In Heroclix figures have keywords. Sometimes if the guys on your team share a keyword fun things can happen. Some times you get a bonus to rolling for first or even the whole team getting extra uses of an ability. Sometimes you get a team ability that you can assign to people with certain keywords. One that I like to use is the thunderbolts keyword. As per the usual I have no idea who the Thunderbolts were. I knew that Red Hulk had something to do with it and figured he might have something to do with the team name. Aside from that I had no idea what was going on here as far as who the Thunderbolts were and what they stood for.
In an attempt to learn this I picked up Thunderbolts Annual #1. I figured it would be a nice starting point. I heard something about Ghost Rider joining the team soon with the start of Marvel Now or whatever is going on this year. So I picked it up from my local comic shop and managed to read it within 24 hours of purchasing it. For some reason I never am in the mood to buy comics and read comics in the same day.
I found a panel in this issue that I believe sets the tone of who the Thunderbolts were from what I read.
Yes. That is Dr. Strange saying, "come at me, bros". The book tries to be corny. Deadpool is in it. I don't know what else I could have expected. I'm not sure how I felt about it. Maybe if it was a bit funnier I would have liked it more. Otherwise this book didn't really interest me much. The story was kind of interesting but I'm not sure how long a, lul wat, kind of story telling can hold my attention. I think Silliness is kind of one of the goals in this comic. Or maybe it was just the annual that I read.
On top of this this was the first digital comic that I have claimed on the website. I like the way they did it. Nice and simple. The best part was getting a free comic to go along with it. They have these things called infinite comics. They are web optimized comics that you buy. I guess. It gave me a free one of Wolverine in Japan. I liked it. Want to read the rest. Probably going to have to buy them. Thanks for making me want to read a Wolverine book again Marvel. Besides the fact that I just picked up the Deadpool cover for Origins 2 when it came out.
Time to get ramble-y. I have decided to have a new thing called Heroclix Saturday where I talk about either Heroclix directly or comics that I am reading because of Heroclix. So There shall be that. Likely I shall talk about both. Like how I am now going to talk about (or edit in later if you are reading early) what happened at this weekends Heroclix event.
Saturday 3-1-14: 350 point modern. You get to choose a figure from your opponents force to remove from their force before the game. Relics are allowed but no resources.
My team:
AVX013e Magik 75
WXM047a Jubilee 56
WXM009 Longshot 75
IIM002 Rescue 65
IH035 Wolverine
The Bat Signal (not pictured)
First Opponent: Daniel
Big Barda
The Question
Dark Phoenix
I removed Big Barda afraid I wouldn't have time to go through Barda's Dial with the strikers I had. What happened in the end though was I didn't read that the question made my use of perplex a power action. One by one he disassembled my team and I hardly got any damage done.
Daniel Removed Magik from my team and the victory was his with no losses on his side of the field.
Second Opponent: Jordan
ASM Frank Drake
FI Monkey King
ASM Spider-Girl
WXM Longshot
FI Sin
Tigra
I removed Longshot from his team knowing what Longshot is capable of with his hits always being crits. He also removed Magik from my force. Much more of a game was afoot in this match. My Longshot worked his way to the middle of the field first turn as Frank Drake stepped into the shadows of Jordan's heavy object using Stealth to keep me from hitting him. Rescue however was having none of it and threw the dumpster aside so Longshot could get some quick near death damage in. Things went down hill from there for Longshot as he was ganged up on by the rest of Jordan's force and put to pasture. Rescue was pulled away from the tragic scene by Jubilee using the bat signal. Jordan slowly followed me into the large room that my team had retreated to. He made good use of his two stealth characters and made it so Wolverine and Jubilee didn't have much of a chance to be near each other for their bonuses. Rescue had to resort to throwing the Bat Signal at a pursuing Tigra. The result literally snapped her in half at the waist causing her to also lose an arm. Hopefully he won't have much trouble repairing his fig. Not sure what happened but I didn't actually throw the Bat Signal at it.
The match drew near and end. Wolverine was down. Rescue was trying to figure out what to do with herself having run out of objects to use telekinesis on and time in the round coming soon. Jubilee was left with no targets as Spider-Girl pushed herself into her KO click and Sin hid in the shadows with stealth.\
After only two round we only had one person that was undefeated and decided to call the competition there since there was a small turn out on this somewhat cold day. The winning team played 4 Molemen, 3 Vampires, and Jubilee Prime at 33 points of vampire-y goodness. Lots of mind control was had. Absorbing man LE was the prize for this event. I got the Batcowl and the Handcuffs as consolations prizes and still went home with a map. I had fun at the event. It was great to spend the week building a team. Started off trying to use pieces that I had about to make a team with 3 Monkey Kings and some Thunderbolts. I see where I could make some improvements with my team idea. Mostly I loved that it was a learning experience. Got some more input on Telekinesis as I tried to throw the Bat Signal and wasn't sure if I was in my own way to throw it. I wasn't. All in all fun day. Still want a chance to really get to use my Phoenix Force. Maybe I can get some casual games in for the week.
Thank you for reading guys. Especially if you came back for the update as I took a while getting home to update the post after the auto post. Have a great weekend.
!Victor!
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