Armor Wars

[Spriggan]

Lots of figs have snuck into the figure gallery includeing Capts, Iron Man and Warmachine.

Also let me say I'm glad Kije isn't collecting HC anymore since I don't want to have to play against that new Iron Man.

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/marvel/figuregallery.asp?releaseid=61

And here's the unique that comes with buying the brick Anthony Stark in very retro Iron Man armor, I would venture a guess and say that's the first Iron Man from way back.

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/marvel/figuregallery.asp?unitid=8773

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Yeah, that was Iron Man from way back in #1. Classic robot invasion Iron Man

[Lieutenant Kije]

The new Cap is nice, but I like his ultimates version better sculpt- and dial-wise.  Comparing vets, ultimates gives you a better dial (imo) for 12 points less.

And alas, that new Iron Man is nice.  Great to have him with a solid attack value.  That was always my gripe with the fig.

[Spriggan]

Look there's new news on the web!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rock810/album?.dir=/mail

blurry but gots most of the figs, also the people over at Hcrealms says its not much of a theme set unless it's supposed to be an X-man set since that's who most of the figs are.

sculpt/figure wise nothing too impressive to me, though I'm not that knowledgeable in Marvel.  Though I do like the Magneto sculpt since it's different and the Shaman sculpt is cool looking as well as the Spidy (though lately all the Spidy sculpts have been good).

[Spriggan]

Well now looky here, the phonix for the mail-away with Armor was is different then the con-exclusive, she's on the X-Man team and has different stats.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/marvel/gameresources.asp?cid=40266

[Spriggan]

Heh, the LE pog for the Armor Wars Marquee is Tony Stark.

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/marvel/figuregallery.asp?unitid=8883

[Fellfrosch]

Hooray! -- http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/marvel/figuregallery.asp?unitid=8774

Kind of lame, though, in that about half of Alpha Flight got put into X-Men instead of Avengers.

[Spriggan]

Humm...I wonder if the reason for Armor Wars being an Iron Man set has anything to do with a new Iron Man Cartoon that was announced around the same time.  It's known that WK has to add certain figs that Marvel wants in for each set.

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=148768

There's also an Ultimate Avengers cartoon in the works as well.

[Spriggan]

Too bad this isn't for sale
http://www.gf9.com/

A table with Stark Indsutry set to Clix scale on it, and it's quite big.

[Fellfrosch]

That's pretty cool, especially the candy corn.

[Mr_Pleasington]

That table is super-fantastic.

I want one.

[Spriggan]

So for Clix today I decided to do a draft since I didn't have a team and got a great pull for my team:

V Cap.
V Paladin
V Diamond Lil
E Quick Silver

Paladin is a great fig and so is Cap, I only got second place but I lost to the guy who always plays the cheese teams (he had a LAMP team with 3 lockjaws, Joker with armor piercing, task master and Diamond Lil).

Though what I'm happy about is all the trading I did.

Traded an U Cyborg for
E Iron Man
LE Roy Harper

Traded my second U Cyborg and some Titan Repeats I had for
U Ghost Widow

Traded LE Gar Logan for
U Flash (Icons)

And then traded REVs for
U Jocasta
E War Machine

I got the Iron Man for when Kije wanted to come and play and then someone wanted to trade their war machine so I got him since he's a cool fig and a nice complement to Iron Man.

What I'm surprised is that someone wanted to trade Ghost Widow for Cyborg.

[Spriggan]

This Saturday is the Marquee and I'm not sure if I'm going to go or not.  On one had I haven't played since before Thanksgiving but on the other I don't feel like buying any more Clix until next month when I'm getting my CD brick.

[Fellfrosch]

The Armor Wars marquee is this week? How does that even makes sense?

[Spriggan]

Dono but this week is when every place in utah has it scheduled according to WK's site.