Marvel: Age of Heroes (engl.)

Description

Marvel: Age of Heroes is an epic strategy game in which each player commands a duo of X-Men who aredispatched to defeat villains and complete objectives. Your team will collect resources andpower-ups before embarking on dangerous missions in one of the three uniquely challenging scenariosincluded in the game.

Rodney Thompson, co-designer of Lords of Waterdeep, weaves thetheme and strategy together through a mix of worker mutant placement and resource management. Themost effective team will manage their skills, train their mutants, and outpace the competition inthe Institute and Mission Phase. Scenarios, asymmetric abilities, new abilities, and scoringconditions all serve to provide uncanny playability!

Players’ heroes arerepresented by a set of striking full-color acrylic standees. Teams include fan-favorites likeWolverine & Jubilee, Jean Grey & Cyclops, Forge & Storm, and more! Cards and player boards have agorgeous dreamscape art effect as if a powerful telepath is seeing them through Cerebro.

The Institute Phase:
Players will send their heroes to action spaces like the DangerRoom or the Medical Bay to receive various benefits. Some action spaces on the Institute board letyou increase your Physical, Mental, and Willpower tracks, while others let you draw cards, playcards, or change the turn order. Additionally, over the course of the game, Ally cards will comeinto play, revealing new action possibilities. Instead of performing actions at The Institute,heroes may be sent to the X-Jet to take on the challenges of the Mission phase.

TheMission Phase:
This is where players will put their teams to the test! Send your heroes outto the Mission Board or the Extraction Point where you’ll use the resources, skills, and powersyou’ve accumulated to take on villains directly or to team up with other characters for even moreeffective strikes! Each scenario presents entirely different challenges, as you take on Sentinels,Magneto, and even Apocalypse!

Scenarios can alter the composition of the InstituteDeck, which creates a rich, thematic storyline. The deck features dozens of iconic X-Men charactersand events that are available through a shared market. Players will be jockeying to collect andinfluence the heroes that are most useful for their strategies. As the board and scenarios evolve,your characters will, as well. Special evolution cards add new abilities and scoring conditions. Inaddition to unique evolution cards, each team has different starting resources and asymmetricabilities in advanced mode that make for high variety and replay-ability!

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