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Re: The Book of White Canary (waiting for initial)
C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: White Canary
Version tested:
Spoiler Alert!
NAME = WHITE CANARY
SECRET IDENTITY = SARA LANCE
SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LEADER
PERSONALITY = VALIANT
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5
LIFE = 4
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 4
POINTS = 200
LEGENDS LEADERSHIP
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and instead of taking a turn with White Canary, if no figures you control share any special powers, you may roll the 20-sided die.
• If you roll 1-7, choose one Hero;
• If you roll 8-15, choose two Heroes; or
• If you roll 16 or higher, choose three Heroes.
Heroes chosen must be White Canary or Unique Human or Metahuman Heroes you control within 5 clear sight spaces of White Canary. One at a time, take a turn with each of the chosen Heroes. You may not take any additional turns with other figures you control.
LEAGUE OF ASSASSINS TRAINING
White Canary never takes leaving engagement attacks and may move through all figures. When White Canary attacks an adjacent figure, each skull rolled counts as one additional hit.
EVASIVE STRIKE 16
If White Canary is attacked by an opponent's figure within 5 clear sight spaces and at least 1 skull is rolled, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 1-15, roll defense normally. If you roll 16 or higher, White Canary takes no damage and the attacking figure receives one wound.
Army Test
Map: A Couple Puddles
Units: White Canary (210), Flash Barry (250), Captain Marvel Billy (360), Deathstroke (280) (1000) VS Fan4 (1000)
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Army Test
Map: A Couple Puddles
Units: White Canary (200), Deathstroke (280), Onomatopoeia (155), John Constantine (125), Black Adam (380) (1140) VS Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Judge Dredd, Spawn (1140)
Spoiler Alert!
Round 1: White Canary, Deathstroke, and Onomatopoeia move up. Optimus moves up and wounds Canary. Deathstroke and Ono engage Optimus but are blocked, and John Constantine moves up. Bumblebee moves up and is blocked. Black Adam puts 3 wounds on Bumblebee, Deathstroke is blocked, and Constantine is blocked. Dredd puts 3 wounds onto Black Adam.
Round 2: Deathstroke is blocked, and Black Adam wounds Bumblebee. Optimus puts 2 wounds onto Deathstroke. Deathstroke puts 3 wounds onto Optimus, then Black Adam kills Bumblebee. Optimus kills Deathstroke. Ono puts 3 wounds on Dredd, Black Adam kills Dredd, then Constantine engages Optimus and is blocked. Optimus puts 3 wounds on Constantine.
Round 3: Onomatopoeia wounds Optimus. Spawn chain grabs Black Adam out of range of White Canary’s 5-space aura and deals him a wound. White Canary repositions and Onomatopoeia actually puts 2 wounds onto Optimus. Spawn chain grabs White Canary and wounds her, but her Evasive Strike wounds him. White Canary is out of range of her allies, so she repositions and attacks Spawn for 2 wounds. Spawn kills White Canary to end the round.
Round 4: Black Adam wounds Spawn. Spawn heals 5 wounds. Black Adam puts 2 wounds onto Spawn. Spawn wounds Black Adam. Ono kills Optimus. Spawn kills Black Adam.
Round 5: Onomatopoeia misses. Spawn heals 1 wound. Ono wounds Spawn. Spawn heals 4 wounds. Ono puts 2 wounds on Spawn. Spawn puts 3 wounds on Ono.
Rounds 6+: Ono is blocked. Spawn heals 2. This goes on for a bit before Spawn kills the two heroes.
Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Spawn (6 wounds) wins.
Again a strong showing from White Canary here. The offense of her team is pretty spectacular. But once she falls, the eclectic nature of her army falls apart. And she is very vulnerable to being moved by opponents (or killed by them - she’s fragile).
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Version tested: (made some changes here!)
Spoiler Alert!
