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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
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I don't like Vortex Glare (better with a different name, but still), but I do agree another power should be able to pull figures adjacent to the Ruiner. Here's what I was going to submit before everyone beat me to the punch: GRAVITY PULL Before/Instead of/After moving, place each Small or Medium figure within 2 clear sight spaces adjacent to the Ruiner. GRAVITY CRUSH Instead of attacking, roll the d20 once for each adjacent figure. Add that figure's Height. If you roll X or higher, that figure receives 1 wound. Pull could be paired with whatever we want its offensive power to be. Before moving would make an interesting restriction; instead of moving would really curb its power; and after moving could even be paired with a slower Move of 4. Small/Medium allows the Firecats to be a soft counter within the same set. Crush hopefully helps satisfy the desire for referencing Size or Height, if we still wanted to go that direction. One reason for going away from the Special Attack was that we seem to be planning a lot of those already just in this Pod. That's the kind of bigger picture thing we need to be keeping our eyes on as the core group. I'd be less worried about it if we're pulling away from that direction on the Leyline Phantoms, but that's still to be determined. We'll also have to keep an eye on movement powers it seems. The quoted stats are pulled straight from the AotP unit, iirc, which works for the figure, IMO. Arena of the Valkyire - Help create Heroscape's next Master Set! Trade List C3V Brainstorm never not funny Pepperony - 14/09/13 |
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
I like those two powers a lot.
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
Alright, I alluded to trying to come up with a culmination power of all of our ideas and here’s what I’ve got...
Gravity Crush Special Attack Range Special. Attack Special. You must place as many figures within 2 clear sight spaces as possible adjacent to Ruiner. Count the number of figures pulled adjacent to Ruiner and roll that many attack dice once for all figures adjacent to Ruiner. Medium figures subtract one from their defense. Large figures subtract 2 from their defense dice. Huge figures subtract 3 from their defense dice. Figures moved by Gravity Crush Special Attack will not receive leaving engagement attacks. That would probably have to be this guy’s only ability, but it allows a lot to happen. The most notable is that L/H figures can be moved, unlike most movement powers. Saylind and the Glyph of Summoning provide precedent for this. His max attack is 8, although this will be extremely rare because he gets the huge attack from pulling figures in, not the figures adjacent to him. This variant allows us to control his power and price level. Mostly because the other player is unlikely to let him pull 8 minis at a time. Plus, unit size is still considered “Bigger” figures are weaker against it, but they generally have better stats anyway. My customs. NE Ohio Tourney - TBA SW Ohio Tourney - NHSD 550 points AotV - Colliding the minis of AotP with the world of HS. |
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
I think something we need to remember is that this is a master set. We want to go with simplicity wherever we can, and right now I think NB’s proposed abilities hit that better.
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
I’m not sold on it being much more difficult than NB’s. It combines the GravPull into Earth Slam. The biggest caveat being that the number of dice rolled is based upon number of figures actually moved. If that part was replaced with a static attack, then it would be GravPull+Earth Slam, which isn’t that difficult.
Edit: And the “first” posted version of Grav Crush was the simplest of all the powers in this thread My customs. NE Ohio Tourney - TBA SW Ohio Tourney - NHSD 550 points AotV - Colliding the minis of AotP with the world of HS. |
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
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One more thing to think about: C3V is working on some eldritch monsters as well as Demons, so we need to make sure any synergy there is intended or avoided as necessary. I think, rather than "from a black hole", we can just call this thing "from the void". Arena of the Valkyire - Help create Heroscape's next Master Set! Trade List C3V Brainstorm never not funny Pepperony - 14/09/13 |
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Re: [AotV] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Pod 0 - Design
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The statline works for me, although if we need to increase the points much further because of the final power set and want to tweak some things to match, I would propose a little bit more defense. Quote:
Gravity Crush is interesting. I'm not especially fond of adding height here, actually, but that's because the difference between adding 4 or 5 to a D20 feels less impactful than an extra attack die. It's certainly still unique, but when combined with a pull power that can't bring the bigger figures in, I think that the Ruiner would struggle to reach the figures where it really makes a difference. If Gravity Pull worked with Large figures, I'd be much more of a fan. The point about Special Attacks is a good one. I admittedly have been focusing more on the other units than the Leyline Phantoms, so I'll try to get caught up there within the next couple of days if I can. Quote:
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Re: [Pod 0] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Design
The defensive version of the pull is more of an idea I threw out than something I'm committed to, but I will still offer a bit of elaboration on it. It adds some anti-range ability to a figure that currently is best against melee, but with 3 defense isn't so oppressive that ranged figures would never risk the shot. I think it could make for an interesting dynamic in the place of ranged figures simply trying as hard as possible to keep their distance.
That said, if we aren't going with that then I could see some tweaks to the statline (I wasn't aware I had copied the AotP one, heh). I could see 4D 6L as opposed to 3D 8L. I'm not really a fan of 4D 8L, that seems like we're just arbitrarily cranking up the numbers. Of course, stats are less important than powers/overall direction. For Vortex Pull, the ability to move around your own figures is interesting but I don't know that I want this figure to be able to cart around several squads of your own units with it. With the short range on the pull it might not be an issue, but we'd have to spend some time testing that. Overall I agree that we don't want to make it too similar to chain grab or other powers that convey a kind of particular theme, though. For Special Attack vs. Autowound, I'll note that we're also discussing autowound/destroy powers on the Lanterns, and it wouldn't be any less weird to have an overabundance of those in the pod. I agree, though, that we don't want to get to the last few pods feeling like we have to clamp down on certain types of mechanics for the consistency of the set. Personally, I feel that SA is the most obvious implementation of Gravity Crush here, where as we could do something else with the teleportation theme, but that's an easy call for me as I don't much care for Telefrag. |
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Re: [Pod 0] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Design
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And you're right about autowounds being another big picture item to track (I may make note of those in a main thread somewhere). I think we can try not to do both the Ruiner and the Phantoms the same way, at least (though Phantoms seem to have gone away from either at the moment). Arena of the Valkyire - Help create Heroscape's next Master Set! Trade List C3V Brainstorm never not funny Pepperony - 14/09/13 |
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Re: [Pod 0] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Design
The anti-range defensive aspect is interesting, but it ultimately feels a little too defensive for a huge figure with an aggressive statline to me. I prefer the more active Vortex Pulls that we've seen, even if they do allow for some "carrying" of your own figures. I can't imagine it being that useful in practice if it only has a range of 2 spaces, though, even if you can place them in front of the Ruiner to get some more free movement. It's a noteworthy trick, but I don't think it'll overwhelm the other aspects of the design.
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Re: [Pod 0] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Design
If we want to discourage carrying allies, we could add "If Eldrazi uses Gravity Pull this turn, it must attack with Gravity Crush SA/use Gravity Crush this turn" somewhere. Makes sense thematically, too: it's either running around smacking things with its normal attack, or activating all of its gravity powers.
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Re: [Pod 0] UNIT NAME (Eldrazi Ruiner) - Design
I'm fine with that clause since it's thematic enough, but it won't discourage pulling a single ally too much if Gravity Crush gains strength with each engaged figure.
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