Totengräber's Workpläce

Yes, I said HeroClix. See, a friend of mine, Fred, is really into the game and has been helping me acquire models to play. He’s invited me to the local comic shop’s (Downtown Comics – West) HeroClix tournaments many times, but I never felt comfortable enough with the rules to join in. This weekend’s tournament was 2,000 points, so we were sure to see a lot of the ‘broken’ colossals. It also didn’t bode well that there is currently no retired list since NECA took over the game. I had no experience with these things and I was looking to just get to play versus new people and make some friends. Fred was kind enough to lend me a number of models to fill out the 2,000 points and make an Asgardian team as I had nothing even close.

Here’s what I used:

• Thor’s Mighty Chariot
• The Mighty Thor
• Thor
• Heimdall
• Balder
• Hogun
• Fandral
• Sif
• Spider-Man (Thor version)
• Valkyrie (on foot)
• Enchantress
• Beta Ray Bill

My first game was against a guy named Rich. He was also playing an Asgardian team. I don’t know if it was my slow playing, from lack of understanding of the rules or what, but he killed Beta Ray Bill while I killed an Asgardian Warrior. He won that one.

The second game was against Charles, who apparently didn’t have enough models for 2,000 points and only played 873 points. His first opponent played his full 2,000 points against him and won pretty easily. I decided to make it more fair and reduce my list down to his point level. I ran Thor’s Mighty Chariot, Balder, Enchantress and Fandral. He had Thor’s Mighty chariot, Ragnarok Surtur and Fenris Wolf. I ended up winning that one by killing everyone on his team. It didn’t help that in two consecutive turns the Surtur rolled a critical failure.

The third game was against Mark(?), who was running the tournament. He ran The Specter and Hela. It was definitely an uphill battle for me. I did end up losing, but I felt pretty good about damaging the Specter a couple of times and killing Hela outright with Heimdall and Balder.

In the end, I walked out with a new map and a Runaways team ability card. Everyone there was really cool and playing the game was a ton of fun. Yeah, it’s a ‘clix’ game, which a lot of serious mini gamers look down on, but it is still a decent fun game. I look forward to playing in future tournaments at lower point levels, where I can use all my own minis.