The Book of Bruce Banner

[tcglkn]

The Book of Bruce Banner

C3G MARVEL WAVE 9
HOMELAND SECURITY

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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Incredible Hulk set.
Its model number and name is #002 / Bruce Banner.

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Incredible Hulk Gravity Feed set.
Its model number and name is #202 / Bruce Banner.

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Character Bio - Dr. Robert Bruce Banner became a brilliant scientist and started working for the U.S. Department of Defense, in charge of an experimental Gamma Bomb. A teenager named Rick Jones takes a dare from some friends to drive inside of an off-limits Military-run atomic testing range seconds before a powerful Gamma-Bomb was due to be detonated. The scientist/physicist Bruce Banner selflessly endangers himself to save the life of a boy whom had wandered onto the grounds. Banner tells his colleague, Igor Drenkov, to hold the test, but Igor is a Soviet agent and does no such thing. Hoping for Banner's death, and the end of his project, Igor allows the test to continue. Dr. Banner then dashes to the teenager and speeds with him towards a nearby trench. Frantically, Dr. Banner hurls Rick Jones into the crevice where the teenager is shielded from the mysterious, menacing Gamma Rays. But, at that very second, standing in the open, exposed and unprotected, the heroic Bruce Banner absorbs the full impact of the gamma explosion, even though the center of the blast was a good five miles away. His ear-piercing screams fill the desert air, as the scientist loses all sense of time and space. A strange, awesome change takes place in the atomic structure of his body. During the rescue, Banner's body was irradiated by the gamma blast which, when combined with his own unique genetics, leading to the birth of the Incredible Hulk!
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Scientist, Bruce Banner has these Scientist Synergies.
• As a Gamma Mutate, Bruce Banner has these Gamma Mutate Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Bruce Banner may be drafted into an army with a Bruce Banner figure that is not a Scientist and may be switched with that figure due to his Monster Within and Puny Human special powers. Current Bruce Banners that are not Scientists. Whichever Bruce Banner starts the game off the battlefield gains these Off-the-Battlefield Synergies.
• Bruce Banner may heal a Bruce Banner figure that is not a Scientist with his Puny Human special power. Current Bruce Banners that are not Scientists.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a Scientist, Bruce Banner interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a Gamma Mutate, Bruce Banner has these Gamma Mutate Weaknesses.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: tcglkn
• Second playtest: marv_art
• Third playtest: IAmBatman
• Fourth playtest: marv_art take 2
• Fifth playtest: Scapemage
• Art by tcglkn

Card Updates:
7 March 2021 - Species changed to Gamma Mutate

[tcglkn]

NAME = BRUCE BANNER

SPECIES = GAMMA MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = SCIENTIST
PERSONALITY = RESERVED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 2

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 70

SECRET IDENTITY
You may draft one other Bruce Banner figure that is not a Scientist. Choose which figure will start the game on the battlefield. You can control only one Bruce Banner figure on the battlefield at a time.

MONSTER WITHIN
Anytime this figure receives one or more wounds or is destroyed, switch this figure, if possible, with another Bruce Banner figure you control. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

PUNY HUMAN
At the end of each round, if you control a different unengaged Bruce Banner figure on the battlefield that has at least one wound, switch it with this figure. After switching the figures, you may remove up to three Wound Markers from the other figure's card. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

[Griffin]

Originally Posted by Bruce Banner

SECRET IDENTITY
You may draft one other Bruce Banner figure that is not a Scientist. Choose which figure will start the game on the battlefield. You can control only one Bruce Banner figure on the battlefield at a time.

MONSTER WITHIN
Anytime this figure receives one or more wounds or is destroyed, switch this figure, if possible, with another Bruce Banner figure you control. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

PUNY HUMAN
At the end of each round, if you control a different unengaged Bruce Banner figure on the battlefield that has at least one wound, switch it with this figure. After switching the figures, you may remove up to three Wound Markers from the other figure's card. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

Originally Posted by Billy Batson

SECRET IDENTITY
You may draft Billy Batson and Captain Marvel: Billy Batson in the same army. If you control Billy Batson and Captain Marvel: Billy Batson, choose which figure will start on the battlefield. A Billy Batson and a Captain Marvel: Billy Batson figure that you control cannot be on the battlefield at the same time.

SHAZAM!
When either a Billy Batson or a Captain Marvel: Billy Batson figure you control is destroyed or receives one or more wounds, you may remove that figure from the battlefield and place the other figure on that space. After switching the figures, roll one attack die. If you roll a skull, each figure adjacent to the placed figure receives one unblockable wound. Destroyed figures cannot be placed on the battlefield with this special power.

I suggest we change Billy to better conform to our progress with Bruce and also use the "unblockable attack die" language:

Originally Posted by Billy Batson

SECRET IDENTITY
You may draft one other Billy Batson figure that is not a Citizen. Choose which figure will start the game on the battlefield. You can control only one Billy Batson figure on the battlefield at a time.

SHAZAM!
When either Billy Batson figure you control is destroyed or receives one or more wounds, you may remove that figure from the battlefield and place the other figure on that space. After switching the figures, roll one unblockable attack die against each figure adjacent to the placed figure. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks.

Wow that is a lot better looking.

[IAmBatman]

So he's basically a big healing glyph for Hulk? Yeah, I could see that being worth 50 points. Looks good.

[Griffin]

SECRET IDENTITY
You may draft any other Unique Heroes with the Secret Identity of Bruce Banner figures that are not Scientists. Choose which figure will start on the battlefield, as they cannot be on the battlefield at the same time.

MONSTER WITHIN
Anytime this figure receives one or more wounds or is destroyed, you must switch this figure, if possible, with any other figure you control with the secret identity of Bruce Banner figure you control. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Destroyed figures cannot be placed on the battlefield with this special power.

PUNY HUMAN
At the end of each round, if you control any other unengaged figure with the secret identity of Bruce Banner figure on the battlefield and it has at least one wound, switch it with this figure. After switching the figures, you may remove up to three Wound Markers from the other figure's card. Switched figures will not take any leaving engagement attacks. Destroyed figures cannot be placed on the battlefield with this special power.

Since we are equating NAME with IDENTITY on Iron Man V, can we do it here and save even more text? Also, if this works for us, we can do it with Billy as well.

[tcglkn]

I willing to tweak the number of wounds left on Hulk's card, but pretty much.

[SirGalahad]

So Bruce doesn't heal while off the battlefield? I thought if he was injured and transformed into Hulk and back again, he was healed.

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by SirGalahad

So Bruce doesn't heal while off the battlefield? I thought if he was injured and transformed into Hulk and back again, he was healed.

That would pretty much make this an unbeatable cycle. Anytime he takes a wound, he'd become the Hulk and heal his wounds.

[SirGalahad]

Drop his Life to 3 and let him heal all but 1 wound, then all somebody has to do is get one good shot in at him to destroy him. His puny human defense shouldn't let him last that long anyway.

[IAmBatman]

Hmm, cool idea.

[Good Pig]

So if Hulk is in rage mode, then he turns into Bruce, he stays in rage mode because you swap him out before rolling for initiative?

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Good Pig

So if Hulk is in rage mode, then he turns into Bruce, he stays in rage mode because you swap him out before rolling for initiative?

Yes, I don't mind him going straight from Bruce to Rage mode.