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06/24/2014, 16:26

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Theme Teams and ATAs

Just looking to get a minor disagreement settled with my play group: Are generic keyword themed teams allowed to use ATAs or are they for named themed teams only?

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06/24/2014, 16:28

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Quote : Originally Posted by PsychoHippie

Just looking to get a minor disagreement settled with my play group: Are generic keyword themed teams allowed to use ATAs or are they for named themed teams only?

Generic themed teams get ALL the benefits of a Named themed team EXCEPT Themed Team Probability Control.

Hope that helps.

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06/24/2014, 16:31

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That was how I read the new rulebook but my buddy was so convinced otherwise that I wondered if I'd missed a new ruling or something.

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06/24/2014, 16:52

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THEMED TEAMS
Themed teams are forces of HeroClix characters
in which all characters share at least one common keyword among the keywords listed on their character cards. Keywords are not case sensitive. Bystander tokens can be included in your force although they
do not have keywords, but they are not considered “characters” for the purpose of bonuses or counting characters for qualifications described below.
A keyword can either be generic or named. Generic keywords appear on the character card in italics (or appear on the list on page 28). Any keyword that is
not a generic keyword is a named keyword. In order
for a force to be considered a themed team, your force must include at least 2 characters and they must have the shared keyword before the beginning of the game. Once a force is considered a themed team, it remains a themed team until the end of the game, even if the characters on your force no longer meet the criteria of a themed team.
THEMED TEAM BENEFITS
Initiative Bonus: When rolling to establish who will be the first player, the player using a themed team gets a +1 bonus to the roll for each character possessing the shared keyword on that player’s force.
Additional Team Abilities: Additional Team Ability (ATA) cards can be added to your force when it is a themed team. Each ATA card indicates the cost per character that must be added to your force in order to use it in
the game; all characters that meet the prerequisites must be assigned the ATA and your force’s build total is affected accordingly. ATA cards provide either different or additional team abilities to the qualifying characters on your force. These team abilities are possessed by the qualifying characters and can be used by wild cards (unless the ATA specifies otherwise). A force may only include one ATA card.
Although ATA cards use a keyword as a prerequisite, it is not required that the themed team’s shared keyword be the same keyword as the ATA!

Nothing in there says only named theme teams get to use ATAs.

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