About those 35 Clix the guy had for sale....

As I mentioned, I got an email from a guy offering to sell me about 100 Heroclix for $35. I met up with him and took a look at his Clix. Sadly, there were a lot of DC Clix, and they just aren't what I like. But he did have a few that I did buy. Check these out:

I didn't have a Superman, or a Clark Kent, for that matter. This one is from the Bold and the Brave set. And after a bit, he can turn into:

Superman! I like this sculpt and the dial looks pretty good, too. I actually bought a few more DC Clix. This one was cool:

Hawkman and Atom! I always liked Hawkman and The Atom so when I saw this Clix in his collection, I had to have it. Then I chose two more Clix:

I got Goodness and Mercy because I had never heard of them, the sculpt looks really goofy and it was on a peanut base. Damian Wayne I picked up cause he is 42 points, has outwit, B/C/F and close combat expert. Finally, this was the last DC Clix I bought:

Doomsday, cause he looked cool. He has a pretty cool dial for being such and old Clix.

I'll post the Marvel Clix I bought tomorrow and show you a team I'm going to play Saturday at the local shop, all from the Infinity Challenge set :)

No weekly booster pull this week, but....

I took the two youngest kids to Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta, Georgia, so I wasn't able to play Heroclix this weekend. On the way home, I decided to find the local comic shop in Valdosta since the Wizkids website said they offered Heroclix. Plus, there a was post on a thread on HCrealms, that had discussed a case of Fear Itself that had been placed on sale on Ebay and the area code of the seller was 229, which is south Georgia.

I'm glad we stopped by! We found the shop and met the owner and as luck would have it,  he and a customer had just sat down to play a game. Turns out they do tournaments and had done the Fear Itself First Month tourney. They did not have a large selection of boosters for sale but did have a couple of trays of loose Clix. My daughter was very happy to get a Cyborg, as she wants a Teen Titans team (she now only needs Starfire) and Ryan picked out a Black Knight.

We talked for a bit and then the owner said 'Well, I want you to come up for a tournament, so hang on...' and walked into the back room. He came out and handed me this:

Cool! I had not even seen the Book of Skulls yet!!

The customer, who said he has been playing since Heroclix first came out, then mentioned that I would need a hammer so the owner went back for a Kuurth's Hammer!

That's how you get people to seriously start to plan on driving 90 miles one way for a Heroclix Tournament!

Earlier this week, I was looking through Ebay and came across a listing for a brick of Galactic Guardians Marquee figure. I didn't do any research and figured 10 figures for a $5 bid was ok. I ended up winning the auction and get the box this week. It is a brick, 10 Heroclix, but 10 Clix of Nova Prime.

Well, now I know that a brick of marquee Galactic Guardians is a brick of one figure. That being said, it is a pretty cool Clix with a neat idea that I will have to try one of these days:

STEAL THE POWER OF THE NOVA FORCE: As a free action, you may deal 1 unavoidalbe damage each to any number of other friendly characters with the Nova Corps keyword. For each damage dealt this way, choose one: 1) Modify this character's attack and damage values by +1 this turn or 2) At the beginning of your next turn, heal this character of 1 damage.


That would be fun to pull off in a game. (And did anyone notice the spelling mistake on the power?)

And to top off a pretty full week of Heroclix, soon after getting home I got an email from a guy that had around 100 Heroclix for sale for $35.00. Stay tuned!

Anticipation....

My wife and stepdaughter had to go out of town today and the two little kids are at their grandmothers, so I had a free evening and decided to swing by the local shop to pick up a card box for a trade I was offered and accepted.

And while I was there, I decided maybe I'd take a look at the boosters. You know, maybe one of them would jump out at me and scream 'CHASE!!'.

On the way to the shop, I was thinking that in all the boosters of the Spiderman set, I had not gotten any Spiderman Clix. I have pulled two super rare Madam Web, a super rare Manthing/ Howard the Duck etc, but no Spiderman, common or otherwise. I was not 100% sure I'd buy a booster since....oh who am I kidding, I knew I was going to buy one.

At the shop, I noticed a couple of Fast Forces sets and one or two starter sets that I had not noticed before. They were cool, but a big part of the fun for me is opening a set and seeing which Clix I had been lucky enough to get. Being able to see the Clix in the set is not as much fun for me as opening a booster.

There were three ASM boosters, so I picked one, it felt 'right'. I made it home and opened it up.

The first Clix I pulled was

I already have The Shocker but still have four Clix left, so I wasn't bummed too much. The next one was:

Ok, Dr. Strange. I have one of them, but it's ok, it is Dr. Strange. And I still have three more Clix. The next Heroclix in the booster was:

Well, 60% through the booster and I have all the Clix so far. I start to feel a little regret at picking up a booster. I don't need dupes. Maybe the fourth Clix will be a new one for me.

