F.U.N. Reflections on: Retirement 2016

This was originally going to be an exhaustive article listing Heroclixin’s top things we’re going to miss that’s retiring this summer and those elements we can’t wait to be gone. But it got too hard, especially once we:

  • removed all our Top Ten Favorites affected. Because then…
  • it was difficult to find other figs we cared about as much. Also…
  • The list of stuff we disliked was pretty much just “every resource and team base and Marvel Zombie and War of Light entity.” Boring.
  • We also wanted to do it set-by-set…at least one from each. But there’s a LOT of stuff rotating out. It began to look fairly daunting.

We found ourselves in a bind with small sets such as AvX. Our favorite there is Black Panther, but we’ve been non-plussed with that figure from the beginning. So we weren’t all THAT sorry to see him go, especially with 3 superior versions now in Modern Age and a fourth on the way in summer’s Civil War.

So we’ll be missing our favorites:

  • Deathlok [Wolverine and the X-Men 011b]
  • War Machine [Invincible Iron Man 029b]
  • Aquaman [War of Light 029]
  • Swamp Thing [War of Light 053]
  • Drax The Destroyer [Guardians of the Galaxy Movie 013]
  • Black Widow [Captain America: The Winter Soldier 003]
  • Legionnaires Timber Wolf, Chameleon Girl, Wildfire and  [Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes]
  • Nova Corps Officer [Guardians of the Galaxy Movie 004]
  • Angel [Days of Future Past 005]
  • Superior Spider-Man [Deadpool 060]
  • Falcon [Captain America: The Winter Soldier 006]
  • Triple M’s of Mirage, Magik and Magma [Wolverine and the X-Men 004, 034, 073]
  • Multiple Man [Wolverine and the X-Men 013]
  • Captain America and Black Widow [Captain America: The Winter Soldier 017]
  • Batman [Gotham City Strategy Game 001]

But there are also these that will be mourned here in Heroclixin’ land.

Giganta [Legion of Doom Fast Forces 006] I made her SO effective but no more giant Quaking taxi action.

Superboy [SLOSH] Just like that, Modern Age Legion teams lost a great inspiration.

Captain Marvel [ 019a] She’s leaving just when this team showed but before it got its final member, Ms. America [who is a long shot to appear in mid-summer’s Spider-Man if at all this year].

Shang-Chi [Deadpool], who never seemed to perform up to his promise.

 

And — ironically, because we hated them — we’ll miss the sheer creativity that resources and entities admittedly allowed for in the competitive scene. It’s too soon to say what the modern de-emphasis on such off-the-map effects will do, but Heroclixin’ hopes the game doesn’t slip into a different sort of rut.

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