The Book of Stick

[Arch-vile]

The Book of Stick

C3G MARVEL WAVE 45
MARVELS


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Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Marvel Heroclix figure from the Secret Wars set.
Its model number and name are #030 / Stick.

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Character Bio - Stick is a blind martial arts master and member of the Chaste, an ancient organization dedicated to fighting the Hand. Stick recruited and trained both Elektra and Matt Murdock. Stick's method's were harsh, as he would often beat Murdock up with his superior fighting skills and mock him for failing to win. Stick would go on to abandon them both as he felt Elektra was too dangerous and Matt too weak. Regardless, later in life Stick would be an on-again off-again ally of Daredevil.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Q: Can the figure chosen for Stick's Harsh Sensei re-roll for each attack if they have double attack or a special attack that lets them attack multiple times?
• A: Yes. The "once" in the power is just to show you can only re-roll once per roll.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Fighter, Stick has these Fighter Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Stick may choose a Unique Hero that is an Assassin, Fighter, or has the Blind Warrior special power for his Harsh Sensei special power.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a figure with the Blind Warrior special power, Stick interacts differently with these special powers.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Defenders / Heroes for Hire faction strategy

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Arch-vile
• Second playtest: Karat & Splash
• Third playtest: Ericth74
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by Soundwarp

Card Update (5/5/2022): Harsh Sensei changed to choose a Unique Hero "in your army" instead of "you control" so that it lets you choose Daredevil if Matt Murdock is in your army.

[Arch-vile]

NAME = STICK

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = FIGHTER
PERSONALITY = UNCOMPROMISING

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 4
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 160

HARSH SENSEI
At the start of the game you may choose another Unique Hero in your army that is an Assassin, Fighter, or that has the Blind Warrior special power. When rolling dice for the chosen Hero's normal, special, or leaving engagement attack, you may choose to re-roll any or all combat dice once. If you do, and that roll does not inflict any wounds, roll one unblockable attack die against the chosen Hero.

BLIND WARRIOR
Stick cannot be prevented from choosing a figure to attack by any special power on any Army Card or Glyph. When Stick attacks a figure on a Shadow Tile, that figure does not receive any additional defense dice for the Shadow Tile.

RUTHLESS COUNTER STRIKE
When rolling defense dice against a normal attack from an adjacent attacking figure, if Stick is not destroyed by this attack, all skulls rolled count as unblockable hits on the attacking figure.

[Arch-vile]

Comic Art:

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[Arch-vile]

Stick is a member of the Chaste and trained Daredevil & Elektra. He’s absolutely ruthless and pushes his students way too far (both physically and mentally), which led Daredevil to call it quits with him.

Harsh Sensei is trying to show how Stick encourages his students to be more aggressive, pushing them past their limits both physically and emotionally. You can justify the wound for failure as either being too aggressive and leaving yourself unguarded. Or in Daredevil's case, he realizes that he almost crossed the line and killed somebody.

[Yodaking]

Seems pretty solid.

[MrNobody]

I'm guessing there's no way we can get him down to 130 to be that final part of a TV Defenders build?

[Arch-vile]

I'm happy wherever his points end up, but I don't think 130 is realistic with his powerset and stats. He's a very solid fighter in his own right so thematically I'd hesitate to lower anything.

[IAmBatman]

Looks good. Ticking his life down to 3 for "old man" status would get you to 130, but if you're not feeling that, you're not feeling that.

160 matches what I got on the calculator, but wouldn't be surprised if that 160 is a tad soft anyway.

[Karat]

Probably want a "once per attack" for clarification purposes so someone doesn't just cheese and reroll a bunch of times to avoid the unblockable.

[Lord Pyre]

Looks cool! I would also ask if we should specify if the reroll is once per turn or per attack? I would assume per attack, but want to check intent. Lots of guys, especially in the synergy pool he's pulling from, that have double attacks, both normal and special.

[IAmBatman]

Pretty sure it's meant to work on defense too (and push him towards counter strike types).

[Lord Pyre]

Ooh gotcha. Yeah I missed that it worked on defense too. Pretty powerful.

There's not a TON of counter strike guys, I see Lady Shiva, Shang-Chi, and Swordsman. One thing to watch is Chesire, she has the stupid acrobatic dodge. Sure if you use this on defense you'll be rolling an unblockable against your figure since you're not dealing wounds, but having he be able to reroll the insta-dodge ability might be worth the potential wounds in many cases.