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: Squirrel Girl Welcome to the first in a series I’ll do… as and when I feel like I have something interesting to honk about, looking at characters in Marvel Crisis Protocol that I find personally interesting. Where better to start than everyone’s favourite and least controversial character in the Marvel Universe, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! I was a little concerned when I heard that Squirrel Girl was coming to Marvel Crisis Protocol. How could you possibly represent a character who has defeated both Thanos and Doctor Doom effortlessly within the comics, without making her seem underwhelming on the table? I’m happy to say that Doreen absolutely lives up to the hype in MCP, and delivers a character that ticks every box I look for in a character I love playing: thematic, interesting, and with an excellent sculpt to boot. At first glance, Squirrel Girl might seem a little underwhelming for a 4 threat. She’s only got a medium move (albeit, wallcrawler means that s...

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 ...