For a while I've been thinking about how FFG could do a Civil War box and today it occurred to me that they could do a similar thing they've done with LOTR LCG campaigns: make certain heroes off-limits to play with certain scenarios/campaigns.

Stay with me, here. Depending on the amount of content they want to include, they could split it into two boxes, one box being Team Cap and the other Team Iron Man. In the Team Cap box you wouldn't be allowed to play as any of the heroes that are considered part of Team Cap. Those heroes are now villains and/or minions. Same with the other box, just teams switched. Then you keep the cooperative nature of the game intact but you still get to play through one of the big Marvel storylines. I would love to see what villain Iron Man and Cap would look like. It's a very rough idea.

Thoughts?

5 hours ago, maniakmedic said:

For a while I've been thinking about how FFG could do a Civil War box and today it occurred to me that they could do a similar thing they've done with LOTR LCG campaigns: make certain heroes off-limits to play with certain scenarios/campaigns.

Stay with me, here. Depending on the amount of content they want to include, they could split it into two boxes, one box being Team Cap and the other Team Iron Man. In the Team Cap box you wouldn't be allowed to play as any of the heroes that are considered part of Team Cap. Those heroes are now villains and/or minions. Same with the other box, just teams switched. Then you keep the cooperative nature of the game intact but you still get to play through one of the big Marvel storylines. I would love to see what villain Iron Man and Cap would look like. It's a very rough idea.

Thoughts?

I like the idea a lot more than somehow using the scenario to make the game competitive.

58 minutes ago, The Team said:

I like the idea a lot more than somehow using the scenario to make the game competitive.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of trying to shoehorn a competitive mode into the games (aside from not being a big fan of competitive games anyway; I'll play some, but I like co-op way better). I'd love to play something like this, and if it was split into two boxes, I'd be totally down with buying both. I think it would be a blast.

It's not likely, but it could also pave the way for doing something like Marvel Villains, where instead of the hero, you play as a villain against the heroes. I don't know that I'd be super into that, but I'm sure some people would.

Whatever they do if they decide to make a Civil War box, based off of what they have put out so far, I'm sure I'll enjoy it. The only hero that has really left me feeling "meh" when I played it was Black Panther. All the other ones I've had a lot of fun with, Captain America, Thor, and She-Hulk especially.

Interesting idea! I’d say it’s entirely possible, although it feels like not something they’d do for quite some time.

On the live stream, Unique cards were discussed and the case of a card being both a villain/minion and a hero/ally was brought up by Michael Boggs. So clearly it’s something they’ve considered. It also makes me believe that Nov + Dec heroes are Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and they’ve thought about how they’d work if they want to do a Magneto + Brotherhood of Evil Mutants story box in future... but this may just be wishful thinking on my part!

With the heroes that exist right now you would actually have pretty even sides.

Pro-Registration

Black Widow

Captain Marvel

Iron Man

She-Hulk

Thor (was not the real Thor in the story but a clone but I am putting here anyway)

Anti-Registration

Black Panther

Captain America

Spider-Man

Spider-Woman

???

These heroes will have to be arbitrarily placed or available for either campaign:

Dr Strange (did not take sides)

Hawkeye (had no part in the story)

Hulk (was not present on Earth)

Ms. Marvel (did not have powers yet)

@Cable2 They wouldn't necessarily have to do anything with the heroes that weren't involved in the actual storyline or didn't take sides. With some scenarios in LOTR you're just not allowed to use certain heroes because they are part of the story of that campaign, but you can use any of the other heroes, even if they weren't part of the same era. You can always choose to try to be more strict if you want (I've done that with building decks to play through the saga boxes for LOTR).

On 4/3/2020 at 10:14 PM, maniakmedic said:

It's not likely, but it could also pave the way for doing something like Marvel Villains, where instead of the hero, you play as a villain against the heroes. I don't know that I'd be super into that, but I'm sure some people would.

If they make the original Thunderbolts team scenario (with Baron Zemo as Citizen V) count me in!

Now we know how a campaign will work, having 5 heroes working up to Cap or Iron Man as the final "boss" would be good, not sure if that system would fit in one box or make it separate releases.

On 4/4/2020 at 5:02 AM, Cable2 said:

Ms. Marvel (did not have powers yet)

Ms. Marvel was part of Civil War. She had three issues.

2 hours ago, urloony said:

Ms. Marvel was part of Civil War. She had three issues.

You might be thinking of Civil War 2. Or you are confusing Captain Marvel with Ms. Marvel because Carol went by that name at the time. But Kamala Khan as a character didn't debut until years after Civil War.

2 minutes ago, Cable2 said:

You might be thinking of Civil War 2. Or you are confusing Captain Marvel with Ms. Marvel because Carol went by that name at the time. But Kamala Khan as a character didn't debut until years after Civil War.

Just checking to see if you knew Danvers was Ms. Marvel, because you didn't mention Kamala Khan. 😃 In Civil War 2, Khan plays a villainous role (ironically a puppeteered by Danvers).