Retro Review On MA2: Avengers Coast-to-Coast By David "Zeb" Cook, & Edward G. Sollers For The Marvel Super Heroes Advanced Rpg

 " Now pit Captain America, Iron Man Thor and the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes against Ultron, Grimm Reaper, Thanos and more with this Marvel Super Heroes RPG Official Advanced Game Accessory. It features a history of the group and stats for the Avengers (East and West Coast members), their most trusted allies and their most hated and feared villains! Also includes an original adventure."

Appearing in 1986, MA2: Avengers Coast-to-Coast By David "Zeb" Cook, & Edward G. Sollers remains a favorite of mine because of the fact that we used this supplement extentively. This is a classic Marvel Super Heroes Advanced supplement going over all of the classic era Avengers and thier foes. MA2 is way, way, outta of date. That's not what this supplement is for instead MA2 covers the classic eras of the 60's through the 80's.These eras are what make an Avenger's campaign work in spades in my humble opinion. Pete Tamlyn reviewed Avengers Coast-to-Coast for White Dwarf #88 & he seems to share my opinion; ""As expected, TSR have taken the arrival of Advanced Marvel Super Heroes as a reason to issue new game statistics for the vast number of Marvel characters in the original rules. About the only thing that can be said in their favour is that they've done a much better job of it second time around."^[2] He called the sections on the Avengers' Charter and their relationship with the government "the most interesting parts of the book" and noted that they help "provide the basis for starting an Advanced MSH campaign based around a superhero group. However, it comprises only about half the book. The rest of it is taken up with vast numbers of descriptions of Marvel characters, many of whom have already been described in at least one of the various original Marvel Super Heroes products."
According to the Avengers Coast to Coast wiki entry; "Avengers Coast to Coast is a sourcebook intended for players to use characters from the Avengers. It has sections which detail the Avengers' Charter and focus on the group's relationship with the United States government. Also included are detailed plans of the bases the Avengers use, their transport and equipment, and descriptions of characters from Marvel Comics" 
MA2 and it's solid overview of the US government's relationship with the Avengers was key to our Eighties and Nineties campaign. This relationship with the American government would turn sour for our PC's as two events twisted our relationship. One would be the USA's reaction to the Mutant Fall by Mr.Sinister and Project Wide Awake. We had three mutants working on our team and two of them were slaughtered when we encountered the Mauraders. Our US liason was less then forth coming with information. 
Project Wideawake had us encountering both Avengers members and Sentinals. This put us at odds with both. We took over Avengers assets & left after we had members turn on us. Our group had been subcontracting on mission clean up for the Avengers. Suddenly we were facing down big guns like the Vision and other Avengers.  We'd later clear our names as it turned out to be a Hydra plot as the group had a vendetta against us. MA2 was key for my uncle running his campaign.
Is  MA2: Avengers Coast-to-Coast By David "Zeb" Cook, & Edward G. Sollers worth the download?! In a word yes because it's a great supplement for reference and for including classic Avengers elements within your own Marvel Super Heroes Advanced campaigns. 
You can download it for free from the Classic Marvel Super Heroes Forever site here.