Great work Rich, love that you are updating these guides with all the new characters that are out now, and the Card rotations much of the older guides have been left in the dust.
I take now in my Asgard list the splashes for: Malekith (negates his biggest weakness in Stagger), Lockjaw (but with my proxy for Thors Goats I made a year or so back), a Prime Sentinel (I have a like-sized resin Destroyer proxy!) and Rocket-Groot combo. Maybe Ironman for ranged energy and Helios Laser. Rest is Asgard ;) Thor, Loki, Skurge, Enchantress, Heimdall. Rocket is good even without Groot if need be, to maintain affiliation.
Good to see this up! I got the affiliation box primarily for hammers and Loki, but figured why not try them? As a counterpoint to your call on the affiliation box, some of these don't come with all the goodies you get on the boxes they budget for. I believe one or two are flat out missing cards. So, I think for all intents & purposes it's safe to say it's one box.
@@RichMidGaming me too! Asgard need a couple of extras. Fandral as a 2 point Nebula-style assassin character. Hogan as a 2 point objective focussed (maybe he gets 2 dice to defences but re-rolls/ blanks if he is holding or contesting an objective) Volatag as a 3 point bruiser, short range + high damage potential attacks but short move, also with reduce damage by 1 to minimum of 1 Unfortunately I’m pretty sure Howling Commandos is a tester for non-grunt multi-character bases. My initial ideas for what they want to do would be Warriors Three, The Stepford Cuckoo’s, Hill/Coulson/Ross (essentially S.H.I.E.L.D. grunts upgraded), maybe Max Fury and the LMD’s or even Hellfire Club
I only have the affiliatoon pack for Asgard. My roommate and I are still learning the game and roster building is where lack of experience show most. This was incredibly helpful.
Not sure when you recorded this but when you were mulling splash i was thinking the recrntly revealed Logan aka mk2 wolverine would be a fun four threat splash and if you'd kept x-23 them sharing Xceptional healing feels nicer as you hace more options for it.
Doesn't Thor's leadership ability work at the beginning of each characters turn before they activate? I thought that when each character activates it is their turn. If you had 4 characters you could do it for each character when it activates? Why is it not worded round since that is all the phases and turns is each characters activation?
You can use the leadership before activating a character. The turn doesn't start when you activate. You can play cards or abilities before depending on the timing of said abilities.
@@mitchcowan1446 So if I have 4 characters then I can use it 4 times if the characters have the power for it and not just one time? That's how we been playing it.
@@Grumium101 No, the effect says "one allied character" meaning you need to disperse the ability across your turns overall. Hence getting KO'd or dazed can really fudge up your timing.
@@eoinmcorks I should have explained that better. If I have 4 characters I was meaning in a round the max times you could do it would be 4. 1 time per character in each activation phase. I think we have been doing it right then.
Asgard (an F'ing PLACE...grumble grumble...) is my first love and my greatest disappointment in MCP. Thor should have been a T6 beater (to hell with this snapshot in their career AMG nonsense, he was taking on and beating the Hulk from day 1, design BY Stan Lee to make a hero could defeat him, his own words! Hulk vs Thor has been a tie more times than either has had a victory, documented fact). I wish they played more like Black Order in lethaility. All their threats should have been bumped up....they are G-DS! Even their footsoldiers are a match for the street level heroes. They should also be S3. Up until Jason F'ing Aaron they were depicted larger than humans too. Hela should be more of a terror too. Sigh...i will stop there before I rant too much lol
Hammers and Cubes seem like poor choices for Asgard. You hit harder and generate more power naturally. Why let your opponent close that gap? Also your guys need to not die, taking free chip damage from cubes seems like a good way to get your guys killed. Alien Ship seems spot on. Low scoring slower mission. I think lean into that and grab Senator and Skrull.
They have lots and lots to spend power on, so it helps. They can naturally keep themselves healthy and negate the chip with leadership, plus we included Groot and Rocket for this exact scenario. All extracts are above the 46% win rate for Asgard as a whole, so overall they are pretty good for them
why is hela in your roster? i know you paid for her from the 3 boxes. but she's trash, when will you ever use her? surely take her out and put captain marvel or doc oc in her place? at least with those you're adding some energy attacks to your roster
With Hela we are adding some much needed Mystic. You also have to remember that every single character in this game is viable, and for most people starting out they just want to learn the game and play with their favourites
Odin should be T8 or we riot lol
100%. I'm not against getting Jane Foster, but I we need the All-Father up in here.
Great work Rich, love that you are updating these guides with all the new characters that are out now, and the Card rotations much of the older guides have been left in the dust.
Glad you like them!
I take now in my Asgard list the splashes for: Malekith (negates his biggest weakness in Stagger), Lockjaw (but with my proxy for Thors Goats I made a year or so back), a Prime Sentinel (I have a like-sized resin Destroyer proxy!) and Rocket-Groot combo. Maybe Ironman for ranged energy and Helios Laser. Rest is Asgard ;) Thor, Loki, Skurge, Enchantress, Heimdall. Rocket is good even without Groot if need be, to maintain affiliation.
