He's about what I'd expect from him. Why a unique though? I could see a distinct REV over a single Unique. I always seem to have high hopes for some really nice uniques.

All I can say is decent dial, not GREAT, but decent. I only question 2 things. 1.) Why wasn't he an REV, then they could have thrown in an Ultimate Brotherhood version and 2.)Why does he have leadership? The rest of the powers are spot on though. Its a nice figure just a bit expensive for a supporting player.


-K

It's the EVIL Forge. that's why he's in Sinister. I like the sculpt. nice piece. :d

it looks really nice on Sculpt. This piece just Looks Awesome adding more to the Great Sinister Sculpt I am amazed how well the sculpts are after CD.

I love the sculpt, very eye catching.

The powers are all accurate, but I expected enhancement instead of support.

Excellent, I also am in awe of the sculpt. Wish they were all that good. Hopefully the paint scheme will that good in the final production figures.
His dial is great too. Very distinctive, although I have to admit I'm surprised that he didn't warrant Psychic Blast, as the one click of Outwit is really the only thing to represent his ability to invent something to circumvent whatever defense he's up against. Pulse wave would have been a bit much, but I would have been happy with a low damage (or low AV) psychic blast somewhere on there. Still can't really complain though, as the play potential for this piece is impressive. Definitely the second best preview we've recieved (after Madrox, of course...).

hmm great sculpt but his stats arent that great for 80+ points of course I havent seen a fig I really liked in this set so far except for venom and multiple man(all versions) and maybe electro, the others are just ok or blah to me and forge falls in that catagory especially being a unique maybe if he was rev it would be different but even then.

of course thats just my 2 cents, im glad to see some people like him

Significantly better than I expected. I'll be giving mine (when I get one) a ton of use. Stable attack values, great powers, i dig it!

his upfront naked defense with 16 very easily taken down for 84 points
he is a support piece.
If you bring him near the enemies hell easily be taken down
hes good to outwit use xmen team ability to heal an ally, then perplex for a while
heal some more with team ability and go into support,
what is leadership doing end dial how often will that be used

I can see a senario

stupid person playing him trys to take a RS on someone and superman/thor/green lantern smacks him for 5 damage now he can use leadership lol ohh yeah and smokecloud,

even on an xmen theme team I would never use him, LONGSHOT is MUCH better
but for comics sake forge and cable can team up now yeah

yep I think he's far too expensive for a support figure also, also I expected a almost full dial of Stealth.

That's why I'll always play him with protected to push him to his 2nd click rather than get smacked. It also activates his brilliant tactician status.

I agree with those who've said that Forge ROCKS!!!!! Excellent piece for 84 points with almost all of the support powers any team needs. A brilliant tactician he'll be and other than Wolvie and Jean Grey the only other Xman I'll regularly use. Nice job!!

Excellent! Another Xman for Warlock to taxi around. Love the amount of support powers on him. And he also functions as a decent harrasser. I like multifunctioning dials. I just wish he would have had ES/D on that first click. Otherwise great.

you must put protected on him if you play him

protected and BT

move him up

if the opponent attack him use protected which will push him onto Perplex

next turn

BT perplex all your X-Men

...and take Havok.
Can't see how this guy could live long enough to be useful for his cost.