The Book of Osiris

[tcglkn]

Yea

[Lord Pyre]

Yea

[IAmBatman]

yea and is there anything wrong with just using Troubled Youth as the power name?

[Tornado]

yea

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Ok, looking at this on a card and it got too wordy after I added in the "or if he destroyed the dude, do more stuff" thing in his middle power. But he really needs to keep that to be able to get to the needed point cost.

So I'm thinking that I will drop the stuff about Black Adam being weaker when Osiris is borrowing his power. Like, it is a thing that happens but it's not worth eating premium text space on a drawback IMO.

Also thinking of rewording him like so:

POWER OF BLACK ADAM
At the start of the game, choose a figure named Black Adam you control. While you control Osiris and that Black Adam, add 1 to Osiris's Move, Attack, and Defense numbers. After revealing an Order Marker on that Black Adam's Army Card and before taking a turn with him, you may take an immediate turn with Osiris, and you may not take any additional turns with other figures you control.

HERU AND AMON
If Osiris inflicts one or more wounds with a normal attack, you may either:
• Move Osiris up to 3 spaces, or up to 5 spaces if he destroyed the defending figure. He will not take any leaving engagement attacks; or
• Choose the defending figure, or all figures within 4 clear sight spaces of Osiris if he destroyed the defending figure. The chosen figures subtract 1 from their defense for this player turn.

'TROUBLED YOUTH'
If Osiris has destroyed a Unique Hero this game, he cannot take a turn unless you revealed an Order Marker on his card or took temporary control of him this player turn.


Some of that might not be quite Scape standard lingo but it saves a lot of space and is easier to read IMO.

[IAmBatman]

Looks good to me.

[japes]

Just curious if you think his balance will be dictated by his free turn with Black Adam or if you think he'd still be worth his points with the Titans...good and evil. But mostly evil

[tcglkn]

Think this is going to be done in the next week or so? Or are we going to remove it from the Titan Wave?

[Soundwarp SG-1]

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Osiris @240 points


Set 1
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Titans for Hire: Osiris (240), Deathstroke (Titans for Hire) (275), Cheshire v2 (185), Cinder (175), Tattooed Man (125)- 1000 total vs Speeding Under the Iron Moon: Luke Cage (190), Iron Fist (260), Moon Knight (150), Iron Man mIV (250), Speedball (150)- 1000 total

Spoiler Alert!

Results:
Game 1: Iron Man stands tall like a thing of iron! With 2 life left.
Game 2: Moon Knight has but one life left to split between all his personalities.
Game 3: A full health Cheshire and Cinder go off to have a girls night while the boys lie dead in the mud. It's an evil girls night.


Trying out the Titans for Hire team here first. He basically only has one power here, but it has soft synergy with all the other team members. Cinder likes the defense reduction to help her land wounds, and you can also have Osiris attack people in melee and potentially move out of the way of her fireball splash damage if you need to. Cheshire likes defense reduction too since it increases her odds of hitting with her attack without messing with the odds of her rolling all skulls. Tattooed Man goes the other way where he can set up Osiris to land wounds, and they can combo to a -2 defense for Deathstroke to finish someone off.

I think he fits in well with Deathstroke's bonding. Being the right personality for Deathstroke helps out since Cheshire isn't, so you can still do any combination of dudes you want. And his negative isn't as noticeable with the once per round nature of Deathstroke's bonding.

In a way, Head Games kinda turns Osiris's negative power into almost a positive power. Your opponent might forget Deathstroke has a way around it and leave themselves open to an attack from Osiris, or they might focus on that interaction and miss another play Deathstroke has up his sleeve. Adds another layer to Deathstroke's chicanery.

Set 2
Map: Island Plane Crash (No E-Glyph)
Units: Adam's Family: Osiris (240), Black Adam (380), Captain America (240), Robin (YJ Tim) (150), Angel (90)- 1100 total vs Military Marvel: Ms. Marvel (350), Prowl (270), Super Soldier (330), Oracle (110), Skrull Infiltrator x4 (40)- 1100 total

Spoiler Alert!

Results:
Game 1: Robin remains at full health as the last man standing.
Game 2: A one life Prowl heads back to rethink his strategy with a full health Oracle.
Game 3: A 2 life Captain America stands tall for freedom or whatever.


Going with a Black Adam team here. Thanks to his OM switch power and Robin's X reveal, you can get Captain America's boost as soon as you take a turn with Black Adam, which was pretty cool. Probably not actually worth the points thrown into such a roundabout trick normally, but Osiris is a Titan that Robin can bond with as a back-up option so that makes the Robin investment feel better.

Not really a lot to say about this one, Black Adam and Osiris hit things. That's basically the army here. Osiris doesn't necessarily have a lot of soft synergy with this Black Adam card, but he's a dude that bonds with him and Black Adam has a way to manage his negative a bit so, I think they feel pretty good.

Overall: I think he's feeling decent. He might not be the strictly best option for Deathstroke, but he definitely feels playable. Black Adam doesn't really even have anything else for Osiris to compare to in the first place, so he wins by default there.

As to if he's worth exactly 240, I can't really say. What 240 points gets you in C3G varies a lot. There are a few dials to tweak if he needs a bit of boosting. Forex, letting him always have 6 attack and defense instead of needing Black Adam for it, or letting him get his Heru and Amon effects just for hitting people instead of having to wound them.

[tcglkn]

Yea for playtesting

[Tornado]

Pre-yes

[LordVenoc]

Yea