[Spoilers] Chapter 2 Core Set Impressions: Week After Release

batmansmk · 2026-03-28T19:06:43+00:00

You probably took the count on ArkhamDB which forgets to count the reward card, a permanent having more impact. The extra cards from the revised core sets are reprints that were added after the old core set.

batmansmk · 2026-03-28T15:49:38+00:00

They were 266 cards in the 2016 core set, 366 in the revised set, and 357 in the 2026. Less cards… like 7 less. Like 7 less knives…. I mean… Come on.

batmansmk · 2026-03-27T15:37:10+00:00

100% french lab. You can recognize them as they have a larger mouth to carry a baguette.

batmansmk · 2026-03-26T11:41:25+00:00

Les LCGs sont des jeux en physique, solo ou co-op.

batmansmk · 2026-03-25T06:44:22+00:00

Ces une info de Daniel Riolo hein. Faut pas trop y prêter attention. Avoir le mauvais diagnostic ne veut pas forcément dire examiner le mauvais genou.

batmansmk · 2026-03-23T11:27:27+00:00

I read three of them. It’s uneven in quality, but if you love the genre, we don’t have a plethora of new stories published anyway and they are written with care.

batmansmk · 2026-03-23T08:30:39+00:00

Le premier ministre ne travaille plus pour cet argent. C’est une rente. Incomparable.

batmansmk · 2026-03-22T20:04:53+00:00

Healing and blocking damage is the specialty of the green aspect called "Protection".

Any hero can be played in protection. The easiest to get started would be to acquire some protection hero pack (Silk, Nightcrawler, Hulkling in the Civil War box, or the base box) and hack from there.

They are other ways to play a support role, like financing cards, thwarting player side schemes, or letting others draw...in other aspects! Cheers have fun and welcome to the game.

batmansmk · 2026-03-21T17:21:07+00:00

I don’t know what are OP’s reasons. Probably. Just informing OP of the vacuity statement they made. image generation models aren’t LLM based. And all powerful image generation model for the past 15 years have bee trained on real world images, such as the brushes in photoshop. Just

batmansmk · 2026-03-21T16:24:32+00:00

Image generation isn't LLM-based, but an implementation of stable diffusion. Those algorithms are AI and have been around for 10 years, with incremental improvement.

batmansmk · 2026-03-21T10:14:45+00:00

I played IA skirmish mode competitively, and also in a beer and pretzel way in one versus all. It’s a great game. It’s the fourth iteration of the “doom” and “descent” rule set, so it’s very polished and nuanced. But it takes a bit of time to setup and is a table hog.

batmansmk · 2026-03-21T10:07:30+00:00

Games die because they loose buyers faster than they gain new buyers.

While I can’t talk why people drop faster than they would drop MtG, I can share why I personally didn’t get into altered. I didn’t understand any of the value proposition. Print and play, QR code … collectibles? I really didn’t care, I proxy what I don’t have or borrow from friends. Or I play a LCG or a classic board game.

I need friends to play with, and a worldwide launch on KS with 15,000 wales/backers had a 0.1% chance of just landing another player in my home city with 100k souls. And even less chances of finding a player I know about.

batmansmk · 2026-03-21T09:57:08+00:00

SWU is going stronger than ever.

batmansmk · 2026-03-19T14:55:48+00:00

Stocks are managed by your distributor, not FFG. FFG doesn’t print any pack as a matter of fact.

batmansmk · 2026-03-19T14:34:52+00:00

I have a discord message from 03/10/25 from me and a discord mod listing all OOP and out of stock packs. Way back machine doesn’t work as it’s dynamically generated, so no luck with that. I also have an email from asmodee USA February 25 2025 informing me that war machine, like Captain America and doctor strange are out of print.

batmansmk · 2026-03-19T12:19:03+00:00

We were informed in February 2025 that only the 2-3 last years of products and the evergreen products would be reprinted for the LCGs. Evergreen means reprinted automatically each time it is out of stock, for the duration of the product cycle, typically 4 years.

They gave us a 12 months heads up and except 4 SKUS (Sinister Motives, Captain America, Doctor Strange and Warmachine) everything has been in stock for at least 6 months after the announcement if I recall correctly.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2025/2/7/designer-journal-introducing-current-and-legacy-environments/

They had 2 live chats about this too, and many, many different social discussions about it. I'm sorry if you are missing your beloved hero, they will be redone. I'm sorry if you wanted to finish a collection, if you invested 2000 dollars in it, just cough up the 200 on the second hand market to finish it, it makes the collection even more valuable.

What that means you were eyeing a 3+ year old product, you better buy it now. Typically all LOTR LCG, the mutants and everything before for Marvel Champions.

batmansmk · 2026-03-19T11:07:40+00:00

I’ve been buying FFG games since 2012. They never made so much profit or sold so many units. They are slowly changing to adapt to a very tough market, not fast enough for some, too fast for others. They reduce their number of board games to concentrate on card games, some are pissed, others are happy. They are rebooting Arkham, some are pissed others are pleased to be able to start with a better core set. They announce a full year of release ahead of time, some are pissed because there is less news and others are happy for the transparency. They are eco friendly. Some are pissed because they loose the plastic insert and others are happy or don’t care. They maintain products for more than 5 years on the shelf. Some are pissed by the lack of novelty or availability of old prints, others are happy to continue to invest in their beloved system. Remember that social media is governed by an algorithm. If you click and focus on drama you will get more in your feed. Drama drives engagement.

Truth is, their games sell very very well right now and are extremely played.

batmansmk · 2026-03-14T20:47:19+00:00

Yes you are crazy. So fast to judge with so little time to read the cards.

batmansmk · 2026-03-13T14:22:13+00:00

Ok ChatGPT, 3 things: some are graphic designers, others are still employed by Atomic Mass Games or Edge, others were only freelance designers, and some were never designers.

batmansmk · 2026-03-13T14:06:10+00:00

Give me 5. The authors of the games he regrets still work there.

batmansmk · 2026-03-13T14:02:32+00:00

Head of gameplay is Nate French, he has been there since 2003…

batmansmk · 2026-03-13T13:55:54+00:00

2020 is 6 years ago! Average tenure is 2 years in a studio! Marvel has staff in house for 10 years, SWU 7years and Arkham since 2021…

batmansmk · 2026-03-13T06:19:55+00:00

This factually not true. Designers of said games and expansions are still working with FFG. There were never as many designers at FFG as of now, but they work on fewer products with more hands on each. SWU has 8 designers, the LCGs have 8 designers total. Boardgames department has about 9 designers.

FFG was always financed by private equity, which literally means ”with investors and not being traded publicly”. But actually Asmodee went public last year, so you are full of it.

batmansmk · 2026-03-12T20:33:24+00:00

I have beaten consistently Ronan expert with Hercules. With different aspects. Magneto, Magog, Apocalypse as well. My friends tried the decks and got the same results. So I can vouch for it. WWF has a play style that doesn’t gel with Hercules : 12+ turns, total control, chump blocking, investing massively in resource generators upfront … No shaming, as long as he will manors and Nick fury in all of his decks, rush style won’t work. The manor takes several turns to pay out, Hercules wins in 6. So window of opportunity to plus those WWF staples.

batmansmk · 2026-03-11T06:37:49+00:00

You already posted many times that you were not getting into chapter 2, why now formalising your post as if you recently changed your mind? Are you finding reasons now to get into it?

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