The Book of Captain Marvel (Mary Batson)

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C3G INITIAL PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: CAPTAIN MARVEL (MARY BATSON)
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = CAPTAIN MARVEL
SECRET IDENTITY = MARY BATSON

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHAMPION
PERSONALITY = CHARMING

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 6

MOVE = 7
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 6
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = 330

SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS
If there is at least one Order Marker on this card, you may add 3 to your initiative roll and, if you win initiative, remove 1 Wound Marker from this card.

ZEUS AND ACHILLES
If Captain Marvel attacks a figure without the Magical Defense special power and the player controlling that figure rolls the 20-sided die for any special power on the defending figure’s Army Card, you may add or subtract 3 from the roll.

MERCURY
If Captain Marvel uses her Flying special power for her entire movement and moves at least two spaces, she may add 2 to her Move and Attack numbers this turn.

SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER
Once per round, after revealing an Order Marker on this card, before taking a turn with Captain Marvel, you may take a turn with up to two other figures you control that are either a Human Captain Marvel or that have a SHAZAM! special power. You may not take additional turns with other figures you control. During this turn, all figures you control subtract one die from their attack.

SUPER STRENGTH

FLYING

Army Test
Map: SACRED SHRINE
Units: Mary Captain Marvel (330), Billy Captain Marvel (360), Oracle (110) (800) vs Wrecking Crew (800)

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Initiative Shazamily. Billy flies forward.
Piledriver advances.
Mary advances.
Thunderball advances.
Mary shares her power and Billy flies forward, follows the Secret Attack Plan, and socks Thunderball for three wounds from height. Mary flies forward for her whole movement and socks Thunderball for two more wounds from height.
Wrecker can’t hit Mary from range and height disadvantage. Bulldozer runs from far off and charges Mary for a wound. Wrecker smacks Mary for two wounds. Thunderball can’t hit Mary.

Round 2: Initiative Shazamily. Mary heals a wound. Billy shares the power and KO’s Thunderball. Mary follows the Secret Attack Plan and hits Wrecker for a wound.
Wrecker avoids a swipe and uses his demolition and knocks Mary off height and wounds her. Piledriver can’t hit Mary from height. Wrecker hits Mary for a wound. Piledriver can’t hit Mary. Wrecker KO’s Mary. Bulldozer can’t hit Billy.
Billy punches Bulldozer for two wounds.
Wrecker can’t hit Billy.
Billy KO’s Wrecker.
Piledriver hits Billy for a wound.

Round 3: Initiative Shazamily. Billy heals a wound. Billy KO’s Bulldozer with the Secret Attack Plan.
Piledriver can’t hit Billy.
Billy punches Piledriver for three wounds.
Bulldozer had OM2.
Billy punches out Piledriver.

Unit Summary: Mary definitely feels more competitive and playable here. This was fun, so I’m happy with the change. Not sure if her cost will stay down, though. I will say the match up and dice felt in the favor of the Marvel Family.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [3] wounds on [Thunderball [2], Wrecker [1]]
• SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS: Removed [1] wounds from Mary
• ZEUS AND ACHILLES: Subtracted from [0] D20 rolls
• MERCURY: Used to boost move and attack [1] turns
• SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER: Used to take [2] additional turns.
  

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Oracle with Full Life and Captain Marvel (Billy) with Full Life win.

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Army Test
Map: CITY PARK
Units: Mary Captain Marvel (330), Billy Captain Marvel (360), Green Arrow (JL) (210), Atom (JL) (100) (1000) vs Black Lightning (160), Katana (Outsiders) (150), Geo-Force (280), Batman (Outsiders) (220), Halo (190) (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Initiative Justice League. Green Arrow advances.
Katana and Black Lightning advance.
Mary zips forward and smacks Black Lightning for three wounds from height. Green Arrow sheds a JL Marker and takes height, attacks Black Lightning and is blocked, Atom pops up next to Black Lightning and Katana and hits Katana for a wound, then Green Arrow attacks twice more, KO’ing Black Lightning.
Geo-Force rallies. He advances and throws down lava tile, which misses Green Arrow and Atom, but hits Katana and Mary. Geo-Force follows Mission Prep and KO’s Atom. Katana slices Mary for three wounds. Batman can’t hit Mary, but does hit Green Arrow for a wound with his Shuriken.
Billy advances with the Shared Power and takes height on lava field, but Katana hits her Iajutsu roll to take stop him. Mary takes a swipe from Katana and flies over to height on Geo-Force and punches him for two wounds.
Geo-Force throws down another lava field and hits Billy, Green Arrow, and Mary all for wounds. Mary is KO’ed. Geo-Force can’t hit Billy with an attack. Katana finishes off Green Arrow. Halo uses her red aura to put a third wound on Billy, then fails an attack on him.
Lava field doesn’t hurt Billy.

