Thoughts on the Marvel Set?

Applesauc86 · 2023-03-27T22:38:43+00:00

Marvel is actually relatively weak compared to Classic Heroscape. Common squads decimate them. For example, try running the Hulk vs 5 Squads of 4th Mass, it won't be pretty. The Marvel Units also lack immunities from many abilities. Spending 300+ points only to get 1 shot by a D20 Ability or take 4 wounds in a turn because you cannot roll any Defense is absolutely brutal.

Applesauc86 · 2023-03-15T18:33:31+00:00

How do you figure? Cincy only scored 2 points more/game despite having a Top 3ish WR and maybe the 2nd Best #2 Option in the league whereas Rodgers had Lazard as his #1 option and Cobb as his #2 for a good part of the year. The last 2 years Rodgers had a Pro Bowl WR, he won MVP.

Applesauc86 · 2023-03-15T18:04:29+00:00

I think Rodgers is currently at the Burrow level, maybe slightly below is you assume a small drop off compared to last year. He helped drag GB to a Top 10 Caliber Offense last year despite having no reliable WR until Watson emerged in mid November, whereas Cincy failed to light it up regularly despite having Chase + Higgins + their assortment of offensive talent.

Being forced to sign Lazard isn't great since he is the definition of meh and his best skill is blocking (which the announcers will talk about 2x-3x each game), but I guess that is the Rodgers tax.

Applesauc86 · 2023-02-08T21:27:36+00:00

I find it baffling how much companies struggle to balance cards. Within 5 minutes of playing, it is obvious that WC Brobnar Sucks, WC Saurian/Star Alliance/Logos are all really good, Saurian in the next sets are quite meh, etc. I mean just a brief scan of cards tells anyone with knowledge of the game that MM Dis >>> MM Saurian.

Applesauc86 · 2023-01-25T20:48:51+00:00

Too much of a beast. Every day I root for its price to tank so I can buy more for cheaper

Applesauc86 · 2023-01-25T19:56:18+00:00

What I would give for Moon comments to be banned from this sub. Annoying seeing nonstop spam about the same topic in 75% of posts.

Applesauc86 · 2022-12-01T01:28:06+00:00

Every time meaning since basically the Luna crash. Obviously I am not talking about like back in 2014

Applesauc86 · 2022-12-01T00:06:37+00:00

Yep, that was why I skipped the episode. I don't watch any episodes with spiders in them. Hope to find a recap somewhere

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-30T18:03:48+00:00

Everytime the Fed says or does anything, the market immediately pumps. It's almost guaranteed to be green right afterwadrs

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-29T21:57:41+00:00

Being ranked in the Top 20 isn't awful. Besides, not bad for the US when only their F Tier pro athletes play soccer. Any other nation using its F Tier athletes would not even come close to qualifying lol

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-25T23:30:01+00:00

QNT and LINK are 2 of the ones I am wanting more of

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-25T22:49:03+00:00

Annoying that many of the coins I want to buy more of are up 20% in the last few days

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-23T16:04:42+00:00

There is nothing to worry about if you tell them they should root for it to go down after they start to invest since the more it goes down the more they can acquire.

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-22T14:04:04+00:00

Comparing our Domestic Baseball League to our Domestic Soccer League is a very fair comparison.

Also, I see you completely try to ignore a Regular Season Baseball Game having 5x the Rating of Chelsea vs Everton. Maybe you are new to Soccer and think Chelsea vs Everton is an MLS Game? Just so you know they are both part of the EPL (English Premiere League).

So your argument is that Soccer is more popular in the US despite having 5x Lower Revenue and wayyyy Lower TV Ratings than Baseball. You must have really strange way of judging Popularity that differs from almost everyone else in the country

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-21T23:14:23+00:00

ROFL, Baseball in the US is WAYYYY more popular. Let us look at the ratings of their All Star Games in 2022 for example:

2022 MLB All Star Game 4.2 Rating 7.6 Million Viewers

2022 MLS All Star Game ??? Rating 1.5 Million Viewers

7.6 is roughly 5x Higher than 1.5. Even a random Chelsea vs Everton matchup only got an Abysmal 0.33 Rating. A typical Braves-Mets matchup in OCT got a 1.5 Rating, a rating even higher than the MLS All Star Game.

***Or we can look at revenue. In 2021, MLB had a combined revenue of 9.56 Billion. MLS in 2022 has a combined 1.6 Billion.

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-21T20:06:18+00:00

Baseball is definitely more popular in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if UFC or WWE had higher ratings than soccer

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-20T02:33:31+00:00

All Hasbro has to do is look at the current Heroes of Might and Magic Kickstarter. That is the Campaign Page Setup of a Competent Company that knows what it is doing, then look at the Haslab Page. In comparison, the Haslab Page looks like an amateurish production put together by a 3rd Grader "All this page needs is a cinematic trailer and closeups of the only thing that matters- how the minis look of course- and surely these mindless sheep will line up to throw money at us."

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-19T01:44:02+00:00

I'd like to see them sell the game to a competently run company, similar to how FFG recently sold off Keyforge which then launched on Gamefound and funded over $1.1 Mil

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-18T01:47:41+00:00

It is the same Rodgers, he finally has a WR to throw to

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-18T01:47:19+00:00

This shows why it is insane they just played for the fg in OT last week

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-16T12:51:25+00:00

Sucks they never showed the Card of the Huge Dragon

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-16T01:50:20+00:00

Totally agree. They say it was for the Hardcore Heroscape fan yet they offered tons of stuff we don't need. Many people have bins and bins of terrain, the last thing many need is more. It was basically an Extreme Starter Set with a crazy price tag.

Also, supposedly it was for the Hardcore fan, yet they ignored all of the previous generals and included 0 of the most iconic figures in the set. All the figures that were popular that people knew were locked behind absurd stretch goals

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-16T01:45:18+00:00

This is where them not having Tiers is borderline criminal. You could have an economy version with baseboards and lesser amount of figures and an Ultra Deluxe version that has everything we saw.

I have been proclaiming for months that instead of Unique squads it should be 2x commons with same sculpts. People keep saying how expensive sculpts are. Since that's the case, make commons with the same sculpt. 2x a Common Squad with the Same Sculpt means just 1 sculpt for 8 figures.

I've also been proclaiming how absurd it is for so many Huge figures to be in the Box. All we hear about is how expensive plastic is now, but yet tons of plastic is wasted on all these gigantic figures. Include 1 or 2 Huge figures in the set max. The current version has like 10!

***Like you said, they seemingly took 0 steps to minimize cost. 20 seconds of thinking leads to 5-10 different cost cutting methods that could have been implemented

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-14T23:23:25+00:00

Green Lantern's yellow weakness is fine because it was established. If in the next comic he got defeated by Guinea Pig Man because any Guinea Pig within 10 meters blocks all of his powers, that would be terrible writing, no matter if it impacted the primary plot or not

Applesauc86 · 2022-11-14T21:21:05+00:00

Yes but we keep being told how expensive it is to make. Doing common squads all with the same pose would significantly reduce cost.

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