Heroscape D3 Preview Week 5
And so we have arrived, to the final week of D3 previews! Some of you may notice, while this is our last Preview Wednesday for D3, we still have 3 Army Cards to reveal.
The final 3 figures have been shipped to 3 National Heroscape Day events. The Ice Troll Berserker will be revealed at the New England event, Moltenclaw will be revealed at Tree Town Open VI, and Master of the Hunt will be revealed at Hexes in Texas. I’ll post the article for those figures once I return from the New England event Saturday night.
But today, we’re going to cover the other 3 remaining Army Cards. The Mezzodemon Warmongers, The Death Chasers of Thesk, and Evar Scarcarver
Mezzodemon Warmongers:
The Mezzodemons are another 2 unit common squad for D&D Scape. Like the Death Knights of Valkrill they have their own unique twist that makes them deadly on the battlefield. Unlike the Death Knights, the Mezzodemons are more of a defensive squad. Their basic attack is based on a short ranged Poison cloud, with that cloud affecting Common figures more than Unique/Uncommon figures.
Each squad comes with 2 Exoskeleton Markers. When you draft Mezzodemons, you collect 1 marker for each Mezzodemon in your army. After a Mezzodemon rolls defense for a NORMAL attack, you can remove a exoskeleton marker from a Mezzodemon Army card to ignore those wounds.
This makes the Mezzodemons well suited to hold an area, especially a glyph, but also means that they are very strong early in the game as they just won’t fall, but as the game moves on, and the markers run out, they fall much easier. They are a really fun squad to bring into battle, but don’t rely too heavily on them, or you will regret it.
Death Chasers of Thesk:
The next squad we’re revealing today is the Death Chasers of Thesk. We wanted to design these guys as a wild force that just sweeps over the battlefield and keeps attacking till their opponent falls. To that end, we designed the Orc Battle Rush power. That first 5 space jump on any map is huge! All of a sudden your opponent’s tactics have to change now that he has a few squads of Orcs breathing down his neck.
Not to mention Taskmaster Bonding, which allows the Orcs to bond with the Large Wild Hero that is forcing them down the battlefield. The current Heroes that bond with the Death Chasers are: Me-Burq-Sa, Nerak, Ogre Pulverizer, Ogre Warhulk, and the Swog Rider.
Evar Scarcarver:
And finally, we’ve reached the third of four new sculpts in this wave (the 4th is the Master of the Hunt which will be revealed at Hexes in Texas this Saturday). Evar Scarcarver is Vydar’s new Frostrager. We wanted to give Evar the ability to turn Frost Rage on as opposed to just having him raging all the time. In our discussions, Colby came up with the X order marker mechanic we finally used, and eventually repurposed for Siege as well.
Evar comes with 2 unique powers. First, his Frost Rage power, which turns him into a mini-krug. Second is his Double Assault power. Double Assault allows him to attack an adjacent figure and quickly turn that attack into a second one as well. That second attack doesn’t need to be against the same figure (but of course engagement rules apply) the only trigger for using the power is that the first attack has to be against an adjacent opponent.
Enjoy dissecting those figures, and try to make it out to your local NHSD event this weekend!
Remember, if you show up at one of the below events, you can get a close up look at some of the new figures in D3!
New England: Ice Troll Berserker revealed, Siege, Mezzodemon Warmongers, and the Ogre Pulverizer
Texas: Master of the Hunt revealed, Death Knights of Valkrill, Frost Giant of Morh, and the Horned Skull Brutes
Tree Town: Moltenclaw revealed, Eltahale, Death Chasers of Thesk, and Evar Scarcarver.
I’ll post the preview for all 3 cards that night (10/16)
Chris Dupuis
The final 3 figures have been shipped to 3 National Heroscape Day events. The Ice Troll Berserker will be revealed at the New England event, Moltenclaw will be revealed at Tree Town Open VI, and Master of the Hunt will be revealed at Hexes in Texas. I’ll post the article for those figures once I return from the New England event Saturday night.
But today, we’re going to cover the other 3 remaining Army Cards. The Mezzodemon Warmongers, The Death Chasers of Thesk, and Evar Scarcarver
Mezzodemon Warmongers:
The Mezzodemons are another 2 unit common squad for D&D Scape. Like the Death Knights of Valkrill they have their own unique twist that makes them deadly on the battlefield. Unlike the Death Knights, the Mezzodemons are more of a defensive squad. Their basic attack is based on a short ranged Poison cloud, with that cloud affecting Common figures more than Unique/Uncommon figures.
