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...

  Powerscaling: Elsa Bloodstone In this installation of Powerscaling, we’re going to be looking at one of the characters who was a huge draw in bringing me back to the game: Elsa Bloodstone. When I first read Elsa’s card my eyes lit up. The leadership just stood out as such an incredibly interesting choice. Root is a powerful condition and I have historically considered taking characters like Minister Sinister purely because they can throw out Root and combo it with the original Loki to create a horrific bubble where characters have to spend two power before they can play any non-innate superpowers at all. That kind of tax can really hurt characters who rely on their cheap reactive powers to reduce damage. If a 1 point increase is a handful of sand in the gears of a team’s power engine, 2 points is a pocket full of gravel. Not every team cares, but for the ones that do it can make the game a painful uphill battle. Elsa remains my personal favourite way to play Midnight So...

Having been very much out of the loop on Marvel Crisis Protocol for a couple of years, I was delighted to discover that there were several releases for the Midnight Sons released – Elsa Bloodstone in particular spoke to me because … I mean heck, just look at her. Who doesn’t love a redhead who dual-wields rifles? Returning to the game after a couple of years away there’s an interesting mix between things that have changed and things that have stayed the same. There’s certainly a lot more choice now, and yet the fundamental questions the game is asking have remained consistent. I’ve so far played three games, testing what used to work and seeing what people are bringing now, and rather than trying to internalise everything all at once I think I am going to focus on the minis that caught my attention and brought me back to the game. So lets talk about Elsa and Blade. (Brief aside, but I love the new card format. The cooler blues are way easier on my eyes than the garish yellows o...