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  3. Posted

    On 9/20/2020 at 5:34 PM, Derrault said:

    I would just discard Mjolnir, since he can pretty much auto recover that. 

    I don't have the card in front of me, but isn't getting Mjolnir back his alter-ego action, meaning it will exhaust him? Just seems to further slow the tempo, and since Crossbones is so punishing on his schemes we were really trying to limit how often we would end a turn in alter-ego form.

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    We did have fun each time, and yes I agree Crossbones was very interesting, the entire battle felt very thematic. I'm excited to see what else the expansion has to offer.

    We seemed to draw all the wrong cards at the right time for them to destroy us. We weren't ignoring threat. For example, we would have the threat at 0 and only one player had to flip to alter-ego, Crossbones would scheme and pulled 3 boost then we pulled the treachery card that makes the villain scheme again, pulled another 3 boost, finally I think we had one surviving Hydra troop or CB had a bonus +1 scheme from a weapon that gave the final 2 points to finish off the main scheme in a single villain turn. Oh and getting Loki out really sucks for Thor.

    Oddly, the game we won, we didn't worry about removing threat much more that what was being removed by each Wakanda Forever.

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    10 minutes ago, aermet69 said:

    How do you get BP to 9-10 cards, but Thor only 4? BP has hand of 5 and Thor should have hand of 5 with Asgard. Thor is less good with no minions, but with minions he easily sit at a 7 card hand - 2 more than BP. For the rest of the drawing power they both have access to the same cards. I find getting BP to work consistently is much harder than Thor.

    I was running Leadership. Start on the T'Challa side (6 cards), exhaust The Golden City to draw 2 more, play Strength in Numbers to draw another 1-3 cards.

    My main beef with Thor is that he needs his upgrades to simply reach the starting values of other heroes, while other heroes begin decent and only get more awesome with their upgrades. Thor stalls himself out, and if you hit a treachery that makes you discard upgrades he has a much harder time making a comeback.

    Again, it could have been the luck of the draw, but I would frequently draw my 4 cards for Thor only to find that I could maybe only play one of them (even after I tried to run a very cheap aggression list). While playing BP I had no issues dropping 1-2 upgrades a turn and if not hitting Wakanda Forever, at least having it in hand.

  6. Posted · Edited by Atrael

    We finally beat it. Did a duo game with Captain America and Black Panther. It went soooo smooth it barely felt difficult at all. It felt so much better drawing 6 cards with Black Panther and then having other cards to draw more. Starting up a turn with 9-10 cards was way more fun than Thor's 4 cards a turn. End opinion... I just think that Thor is just really not that good. I've been reading a lot of deck-building forms about Thor and everyone seems to have the same criticism. Kinda bummed, because I really wanted him to work better.

     

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    Trying to avoid any major spoilers for people who have yet to play the expansion, but looking for some general tips and feedback. 

    Just got the new expansion box along with Hulk and Thor. I really wanted to test out Thor so that's who I picked.

    Currently we have 3x losses against Crossbones and 0 wins. The closest game was a 3-player with Hulk (aggression), Thor (Teamwork), and Iron Man (Justice). The next 2 games were just Thor (Aggression) and Iron Man (Justice).

    Might be just our bad luck, we aren't even playing on the hard mode, but we just can't seem to beat him. Going to try again with different heroes. Just curious how others are faring against this fight? Does it feel a lot harder than previous content, or are we just getting terrible luck with the card pulls?

    Last game ended when 11 threat was added by the villain during a single enemy phase even though we only had one alter ego turned up.

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    For almost every game I have from FF it's been the same story: stuff is sometimes difficult to find during release if you didn't preorder, becomes readily available a few months later, sells out a few months after that and becomes impossible to find for even longer, then gets reprinted after everyone has stopped caring and has moved on to something else. It's super frustrating which is why I normally opt to just preorder my stuff and I've generally had really good luck with that until now. Arctroopers and some of my Arkham Horror LCG decks released and saw very limited numbers reaching stores so now I'm waiting for a second wave to (hopefully) arrive next Feb 2021. 

  10. Posted

    Newish Legion player here. I had my core set from when Legion first came out, but it honestly didn't see much play simply because we were more involved with a huge Imperial Assault campaign. Fast-forward to now. I picked up Sabine Wren simply because she is my favorite character from Rebels, and now I am even more excited to see that Clan Wren is coming soon. From my limited knowledge and experience of the game I know that some troop packs are great to have multiples of, but some of the more specialized units might be better off as a one-of. Does anyone know yet if Clan Wren would be a good set to field 2x boxes of? Or are they too expensive pointswise or something?

    Additionally open to any other build advice around Sabine and Clan Wren if anyone has some good tips. 

  11. Posted

    I haven't finished it yet (just bought my paint yesterday), but my thought was to play around with a mixed selection of matte and gloss finish paints for different parts of each model. Vader for example; my plan is to use the gloss finish black on his armored areas like the helmet and chest plating and use the matte on the areas that are cloth like his cape. I would like doing something similar with the Crimson Guard, giving them a nice glossy red helmet, but a matte cloth finish to other parts.  

    I have mostly used Citadel paints in the past (lil expensive but very good) but I have purchased a few Vallejo paints to try out this round.

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