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Dear HeroClix players,

As part of our ongoing efforts to communicate with you more openly, we are using this Design Insight post as an opportunity to pull back the curtain on a few major initiatives that we have underway. Under each goal will be an example or two to illustrate how we plan on delivering on those goals.

Goal 1: Make the game easier to learn for new players

When we first started talking about what is important to improve HeroClix, everyone agreed that making it easier to learn for a new player would be great, but we also heard a lot of worry about taking away what makes the game fun in order to make it more accessible. The work we are doing is directed at making the game more accessible (easier to get to the best parts) while keeping all the interesting, fun and challenging depth for the veteran HeroClix player.

The first initiative under this goal is specialists vs. generalists. Let’s start with what we mean by “specialist” and “generalist.”

When we look at designing a dial for a character, we look at the capabilities of the character from the source material as the palette from which we can choose. A generalist dial is a collage of all the colors on the palette, while a specialist dial highlights and accentuates a select number of colors from the palette. Internally, we call this a “slice” of the character.

Why do we think specialists need to be a more important part of the game?

Specialist dial designs offer players (especially new players) options for characters (especially popular characters) that are:

  1. Easier to build teams with/around — as they will tend to have relatively low point values
  2. Easier to determine their role — as their dials will be economized towards a specific set of powers or game functions
  3. Easier to “pilot” — as their dials will tend to have fewer powers and abilities to track

Specialist dial designs can focus on a standard power, special power, power combo, strategy or just designing a team so you can field more of your beloved characters, each with their own place in your strategy.

Conversely, a “generalist” dial design offers a wide variety of HeroClix powers and abilities encompassing much more of a character’s abilities from the source material. There will of course be dials between these two extremes, but in any given set there will be some from each end of the spectrum. For those HeroClix players that have been around a while, you’ll recall there were many dials that would have met these criteria in previous sets, so really this isn’t a new idea, but rather an idea that needs to be reincorporated into the game.

Additionally, we believe the idea of specialists also helps us with our next goal…

Goal 2: Provide more interesting choices

Providing specialists provides interesting choices for an expert player in team building; specifically, the points vs. utility tradeoff. Perhaps it’s more important to have the flexibility of a generalist figure with more powers, or the precision of the specialist.

It also allows for different slices of a character to be featured, which will keep the characters themselves interesting set after set. Instead of choosing which one or two generalist X-Men you get to put on a team for a game, now you can field a team of X-Men, each with their unique specialist role.

Additionally, since specialists will also tend to be lower point values, teams can have more figures which offers interesting tradeoffs in force construction and map positioning. Which leads us to the next goal…

Goal 3: Make maps matter

With the plethora of resources, high point cost characters and other game effects, actual positioning and movement on a map has in some instances become less important. It is our goal to ensure that maps always matter and are built into the game with everything we do.

Tactically you’ll see more selective assignment of Improved Movement, Improved Targeting, and any other traits/powers/abilities that circumvent the core game aspect of movement and positioning.

Incidentally, we also looked at the player’s interaction with the actual physical maps on the table. This led us to develop a program to bring premium maps to the market that we hope players will find to be a nice upgrade from paper maps. Below are a few photos of the 3’ x 2’ roll-up maps that will be coming to the market in the summer of this year at a price of $24.99 MSRP. These durable premium maps are printed on non-slip neoprene, do away with the creases found on our folded maps and provide a great rolling surface.

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If you want to get your hands on them early, at Worlds we’re planning on having a few opportunities for players to win a map at select tables.

This leads me to the last goal that we’re going to talk about today…

Goal 4: Clarify the language of the game

This goal, which also helps with Goal 1, is the one we’ve been working on the most and we hope to roll out the results this year. From using consistent language across the various documents to cleaning up information that is no longer valid, we hope to make it easier to learn and keep up with the game.

To be clear, we are not making major changes to the mechanics themselves, only how they are described. In some cases, we’ll split apart the essence of a mechanic from the details for edge case situations to a more in-depth document so new players do not get bogged down in issues they don’t need to worry about. There will be keywords added for key concepts to help communicate the game to all players that will help make the game easier to explain. We will roll out specific examples in the coming months so you can better understand the work we’ve started.

This goal clearly has high overlap with Goal 1, but to summarize: let’s make things easier to understand, up to date and easy to access.

Back to Goal 1:

And now let’s return to Goal 1, with what many will find is the most important change of them all, and before we introduce it we want to share with you how seriously we take it.

