The Book of Ravage

[Tornado]

I have to go back and watch those again. Thanks.

[Ronin]

I had some Hunter/Creature stuff in mind for Calypso (Kraven's gal pal). I'm backlogged enough that I couldn't promise getting to her anytime soon, though.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Ronin

Right. Your new power solves it by removing the LOS part, but it doesn't feel like a totally fluid thing to me in that the Eject turn basically becomes Soundwarp ejecting Ravage onto a space where he's unengaged and then Ravage picks a target and moves in.

I liked the intent of the original, even though it didn't quite work mechanically: choose a target and eject Ravage right on top of em to go to work. I think just tweaking your Savage Pounce to:

would do a lot for me. Scraps the 'beginning of the turn' stuff, lets Soundwave drop him right on someone for an attack boost.

Won't always be a relevant difference mechanically, but it seems like it has room to be significant, with Ravage not having a disengage, and it has a little more pop to me. Evokes Ravage popping right out and attacking, without a middle step.

This is all, of course, coming from someone who has little experience with the character, so take it with a block of salt.

This.
I also wouldn't mind keeping it to being more Stealth Pouncey to make the first Ejection (that... sounds wrong...) more strategically significant.

Originally Posted by Soundwarp SG-1

You know, everytime one of y'all does that Soundwave/Soundwarp typo thing it makes it that much harder on me when I compulsively search my username to see if someone needs me for something

But anyway, I'm liking Ronin's suggestion there.

[Yodaking]

Alright, this is what I'm updating the SP with. Don't recall if Pounce Attack has already been used for a power name on one of the other cat themed characters, open to a new name there either way. If no objects, I'll call for a vote tomorrow. Going to try and knock out the Soundwave initial tomorrow too.


NAME = RAVAGE

SPECIES = CYBERTRONIAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = HUNTER
PERSONALITY = CUNNING

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM ?

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 7
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 130?

CASSETTE STORAGE
At the start of the game, instead of placing Ravage in your start zone, you may place this figure on the Army Card of any figure you control with the Eject! Special Power.

POUNCE ATTACK
When attacking normally, add 1 automatic skull to whatever is rolled if Ravage was not engaged at the start of your player turn.

ARMOR PIERCING ROCKET SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 5. Attack 4.
For each skull rolled when attacking with this special attack, the defending figure subtracts 1 from its defense. Ravage can only attack a non-adjacent figure with this special attack and can only use this special attack once per round.

[Lazy Orang]

I'd make Pounce Attack only for adjacent attacks for reusability. I like it otherwise

[Yodaking]

Good idea, will update.

[johnny139]

He feels pretty juiced to me for a low-100s unit. 4 Attack + an auto-skull whenever he enters an engagement is really potent, plus a special attack on top of that. That + Eject + 7 Move is really potent. I might go down to 3 Attack - that should keep his points down, but also encourage him to run around more often, which feels appropriate for a wolf (dog? coyote?) robot.

I do like him though. Great use of Eject and I've always loved Armor Piercing Rocket.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, I can see dropping the base attack down to 3. His main deal in combat is the initial pounce, then after that he's not that potent a threat and I do want to keep his points a bit lower than Laserbeak if I can. I'll make that change now. I only wonder if he would need some kind of disengagement power somewhere, but I suppose you can always just draft Weather Wizard or Storm with him. Maybe Rumble/Frenzy will become a useful ally if they can help him break free of an engagement with their earthquake pounders.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Originally Posted by johnny139

which feels appropriate for a wolf (dog? coyote?) robot.

Cat Robot. His original toy is supposed to be a jaguar specifically. Hence his super creative Japanese name... Jaguar. Also sometimes known as Black Panther Man.

[Yodaking]

Just a quick idea here:

POUNCING JAGUAR
When attacking an adjacent opponents figure with a normal attack, add 1 automatic skull to whatever is rolled if Ravage was not engaged at the start of your player turn. When rolling defense dice, for each blank rolled, you may immediately move Ravage one space up to 6 levels up or down. When Ravage moves using Pouncing Jaguar, he will not take any falling damage or leaving engagement attacks.


Only moves on blanks defensively so it shouldn't be all the time, or allow him to move very far, but it should let him jump on and off targets and run about the board a bit more. Thoughts?

[Margloth]

I think adding a defensive power is only going to drive his points up more.

[MrNobody]

I think he’ll have an interesting predatory playstyle already between Pounce and the SA. Seems like it’ll really encourage him to only engage when he thinks he can get the kill. That sounds pretty Decepticon-y to me.