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And our first playtest is in...

Originally Posted by Gurei-Ornery

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT Gorilla City Warriors

- THEME TEST/ Check to see if there are any powers or stats on the test unit card that does not accurately reflect the theme or likeness of what the character would and could do. Also consider destructible objects, and whether or not this characters powers should affect them.
Pass

- MIRROR TEST/ Check to see if the unit were played against itself, if there would be any loops that would upset the balance of the Game.
Pass

- BONDING TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing Bonding abilities to make sure there are no continual Bonding possibilities that do not stop appropriately or do not stop at all. This is to prevent loops in Bonding.
Pass

- SYNERGIES TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing synergies to make sure there are no factors that could break the game by making any unit to powerful or too weak.
Pass

- POWER CHECK/ Consider the test unit and all existing units and all glyphs to compare to and check for any powers that could be over amplified and break the game. Each power must define when it takes place, who or what it affects, and What are the stipulations on the power if there are any.
Pass

- FUN TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play.
Pass

- FUN COMPETITIVE TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play against.
Pass

- DRAFTING TEST/ Consider whether or not this design is worth drafting.
Pass

- USAGE TEST/ Consider whether or not all of the powers on this card were used or at least usable.
Pass

- STRATEGY TEST/ Consider whether or not the design offers any real strategy or interesting tactics to the overall game.
Pass

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Army Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Pass
- What should be the unit's point value? 125
- Give a brief overview. GCW, with few targets (ie heroes), are able to effectively swarm and use their Telepathic Troop; Giant Swat is a nice counter however. Grodd was able to hit with Cognizant Control early on to gum up the Avengers strategy. He made this a seesaw. The GCW were streaky and because of Giant Swat, weren’t getting many 6 dice attack early on.
Map: Quasatch Playground
Units: Gorilla Grodd and 4x GCW (725 pts) vs Captain America (C3G), Sub-Mariner, Giant-Man and Wasp (720)

Spoiler Alert!

R1 - Sub-Mariner heads for the pond. GCW fan out into the brush and Grodd takes up a central position on height. CA moves up. More GCW move in to the brush and Grodd likes his view. Giant-Man moves up next to CA. More GCW move up and then it happened; Grodd CC 19 and takes control of SM to put a wound and knockback on Giant-Man. This ruined SM’s Water Avenger setup.

R2 - Things start to heat up. 2 GCW attack SM and the first misses but knocks SM back almost out of engagement next to GM. The second puts a wound on SM. Grodd CC 15! Close one. CA’s Shield Throw kills 2 GCW. 3 GCW get adj to SM but Giant Swat takes care of one. No matter, the remaining 2 GCW kill SM. (They almost lost the chance due to knockback with a 5 vs 2/5 on the first attack) Grodd CC 20 and takes control of CA who misses Wasp and puts 2 wounds on GM. CA comes to his senses and kills a GCW and since Grodd is rolling so well, puts 2 wounds on him. GCW retaliate and one puts 2 wounds on CA but knocks him out of engagement with the others. Grodd CC 3. CA closes the round killing a GCW.

R3 – GCW move to GM and again he Swats one away. The other misses and Grodd CC 11. CA misses 2 GCW but puts 2 more wounds on Grodd. GCW kill GM and miss CA. CA kills another GCW and puts an end to Grodd’s controlling ways. A GCW puts a wound on CA and knocks him to another GCW that misses. (PingPong anyone?) CA kills 2 more GCW.

R4 – This fight would come down to this initiative roll. Avengers 10, GCW 2. CA kills the closest GCW. Only one GCW can engage and he misses CA. CA kills 2 GCW leaving 1 remaining. Last GCW goes for the kill on CA: 3 skulls to 2+Vibranium/3, that was close. Not knowing if CA was still going to be alive, 3rd OM is on Wasp. This could be it. Wasp moves up and uses Sting special. It’s a SKULL!
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Wasp and Captian America with 4 wounds win on T3R4. This was a good one.

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Army Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Pass
- What should be the unit's point value? 125
- Give a brief overview. This seemed like it was unfair from the outset. SWs were dominating early, not allowing GCW to get close. Finally, Jean Grey stepped up to stop the bleeding, tossing GCW forward and yanking SW toward the front lines. This is a fun combo once you get the hang of it.
Map: Quasatch Playground
Units: Jean Grey and 4x GCW (680 pts) vs Super Skrull (Kl’Rt) and 3x Skrull Warriors (670)

Spoiler Alert!

R1 -GCW fan out into the brush. SW move up and (oops, so much for the jungle helping, it would be nice to have something like Quasatch Jungle Tracking to help them close the gap on range quicker) kill a GCW. JG moves up and throws a GCW forward. SS moves up. More GCW move up. SW kill 2 GCW. One squad of GCW down before they can sniff engagement.

R2 – GCW finally engage SW but miss both. SW get 2 more GCW. Lone engaged GCW misses again. SW kill 2 more GCW. GCW move up. SW kill 2 more GCW. (Broken record. At this point I almost started over. 3 squads of GCW down and no damage done to team Skrull)

R3 – (Don’t call it a Comeback!) SS wants some kills and moves up. Jean Grey decides now is the time for her to step up. She throws a SW to his death and kills another. SS goes after JG but misses. JG is hot! (with her rolls ) She throws KL’RT for a wound and kills a SW. SS is trapped with Psionic Grip18. JG throws SS for no wound. She decides to attack SS but gets Bounced Back for a wound.

R4 – SS puts a wound on JG and knocks her back into the brush. GCW finally get to shine and put 3 wounds on SS but another GCW dies this time to Rock Wall Bounce Back. SS kills a GCW. JG kills SS with a throw wound and a 2 wound attack. SS loses a turn. JG throws a GCW forward.

R5 – GCW kill a SW. SW kills a GCW an puts a wound on JG. JG throws the last GCW forward and kills a SW. SW misses JG. JG misses throw, but kills last SW.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? One GCW and Jean Grey with 3 wounds win T3R5. (OK you can call it a comeback)

The only problem I can see is that Cognizant Control shouldn't be used with the Warriors, since it requires an Order Marker on Grodd... so that probably turned the tide a bit, even though it was ultimately a loss in that match.

They seem a bit weak if anything in the first one, but did surprisingly well even without a Simian (that second match was about perfect), so 125 seems fair enough.