I was wondering, it says that 'each character gets +1 to its attack value when adjacent to a friendly character with the same TA'

Does this mean that if Cap if adjacent to Iron Man and Quicksilver, he gets +2 to attack, or is it limited to +1?

The wording isn't clear enough for me to tell whether it is stackable or not.

Thanks.

I believe it's just one +1.

Otherwise it'd have to say "for EACH friendly character".

But I haven't seen a FAQ on it yet, obviously, so perhaps someone has seen another ruling...

I would agree and haven't seen anything indicating otherwise.

I'm going to ask on the Judges FOrum for clarification. I also want to know how this works with the Morlocks TA.

I agree with the people who have already responded: The most natural reading is that you get +1 total, not +1 per adjacent teammate.

However: Consider a force that has five Avengers and two X-men (say Cyclops and Domino). There are more than four figures on the force with the same affiliation, so Assembled will apply to the force. Now if Cyclops is next to Domino, he is next to a figure that has the same team ability. Does he get a +1 to his attack value?

Okay, I know that has been asked, but I have not seen answer yet (been a few days since I logged on WK).

Morlocks: When it makes a close combat attack, a member of this team gets +1 to its attack value for each friendly character that is both adjacent to this team member and the target character.

This would indicate to me that the AV modifier could exceed +1 when you can actually pull it off.

Oh wait. Funky it just occurred to me you might have meant how Morlocks (or Hydra/PD for that matter) work in conjunction with Assembled.

I'm thinking you look at LoF/character placement and see what bonus you get from Hydra/PD/Morlocks and what you get from Assembled separately, and Ro3 keeps the bonus from exceeding +3.

I agree completely, but I wanted to make sure. It seems I've stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest by asking the Morlocks part of the question.

The judges are in agreement that it's only a +1 even if Cap was adjacent to two or more Avengers.

You mean I can't try to set up the ultimate swarm -- 8 Morlocks surrounding an enemy figure, with Assembled played, for a +9 bonus?