The Midnight Sons Affiliation Pack contains the characters and Team Tactic Cards needed to start playing Midnight Sons under Blade’s leadership, Bump in the Night.

Blade’s Stat Card has been updated with new artwork and the stat changes released during Ministravaganza 2023. In that update, Throwing Glaives was changed by adding the Pursuit trigger to it. Between Throwing Glaives, Bump in the Night, and Night of the Dhampir, Blade can almost always make 2 attacks during his Activation while moving around the board. Bump in the Night defines the Midnight Sons and their ability to fight on the move with all their characters.

Similar to Blade, Doctor Voodoo’s Stat Card has new artwork and stats released during Ministravaganza 2023, with minor changes to the text for clarity. Doctor Voodoo’s Possession has the potential to be one of the most game-altering superpowers, but it must be used carefully. If Possession is used without enough power to use Recall Spirit, Doctor Voodoo can quickly get Dazed due to his reduced defenses. Luckily, he has a very good set of attacks to use while building up the Power to use Possession. Spirit Venom is a great way to build Power, and it potentially does quite a bit more than that between Sap Power and Spiritual Strength.

Johnny Blaze got an update to his Stat Card during Ministravaganza 2021. The version in this box has those stats. Spirit of Vengeance makes Ghost Rider’s Power gain extremely dependable. With that Power, he can use Hell on Wheels to position to where he needs to be to have the most effect on the game. Alternatively, if he is already in position or has 8 Power, Penance Stare is one of the scariest attacks in the game. Attacking a character with 5 or more Power, Dazing them, and leaving them with no Power to retaliate with when they flip to their Injured side can swing the results of a game completely.

Moon Knight’s stats remain the same as when he was first released in CP48, and he has remained a solid member of the Midnight Sons. Multiple Personalities defines Moon Knight’s self-conflicted playstyle, but don’t let that random factor scare you away from playing him. Even if he rolls a Failure and there is no effect, Moon Knight pulls his weight with his Range 4 rapid fire attack and Stealth to keep him safe if he ends up outside of Range 3. With Bump in the Night, he often makes multiple attacks during his Turn while repositioning to stay in the shadows. When you roll the other results on Multiple Personalities, though, Moon Knight gets additional opportunities to shine if you can remain flexible enough to take advantage of them.

Each of the Team Tactic Cards found in CP220 has clarified wording and new art, but no substantial changes to the effects found in their original printing. Bats the Ghost Hound allows you to buy the dice result you need exactly when you need it. Many times, one more success will mean the difference between a Dazed character and one that’s Healthy and ready to strike back.

Banishment’s dice trigger comes up pretty frequently during a game, but it does not always come at the time the Midnight Sons player needs it. Bats the Ghost Hound can be used to help trigger this when it is needed. Moon Knight’s ability to reroll any of his dice when he is attacking with his Bo Staff, especially if he has added 2 dice to the roll using Multiple Personalities, also has a very good chance of getting the dice rolls needed to use Banishment. A well-timed Banishment could result in a big difference in the amount of Power the enemy Squad has access to.

There is no more defining card for Midnight Sons than Siege of Darkness. Between this Team Tactic Card and Bump in the Night, the Midnight Sons often get to make more attacks in a game than almost every other affiliation.

Séance amplifies the effects of Doctor Voodoo’s Brother Daniel token for no Power cost, allowing you to make his most impactful Rounds even more impactful!

Ghost Rider’s bargain with Mephisto ensures he is brought back to life when he is defeated…at a cost. Trading a lower Threat Value character for Ghost Rider is almost always worth it, though.

Ghost Rider can utilize his extreme mobility by using Highway to Hell. Hauling an important enemy character away from the protection of the other members and into the reach of Ghost Rider’s Squad and Incinerating them sets them up to be Dazed and KO’d. Following up with Siege of Darkness is game changing more often than not.

Thanks for joining on the latest installment of From Panel to Play, where we feature your favorite characters and explain how they come to life on the tabletop. The Midnight Sons Affiliation Pack is available now at your local friendly game store or through the webstore. Be sure to check back for more.

Until next time, Atomic Mass Games, signing off!

