Marvel Crisis Protocol (Core Set)

Pros - Easy to learn (My 10 yo likes it) yet it demands quite a lot of calculation and decision making for one to win. Tactics / synergies / resources are all important factors. Great minis. Quick and streamline gameplay. Characters are well designed to display their powers and uniqueness in the lore. Value is great for the core box. Cons (or not, if they don't bother you) If you like the core, you are going to buy more a lot more characters and terrains. And they are not as reasonably priced as the core box. Dice means randomness / unpredictability / not so tactical for players who hate them. Assembly required, which is a big con for pure gamers becoz you got to spend 4-6 hrs before you can start the the first game.

I initially gave this a poor review due to missing pieces only to find them in the sides of the carboard cutouts. If you think you're missing Car parts and measurement/range tools, check the side compartments in the cardboard. Please forgive the prior review, looking forward to many hours with this!

Love this game. Great price and a great way to start the game. Awesome gameplay and fun to put together and paint.

Even with the new 'Earth's Mightiest' core box releasing in a few days, this box is still worth the buy. A lot of the characters are still played, comes with a good amount of terrain, and the models are great. Some of the models are a pain to assemble compared to the more recent ones, though.

MCP is a fantastic game, and even though they updated the starter, the older starter is still fully usable and a great starting point. Great value for all it contains.

This is a great starter kit for playing Marvel Crisis Protocol. With enough characters and terrain to play once everything is built. And many of these characters are ones that will be in your list for a long time. Great game to play as your favorite marvel characters.

It seems as though a large number of reviews here on Amazon focus on the miniatures and how "difficult" they are to assemble. So that's what I want to address first. The thing to understand is that this game is a miniatures game, first and foremost. Emphasis has been placed on creating the most detailed, dynamic minis possible. To that end, it's important to understand how much the miniatures landscape has changed. I've been assembling and painting miniatures since the 1980's, and I still have old Ral Partha, Citadel, and Grenadier figures in my collection. Back then, minis were lead-based, often one piece, and varied tremendously in the amount of detail. But one thing that was pretty standard was the posing. The one-piece casting methods limited the dynamic range of the poses, and while the sculptors tried to be as creative as they could, miniatures often existed on a mostly flat plane. The solution to this was to begin to cast miniatures in multiple parts, separating hands, arms, even heads and torsos. This gave the modeler much more flexibility and options for posing. However, with a miniatures only 25mm or less tall, it also created incredibly small parts. Not only that, but lead (and later pewter and other safer metal alternatives) is much more difficult to work with and glue together than plastic. But at the time, metal was the only option for holding incredibly fine details. Now, injection molding technology and better plastics means that plastic minis can rival metal ones in terms of fine details, and plastic is much, much easier to work with. The point of all of this, is that coming from a background of the miniature hobby, the complexity of the figures in this set doesn't intimidate me. Having said that, I can completely see how someone not used to the hobby might find these figures far more intense than even those in, say, Star Wars Legion. And those reviews, I feel, unfairly bash what might just be some of the best superhero miniatures ever put to market. Properly assembled and painted, these figures are truly astounding. Now as for the game itself? I've read through the rule book and find them to be reasonably straight-forward. Any game that involves miniatures is going to have some inherent complexity. This isn't a board game, where movement is clearly defined by spaces gridded out on a play area. Miniatures based games tend to be more "sandbox," and because of that they need more complex rules for movement and combat. Also, the steps involved for combat look intimidating, because there's a lot of them, but once you get the feel for it, it's really not that difficult to grasp. Perhaps the one area that might prove most challenging is memorizing all of the symbols and what they mean. The first few games will likely involve some page flipping for reference until all players are reasonably familiar with the symbols and icons. Play is designed around a 3x3 area, which is a smart move. Like X-Wing Miniatures, this play area allows enough room for tactical maneuvering, without making it feel like too many turns pass before players engage one another (unlike, say, some of the massive play fields for Warhammer, which can see a number of turns pass before engaging a single enemy).z The cost of the game is a bit intimidating, especially the cost of individual hero/villain expansions. However, you're paying as much for a high quality model as you are a game component. Over all, this is very cool game. The miniatures provided ARE very complex and likely will be difficult for anyone not familiar with or experienced with model / mini building. But the complexity of the minis is by design in order to create highly detailed, dynamic figures to match the subject matter of the game. Like I said above, I don't think it's completely fair to knock the game because the miniatures are complex.

A lot of the reviews seem to be complaining about how difficult the minis are to assemble, so I was a bit worried going into it. However, while the assembly is a bit fidgety at times, over all I’d say it wasn’t that difficult, even for my first time putting minis together. Over all the model quality is good, however I can’t speak for the game itself as I actually got these for a Marvel D&D campaign.