Pretty sure Hulkbuster is going for a ridiculous amount right now. The Avengers Assembled set is, from everything I've heard and seen, fun, and has a lot of novel pieces like "What If" chases and the like.

I have a local shop that has a good playgroup (8-12 usual players, more for big events, and we're planning a ROC at some point), but we usually allow for Bronze Age (all carded figs, no Golden Age stuff). Put it this way, here's the teams I have planned out for the next two weeks:

5/13
300 pt Bronze Age, no resources, entities, or bystander tokens; all figs must have either "Joey Wheeler" keyword or have lived in or done hero/villain work in New York at some point.

299 point Soldier theme team
ASM #04 Blade (86 pts.)
CA #031 Steve Rogers (99 pts.)
WotL #105r Green Lantern (John Stewart) (95 pts.) w/ WotL 205.04 Sinestro Corp Wall construct (10 pts.)
NML S102 Batarangs (10 pts.)

5/20
600 point Bronze Age, each figure on team must have wings or a blade. 1st, 2nd, and Felllowship winners from previous week can use 1 figure that does not have wings or a blade. Players can use the Yu-Gi-Oh! Book of the Millennium resource, or relics from the Book. I don't have that resource, so I'm stuck running a relic. I might add someone with a really blatant, huge gun or blunt weapon, should I end up getting one of the three spots from the week prior.

600 pt. Warrior theme team
MKR #12 Norowas (100 pts.)
ACR #06 The Vanguard (50 pts.)
GotG #01 Gamora (55 pts.)
GotG #040 Martyr (160 pts.)
WotL #017 Boodikka (75 pts.)
BOTM S102 Millennium Ring (10 pts.)

Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, http://www.hcrealms.com/index.php?page=units is the best goddamn page to find Heroclix information on in the entire world.

I would strongly advise against buying more Street Fighter unless you're trying for the shadow figs; the set, overall, is pretty terrible compared to most other sets. Not Lone Ranger terrible, but not very good.

I don't have one! I have the team base, but got it via trade without the fig for a pretty reasonable deal. I got two packs of Avengers Assemble today, and got the following:
#003 Aleph
#005 Scarlet Spider
#009 Turbo
#012 Hellcat
#023 Veil
#025 Forgotten One
#026 Silverclaw
#027 Smasher
#041a Star Brand
#043 Abyss

Two out of ten figures are Power Cosmic TA. It's a pretty sweet set.

I'll be keeping my thumbs up, hoping you end up pulling a chase from the set. From what we know thus far, it's Rick Jones (w/Namor, Blazing Skull, and Captain America POGS!), Captain America wearing Nova's helmet, future Hulk/the Maestro, Iron Man (in Iron Monger armor), and King Thor. The fact that they included New Warriors, at least one NewUniversal character, and the first Korvac we've had in seven years pleases me greatly.

Also, if you happen to get a dupe Constantine or Green Arrow from the JLA New 52 CTD, I ache for those. I need them inside of me (Heroclix collection, yarr).

Pretty sweet friggin' pulls; looks like you got 1 Chase (Wrath), 2 relics/Rock of Eternity or Pandora's Box resource items (sounds like Gluttony and Greed, based off of the colors), 4 Super-Rares... about standard for a brick. The Batman you pulled alone is a monster. A monster that jumps on top of buildings and then Pulse Waves the fuck out of you.

LOLOLOLOL!

Wizkids has some shaky quality as far as what goes in boosters some times; ASM, which the Vampire is from, and Incredible Iron Man were the worst offenders in recent history. I got a Crimson Cowl Super-Rare with no dial, just the fig and top part of the base. They're usually pretty good, though; to be honest, if they have more dynamic sculpts, there's usually less fuck-ups for some reason. The White Rabbit is a piece that more people are collecting for collection's sake rather than playability, but she's surprisingly good, especially if you do something dicky and manage to put Mystics on her. You can order the Rock of Eternity/Pandora's Box resource for about 20 bucks online right now; the individual Sins that go on it are 4-7 bucks a piece. I'm only missing one, but I only have the Rock of Eternity resource. I should've got Pandora's Box instead.

Welcome to plasticrack Hell. I have two three-tier drawers, a ten gallon tackle box, and three shoeboxes worth of figures, maps, tokens, and dice, all just for Clix. I regularly give away 50-100 figs when we do New Guy Nights at the store because of all the dupes I end up getting, but I'm somewhere in the 1-2K range as far as number of figures go now.

Woot woot! I want to get a pic of some of the LE figs that I've won for tourney attendance. I'm pruning my collection for another New Guy Night that we're going to be running at my venue soon. We're also possibly expanding to a second day of play. I'm going to be in the Florida State ROC at Glass Cabinet Hobbies later this month, so I've got to get a team in shape for it.

My team's done pretty well in playtesting thus far, something like 13-2. It's a Crime Syndicate theme team with the full Phoenix Force resource, and a lot of people don't seem to expect anyone to even run themes with all the Entities and such in the tournament meta environment. I mean, I guess we'll know just how well it'll do as of the latter half of June!

Double post because fuck it, it's super-important!

Teenage Mutant Turtle Heroclix.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE HEROCLIX!

