SG Protocol

  Welcome to the September 26 Affiliation Stats article. The first full month with the August 26 Updates in play. So let's not waste any time and dive into AE (All Events) first and RSE (Rated Singles Events) further down. Wakanda rules the world on the back of incredible months from classic Black Panther, M'Baku and Killmonger Usurper, who has taken the mantle of most played leader by a mile. Only King T leadership struggles.  The White Queen of the Hellfire Club shows what I have been expecting: some buffs to a couple of affiliated models (including herself of course) and they will be top tier again. September shows that August was no fluke.  Convocation got a huge popularity boost through the inclusion of Scarlet Witch (the objectively best Avenger is the movies 😉) and can boost almost 300 games. About three times their usual in the months prior. They are also very very good.  Mighty Avengers have gotten some more minor but impactful buffs (a big one for Steve 2,...

  A new Panel to Play dropped and we have the cards to two new leaders we can now dive into, starting with Dany Moonstar aka Mirage:  Mirage comes with a decent defense statline of 3/3/4 defenses and 6/6 Stamina and importantly combines that with Stealth. She has a small base and moves Medium. She has a Range 5, 5 Dice, Mystic Builder with an interesting trigger: handing out a Neural Connection Token. She can then spend the token (that hopefully comes with the box, unlike the Weakness Token for Karnak...) and two Power to Advance an enemy character in Range 5 or reroll two of their attack dice. Both she can also do to enemy characters in Range 1 that don't need to have the token.  Obviously a *Bow" from Range 5 is incredible and basically the heart of the kit for Dani here. It does of course rely on hitting the wild. The good thing is: firing away Mystic Range 5 shots while sitting in Stealth range herself is very good for a 3 threat even if she never hits the trigger....

  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...

  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)...