The Book of Yellow Lantern (Thaal Sinestro)

[IAmBatman]

The Book of Yellow Lantern (Thaal Sinestro)

C3G DC WAVE 4
FIGHT AGAINST FEAR

Comic PDF

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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Crisis set.
Its model number and name are #055 / Sinestro.

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Character Bio - Once considered the greatest of the Green Lanterns, Sinestro grew weary of the arrogance of the Guardians and struck out against them. Endowed with an ability to inspire great fear, Sinestro forged the anti-matter energies of Qward into an entire corps of Yellow Lanterns - the Sinestro Corps! Together with his army of Yellow Lanterns, the former champion of Korugar is a universe wide terror and the greatest foe of the Green Lanterns!
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Synergy Benefits Received

Classic:

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  N/A

Marvel:

• N/A

C3G:

• As an Insurgent, Sinestro benefits from Yellow Lantern (Arkillo)'s Insurgent Motivation.
• An adjacent Manhunter can replenish Sinestro's Yellow Power Battery with the Yellow Power Charge special power.

Synergy Benefits Offered

Classic:

• N/A

Marvel:

• N/A

C3G:

• As an Insurgent, Sinestro may be sacrificed to activate Yellow Lantern (Arkillo)'s Insurgent Motivation.
• As a Yellow Lantern, Sinestro may place Order Markers on his card, to allow an initiative boost via Lyssa Drak's Book of Parallax special power.
• As a Yellow Lantern, Sinestro may allow a Sinestro Corps Soldier to take a turn with its Tactical Formation special power.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Figures with the Fearless or Insane personality do not reduce defense when defending against Yellow Lantern Thaal Sinestro's Force of Fear Special Attack. Current figures with the Fearless or Insane personality include: Arkham Inmates, Carnage, Creeper, Daredevil, Deadpool, Firefly, Floronic Man, Green Goblin, Harley Quinn, Hawkman, Hugo Strange, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Joker, Joker (II), Mad Hatter, Mister Zsasz, Poison Ivy, Ragdoll, Scarecrow, Scorpion.
• In official Heroscape, figures with the Fearless or Insane personality include: Axegrinders of Burning Forge, Earth Elemental, Eltahale, Frost Giant of Morh, Moltenclaw

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial Playtest: Griffin
• Second Playtest: Scapemage
• Third Playtest: McCrimson

[A3n]

Love Sinestro.

YELLOW POWER SHIELD
Anytime Sinestro is attacked by an opponent's figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, instread instead of rolling defense normally, you may remove one yellow Battery Marker from this card and ignore that attack.

Weren't you one of the people against the "normally" wordage?

That's all I got looks great.

Cheers

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by A3n

Love Sinestro.

YELLOW POWER SHIELD
Anytime Sinestro is attacked by an opponent's figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, instread instead of rolling defense normally, you may remove one yellow Battery Marker from this card and ignore that attack.

Weren't you one of the people against the "normally" wordage?

That's all I got looks great.

Cheers

Thanks for noting that typo! Fixed.
The wording here is based directly off of Hal Jordan's Green Power Shield, which is based somewhat off of Spidey-Sense.
Spidey-Sense references "roll defense dice normally."
I think you can roll defense dice normally and it's not confusing.
Attacking normally can be confusing, though. Maybe "roll attack dice normally" could work, but even then there are so many powers that modify normal attacks and so many special attacks out there that it's not cut and dry the way rolling defense dice is.

[Hahma]

Great looking Sinestro Bats. I love the subtle differences between him and GL. I've got nothing to add as far as changing anything as most of him is based off Hal's card and the Special Attack is nice and offers the player choices in how bad do they want to kill someone at the risk of draining their own battery.

[NecroBlade]

I don't really have much to say on this one. Not a character I know anything about. FoF is really powerful, but somewhat limited by battery power (to the point you may be "afraid" of using it ).

[IAmBatman]

Ha!
I think the Special Attack will get a lot of use, but there will be some nice Fearless and Insane figures to counter it (like Hal Jordan, Daredevil, Dwarves, Joker, Harley Quinn, etc.). The Battery marker restriction to multiple use means you'll likely only do a double/multiple attack with it if you're desperate to take someone out before you can be attacked again.

[A3n]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Thanks for noting that typo! Fixed.
The wording here is based directly off of Hal Jordan's Green Power Shield, which is based somewhat off of Spidey-Sense.
Spidey-Sense references "roll defense dice normally."
I think you can roll defense dice normally and it's not confusing.
Attacking normally can be confusing, though. Maybe "roll attack dice normally" could work, but even then there are so many powers that modify normal attacks and so many special attacks out there that it's not cut and dry the way rolling defense dice is.

But your wording is "defense normally" so yeah if you change it to "defense dice normally" then all is good with the world.

Cheers

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, but the thing is that we passed Hal Jordan all the way through the process with the wording as "defense normally," so I want to stay consistent with that here.
Do you think it's a big enough thing to go back and change Green Lantern at this point?

[NecroBlade]

"roll defensive dice normally" is actually the official terminology.

[IAmBatman]

Updated due to popular demand. Where do you guys stand on retroactively updating Hal Jordan?

[A3n]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

Updated due to popular demand. Where do you guys stand on retroactively updating Hal Jordan?

Yes please - how did we all miss that?

[Spidey'tilIDie]

Also, Force of Fear SA starts out "Figues without the fearless or insane personalities..." Should be "Figures".