Target Acquired Podcast / A Marvel Crisis Protocol Podcast
Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 23 segments
In this special TAG podcast we join Crossroads, Swooper and Zellraiser as they go over there hot takes and winners and losers out of the new 2026 character updates.
Red Guardian is the first one that comes up for me because I've heard and seen so many people talk about Winter Guard, how they really wanted Winter Guard to get something cool and be a more enticing affiliation to play.
I thought Red Guardian was going to get some cool buffs, and I think at the end of the day, he's not any better.
What's up? He got Siberian Shield Slam reworked, right?
A little
bit,
yeah.
Now it costs two instead of three.
And
what was the other change on him? Doesn't it auto-throw? It
already auto-throws size three and throws them short.
So I believe that they reduced the power cost for it.
And he did get, he's one of them that saw some stamina changes.
So that was certainly part of it here.
But yeah, so it went down to two, two power and now it's only five strength instead of six.
So he's really just not any different.
It's weird too.
Cause like he has nothing to spend his power on basically already.
He just has like the focus repulsed our field.
That's it.
And his spender.
So he's spending two for a five-strength attack at range two that throws a size three short.
It's an automatic throw.
Don't get me wrong.
It sucks he also didn't get the Steve Rogers treatment of getting a boost to his shield throw because his shield throw, I'm pretty sure, is the worst one.
It's pretty bad.
Red Guardian is the first one that comes up for me because I've heard and seen so many people talk about Winter Guard, how they really wanted Winter Guard to get something cool and be a more enticing affiliation to play.
I thought Red Guardian was going to get some cool buffs, and I think at the end of the day, he's not any better.
What's up? He got Siberian Shield Slam reworked, right?
A little
bit,
yeah.
Now it costs two instead of three.
And
what was the other change on him? Doesn't it auto-throw? It
already auto-throws size three and throws them short.
So I believe that they reduced the power cost for it.
And he did get, he's one of them that saw some stamina changes.
So that was certainly part of it here.
But yeah, so it went down to two, two power and now it's only five strength instead of six.
So he's really just not any different.
It's weird too.
Cause like he has nothing to spend his power on basically already.
He just has like the focus repulsed our field.
That's it.
And his spender.
So he's spending two for a five-strength attack at range two that throws a size three short.
It's an automatic throw.
Don't get me wrong.
It sucks he also didn't get the Steve Rogers treatment of getting a boost to his shield throw because his shield throw, I'm pretty sure, is the worst one.
It's pretty bad.
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