Shadowking's Customs v.2 - 02/18/24 Bike Ninja!

[Blue Trails]

Wow, that is a great 'Scape sculpt! My only concern with the unit is that it doesn't feel like a Valkrill piece to me, for different reasons than what Myriadite mentioned; it's not so much the color palette that bothers me (the Death Knights, the Acolytes, and Motley Max all make red and black work for Valkrill, for example), but the facts that Yaseiha looks like an ordinary human being and lacks the blatantly evil, brutal, or destructive themes that I personally associate with Valkrill across her power set and ostensible "efficient hit-and-run" playstyle. This isn't a major issue, though, because the existing Ninjas all just kind of do "Ninja stuff" without regard for their generals' particular themes, and—most importantly—because the design looks fun and rather well-made. I especially appreciate the reuse of Rolling Movement!

[Shadowking]

Originally Posted by Blue Trails

Wow, that is a great 'Scape sculpt! My only concern with the unit is that it doesn't feel like a Valkrill piece to me, for different reasons than what Myriadite mentioned; it's not so much the color palette that bothers me (the Death Knights, the Acolytes, and Motley Max all make red and black work for Valkrill, for example), but the facts that Yaseiha looks like an ordinary human being and lacks the blatantly evil, brutal, or destructive themes that I personally associate with Valkrill across her power set and ostensible "efficient hit-and-run" playstyle. This isn't a major issue, though, because the existing Ninjas all just kind of do "Ninja stuff" without regard for their generals' particular themes, and—most importantly—because the design looks fun and rather well-made. I especially appreciate the reuse of Rolling Movement!

Mhm, yeah, I had envisioned her coming from the same sort of future Earth setting as Isamu, Agent Carr and Motley Max (come to think of it, not sure if those three are actually supposed to entirely line up timeline-wise). Certainly I think the figure and theme fits a Mad Max-esque wasteland biker ninja, and that in turn seems to fit Valkrill. That said, I am 100% not against putting her into Utgar if that seems better overall!

[Sherman Davies]

Nice, Heroscape needs more motorcycles! Not a fan of the Rolling Movement power, even when I saw it come out of AoA, but c'est la vie. Also, count me as another vote for Utgar - she's so RED.

[Shadowking]

Originally Posted by Sherman Davies

Nice, Heroscape needs more motorcycles! Not a fan of the Rolling Movement power, even when I saw it come out of AoA, but c'est la vie. Also, count me as another vote for Utgar - she's so RED.

Mhm, I think Rolling Movement actually changes the design's power or play almost zero (at least on tournament-style maps) but it feels very weird to me to be introducing it into the "canon" with AoA and then not using it for a bike unit. Here she is with an Utgar card (have been testing a bit more but no further changes yet); it does look a lot more natural with the figure, certainly, and other Wild heroes are also Utgar so that part shouldn't be an issue.

[Dad_Scaper]

I have written a few times about how much I loved the old days of Heroscape customs, back when people would share concepts that were just wild. The best of those designs were crafted with care, strongly thematic, and wildly original. @Sherman Davies remembers what I'm talking about.

This is such a design. Thank you for sharing it. Also thank you for shooting me a PM, because otherwise I wouldn't have looked.

What's the weapon being used in Parting Shot? The knife? You could play with the rare Range 3 if it's a small thrown knife like that.

[Myriadite]

Count me a fan of the rolling movement! Again, I really like how all of the powers work together.

[Shadowking]

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

I have written a few times about how much I loved the old days of Heroscape customs, back when people would share concepts that were just wild. The best of those designs were crafted with care, strongly thematic, and wildly original. @Sherman Davies remembers what I'm talking about.

This is such a design. Thank you for sharing it. Also thank you for shooting me a PM, because otherwise I wouldn't have looked.

What's the weapon being used in Parting Shot? The knife? You could play with the rare Range 3 if it's a small thrown knife like that.

It's not very clear in any of the images online, but in her other hand she's holding a little throwing knife (attached is the best one I can find that shows it, I do have her figure but just didn't want to leave my desk to grab it and photograph it, haha). So my logic was that the regular attack was her big knife/sai, and the Parting Shot was the little knife being thrown as she rode back out of the fight.

[Dad_Scaper]

Works for me. Thank you for sharing the design.

[Knox]

What's the current iteration of this bike ninja? I'm not seeing the card anywhere (perhaps due to server migration?)

[Shadowking]

Originally Posted by Knox

What's the current iteration of this bike ninja? I'm not seeing the card anywhere (perhaps due to server migration?)

This is her current card, hopefully it works?