Peace Was Never an Option

  Whilst the Sentinels were designed to destroy mutants, it is probably fair to say that in Marvel Crisis Protocol they also have an unnerving habit of taking out Web Warriors as collateral damage. Your standard Sentinels are size 5 and cannot be moved by superpowers, and with the new reveals by AMG, it looks like the Sentinels affiliation is going to be increasingly defined by root and power taxing shenanigans, two things that really hurt our friendly neighbourhood spider-people. Despite this, all is not lost! Whilst the Sentinels definitely force you to play differently, I think a well-constructed Web Warriors roster can still hold its own. It just needs to lean on some different tools to the standard gameplan. Lets talk about a few options here. Amazing Spider-Man has been a classical answer to the size 5 problem as his leadership ability allows anyone on the team to spend a power and place the target within 1 so long as they are slow, which can nudge them off points.  As w...

  Alongside Marvel Crisis Protocol, I've spent a lot of this year so far playing Malifaux 4th edition. I am currently in three different online tournaments for it. This is a great way to learn a new game and you should try it. You certainly won't regret signing up to three games per week with a fourth of Marvel Crisis Protocol. That is a sane and managable level of gaming, probably. I've already talked a little about Malifaux in general terms in other posts but I'd like to reiterate up top that 4th edition has really reinvigorated my love for the game. It plays faster, the way schemes have been reworked is great, and terrain now feels dynamic and interesting. Wyrd has struggled a lot to get product into the world since launch, which is a great shame, but what they have created is fantastic and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I own quite a lot of Malifaux crews and the hard part of starting any new edition is trying to decide where to put focus. I started learning 4...

  Who doesn't love Spider-Man? Ever since day one, Peter Parker has had a place in Marvel Crisis Protocol, and as of the writing of this article he currently has four places across Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man, and Spider-Man Noir. That's a lot of Spider-Men! Some might say... too many Spider-Men? As the game has gone on, he's become only a small part of an entire affiliation of Spider People in the Web Warriors, which have sometimes been seen as extremely strong and rarely out of the meta entirely. Once upon a time, there was a perception in the community that the Web Warriors were 'solved' as a faction.  I don't think that was ever actually as true as people thought, but now that we have had two new boxes with five new Web Warriors and a raft of new tactics cards bringing them up to 20 characters and 23 character restricted or Web Warriors affiliated tactics cards, the number of ways you can play the affiliation has exploded in possib...