The Monthly Venture Issue 3
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No One is Safe from Onslaught!
Beware! You thought that you were safe. That your team of heroes could tackle just about anything that your opponent threw at you. That your deck was as refined as it could get. Almost perfect. And then came the Onslaught! If you're a "Forget the Mission, I'm out for blood!" kind of player, then have we got something for you!
Onslaught, Holocaust, Post, and the Dark Beast attack the OverPower Universe this summer. Earth shattering new Specials, like automatically removing some of your opponents deck from the game, or making yourself immune to Event cards, are the only beginning. Onslaught gives you a sneak peak at the new Intellect Power type, and has a bone crushing Power Grid total of 23 that would make even Galactus think twice about a fight! All new Heroes, Specials, Missions, and Events with all new artwork are in this exclusive promotional release. These cards will not be found in any packs of OverPower! They will only be available inside Marvel Comics and Marvel Ultra: Onslaught trading cards, so the hunt is on! It's going to be a scorched-earth, take-no-prisioners, kill-or-be-killed summer, and you, as a member of the OverPower Legion, get advanced warnings: Are you going to be the hunter!? Or the hunted!?
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Meet the OverPower team
The perfect word to describe Steve Domzalski?
Busy.
He's on the phone with editors of your favorite magazines trying to get coverage for you favorite game (OverPower, of course!). He's planning our future expansion sets, including DC OverPower; plus special card promotions like Onslaught with Marvel Comics. If that's not enough, he runs the OverPower Legion, setting up and sanctioning tournaments across the country. And the fun doesn't end with OverPower, either!
Steve has also been coordinating and directing the game design of Star Trek: The Card Game with Mag Force 7. Oh, yeah, and in his spare time, he designed, developed, and play-tested the Fleer/Skybox card game, Hunchback of Notre Dame.
"My title is officially 'Manager of Game Development,' but I pretty much jump in with everything," Steve says. "It's a daily challenge to get the product out, get the product sold, and above all, make sure the product is played."
Speaking of playing, you would think with all the work Steve is involved with, a game of OverPower would be out of the question at the office. Au contrare!
"I play at least once or twice a week at lunchtime," he says, "I play my 'Nya Nya, You Can't Hit Me' deck. It consists of Mandarin, Sentinels, Jubilee, and Vision in reserve and uses event cards from The Crossing. It's not a guaranteed win, but it's awfully fun to play because of the heat situations that can occur that leave your opponent not knowing where to strike. Set up the Mandarin with 'Mind Control', Play Vision's 'Android Endurance', and initiate the Sentinel's 'Learning Circuits', and you've got quite a tough puzzle for your opponent to figure out. If the 'Heroes Avenge Murder' Event comes up, choose Jubilee, who only has 'Distracting Burst, Blinding Flare, and Prismatic Flare' in the deck."
A Good-Bye and Some Hellos
Steve Seckar has left the building. (Come to think about it, he also left the state, too. Hmm... wonder why?) Steve, the OverPower Special Business Unit Director, recently left Fleer/SkyBox to accept a market director position in Chicago. (Internet fans know Steve as "GAMEBOY.") We wish Steve well and hope he remembers to eat a good hot lunch every now and then. Replacing Steve is Dan Buckley, who currently heads up the Marvel Card Team in addition to the Games Team. Welcome, Dan! There's a bo of Tums with your name on it waiting for you!
On, and and a big congratulations to Ron Perazza and his wife Debbie on the birth of their baby girl, Rosalynd. (Ron wanted to call her Elektra, but was immediately overruled by his wife.) Rosalynd was born on April 26, 1996, weighing in at 8 lbs. and 9 oz.
Commander's Corner
Normally, we used this section to discuss OverPower issues and strategies. In this issue, however, I'd like to discuss the most important part of the Legion. Sure, you've spent your ten dollars and already received your membership card, at least this issue of The Monthly Venture, and the Galactus hero card. Great, right? Not totally! In order to get the most out of your Legion membership, you've got to be playing in sanctioned tournaments. It's the only way you're going to increase your Legion score. Remember, top scores will be looked at to see who will receive future exclusive stuff, in addition to the other stuff we'll be sending to everyone. So, how do you find a sanctioned tournament? It's really very simple. The Legion will sanction any tournament that has at least 16 players and a judge. Go to the shop where your purchased your OverPower cards for starers. Ask the store owner if he'd be interested in holding a tournament in his store. Tell him to call 1-800-OP-RULES to get a sanctioning kit. Explain to him that if he can get 32 people, Fleer will send some prize support. And, if the tournament has 64 or more, then Fleer will send some really substantial prize support. Fleer has even developed a network of demonstrators and judges that will help him run his event. If you don't have any success this way, try organizing the event yourself. Distribute some fliers, call some friends, get 16 people together with someone to be the judge, and you can have your own tournament in your neighborhood. That's exactly what some Legion members are doing. They're assembling in each others' homes once a month and playing OverPower. They're calling the Hotline and getting sanctioning kits and they're competing and increasing their scores (well... some are losing so not everyone's score goes up). But, the most important part is that they get to play, check out how effective their deck building strategies are, and, win or lose, they have fun with their favorite game.
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