NAME = WHITE CANARY
SECRET IDENTITY = SARA LANCE
SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LEADER
PERSONALITY = VALIANT
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5
LIFE = 4
MOVE = 6
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 5
POINTS = 200
LEGENDS LEADERSHIP
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and before taking a turn with White Canary, if no figures you control share any special powers, you may roll the 20-sided die.
• If you roll 1-7, choose one Hero;
• If you roll 6-15, choose one Heroes; or
• If you roll 16 or higher, choose two Heroes.
Heroes chosen must be Unique Human or Metahuman Heroes you control within 5 clear sight spaces of White Canary. One at a time, take a turn with each of the chosen Heroes. You may not take any additional turns with other figures you control besides White Canary.
LEAGUE OF ASSASSINS TRAINING
White Canary never takes leaving engagement attacks and may move through all figures. When White Canary attacks an adjacent figure, each skull rolled counts as one additional hit.
EVASIVE STRIKE 16
If White Canary is attacked by an opponent's figure within 5 clear sight spaces and at least 1 skull is rolled, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 1-15, roll defense normally. If you roll 16 or higher, White Canary takes no damage and the attacking figure receives one wound.
Army Test
Map: A Couple Puddles
Units: White Canary (200), Deathstroke (280), Onomatopoeia (155), John Constantine (125), Black Adam (380) (1140) VS Nightwing I, Raven, Starfire, Superboy Kon-El I, Bunker, Artemis (1140)
Spoiler Alert!
Round 1: Superboy moves up. White Canary and Onomatopoeia move up. Artemis wounds and tags White Canary with a tracking arrow. Deathstroke wounds Artemis, then Onomatopoeia is blocked. The Titans put 3 wounds onto Onomatopoeia. Black Adam puts 2 wounds on Superboy, then White Canary puts 2 wounds onto Bunker from range.
Round 2: Onomatopoeia puts 2 wounds onto Artemis, Deathstroke kills Artemis, then White Canary again wounds Bunker from range. The Titans put a few wounds on Deathstroke and one on White Canary. Black Adam takes out Bunker, then White Canary whiffs. Starfire puts a 3rd wound onto White Canary. Onomatopoeia misses Nightwing, then White Canary wounds Starfire. Starfire attacks White Canary twice, but is wounded both times by Evasive Strike.
Round 3: Onomatopoeia puts 2 wounds on Nightwing, then White Canary is blocked. Raven soul selfs to kill White Canary, Superboy kills Deathstroke, then Nightwing wounds Onomatopoeia. Ono is blocked. Superboy takes out Ono. Black Adam wounds Superboy. Superboy is blocked.
Rounds 4+: Black Adam falls to the Titans. Constantine falls soon after.
Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Nightwing (0 wounds), Raven (3 wounds), Superboy (3 wounds), Starfire (3 wounds)
Felt really good with this version, it encourages you to get White Canary into the action more. Tricky to keep everyone together though - poor Constantine was left in the start zone all game which really hindered his usefulness.
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Army Test
Map: A Couple Puddles
Units: White Canary (190), John Constantine (125), Vixen (150), Atom Ray (50), Firestorm (330), Heat Wave (110) (955) VS Gorilla Grodd II, Professor Zoom, Doctor Light, Black Manta (955)
THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Really fun design. Definitely an exercise in army building. I think the tweak I made after game 2 helped her feel more like White Canary while still getting the metagamey bonding.
White Canary has a couple key weaknesses that keep her pretty good bonding in check. Her bonding isn’t reliable, and the times you roll a 1-5 is crippling. And she often finds herself out of range of allies, as she in particular likes to be engaged to utilize her doubled skulls. It makes for interesting choices in gameplay. Play the safe way, or go for more kills by sending White Canary in to get adjacent.
Felt a little on the weaker side which is probably good for a generalist leader like this (if this were a factional design, I’d cost her at around 180). So I’m pretty happy sending to public testing with the tweaks discussed.
Last edited by Arch-vile; October 11th, 2020 at 09:57 PM.
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