Round 2: Initiative Outsiders. They advance, but Katana misses the unblockable. Batman uses Mission Prep and Katana hits Billy for a fourth wound, then Geo-Force misses Halo and hits Billy with a rock tile before attacking and finishing Billy off.

Unit Summary: Mary hit hard and fast while she was up, but she’s a priority target and not that hard to hit, so she was put down fast as a result. Outsiders had things fall into place for them with the early rally and the initiative switch and had some solid attack roll luck as well. So far I think she’s feeling just about right and her army was fun to play and had clear potential if things had broken better for them.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [5] wounds on [Black Lightning [3], Geo-Force [2]]
• SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS: Removed [0] wounds from Mary
• ZEUS AND ACHILLES: Subtracted from [0] D20 rolls
• MERCURY: Used to boost move and attack [2] turns
• SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER: Used to take [1] additional turns.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Batman with Full Life, Halo with Full Life, Geo-Force with 3/5 Life, and Katana with 2/4 Life win.

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Army Test
Map: CONFLICT CHERNOBYL
Units: Mary Captain Marvel (330), Billy Superman (440), Black Canary (JL) (220), Green Arrow (JL) (210) (1200) vs Nightwing (200), Raven (190), Starfire (210), Arsenal (190), Tempest (210), Cyborg (I) (200) (1200)

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Initiative Justice League. Black Canary advances.
Arsenal advances and fails to hit Black Canary.
Green Arrow advances.
Tempest advances. Arsenal hits Black Canary for one wound and moves Nightwing up two spaces. Tempest throws some water down on height.
Mary flies forward and hits Tempest for one wound. Green Arrow sheds a JL Marker, takes height, and hits Tempest for a wound.
Titans Go! Starfire targets Mary, but Billy arrives thunderously. He hits the unblockable and ends her turn before she can get off a triple attack. Tempest moves to water, but whiffs an attack on Mary. Nightwing advances. Arsenal punches Billy but can’t hit. He has Raven move up two spaces. Nightwing attacks Mary from range, triggering Heroic Duty. Billy takes one wound from a swipe from Arsenal and one wound from Nightwing.

Round 2: Initiative Titans. Titans Go! Tempest takes a swipe, but backs up and throws down water, wounding Billy and missing Mary. Raven absorbs Tempest’s wounds and Soul Selfs Billy. Arsenal fires at Green Arrow and Billy takes a swipe from Heroic Duty but defends the attack. Nightwing fails a ranged attack on Billy.
Mary and Billy share the power, but both fail to hit Starfire. Billy hits Starfire with the Lightning of Zeus.
Arsenal swings at Mary, misses, but gets himself out of engagement. Starfire double attacks Billy and hits for one wound.
Black Canary sheds a JL marker to advance. Billy can’t do a thing against Starfire. Green Arrow sheds a JL Marker and gets off four attacks, KO’ing Starfire but failing to hit Nightwing.
Tempest moves onto water. Arsenal shoots at Black Canary and Billy avoids what would be a killing swipe and blocks the attack. Tempest throws down water which wounds Black Canary and KO’s Billy. Canary hits her Cry and wounds Nightwing.
Black Canary shes a JL Marker and hits Tempest for a wound. Mary can’t hit Nightwing. Green Arrow sheds his third JL Marker and attacks down on Tempest for one wound.

