The Winter Guard Are Coming To Marvel: Crisis Protocol!
June 27, 2022 by brennon
The Winter Guard, Russia's answer to The Avengers, are going to be hitting the tabletop soon from the folks at Atomic Mass Games. Will you be using them as a team in your games of Marvel: Crisis Protocol or will you split them up amongst the rest of your collection?
The Winter Guard // Marvel: Crisis Protocol
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Folks will probably be most aware of the Alexei Shostakov version of the Red Guardian (pictured in the centre) thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Black Widow movie. But, this team is more than just the red-suited fellow with a shield.
The team is made up of four members so far with Ursa Major and Red Guardian in one pack and Crimson Dynamo and Darkstar in the other.
Ursa Major & Red Guardian // Marvel: Crisis Protocol
In this incarnation of Red Guardian, we have Nikolai Krylenko taking up the mantle. He uses a modified vibranium shield just like Captain America and is now the eighth individual to wear the uniform of the Red Guardian. Previous to this, he fought as Vanguard alongside his sister, Darkstar.
Ursa Major is one Mikhail Ursus who has the ability to turn into a huge bear. Werebears are cool at the best of times so having one in a superhero team is even cooler. It is going to be interesting working in all that fur texture when it comes to painting the miniature.
Now for the second pack!
Crimson Dynamo & Darkstar // Marvel: Crisis Protocol
Crimson Dynamo is the current leader of the Winter Guard and wears a suit of power armour that makes him quite the hard nut to crack. It would be interesting to see him square off against his equivalent within The Avengers; Crimson Dynamo powering up and clashing with Iron Man.
You also have Darkstar who is able to shape pure dark energy into powerful blasts that can sunder pretty much anything that comes up against her. She did actually defect to the US to fight as part of the Black Widow's strike force at one point but is now back amongst The Winter Guard to tell new stories.
It will be interesting to see if this is all of The Winter Guard members that we get as there are others out there. But, for now, this might work as a neat set to pit against The Avengers in a classic scrap.
Are you tempted by The Winter Guard for use in Crisis Protocol?
"...this might work as a neat set to pit against The Avengers in a classic scrap"
They look brilliant.
And such an odd choice to release in the current climate!
I am still hoping Atomic Mass release some Marauders so we can replay the Fall of the Mutants storyline from the late 80’s! That was a time in comics.
They are plumbing the depths of Marvel history so you never know
It’s definitely a scatter shot approach to be sure!
We are going from Baron Wolgang Strucker (who I don’t think has featured in a marvel comic since probably the early 80’s when I remember Captain America fighting a Life model decoy of him) to the team formerly known as “The Soviet Super-Soldiers”.
Happy to see anything get released for this – but I think I would draw the line at Power Pack!
What?!? Power Pack are terrific! At least they were back in the day, I haven’t read any recent Power Pack stuff.
It was years before I realized that Power Pack was the same writer as X-Factor and New Mutants. Probably I was just fond of her writing.
Fall of the Mutants was a strange crossover, since the comics involved mostly did their own thing and didn’t crossover.
You had Apocalypse and Arcangel in X-Factor and Power Pack, the X-Men with Forge sacrificing themselves in Dallas to defeat the Adversary (ushering in the Australia age) and the Ani-Mator killing Cypher in The New Mutants.
I used to get it confused with the Mutant Massacre (when the Reavers slaughtered the Morlocks).
I’ve actually never seen any of these except for the MODOK I picked up after watching the HILARIOUS series.
How BIG is the average mini? They’re on the expensive side – is it because they are massive?
Black Widow was a fun movie: the new Thor with Portman as She-Thor looks dyno-mite, too.
Bright colours, so much more fun to paint than grimdark.
The scale for MCP is 40mm (for an average “human” miniature) so most of the miniatures are on the big side.
Thanks?
The average mini is roughly 40mm with some being much bigger, the cost comes down to the IP tax and the fact you only need a maximum of 10 for a force so the cost is pushed up to account for the low amount of models.
Very good; of course, with so much choice, how could one own only 10?
Great looking figures is the bear actually a pissed off Russian woman?
Haha! No, it is bear that Vlad rides, bare-chested, across the vast steppes ?
Lol.
They look amazing! They’ll have to be added to the slowly growing collection.
~ Grim
Those do look good but timing could had been better.
I’ve been hoping for Crimson Dynamo for squaring off with Ironman!
I’ll be getting all of these. Yup
Then hopefully they can throw out a Titanium Man and you can replay the whole Armour Wars storyline!