The boom trigger is not technically considered damage dealt by the attack, so she won't gain any extra power for, similarly to characters with throw or explosive triggers.

A-force is definitely overdue a second leadership, here's hoping!

With a list like this there's so many good options, so I feel like if I don't include more than 10 there would be lots of people wondering why character XYZ wasn't considered, but I definitely agree it has the added benefit of giving more ideas to people watching on how they could build this for themselves, and that's always a win!

Rogue definitely should have been in the running, not sure if I quite agree with her as beefier than Rhino though, since I put more stock in health than dice personally, but she still deserved consideration. Similarly for Cable and ASM, Cable himself is relatively squishy, even with the extra dice he has a lower stamina pool and his dice still aren't much better, and no damage reduction, while he does buff other models well, I think he becomes the easiest target. For ASM, his defenses are super swingy, sometimes he blocks everything and feels great, other times you roll a skull or 2 and he's taking massive hits, I wanted to focus more on the consistent defensive abilities, which is why Captain America is the only model on the list without damage reduction tech. TL;DR: I value reduction over dice pretty much anywhere, your mileage may vary though, and a totally different (and still very viable) version of this list could be made with ASM and/or Cable as primary pieces.

We definitely want to do battle reports with custom characters, just need to make enough of them that we can do it! As for tactics, that's also something I want to add to the series but I think the idea for them is doing them as their own video, after we have enough characters, where we just make a bunch of cards for the theme/affiliation.

Ooh that could be really interesting, just explosive to the max, Bob, Iron Man, Dynamo, too bad I can't think of any midnight suns that fit the theme (but I might be missing some)

Yeah I still think Blade and bump+ihulk is their e-map team, but I really like her for B-maps where teams are somewhat clumped but she won't be under as much fire.

I think her Sons like that. Under Blade Sons love a wide map because bump makes them very mobile

How could I forget Storm Hop?! Definitely a really cool place for him, and I agree he's good for her team! Oh and the defensive reroll is great for him!

Didn't catch that, that's fantastic!

They're definitely getting more ambitious with design space and I'm here for it!

@@omnivision616 I thought so at first too, but the Elites ended up winning. The more I look at it, I'm convinced the Elites are really strong, just take a bit more skill/practice to use well

@@1RobW Happened almost every one of Alex's turns (Spartans), unfortunately we didn't know this rule until after this was recorded

@@ZetroxWargaming Thats OK, I didn't either and kept being reminded in an event last weekend. :)

I wanted to save leadership Master Chief for when I do blue team, this one is kinda supposed to be chief off on his own. Depending how I'm feeling, it'll either be a tactics card leadership or a different version of chief down the line, but not decided yet

@@jamesallan8586 We used Winter Guard for last year's Christmas special, not sure if we'll be doing one this year unfortunately though just because of recording schedules being really tight this time of year, but it's a great idea for one!

Yeah he's a super solid addition to guardians, very excited for him there where he gets the attack dice consistency from winging it, and Galaxy's greatest on him will be kinda insane.

Yeah somebody else mentioned that too, I was being dumb and forgetting about walking round 1 for power.

@@ZetroxWargaming I could see it being a common play pattern to walk spender if you start a round on 3 power. Sure you only are making one attack action, but you can easily get 3 people under a beam at range 5 and with a long move to position. Late in a round it can be huge to displace a bunch of models. I really hope he does end up in Webs :P

@@obyiscushobbyandgaming Yeah the beam is super powerful, and it being online consistently round 2 is real good, I agree it'll probably be a really common play, and the displacement will be massive, especially if he ends up webs

@@ZetroxWargaming I already have plans for him in my Midnight Sons (going to trying swapping him in for Dracula for a bit). In webs he may actually open up a more offensive webs play too

@obyiscushobbyandgaming I'm so here for agro webs being a viable strategy! Sons could be interesting, bump safe grab is a thing, or contest and punch

Yeah, I totally wasn't factoring in the turn 1 move power, whoops, that's really good!

