by mlvanbie
SommerMatt wrote:
Thanks for the responses. I guess I just feel like LEGENDARY is also a bit weird thematically, as I said... are players supposed to be pretending to be latter-day Nick Furys or Agent Coulsons?
Actually, that is basically it. You are assembling and improving a team of superheroes, trying to make them work together by matching skills and complementary special abilities with bonuses for canonical groupings. If you play it solitaire then this makes complete sense. Multiplayer, you are actually being competitive as well as cooperative, so collectively the same team is fighting the enemy each turn but you are seeing who would have been the best Fury/Coulson.
Maybe it would be more fun for some people if each player used a different hero deck, each taken from one team. (Some game effects that affect the hero line-up would need to affect all of them.) Then you could find out whether the X-Men are better than the Avengers. (However, the game wasn't designed to be balanced that way, so you would probably get a definitive answer.)