In preparing for an official tourney, my friend and i were discuss t-bolting TAs that no one would expect...and, loving the under-appreciated crusader TA, i suggested that when my friend asked it the TA was retired also

so here is the actual question

In an official Heroclix tourney (for instance WWPhilly) could you use T-Bolts to copy a TA for which there are no non-retired figures?

The only TAs this would apply to are...Crusade, Danger Girl and Skrulls?

and if its not too much trouble...if you can, could you provide the offical ruling so i can have it with me...

Since all of the base set of Indy is retired, it would also count for Kabuki, Top Cow, 2000 AD, and Crossgen, as well.

(I know you can use Bat Ally instead of Kabuki, etc., but the question should be answered for all the TAs.)

yeah i only said those three since i knew there were available TAs with the same ability...even 2000ad is copied by alpha flight

Individual expansions are retired, not entire product lines. As such, all TAs and Powers will always be active (they are associated with the game). Expansion specific products (characters, feats, bystanders, anything you'd pull out of a booster), though, are retired when the expasion is retired.

As long as there is Indy Heroclix, there will be a Crusade TA.

ahh gracias!

just to double check, all printed team abilities can be t-bolted

Thread NECRO!

But, look here for:


It's a little more recent (1-20-2007) than the rest of this thread.

For once, normal is wrong.

From the current E&C:
So, off the top of my head, this only really applies to Crusade. Every other TA is a copy or similar to another TA that is legal (if you built the team using T-bolts, you can't use Alpha Flight, but you can copy the UXM TA to simulate 2000AD, which is actually a little better).

There are active Skrulls so that TA is ok. There are no active Morlocks so that TA is not.

And that's what I get for not looking at the post date. normal was probably correct when that was originally posted....

I was correct at the time I posted, but its not like I haven't be wrong before. And especially since this newer ruling contradicts what we were saying about a year ago, it is a good thing this resurfaced. In fact, we now need to add Morlocks to the list of non-Tboltable TAs.

and ultimate x-men

That's kinda bogus that in an all marvel game you can t-bolt a dc TA. While I am a DC guy, whn I do play marvel games i do so expecting to not have to deal with the Batman, mystics TA's

I know a guy who T-bolted to JLA once.

?lol, why?