Round 3: Initiative Justice League. Canary sheds a JL Marker, but can’t hit Tempest from height. Mary KO’s a whiffing Nightwing.
Nightwing had OM1.
Mary flies over and fails to hit Arsenal. Green Arrow sheds his last JL Marker, but can’t hit Raven from range and height.
Arsenal can’t hit Mary, but has Cyborg move. Tempest can’t hit Black Canary.
Black Canary sheds her last JL Marker. Neither she nor Green Arrow can hit Tempest from height.
Arsenal can’t hit Mary. Cyborg hits her for one wound.

Round 4: Initiative Titans. Arsenal hits Mary for a wound. Raven Soul Selfs a wound onto Mary.
Mary hits Arsenal for a wound.
Arsenal can’t hit Mary. Tempest throws down water but can’t hit Black Canary.
Mary can’t hit Arsenal.
Arsenal and Cyborg both fail to hit Mary.
Mary punches out Arsenal.

Round 5: Initiative Titans. Tempest takes height on Canary on water but can’t hit her.
Mary hits Raven for a wound.
Tempest rolls terribly again and can’t hit Canary.
Mary hits Raven for a second wound.
Cyborg hits Mary for a fourth wound.
Mary fails to hit Raven.

Round 6: Initiative Justice League. Mary heals a wound. She punches Cyborg for three wounds.
Raven Soul Selfs Mary.
Mary KO’s Cyborg.
Tempest throws down water for a fifth wound on Mary.
Green Arrow fails to hit Raven from height.
Cyborg had OM3.

Round 7: Initiative Justice League. Mary heals but fails to hit Raven.
Raven Soul Selfs Mary.
Green Arrow hits Tempest for a wound.
Tempest misses Mary with his last water tile.
Green Arrow can’t finish Tempest.
Tempest smacks Black Canary for a wound.

Round 8: Initiative Justice League. Mary heals a wound and takes a swipe from Raven, but flies over and punches out Tempest.
Raven can’t finish Mary.
Mary hits Raven for a wound.
Tempest had OM2.
Green Arrow hits Raven for a wound.
Rave Soul Selfs Mary to end her. Canary misses her cry.

Round 9: Initiative Justice League. Canary hits Raven for a wound.
Raven fails to hit Canary.
Green Arrow and Raven can’t hit each other at all.
Raven Soul Selfs Canary to finish her and the round. Canary misses her cry.

Round 10: Initiative Raven. She punches Green Arrow for two wounds.
Green Arrow can’t hit.
Raven punches Green Arrow for three wounds to finish it.

Unit Summary: Billy was easy for the Titans to manipulate with Heroic Duty and he took a lot of unblockables, falling pretty fast. Mary stuck around and get in a lot of hits, but the Justice League burned their turn efficiency earlier in the game and didn’t have enough left in the tank to handle Raven in end game.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [16] wounds on [Nightwing [3], Arsenal [4], Raven [3], Cyborg [5], Tempest [1]]
• SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS: Removed [3] wounds from Mary
• ZEUS AND ACHILLES: Subtracted from [0] D20 rolls
• MERCURY: Used to boost move and attack [3] turns
• SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER: Used to take [1] additional turns.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Raven with 4/5 Life wins.

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UNIT SUMMARY: She only had one bonding partner to try this out with, but with a 1-2 record, I’m not too concerned so far, and would love to move to public playtesting with the version I tested here.

C3G INITIAL PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: CAPTAIN MARVEL (MARY BATSON – Pt. 2)
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

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Army Test
Map: SACRED SHRINE
Units: Captain Marvel (Mary) (330), Captain Marvel (Billy) (360), Superman (Billy) (440), Billy Batson (60), Skrull Infiltrator (10) (1200) vs Nightwing (200), Raven (190), Starfire (210), Cyborg (200), Arsenal (190), Tempest (210) (1200)

Spoiler Alert!

Captain Mary and Captain Billy start on the battlefield. Superman, regular Billy, and Skrull Infiltrator start on their cards.
Round 1: Initiative Shazamily. Captain Billy flies forward.
Arsenal advances.
Mary flies forward.
Tempest advances onto water and throws down some water into the middle road.
Mary shares the power and Captain Billy advances. Then she flies forward and socks Arsenal for three wounds.
Titans Go! Raven engages Mary but can’t hit her. Starfire engages Mary but Super Billy makes a Thunderous Arrival and wounds Starfire and shuts down her turn. Nightwing advances. Arsenal can’t hit Mary. He moves himself away. Nightwing can’t hit Mary from range and height disadvantage.

