Marvel United: X-Men – The Age of Apocalypse
Marvel United: X-Men – The Age of Apocalypse Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- Hero figures: X-Man, Morph, Magneto, Sabretooth & Wildchild
- Villain figures: Apocalypse, Nemesis, Dark Beast
- 52 Hero cards (12 for each Hero, 16 for X-Man)
- 1 Equipment card
- 1 Mission card (Reset Timeline)
- 36 Master Plan cards (12 for each Villain)
- 19 Threat cards (6 for each Villain, 7 for Apocalypse)
- 2 Villain dashboards
- 1 Dark Beast dashboard
- 4 Locations
X-Man
X-Man has a Hero deck consisting of 16 cards. At the start of the game, the player using X-Man may look through their cards and choose the 3 that go in their starting hand (even the Equipment card, if it has not been removed from the deck by a Challenge or when playing with generic Equipment). Then, shuffle the remaining cards to form the Hero deck.
Whenever X-Man must discard one of his cards to the bottom of the deck, the player may choose to place it at the top of the deck instead.
Team vs Team Mode
When playing against Dark Beast in Team vs Team mode, the Team Mission cards are not used and the Damage dashboard is placed to the side, within reach of the players.
To complete the Restore Mutant DNA Mission, a Team must fill, in order, all the slots in the sequence matching their color. They cannot place tokens in the other sequence. If a rescued token, a defeated token, or a cleared token doesn't match the first empty slot in that Team's sequence, that token is discarded. Threat token slots are common to both Teams. Each Team only benefits from the effects of completing the Mission once they've done it themselves.
Dark Beast
Restore Mutant DNA Mission
Dark Beast has a special Mission, Restore Mutant DNA, that replaces the 3 standard Mission cards. To complete this Mission, the Heroes must fill all the slots in it, placing rescued, defeated, and cleared tokens on the leftmost matching empty slot(s) of the Mission. If a rescued token, a defeated token, or a cleared token doesn't match the leftmost empty slot of the Mission, that token is discarded instead.
Any effect that affects the 3 standard Missions affects the Restore Mutant DNA Mission instead.
Dark Beast dashboard special rules:
- Mutant Heroes can use Special Effects on their cards.
- Each Hero draws 1 card.
- When a Hero is KO'd, Dark Beast doesn't activate his BAM! Instead, remove the rightmost token on the Restore Mutant DNA Mission, if not yet completed.
Dark Beast dashboard, BAM!: Deal 1 damage to 1 Hero in Dark Beast's and each adjacent Location.
Dark Beast dashboard, Overflow: If a rescued or defeated token can't be added to a Location, add it in the Gene Pool.
Example: The leftmost empty slot of the Mission is the bottom rescued slot. Heroes may still defeat a defeated token or clear a Threat, but those tokens will be discarded instead of contributing to the Mission. Once a rescued token is added to that bottom slot, Heroes will next be able to add either a rescued or a defeated token.
Printed-page note: the icons on the Mission card and the example are rendered as the words "rescued", "defeated" and "cleared" in this transcription; the printed icons are the rescued, defeated and cleared tokens.
Apocalypse
Reset Timeline Mission
Reset Timeline is a special Mission that replaces the standard Defeat Thugs Mission when facing Apocalypse. To complete this Mission, a Hero must use 2 Heroic actions in the same turn to place a pair of tokens from the pool (shown as the star-icon token) on the card. These actions are spent to add the tokens to the Mission and do not allow the Hero to perform Heroic actions. Once 3 pairs of tokens are added, the Mission is complete.