Dog Days Henchmen
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They’re henchmen. They’re not SUPPOSED to be replacing starters in your lineup. They’re there for bench bats, theme teams, and filling out collections.
[postscript: what @hobowillie_NSW said]
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@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
4 more to go
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@hobowillie_NSW said in Dog Days Henchmen:
These cards are for collecting only. 95% of the card releases are at this point.
These aren't henchmen. These are "can't even make the bench" men.
Is this who I think it is?
Also, I agree they aren't the Nostradamus exciting names but I love that Henchmen are playing a role in these programs. Every so often I stumble on a good one like Arenado, Vogelbach or Mountcastle.
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@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
This is reason #6 why I prefer offline. Nobody has a prohibitive swing or pitch selection or are unusable because they don't have Outlier or aren't fast enough. Most players are fun to use offline.
I totally get that most of you prefer online for the challenge, definitely not knocking it. But I enjoyed Ripken during TA2 last year and like with many other cards, was blissfully unaware that they don't play well on HoF or Legend.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
4 more to go
Wrong. Live content schedule says THREE bosses and five henchmen.
Last I checked, 3 - 1(Ripken) = 2 more to go. Like I said.
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@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
This is reason #6 why I prefer offline. Nobody has a prohibitive swing or pitch selection or are unusable because they don't have Outlier or aren't fast enough. Most players are fun to use offline.
I totally get that most of you prefer online for the challenge, definitely not knocking it. But I enjoyed Ripken during TA2 last year and like with many other cards, was blissfully unaware that they don't play well on HoF or Legend.
I play probably 80% offline and there are still some swings that are unusable even at Rookie. Ripken is one of those for me.
Glad you like him.
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@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
His swing could be fixed. I’m not sure if anyones tried his lower cards or if he even has any but a lot guys have better swings this year.
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@genopolanco_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
His swing could be fixed. I’m not sure if anyones tried his lower cards or if he even has any but a lot guys have better swings this year.
That's my hope. Ripken and Griffey were probably my 2 favorite non-Red Sox players growing up, so I'd love it if they fixed his swing.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@the_dragon1912 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@genopolanco_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
Yikes. Well at least we got those guys out of the way.
I mean I would take all 5 over the 5 we got in the FOD program. Henchmen is the only reasonable place you can put guys like this
That was a Classics pack, if you are speaking of the one with the Muncy AS card, FS Mountcastle, etc. This program had 9 Different 99 cards, which you can get four. The next program seems to be more like the programs of the prior games where you get a Henchmen choice pack and a Boss choice pack with three Bosses.
Either way, I agree that the 5 henchmen sound better than the 5 classics from this program. But I don’t think this program was a fail. I do wish I had more time. It seems though people complained when they made them 4 weeks long. So they really cut it down. The content has been fairly steady, and we reached the 99 overalls in the programs now.Sorry, I know I got away from your point.
Classics packs are still henchman. They are just wrapped differently. If you do PXP missions for program XP, it's a henchman. Even if I compared it to the all star program these are nice cards
You got a point. Just different wrapping. I wonder if we will get more than one of new henchmen packs. I guess we will be playing the new program soon.
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@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@the_dragon1912 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@the_dragon1912 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@genopolanco_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
Yikes. Well at least we got those guys out of the way.
I mean I would take all 5 over the 5 we got in the FOD program. Henchmen is the only reasonable place you can put guys like this
That was a Classics pack, if you are speaking of the one with the Muncy AS card, FS Mountcastle, etc. This program had 9 Different 99 cards, which you can get four. The next program seems to be more like the programs of the prior games where you get a Henchmen choice pack and a Boss choice pack with three Bosses.
Either way, I agree that the 5 henchmen sound better than the 5 classics from this program. But I don’t think this program was a fail. I do wish I had more time. It seems though people complained when they made them 4 weeks long. So they really cut it down. The content has been fairly steady, and we reached the 99 overalls in the programs now.Sorry, I know I got away from your point.
Classics packs are still henchman. They are just wrapped differently. If you do PXP missions for program XP, it's a henchman. Even if I compared it to the all star program these are nice cards
You got a point. Just different wrapping. I wonder if we will get more than one of new henchmen packs. I guess we will be playing the new program soon.
