Annihilation: United Front

Being the day after Release Day for Galactic Guardians, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have HeroClix on the brain! And with this set highlighting some of my favorite characters from one of my favorite storylines I thought it'd be a great time to do an article on Annihilation: United Front Theme Teams. First note, that when I say theme teams, these are not Keyword Theme Teams, unless your venue uses Al's Clix Cave list of House Ruled keywords, in which case all these characters do have the United Front keyword that WizKids has yet to adopt (however, seeing as this would have been the set to adopt it for, I doubt that's going to happen).

Also note that this article will contain some spoilers about the Annihilation storyline, so if you haven't read it yet and are planning to read it, you may not want to read this article just yet. The first 2 teams that I'll present come from the pages of Annihilation: Nova, and both look like fun low-point options. The first is simply a team of Annihilators Fast Forces Nova and Counter Top Display Drax which comes out to a nice round 200 points, and reflects both fairly well from the point that they team up in the book. The second team from that book is technically just a modification of the first: Nova Prime, CTD Drax, and Annihilation Fast Forces Quasar for 400 points.

Moving on to Annihilation proper, a fun team that doesn't come out to a nice round number are the Ex-Heralds that fought together against the Annihilation Wave in the first issue of that book: Red Shift, Firelord  and Stardust (both from Avengers) for 453 points. The planet-side team from the same book was made up of Nova Prime, CTD Drax, Star-Lord and Ronan the Accuser (both from Hammer of Thor), Gamora (from Secret Invasion), Kree Warrior x2 and a Kree Captain (from Supernova) for 589 points. Combine the 2 by dropping the 2 Warriors and it comes out to 998 points.

Later in the series, Annihilus is threatening to destroy the planet that our heroes are on, and while most evacuate, Drax, Red Shift, and Stardust stay behind to help insure the escape of the rest. By building with the regular set Drax instead of the CTD one, this team comes out to 398 points.

The team that released Galactus from Annihilus' ship can be built with regular Drax, Silver Surfer, and Moondragon (from Hammer of Thor) for 491 points. While the team that freed Hala can be built with the unlikely duo of Fast Forces Ronan the Accuser and Super-Skrull (because sadly we still lack a Praxagora) for 293 points. And finally, the team that finally beat Annihilus can be built using Nova Prime with Star-Lord and Phyla-Vell (both from Hammer of Thor) for 378 points.

Personally there are a lot of fun teams there that I'm looking forward to trying out and there are a nice range of point totals as well. I'm hoping to do more articles like this in the near future, so feedback is surely welcome. I would have liked to display the teams more clearly, but the system I was using to enter these wasn't cooperating all that well, I'll try to have better formatting in future. Whatever you chose to play, I hope everyone had a Happy Release Day!