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...

I went to (what I learned was the first!) UK GT. Since it was nice and easy to get to and I learned about it the same week I decided to check out Marvel again it felt like fate, and I was very excited to put some physical miniatures down on a table again – something that is increasingly rare these days! To try and get some practice in I joined the ongoing TTS league and in the runup to the tournament my results were: Very narrow loss to Avengers. Match cancelled due to scheduling issues with my opponent. Match cancelled due to scheduling issues with my opponent. Match cancelled due to scheduling issues with my opponent. Then work threw me a crisis so I just dropped to get that done so I could comfortably take Friday off because… then we were into the tournament! So… not exactly perfect for practice, but I did manage to get a few casual games in here and there so I at least knew my mechanics if not how they were going to perform in a more competitive environment. Friday ...