New Heroclix Rules
The heroclix gang has posted some monster
new team abilities for the
new
Legacy set. www.hcrealms.com
DC HeroClix: Legacy New Game Mechanics:
New Team Abilities
by Jason Mical
DC HeroClix: Legacy adds three exciting
and power team abilities to the
HeroClix landscape. One is a repeat: the
ever-useful “wild card” team ability. The
other two are completely new, and could
easily become staples of both casual
and tournament-caliber forces.
Calculator: Members of this team act as wild cards. They can
use any team
ability that any friendly character on the
battle map possesses. They may use
this ability once each action.
Nothing new here; the Calculator simply
uses the Wild Card ability familiar
to long-time HeroClix strategists. This is
the first time, however, that Wild
Card abilities are available to a DC
villain force, and they have made their
entrance with style.
Outsiders: Once at the beginning of your
turn as a free action, a member of
this team chooses a target friendly or
opposing character within 10 squares;
the member must have clear line of fire to
the target. Until the beginning of
your next turn, the target may not be the
target of powers or team abilities
that modify its combat values. This team
ability may not be copied by wild card
team abilities.
Now here’s something a little different:
a team ability that allows you to
prevent an opponent from pumping up one of
his or her characters - or, if you
prefer, a little insurance against an
opponent who might deflate one of your own
characters. The tactical advantages of
this are almost endless; you can
elegantly shut down a team based around
cheap Perplexers or Enhancers. You can also
use it for a more insidious purpose:
stripping the modifying bonuses away
from your opponent’s Feat cards (or,
preventing your characters from taking
penalties for using a particular Feat
cards).
Don’t expect to see too many Outsiders
around, but those that are out there
should come in extraordinarily handy. To
keep this from being an all-powerful
team ability, it cannot be copied by Wild
Card team abilities (sorry,
Calculator), and it has no effect on
replacement values, so characters with Defend can
still share their protection without
worry.
Crime Syndicate: Members of this team have
Probability Control. Each time a
member uses this ability to reroll a die
or dice roll, give an action token to
a friendly character that has zero or one
action token. This team ability may
not be copied by wild card team abilities.
And third, we have the Crime Syndicate.
The Crime Syndicate ability
duplicates Probability Control, possibly
the most useful power in HeroClix, but it
comes with a price: any time you use it,
you have to give a friendly character an
action token. It’s rare that team
abilities are such obvious double-edged
swords, but the ramifications of giving
deep-dial characters Probability Control
for their entire dial were too
mind-boggling to contemplate - and, this way, it’
s kind of cool and unique. Again, this
ability cannot be copied by Wild
Cards, another way to balance its
usefulness and prevent it from running amok.
All in all, the two brand-new team
abilities in DC HeroClix Legacy should
provide a nice breath of fresh air, for
fans of DC’s more popular teams, and for
