as TheFreak put it, even on swarm teams, it rarely gets good use after turn 1.

the design of the ta is useful on swarm teams, yes. the avengers are not a team that should be designed around swarm team strategy, not occasionally but as the expected norm. this would have been a great ta for shield. it woefully underperformed for avengers for 15 years. I recognize that you have enjoyed the experience. however, you should recognize that is far from normative.
semantics
it isn't a free move. it was a move that didn't count against your action pool. there was no declaring involved.

unless your team of avengers had an average point cost substantially less than 100 pts, and employed no taxis, you weren't going to beat the action pool anyway. and I don't just mean some less than 100, it has to be significantly less for the ta to trigger. which means your forgoing any weighty representations of earth's mightiest heroes. so no, it's not silly, it's math.

This is assuming that your opponent has more than three characters, or if there are, are totally devoid of Carry, or don't plan on only being able to take three actions a turn in a 300 point game....

I would LOVE to have an opponent double-token their entire team on turn two. I would not consider that bad thing.

Round 1 actions. Me 5, you 10.
Round 2 actions. Me 5, you 10.
Round 3 actions. Me 5, you none.
I can make that work for me.


Personally, I have found occasions where the old Avengers TA has been extremely useful (looking at you, Spider-Man TA bystander Mary-Jane Watson!), but overall, I think there will be more instances where I can benefit from the new one. Your mileage may vary.

I can't believe someone is talking up the old Avengers TA. Ranking the old rule TAs:
1. Mystics
2. PC/Q
3. MoE in Theory
4. Outsiders
5. Batman
6. Superman/Equivalents
7. SHIELD
8. Police/Hydra
CUTOFF - Anything below this is only useful for specific builds
9. Avengers/JLA/BoM
10. Defenders/JSA
11. MoE in practice
12. SS/BE
13. X-Men/TT

Wildcards are unranked. Did I miss anything? Injustice League has no use so not on here.

MoE in practice? That is an amazing TA. I agree with 10, 12, and 13 because they require another user, but MoE? Did you mean Superman Enemy?

I loved the old Avengers team ability...but only with the recent sets. That free move couple with ADW Common Caps leadership kept swarm teams rocking for days!

The conspicuous absence of fantastic four ta hurts me to the core

I left off both FF and SE by mistake, both would have been below the line. Same for Suicide Squad.

I have used it quite effectively via wildcard. But very few figures who have really benefit from it and all too often you are giving up an expensive high defense, damage reducing click to deal 2 damage....

I'm another fan who misses the original Avengers TA, for exactly the reasons provided. The ability to move (without costing an action) meant that a swarm of Avengers could easily surround and frustrate opponents. Folks may not remember, but there was a time when the best TAXIs in the game were low-cost Avengers (E-19 Wasp). The low cost Avengers also have long had very niche figures that work well in swarms: Mockingbird, Black Panther, Moon Knight, et al.

In the days of feats: Contingency Plan, Warbound, Inspiring Command and Coordination were all feats that worked well for many avenger Swarms.