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AlphaClix: A New Beginning
Michael Jones (08/10/2009)
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HeroClix World AlphaclixArkham Asylum Inmates
With Joker and Two-Face leading the escape, a well known assortment of Bat-Villains are included in the set. I am sure we all have our favorite nemesis for the Dark Knight, but in this game some of them seem to perform better than others.

  • #21 Two-Face - 60 Points

With both Leadership and Healing combined with Mastermind so he can only be attacked once in a turn -- I have found Two-Face to be one of the best Villains. Not only does he have such a good set of supporting powers but he is a reasonable attacker as well.

  • #9 Clayface - 60 Points

Bringing a long dial with Toughness, Shape Change, and Bind (Plasticity), Clayface managed to be the perfect tie up figure in a set with no break-away rules! His downside is low movement and Attack, but it is often worth wasting a potential attack action to get Clayface into the fray. There are few figures that keep three damage for long, so if you time it right, opponents will have to whittle away one click of life at a time.

  • HeroClix World#19 Joker - 40 Points

For such a low cost I think this figure is excellent for both HeroClix and AlphaClix. In Alpha his Evade power combined with eight range allows him to move, shoot, and move back (either out of range or into a more protected position). He also has Explosion at the start of the dial and Poison to finish. Both of these powers are well suited to dealing with multiple targets at once.

  • #6 Harley Quinn - 30 Points

When looking at Ms Quinn as a Heroclix figure her four Range and one damage with RCE will most likly get her discarded for a more effective figure. However under Alpha rules there is nothing to stop her using RCE while based, or as part of a 'Move and Attack' so she is the cheapest figure in the set with 3 damage and is protected by both Stealth and Super Senses. I believe the only time she can not use her RCE is against figures using Stealth and occasional Line of Fire issues if trying to shoot on the diagonal.

-Michael


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Your Comments:
I always loved alpha as it was my first clix (I mistaked it as a cheap starter)
The peices work great in regular games.

Posted by: tronixton on 12/8/2013 2:59:20 PM
I've just started teaching the missus how to play and decided to start her on the regular rules rather than alpha. i just didnt see the point of teaching her alpha only to turn to her afterwards and say ok, forget everything you've learnt so far, now im gonna teach you to play it with the grown up rules!

That being said im still a fan as it gave me a chance to get some of the older sculpts with better stats.
Just wish they could have kept the team abilities on the dials, they dont need to have rules in alpha, they could just be there to indicate whever someone is good or evil, but this would allow them to cross over into the regular game more definitively.
Another thing i really liked about them was the fact that you get and could see which Batman was in each box. I still remember opening my first box of clix(Sinister) and the only thing i recognised was Rhino, and thinking, who the bloody hell everyone else was! thankfully i'm a little more hero-literate these days,buying too many graphic novels on a monthly basis, all thanks to heroclix of course

Posted by: Ste on 6/25/2010 10:45:36 PM
i like alphaclix it how i got in to heroclix.so all the heroclix i have are dc.i do have a small mavel group but i would love spider-man alphaclix to be fare i started to make the set(how about spide-man & spider-girl duo)

Posted by: ikari on 1/5/2010 10:41:32 AM
I am a BIG fan of AlphaClix, so I like this article -- especially the correlations back to regular Clix, which hopefully calm the "Alpha-phobes"... Well done!
I actually prefer the 70 point Nightwing over his Crisis counterpart... the "purple defend box" (Willpower/Evade) and 3 damage down the dial are great for Clix and Alpha alike.

Posted by: Chris (WolvieFan9) on 8/19/2009 3:33:51 PM
Good article! A friend stopped by and we had a blast playing a sealed game of Alpha. It players fast, is pretty easy to pick up for HC players and much more importantly for the non-HC players it was really geared toward.
For hard core HC folks there's still a lot of value - some of the pieces work well in HC and some of the dials make for great custom dials. I recently had a custom Gladiator (old DD foe) made and had him put on a Killer Croc dial. Also some of the really pricey HC figs like the Chase Alfred and the U Oracle are more easily available. going to have the "Alfred with shotgun" custom made from the extra one I just pulled.
You're right, a lot of the criticism was from Clix people who really didn't get the purpose. Plus since it was a brainchild of Mark Tuttle, some people would have hated it no matter what!
The fact that it is 100% compatible is the key. Moving forward I really hope NECA learns from this if they plan "clix-related" game sets.

Posted by: Tom Price on 8/10/2009 12:47:01 PM
Harley -can- fire out of adjacency as far as I can gather, but she can't use her shooting powers against an adjacent opponent.

Posted by: James on 8/10/2009 10:35:30 AM
"However under Alpha rules there is nothing to stop her using RCE while based"

I don't believe this to be the case. From the AlphaClix rules sheet:

Punching
A punch is an attack made against
an adjacent enemy. An enemy
is adjacent to you if it occupies
a square next to yours, even
diagonally. When determining line
of sight to punch a diagonal enemy,
ignore other characters.

Shooting
A shot is an attack made against an
enemy at range. You can shoot at an
enemy that is a number of squares
away from you up to your range. If
your range is 0, you can’t shoot.


If you're making an attack against an adjacent enemy, that's a punch by definition.

Posted by: James on 8/10/2009 10:33:24 AM
Great review.
Having played heroclix, I never even bothered to look at Alpha as a stand alone game, just as support pieces for my regular teams. Brings new light into a game I already love.

Posted by: incredibile on 8/10/2009 10:24:26 AM