Recently my mom has finished my dad’s office in the new part of our house. Or what he would call it, the comic sanctuary. With this new addition to space and room for the geeky memorabilia he has started to play a game called HeroClix again. HeroClix is a game involving miniatures usually based off of Marvel or DC comics. The game is about as old as I am and my Mom and Dad have been playing it for that long until I had to take over Dad’s comic room. When they could play they went to tournaments. Dad so that when they won they could get exclusive figures and mom because she was the reason they won.
One of the reasons I like HeroClix is the simplicity. In other miniatures games you have to buy the fifty dollar figure, figure out that you need another rare hundred dollar rulebook just to find the stats, spend forty-eight hours painting and assembling the thing only to have the tiny little arm snap off, and then make your own play area out of toothpicks and styrofoam peanuts. With heroClix you buy maybe twenty dollars worth of figures, go home and find a rulebook and play map inside the box and all you need is some spare time, a flat surface, and a willing friend.
You assemble a team first with a set point value. So if the point limit is two hundred and you have four fifty point characters then you are good to go. You each start out with your characters on opposite sides of the map. The goal is usually to defeat all of the opposing characters team. As each of your characters take damage the dial in the base turns showing what new stats or super powers your character may have. The powers card that comes with the figures tells you what the powers mean, so if you have a character with dark blue on his speed then you go to the powers card and find out that that’s called bind and the character next to you can’t move away. However I’m not going to bore you with rules and regulations the whole time. Right now Katie me and Alex are beating Dad’s but as the heroes of Gotham City.
There is the wrap on HeroClix. HeroClix is made and developed by Wizkids. Bye!
By Ashton
Fish alien
This game is actually how I met your mom and dad. I haven't played it in a long time. Maybe we'll have to play a game this weekend when I come over.
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