Coolest new TA in Ultimates? [Poll]

[webhead817]

Woo hoo! Big news, the four new Marvel TA's in Ultimates have been revealed...which is your favorite?

[DS-00-0, FSD]

Serpents ALL THE WAY!!!

I love the charatcers and since my beloved Skrulls get nerfed with set retirement, I'll now be looking to the slithery ones for my new bad guy obsession. Let's get the new TA's up for avatars!!!

[mattsolo]

I think the Avitar and sigline let everyone know what I think.

[supergoblin]

Morlocks for me. I'm going to have to build a shield/hydra/morlock/skrull/legion swarm. Chameloin surround by a hoard of varous weenies sounds good don't it?
throw in live wire for range fire power, and add prainac five for good measure.

[rotru]

Ditto the Serpent Society.

I think the Ultimates (and probably the Ultimate X-Men) will be more effective characters, but they will probably be too expensive to really use in an effective Wildcard team. I am totally excited to use TaskMaster and the new Daredevil with the Serpent Society.

[lukebuchanan]

Snakes rock!

We're cold slither you'll be joining us soon.........

Zartan and the dreadknocks, what a band.

Luke B.

[Eric Rage]

Originally posted by lukebuchanan
We're cold slither you'll be joining us soon.........

Zartan and the dreadknocks, what a band.


I just gained mad, mad respect for you, Luke. Anyone who can drop a Cold Slither reference rules in my book.

God help me, I can't remember things I learned yesterday, but that freakin' song is still fresh in my mind after 20 years.

That said, yeah, me too. I'm really digging the idea of the Serpant Society arriving, and the power should be really sweet. Imagine having free breakaway, no longer having to halve your movement for coming off of terrain (I assume) and freeing the movement slot up for things like Charge, Running Shot or Stealth. NICE!

[skeevo666]

I voted Serpent Society too.


As Steve Irwin says when dealing with reptiles:

Danjah, Danjah, Danjah!! :grin: :laugh:

[MSU]

Serpent Society...its a cool ability.

(really wanted Alpha Flight...grumble grumble..)

[Mr. Pilkington]

I have to go with Serpent Society as well. Ultimates and Ultimate X-men just bring other TA effects to the Marvel universe (Superman and 2000AD). Granted, they are welcome additions, but they aren't anything really new.

The Morlocks TA is interesting, and with enough Morlocks arranged correctly you could get up to a +4 on the CC attack, but I'm thinking it will be a lot harder to set up and use than the Hydra/Police ranged equivalent. Of course I am already having bad visions of a flying charger carrying a Mary Jane pog to drop next to the target of the charge and copy the Morlocks TA.

The TA-based Phasing is probably the coolest thing. I hope they team members end up a bit pricey though.

[4est]

Since the Naga got "nerfed" in L5R I have been looking for a snakey group to play. Looks like Serpent Society is for me.

Plus I loved them back in the day reading Captain America.

[hi im tom]

SS. Its going to be so cool to have them VS Skrulls.

[Mr. Pilkington]

Ignore my points about the Morlock power. It *isn't* just a CC version of Hydra/Police, since only the Morlock team member gets that bonus.

That definitely makes the Serpent Society the best truely new TA.

[Laenan]

Isn't the SS Leap climb AND Phasing? It ignores elevated...

[BigSoph]

Originally posted by Laenan
Isn't the SS Leap climb AND Phasing? It ignores elevated...

Phasing ignore elevation too

This frees up their dial for other powers, like Charge

[JayThor]

I like the serpents, and can't believe Morlocks got a TA.

[webhead817]

I like the Serpents as well, it will definitely add a new dimension to wild cards...

[Gentlegamer]

Mattsolo: who is Captian America?

[glasswalkerx]

SS gets my vote, although I was also hoping for Alpha Flight. I like the Morlocks getting a team ability, now the cheap generics could just be morlocks with a random power like charge, hypersonic, phasing, mind control, or just about anything else. The shield and hydra generics were getting really boring.

I can not wait to see who the morlocks will be, my guess is Callisto, Caliban and Sunder, but I would love to see a Scaleface! Now that we have the Morlocks, can a Marauder team ability be far behind?

[batelf]

I voted for the Ultimate TA, although my thoughts on this are wavering. It depends on how costly the characters are, but it will be nice to have more characters that will put the fear into all-stealth teams. Now people will have to come up with new team ideas. This is all great for the game IMO.

[clameire]

i voted for Ultimates

they are the only ones that deserves, in my opinion, a new TA in the marvel universe.

Ultimate X-Men should have been X-Men TA (the same TA as we ever known). There is no X-Force, New Mutants, X-Calibur TA, there should not be Ultimate X-Men TA. I guess they only put this one to keep there 50/50 share of Ultimate/Classic marvel universe stuff in this extension, and it's a pity they've done it like that. Ultimates are really different from Avengers. Ultimate X-Men and X-Men are not so different in my opinion. I'm disapointed by that.

Serpent Society, i don't even know what they are. I'm not a big Cap America's fan, only a big X-Men fan

Morlocks, although i'm a big X-Men Fan should not have their Own TA. There was not a TA for Shi'ar, there was not a TA for Corsair and his crew, there was not a TA for Thunderbolts, and there was not a TA for Hellfire club. For me Morlocks are *minors* addition compared to what could have been a Alpha Flight TA for example. So i'm really disapointed by that.