The Book of Ravage

[Ronin]

Fine by me! I haven't got a start on him yet, happy to run him or hold off and test him alongside Soundwave.

[Ronin]

Are you already underway here, Soundwarp, or do you otherwise have a preference about whether you'd like to test Ravage or Soundwave + Ravage? Trying to work out what my next test will be here.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Sorry, missed this. I already have my tests done sans Soundwave.

[Ronin]

No worries. I'll hit him and Soundwave together, then.

[Yodaking]

Awesome! Thanks guys. You don't have to post the test results right now, just let me know if anything concerning came up that would prevent me from moving forward here. I'll post Soundwave up in the public testing thread if I know Ravage isn't going to change.

[Yodaking]

@Soundwarp SG-1 , any feedback you can share from your tests or an ETA on posting up the report itself? I'm working on a hard deadline here for this Chirstmas in July release and want to get Soundwave posted up for public PTing sooner than later. It would be helpful to know if Ravage is heading towards Final Editing or not.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

I’ll have my tests up tonight.

[Yodaking]

Cool, thanks.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Ravage @110 points

Army Test 1
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Ambush Tactics: Ravage (110), Robot (210), Angel (Warren) (90), Jason Voorhees (175), Skrull Infiltrator x1 (10) - 595 total vs Deadly Dazzle: Ms. Marvel (350), Dazzler (100), Deadshot (150)- 600 total

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:

This army is pretty simple, Angel lets you rearrange your dudes and Robot gets them to hit things yadda yadda. Dazzler whammying people before Ms. Marvel attacks was a bit of a tough nut to crack though. It basically came down to Ravage's team having slightly more bodies, and most of them being decently durable, which allowed them to whittle down the other army just quick enough not to get wrecked. Ravage's special attack was probably the MVP here, since he landed 3 wounds on Ms. Marvel with it in the 3rd turn of the first round. Ravage got smashed right away in the next round, but the damage was done at that point and I'd say he earned his keep just fine.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): He never attacked with his normal attack.
• Cassette Storage: Not used.
• Pounce Attack: The ignore height thing is useful (required really), I didn't bother tracking it though. The autoskull bit never came up, but had he lived longer this army would have given him plenty of chances at it.
• Armor Piercing Rocket Special Attack: Made a big play landing 3 wounds on Ms. Marvel. Ravage didn't last long enough to get a second shot though.
• Damage Taken: Took 1 wound from a pot shot by Ms. Marvel in round one. Then Dazzler dazzled him on the first turn of round 2 and Ms. Marvel killed him. Which was incredibly poor luck in a number of ways really, but even in death he triggered Angel chucking Jason at Ms Marvel and Jason scoring another wound on her so it was the way he would have wanted to go out.

Result: Jason returns to Camp Crystal Lake with 2 life.

Army Test 2
Map: Island Plane Crash (No E-Glyph)
Units: Anti-Armor: Ravage (110), Punisher (180), Warmachine (270), Iron Patriot (290), Weather Wizard (100), Fire Ant Swarm x3 (30), Skrull Inflitrator x2 (20)- 1000 total vs X-treme Force: Cyclops (II) (240), Cable (275), Black King (220), Dazzler (100), Jubilee (60), Angel (Warren) (90), Skrull Infiltrator x 1(10)- 995 total

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:

Admittedly, the origins of this army are just Ravage, Punisher, and Warmachine having similar special attacks, but it's actually a pretty strong build. Iron Patriot vs Cyclops and Black King made for some weird stuff going on with initiative choices, but that's not really relevant to Ravage. What is relevant is that this army gave Ravage enough mobility and protection to be in a good position as back-up fighter once Punisher went down. Punisher being Punisher, that didn't happen until the other army was already busted up pretty badly and Ravage basically had one of the best board states he could ask for. He got some good licks in before falling, and Weather Wizard was able to clean-up the leftovers with some lightning strikes.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Finished off Jubilee with 1 wound and a lot of overkill (autoskull active here), whiffed on Cable once (autoskull again), then nicked him for 1 wound.
• Cassette Storage: Not used.
• Pounce Attack: Same deal with the movement bit. The autoskull came up on two of his three normal attacks.
• Armor Piercing Rocket Special Attack: Didn't get to do anything as spectacular as last game, but he did finish off Black King with 2 wounds.
• Damage Taken: T

Result: Weather Wizard... goes and does whatever irrelevant Flash villains do... with 3 life remaining while a single Fire Ant Swarm lays clam to the map for the colony.

Overall: Ravage feels fine, he usually is good for like one solid hit before he gets knocked out which is thematically accurate. My one worry is the way his powers work I'm not sure Soundwave will really be his best pairing without also adding a bunch of other randos on top that Soundwave's other synergys don't really leave room for points-wise. However, Ravage is only 110 points, so I think it's fine; you don't really need to have your whole army built around one guy that's more-or-less filler.

[Yodaking]

Thanks Soundwarp! Two wins there but they were both really close at less than 100 points left both times. Both testers seem happy with him at 110, so I propose Ravage for Final Editing.

YK - yea
Karat - yea
Ronin - yea
Bats - yea
T - yea
Lazy - yea

[Soundwarp SG-1]

I should mention the second one was more Punisher than anything else. Like Ravage wasn't a devastating factor like he was in the first game. Main thing he did was let Punisher be a bit more aggressive as I had a duplicate Rocket to handle Black King with.

[Karat]

Yea, looking good here.