Peace Was Never an Option

  Lured by the promise of incredible swag and more Crisis Protocol, I packed up my Midnight Sons and took a trip over to sunny Peterborough! This was apparently the first tournament that Rob had organised – and if I hadn’t been told that I wouldn’t have guessed. We had good communication in the weeks running up to it, the tables were great, the promised swag was top notch. Great stuff! Since the UKGT I have definitely been bitten by the tournament bug. I’ve joined a team (The Thunderbolts! We’re the good guys, probably) to take part in next year’s Team Tournament and I’ve committed to making my girl Elsa shine. In the words of Marge Simpson: So this tournament report will be followed up with some more in-depth thoughts about where I might want to try and take the roster next. Spoiler alert: I think there’s definitely some room for improvement both in my Elsa-playing and in the tools I have brought to bear. My roster was: The Immortal Hulk Elsa Bloodstone Wong Werewolf by Ni...

I’ve greatly enjoyed my return to Marvel Crisis Protocol – I feel like the game is in a great spot, and the proliferation of wildly different ways you can play most affiliations in the game and still hope to have success is great to see. That said, there is one aspect of the game that I find a little disheartening, and that’s the current extremely restricted list of tactics cards. I have stacks and stacks of cards from earlier in the game’s lifecycle which are now no longer legal for standard play, and I think this creates some strange list building pressure where the lack of good generally applicable cards means that you are evaluating characters much more highly if they can also bring an strong tactics card with them. It also means that in practice, the 10 tactics card slots are not always utilised well. Often I find myself taking the two restricted cards the roster has access to, a strong affiliated card, and then two character-specific cards or a character card and another affili...