Many nerds are sleeping peacefully tonight.

So what's the point of making them a bunch of primes?

To encourage larger purchases for chance at pulling them.

A fair solution to maintain overall Prime rarity, while allowing the Modern Age Squadron to be playable. The challenge, now, is obtaining those Primes..

Looking forward to more SS Primes in future sets but for now it's...

110 Dr. Spectrum Prime
120 Whizzer
50 Entities of your choice for possession (2x)
10 SS ATA (2x)
0 SS of Earth-712
290pts

A pretty expensive team.

that doesn't work. the entities make it so that it is no longer themed.

No, they don't. They're in possession mode. The thing that doesn't work is the dual ATA's.

No, if the entities are on the team, it is no longer a Squadron Supreme theme team. Which means the ATA does nothing, and the team build is illegal.

And actually, since the change to possession, it's not even a theme team.

I conceed with the double ATA. But I wasn't aware of new changes to possessions affecting themed teams. Any link?

http://heroclix.com/announcements/he...ficial-changes

Long story short: each entity only grants its Corps' keyword. So, Black Hand grants Black Lantern Corps keyword, Ion grants Green Lantern Corps keyword, etc.

Edit to add: unless you were unaware that entities are still characters on your force and still count for or against theme. Which is how they have always been ruled.

This is the thing about this game. The rules are just to much! I use to teach this game to at risk kids because it's great game to help with math etc. But now I need a cheat cheat to help me remember everything. I learned this game when armor wars came out. Now every game my group argues about what this piece can do and that. I don't get how everything needs to be clarified by this person or wizkids to help the players play the piece, powers, and theme teams correctly. Adding new stuff is great and everything but does it really need this much discussion so that everyone is on the same page. I don't know who's fault it is; wizkids or ours for being ok with how complicated the rules have become?

Thanks for the link. Yes, I was aware that entities are still characters even when in possession mode. That was how I based my team on. It's now becoming frustrating to know that we can't really build a "real 300pt SS themed team" unless we slap on some figures like DC10A Nightwing or Stan Lee. Sigh, it's a shame that such a great game would be hampered with so much reworking of rules and figures.

It makes me sad, too. Especially in the pocket book (super rare primes, sonuva#####!).

But, just to add to this: DC10A Nightwing won't help either, since he gets his keyword the first round of the game; which is after theme team would be established.

We now have three exiles that are also primes. Two of them have the SS keyword, but if I add anyone with the Exiles keyword, and not the SS keyword, then the ATA has no effect right?