The Book of King of Spades

[fret_gurglo]

Thanks tickle. Pretty much what I expected. His low attack numbers will have a hard time doing damage to the high defense figures. I'm sad that his enhanced charisma wasn't as useful as I hoped, but glad it at least was a strong enough threat to cause 2 lea damage.

I'm happy as is, and unless there are any other thoughts out there, I propose a vote for public playtesting at 230

[tcglkn]

Unfortunately, I didn't get a ton of chances to use it and my rolls were not great. Yea

[Yodaking]

yea

[Lord Pyre]

Yea

[Tornado]

Yea

[IAmBatman]

yea. Tests look good.

[fret_gurglo]

Do I need majority votes or unanimous for playtesting?

[IAmBatman]

You need 5 yeas.

[fret_gurglo]

Awesome. Then this passes

[tcglkn]

Five yeas for everything except for Release which needs all heroes to vote.

[Lord Pyre]

Looking good!

[fret_gurglo]

Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: A.I.M. Agents x2 (140), Ace of Spades (250), Arnim Zola (200), King of Spades (240), Scientist Supreme (160) (990) vs Armor (100), Colossus (260), Nightcrawler (140), Storm (220), Wolverine (280) (1000)

Powers Used:
Enhanced Charisma: 0
Enhanced Charisma (Success): 0
Explosive Cards: 0
Explosive Cards Damage: 0
Royal Flush: 1
Royal Flush (Success): 1

Damage from normal attacks: 0

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Fastball to destroy AIM Agent. Ace hits Wolverine for 3 wounds. Wolverine fully enraged destroys King and heals 1 wound. Armor destroys an Agent. Ace hits Wolverine for 1 wound.
End of Round: Wolverine heals 1 wound
Round 2: Ace hits Wolverine for 1 wound. Wolverine hits Ace for 2 wounds and heals. Next turn Wolverine destroys 2 agents and heals. Colossus advances and Armor destroys an Agent.
End of Round: Wolverine heals 1 wound
Round 3: Colossus destroys last Agent and Armor hits Ace for 1 wound. Ace hits Wolverine for 1 wound. Colossus and Armor hit Ace for 1 wound each. Ace hits Wolverine for 1 wound. Wolverine leaves engagement (no damage) to attack Scientist Supreme for 3 wounds and heals. Armor destroys Ace. Scientist Supreme attacks Wolverine and rolls 0 skulls.
End of Round: Wolverine heals 1 wound
Round 4: Scientist Supreme creates Teleporation Belt (worst possible one). Wolverine leaves engagement to attack Arnim Zola for 1 wound and Wolverine heals 1 wound. Armor destroys Scientist Surpeme. Arnim Zola hits Wolverine for 2 wounds. Colossus advances and Armor (rolling 4 skulls) destroys Arnim Zola.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Armor 3/3 Life. Colossus 6/6 Life. Nightcrawler 4/4 Life. Storm 5/5 Life. Wolverine 4/6 Life remaining.

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Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: Kick-Ass (40), King of Spades (240), Songbird (180), Spider-girl (140), Spider-man (250), White Tiger (160) (1010) vs Armor (100), Colossus (260), Nightcrawler (140), Storm (220), Wolverine (280) (1000)

Powers Used:
Enhanced Charisma: 1
Enhanced Charisma (Success): 1
Explosive Cards: 1
Explosive Cards Damage: 1
Royal Flush: NA
Royal Flush (Success): NA

Damage from normal attacks: 2

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Teams advance
Round 2: Storm hits Spider-man for 1 wound. Songbird hits Storm for 1 wound. And next turn hits her again for another 2 wounds.
Round 3: Spider-man destroys Storm. Songbird hits Armor for 2 wounds. Armor hits Songbird for 2 wounds. White Tiger destroys Armor.
Round 4: Songbird and Spider-man hit Wolverine for 1 wound each. Next turn Songbird and King hit Wolverine for 1 wound each. Finally Songbird destroys Wolverine.
Round 5: Songbird hits Colossus for 1 wound.
Round 6: Colossus attacks Spider-girl for 1 wound. Songbird and Spider-man hit Colosus for 1 wound each. King hits Colossus for 1 wound.
Round 7: Nightcrawler hits Spider-girl for 1 wound. White Tiger strikes at Nightcrawler for 2 wounds
Round 8: Songbird destroys Colossus. King uses his SA for 1 wound on Nightcrawler. King removes OM3 from Nightcrawler and then destroys him

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Kick-Ass 3/3 Life. King of Spades 5/5 Life. Songbird 3/5 Life. Spider-girl 2/4 Life. Spider-man 4/5 Life. White Tiger 5/5 Life remaining.

