article: HeroClix Theme Teams

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

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=888

The theme is dead. Long live the theme!

Incidentally, most of those characters in the last team ARE good guys er... gals. At least nominally. I just don't know about that Magdala chick. And it seems that adding a medic doesn't do much to change your theme besides the blades thing, which GL doesn't have any way, right?

[Entsuropi]

Uhm, your formatting failed. It's <i> not , kiddies.

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

When I was your age!... ok, i'll fix it.

[Lieutenant Kije]

No, GL doesn't have blades.  But he's a pimp daddy here; pimp daddies don't need blades.  They let the ladies do the work.  

And a medic just to have a medic is so strategically sound it's unpretty.

[Fellfrosch]

SE, the Ultimates are the Avengers, in Marvel's relaunch of most of their titles three or so years ago. It's also the weakest of the Ultimate titles, though the figs are pretty good in the game.

And Kije, why do you disagree with TK targets being able to attack the same turn? It's basically another type of Charge, but one that you pay through the nose for in your points total. You should have tried the game back when people could attack the same turn they were carried by a flyer--that was downright ridiculous.

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

the whole series are Ultimates? Because there's Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate blah blah blah. No non-Avengers in the Ultimates line up?

[Lieutenant Kije]

Saint: the set of figs is called Ultimates, but within that set there are a certain limited number of figs who have the Ultimates team ability.  Spider-Man isn't one of those.

Fell: if flight passengers can't act on the same turn TKed figs shouldn't either.  I see no real difference.  I just don't like the reliance on mandroid armor (cheapest TK) that it presents.  (Is TK really that expensive?)  At least that's what I've seen from the power gamers I've played with.  You get a mandroid armor paired with an Ultimates Thor and you have a fig that can reach all the way across the board for big damage on the very first turn.  Which to me is kinda lame.

[Spriggan]

TK is actualy pretty expensive, mandroid armor has crap for stats.  TK isn't all that "cheap" either in my mind since it's easy to plan for and counter.  Now what's cheap is lots of Black Atoms and Jessey Quicks (HSS+Flying=abuse).  Anyway, you shouldn't have to worry about Mandroids in a while since Clobbering time is getting retired when mutant mayham gets released.