Organized Play gets a makeover: Modern Age and Gold Age Play!

When DC HeroClix: Brave and the Bold debuts next month, so will a new system of play. retirement is gone, and is the Unrestricted, Restricted play environment. Instead officially sponsored games with have one of two "Ages" assigned to them.

Modern Age, basically what is being produced "now" and Golden Age, all of the elements from sets gone by.

The Modern age will basically be the previous 2 years of sets up to the current expansion. For the time being it will go beyond that a bit due to the 11 month hiatus between Topps and NECA owning Wizkids.

Modern Age set include:

Marvel HeroClix: Avengers, Monsters and Mutations, Secret Invasion (which includes the Fantastic Four starter), and Hammer of Thor.

DC HeroClix: Justice League, Crisis (which includes the Anti-Monitor Action Pack), Batman Alpha, Arkham Asylum, The Brave and the Bold, and the Blackest Night starter.

HeroClix Classics: All of the HeroClix Classic figures are a part of the Modern Age format. Any figure from a Golden Age set that has been reprinted in a HeroClix Classics set is considered Modern Age as well, and can be used in place of the Classics figure. A reprint is a figure that is identical to an older figure in every aspect except for set symbol and collector’s number.

Colossals (if the build total in your Modern Age game is high enough): Galactus Eater of Worlds, Fin Fan Foom, Starro, Anti-Monitor, and Sinestro Corps Anti-Monitor. Though only one Fin Fang Foom debuted after Avengers, all versions remain legal. As the two versions of Galactus have slightly different powers, only the more recent Coming of Galactus event version remains legal.

Maps: All official HeroClix maps with the modern color-coding remain legal in Modern Age, regardless of what set they were released with.

This is a big change. So, before discussing this and the effects of the change in further detail on this Blog I would ask that all of our players head to Wizkids' site and read Norm's article on the topic. In a few days, I'll post a follow-up to this answering and questions I can, and some insite to gameplay changes here on the local level.

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