Round 2: Initiative Titans. Titans Go! Raven heals three wounds from Arsenal and Soul Selfs one onto Super Billy. Starfire triple attacks Super Billy for three wounds. Nightwing engages Super Billy and Mary and Arsenal attacks Captain Billy, triggering Heroic Duty, but both swipes miss and Super Billy blocks the attack. Nightwing can’t hit Mary.
Mary shares the power three ways. Super Billy engages Raven and hits her for one wound (she didn’t ignore any) then misses the unblockable. Captain Billy hits Starfire for a wound. Mary hits Starfire for two wounds.
Arsenal triggers Heroic Duty and Super Billy takes a swipe but blocks the attack. Arsenal moves himself. Starfire quadruple attacks Mary from engagement for five quick wounds.
Super Billy KO’s Starfire.
Arsenal can’t hit Super Billy, but moves himself. Tempest throws out a water tile that misses all three Marvel Family members.
Super Billy hits Raven for one wound and one unblockable on one die to finish her.

Round 3: Initiative Shazamily. Mary heals a wound and then shares the power. Mary avoids a swipe and flies over and punches Arsenal for one wound from height. Super Billy punches Tempest for a wound from height and misses an unblockable. Captain Billy can’t hit Nightwing.
Titans Go! Cyborg advances and shoots at Captain Billy, triggering Heroic Defense. Super Billy takes a swipe but blocks. Tempest takes a swipe from Mary, then throws out water that KO’s Super Billy (he was a Skrull!) and wounds Captain Billy. Captain Billy swaps with Billy Batson, who hits Nightwing for a thunderous wound. Arsenal can’t hit Mary but does back away from her. Nightwing punches Billy Batson for a wound and Captain Billy returns but Nightwing dodges the thunder.
Captain Billy punches Cyborg for two wounds from height.
Arsenal KO’s the Skrull and moves Cyborg. Tempest punches up at Mary for one wound from the water.
Captain Billy punches Cyborg for two wounds.
Arsenal can’t hit Mary and Cyborg can’t hit Captain Billy.

Round 4: Initiative Shazamily. Mary heals and shares the power but Captain Billy can’t hit Cyborg and Mary can’t hit Tempest.
Titans Go! Tempest punches Mary for a wound. Cyborg punches Captain Billy for a wound. Arsenal whiffs his attack and Nightwing is blocked.
Arsenal snipes Mary and she falls. Tempest moves forward two spaces and tosses water at Captain Billy, but misses.
Mary had OM2.
Arsenal wounds Captain Billy. Billy Batson drops and misses his unblockable. Nightwing fails to hit Billy.
Captain Billy had OM3.

Round 5: Initiative Shazamily. Captain Billy heals a wound. Billy Batson whiffs an attack.
Tempest punches Billy Batson for two wounds. Both Nightwing and Tempest take wounds from the thunderous return of Captain Billy. Arsenal this Captain Billy with the Bolas, then two wounds. Nightwing can’t hit Captain Billy.
Captain Billy punches out Tempest.
Tempest had OM2.
Captain Billy hits Arsenal for a wound.
Arsenal can’t hit Captain Billy.

Round 6: Initiative Titans. Titans Go! Bolas can’t hit. Arsenal hits Billy for a fourth wound. Nightwing can’t hit from range.
Captain Billy KO’s Arsenal.
Nightwing can’t hit Captain Billy.
Captain Billy grabs the Bolas.
Nightwing hits Billy for a fifth wound and the Bolas go flying.
Captain Billy gets some luck and Nightwing, on height, whiffs defense and gets one-shotted.

Unit Summary: This one felt fair and close with the Marvel Family having some nice auto wounding, efficiency, and unblockables to counter some of the Titan tricks. It definitely felt like it could go either way.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [6] wounds on [Arsenal [4], Starfire [2]]
• SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS: Removed [2] wounds from Mary
• ZEUS AND ACHILLES: Subtracted from [0] D20 rolls
• MERCURY: Used to boost move and attack [2] turns
• SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER: Used to take [6] additional turns.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) with 2/7 Life and Billy Batson with 1/4 Life win.

