Wilde on Heroclix

 I finally got my hands on my very own set of Thundercats and I'm itching to play them. I'm really happy overall with their synergy and team play. The lean into each other well and can gather from across map as a team thanks to Lion-O. And since that's all "placement" actions are wide open. I like them as a general 300-point team, but they will best shine in combo animal teams. I already have one that I'm planning to play soon. The Thundercat I like the least (not to say I don't like her) is Cheetara. While some of you gasp, it's just the manner of which she eventually reaches regular probability control.  Rerolling at the cost of a click feels strained to me. If she's going to reroll and the team does need it, she should just have had prob from the start. This makes that reroll an expensive decision in a heavy damage landscape. Especially when the only figure I plan to play at a full 100 is Lion-O. The rest are fine at 50 points so long as you...

 And the community is stoked. Scott Porter's Day One of unboxing lit up Youtube and Facebook with over 3300 views and counting. The sculpts look pretty decent and a new sideline element is coming into play. It feels like a new spin on an alter ego combined with pilot traits. This will take up sideline slots for your team building if you want multiple options from one game to the next.  Eddie Brock is the first example with any choice of a character named Venom put on his card to give him all the powers of a chosen click. But Mac Gargan has the most diversity in choices so far with four different character names to choose from. One caveat is that you can only use displayed standard powers, so no special power hacks will come from this. Even so, while another whole Spider-man set is legal to combine, modern selections look powerful. The next element I see taking the map by storm is the new water terrain, Symbiote Surface. It promises to be a significant disruption to movement o...

  The premise of the vampire dial is both fun and tragic at the same time. Trying to build to the sweet spots on a vampire's dial is a grind and they are often considered easy points. The most tragic issue facing the vampire team right now is that it comes hand in hand in a set chock full of Mystics team ability. You can make progress towards points, but not so much on that dial. The two don't get along.  I found vampires to shine fairly well in sealed. My sealed team for Strang Tales release was Dracula, Mephisto, Nightmare and low point Blade. I didn't win a lot, but I did a lot. I was not short on being able to cause my opponent problems. Dracula has always been sort of cool in figures, but I really think this one is the best by far. Cost effective for points, good abilities, more than one way to heal up that dial, and very active as part of your team.  Let's take a look at a couple of teams. This was a throw together with the idea of utilizing all of Wolverine's...

I recently had the privilege of asking Clay Wood of HCUnits some direct questions about what is now many of our favorite heroclix site. Here is our discussion: First, I just want to say something you may have heard from others already, thank you for what you've done for the clix community. I think your work deserves a lot of love and I can say I enjoy the team building features way too much. So, thank you for your time in talking with me today.   I guess the best place to start is the beginning. What gave you the idea to build HCUnits? View of HCUnits page I had been a long-time user of HCRealms, but was frustrated that they never allowed me to save my teams, despite having asked for and donated money to the site for years.  I was keeping track of all my team ideas in Google Sheets, but it was very tedious. Eventually, I decided I should just build my own alternative that allowed me to build and share teams.  It took a few months to get the basics of the site up and runn...