Dr. Theodore “Ted” Sallis was a young biochemist working in the Florida Everglades on a project hoping to recreate Captain America’s Super-Soldier Serum. When thugs tried to ambush him and steal the serum, Ted escaped with the last remaining sample. After injecting himself with it, he crashed his car into the swamp. There, the scientific serum and magical forces of the swamp combined, and he arose as the Man-Thing! With a burning touch and horrific strength he attacked his tormentors and fled into the swamp, no longer remembering the man he was before.

As Man-Thing, he has dim memories of his former life and a variety of supernatural abilities he uses as a reactionary creature of plant life. Ted’s massive body is made up of a collection of swamp vegetation in a humanoid shape, with long claws and a face of dangling tendrils. Many who get close comment on his strong odor of rotting plants, and observe that any damage to its body is quickly regenerated by new growth. With little rational thought, the Man-Thing often reacts to the emotional “broadcasts” of sentient beings, acting calm when reacting to wild animals and peaceful thoughts but becoming aggressive and confrontational in reaction to negative thoughts and fears. While the Man-Thing may seem to build relationships to those it interacts with frequently, it’s still unknown if those are actual friendships or more akin to a symbiotic relationship found in the natural world. Regardless, many brave adventurers have made use of Man-Thing’s connection to the mystical nexus of all realities and other supernatural powers.

When attacking, Man-Thing uses seemingly physical attacks consisting of his arms and tentacles grown from his body, but all might not be what it seems. His basic Lashing Tendrils attack serves to generate power like many characters’ first attack, but with luck, he will also draw his enemies toward him with a pull. Under Elsa Bloodstone as his leader, this pull can enable additional damage to nearby enemies. Man-Thing has a preternatural sense of emotions from those around him and when becomes enraged by fear and upset by other negative emotions. When he does detect fear from his victims, he automatically secretes a powerful corrosive that can scar or melt through many materials. In Marvel: Crisis Protocol, this represents itself in one way as his Emotional Agitation, a powerful 7-dice mystic attack which deals Poison and Incinerate. A truly devastating blow to anyone weak to mystical attacks, this attack serves as a potent way for Man-Thing to face off against hard-to-hurt enemies and enable allies to attack an easier target.

Another way that Man-Thing’s corrosive reaction to fear is represented is through All Who Know Fear Burn at the Man-Thing’s Touch. While it is a callback to his classic horror tagline, in game terms this ability allows him to hand out Incinerate whenever he is attacked or attacks another character and they’re within range 2. Since Incinerate is such a useful status effect to get through high defense, many players will use him to cut through big tough enemies and gain the advantage, but it also punishes any enemies that dare to attack him. Paired with his own pull ability or Blade’s leadership ability, Man-Thing can position himself to discourage attackers by getting closer.

The swamp that the man Ted Sallis fell into was not just a normal swamp, but in fact connected to the Nexus of All Realities, a passageway that enables sentient beings to travel to any of the possible alternate realities it is attached to, and as the Man-Thing, he acts as the guardian of the nexus, warding it against the evil emotions that cause him to drive away intruders. Guardian of the Nexus of All Realities is a superpower that allows Man-Thing to Place either himself or a friendly character range 3, opening the doors to many strategies. Man-Thing could Place himself to allow him to give Incinerate to more targets or move a friendly brawler up to get closer and get a large attack off. With Blade as his leader, opponents will struggle to see where any character might be next activation with 2 possible moves from Blade and the Man-Thing. In a pinch, you could even move a weaker target away and hope that the tanky Man-Thing can survive a large retaliatory attack. Opponents will find him difficult to Daze or KO. He’s made of Moss and Mud and Swamp, after all, so he stops the opponent’s attack dice from gaining extra dice on Critical results. That and Healing Factor [2], and Immunity to Hex and Stun will really cause opponents to struggle against this extremely tough 3 threat.

