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Taking this list to an event on Saturday is a terrible idea

   On Saturday I'll attend what looks to be the biggest MCP tournament ever run in Germany with a maxed out 16 players (yeah I know this seems very low but the scene is slowly but surely growing here).  Even before his card as even spoiled I decided that, if at all possible, I would take an Adam Warlock led Guardians team including his box members Quasar and Moondragon to this event.  I received and painted the trio on time:  For my birthday my wife gave me the Valkyrie and Elendil/ Warriors Three pack and I also have locked Valk for the list. The rest of the list is in flux.  I have played 3 games with it so far: all losses.  The last game against Webs I lost mostly because I let my 1 HP Quasar walk into Silks trap range, which of course cost me 2 VP right then and there. I wouldn't have won the game at that moment but would have held a commanding lead. Remember your opponents reactive superpowers kids.  After playing three games with the Bonded ...
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My expected changes to the 2026 re releases

  2026 sees a continuation of the re release schedule and a lot of those models are up for a little (or sometimes bigger) update in my opinion. So here is what I expected those to be:  First of all we know that the original time frame will not work out. It's already March and we haven't even officially seen the SHIELD Affiliation Pack and the three pack with Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl and Gwenpool.  We have already gotten the updates up to and including Hawkeye at Ministravaganza though.  So what do I expect for the rest:  Sam Wilson:  The updated card will have the most current iteration of his leadership and nothing else will change. He is a very good, but ultimately fair, 3 threat.  Wasp:  The minimum change I want to, and expect to, see is that her player gets to drop the extract when she transforms into tiny form. I think she is decent otherwise. Maybe increase her Normal form speed to Long as well?  Ant-Man:  Shick and Ransom talked...

MCP Alliances and new Starter Sets reactions

  Last week AMG revealed MCP: Alliances a new Spin Off game slated to release in September and today we saw new next two Starter Sets (which I predicted a couple of  months ago here ) for regular MCP supposed to come out as early as July.  We'll go through everything we know about each so far and I give my honest reactions. To them.  Let's start with the easier one:  Starter Packs for Asgard and Guardians of the Galaxy  Asgard will include:  Thor, Hero of Midgard; Loki, Prince of Lies, Lady Sif; The Mighty Thor; Heimdall; Skurge; Enchantress; Angela; Valkyrie on Elendil; Warriors Three  So CP91 + CP225 + CP94  Seeing CP94 included here is definitely a big surprise as it released just last month. I would've also expected the original Asgard Affiliation pack to be among the models here personally. It's still an insanely good deal and a great way to start Asgard.  Guardians of the Galaxy will include:  Star-Lord; Rocket; Groot; Cosmic ...

Bat Rep: My first Adam Warlock game

   Last Saturday I was finally able to play my first game with Adam Warlock, Phyla-Vell and Moondragon and of course the Cosmic Awareness leadership. In what would end up a dice fest we played 19 threat on Intrusions and Legacy Virus for the ultimately slow 6 VPs per round crisis combination. I could, and in the end maybe should, have picked Lockdown instead of Intrusions but I was afraid Adam himself would lack the necessary mobility.  I faced off against Benni's Malekith Cabal.  They brought Mal, Bullseye, Killmonger, Baron Zemo and Winter Soldier with Soldat Activated.  Since I definitely wanted to have all of Adam, Quasar and Moondragon on the table immediately my choice was between my two other 4 threats in the list which are Yondu and Shang-Chi. I decided on Shang as I didn't think Yondu would be at his best on a double C map.  I deployed the Power Couple together on my right side which ended up having Zemo and Killmonger, Adam straight in the middle ...

February Affiliation Stats

  Welcome to the February Affiliation Stats post. You probably know the drill by now: we start with All Events first and further down we have Rated Singles Events (RSE).  For last months stats check out the January article.  New Mutants take #1 with 40 wins in 70 games for a 57% win rate.  A very good month for Hydra who had success under all three leaders. Only 4 games but still interesting that Helmut Zemo leadership has been played at all.  The same can be said for SHIELD, but in way more games mostly under Namor.  Convocation have their signature almost exactly 100 games per month and are well above 50% once again.  Inhumans down and out after the Great Refuge ban? Not even close. Their play rate dropped a bit; their win rate did not really.  Still extremely popular and still very successful remain the Servants of Apocalypse.  Over 500 games played, with even Peter Parker reaching 107 which is well above many Affiliations can boost in to...