The Book of Grim Reaper

[Lord Pyre]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Grim Reaper

Army Test
Summary: He’s pretty fun. Obviously I didn’t use Recruitment, but there are plenty of solid Criminals already so I focused on that. Ock loves attack boosts, and Venom is a powerhouse himself. But Reaper was the star, he completely controlled the game by hitting Luke over and over. The defense subtraction plus a heal and OM removal is NASTY. When the Fighters essentially lost an entire round, it was already game over. Ock throws so many attacks just himself with that boost, he tore up the Fighters’ entire army.
Map: Custom
Units: Reaper (265), Doc Ock, Venom (Mac), Trapster (800)

Vs.

Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist, Moon Knight (800)

Spoiler Alert!

Recap: Ock pretty quickly gets height on Moon Knight, rolling 4 attacks of 5, but only deals 3 wounds. Reaper finishes him off with the bonding however. Iron Fist closes in and deals 3 wounds to Reaper. Ock hits Iron Fist 4 times, but only manages one wound. Reaper however hits Luke for a wound, healing, and removing an OM from Luke’s card! Ock then hits Iron Fist for 3 more wounds. Ock finally finishes Iron Fist, after throwing about 15 attacks of 5 at him, hah. Reaper hits Luke again, healing and removing OM 1, giving Reaper a second turn in a row. Ock goes after Daredevil, but can’t break his defense. Reaper hits yet another attack on Luke, so now he’s fully healed. Luke misses a defense roll and Venom finishes him off. Ock eventually cyber claw’s DD, and Reaper finishes him off.



Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Reaper with 0 wounds (Fully healed from 3 wounds), Ock with 3 wounds, the others unwounded.

[Lord Pyre]

Only one game in so far, sorry for being slow I'll try to finish this week. But initial thoughts are that we should make the OM removal either once per round, or throw a die roll onto it. He hit Luke Cage 3 times in a row, which was absolutely devastating. Sure luck is a factor, but by dealing a single wound 3 times (Helped by the defense subtraction), he controlled the whole game.


He's pretty cool otherwise. I just think he'd need a bump as is because of his high potential. Generally I prefer to keep costs lower and make figures more consistent, rather than higher cost with a higher potential. Makes them more draftable.


So up to you! Tweak if you want, otherwise I'll try him a bit higher.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Is this kinda what you're talking about? Sorry if it's sloppy, I'm on mobile right now.

Adjacent figures without the Fearless personality subtract 1 from their Defense number when defending against a normal attack from Grim Reaper. When Grim Reaper inflicts one or more wounds on an adjacent figure with a normal attack that is not an Android, Construct, Undead, or Destructible Object, you may remove 1 Wound Marker from this card, and once per round one unrevealed Order Marker from that figure's Army Card.

Really appreciate the playtest by the way.

[Yodaking]

Maybe, once per round you may remove 1 OM instead of healing? So if you are not wounded, then it's an easy decision to remove an OM as soon as possible. But if you are wounded, then you may opt to just heal instead of risk getting the X.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

Maybe, once per round you may remove 1 OM instead of healing? So if you are not wounded, then it's an easy decision to remove an OM as soon as possible. But if you are wounded, then you may opt to just heal instead of risk getting the X.

Yeah, that sounds good. I like that.

[Lord Pyre]

Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking Dr J, but I like YJ’s idea better.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Originally Posted by Lord Pyre

Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking Dr J, but I like YJ’s idea better.

I like his idea better as well, I'll make the change tomorrow.

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by Lord Pyre

Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I was thinking Dr J, but I like YJ’s idea better.

Who's YJ?

Young Justice? Yo Joe?

[IAmBatman]

Yoda Justice for the win. I like that take as well. OM removal was my biggest competitive red flag concern dealie for this guy.

[MrNobody]

Yoda Joker. Now we just need Yoda Queen and Yoda Jack.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Updated the OP with the tweak suggestions. Thanks Lord Pyre and Yoda Joker

[Yodaking]

Yoda Joker it is.....on Discord!