Marvel Crisis Protocol - Intro

Marvel Crisis Protocol is a fun character-driven skirmish game with simple enough rules that are enhanced by the individual characters from the Marvel Universe. Even if there are different versions of the same character, they will have enough differences that alter their playstyle and change their usability, depending on the X and X's determined for the game's scenarios. Like Malifaux, Batman, and other modern miniature games winning happens for those who play the scenarios better than their opponent.

Although the game dice can be very swingy, and I'm not talking Spider-Man here, they are generally equally swingy. This feels like a comic book game and the great thing is that if both players are familiar with the rules and make decisions quickly enough you can play a game in one hour and set up for another one with ease. You can even mix and match heroes and villain models, with some restrictions. The low model counts are a good thing about this game: bring ten models ten team tactic cards, and three each of the two kinds of Crisis cards. I like this game a lot.

Here are some pictures of games I have played from the ten last year and seven this year. 

I have only painted two models for this game (Iron Man original starter and new starter box) and intend to paint more. After realizing that I was behind in getting models painted a friend pointed me to an ad on FB for already painted models. I did the math and the time it saved me was worth it. Here is my total collection of painted models.

The factions I am striving to finish now are Spider-Foes and Agents of SHIELD. Many other games compete for my time so we will see how far I get this year.

The first thing I painted was the measuring sticks. For those unfamiliar with the game the numbered ones are for range and articulated ones are for movement.

A great resource is Jarvis' Protocol which has lots of detailed images of model, team, and crisis cards as well as factions. There is also the Atomic Mass resources which include many useful items including the free rulebook.