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Heroclix

14:48 / 03.04.06

For my birthday, a friend got me some heroclix figures to use in my supervillain monopoly game, and now I am addicted- gah! You buy them in packs of four, and because the craze subsided a couple of years ago they now cost 1.50p for four painted miniatures *at random*. So you could get four goons, or Doomsday and Magneto depending on your luck. "Cheap supervillains! w00t!" I thought, but it's horribly addictive. I keep buying them in the hope of getting Magneto, but no joy yet, perhaps in the next pack, I can give up any time I want... another frickin' teen Titan? WHY GOD WHY!? Must buy another! VETERAN SUPERMAN! WooHoo! Must buy another!...

It's like gambling for kids.

14:58 / 03.04.06

Can you fight Marvels against DCs? I need to know in order that I may address some pressing matters, such as - how do Captain America and Batman stack up? Can either the Silver Surfer or Thor conceivably take Superman?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

15:04 / 03.04.06

As a total tabletop gaming nerd and comics geek I agree. The entire Clix gaming thing seemed like a dumbed down system until I found HeroClix.

Yes, you can play marvel vs dc, but I have never actually played the game, only purchased figs I liked.

The same company makes the most recent version of MEchwarrior (Fun and addictive) as well as Pirates of The Spanish Main, where the ships are little plastiboard models that come in card packs and you build.

If you are looking for specific peices you can find singles sold on ebay fairly frequently, but beware, I ran up over $100 on ebay in an afternoon buying miniatures.

18:08 / 04.04.06

how do Captain America and Batman stack up?

Depends how you use them. A few batarangs and some outwitting leaves Cap crippled, but toe to toe Cap'n crunches teh bat into breakfast cereal. Yesterday prof. Xavier and a squad of policemen killed superman with the help of Firelord, some Marvel D-list villain, haha, and I enjoyed a Dredd vs. Wolverine battle (EAT LAWGIVER CREEP!) and the Dark Judges squad (THE CRIME IS LIFE!) mostly for the shouting rather than the gameplay.

08:55 / 05.04.06

When I was living with some folk who had a serious habit we occasionally dragged out the Galactus heroclick, with a ridiculous pts value and threw the rest of their collection at it to see what happened. As I recall Glactus ate them all as an starter

. Cool model though, much better than synestro(?) the other 'big model' they do.

On the other hand have you seen the model of a certain gentleman who sleeps in R'lyeh?

Dark side of the Moonfrog1

12:33 / 05.04.06

Pfft! Heroclix are sooo last year. Marvel MXDs are what the cool kids are into, man!

Check out how happy they've made this little guy!

17:20 / 06.04.06

But look, they've mutated him so he only has one giant hand and no arms. Too high a price to pay my friends, too high a price...

17:54 / 17.12.06

So no-one wants to mention the joy that is / are Horrorclix?

Ok, so they're Heroclix for Horror Movies, but, hey, I'm basically sold on the very fact that they're pretty.

(I'll come back and write more about them, I promise, but I don't have the mojo right now.)

16:26 / 18.12.06

*gasps* Avatar of Cthulhu!

17:06 / 18.12.06

I hate this game so much. I am in so much debt because of it. And I only buy Marvel. If you have to pay any sort of bill, DO NOT PLAY HEROCLIX. However, my greatest day in recent memory was the time I finally took out my buddy's Superman using Wolverine, Wendigo, and someone totally useless. Oh, and few things are as fun as Magneto vs. Supes. Or The Thing & Wolverine vs. The Teen Titans.

If you have a decent local comic shop, HeroClix are even better, because they should have frequent tournaments. That's when you do fun things like team up to take on Galactus.

HorrorClix look like fun, but I need a real job before I start adding zombies to my Superman killing legion.

Oh, yeah, real gaming discussion: if you enjoy games in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics, you should like Clix. You set your guys up on a field and make strategic decisions in turn based style. And you get you yell things like "BAMF!" or "FUCK YOU SUPERMAN, YOU POMPOUS ASSHOLE!". All in all a perfect family game.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

21:37 / 18.12.06

The Days of Future Past gift set looks hella cool.

Upgraded Sentinel is the only one shown, but the Rachel Summers Hound/Phoenix figure is top notch, and Logan looks proper.

They are getting much better at the sculpting and painting of the figures then when the game first starter. The HorrorClix are really nice, even though they chose Aliens Vs PRedator (the movie) instead of making minis from the earlier films of each franchise.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:56 / 18.12.06

OK, so this always looked really, really dumb.

But the Horrorclix may change all that, and make ME the one looking stupid.

I NEEDS THAT CTHULHU I DOES

17:44 / 19.12.06

You don't needs that Cthulu.

You need:

Rasputin!

I should add as a caveat that I'm buying horrorclix with no intention of actually playing the game - it's just that right now I seem to engage with them on a number of levels, to whit;

I) They're pretty and collectible, satisfying my inner child

II) They're horror-movie-referential, satisfying my inner geek

III) And I can pretend I'm using them as reference points for any horror work I try to write. Well, I will be using them as visual cues... But they're also, as previously mentioned, pretty.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

08:10 / 20.12.06

I bought a hundred random Heroclix on eBay once to use as figurines for a Mutants and Masterminds campaign I was running at the time, and was totally intrigued by the game but never found anyone to play with. Now I'm sort of glad I didn't.

16:03 / 20.12.06

I saw the Days of Future Past gift set in the FP today and, lo, it is indeed also pretty.

(I need a new adjective.)

I now have as many horrorclix as any one person could probably need for now, so I am a happy bunny.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:54 / 15.01.07

This is getting good buzz from people... and might be a way to scratch the Heroclix itch without getting sucked into the "collectible" trap. It's the Heroscape system (dumbed-down miniatures combat... I figure it's kind of Blood Bowlish in complexity) but using Marvel Heroes. Should be out soon. I'm quite keen.

13:31 / 02.01.09

In the recent move, I found my box of hypertime clix from a while ago, and then picked up some of the latest DC sets. Since then I've been buying them up with aplomb. It's a shame that the company is out of business and being bought up by Topps, so no more Heroclix - a real shame as the Arkham Asylum set that's currently out has some of the best designs I've seen - I love the Despro chessboard piece...