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Playing the last few days with the banned/restricted list, and it has already improved tactic-card diversity, as expected.

Personally the game is in an absolutely excellent place right now, barring the really tiny list of outliers. Cabal Modok is still a little disgusting though. ;-)

https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1316428336390975489/photo/1

Wolverine and Sabertooth cards are up.

Both beaters with healing. I don't personally agree with Logan having a throw and Creed without one, but not really enough to make me mad.

It seems X-Men/BoEM will be real contenders in the game.
Good, as I plan to play entirely with them

Toad card is up:

https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1318667125632897029

Great looking objective grabber. Extra movement, extraction manipulation, even a Push. And for 2 rep.

 drazz wrote:
Toad card is up:

https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1318667125632897029

Great looking objective grabber. Extra movement, extraction manipulation, even a Push. And for 2 rep.

He's SUPER power starved, which will make him very dependent on Magneto's leadership to do everything he wants.... I like it.

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/122090014_898312694031517_3867308309585021058_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=mEkpc0UBoikAX8yKcKd&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=0b411af73b9bc3ae6732cda89a2468c7&oe=5FB783F1

Magneto looks absolutely awesome!

I know competitively this game is ga-ga for the 3pt spam meta, but for the vast majority of players Magneto is going to be a BEAST.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:

I know competitively this game is ga-ga for the 3pt spam meta

I have literally never heard anyone say this before. I'm curious where you're hearing that.

I know there's a guy on the TTS league running 7 model Guardians of the Galaxy at 17 points. Not sure if that's what NewTruthNeomaxim is talking about.

I think the list is something like:

Star Lord 3
Rocket 2
Drax 3
Nebula 2
Valkyrie 3
Okoye 2
Black Widow 2

Not to get into this debate too much, but there are definitely a variety of ways to build in this game, making it a great system. Three point character spam is an option, but I really see more lists with at least 1 bruiser than I see spam. Sooner is a good example of the spam list. That said a great 3 point character is always a boon.

Magneto is strong. I don't know if I love the leadership, but everything else is solid.

Just remember that he is not starting with any constructs on the board. So, power gen is still going to be a bit slow.

 drazz wrote:
Not to get into this debate too much, but there are definitely a variety of ways to build in this game, making it a great system. Three point character spam is an option, but I really see more lists with at least 1 bruiser than I see spam. Sooner is a good example of the spam list. That said a great 3 point character is always a boon.

Magneto is strong. I don't know if I love the leadership, but everything else is solid.

Just remember that he is not starting with any constructs on the board. So, power gen is still going to be a bit slow.

+5 by turn 2 is quite good and he's got a fantastic builder. His leadership can pump out a ton of power with and against the right team, though so far it looks like he'll need to find some out of affiliation ways to destroy more terrain than he's capable of on his own. Against a throw happy team he can generate quite a lot though.

Who are some cheap throwers? Oh yeah, Valkerie and Wolverine?

And Punisher for the win.

 drazz wrote:
Who are some cheap throwers? Oh yeah, Valkerie and Wolverine?

And Punisher for the win.

Drax, Doc Ock, and Wasp are all 3 cost with the ability to throw terrain along with Valk and Punisher.

Looks like Inhumans are coming next year. AMG has been teasing portions of sculpts for what is clearly Black Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, and Lockjaw.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHOi0YnH7qY/?igshid=1z0bs0xy8ozg

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHOi0YnH7qY/?igshid=1z0bs0xy8ozg

https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1324417121858715648/photo/1

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelCrisisProtocol/comments/jo5cpv/when_the_king_speaks/

And all the XMen cards have been released as well.

AND new additions for members of team affiliations coming from the XMen.

I would not have guessed Inhumans to be the next round.
I might skip, never knew much about them.
My guess is that they will be like Wakanda for a bit, just two box sets and like a 4 character affiliation for a bit.
Still waiting for Mbaku for Wakanda.

No way they're doing Inhumans without Kamala Khan, IMO.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
No way they're doing Inhumans without Kamala Khan, IMO.

Easily. Despite being one she seldom interacts with them.

Kamala Khan is another i dont know much about TBH.
She seems cool though.
I just want Angel :( he is on the card Art.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Kamala Khan is another i dont know much about TBH.
She seems cool though.
I just want Angel :( he is on the card Art.

She’s an Inhuman, a random kid who got caught when the cloud that activates Inhuman powers was randomly floating around the world a while back. Idolizes Ms/Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, so adopted that name. Her power set is basically Mr Fantastic plus Ant/Giant Man, with a bit of a healing factor thrown in. She doesn’t do any one of those as well as the characters who only do that, but it’s a nice collection. She’s a second generation Pakistani immigrant Muslim, so a lot of people hated her initially as she came out in that crop of not-white-dudes who were subbing in for various well known heroes. She also tended to get hated on for her tendency to be a kid and reference various memes, not like constantly, but enough that you notice. Personally I found the memeing realistic, and the heritage well done as they managed to make it an important aspect of her character without making her story about her heritage.

The main group of Inhumans know about her, and they Have interacted, most noticeably when they initially sent Lockjaw to keep tabs on her for a bit. She’s not really affiliated with the Inhumans though. If she shows up I’d imagine it would be part of a Champions release, which I’d be down for. We already have Miles. Actually, you could proxy most of a Champions team with Miles, Hulk, Vision, are X Men giving us Cyclopes? Hmmmm...

YEah her and the inhumans might just be one i skip. Doesnt really interest me. Depends on the sculpts.
They are kinda starting to get into territory I as a non-comic reader dont know much about lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs6Zur_2IpM

Incoming X-Force and Sinister. Boxes: Cable/Domino, Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver, Mr. Sinister, Deadpool/Bob/Taco Truck.

EDIT: Quarter 2.

The options on Deadpool are great. I'm not much of a Cable fan but that sculpt is actually worth it. Glad to finally have QS and SW. Basically down to needing Falcon and Warmachine to finish up the MCU. (Yondu/Mantis and some villains otherwise).

QS and SW early next year also makes sense with WandaVision beginning in January. They are also confirmed as Brotherhood. I wonder if they will be Avengers too?

 drazz wrote:
QS and SW early next year also makes sense with WandaVision beginning in January. They are also confirmed as Brotherhood. I wonder if they will be Avengers too?

They will absolutely be Avengers. Zero question there. AMG has been really loosening up the Affiliation restrictions lately, but these guys were always going to be in both, IMO.

Curious that their box is CP63 though. They came from WAY down the pipeline.

That is one of the most well produced video for a miniatures game I've ever seen.

Too much blue tac or whatever they were using to hold the alternate heads in place, makes that neck joint look really bad in the video.

My X-men arrived today... I've got to say, I winced REALLY badly at the receipt, realising that back, YEARS ago when I played 40k, I could get half an army for the price of 8 miniatures...

Haven't played a game yet, of course, I only really started getting it from when lockdown started.

It looks like I'll be happy to skip out on the Inhumans, but seeing all those new X-Force releases in the video, really made me go, "oh no... I want them all."

I mean, its kinda how it goes. But right now, the price of those 8 wouldnt equal a third of a 40k army.

I assume a decent amount of that is the IP tax, I remember in the early 2000s when all the LotR miniatures were marked up compared to the generic GW ones. But overall I find the quality of the sculpts (some mold lines aside) are very high, and the game goes fast, so your $ per hour ends up being lower overall. At least my experience, I'm sure a competitive/tournament player has a better rate of return.

Having just got a Phobos Librarian.... they’re not that bad.