Good to see this up! I got the affiliation box primarily for hammers and Loki, but figured why not try them?
As a counterpoint to your call on the affiliation box, some of these don't come with all the goodies you get on the boxes they budget for. I believe one or two are flat out missing cards. So, I think for all intents & purposes it's safe to say it's one box.
Loki just proves that the Asgardian trait is not actually a racial trait but just the result of a strong Asgardian education system
Explain Angela then
Warriors Three are definitely going to be Hogun, Volstag and Fandral on one base, Howling Commando's style
Possibly with Sif as a three drop
I really hope not!
@@RichMidGaming me too! Asgard need a couple of extras.
Fandral as a 2 point Nebula-style assassin character.
Hogan as a 2 point objective focussed (maybe he gets 2 dice to defences but re-rolls/ blanks if he is holding or contesting an objective)
Volatag as a 3 point bruiser, short range + high damage potential attacks but short move, also with reduce damage by 1 to minimum of 1
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure Howling Commandos is a tester for non-grunt multi-character bases.
My initial ideas for what they want to do would be Warriors Three, The Stepford Cuckoo’s, Hill/Coulson/Ross (essentially S.H.I.E.L.D. grunts upgraded), maybe Max Fury and the LMD’s or even Hellfire Club
I only have the affiliatoon pack for Asgard. My roommate and I are still learning the game and roster building is where lack of experience show most. This was incredibly helpful.
Glad it was useful buddy - welcome to the game!
This needs to be re-done now that Beta Ray Bill is out, and by FAR the best character in the affiliation.
Haha a shout out! Yeah, I love you too Quinn lol. 😘
Not sure when you recorded this but when you were mulling splash i was thinking the recrntly revealed Logan aka mk2 wolverine would be a fun four threat splash and if you'd kept x-23 them sharing Xceptional healing feels nicer as you hace more options for it.
Yes!!
I will take that as a positive!
I'm just still a little pissy that Thor didn't get any adjustments with the revision.
Yep - really good opportunity but they obviously think he is fine the way he is!
Welcome to the pissy about Thor in MCP club...we have hats ;)
@@mitchcowan1446 my dude! Good to see you again! Skol!
Doesn't Thor's leadership ability work at the beginning of each characters turn before they activate? I thought that when each character activates it is their turn. If you had 4 characters you could do it for each character when it activates? Why is it not worded round since that is all the phases and turns is each characters activation?
You can use the leadership before activating a character. The turn doesn't start when you activate. You can play cards or abilities before depending on the timing of said abilities.
@@mitchcowan1446 So if I have 4 characters then I can use it 4 times if the characters have the power for it and not just one time? That's how we been playing it.
@@Grumium101 No, the effect says "one allied character" meaning you need to disperse the ability across your turns overall. Hence getting KO'd or dazed can really fudge up your timing.
@@eoinmcorks I should have explained that better. If I have 4 characters I was meaning in a round the max times you could do it would be 4. 1 time per character in each activation phase. I think we have been doing it right then.
Asgard (an F'ing PLACE...grumble grumble...) is my first love and my greatest disappointment in MCP. Thor should have been a T6 beater (to hell with this snapshot in their career AMG nonsense, he was taking on and beating the Hulk from day 1, design BY Stan Lee to make a hero could defeat him, his own words! Hulk vs Thor has been a tie more times than either has had a victory, documented fact). I wish they played more like Black Order in lethaility. All their threats should have been bumped up....they are G-DS! Even their footsoldiers are a match for the street level heroes. They should also be S3. Up until Jason F'ing Aaron they were depicted larger than humans too. Hela should be more of a terror too. Sigh...i will stop there before I rant too much lol
Hammers and Cubes seem like poor choices for Asgard. You hit harder and generate more power naturally. Why let your opponent close that gap? Also your guys need to not die, taking free chip damage from cubes seems like a good way to get your guys killed. Alien Ship seems spot on. Low scoring slower mission. I think lean into that and grab Senator and Skrull.
They have lots and lots to spend power on, so it helps. They can naturally keep themselves healthy and negate the chip with leadership, plus we included Groot and Rocket for this exact scenario. All extracts are above the 46% win rate for Asgard as a whole, so overall they are pretty good for them
why is hela in your roster? i know you paid for her from the 3 boxes. but she's trash, when will you ever use her? surely take her out and put captain marvel or doc oc in her place? at least with those you're adding some energy attacks to your roster
With Hela we are adding some much needed Mystic. You also have to remember that every single character in this game is viable, and for most people starting out they just want to learn the game and play with their favourites
@@RichMidGaming plus she is NOT terrible. She is not optimal, but stll can be very effective. I have seen her flame out, and also wreck face as mvp
@@mitchcowan1446 plus Valkyrie, and Scruge and easily add bleed
Odins Blessing + Doomed Prophecy = Pure Evil
Nice, thx for video!
You're welcome - hopefully it was useful!