The Book of Lady Blackhawk
 

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Character Bio - Zinda Blake, determined to become the first woman member of the famed World War II unit known as the Blackhawks, trained herself to pilot a wide range of modern aircraft and made herself an expert in various forms of combat and weaponry.

Her first attempt to join the group came when she helped rescue a member from a modern-day pirate called the Scavenger. Despite her able assistance, Zinda was told that the Blackhawk codes forbade a woman from joining the team.

Zinda followed this exploit by rescuing the entire Blackhawk team from the Scavenger, and in return was told, by Blackhawk himself, that she could become an honorary member of the team.

Due to the time-warping effects of Zero Hour, Zinda is now in the present DC continuity, looking as she did in 1959. (wikipedia)
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Human, Lady Blackhawk has these Human Synergies.
• As a Pilot, Lady Blackhawk has these Pilot Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Lady Blackhawk may move Vehicles she occupies one additional space and add 2 to their 20-sided die rolls.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-

Immunities

• N/A

Benefits

• N/A

Weaknesses

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: quozl
• Second playtest: TrollBrute
• Third playtest: Bats
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by A3n

Card Updates:
21 July 2021 - Updated Adept Operator wording
7 March 2021 - Class changed to Pilot

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

NAME = LADY BLACKHAWK
SECRET IDENTITY = ZINDA BLAKE

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = PILOT
PERSONALITY = DAUNTLESS

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 2

POINTS = 110

ADEPT OPERATOR
If Lady Blackhawk is a vehicle's driver, add 1 to that vehicle's Move number and when rolling the 20-sided die for that vehicle, you may add 2 to your roll.

CLOSE COMBAT EXPERT
When attacking an opponent's adjacent figure with a normal attack, add one automatic skull to whatever is rolled. When defending against a normal attack from an adjacent figure, add one automatic shield to whatever is rolled.

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

SA says "Spawn"

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

Unless she has Super Strength, there's no way she can operate a Heavy Machine Gun.

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

I got nothing to add here. Don't really know the character.

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

:word: She should have Bucky's version.

Also, she has no direct connection to birds that I know of, and no power over them, so I'm not understanding Six Billion Pairs of Eyes at all. I don't think that fits her.

Here's what wikipedia says about her powers:

She's basically a WWII era fighter pilot lost in time who fights and flies planes pretty well and carries a gun. :shrug:

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

Actually, should she have a machine gun at all? She seems to carry a pistol more often? Maybe something to represent her being a marksman? (Don't go overpowered, though, she's not the toughest character around).

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

Judging from that wiki exert, she doesn't appear to be better than any of the robins :shrug:.

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

Yeah, I'm not really feeling this design so far. :(

No bird powers that I know of, so that power shouldn't really be here. Definitely not heavy machine gun. From my limited knowledge of her she never used a machine gun, just handguns, but I admittedly don't know her that well.

And 4/4 with Close Combat Expert makes her a better fighter than Batman, which I'm kind of doubting she is. If we want to keep CCE, at least go down to 3/3, in my opinion.

An ability that gives her a bonus when driving vehicles might be kind of cool, especially if we ever get to aircraft. :)

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

Yeah, if we give her a special attack representing her gun, I wouldn't mind seeing her base stats go down to 2/2 with CCE.

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

I think Dauntless would be a good personality (it's been used on a lot of the WWII era figures).

I'm not big on CCE... It gets overused and really... Pretty much any superhero could probably technically qualify.

I'm actually kind of sad to not see any tie in to Vehicle Destructible Objects... That seems to be her primary thing. I know we've discussed problems with that since VDO rules are technically optional at this point... But is there a workaround?

Finally, once [redacted] gets finalized, his SA might be a good fit here?

Re: The Book of Lady Blackhawk - Design Phase
 

I like CCE on her as her skills define her. I'd also like to see Double Attack (or a a double attacking special for her guns) and a vehicle ability that lets a vehicle with her in it move an additional space.