Too bad that Morlocks will be heavily affected by the new RULE OF 3!!! So no unlimited bonus adding

I didn't understand the Ultimates team - was this a generic label for characters in the Ultimate universe or what? Then I did some research and now understand that "The Ultimates" is the name of "The Avengers" in the alternate Ultimate universe. Here's Nick's review from Amazon which enlightened me.

Andrew

The Ultimates is actually a really good comic. I simply don't have any interest in the "proper" marvel universe and never really have, but Ultimates is really cool. They've kinda ditched all the "silly" stuff, like going into space every 6 months and saving the universe before tea time. And frankly, it works.

You can only get 4 characters adjacent, so it'd only be a +4 anyway, and that would be with 4 characters standing around doing nothing much.

great TA's !!

Serpent Society will be great for the Sandman !

Oh..and MFD !!^^

Phasing/Teleport DOES require a power action:

PHASING/TELEPORT (optional): Give this character a power action. Move this character a number of squares up to its speed value. Ignore the effects of all characters and terrain features, including elevation, on movement. This character may not end its move in blocking terrain.

Morlock team ability is uber useless. You need green lantern around to make it work at all. How often has anyone ever made the MOE ability work? I did once (1 attack)with green lantern in a 600 point 4 player game. All except GL were MOE's. So in theory Morlocks TA might be usefull, but the reality will be you'll have to try very hard to make it work, and it still won't. Its too bad that a new TA is such a waste.

I like these new Abilities, and in an open game my
Kara Zor-EL will be deadlier than ever. Although that Morlock
TA doesn't sound like much, its going to give my favorite wild
cards a deadly close combat advantage (at least against
non-wildcards and pushed characters).

Not really, Ultimates still can't go base to base w/ KC without rolling first.

They already have. The Superman team ability is identical to the Ultimate TA.

PEOPLE ---- "Members of this team ignore the effects of hindering terrain on movement, combat, and powers and team abilities."

Ultimates doesn't ignore Team Abilities.

They ignore:
1. effects of hindering terrain on movement
2. effects of hindering terrain on combat
3. effects of hindering terrain on powers
4. effects of hindering terrain on team abilities.

It's just like the current Superman TA.

JEEZ

Willis, what ARE you talking about?!? the TA requires a Power Action and so do both Charge and Running Shot.

Please disregard my incomprehensible last post, as I had two windows open at once and posted in the wrong thread. D'oh!

While this is true.. the superman TA people (not wildcards) all fly.. which already means that sups' TA is semi wasted in the sense that flyiers already ignore hindering terrain. For him, it makes his ranged combat work. For people like cap, it leaves abilities such as leap climb off their dial. In terms of teams, the Ultimates team will probably benefit more from this TA than the sups team since not all their members fly.. Cap, Hawkeye, giantman should they make him, no need for leap climb on a hulk if they lump him in with ultimates, etc.

Yeah that's what he said....


He said:
since it is worded exactly like phasing, and requires a power action you can't combine it with other powers...