The Book of Biollante

[IAmBatman]

The Book of Biollante

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The figure used for this unit is a Bandai figure from the
Godzilla Movie Monster Series set.
Its model name is Biollante.

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Character Bio - Biollante began life as a heavily mutated and semi-sentient rose, spliced with DNA from Godzilla. After badly losing a battle to the king of the monsters in that form, Biollante fully regenerated and evolved into her final phase as a giant creature with grasping tendrils and corrosive spores ready to go toe-to-toe with Godzilla.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Base Clarification: Biollante is a six-spaced figure where every base space must touch another base space, in an arrangement of two rows of three hexes and uses the Irregular Base Movement Rules. Here is an example of Biollante's basing.
• Biollante is an Event Hero and follows Event Hero rules.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Kaiju, Biollante has these Kaiju Synergies.
• As a Destroyer, Biollante has these Destroyer Synergies.
• As a Huge figure, Biollante has these Huge Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: (IAmBatman part one, part two)
• Second playtest: (Arkham)
• Third playtest: (Skinderella)(Toyhandle)
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by tcglkn

*8/11/2022 - Modified Grasping Plant Tendrils to allow for player choice of wound or lockdown

[IAmBatman]

NAME = BIOLLANTE
SPECIES = KAIJU
UNIQUENESS = EVENT HERO
CLASS = DESTROYER
PERSONALITY = WILD
SIZE = HUGE 13

LIFE 6

MOVE 6
RANGE 6
ATTACK 6
DEFENSE 5
POINTS=1000

SPORE REGENERATION
Start the game with 2 yellow Spore Markers on this card. If Biollante would receive any number of wounds and be destroyed, you may instead remove a Spore Marker from this card, ignore those wounds, and remove all Wound Markers from this card.

GRASPING PLANT TENDRILS
At the start of each player’s turn, you may choose up to 2 figures within 12 spaces of Biollante. Roll one unblockable attack die against each chosen figure. If you roll a shield, the player controlling the chosen figure must choose for that figure to either receive a wound or it may not move until the start of the next player’s turn.

CORROSIVE SPRAY SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 9. Attack 9.
Biollante may only use this special attack if there are no Spore Markers on this card. If the defending figure receives one or more wounds from this attack, that figure is not considered to have clear sight on any other figures for the remainder of this round.

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[IAmBatman]

Mini Picture



Comic Picture
Tickle has it

Background

[IAmBatman]

OK, did a few tweaks since LCW. I'm hoping it streamlines the design a bit and makes the regeneration feel more "accurate." Basic idea is she starts out in giant rose form doing a lot of stuff with her vines, but gets taken out and regenerates and eventually is close enough to death that she gets desperate and goes full corrosive spray on her attacker.

[Tornado]

Looks solid.

[tcglkn]

Just an idea I had now when this thread started, what if it did something with the Animated Vines squad?

[Lord Pyre]

Pretty cool! She kinda boils down to having 18 life which is pretty good.

Of note, Brainiac and Atom Eve can remove markers from Event heroes, which make them pretty hefty counters to her.

I'd love if there was a way to give her SA a bit more pop, to differentiate from the tendrils? The clear sight removal is cool, but maybe something that does "burn damage"? Because on HER turn, it's basically the same as her normal attack with an extra die or two.

Cool take on a big beasty though!

[IAmBatman]

The spray is pretty much a last resort anti-Godzilla weapon that blinds the target if it hits.

Originally Posted by tcglkn

Just an idea I had now when this thread started, what if it did something with the Animated Vines squad?

Biollante doesn’t animate other vines. She has her own. I want to keep her at 1000 as well so I wouldn’t want her reliant on another unit.

[tcglkn]

Making her 955 with synergy with the Animated Vines seems cool too since she is depicted as controlling wild vines everywhere and it could give her more range. The vines could very easily be justified as part of that figure and it would be a neat thing that made her more different from the other Kaiju.

[Arch-vile]

I'd reword this slightly - I think it could be unclear as to which powers require clear sight. I don't have any concrete examples, but I think this wording gets the same mechanics across.

CORROSIVE SPRAY SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 6. Attack 8.
Biollante may only use this special attack if there are no Spore Markers on this card. If the defending figure receives one or more wounds from this attack, that figure is not considered to have clear sight on any other figures for the remainder of this round.

Neat design, reminds me of Nekron with the regeneration mechanic. Grasping Plant Tendrils should be pretty useful. I'd watch the kiting potential there, but I doubt it'll be an issue considering Bio's base size.

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by tcglkn

Making her 955 with synergy with the Animated Vines seems cool too since she is depicted as controlling wild vines everywhere and it could give her more range. The vines could very easily be justified as part of that figure and it would be a neat thing that made her more different from the other Kaiju.

It's an interesting idea. Ultimately, though, I don't think it's a fit here.

Thematically, she's no someone who has control over plants in general, she's just an oversized flower who has big vines herself. Those vines should be able to stretch all over the place, but I feel like the mini here will feel too small and too small in reach compared to what she would be able to do.

To make it work, I'd also need to replace one of her current powers with Plant Control, which isn't a thematic fit, IMO.

Mechanically, it feels like it makes the design less elegant and adds extra hardware for not much of a gain other than just being an interesting interaction. I prefer the current, more streamlined approach.

Originally Posted by Arch-vile

I'd reword this slightly - I think it could be unclear as to which powers require clear sight. I don't have any concrete examples, but I think this wording gets the same mechanics across.

Neat design, reminds me of Nekron with the regeneration mechanic. Grasping Plant Tendrils should be pretty useful. I'd watch the kiting potential there, but I doubt it'll be an issue considering Bio's base size.

Good call. I'll change that when breathing is up here.

Grasping Plant Tendrils is definitely one to watch in playtesting. Her own range being pretty short until she's on her last set of life should help, IMO.

Edit: I forgot I bumped her base range to 6 .... hmm, might have to set that back at 4 if she's too much to deal with.

[IAmBatman]

Updated the special attack language per Archie's suggestion. I also lowered the base range to 4 to hopefully avoid how much he can kite. I'll try to run the checklists in the next few days, but I'm feeling happy with where the design is at.