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Breaking the Meta – Elite Soldiers (Bronze/Silver Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on May 11, 2022 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger Watch Out The Boomerangs Are Coming Back! Struggling to find a team to play in Bronze or Silver Age? Maybe it is time to grab some […] -
Hidden Gems: The Utility Belt (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on April 5, 2021 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger Welcome back to another installment of Hidden Gems. Let's just get this out of the way now, while I did use the correct name in […] -
Hidden Gems: The Infinity Gauntlet (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on March 17, 2021 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger I have been wanting to cover the Resources in-depth for a long time, and with an impending rules change on the horizon, I figured it was […] -
The Learning Curve: Stat Manipulation and Why It Matters – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on January 20, 2021 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger Hello and welcome to the Clixology series. Here we are dedicated to the study of Heroclix and improving your understanding of the game. Today we are […] -
Unfair Advantage: Team-Up Cards in House of X – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on January 14, 2021 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger I would like to start by dedicating this article to Brandon Beirne who did the vast majority of figuring this all out. What we discovered is […] -
Hidden Gems: Thor: Dark World set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on January 2, 2021 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger Welcome back to another installment of the Hidden Gems series. This time around we will be looking at the Thor movie set. Since […] -
Hidden Gems: Batman Classic TV set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on December 17, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger This set is one that I have a soft spot for as I used to watch reruns of the show as a […] -
Hidden Gems: Wolverine and the X-Men set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on December 11, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger So we're back at it. This time we are looking at one of my personal favorite sets; namely Wolverine and the X-men. This set ended a […] -
Hidden Gems: Man of Steel set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on December 4, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger The Man of Steel Movie set came out during a time when the competitive scene was full of Team Bases and Ghost Riders with the Bat Belt. […] -
Hidden Gems: Teen Titans set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on May 13, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger Well we're back at it again. This time Teen Titans is up for review. This set has such negative memories for me. This was the set that […] -
Hidden Gems: Iron Man 3 Movie set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on March 13, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger So we're back at it again. This one will be fairly short as this particular set was smaller and also most of the figures were fairly costly […] -
Unfair Advantage: Managing Distance (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on February 20, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger One of the most fun aspects of playing a game like Heroclix over a card game like say Versus System is how the map itself creates an […] -
Hidden Gems: Batman: Streets of Gotham set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on January 9, 2020 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger I was never really big on this set. Between the Dark Knight Rises set, Batman set, and the No Man's Land event we were all getting kind […] -
Unfair Advantage: Duo Attack Symbol (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on December 29, 2019 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger This article series is titled after a book that forever changed the way I look at competition. The book was about Mark Donohue. He was a race […] -
Hidden Gems: Batman set (Bronze Age) – Tom Shanabarger
Posted on November 24, 2019 | No Commentsby Tom Shanabarger This set was interesting because it represented a design shift in the game. They started having dials that were shorter with more powers and more consistent stats. […]