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What we learned from all the Pagani and Shick Podcast Interviews

  Original writers of the game and current Co-Head of Studio Will Shick and Development Director Will Pagani went on a lot of Podcasts to talk about the biggest Update in the history of MCP and after having listened to most (not sure if all) of them here's some bits of information found in those that maybe isn't as obvious and not repeated in every one. Not everything will be news for everyone and I don't claim to not have missed something but this is what I remember in no particular order (though I do try to have stuff vaguely connected):  Why was there a listing of a Morgan Lafey, Dr. Doom and Doom Bots pack on a French Asmodee site?  Because that was an idea for a box AMG had presented to Asmodee a long time ago and it wasn't approved but somehow made it into a document some way or another. This box is not real and if they ever get to do Doom we will hear it from the mountain tops and from themselves not a strange listing without pictures and more importantly a CP nu...
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August 26 Affiliation Stats

  This one's going to be very interesting. Of course there are some games from early August before the giant update included here but the vast majority of games have happened after them and we can see some early tendencies of their impact.  As always we start with All Events AE and further down we look at Rated Singles Events RSE.  Ugh I think my dislike of Unaffiliated is well documented but it appears someone has found something that works very well. It has become much harder with all the Peerless additions would've been my guess but that's apparently not true at all.  Now it gets interesting. Buffs to many core members, surprisingly including Emma herself, were bound to push Hellfire Club back up and they actually pushed them right back to the top. It's always been an extremely strong leadership and now Emma is a top tier 4 threat in her own right while mainstay character Omega Red also saw a glow up (as did basically every other character on the affiliation list)...

Hot Takes: Onslaught

  Right in the excitement of the biggest Update in the history of MCP (See my last four posts for details if you've somehow missed it), AMG has treated us to the Panel to Play for their second (on card) ever 8 Threat: Onslaught.  Let's start right at the top. Strike is a very boring name for an 8 threats attack. You're going to be using it barely ever if you can manage Onslaughts power well enough. The Throw Trigger is also hard to get so no guarantees there either. But at least it's sizeless and any direction.  Let's quickly move on to by far the best and most important line of text on this card. Mind Spike is what you want and need to be doing twice every Activation of Onslaught. Range 3 on the 65mm Base is good and 8 dice Mystic is strong but the most important part is the guaranteed S advance of the defender. It's two guaranteed displacements every round and Onslaught should be activated as late as possible anyway.  Atomic Singularity feels like an emergency...

The August Update part 4

  After we went through the 173 characters in the three PDFs for the last three days in today's final reaction post to the August Update we will look at the changed TTCs, Core Rules, FAQ, Apocalypse and the Affiliation list.  TTCs :  Are You Sure You Want to Remember? : Leadership updated to generate 2 memory tokens per Daze/KO. Tokens put on the card instead of the character.   While still not in the running to be my favorite leadership It Was YOU!!! Now at least mechanically works and is not dependent on your leader not being dazed. Gaining two memory tokens back per daze/KO is also helpful. Sad that it is still only useable by affiliated models (but I do get the thematic reason for it) C+  Asteroid M : Changed timing to Power Phase and if a character has an objective they can drop it now instead of not being able to be placed. This maybe feels like a straight nerf and it is intended to stop turn 1 shenanigans but I think it will end up being mostly a side gra...