@ all good love the content keep it up :3

While he and Namor (and post-buff ASM) are definitely in the stronger end of 5's, honestly I think that where 5's feel best, the previous ones in my opinion kinda needed the power creep, with the exceptions of maybe Ghost Rider or Juggernaut All that to say, I don't think he will feel much stronger than a Juggernaut does right now, he hits harder for sure but I think is a little more situational and not nearly as survivable.

@@ZetroxWargaming Agreed, he seems alot like Abomination. A very hard hitting 5 limited by their gainer. Were they a builder they could be 6s

I really like him, super good on maps where beams are good but I think he's not gonna be absurd or anything.

@@joshuaarseneault1191 Yeah I think he's definitely solid on cubes or really many of the damage ones, he loves the extra power and healing factor is super good for it.

Good to know, thanks! Loving the game so far, looking forward to doing more!

@LeoChaseTheMythMaster Yeah his spender certainly isn't bad but I think guardian is definitely his better use of power

I'd absolutely love to see Venom get a place in MS again. Unfortunately I agree regarding Inhumans, as much as I love the idea of him there.

@@Talchwi3 Same, pleasantly surprised since MS has plenty of good higher threats already.

@@ZetroxWargaming I agree. I now wonder if Elsa will be a 4 drop or something else.

Seems like a really solid core, shame that it's 16 threat so it doesn't work with the 15 scenarios.

@@shaunkrogulski9619 Never noticed that on wave of turtles, that's a really neat bonus, heck you could teleport through an intrusion portal and then walk away, that could be fun. I'll need to workshop that lol.

@@miniaturewarzone He was the pre-order bonus for the game, but he's also available with the paint set they sell.

At this point I'm just a little defeated about it lol, I'm on a bit of a streak (and I don't wanna get super salty on camera for you guys)

@@shaunkrogulski9619 Yeahhh sadly that seems to happen to Shadowland a lot for me lol

For me it's kinda arbitrary and mostly as you say just experience with the game. Usually I try to think of comparable characters with similar abilities and what threat we usually see those abilities at for a kinda baseline, and then from there it's an educated guess, often I'm willing to go back and change some health/attack values to make it fit better if needed. For an RPG, like any, be willing to tweak things on the fly if it's feeling like something is too strong or weak, make sure your players know it's a less-tested system and take advice/suggestions they have.

Glad you enjoyed!

Hope you have fun with it! Definitely nice to throw down the symbiotes from time to time!

Unfortunately, I've never actually played a Mortal Kombat game so I wouldn't be able to do it justice.

@@PureBrawler From Fortnite?

@@ZetroxWargaming idk if you saw my edited comment as I just had to impulsively comment the meme once I saw the thumbnail

Haha yeah the Shields Down is definitely super wordy, basically the idea is the tokens only matter when youre on your injured side, might have been easier to just do something with shield tokens but I wanted to represent the healthy objective power with the shields up too.

Yep,, different shields, health and weapon skills, and Chief takes up the slot of 2 Spartans on a team.

Yes, Chief has 2 Armor, 3 shields, and 3's for his stats. Sangheili mercs have 1 armor, 3 shields, and 4+'s for all of their stats. Unlike Spartans, they don't have different stats for their weapon loadouts.

@@kgordon7209 Unless otherwise specified, yes

It's a really interesting card with him, on one hand he can already heal so if he's doing good the healing becomes kinda redundant, on the other hand it's a 3-cost 7 dicer that he can boost, and that's great

@@joshuaforren4907 As far as I can tell, the exploding 8s happen on basically anything that doesn't specify otherwise, including the wall when you get blasted into one, melee, explosives, etc.

D8 critical. Occurs for any offensive or defensive rolls in the game.

I get the confusion because the critical 8s are called "headshots" but they work for anything unless it says otherwise