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Army Test
Map: DARK DIMENSION
Units: Captain Marvel (Mary) (330), Captain Marvel (Billy) (360), Superman (Billy) (440), Billy Batson (60), Skrull Infiltrator (10) (1200) vs Fantastic Four (1000), Watcher (200) (1200)

Spoiler Alert!

Captain Mary and Captain Billy start on the battlefield. Superman, regular Billy, and Skrull Infiltrator start on their cards.
Round 1: Initiative Fantastic Four after four ties. Seriously. Watcher flies forward.
Mary flies forward.
Mister Fantastic leads poorly and goes it alone.
Captain Billy advances.
Human Torch advances.
Mary shares the power and Captain Billy and her do a pincher movement to set up for next round.
Mary avoids a lava field wound.

Round 2: Initiative Marvel Shazamily. Captain Billy engages Invisible Woman and socks her for two wounds.
Invisible Woman can’t hit Captain Billy from height. Mister Fantastic hits Captain Billy for two wounds and Rubber Wrap keeps him from swapping out with Billy Batson.
Mary Marvel flies over and punches out Invisible Woman.
Human Torch Flames On Mary for two wounds. Then Human Torch Flames On again on Mary (after taking a swipe) on his own turn, then punches her for a wound from height. Thing targets Mary, but a Thunderous Arrival inflicts an auto wound on Thing and stops his turn. Mister Fantastic can’t hit Mary to finish her.
Mary shares the power. Captain Billy hits Human Torch for two wounds. Super Billy punches Mister Fantastic for a wound then hits him for an unblockable. Mary punches down on Mister Fantastic for a third wound.
Human Torch avoids two swipes but fails to Flame On. Then Mister Fantastic has Human Torch go and Torch avoids two swipes and hits his Flame On, KO’ing Mary and hitting Captain Billy for two wounds. Billy Batson comes in hits Torch with an auot wound and Human Torch fails to hit Billy with a punch. Thing goes full Clobberin Time, hitting Super Billy for 3 wounds, then one on a terrible follow up roll. Mister Fantastic makes Super Billy take a swipe to protect Billy with Heroic Duty. Super Billy blocks the attack.
Lava field wounds Billy Batson. Captain Billy SHAZAMS in and KO’s Human Torch. Captain Billy also takes a lava wound.


Round 3: Initiative Marvel Family. Billy heals a wound and then KO’s Mister Fantastic.
Mister Fantastic had OM1.
Captain Billy hits Thing for a wound.
Watcher removes OM3 from Super Billy and moves Thing. Thing takes height on Captain Billy and hits him for two wounds. Billy Batson pops but misses the unblockable.
OM3 is gone.
Watcher isn’t helpful. Thing hits Billy Batson for two wounds. Captain Billy drops but misses the thunder.
Lava field hits Thing, hits Captain Billy (who is KO’ed), Billy Batson drops and hits Thing for a wound, then lava field KO’s Billy Batson as well.
It’s Super Billy vs. Thing!

Round 4: Initiative Fantastic Four. Watcher does nothing useful and Thing can’t hit Super Billy from height.
Super Billy gets some dice luck and finishes Thing (one more shield and Thing would’ve gotten Rock Wall Defense). Thing was a Skrull! Watcher says screw this noise and peaces out.

Unit Summary: Another close, fun one. Definitely a strong combination with the three of them together, but Mary is soft enough that it didn’t feel broken by any means.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted [5] wounds on [Invisible Woman [4], Mister Fantastic [1]]
• SOLOMON, HERCULES, AND ATLAS: Removed [0] wounds from Mary
• ZEUS AND ACHILLES: Subtracted from [2] D20 rolls
• MERCURY: Used to boost move and attack [5] turns
• SHAZAM!: SHARED POWER: Used to take [1] additional turns.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Superman (Billy Batson) with 2/7 Life and Skrull Infiltrator win.

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UNIT SUMMARY: I think she’s about right to bring the Marvel Family into the competitive sphere with other competitive armies. I’d probably hesitate to put the exact same power on Captain Marvel Jr. without further restricting things some.