Terrain size has a number of different effects in the game.
A lot of their terrain is designed for 28mm games, and they suggest scaling up to 110-125% for use with Marvel Crisis Protocol. Villains will never want for stuff to throw! Corvus Games Terrain in particular has a number of “Urban and Heroic” designs, many of which are familiar locations from the Marvel comics and movies. Get yourself a printer or a sucker friend who has a printer and your heroes Lastly, the world of 3D printing is lousy with all sizes and shapes of terrain. Most of this has a somewhat dated “Americana” look though so it may not fit as well with modern-looking urban trappings. You can look at model railroad buildings – you’ll want O scale as that’s around the same 1:45 as MCP. A wander through the toy aisles of a department store or even a dollar store will probably yield some usable pieces. There’s a rack of die-cast metal cars and trucks at my grocery store that is just about the right scale, and they’re only a couple bucks each. There are plenty of other sources of terrain too, especially if you’re sticking with a New York City theme (and considering how much of the comics takes place on NYC streets there’s nothing wrong with that). MCP runs around 1:45, a lot of “heroic 28mm” terrain is around 1:53 to 1:56 so not a huge amount of difference, and just pretend all the skulls and eagles are Latverian. Any terrain you have for other games will be fine although the scale may be a bit small compared to the larger MCP models. I’m going out on a limb and guessing that if you read articles on Goonhammer dot com you may be interested in other miniatures games as well. The Cosmic set doesn’t exactly mesh aesthetically with the dumpsters and Daily Bugle shop, but you can just say Galactus plopped down some planet-eating gear in the middle of Park Avenue and call it a day.
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Any one of these – except the truck, since that’s only one per box – plus the core set will get you more than enough for a solid table. They currently have a garbage truck/chemical truck box, a construction site box, a Kirby-esque cosmic set, and a box that has more of the stuff from the Core Set. Credit: head58įortunately, Atomic Mass Games is happy to sell you more terrain. One pack is a bit too sparse for a good table. That’s a fairly decent spread but it’s not quite enough. The good news is that if you picked up the MCP Core Set you have a bunch of it already – two streetlights, two lamp posts, two cars, two dumpsters, and a Daily Bugle newsstand. For other terrain, talk with your opponent at the start of your game about what size each piece is. One of the best things about the official Atomic Mass terrain is that it has the Size value printed right on the bottom of the piece. Large buildings would be Size 5, and theoretically there could be larger sizes but they’d probably take up a lot of your board and you can’t really interact with them in any meaningful way. The chemical truck/garbage truck is Size 4. The lamp posts in the core set are Size 1, the cars Size 2, the Daily Bugle stand Size 3. MCP classifies terrain into size values of 1 through 5. The core rule book calls for “ 12 terrain features ranging from Size 1 to Size 5, with the majority of features being Sizes 2–4,” and a blog post from Atomic Mass suggests 12-20 pieces ! And in particular the line of sight and cover rules as they relate to terrain are kind of funky to put it kindly. They’re different from a lot of other games, mainly in that they are very interactive and not just a hill you stand on to get a +1 bonus to attacks against insane former apprentices on lava planets or some such. The terrain rules are probably the most common thing that new MCP players bounce off of. Some characters like the Hulk have truly raised collateral damage to an art form. You get kicked out of the Supervillains Union if you don’t blast a hero through a wall at least once a month. Right out of the gate you’ve got Superman on the cover of Action Comics #1 smashing up a car. One of the most awesome parts of comic books and superhero movies is all the property destruction.
Okay, True Believers, you’ve got your Marvel Crisis Protocol models all assembled and beautifully painted, you’ve marked off a 3’x3’ playing surface, you’re Scrooge McDucking in your piles of tokens, so you’re all set to play, right? WRONG! You need terrain, bucko! Not only for hiding behind like some kind of mewling craven but also to THROW AT YOUR ENEMIES !!!
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