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I can't speak for balance, obviously, but rules definitely don't suck. It's basically Warhammer Underworlds with X-wing list building and a more interesting activation mechanic.
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I am disappointed they didn't include Teela & Beast Man, but if they did, why would I need to buy anything else?
Yeah, I thought that was odd at first, but given that there are only a limited number of female characters, it makes sense that they would space them out over the expansions.
bbb wrote: I'm shocked they went with Scareglow so soon.
Scareglow's been getting all the love. Showed up real early in the MegaBloks and ReAction toy lines, too.
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Setup is a miserable 10 minutes of counting hexes to place all the terrain correctly on the rather large board.
Even with just 3 dudes per side it's quite overwhelming with the amount of options available on your activation. You're building an "engine" every turn by trying to match funky "during this activation, this special thing applies..." effects with characters whose abilities will benefit most from the effect, while also managing action allowance, mana, activation order and secondary objectives all at once.
The rules need a serious cover-to-cover read as they're too scattered for easy reference. Once you get it, they seem pretty consistent and make sense.
I liked it but it might be one of those games that needs a "main game" slot in your brain if you want to play even remotely well, while not yet having the variety of factions/models to make that worth it.
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I remember the Masters of the Universe toys. The original 8-
Skeletor He-Man
Beastman Man at Arms
Merman Stratos
Zodac Teela
... All came with mini-comics. And they were grim: Eternia was a war torn apocalypse, Prince Adam did not exist, and anything as silly and comic-relief oriented as Orko would have died in minutes- if something as ridiculous as Orko could even have been born in the first place.
When people talk about Guilliman, Cawl, and the Primaris killing off 40k's grimdark, it is NOTHING compared to what that atrocity of a cartoon did to the Masters of the Universe.
I was a pretty grim little kid, and I loved Masters of the Universe until that stupid carton messed everything up. I stopped buying the toys when Prince Adam was made into an action figure.
I'll take Guilliman and Cawl over Adam and Orko any day of the week. I'll still always love the muscled barbarian and the skull faced warrior who were fighting to KILL each other, so that they could steal their enemy's half of the sword and use the assembled weapon to open Castle Greyskull and take over the world of Eternia.
PenitentJake wrote: I remember the Masters of the Universe toys. The original 8-
Skeletor He-Man
Beastman Man at Arms
Merman Stratos
Zodac Teela
... All came with mini-comics. And they were grim: Eternia was a war torn apocalypse, Prince Adam did not exist, and anything as silly and comic-relief oriented as Orko would have died in minutes- if something as ridiculous as Orko could even have been born in the first place.
When people talk about Guilliman, Cawl, and the Primaris killing off 40k's grimdark, it is NOTHING compared to what that atrocity of a cartoon did to the Masters of the Universe.
I was a pretty grim little kid, and I loved Masters of the Universe until that stupid carton messed everything up. I stopped buying the toys when Prince Adam was made into an action figure.
I'll take Guilliman and Cawl over Adam and Orko any day of the week. I'll still always love the muscled barbarian and the skull faced warrior who were fighting to KILL each other, so that they could steal their enemy's half of the sword and use the assembled weapon to open Castle Greyskull and take over the world of Eternia.
This Prince Adam stuff?
Yeah, not remotely interested.
There were many different iterations of He-Man over the years. This year a comic has been released in which all those time periods are addressed as the protagonists must travel from multiverse to multiverse (similar to Injustice) in order to stop the villain. Great comic and the best was the introduction of the He-Man period of the Filmation cartoons in which all characters give themselves sensible advice each day in order to better themselves. Annoying and hilarious at the same time! The different art styles make those characters really pop.
Did you fine reactionaries read what the guy wanted?
... All came with mini-comics. And they were grim: Eternia was a war torn apocalypse, Prince Adam did not exist, and anything as silly and comic-relief oriented as Orko would have died in minutes- if something as ridiculous as Orko could even have been born in the first place.
I'll still always love the muscled barbarian and the skull faced warrior who were fighting to KILL each other, so that they could steal their enemy's half of the sword and use the assembled weapon to open Castle Greyskull and take over the world of Eternia.
I half suspected he was trolling and intentionally described Revelations.
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> When people talk about Guilliman, Cawl, and the Primaris killing off 40k's grimdark, it is NOTHING compared to what that atrocity of a cartoon did to the Masters of the Universe.
Yahbut the cartoons are what sold the toys. This was the time of the "30 minute commercial" where every show had a nauseating comic relief character. Did Skeletor do PSA's?
The Toy Galaxy YT channels has some great videos about the business behind various toys, including He-Man:
PenitentJake, do not watch Revelations if you are posting in sincerity. I...uh...don't think you will like it.
Revelation is considered in the MOTU community as the worst of the worst in all of MOTUs many iterations.
The complaints were mostly from bunch of incel types/MAGA chuds or people who didnt watch part 2. The story was pretty epic, and even Orko came out looking badass. My only real complaint was how much of a tool Teela came off as.
PenitentJake, do not watch Revelations if you are posting in sincerity. I...uh...don't think you will like it.
Revelation is considered in the MOTU community as the worst of the worst in all of MOTUs many iterations.
The complaints were mostly from bunch of incel types/MAGA chuds or people who didnt watch part 2. The story was pretty epic, and even Orko came out looking badass. My only real complaint was how much of a tool Teela came off as.
No. Not even close.
The whole show was someone else's shot that missed. The "story" was nothing but a cash-grab, using the characters as member-berries.
It would have sucked just as bad if you called Her-Dejah Thoris, Him-John Carter, or Skeletor- Tars Tarkass.
Smith should have just come out and laid it on the table, instead of pulling the JJ Schlep-Rock school of story telling. The off screen antics absolutely lost him a lot of Nerd-cred.
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I always find it odd how the MOTU fandom seem to hate any stories that aren't substantially about He-Man whereas the Transformers fandom is utterly sick of stories about Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.
The complaints were mostly from bunch of incel types/MAGA chuds or people who didnt watch part 2. The story was pretty epic, and even Orko came out looking badass. My only real complaint was how much of a tool Teela came off as.
100% agree. It was a really good series. I think I still enjoy the 200X He-Man series slightly more, but Revelation was quality stuff.
lord_blackfang wrote: Yea I exited the online MOTU groups when it turned out it's one of those fandoms that's randomly 90% misogynists.
I mean, it makes sense. He-Man is a male power fantasy.
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The complaints were mostly from bunch of incel types/MAGA chuds or people who didnt watch part 2. The story was pretty epic, and even Orko came out looking badass. My only real complaint was how much of a tool Teela came off as.
100% agree. It was a really good series. I think I still enjoy the 200X He-Man series slightly more, but Revelation was quality stuff.
lord_blackfang wrote: Yea I exited the online MOTU groups when it turned out it's one of those fandoms that's randomly 90% misogynists.
I mean, it makes sense. He-Man is a male power fantasy.
Oof. Maybe it's because I'm not that much of a MOTU fan, really, (never had any, I was a Transformers/G.I. Joe kid), but I found it middling to bad, particularly when comparing it to the excellent She-Ra reboot.
Of course, it didn't really help that IMHO the second batch of episodes was much worse than the first (I did like the first batch well enough), or that it came so close to Arcane...
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Teela's arc was poorly written, no argument there. But part 2 definitely unmasked all the troglodytes hiding their bigotry behind claims like "the director hates Adam/Orco/all men" as just plain old lying sacks of gak. And it was well worth seeing just for the scenes where feral He-man starts... and ends.
(Also: congrats to insaniak, you got some sprue clipping to do )
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