The Book of Spider-Man

[Manatee]

Per Silver Surfer above, I've had the best luck in using him as a clean-up figure. In a 1000 point free-for-all, I wound up with only Spidey and Kaemon Awa on height versus a whole mess of Marro. The two of them took down a ton of Marro before eventually succumbing (blast that Hive!--actually, that was my problem, I didn't). But Spider Sense kept Spidey in the fight for a good, long time, and his web attack picked off the swarm one by one.

[The Silver Surfer]

If I may, I would like to request that a link to my Marvel figure overview: Spider-man article be added to the Strategy, Tactics, and Tips section of this book for future reference to those who may visit this book later on.

-TSS

[spidysox]

Man I just love playing Spidey (could you tell by my av?), what makes it great is when I have him in my army he just drives my opponents nuts, his spidersense works probably 80% of the time for me.
He works great as a mid to late game force. His spidersense will keep him out of harms way most of the time and he has a decent special attack to help to bypass some other specials.
He is definately the most fun Marvel character to play, if not the most fun in the whole game.

Go Spidey!!!

[Manatee]

...and the fun increases if (per someone's suggestion on this board) you make Spidey-type puns every time that you activate him, and make cool web noises as appropriate.

[Ugly-Caco]

Sometimes I just want to ban Spidey in games. He friggin pisses me off. Don't get me wrong, I have a Spider-Man tattoo, very much "#1" fan, but he just sometimes drag the game! My gf loves to draft him all the time and I'm like the pissed Doc Oc or villain every time she rolls 11 or higher! I know how Spidey's enemies feel like. Irritated. I once went toe to toe with the web crawler with a perfect health Silver Surfer. I lost.

Ok not ban him...I draft him too. I once killed a perfect life Abomination with a wounded Spidey.

Sometimes I feel guilty for drafting Venom over Spidey though.

[The Silver Surfer]

Originally Posted by Ugly-Caco

Sometimes I feel guilty for drafting Venom over Spidey though.

You did WHAT!!!!?? How could you!!?? If I could, I'd neg rep you.


(Oh, come on. I know the book of Venom is around here some where...)

[Ugly-Caco]

Originally Posted by The Silver Surfer

You did WHAT!!!!?? How could you!!?? If I could, I'd neg rep you.


(Oh, come on. I know the book of Venom is around here some where...)

Hey, I said I got have a Spidey tattoo!

[Sup3rS0n1c]

Spiderman is way under-priced, and should be banned in official games unless both people draft him. (hmmm, a spidey vs. spidey game would be interesting...)

[Ugly-Caco]

Yeah, he ought to be 170 and an attack of 5.

[artemiscorso]

I agree he should be 170 or maybe 180 with an attack of 5 and maybe change his web special attack to something that might remove an order marker, as tying up his enemies is one of Spider-man's main powers.

[Sherman Davies]

Hmm... I'm not a big fan of speculating on changes to official characters, and as a big Spidey fan I'd have to say the Marvelscape figure mostly does him justice, but if I were to change him at all I'd allow his web attack to affect more than one figure per turn. I mean, how often does Spidey go around taking out large numbers of thugs in the comics? In this game he gets overwhelmed by squads, and that just makes me sad.

[rdhight]

Well... I think of Marvel Heroscape figures as a depiction of what that character would do in the battle of all time, not in his "everyday life." I mean, maybe Spider-Man should be able to wrap up multiple enemies, but maybe he shouldn't be allowed to kill people, either. Because this is total all-out war and not the streets of New York City, it's not a direct translation. Soldiers who are dispersed and watchful, avoiding bullets and bombs, aren't going to fell to a squirt of spider silk as easily as a street gang.