The Book of Reed Richards (Visionary)

[fret_gurglo]

yea

[toyhandle]

This passes. Thanks everyone!

[toyhandle]

Finished the Initial with Karat. Karat will post the write-up.

To better match the intent, tweaked the wording on Fantastic Contingency from this:

FANTASTIC CONTINGENCY
When Reed Richards or an Army Card you control has all of its figures destroyed, you may:
• move any Order Markers from that card to any other card you control; and
• roll an unblockable attack die against a figure equipped with, occupying, or within 1 space of a glyph placed by Reed’s Visionary Theoretician special power.

To this:

FANTASTIC CONTINGENCY
When Reed Richards or an Army Card you control has all of its figures destroyed, before removing that figure from the battlefield or a glyph from its card, you may:
• move any Order Markers from that card to any other card you control; and
• choose a figure equipped with, occupying, or within 1 space of a glyph placed by Reed’s Visionary Theoretician special power and roll an unblockable attack die against it.

Here are some potential army builds for testers:

800 Points

• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Doctor Strange (320), Spells (30)

1000 Points

• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Spider-Man (Avengers) (280)
• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Beast (200), Rick Jones (80)
• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Doctor Strange (320), Beast (200), Spells (30)
• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Doctor Strange (320), Hawkeye (220), Spells (10)

1200 Points

• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Beast (200), Spider-Man (Avengers) (280)
• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Hawkeye (220), War Machine (260)

1300 Points

• Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Doctor Strange (320), War Machine (260)

[IAmBatman]

Good stuff!

[Karat]

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Reed Richards (Visionary)
Version Tested:

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = REED RICHARDS

SPECIES = MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = VISIONARY
PERSONALITY = BRILLIANT

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 8
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = ~240

VISIONARY THEORETICIAN
Start the game with up to 4 Invention Equipment Glyphs of different types in a Glyph Pool, power-side up. After winning initiative, you may choose a glyph from Reed Richard's Glyph Pool and place it onto the card of a Visionary you control, or onto the card of a friendly adjacent Unique Hero.

ELONGATION
Before moving Reed Richards normally, you may subtract up to 8 from his Move number to add that to his Range number for this turn. If you subtract at least 4, he also gains the Flying special power during that movement. Reed never takes any leaving engagement attacks and may attack non-adjacent figures even while he is engaged.

FANTASTIC CONTINGENCY
When Reed Richards or an Army Card you control has all of its figures destroyed, you may:
• move any Order Markers from that card to any other card you control; and
• roll an unblockable attack die against a figure equipped with, occupying, or within 1 space of a glyph placed by Reed’s Visionary Theoretician special power.

SUPER STRENGTH

Army Test
Map: City Park
Units:
Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Beast (200), Spider-Man (Avengers) (280) (1200)
Nightwing (200), Starfire (210), Raven (190), Arsenal (190), Ravager (Rose) (210), Miss Martian (200) (1,200)
RESULTS:
The Illuminati struggled to wound the Titans fast enough, and the Titans pulled a solid win, with an unwounded Nightwing and Arsenal.

Really fun match with the Inventions. Spider-Man (Avengers) makes a great Glyph grabber, backup bonder for when initiative is lost, and Glyphs like the Web Pistol and Anti-Grav Gauntlet get around his attack restriction (although that didn’t happen in this game). Thematic that he thrives around these smarties.
Elongation was useful in the endgame, making Reed an elusive target, able to get into advantageous spots.
Contingency Plan came in handy, although the wording in this power meant that the unblockables never went off, so we fixed the wording for next game.

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:
Reed’s pool is the Shrink Ray, Anti-Kryptonite Suit, Shield Belt and Anti-Grav Gauntlet.
Beast chooses Nightwing for AA
Initiative: Toy with 3+5+2 vs 6. IM is equipped with the Anti-Kryptonite suit.
R1T1(Player): OM1 Beast, X on IM. Beast moves out, Black Panther moves out, destroys a tree.
R1T1(Player): Miss Martian moves out, fails throw, Ravager moves out.
R1T2(Player): Reed and IM move out.
R1T2(Player): Arsenal and Ravager move out.
R1T3(Player): IM inflicts 2 wounds on Ravager. Reed whiffs on Ravager.
R1T3(Player): 3 and X on Nightwing. Miss Martian engages Beast, and takes a Fending Dagger wound, Ravager Flanks for no wounds and takes no dagger. Starfire and Nightwing move up.

