Pinch of salt time

Here's a good one. Apparently retailers are sent what is known as a 'sizzle sheet' by distributors to give them information about upcoming products in order to drum up interest.

An HCRealms member claims to have received this information and has posted it up on the site.

Click the source link at the bottom of this article to see the original post and the full 'sizzle sheet' text, but in the meantime here are what I consider to be the most interesting bits:

• All Super Rares in Brave & The Bold are duos such as Superman and Flash, Batman and Green Arrow, and Shazam! and Black Adam. 
• As with Hammer of Thor, generics will work well when teamed up with certain characters. The generics include: Parademon, Checkmate, Amazonian, League Assassin, Holiday (who apparently is some sort of serial killer) Assassin, Holiday (who apparently is some sort of serial killer) 
• Silver Bullets characters that can shut down opponents' strategies: Kryptonite Man, who works well against Kryptonians; Kid Zoom, who negates Hypersonic; Talia, who counters Batman, Robin etc (anti-Stealth, perhaps?); Extant, who destroys armies that use multiple copies of the same figure
• 'Upgrade' mechanic that allows players to switch a low-pointed character into a higher-pointed more dangerous version of that character when they KO an opposing figure. 
  
• Powerful villains including Braniac, Metallo, and Ra’s Al-Ghul 
  

If this info is correct, I'm having a rather mixed reaction to it. The generics sound good - I love the thought of Wonder Woman leading an army of Amazonian warriors against Thor leading a bunch of Asgardians, for example. I'm also all for some more powerful villains. However...

Although I was excited about Kid Zoom when he was leaked a while back, I'm concerned about the idea of silver bullets. This could turn games into a 'rock, paper, scissors' affair where one type of team will find it very hard to beat another type. This is a situation that would be seen often in collectible card games and is something I really don't think Heroclix needs. That said, with the exception of Kid Zoom, the others seem too situational to be too much of a worry in this respect - how often do you play an all-Kryptonian team, for example? The situation could change if they continue to produce such figures though.

With regards to the 'Upgrade' mechanic (and alter-egos for that matter), we will obviously have to wait and see how it is implemented but it sounds a little gimmicky to me, and an extra level of complexity the game just doesn't need.

Source: HCRealms