My inner 7 year old and my current form just high-fived each other through hyperspace.
http://wizkidsgames.com/blog/2015/06/03/wizkids-partners-with-nickelodeon-for-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tabletop-games/

We got fucked on Hello Kitty Heroclix, but this is real deal.

So, I went to the Florida State Realms Open Championship (ROC) tournament this Saturday. I had to get up at an abysmal 4 am, and our carload and another carful of people made it to Melbourne at around 8:30 am, 7 souls in all. It was a constructed 300 point Modern Age event, and I ran Teen Titans Leash, Superman and Legion of Superheroes Highfather, and Avengers Assemble Jarvis with the Phoenix Force on all three, Cyclops Fragment on Leash, Magik fragment on Highfather, and Emma Frost on Jarvis with Colossus on the Phoenix Force base. I used Iron Man, Sersi, and Hank Pym ID cards with three Iron Man figures, Goliath, Hank Pym, Yellowjacket, and Sersi. I went 2-2 in the prelims but had the highest score via Capture. I went to the sports bar next to the venue and got shitfaced because I thought I'd been eliminated and was several whiskey sours in before I was told I was 16 in the top 16. I blasted the #1 seed who was 4-0 in my first game and ended up losing to the guy who seconded Worlds this year and last year.

For my efforts, I got 10 ROC points, a ROC exclusive map, tokens, and dice, the Animal Man 2015 Con Exclusive figure, the Sandman ID card, and Sandman, Manifold, Captain Universe, Hulk, and Ms. Marvel from Avengers Assemble. Everyone was super-nice and it was a pretty amazing time. I will be playing more competitive-level Heroclix from here on out.

Rogue Hippo wrote:

aeonic wrote: So, I went to the Florida State Realms Open Championship (ROC) tournament this Saturday. I had to get up at an abysmal 4 am, and our carload and another carful of people made it to Melbourne at around 8:30 am, 7 souls in all. It was a constructed 300 point Modern Age event, and I ran Teen Titans Leash, Superman and Legion of Superheroes Highfather, and Avengers Assemble Jarvis with the Phoenix Force on all three, Cyclops Fragment on Leash, Magik fragment on Highfather, and Emma Frost on Jarvis with Colossus on the Phoenix Force base. I used Iron Man, Sersi, and Hank Pym ID cards with three Iron Man figures, Goliath, Hank Pym, Yellowjacket, and Sersi. I went 2-2 in the prelims but had the highest score via Capture. I went to the sports bar next to the venue and got shitfaced because I thought I'd been eliminated and was several whiskey sours in before I was told I was 16 in the top 16. I blasted the #1 seed who was 4-0 in my first game and ended up losing to the guy who seconded Worlds this year and last year. For my efforts, I got 10 ROC points, a ROC exclusive map, tokens, and dice, the Animal Man 2015 Con Exclusive figure, the Sandman ID card, and Sandman, Manifold, Captain Universe, Hulk, and Ms. Marvel from Avengers Assemble. Everyone was super-nice and it was a pretty amazing time. I will be playing more competitive-level Heroclix from here on out. Sounds like a good time. I'm live about 45 minutes from where it was hosted and really wanted to attend but I just didn't commit the time to finding a good team and practicing. What type of teams did the competition bring? I've never really done a competitive-level event and I'm always worried that they'll be full of alpha-strike and turtle teams that just aren't a lot of fun to play against.

There was some crazy, ridiculous bullshit on the tables, which I actually thought was great. Here's some of the teams I saw (* played against):
Alpha Class Sentinel (Attack/Defense Mode), Trinity War FF Atomica w/Adara for 19 DV Defend, some pogs, full Book of the Skull*. I lost against this the very first round.

Trinity War Superman w/Parallax, Sinestro Corps Battery, Ring, Constructs* - Played this team round two, won in five minutes with a decent Capture roll on Supes.

Kree Supreme Intelligence
Mirror Match where two guys played the same team and scored a double-loss because nobody got damaged. Gluttony/Ressurection Man and Star Sapphire Battery/Ring/Constructs for both
Red Lantern Corps (WOTL Guy Gardner, Dex-Starr, Lydea Mallor w/Butcher, Red Lantern Battery/Ring/Constructs* My second loss in prelims
Korvac/Juston Seyfert/Book of the Skull* - Guy who went 4-0 in prelims, Korvac got captured by me 5 minutes in, done game
50 pt. Legacy of Hank Pym Ant Man, WotL Kyle Rayner, Green Battery/Ring/Constructs*, Kyle got caught via Capture, game ended quick. Player was state champ's dad.
Rock of Eternity w/ Full Sins on TT Dr. Light, Resurrection Man, ID cards (Ronin, Nova, Spider-Man)* - Phil Issacson Jr, won the whole shebang.

The difference between my usual weekly tourney attendance and this was interesting, because people ran some fucking cheesetacular teams, but it actually seemed easier and more fun to play against people I didn't know than the same people I play every week. There were a few turtle-y teams, but any competitive-level team is going to be able to break turtling, and alpha-strike is tough to pull off because most people account for that with map choice and positioning.

My wife beat me but lost in the finals to take 2nd in our local ROC event this past Saturday. I came in fourth. She's taking the gigantic 90 dollar Nekron she won and making a lamp out of it.