Each squad comes with 2 Exoskeleton Markers. When you draft Mezzodemons, you collect 1 marker for each Mezzodemon in your army. After a Mezzodemon rolls defense for a NORMAL attack, you can remove a exoskeleton marker from a Mezzodemon Army card to ignore those wounds.
This makes the Mezzodemons well suited to hold an area, especially a glyph, but also means that they are very strong early in the game as they just won’t fall, but as the game moves on, and the markers run out, they fall much easier. They are a really fun squad to bring into battle, but don’t rely too heavily on them, or you will regret it.
Death Chasers of Thesk:
The next squad we’re revealing today is the Death Chasers of Thesk. We wanted to design these guys as a wild force that just sweeps over the battlefield and keeps attacking till their opponent falls. To that end, we designed the Orc Battle Rush power. That first 5 space jump on any map is huge! All of a sudden your opponent’s tactics have to change now that he has a few squads of Orcs breathing down his neck.
Not to mention Taskmaster Bonding, which allows the Orcs to bond with the Large Wild Hero that is forcing them down the battlefield. The current Heroes that bond with the Death Chasers are: Me-Burq-Sa, Nerak, Ogre Pulverizer, Ogre Warhulk, and the Swog Rider.
Evar Scarcarver:
And finally, we’ve reached the third of four new sculpts in this wave (the 4th is the Master of the Hunt which will be revealed at Hexes in Texas this Saturday). Evar Scarcarver is Vydar’s new Frostrager. We wanted to give Evar the ability to turn Frost Rage on as opposed to just having him raging all the time. In our discussions, Colby came up with the X order marker mechanic we finally used, and eventually repurposed for Siege as well.
Evar comes with 2 unique powers. First, his Frost Rage power, which turns him into a mini-krug. Second is his Double Assault power. Double Assault allows him to attack an adjacent figure and quickly turn that attack into a second one as well. That second attack doesn’t need to be against the same figure (but of course engagement rules apply) the only trigger for using the power is that the first attack has to be against an adjacent opponent.
Enjoy dissecting those figures, and try to make it out to your local NHSD event this weekend!
Remember, if you show up at one of the below events, you can get a close up look at some of the new figures in D3!
New England: Ice Troll Berserker revealed, Siege, Mezzodemon Warmongers, and the Ogre Pulverizer
Texas: Master of the Hunt revealed, Death Knights of Valkrill, Frost Giant of Morh, and the Horned Skull Brutes
Tree Town: Moltenclaw revealed, Eltahale, Death Chasers of Thesk, and Evar Scarcarver.
I’ll post the preview for all 3 cards that night (10/16)
Chris Dupuis
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B.I.V. if you click on the picture of the card it takes you to the gallery with excellent card shots in my opinion.
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Posted October 15th, 2010 at 06:24 PM by ZBeeblebrox
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KC: Oh, well that flies completely over my head. As you may have guessed, I'm clueless about FF.
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Posted October 15th, 2010 at 07:19 PM by MegaSilver
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Originally Posted by Zbeeblebrox
B.I.V. if you click on the picture of the card it takes you to the gallery with excellent card shots in my opinion.
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Posted October 15th, 2010 at 10:54 PM by The B.I.V.
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Quick question. When are we gonna get some decent card shots (ala MS3) rather than the grainy scans we've been getting, lately? The Valkrill cards are especially hard to read...
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Posted October 16th, 2010 at 08:34 AM by Grungebob
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Well, that's just it, GB. I think the older cards were actual jpgs rather than scans. Just wondering if those are coming back or not. If not, whoever's scanning (Guru?) needs to make sure they're scanning at least 300 dpi.
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Posted October 16th, 2010 at 09:36 AM by The B.I.V.
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I think Gilbert would be very good with a couple squads of the Mezzodemons. He could move 2 squads into your opponent's territory, and then you could just let them absorb damage with the exoskeleton while slowly killing off their squads.
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Posted October 16th, 2010 at 03:27 PM by MrWookiee
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hmmmm...Evar...another leaner...maybe they should change his name to Leanus LeanLeaner! LoL this set looks pretty good, this looks like a Very decent wave!!! Now if they would just Reissue or make a NEW Lava & Snow Set, That Would ROCK!!!!
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Posted October 20th, 2010 at 11:13 PM by Heros Cape
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That's Awesome! I just I can at least play one game on national scape day.
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Posted October 21st, 2010 at 11:54 AM by colonel_homestar
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Originally Posted by BIV
Well, that's just it, GB. I think the older cards were actual jpgs rather than scans. Just wondering if those are coming back or not. If not, whoever's scanning (Guru?) needs to make sure they're scanning at least 300 dpi.
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Posted October 21st, 2010 at 11:58 AM by Grungebob
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