the other cards either. My strategy in that game was to sit back out of Tokyo and build up energies. It seemed unlikely that anyone was going to win by VP. After I had about 5 Energies, I bought the Batteries and dumped 3 Energies on it. Again, I continued to play defensively until I was able to harvest all the Energies and went on a big shopping spree to buy up Keep cards. After that, I pretty much stomped all over everyone. I won that game because of Monster Batteries.