I have liked Electro ever since I first read about him way back when I was a kid. And his 'arc lightning' power ispretty cool to pull off in a game....but I have two of him already. I was starting to fill bummed out on this booster. With not much hope, I slid the set out of the box and saw:

YES! A CHASE! A SPIDERMAN CHASE!! Sorry, still a little excited. Glad I talked myself into buying a booster!

Lessons learned by a newbie...

I have been playing for a few weeks and have learned some good lessons.

1. If you field the most powerful figure, it will go down first. For example, Superboy Prime was played Saturday in a four player game. I think he took a Clix down, but he went down quick, I think my Tabapp Thor took him down.

2. Know your freakin' cards. I'm new and have not memorized my cards and all the assorted powers and abilities. If I had, the Tabapp Wolverine may have won the match for me. He has two regeneration clicks...but I missed where it said if damages turn to the regeneration click, stop on that click. I used the first click, but the last click of regen is Wolvies last click. I took damage and didn't stop on the click like I was supposed to.

3. One click with flurry and blades, claws and fangs is awesome. Using my Tab App Wolverine, I did 8 clicks of damage to some uber Lex Luthor. Bye bye, uber Lex Luthor!

4. When you play against interesting Clix, and wikipedia them, be prepared to learn stuff you can't forget. Superboy Prime, punching reality? Wow.

5. If you have a 100% chance of buying two boosters and getting a Chase,do it! After the game, we were all talking about the hobby, and the Teen Titans boosters were discussed. One of the guys stated he and a friend had bought all the boosters except four in the case and they had not pulled a Chase. The guy that had played Superboy Prime said he would take a 50% chance of getting a chase. He bought two boosters and didn't get the chase. So I grabbed the remaining two (the other two guys didn't want a shot) and got Headcase!

I tried to explain it to my wife, got a lot of eye rolls  My son thought it was cool, though.

Battle Reports!

As promised in my last post, I had two battles yesterday that were the most fun I have had so far in playing. After the 800 point game ended abruptly due to two of the players having to leave, the other newer player, let's call him Tom, and I decided to play a game. He had played Heroclix awhile ago but had moved and had stopped playing, so he is getting back into it.

We talked for a bit as we built our teams. He was lucky enough to pull a Superboy Prime from a booster at our local shop. I can't imagine opening a booster and getting that Clix. Must have been a cool feeling.

As we were talking, I decided to build a team using DC Clix,as I have yet to use any of them. Back when I was collecting comics, I was solely a Marvel guy. I liked the Legion of Superheros and Justice League back when I was a kid but the Avengers and Xmen were my big comic book interests.So, naturally, that's what I like in finding Heroclix.

We decided on a 300 point game and I fielded BM 015 Nightrunner, BM 009 Red Robin, TT 016 Grymm and ASM 036 Kaine. Ok, one Marvel character, but I have never heard of him, but I wanted to see how cool it was to switch him to ASM 018 Scarlet Spider.

Tom fielded TT 016 Grymm, Deathstroke, Rose Wilson and Jinx.

Tom used the really nice fold out cardboard map . It was small and worked great.

This battle was over pretty quickly. Tom had horrible rolls and my team pretty easily wiped him out. The surprise Clix was Grymm, he did very well with his poison damage and decent damage. Nightrunner might has well have been sitting in my storage case, for all the good he did. Kaine was great, never even took a click of damage.

The next battle, I decided for my 300 points to use the Sinister Six and used The Lizard, Rhino and Electro. Tom used Cloak and Dagger, Deathstroke and one other Clix that in my old age has been forgotten.

I was hoping this would be a cake walk and at first, it was. Rhino used his special power 'Head down and Horn Up' and did 6 and 5 damage on two charges. Electro hit with Arc Lightning and bounced an attack once but then missed the next roll, or he would have single handed knocked out two characters in one attack.

Electro got knocked out but I was still up, Rhino and Lizard against Deathstroke so I was still pretty confident. However, I had misread the Sinister Syndicate Team Ability, thinking I could use any defense value of an adjacent Clix, but it is actually the Attack Value. But thinking back, I don't think Lizard would have hit, even if he had been using Rhino's AV. Without some help, the Lizard is not going to hit many people.after his second click, where his AV goes to 9 and even dips all the way down to 7. I was hoping to be able to use his special, which is a free attack when he uses his tail to swipe at enemies.

So, Deathstroke was able to make up for his poor showing in the first game when he was able to take both the Rhino and the Lizard down.

Both of those games were an absolute blast and exactly the type of games I need, as a new player. We took the time to read the cards, consult the rules to determine what color did what and played a small enough team to actually have a good idea of what was going on and what was being planned.

