The Book of Falcon (MCU)

[Arch-vile]

The Book of Falcon (MCU)

C3G MARVEL SUPER SECRET EXCLUSIVE 87
THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Marvel Heroclix figure from the Captain America: The Winter Soldier set.
Its model number and name are #006 / Falcon or #103 / Falcon.

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Character Bio - When Captain America asked Air Force Veteran Sam Wilson for help, Wilson immediately agreed. He donned the flight suit he’d used in combat to become the Falcon, setting him on a path towards becoming an Avenger.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Crossover Symbol: The Crossover Symbol next to Falcon's secret identity indicates that he is draftable into the same army with other Sam Wilson cards. See C3G's Secret Identity Rules.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Human Soldier, Falcon has these
  • Human Synergies,
  • Soldier Synergies, and
  • Human Soldier Synergies.
• As a figure with the Patriotic personality, Falcon has these Patriotic Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Falcon was designed to play nicely with his allies in the MCU. Falcon's Double Attack benefits greatly from Captain America's attack boost, Falcon's Eyes In The Sky initiative boost helps activate Black Widow's Espionage, and Falcon is a Soldier so that Winter Soldier can bond with him.

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Arch-vile
• Second playtest: Lazy Orang
• Third playtest: IAmBatman
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by japes & Arkham
• Falcon as portrayed by Anthony Mackie first appeared in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).

2022-Feb-26 - updated Eye in the Sky

[Arch-vile]

NAME = FALCON
SECRET IDENTITY = SAM WILSON

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = SOLDIER
PERSONALITY = PATRIOTIC

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 5
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 190

EYES IN THE SKY
If Falcon is not engaged and can use his Flying special power, you may add 2 to your initiative roll for each enemy figure within 6 clear sight spaces of Falcon, to a maximum of +6.

DOUBLE ATTACK
When Falcon attacks, he may attack one additional time.

AERIAL ADVANTAGE
While Falcon can use his Flying special power, he is always considered to have height advantage on non-flying figures.

STEALTH FLYING
When Falcon starts to fly, he will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

FLYING

[Arch-vile]

Comic Art:

Spoiler Alert!

Comic art is pretty limited, as 616 Falcon has a different costume, so I only looked at MCU tie-in comics. But I think these should work well enough.





Or there's concept art.

Mini Pics:

Spoiler Alert!

Archie’s

Background:

Spoiler Alert!

[Arch-vile]

This is a design based on the MCU Falcon. Aerial Advantage is our main Falcon power. Double Attack has big synergy with Cap's stat boosts. The Soldier class lets him work well with Winter Soldier (II). Eyes in the Sky gives an init boost which helps Cap & Black Widow.

Ideally the trio of Captain America / Falcon (II) / Winter Soldier (II) will be a fun and effective 700 point army, but also any 2 of the 3 should work well as a duo.

[tcglkn]

Looks solid to me. 3 reuses and a light touch init boost

[MrNobody]

Cool stuff! I like the subtle tie-in to Cap with initiative boosts.

[Lazy Orang]

220's feeling more than a little high thematically - don't see this guy as being more than 200, at all, and even 200's a bit high. I get that those are some high value powers and it's most important to get him playing right, but what about dropping his defence a point or two? He's already got perpetual height advantage and will probably have Cap on hand 90% of the time - I don't feel as though him having 7 defence the majority of the time feels right at all.

[Yodaking]

I like the card concept here, but also agree with Lazy that thematically I would peg him for 200 or less points. He doesn't have any actual super powers in the MCU, he's on a similar level as Black Widow & Hawkeye. The Iron Man/War Machine suits are much more powerful that Falcon's Wings/gear.

[Arch-vile]

I was shooting for a nice round 700 army if you had Cap, Falcon, and Winter Soldier. But I can lower defense and cost if that is what people prefer.

[IAmBatman]

Getting about 215 on the calculator and that's pretty much costing him for match ups against non-fliers, so I think 220 might be a taaad high as written anyway.

Thematically I agree that I like 4 defense better than 5 defense, but I'm also sympathetic to getting a nice round three figure army. If that doesn't work out, I can try to do an Avengers Widow that rounds them out.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, I'd not worry about a final army cost for the 3 of them here. I may indeed be playing those 3 together a ton, but even then it will most likely be at 1000-1200 points with some other figures added to the mix.

[Arch-vile]

Sounds good. What starting point cost would a Defense of 4 get us to?