The Book of Warpath

[Tornado]

Battle Hardened somewhat mitigates Conan's less Defense especially if you employ the self wound strategy to implement Battle Hardened. Then only Life is important.
Warpath's Range is a bonus.

I agree about his SA. It just did not work out and I was mostly trying an Attack boost strategy with him. The dice were really hot and cold for me instead of the normal just cold.

Really looking forward to Soundwarp's results!

[Soundwarp SG-1]

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Warpath @260 points

Army Test 1
Map: Island Plane Crash (No E-Glyph)
Units: Mercenary Mutants: Warpath (260), Cable (275), Viper (180), Angel (Warren)(90), Jubilee (60) - 865 total vs Angelic Avengers: Ms Marvel (350), Thor (430), Angel (Warren) (90)- 870 total

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:

So Warpath is acting as a second wave heavy hitter here essentially, as he can move up efficiently through Cable and Viper's bonding doesn't care how far up field he has gotten once he starts getting turns.

The game started with Angel carting up Cable and then Cable just blasting a bunch. Cable and Angel are a pretty nasty combo when the other team doesn't have a great way to bypass Angel, but the Angel's evil twin stopped Cable from just tearing through the Avengers. Warpath was slowly moving up almost the whole time though, and eventually Cable switched a OM to him to both engage Ms Marvel (plus trigger Battle Hardened by attacking her) and get Viper moved up to boost Cable's defense. Cable finally went down soon after, but Warpath was able to shred Ms. Marvel with his special attack and Battle Hardened saw him through a battle with a weakened Thor before Viper poisoned the Thunder God to death.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Used once because I was hoping he'd wound himself with it by attacking Ms. Marvel. The only wound inflicted was on himself.
• Battle Ready: Boosted his defense by 1 for all but one attack against him and used the movement to prevent Thor having height advantage on him a few times. The attack bit never came up.
• Vibranium Blades SA: Did 4 wounds to Ms Marvel over two attacks (plus 1 overkill) to finish her. Landed a wound on Thor somewhere in about 5 attacks.
• Battle Hardened: Triggered by punching Ms. Marvel thanks to The Best Defense. Turned a number of big Thor hits into single wounds.
• Damage Taken: 1 wound from Ms. Marvel's Best Defense, 3 wounds from Thor over three attacks.

Result: Warpath hangs on with 1 life while Viper sits at 2.

Army Test 2
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Outcasts on the Warpath: Warpath (260), Magneto II (375), Mystique II (200), Destiny (55), Skrull Infiltrator x1 (10)- 900 total vs Fantastic Energy: Mister Fantastic (235), Invisible Woman (215), Silver Surfer (400), Energizer (50)- 900 total

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:

Sort of the same idea here, Warpath is the back-up once Mags goes down or if Mysty happens to get the triple turn going.

The game started well, with Mysty getting an extra turn with Mags, who then threw Warpath up (the battlefield) and primed his Battle Hardness. One turn thrown his way after that was all Warpath needed to get up into the fray and generally be a pest with Battle Ready while Mags tried to whittle Silver Surfer down with auto wounds. The Outcast team just had a hotter D-20 (and dice in general really), Warpath even got two activations from high Assault rolls, and the Surfer was... magnet tossed or whatever... to death with disturbing speed. After that, the other team just didn't have any real attackers and they went down with little fanfare.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): None
• Battle Ready: 'Intercepted' the Surfer at one point, which was a fairly big play, moved around once or twice more after that before hitting into Reed. The defense bit came up during the Surfer interception, otherwise I don't recall the stat boosts mattering.
• Vibranium Blades SA: Nicked Reed for 1 wound over 4 attacks.
• Battle Hardened: Triggered by Mags moving him up. Turned what would have been 3 wounds from the Surfer into 1 wound, didn't matter afterwards as he either blocked attacks outright or would have only taken one wound anyway.
• Damage Taken: 1 wound from Mags moving him up. Took 1 wound from the Surfer when he blocked for Mags, and 1 wound from Reed over several attacks.

Result: Warpath lives with 2 life left, as does Mags. Mysty and Destiny laugh at them as they toast their full health.

Overall: Warpath has a lot of good tricks in his bag. Battle Hardened and Battle Ready make him a pretty good blocker, and he has some real bite when he he does get turns. Plenty of nice synergy available to him as well. Certainly seemed worth his points, though the second game was really just dumb luck.

[Lazy Orang]

The last line of Battle Ready feels like it should read 'add 1 to his attack and defence'. The 'or' particularly feels confusing, as it feels like you'd have to pick and can't have both, but there's no real mechanic for doing that.

[Yodaking]

Good to see the defensive move power work once.

Linked that last PT to the FP. With that I think we can call for a Final Editing Vote. I'm good with him at 260 or 270. Noticed we need a bio here if anyone can throw something together.

[Yodaking]

@Karat , just wanted to get you to sign off before pushing this one forward.

In addition to the Bio, it looks like we need comic art, figure pics, & background figured out as well as Synergy updated.

[Yodaking]

For art, do you guys want the red & blue or the black and grey? I guess it depends on which mini we use here as he has mini's of both. I have the black and grey mini if you want me to get pics of that one for the card.

*edit* actually the back and grey mini is the one Karat has listed in the FP so I'll get some pics taken and posted. I'll also start looking for art.

[Yodaking]

The best art options seem to be when he is wearing the red & blue outfit, when he is in back & grey he seems to most often be as part of a larger cast of characters but here are a few I found.









White background ones:

[Ronin]

I have pictures up in my album already (of the black costume).

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by Ronin

I have pictures up in my album already (of the black costume).

Sweet, can you link them to the FP then?

[Ronin]

Link added.

[Karat]

Sorry for the tardy response here. The holiday and changes at work and in my personal life have been keeping my kinda busy. Thanks for keeping things up to date for me here. I just finished reading through the reports. I'm happy with him at 260, so:

I propose we move to Final Editing as is at 260

@Arkham - Yea
@japes - Yea
@johnny139 -
@Ronin - Yea
@SirGalahad - Yea
@Spidey'tilIDie - Yea
@Tornado - Yea
@Yodaking - Yea

As for Images I kinda like that 4th comic image down and then for a mini background I was think a war theme. I'll take a peek around and see what I can find.

[Ronin]

yea