And I definitely will use that Sinister Syndicate team again, Rhino and Electro were awesome.

*Rhino artwork borrowed from Wikipedia who borrowed it from somewhere else* But that's a pretty good representation of his 'Head Down, Horn Up' power.

This weeks booster pull.

Well, last week was a good pull, but this one was a bit of a let down. I already have 4 out of the five Clix, Cloak, Doctor Druid (got this one last week!!), Hannibal King and Electro. But I did get a new Clix, Jennifer Kale and she seems pretty cool.

I always buy a booster when I go to the local shop and play some games, so I was able to get in a couple of games yesterday. When I got there, two of the regulars were already there and they decided we were going to play an 800 point game.

Yay.

Out comes the team base and 400 point characters. I don't really mind the uber attacks, damages and defenses but when a team base is played, from what I can see, it really takes the characters out of the game. Our games go from 'Thor takes a swing at Batman with his mighty hammer... *dice roll* and knocks the living crap out of Bats for 5 damage' to 'I move the base and do 8 damage to you. Then I move the base over here and do another 7 damage and then let me check my resource dial' I guess it takes some of the character out of the game.

One of the newer players showed up and set up a team with Superboy Prme

I had decided the night before I wanted to try running a team of Sinister Six, because some of them have some really neat special attacks. Namely, Electro and Rhino. Check these out:

Rhino:

HEAD DOWN, HORN UP: Rhino can use Charge. When he does, he automatically breaks away and if he moves only in a straight horizontal, vertical, or diagonal path and hits a character along that path, roll a d6; increase Rhino's damage value by half the result.


Electro:

ARC LIGHTNING: Give Electro a power action and make a ranged combat attack against a single target using his printed damage value. Each time he hits, after actions resolve, he may then make a ranged combat attack as a free action against another single target as if he occupied the previously hit character's square, replacing his range value with his printed range value minus the number of hits he has made this turn with this power.


I also had ManThing, Carrion, Vulture and The Lizard. My plan was to use Carrion and Man Thing's poison and Electro's Arc Lightning while using Rhino and Lizard to beat down their teams.

We had barely begun the game when the two regulars had to go, so the other newer player and I decided to play a game or two and they were the best games I have played so far. I'll have a bit of a write up on those later today.

Last weeks booster pull...

I didn't get to play last week because my daughter had a birthday party t go to, but I was able to run by and see part of a game. I did buy a Spiderman Booster and this is what I got:

In order, Moonkinght, Wong, SR Madam Web, Johnny Blaze and Doctor Druid. I was pretty happy with this booster. I did not have any of these Clix, well, I had pulled the Madam Web on one of my first booster purchases but had traded her for a Marvel 10th Thor, Weapon X, Chaos War Vision and a Galactic Guardians Charlie 27.

Moonknight was snapped off his base so he will have to be glued on but that's no big deal, I guess. Wong and Johhny Blaze are cool, maybe next week I'll play a Midnight Sons/Monster team to see how he does and Doctor Druid seems pretty powerful, too.

I have a decent collection of the Amazing Spiderman set now. I really enjoy opening the boosters, the luck of the draw and the excitement of pulling a super rare or Chase or simply a character I liked back when I was a kid is a big part of the fun in collecting and playing Heroclix. I hope I am not near the point where opening a booster means getting a lot of dupes. If that day comes, and who am I kidding, it will, I'll figure something out.

Welcome to the Heroclix Newbie Blog!

Hi, welcome to my new blog. I have been playing Heroclix for a few months and have had a blast.So, what do you do when you have a fun hobby? You blog about it.....or, these days, you make a lot of really bad Youtube videos.

A year or so ago, one the website of the gaming group I am a member of, someone mentioned Heroclix and had a blog. I took a look and was intrigued. Tabletop gaming using superheros? Sounds good to me.

I posted an ad on Craigslist and was offered a ton of Heroclix for $20. I bought them and my son and I played a bit but didn't get too into it. The Clix were very old and we didn't have a rulebook.  Other hobbies and activities popped up but I would sometimes think of the game and wish my son and I could get into it.

A few months later, there was a Sci Fi Convention here in town and the family (minus the 17 year old) went.It was actually pretty cool and at one of the booths, a guy had a large collection of Heroclix. I didn't buy it, but I decided to look into it some more.

I found the HCRealms website and a week later found an Avengers booster pack.Opened it and got a super rare Quicksilver.

My son was now a year older and was more interested in the game so with a little googling, I found a local shop that advertised Heroclix gaming every Saturday. My son and I went by and took a look at the Clix for sale and the owner came over and told us there was a game about to start. We went into the little gaming room and watched a game and had a lot of fun talking to the players and seeing their collections.

It looked like a lot of fun. We bought a booster of Amazing Spiderman and a couple of months later, here we are.