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Evaluating the new changes

 

AMG listens and gives us what we asked for. That's the biggest takeaway from the changes made yesterday and honestly not surprising me in the slightest. This company has it's finger on the pulse of the game like no company I've seen before. 

Now let's dig into each change in more detail: 


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Oh happy day 🎉 Thanos has taken quite a big hit to be honest: 
- throw on the builder now needs a double trigger
- using his Gems for free is now part of his leadership. Exactly what we had asked for 👍
- Cosmic Portal is now allied character only. This was a suprise, but a welcome one
- gained the new Peerless* keyword. It means only one character with that keyword can be selected for a squad 
+ His leadership remains the same on his injured side now 



Reality Gem gets a much needed quality of life change that is also quite a heavy nerf. Before it would constantly check for a skull in your roll making it very complicated. Now it's very easy to understand. But weaker already and also taxed with a power cost now. Corvus doesn't like this change at all of course. Makes Time and 4 threat Corvus more interesting options now I'd say. 

Black Order got hit rather hard here. Thanos absolutely got what he deserved and should now be much less splash appealing which is only fitting for him. They learned from Apocalypse and made him best in affiliation now. Which we all asked for. 




The biggest and by far and large biggest nerf and honestly the one I expected the least is the reduction of the builder to range 2. This limits his output immensely more than the reduction to 6 dice. 

His "pounce" now costing 4 power further limits his play pattern. It combines to getting him down to acceptable levels. 

What does that mean for Asgard? That squad building becomes an actual decision again. As an enjoyer of the affiliation even long before the newest models were out this is great news. You can play this or the criminally under appreciated Thor 1 based on threat level and situations. 

Will Asgard loose a tonne of players? Absolutely. Are they still a very strong faction? Absolutely. 



Yes! Didn't I just recently complain, that Hellfire Club  didn't really make sense as an "everyone is in" affiliation from the fluff? 

MYHFC is no longer restricted and gets this affiliation list: 



It's an interesting though not especially competitive list on first view. It contains three of my favourite mutants in Mister Sinister, Omega Red and Shadow King, but they could all do with just a little push. I'll go into much more detail with a full Hellfire Club Affiliation Overview rewrite soon. But overall I think you'll aim for an affiliated core where I see Angel as an almost every game model for the affiliation now. I'd have liked to see some none mutant characters in the affiliation that were members of the club at some point. Viper, Kingpin and Tony Stark in any form would've been interesting for example. 

I hereby predict that Sebastian Shaw along some affiliated TTCs will be featured in the Adepticon Panel. 

I'll update the Asgard and Black Order affiliation overviews soon, once I've finished the Inhumans update and the HFC rewrite. 

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Thank you for reading and Cheers from Germany 🍻




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