The Book of Superman Flyover

[IAmBatman]

The Book of Superman Flyover

C3G DC WAVE 47
TRINITY

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Story Bio - When the most powerful man alive is your best friend, hope is only a red blur away.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• N/A

Outgoing Synergy:

• Superman Flyover Story can save a Bruce Wayne or a nearby friendly figure when they are attacked.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

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-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: (IAmBatman)
• Second playtest: (Arch-vile)
• Third playtest: (MrNobody)
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by Arkham

[IAmBatman]

NAME = SUPERMAN FLYOVER
STORY CARD

POINTS = 100

STORY PROLOGUE =
- A figure with the identity of Bruce Wayne must be in your army.
- You may not have a figure with the identity of Kal-El in your army.

STORY SET UP =
None.

STORY RULES =

X-RAY RECON
Before rolling for initiative, you may look at the power-side of any one Glyph that is symbol-side up. Add 1 to your initiative roll for each enemy figure on the battlefield to a maximum of +4.

WORLD’S FINEST FRIEND
If a figure you control with the identity of Bruce Wayne or a friendly figure within 3 spaces of Bruce Wayne is attacked by an enemy figure and at least 1 skull is rolled, you may remove an unrevealed Order Marker from Bruce Wayne’s Army Card to ignore that attack. If you do, roll two unblockable attack dice against the attacking figure.

NEEDED ELSEWHERE
After using the World's Finest Friend special power, you must remove this card from the game.

Spoiler Alert!

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[MrNobody]

I'm not sure that we need to be as harsh as to ban Kal-Els from a friendly player's army. The idea is just to mimic drafting restrictions, right? They don't care about friendly players I don't think.

A cap on the initiative boost might feel needed, just to avoid it being an unbeatable proposition when going up against big squad builds.

Hyped to have another Story Card!

[IAmBatman]

Max of +8? +7 to feel more "Super"?

I guess I could just do your Kal-El, yeah. Felt mildly thematically weird to have him on your side in a team match, but there are other weirder situations allowable now, so you're probably right that it's unnecessary.

[Arch-vile]

I might spice World's Finest Friend up a little, since it's a once per game thing. Like I picture Supes either absolutely socking the enemy (maybe a one-time attack of 8?) or grabbing Bruce and whisking him away like Flash does to Ollie in the Arrowverse crossovers.

WORLD’S FINEST FRIEND
When a friendly figure with the identity of Bruce Wayne is attacked and at least one skull is rolled, you may ignore the attack, immediately end the attacking figure’s turn, and roll one unblockable attack die against that figure. Then place that Bruce Wayne on any space within 8 spaces of his initial placement, ignoring leaving engagement attacks, and remove this card from the game.

And I'm not sure you need Needed Elsewhere if using WFF removes the card anyway.

Overall looks fun, and I'm excited to see more Story Cards!

[IAmBatman]

Needed Elsewhere puts a timer on World's Finest Friend and the initiative boost to make them less swingy.

I could juice up WFF a bit. Avenger's Thor does 2 unblockables, so might consider going that way.

[FreshFoods]

I like 2 unblockables here.

[Arch-vile]

Makes sense.

[LordVenoc]

I like the drafting restriction of no other Kal-Els. This is more trying to represent Superman appearing in Batman stories, so I think that helps capture that. Doesn't need to be viable in a 2 player Justice League game or anything like that IMO, because the team up is already being repped.

[MrNobody]

I guess I just view that thematic weirdness as an accepted part of Heroscape. In a 4-player game, each player can have their own Superman and that's just how the game works.

It feels odd to me that this representation of "Superman is present and on your side" would somehow be more restrictive than every other representation of that concept we've done so far.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I tend to agree. When I get around to updating this some time today, I'm going to drop that part and make it just for your army.

[LordVenoc]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

I guess I just view that thematic weirdness as an accepted part of Heroscape. In a 4-player game, each player can have their own Superman and that's just how the game works.

It feels odd to me that this representation of "Superman is present and on your side" would somehow be more restrictive than every other representation of that concept we've done so far.

Wasn't part of the original rules of base scape preventing two players on the same team having the alternate Raelins? Mirror match ups whatever, but like in the context of the army this feels like its representing Superman in that Story. Literally the name change to Story and then tooling it around that corner case thing feels antithetical to the name.