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Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: Kick-Ass (40), King of Spades (240), Songbird (180), Spider-girl (140), Spider-man (250), White Tiger (160) (1010) vs Captain Boomerang (90), Captain Cold (90), Heatwave (110), Mirror Master (130), Professor Zoom (250), Pied Piper (80), Shadow Thief (70), Trickster (65), Weather Wizard (100) (985)

Powers Used:
Enhanced Charisma: 6
Enhanced Charisma (Success): 5
Explosive Cards: 9
Explosive Cards Damage: 12
Royal Flush: NA
Royal Flush (Success): NA

Damage from normal attacks: 2

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Zoom charges ahead. Spider-girl hits Zoom for 1 wound. Zoom hits Spider-man and White Tiger for 1 wound each. Zoom leaves.
Round 2: Spider-man hits Zoom for 3 wounds and destroys him. Songbird attacks Mirror Master but can’t find the target.
Round 3: Teams maneuver and no damage is dealt.
Round 4: Songbird hits Boomerang for 3 wounds, then Spider-man pulls Cold and hits him for 2 wounds. King uses Explosive Cards to destroy Boomerang. Songbird destroys Cold and King attacks Weather Wizard for 1 wound.
Round 5: Heat Wave attacks King for 1 wound. Songbird hits Weather Wizard for 1 wound. Next turn Songbird and Spiderman destroy Weather Wizard.
Round 6: Heat Wave hits King for a wound. Songbird attacks Pied Piper for a wound and Spider-man pulls in Mirror Master and hits him for 2 wounds. Then King attempts Enchanted Charisma, but fails, and Songbird hits Pied Piper for 2 wounds. Mirror Master hits Spider-girl for 2 wounds. King uses SA to destroy Pied Piper and 2 wounds on Shadow Thief.
Round 7: Heatwave hits Spider-girl for 1 wound. King successfully removes OM3.
Round 8: Songbird destroys Shadow Thief. Heat Wave hits King for 2 wounds. King using SA hits Heat Wave for 2 wounds and then next turn again for 1 wound.
Round 9: King removes OM3. Songbird destroys Heat Wave and King removes OM2 and hits Mirror Master for 1 wound with SA. Songbird leaves engagement for 1 wound.
Round 10: Mirror Master moves Spider-girl 10 spaces away and attacks Songbird for 1 wound. King destroys Mirror Master. King uses SA on Trickster for 1 wound
Round 11: King Removes OM2. Then removes OM3 and attacks with SA to destroy Trickster.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Kick-Ass 3/3 Life. King of Spades 1/5 Life. Songbird 2/5 Life. Spider-girl 1/4 Life. Spider-man 4/5 Life. White Tiger 4/5 Life remaining.

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Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: Ace of Spades (250), King of Spades (240), Sandman (210) (700) vs Donatello (150), Leonardo (210), Michelangelo (170), Raphael (170) (700)

Powers Used:
Enhanced Charisma: 0
Enhanced Charisma (Success): 0
Explosive Cards: 2
Explosive Cards Damage: 2
Royal Flush: 3
Royal Flush (Success): 3

Damage from normal attacks: 0

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Teams advance
Round 2: Michelangelo hits Ace for 1 wound. King uses SA on Michelangelo for 2 wounds and succeeds RF for Ace to hit him again for 1 more. Raphael attacks Ace but damage is limited to 1 wound. King fails damage, but succeeds RF for Ace to hit Raphael for 1 wound, then Ace uses Ace up the Sleeve for King to attack again and he misses. Leonardo hits King for 2 wounds. Donatello tosses Ace for 1 wound. Ace hits Michelangelo for 1 wound.
Round 3: TURTLE POWER allows Leonardo to destroy King and Michelangelo hits Ace for 1 wound. Sandman destroys Michelangelo. Sandman hits Raphael for 3 wounds. Ace destroys Raphael.
Round 4: Ace hits Donatello for 2 wounds. Leonard hits Sandman for 2+2 wounds and Donatello destroys Sandman. Next turn Leonardo destroys Ace.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Donatello 2/4 Life. Leonardo 5/5 Life remaining.

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THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: King is definitely not worth the 240 points as is. His Enhanced Charisma is actually difficult to activate and trying to use it keeps him up front and vulnerable. Explosive Cards is OK, but not very damaging. His team did win 2 of the 4 games here but I don’t believe he was the deciding factor. I’m fairly confident that any other criminal would have easily filled his spot without much difference. The games he did lose, it was by a pretty big margin. As he currently stands, I would estimate his value as 200 or less.


GENERAL THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT: After doing these tests I would like to tweak a power or two. The synergy with Ace is limited due to the wording on King’s SA.