Marvel Heroes
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Marvel Heroes is a strategy/fantasy board game for two to four players released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2006.
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[edit] Overview
Each player chooses to play one of four 4-character Marvel superhero teams. Each player also controls the archenemy of one of the opponents' team. These 20 characters, listed below, are represented in the game by fully colored miniatures; other heroes, villains, and characters in the Marvel Universe are represented by cards which influence game play. Each turn, a player manipulates one or more of his four main heroes and plays cards to solve mysteries, stop crimes and defeat villains.
[edit] Teams
The four superhero teams available for play and the characters represented by miniatures in the game include:
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- Archenemy: Dr. Doom
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- Archenemy: The Kingpin
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- Archenemy: Red Skull
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- Archenemy: Magneto
[edit] Board
The game board is of New York. It is split into 6 Areas, each a different colour. These areas are Upper Manhattan, Central Manhattan, The Village, Lower Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. The Areas are then split into 4 District.
- Central Harlem
- Morningside Heights
- East Harlem
- Carnegie Hall
Central Manhattan
- Central Park
- Upper Westside
- Upper East Side
- Midtown
The Village
- Hell's Kitchen
- Chelsea
- Greenwich Village
- East Side
- East Village
- Lower East Side
- Tribeca
- Financial District
- Astoria
- Steinway
- Long Island City
- Sunnyside
- Greenpoint
- Williamsburg
- Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Brooklyn Heights