I have a new starter on the way soon and I know the new starter rules are posted but I have a quick question. If I have a figure with the Spiderman TA (wildcard) that is on a team with Avengers can Spiderman change his TA to Avengers and then use the Alpha Flight alternate team ability with the rest of the Avengers? Thanks

Under the new rules, wild cards can copy Alt. TAs. So, yes.

Rules as of right now? No.

Rules on June 9th? Yes.

Note that once the updated wording for Alpha Flight is released, it will in all likelihood no longer be tied to the Avengers team symbol.

Agreed. I would expect Wizkids to go the way of HoT and BatB ATA's and make them Keyword based. However, Don't hold your breath on getting them anytime soon. I took quite a while to get Unrestricted keywords....

It was said that the plan was to have them released around the same time as the new starter. There are less than 15 ATA's. That's a lot less then the hundreds of figures they had to go through for the keywords.

When I talk to players they usually are enthusiatic about revision, completion and/or refinement of the Alternate Team Abilities and the keywords. Several mentioned that they would like to see broader entries for non-generic keywords. I've also had several say that they would like to see some of the TAs and ATAs written so that they are more effective and comic accurate.

Sometimes the ATAs are disappointing (I'm thinking of the alternate Green Lantern TA) and sometimes the TAs and ATAs offered seem inherently flawed (JL and Avengers free move TAs are not that useful in 300 - 400 points if you want to play the high point figures common to those TAs).

With the elimination of feats in "Modern Age" the ATAs and objects are probably going to become a major factor in determining game/scenario winners. Personally, I'm looking forward to the new ATAs, I don't mind the new emphasis and point cost for objects, I am for the elimination of pogs but I hate the elimination of feats.

Really i think the GL TA was the great. Unless of course your not running a GL theme team then yeah well of course.

With the free movement it was designed way back when you could fit 4-6 figures in a 300 point game, its even useful on teams that are running contingency plan. So they are still very useful.