Comments on: Chess – With Super Heroes

By: superfriend

superfriend — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:04:21 +0000

Yes, the cost is based upon the stats, powers, and number of clicks of life. Higher stats, more powers, and longer life cost more points. Pieces are geared toward being balanced in 300 point games. The two most recent sets out are actually based around Superman and the Hulk. Superman is 300 points while Hulk is 165. There is a Thug from the very first set that is 6 points (Even 6 point pieces have their uses in game play).

By: superfriend

superfriend — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:16:19 +0000

The point total for the armies tends to keep the “many powerful” pieces in balance. If you play Hulk or Superman, you don’t have many points left to include other characters.

By: superfriend

superfriend — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:14:25 +0000

Batman Brave and Bold did have an episode where Batman collected Batmen from other universes to help him, so there is some precedent. Most players I know do not play copies of the same character, but some do. Its just part of the game.

By: superfriend

superfriend — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:11:01 +0000

Actually, the ability to make the team up of any combination is part of the charm. If you want Spiderman and Zaxxx on your team of Avengers, this is your chance to do that. In Spiderman’s case, he was the star of Marvel Team Up for a while. Remember that Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver all started out as villains before becoming Avengers. Alex Ross created a story where Plastic Man and Capt Marvel were long time members of the JLA. Why not build a team with your favorite characters?

By: Veil1

Veil1 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:30:58 +0000

Yeah, the cost of the figure is on there.. On the spiderman figure that Superfriend used as reference, it is the 110 on the top.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:51:59 +0000

Very informative piece. Helped me understand the game much better than anything else I’ve ever read.

My only question is the cost of the character/figure. How is that determined? I assume Superman or Hulk would “cost” more than a Hydra goon, but how is the cost set? It it on the base of the figure?

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By: demoncat

demoncat — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:52:30 +0000

glad i am not the only one who thought heroclix was like chess only no having to capture the king plus one has to click if the piece is damage though one could stack their sets by having as much powerful heroes or bad guys as possible including power ful ones like hulk if one wanted to.

By: Van Statten

Van Statten — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:43:05 +0000

I agree Bane. Someone Clix army needs to make sense or have a theme. Once I read that you could have 8 Spider-Mans or Batmans on your team I gave up and simply collected to use them in my superheroes table top RPGs.

By: BANE

BANE — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:28:47 +0000

Yeah but the comic book purist in me cannot play with someone having an army of Mad Hatters or the like. I have to have it comic book mente make sense to play. Having Spiderman team up with ZZaxx makes NO sense to me…Etc.