Marvel Heroes is a strategy fantasy board game for two to four players. Designed by Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, with Roberto Di Meglio, Simone Peruzzi e Salvatore Pierucci, was created by Nexus Editrice. The English version was released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2006.
Overview
Each player chooses to play one of four 4-character Marvel Comics superhero teams. Each player also controls the archenemy of one of the opponents' team to the left of you. 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.
Teams
The four superhero teams are available for play and the characters represented by miniatures in the game include:
Marvel Knights
Spider-Man
Daredevil
Elektra
Doctor Strange
Archenemy: Kingpin
X-Men
Wolverine
Cyclops
Storm
Phoenix
Archenemy: Magneto
Fantastic Four
Mr. Fantastic
Invisible Woman
Thing
Human Torch
Archenemy: Doctor Doom
Avengers
Captain America
Thor
Iron Man
Hulk
Archenemy: Red Skull
Board
The game board is of New York City. 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 Districts.