I am new to this game and have some questions I want to ask.
1st question what villain and environment are the easiest to beat. Also which are hard. I got a collection on ebay for Christmas so have like a full box fill of cards so just tell me which one are easy and hard and I'll see if I have them.
2nd question is what the difference between mini expansions and reqular expansion. Also should I get the expansions in order or does it not matter.
Thanks for the help,
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Villain and environment are subjects of debate. I prefer teaching using Baron Blade and Insula Primalis.
A mini-expansion is one deck, either hero, villain or environment. Regular expansions average about 2 villains, 2 environments and 2 heroes.
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2. The easier villians are either Baron Blade or Amubscade. Actually, if you flip through the rules insert it lists each villian and hero by complexity or difficulty. Blade is a 1, Ambuscade is a 2 (although he's really not that threatening). It depends on which sets you have, though by "collection" I assume you have them all?
As for environment, I enjoy Time Cataclysm, Tomb of Anubis, Realm of Discord, Insula Primalis and Silver Gulch. They're pretty straightforward.
3. A mini expansion only contains one particular hero/villian/environment. These are decks that are sold separately because they were add-ons to the kickstarters and pre-orders, separate from the expansions. As for order, it makes no difference. Although that's what I did.
The Enhanced Edition gives you the basic stuff and nearly all of the decks are easy to get a hang of. Rook City and Infernal Relics was next, since it's a combination of two expansions. Lots of cards here. Vengeance and Shattered Timelines can go either way. There are now 9 mini-expansions, so those are easy enough to snag whenever you want, depending on how much you want to spend.
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Easiest: Ambuscade/Gloomweaver
Hardest: Chairman/Matriarch
You got just a random assortment of decks?
Try Baron Blade first on Insula Primalis is my recommendation for your first game, a mini expansion only has 1 deck while a regular expansion has 2 heroes, 2 environments, and 4 villains, so 8 decks in total, welcome to the forums!
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Baron Blade in Insula Primalis is my usual tutorial game. If you want the other end of the scale go with The Chairman or Iron Legacy in Rook City. Although with the exceptions of Rook City and Mobile Defense Platform the environments don't really favor attacking heroes or villains (supposidly, it feels the exact opposite is true once the game starts)
If you only have the base set then the harder villains are Citizen Dawn and Baron Blade, also all the instructions manuals have a page detailing the villain difficulty and hero complexity at a glance.
A mini expansion is a single deck, a regular expansion contains 2 heroes, 4 villains and 2 environments although Rook City and Infernal Relics are currently only sold as a single box, currently the only mega expansion contains 5 heroes, 5 vengance villains (a game mechanic where you fight multiple villains each with their own deck) and 2 environments.
As for getting the expansions in order, it doesn't really matter although I do recomend you pick up the Rook City/Infernal Relics box due to the fact it offers a great range of heroes, villains and environments to spice up your games.
I got most of the decks but not all of them got some mini expansion and I think I missing like one or 2 regular expansion not including the new one.
Also just found the list of decks in the collection that the guy made. So here is what I got.
Villains:- Baron Blade,
- Citizen Dawn
- Grand Warlord Voss
- Omnitron
- The Dreamer
- La Capitan
- Iron Legacy
- Kismet
- The Chairman
- Spite
- The Matriach
- Plague Rat
- Akash'Bhuta
- The Ennead
- GloomWeaver
- Apostate
- Miss Information
- Ambuscade
Environment:- Silver Gulch, 1883
- The Final Wasteland
- The Tomb of Anubis
- Realm of Discord
- Rook City
- Pike Industrial
- Time Cataclysm
- The Block
- Megalopis
- Wagner Mars Base
- Ruins of Atlantis
- Insula Primalis
Heroes:Also thanks for the help
You've been given the core game, Rook City, Infernal Relics, and Shattered Timelines, plus the first six mini-expansions.
You are missing Vengeance, Wrath of the Cosmos, and the last three mini-expansions.
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Specifically, the mini-expansions you are missing are the hero Guise, the villian Wager Master, and the environment Omnitron IV. (All of which are brand new)
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Thanks for letting me know what I am missing.
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First few game recomendations:
Baron Blade - Insula Primalis. Nothing overly complex, more thematic than hard, but you will still lose if the cards fall wrong.
Ambuscade - Megalopolis. Not much harder, but the environment is totally different, and you will get a good feel for the different ways the game works between the 2 fights.
As for Heroes try out Wraith pretty early on, and try Haka early as well, they also give a varied feel and will help you learn how different effects work.
If those two games feel easy break out Citizen Dawn or Matriatch, and feel the pain.
Note that difficulty in this game is an average of fights. Sometimes the heroes walk into the worst situation imaginable and are lucky to make it out alive. (some of the easiest villains can feel anything but easy if they get the right cards at the right time.)
Thanks for the help and sorry about the title. I thought about that right after I posted it. So thanks again for the help everyone.