If Guardian of the Nexus of All Realities wasn’t enough, Man-Thing also has access to the unique Dimensional Quagmire Team Tactic Card. This card needs him to be sunk in with enemy characters at the Power Phase, but when used it gives you the chance to completely lock down enemy characters from moving away from him, and if they try he can (50% of the time) teleport them within range 3 of Man-Thing, potentially even yo-yoing them further towards where you choose them to be. That could be especially useful with access to Siege of Darkness in Midnight Sons. Many opponents won’t even try to advance away, and will instead try to attack the monster of Moss and Mud and Swamp.

With the ability to apply multiple special conditions and survive more attacks than your opponents expect, Man-Thing offers a lot to any Marvel: Crisis Protocol player looking for a 3-threat to tank damage and make fearful enemies burn.

That’s all we have for Man-Thing. Check back later for yet another installment of From Panel to Play, the series where we give you your first look at how your favorite characters transition to the tabletop in Marvel: Crisis Protocol. Pre-order your copy of Man-Thing at your local game store or through the webstore today!

Until next time, Atomic Mass Transmissions signing off!

Hello Hobbyists! Today we are going to go over the process to paint up our Tomb of Dracula Terrain set! So grab your brushes and get ready to get spooky!

The goal with our painting today is to create a dark and creepy feel to the Tomb by building up colors and adding a lot of subtlety to the rocks so as to not be flat gray and lifeless. We want a painter-like vibe to add atmosphere to the Tomb and make it a centerpiece in our collection. That said, let’s prime the terrain black, and then get started!!! All paints used are ProAcryl from Monument Hobbies.

We are going to use drybrush and glazes to establish the look of the stones on the Tomb. Remember, when drybrushing, you want to remove almost all the paint from the bristles. Then gently drag the brush over the area you want to paint.

Our first coat will be Coal Black. Cover the entire stone surface with this color.

Follow up the Coal Black with a nice coverage of Paynes Grey. This adds a touch of blue to the mix and will help us later in the process…trust the process!

Next, we want to start building up with a lighter tone by drybrushing Dark Neutral Grey over the stones. Make sure you can still see all the layers below, we are building upon them, not blasting them away.

For an overall lighter tone on the stones, brush on some Ivory. This gets the stone to a nice bright value to work our glazes on.

I decided to give a very light drybrush of Grey Blue on the extreme upper portions of the castle walls. My goal here is to emulate moonlight later down the road in the process, so I needed to start establishing the difference between where moonlight was and was not. I also hit the stairwell going down into the Tomb imagining the light coming through the window in that direction.

Now we need to start tying all the drybrush work together. For this I mixed up a wash (a thin paint that goes over the area and settles into the recesses) using Dark Grey Blue and Glaze Wash Medium with a touch of water. Give the entire stone surface this wash to blend the drybrush layers together and give the piece a nice deep blue tone. Spooky!

Once the wash dries, we want to start laying in some glazes. This will enhance the atmosphere of our piece. I made thin paints of purple, red, orange, and teal and used an airbrush to apply them. The purple was for the deepest shadows (creepy) the reds and oranges were for the area the lights from the candles and torch would hit (kooky) and the teal was my mid-tone areas where no shadows or candlelight hit (frightening).

The final step was to drybrush Olive Flesh on the stones to once again tie the glazes and wash together. This was applied gently on all areas of stone facing up. I then used Pale Yellow on the very top edge of the Tomb walls and the stairwell where we began to establish the moonlight zone. This Pale Yellow will help reinforce that notion in the painting.

Now that the stones are painted, there is nothing left to do but finish the details! Red tapestries using Bright Pyrrole Red. The torch was done with glazes of yellow and orange over Pale Yellow. I chose to paint the Darkhold for this Tomb. Seems our Drac is looking for that Montesi Formula!!!

Thanks for taking this terrifying journey into painting the upcoming Tomb of Dracula Terrain set! Hopefully this will get you started on your path to painting your set up!!!

That’s all for today’s feature on building Dracula’s Tomb, and Dallas will be covering the stained glass window in a spooky hobby stream on October 30th. Be sure to check out the Atomic Mass Games channel on Twitch to hear more tips on painting Dracula’s Tomb as well as to see your favorite Marvel: Crisis Protocol fighters come to life for the tabletop! Tomb of Dracula and more are available for pre-order or purchase at your local game store or through the webstore.

Until next time, Atomic Mass Games, signing off!