When the Heroes For Hire are sent on an international mission of rescue, they run into some super-powered opposition! In this edition of Comic Accurate, we spotlight an unlikely team of mercs!

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(Author's Note: This was going to be a DC article, but at this point, fodder for DC articles is coming up pretty weak. So we'll be covering Marvel exclusively again until something worthwhile comes along.)

It's 1998. The Avengers and Fantastic Four are off in a different universe in Heroes Reborn. Luke Cage's Heroes For Hire are one of a few upstart non-mutant teams left behind to fill the void (the Thunderbolts being the other). This incarnation of the H4H are contracted by Namor's company, Oracle Inc. to rescue a scientist being held in Symkaria. Only thing standing between the Heroes and liberating the scientist? Silver Sable and her Wild Pack! A fight ensues.

Now it needs to be said, the team we're building is NOT the Heroes For Hire. That team is super-easy to build: Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Colleen Wing, Misty Knight and Deadpool. Anyone can build that now. It's the Wild Pack that are our team for this article: Silver Sable, Sandman, Paladin, The Cat and Nomad. Okay, Nomad is actually Madcap in disguise. But for the bulk of the issue, it's Nomad, which works out for us since he's a character that's actually been clixed.

dp208 E Silver Sable
Team: Spider-Man
Range: 7
Points: 78
Keywords: Heroes for Hire, Outlaws, Soldier, Wild Pack

9 10 17 3

7 9 16 2

7 9 16 2

6 10 15 1

6 9 15 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Prepared for Every Situation: Once per game, choose one: Close Combat Expert or Ranged Combat Expert. Silver Sable can use the chosen power this game.
(Speed) Jet-Wing: Silver Sable can use Energy Shield/Deflection, Running Shot, and the Flight ability.

ws055 V Sandman
Team: Spider-Man|Sinister Syndicate
Range: 2
Points: 101
Keywords: Avengers, Frightful Four, Outlaws, Sinister Syndicate, Wild Pack

5 9 18 2

7 9 17 3

7 9 17 3

7 10 16 3

6 10 17 3

6 9 17 3

5 8 18 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Speed) Sand Smother: Sandman can use Stealth and Plasticity. Whenever an adjacent opposing character fails to break away, deal that character 1 unavoidable damage after the action resolves.

dp030 V Paladin
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 6
Points: 69
Keywords: Detective, Heroes for Hire, Spy, Thunderbolts, Wild Pack

8 10 17 2

8 10 17 2

8 9 16 2

7 9 16 2

7 9 16 2

7 9 15 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Improved) Infrared Lenses: Improved Targeting: Ignores Hindering Terrain
(Special) I'm Always for Hire: Give a friendly character that possesses a copyable team ability a power action. Paladin can use that team ability until this ability is used again. When Paladin isn't on his starting click, opposing characters an be given a power action to activate this effect but, if they do, Paladin is healed of 1 damage.

dp047b Cat
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 0
Points: 81
Keywords: Heroes for Hire, Martial Artist, Spy, Wild Pack

10 12 17 2

9 11 17 2

9 11 17 2

8 11 16 2

8 10 16 2

7 10 16 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Special) Replaced it with a Broken Forgery: When an opposing character with a relic or resource assigned to them makes an attack, that player rolls a d6 that can't be rerolled after actions resolve. On a result of 1-2, that player chooses one: remove the assigned relic from the game or remove an item attached to that resource from that game.
(Speed) Coolest Cat in the Whole Darn World: Cat can use Charge, Flurry, and Stealth.
(Damage) Equal of Shang-Chi and Iron Fist: Cat can use Close Combat Expert as a close combat action.

ca016 E Nomad
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 4
Points: 63

8 10 17 3

8 9 17 2

8 9 16 1

8 10 16 3

7 9 17 2

7 8 16 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Together, the Wild Pack comes out to 392 points. For that leftover eight points, I'd just tack on either Camouflage or Entangle for Sandman. Your call.

Why these figures - Should be pretty obvious, shouldn't it? Of the five figures on this team, two have never been made before and three are LONG overdue remakes! And there is no reason to choose any of the old pieces in this case. The older versions of Sable, Sandman and Paladin do not hold up in a modern scene.

Tips for running this team - First off, use Paladin's trait and give him the Syndicate TA right away. After that, get all up in there! Cat and Sandman are made for close combat fighting! And get Sable right behind them to help out with her empower! Then use Sable, Nomad and Paladin for ranged attacks picking off the people you have tied up with Sandman and Cat.

That's it for this edition of Comic Accurate! Next week is an all-new Unclixed, and in two weeks, it's a titanic trio team-up! The dream of the 90's lives!

I've actually ran this team pre-deadpool set release based on this issue at one of our venues "Comic accurate theme team events" if they appear in a comic as a team you can play them as if they were a legit theme team regardless of keywords.

I had to use the old Paladin and Vet Silver Sable. Looks like im going to have to bust this out again since I didn't get to use the Cat last time either!

my Cat is missing his foot . And i haven't pulled a Shang Chi to replace the foot yet... so I need two to do that...

Ah, the post-Onslaught H4H book, so tragically underrated. I can't really think of many books that were just as much flat-out fun as this one...

And mine are the other way around...

I loved that series! So much potential, so little appreciation from fandom.