City Aghast as Goose Runs Amock!
Long-time Goose fans will know that the first miniatures game I started honking about on the internet with any serious thoughts was Marvel Crisis Protocol way back in the heady days of 2021. I had a lot of fun with that game, though the pace of releases eventually overwhelmed my ability to keep up – and I had a number of frustrations both with the game and with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which honestly soured me on superheroes in general for a bit. There was a level of fatigue, there, and I was ready to spend some time painting and obsessing over bizarre gremlins in the Bayou rather than capes for a bit. MCP at its best for me was about finding ways to make niche characters shine, and force my opponent to play the kind of game that those characters excel at – that was the subject of my ‘The Dreaded…’ series on Across the Bifrost (which, sadly, seems to have died whilst I was paying attention to Malifaux. Maybe I’ll rehost those articles here, just for old time’s sake, even if the...