Changing up campaigns

Hi hi

Me and my friend decided to go back and play the rise of red skull. 

We really wanted to focus on flavour and have a good time rather than making it super difficult or what ever, and it has been really fun and refreshing to go back and play more of the older cards.

We decided on playing the spies vs hydra's forces, me with Black Widow and him with Jessica Drew.

here are the lists we used out of interest, they are nothing ground breaking but they were  fun.

With more runs through im sure we could improve these lists but they were good enough for what we needed. 

The twist we did to the campaign was simple

we used the Captain America Encounter set as an extra set that went in every scenario.

This added more minions that were not out of place and just changed the missions up enough that made it a new experience. at any moment hit squad or Zemo could deal you damage and that put some new tension into a game that otherwise seems very familiar by now.

You could of course go even further if you wanted swapping out some sets for more hydra theme encounter sets or even changing it up completely with other side sets that complement what the villain's are trying to do. you could even add victory points to some of the cards and make a credits style system, similar to the guardians campaign.

I am aware that this isn't anything ground breaking but after we finished taking down the red skull we instantly wanted to try this again, tweaking campaigns and seeing how they change it up.

our next idea has been to play the guardians campaign, adding the Ronan print and play to each mission (we wont add him vs Ronan at the end for obvious reasons but might add something else) but giving Ronan victory 3. That way we get some more extra credits and that balances the extra difficulty. 

this seems like a fun way to maybe address some of the issues with the difficulty settings in the box, we will have to play around more to see, but the point is to push ideas and change things up. maybe the collector will fell very different if you swap out one of his sets, what would you recommend? 

I also want to at some point try making my own campaign, solely using cards and encounter sets that I have and really see where the creative side of villain deckbuilding can take us, I know that some people have already tried some of these things to great success and its one of the most under used sides of champions in my opinion.

anyway until next time!

p.s. for the guardians campaign we are using Venom and Spiderman, here is my deck list and one I'm having a lot of fun with so far.