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Well met!

This is for Taleetha . . .

Talked with her last night. She's been lurking, and I asked her what she would field as the Elves . . .

Originally Posted by Taeblewalker

Against the Aesir!

Originally Posted by Taeblewalker

My October Scape game will be Ragnorok-themed. Up to six players will participate. All armies will be 800 points, and two of the armies have a custom that must be included. I will include the details of the custom units in another post.

Good guys:
Aesir: Any Jandar and Ullar Kyrie, Tarn Viking Warriors (who will be common, cost 70 points and bond with Human Champions), Finn, Thorgrim and Eldgrim

Vanir: All Elves, Half-Elves and Eladrin

Dwarves: All Dwarves (but no Mok!)

Bad Guys:
Jotunheim: Snorri the Troll King (mandatory unique hero custom), Nodens the Frost Giant Jarl (optional unique hero custom), Greater Ice Elemental, all Giants (except Mok), all Trolls, Ogres and Cyclops, Brunak

Svartalfheim: Drider (mandatory to pick at least one; uncommon hero custom), all Drow, including Vienna Do'urdon (mandatory custom), Fyorlag Spiders

Undead: Any undead

Again, I will post details of the custom units in another post.

Originally Posted by Taeblewalker

Snorri the Troll King
Utgar

Troll
Unique Hero
King
Cruel
Large 7

Life 8
Move 6
Range 1
Attack 6
Defense 5

200 points

Snorri’s Orders
After revealing an order marker on this army card, instead of taking a turn with Snorri, you may take a turn with up to two trolls, ogres, giants, trolticors, ettins or cyclops you control. Snorri may be one of the two figures.

Great Cleave
When Snorri attacks an adjacent figure, you may choose a figure that is adjacent to the figure you attack. If Snorri inflicts more wounds than needed to destroy the targeted figure, all excess wounds are inflicted on the chosen figure.

Sanguine Axe
At the start of each turn that you take with Snorri, remove one wound marker from this army card. If Snorri destroys a figure, remove one wound marker from this army card.

Drider
Utgar

Arachnid
Uncommon Hero
Predator
Wild
Large 7

Life 5
Move 6
Range 1
Attack 5
Defense 4
Points 120

Shadow Strength
Add one to this Drider’s attack and defense if it is on a dungeon or shadow space.

Drow Hero Bonding
After revealing an order marker on this army card, you may take a turn with a Drow hero you control before taking a turn with this Drider.

Poisoned Blade
If you inflict at least one wound on an opponent’s figure, roll the 20-sided die. If you roll a 1-11, nothing happens. If you roll a 12-15, add 1 additional wound to the defending figure. If you roll a 16-18, add two wounds. If you roll an 19-20, add four wounds.

Vierna Do’Urdon
Utgar

Drow
Unique Hero
Arachnomancer
Devout
Medium 4

Life 4
Move 6
Range 5
Attack 3
Defense 3
Cost 80

Lolth’s Favor
When you roll a 20-sided die for a power on the army card of any friendly Drow or Arachnid figure, you may add 2 to the roll.

Faerie Fire
When a friendly figure attacks an opponent’s figure within six clear sight spaces of Vierna with a normal attack, that figure may re-roll up to two attack dice twice thaqt did not show skulls. Figures on shadow spaces that are affected by Faerie Fire do not receive the shadow bonus to defense.

Hide in Darkness q.v.

I have to finish the details on Nodens.

Originally Posted by chas

Taeblewalker Scape: Ragnarok will occur on Saturday Oct. 13. We have four signed up but can still take two more players, so join us if you're in or near NYC.

Originally Posted by Taeblewalker

Umbra, by @mad_wookiee , will be our map. For extra start zones, we will just add some tiles to either side of the two start zones. Armies from each team start on the same side, and team members can share start zone space.

Originally Posted by Taeblewalker

Map pdf.

Originally Posted by chas

I'm in as the Jotunheim Giants, led by that custom Troll King!

It looks like its going to be yet another great custom scenario from one of our members. Kids: Definitely Try This At Home! Heroscape is such a great platform for so many cool ideas, that we're still having fun with it after 11 years of playing together monthly. And you can look at this very long thread and many, many other site locations such as Kolakoski's Blog for all kinds of unusual ideas to vary your Scape. You may have noticed that we hardly ever play conventional tournament games at all--except for the annual Islandscape tornament we usually attend in the summer.

You can also check us out onsite on Custom Maps and Scenarios and "Other Custom Ideas," our individual customs threads for both Classic and Supers cards, and you may bump into us in many other locations around the neighborhood. See the Original Post up front for who we are and what we do. Enjoy!

Originally Posted by chas

The four armies of participating players are being built for next week's Saturday game; two good and two evil so far. We can take one more player on each side if anyone else bails in.

P.S.: Our newest member, Joris, has shown himself to be an excellent player (mostly at my expense ). This time, I have arranged for him to be my ally against the seemingly overwhelming Forces of Darkness arrayed against us. He asked me to create an army for him (in addition to my own), as he is relatively unfamiliar with the plethora of units available for this scenario. Below (under cover of spoilers) are the armies I have come up with - and my reasoning in their construction.

Spoiler Alert!

I decided at the outset that I would play the Elves against the stacked deck Taeblewalker created here. Sherman can't make it, and no one wanted to ally with me initially, so I literally begged Joris

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to help me. This is a story scenario. The Dwarf faction seemed too one dimensional (and not as much fun) relative to the others. I was going to go full bore Wizard for the Elves, but the map disfavors that option (IMHO).



Revised armies:

Mine:
150 Ulginesh
150 WoA x 3
100 Haduc
100 Morsbane
100 Jorhdawn
90 Chardris
60 Elaria
50 Arkmer
800, 17 spaces

With 800 points to play with, I can afford WoA x 3. It will be interesting to see how Morsbane does, with his minimum Negation number now being 13 and his auto-kill at 18-20, thanks to boosts to the 20-sider from both Haduc and Elaria.


Yours:
220 Sentinals x 2
210 Tarn x 3
110 Tyrian (SoV)
90 Atlaga
80 Raelin
80 Thorgrim (or Finn) (Spirit for Tyrian or Raelin)
790, 18 spaces

The opposite of monolithic. Lots of good synergies here. Glad to have included some good range.

I think we have a chance . . .