We doubled down on the Aggression, and as an out and out slugger he didn't disappoint. Sadly though we found he struggled a lot with resources even though he doesn't have overly expensive cards. Its a shame he didn't get his own permanent resource generation in the vein of "God of Thunder" for Thor or "Super Soldier Serum" for Cap
@@maxducoudray No not play the same, but I was more getting at the fact he seems to be lacking a consistent tool to generate resources like those heroes. Take for example a Hulk Smash - the player would often have to drop the rest of their hand to play it (unless packing a resource high card like strength) - it would just be nice to not have to rely on said cards in hand to have any hope of playing more than one card that turn
Hulk Aggression certainly dusts away the cobwebs :-) Yeah that hand size can be very difficult to manage which is why I opted for "Enhanced Physique" being a poor mans version of Thor and Cap's signature cards, I also went for a slightly above average suite of multiple resource cards to try and find that appropriate balance.
I feel like hulk really lacks quite a lot of meaningful options. His burst damage is great, but sadly i feel like our favorite green monster was tuned down a little too much. Banner should really have been 6 card hand limit. Banner's Lab doesn't compare to other hideout cards and can only be used in alter-ego, which will I understand, feels really unforgiving for an already low hand limit of 4. I feel like If banner's hand size couldn't be changed, a great option would have been for discarded cards by banner alter-ego option to go under laboratory, and for hulk to "smash" the laboratory to gain access to some of these cards. A flavorful way of giving Hulk the explosive turns that his character represents. Furthermore i would have liked a higher recovery stat. Most characters recover a 3rd of their health. For hulk it's half way between a 4th and a 5th. (2.2222) I just want my big green meanie to smash in a meaningful way!! Great video by the way, i'm a BBG member and found your channel through your posting on arkham LCG, great content mate, cheers.
I'm not 100% sure FFG can get their grips around Hulk, his ally card you could see what they were going for but it just didn't quite work, I suppose when you're designing pure burst damage it comes with a great degree of margin of error. I think the idea of increasing Banner's hand size is a smart one, excuse the pun but they're yin and yang Bruce and Big Green so it would make sense from a thematic perspective. I love the theme of smashing the lab but worry it might get abused, filtering and prepping cards from experience can get quite nasty, I would certainly prefer a bit more consistency and would be happy to sacrifice something like limitless strength for something like that. Its interesting cause I love the statistical underbelly of these games and I hadn't really considered that percentage differential which does seem quite punishing, although having such a high innate health you'd expect him to be bottom of that list. I feel ya though Hulk has always been my favourite and was waiting for this pack keenly, can't wait to get Rise of the Red Skull to the table and see how he fares.......after I get done figuring out Spider-Woman of course :-) Anyway thanks so much for the kind words, nice to have a LCG devotee here, hope you continue to enjoy the content.
@@DicevsCards Thanks Bhenji! I'm eagerly awaiting my box of red-skull as well! Yes, I've watched every video posted as well. keep up a the stellar work mate!
2 years later hulk still sucks. with current cards hulk is best with leadership which is unbelievable. what incredible hulk. most of hulk's cards suck so leadership allies like hawkeye girl, wonder man, adam warlock, blade who loves using fist resources deals so much damage/thwart by discarding hulk's crappy cards like sub orbital leap (replaced by thwarting allies like maria hill), unstoappable force (replaced by a grey card called limitless stamina with the girl thor picture) and banner's lab (replaced by a grey card with iron heart picture that gives mental resource even on hero mode). there is also a resource upgrade with luke cage picture that gives 3 fist with 2 cost. this convert any of your mental and lightning resources to fist and stays in play after your hand gets discarded. very poor design...
I think they basically tried too hard to scale back what should be an enormously strong identity and instead just made it extremely unwieldy and it still brings a tear to my eye.
We doubled down on the Aggression, and as an out and out slugger he didn't disappoint. Sadly though we found he struggled a lot with resources even though he doesn't have overly expensive cards. Its a shame he didn't get his own permanent resource generation in the vein of "God of Thunder" for Thor or "Super Soldier Serum" for Cap
We don't want every hero to play the same though, surely?
@@maxducoudray No not play the same, but I was more getting at the fact he seems to be lacking a consistent tool to generate resources like those heroes. Take for example a Hulk Smash - the player would often have to drop the rest of their hand to play it (unless packing a resource high card like strength) - it would just be nice to not have to rely on said cards in hand to have any hope of playing more than one card that turn
Hulk Aggression certainly dusts away the cobwebs :-) Yeah that hand size can be very difficult to manage which is why I opted for "Enhanced Physique" being a poor mans version of Thor and Cap's signature cards, I also went for a slightly above average suite of multiple resource cards to try and find that appropriate balance.
I feel like hulk really lacks quite a lot of meaningful options. His burst damage is great, but sadly i feel like our favorite green monster was tuned down a little too much.
Banner should really have been 6 card hand limit. Banner's Lab doesn't compare to other hideout cards and can only be used in alter-ego, which will I understand, feels really unforgiving for an already low hand limit of 4.
I feel like If banner's hand size couldn't be changed, a great option would have been for discarded cards by banner alter-ego option to go under laboratory, and for hulk to "smash" the laboratory to gain access to some of these cards. A flavorful way of giving Hulk the explosive turns that his character represents.
Furthermore i would have liked a higher recovery stat. Most characters recover a 3rd of their health. For hulk it's half way between a 4th and a 5th. (2.2222)
I just want my big green meanie to smash in a meaningful way!!
Great video by the way, i'm a BBG member and found your channel through your posting on arkham LCG, great content mate, cheers.
I'm not 100% sure FFG can get their grips around Hulk, his ally card you could see what they were going for but it just didn't quite work, I suppose when you're designing pure burst damage it comes with a great degree of margin of error.
I think the idea of increasing Banner's hand size is a smart one, excuse the pun but they're yin and yang Bruce and Big Green so it would make sense from a thematic perspective.
I love the theme of smashing the lab but worry it might get abused, filtering and prepping cards from experience can get quite nasty, I would certainly prefer a bit more consistency and would be happy to sacrifice something like limitless strength for something like that.
Its interesting cause I love the statistical underbelly of these games and I hadn't really considered that percentage differential which does seem quite punishing, although having such a high innate health you'd expect him to be bottom of that list.
I feel ya though Hulk has always been my favourite and was waiting for this pack keenly, can't wait to get Rise of the Red Skull to the table and see how he fares.......after I get done figuring out Spider-Woman of course :-)
Anyway thanks so much for the kind words, nice to have a LCG devotee here, hope you continue to enjoy the content.
@@DicevsCards Thanks Bhenji! I'm eagerly awaiting my box of red-skull as well!
Yes, I've watched every video posted as well. keep up a the stellar work mate!
2 years later hulk still sucks. with current cards hulk is best with leadership which is unbelievable. what incredible hulk.
most of hulk's cards suck so leadership allies like hawkeye girl, wonder man, adam warlock, blade who loves using fist resources deals so much damage/thwart by discarding hulk's crappy cards like sub orbital leap (replaced by thwarting allies like maria hill), unstoappable force (replaced by a grey card called limitless stamina with the girl thor picture) and banner's lab (replaced by a grey card with iron heart picture that gives mental resource even on hero mode).
there is also a resource upgrade with luke cage picture that gives 3 fist with 2 cost. this convert any of your mental and lightning resources to fist and stays in play after your hand gets discarded.
very poor design...
I think they basically tried too hard to scale back what should be an enormously strong identity and instead just made it extremely unwieldy and it still brings a tear to my eye.