We’ve been thinking about implementing this change with the current team for going on six years now. We have talked to retailers and players and asked what we can do to make it easier for new players to get into HeroClix. Much of that has been incorporated into the goals above.

But the final hurdle we’re going to talk about today, the one that turns off a large percentage of what would otherwise be happy new HeroClix players, is the dread of having to memorize the dials. Yes, we’re implementing visible dials.

In order to implement visible dials, we are also taking the opportunity to update the look of our HeroClix Character Cards—click the image below for a sneak peek at our new card design direction (and a special preview as well!)

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*Please note the following: The above image uses a figure from the upcoming Marvel HeroClix: Uncanny X-Men set, however the Marvel HeroClix: Uncanny X-Men set will use the current HeroClix card layout.  Also note that the new character cards will be the same size as the current character cards.

Some may argue that memorizing dials isn’t that important (then why not make them visible), or that it is important but at their store they let new players look at their dials while they play.

But ask yourself: do you actually enjoy memorizing dials? Do you feel it’s at the heart of what makes the game fun? We believe the joy of the game is in team-building, thematic recreation, and the actual decisions one makes during the game.

Picture a store with an active and vibrant HeroClix scene. A customer walks into that store and sees a fun, raucous good time happening. The player walks over and is naturally intrigued by the cool figures and the idea of the game. Inevitably the dial and the need to know what’s on the dial comes up. It feels like homework, like a chore that must be overcome, and it’s at that moment that we have forever lost that player to another game.

This is not the first time we’ve done visible dials. Halo, a very popular release, had them and we were constantly asked about our intention to include them in HeroClix. We’ve felt visible dials was something that would help the game for a long time, but we’ve taken years to talk to stores, judges and players to ensure our understanding was accurate.

Once rolled out, our tournament rules will allow any set that has printed visible dials on the card to be used in a tournament (cards prior to this will not have the luxury of a visible dial). We understand the fear that this may slow the game down, but we feel that good judges will strike the right balance of referencing vs. stalling.

As we work through the goals above, we plan on posting updates to our progress and sharing with you the exciting things we have planned. We feel that for the vast majority of current and future HeroClix players, this will result in a vibrant and healthy game for decades into the future.


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This is problematic. If your opponent knows you are on the last click he may chose to attack with a minor piece rather than his big bad, because he knows he only has to get 1 damage not 2 or 3 damage. This really changes the entire game.

Posted by: kenC on 12/3/2016 5:54:30 AM
BTW for anyone who didn't know dials will now be on the back of the card not the front.

Posted by: TonyPark123 on 3/28/2016 5:57:24 PM
I do not like the idea of the visible dials. Too much game time will be spent looking at each others cards to see whether or not a certain amount of damage will be a KO or knock them off a certain power. For instance, whether I allocate my RCE increases to attack or damage will no longer be an uncertainty. Will you be providing two cards for each character-- one for me and one for my opponent to reference. What do you do with all the old clix in a match given very few casual tournaments even restrict you to modern figures? Not a good idea at all.

Posted by: RandyH on 3/7/2016 6:19:40 AM
This new feature will ruin any effects that characters have (60's Riddler "Riddle Me This", Grandmaster "Shall we Play a Game?", etc...) which make your opponent guess about the abilities or values on the character... Sure, they may not look at the card when the power/ability is used, but they can study it in expectation.

Adding the dial to the card adds no benefit to the game, it dumbs it down.

Posted by: MrThatGuy on 2/21/2016 6:24:12 AM
So, will characters with plenty of traits and unique powers have all the text crammed onto one side of the card or will they create little booklets like the Anti-Monitor and Dr. Manhattan card?

Posted by: Kragnorak on 2/11/2016 12:53:14 PM
I hope they clean up the wording on some of the abilities and rules, but based on the example card I'm going to go with NO.

Posted by: Bliss on 2/10/2016 2:40:22 PM
And to think that i used to complain that Heroclix lacked the surprise factor. Now dials are public? Useful but underwhelming, like pokegens having all the same stats or playing Yugioh if both players keep their hands face up in the table.

Posted by: Player2 on 2/10/2016 12:43:18 PM
I've been playing since the very beginning, the age of pre card. Feats was an awesome game mechanic to modify a figure to your liking with requirements meat; then the character cards which basically eliminated the feat card, well done also. I'm just trying to figure out which miniature superhero game of the greats that they are competing against. None that I can find. So why fix something that is not broken. Now I do understand the updates as well as rule changes. Every now and then you need something new for your product. They have a great thing going, so why not ask us, the PLAYERS, the ones who read the comics, and know the characters. To lose us the fans of not only the game, but mainly the characters would be a great lose indeed. plus I believe that we are at least the 80% +. So to lose us, would be the beginning of the end for Heroclix.