I think for all of these type of programs it's been pick 3 buy 2. I expect at least 2-3
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@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
This is reason #6 why I prefer offline. Nobody has a prohibitive swing or pitch selection or are unusable because they don't have Outlier or aren't fast enough. Most players are fun to use offline.
I totally get that most of you prefer online for the challenge, definitely not knocking it. But I enjoyed Ripken during TA2 last year and like with many other cards, was blissfully unaware that they don't play well on HoF or Legend.
I play probably 80% offline and there are still some swings that are unusable even at Rookie. Ripken is one of those for me.
Glad you like him.
I play mostly offline as I am not that great of a hitter for online but Ripkens swing was terrible when I selected him when he was a boss for a program a few years ago. I ended up not using him at all and I think I had like 100+ at bats with him.
I think my favorite swing in the game is Votto's or Foxx. Both hit bombs for me. I beat every showdown mission in this program's showdown with votto.
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Anything released that isn't a juiced future stars card is a win in my opinion.
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@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
I love using Percival. Glad to have him in the group. Keith Hernandez will be a nice bench bat on my Cardinals theme team.
I actually almost forgot Hernandez played for the Cardinals, didn’t he win a WS with them too? I just don’t see you replacing Pujols or Goldschmidt at 1B. I get it though, I like using all types of cards. They don’t have to be the best. I don’t know if he plays any other position, or would you just use him strictly to PH?
That was my first thought as well. Even Jordan Walker I believe has a 1B secondary. He will probably make my bench.
Would have preferred to finally get a Lou Brock Cardinal card.
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@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@dbub_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
First boss is definitely Ripken (sadly unusable with that swing).
Not a great start. 2 more to go.
This is reason #6 why I prefer offline. Nobody has a prohibitive swing or pitch selection or are unusable because they don't have Outlier or aren't fast enough. Most players are fun to use offline.
I totally get that most of you prefer online for the challenge, definitely not knocking it. But I enjoyed Ripken during TA2 last year and like with many other cards, was blissfully unaware that they don't play well on HoF or Legend.
I play probably 80% offline and there are still some swings that are unusable even at Rookie. Ripken is one of those for me.
Glad you like him.
Yeah, I have never been able to hit well with Ripkin when I chose him in the past.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
I love using Percival. Glad to have him in the group. Keith Hernandez will be a nice bench bat on my Cardinals theme team.
I actually almost forgot Hernandez played for the Cardinals, didn’t he win a WS with them too? I just don’t see you replacing Pujols or Goldschmidt at 1B. I get it though, I like using all types of cards. They don’t have to be the best. I don’t know if he plays any other position, or would you just use him strictly to PH?
That was my first thought as well. Even Jordan Walker I believe has a 1B secondary. He will probably make my bench.
Would have preferred to finally get a Lou Brock Cardinal card.
Yeah if I had to put my best Cardinals team forward, either Pujols or Goldy is at first and now Walker is at 3rd though I'm hoping to get a killer Arenado card for that spot. But I'll throw Keith in to do his missions and if I like his swing he can stick around.
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@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Dolenz_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@brainfreeze442 said in Dog Days Henchmen:
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Dog Days Henchmen:
I love using Percival. Glad to have him in the group. Keith Hernandez will be a nice bench bat on my Cardinals theme team.
I actually almost forgot Hernandez played for the Cardinals, didn’t he win a WS with them too? I just don’t see you replacing Pujols or Goldschmidt at 1B. I get it though, I like using all types of cards. They don’t have to be the best. I don’t know if he plays any other position, or would you just use him strictly to PH?
That was my first thought as well. Even Jordan Walker I believe has a 1B secondary. He will probably make my bench.
Would have preferred to finally get a Lou Brock Cardinal card.
Yeah if I had to put my best Cardinals team forward, either Pujols or Goldy is at first and now Walker is at 3rd though I'm hoping to get a killer Arenado card for that spot. But I'll throw Keith in to do his missions and if I like his swing he can stick around.
Yeah, that 1982 Cardinals Team was sure fun to watch and won the world series but I believe as a team that they hit the fewest HRs in the league so none of the players from that era (Ozzie, Hernandez) translate that well into the game.
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