Posted by: spangdog on 2/7/2016 8:28:28 AM
Much better with the dial on the back! Dodged a bullet there WizKids! I teach the game to under 14s at school all the time. NEW PLAYERS DONT PLAN THAT MUCH!!! Memorising dials wouldn't even occur to them. They just see Wolverine and are happy to know that they pound away up close until they KO.
For us veteran players it will make team building easier though as you'll only have to flip through cards to find the Hulk you were looking for rather than figures too.
And with the dial on the back WK can backtrack again in a years time when this doesn't work without having to ban whole sets from tournament play!
Still I am overall against as it removes a level of skill from the game.

Posted by: MantisWarrior on 2/6/2016 3:03:00 PM
As a judge and new player teacher I personally don't think this will improve the game in any positive way. First new players already have a problem grasping what powers are available to their clix, reading a dial takes practice, if you throw the whole dial at them they will get confused as to what they can use. Secondly, it will stall out tournament play as players will be passing cards back and forth more often to strategize based on the upcoming dials rather than the threat on the map.
I'm against the redesign

Posted by: Rab4630 on 2/5/2016 7:22:30 AM
only real advantage to having the dial on the card I can see is that it levels the playing field against those who memorize dials and thus end up having a severe advantage.

Posted by: Grim on 2/5/2016 5:51:32 AM
I cannot think of a worse idea than printing the combat dial on the card. A huge part of the game is not necessarily knowing what is on the next click of a dial. Do I push this turn and risk losing my outwit? Do I have one or two clicks of regen at the end of the dial? And any player knows how we react when you can accidentally see the red KOs coming up next! Knowing the next click is huge and will completely change the game. Plus, how much smaller is the printing going to get on the character cards to accommodate the dial (old guy eyes here!)? And finally, as already mentioned, typos will guarantee to cause all kinds of problems. Btw, you don't have to memorize the clix dials, you may choose to do so if that is part of your gaming strategy. I think adding the dials to the cards is a very, very, very bad idea. Please, Wizkids, don't go there!!!!!

Posted by: Illiniwek on 2/5/2016 5:29:37 AM
about the new cards....I say fine to redo them but keep the dial off the card! If wizkids want to put dials on the cards it should be only print and play and keep the other cards without the dial in the box. Only reason it is good to have dial on the card, when there is a mistake on the dial and players want to have the right dial in front of them. and if that happen people could go to print and play. beside that the whole idea is bad! What do you think about this idea? 2 sets of cards one in the box without the dial and another set on wizkids website for print and play with the dial? That way if some one really want it they can print it up.

Posted by: Malcolm Rush on 2/5/2016 5:25:08 AM
And halo action clix sucked... All their dials were weak and crappy I mean masterchief had like a 15 defense... And action clix wasn't nearly as popular as heroclix... Only die hard halo fan boys play action clix! Wiz kids here me now IM DONE WITH PLAYING CLIX... You have killed the spirit, and taking away the bases is gonna take EVERYTHING I loved about clix....

Posted by: bardock on 2/5/2016 12:51:56 AM
It was bad enough we my opponents asked to see my card so they can read my special powers to see if they wanted to outwit them... And now they get to see EVERYTHING!!!way to go wizkids (rolls eyes)

Posted by: bardock on 2/5/2016 12:43:39 AM
Keep in mind that as of right this minute, looking at your dial and your next clix combat values is illegal during a game and grounds for disqualification.
Pretty soon being able to look at all of your dials and all of your opponents dials is going to be the main part of the strategy of playing.
That's a MAJOR change to the core gameplay.

Posted by: ChronoFett on 2/4/2016 7:54:26 PM
From now on, before I attack any opponent figures, I'm going to ask you to see all your cards, then calculate my damage and what click number they will be on and what powers they will have if I successfully attack them.

I will choose my target and attack based entirely on the dial showing on the card. I just don't think that's how Heroclix should be played.

Posted by: ChronoFett on 2/4/2016 7:51:39 PM
Hmmm, not sure about these changes. I do like the idea of making maps matter though. None of these changes mean a Damn if resources stay overpowered though.

Posted by: Wade on 2/4/2016 4:52:21 PM