Initiative: 17 + 5 +2. Beast gets the shrink ray.
R2T1(Player): 1 on Beast, X on IM, engages Starfire, who blocks. Beast Shrinks her. Ravager and Starfire block Iron Man.
R2T1(Player): Arsenal engages Beast and Bolas’ him. Ravager’s Flanking Strike puts 1 wound on Beast, who loses the Bola, and the Shrink Ray goes flying.
R2T2(Player): Iron Man and Beast are blocked by Starfire.
R2T2(Player): Raven moves up, Arsenal attacks Beast, who takes two wounds, Arsenal moves two spaces. Beast takes two wounds from Raven. Beast leaps to Raven.
R2T3(Player): OM3 IM. Explosion attack does nothing. Beast moves to Miss Martian and inflicts 1 wound.
R2T3(Player): OM3 and X Nightwing. Arsenal bolas’ Black Panther. Beast blocks Arsenal. Beast blocks Raven, and engages her. Nightwing destroys Beast.

Initiative: Karat
R3T1(Player): Miss Martian fails to throw Panther. Ravager flanks to Raven.
R3T1(Player): IM and Spidey destroy Miss Martian.
R3T2(Player): Starfire destroys a tree and wounds Iron Man and attacks for a second wound.
R3T2(Player): Iron Man and Spider-Man fail to wound Raven.
R3T3(Player): Raven Empaths Ravager. Arsenal wounds Black panther, who loses the Bola. Flanking strike destroys Iron Man, glyph goes flying. OM moved to Black Panther.
R3T3(Player): Spider-Man grabs and passes the Anti-Kryptonite suit to Black Panther, and attacks Raven.

Initiative: Karat.
R4T1(Player): OM1 Raven. Arsenal fails to wound Spider-Man. Flanking puts 2 wounds on Black panther.
R4T1(Player): Black Panther fails to wound Raven. Spider-Man grabs the Shrink Ray and puts 1 wound on Raven. Shrinks Nightwing.
R4T2(Player): Starfire attacks Spider-Man, who takes two wounds and moves twice to grab the Shrink Ray and swap with Black Panther.
R4T2(Player): Black Panther fails to wound Raven, shrinks Starfire, and Spider-Man destroys Raven.
R4T3(Player): OM3 and X Nighwing. No one wounds Panther.
R4T3(Player): Black Panther fails to wound Nightwing who moves out of Engagement, so Spider-Man can’t attack.

Initiative: Toy. Reed equips the Grav Gauntlet.
R5T1(Player): Black Panther fails to wound Starfire, but shrinks her. Reed fails to wound Ravager.
R5T1(Player): Ravager engages BP, Fending fails, Her attack destroys BP. Order Markers move to Reed.
R5T2(Player): Reed engages Starfire, and attacks for 3 wounds. Spidey fails to wound Starfire.
R5T2(Player): OM2 and X. Arsenal fails to Bolas or wound. Ravager wounds 1 on Reed, Grav Gauntlet goes flying. Nightwing fails to wound. Spidey passes Anti-Kryptonite suit to Reed, and Grabs Shrink Ray.
R5T3(Player): Reed and Spidey destroy Starfire.
R5T3(Player): OM3 Starfire

Initiative: Karat
R6T1(Player): 1 and X on Nightwing. Arsenal Bolas Spider-Man, Ravager destroys Spider-Man, Flanking Strike puts 2 wounds on Reed.
R6T1(Player): Reed puts 1 wound on Ravager.
R6T2(Player): Arsenal whiffs
R6T2(Player): Reed whiffs.
R6T3(Player): Nightwing fails to wound
R6T3(Player): Reed destroys Ravager.

Initiative: Toy
R7T1(Player): Reed fails to wound Nightwing.
R7T1(Player): Reed takes no wounds.
R7T2(Player): Nightwing takes no wounds.
R7T2(Player): Reed takes no wounds
R7T3(Player): Arsenal takes no wounds.
R7T3(Player): Reed takes no wounds

Initiative: Karat
R8T1(Player): Arsenal and Nighting destroy Reed.

Who won?
Nightwing and Arsenal unwounded.

Version Tested:

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = REED RICHARDS

SPECIES = MUTATE
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = VISIONARY
PERSONALITY = BRILLIANT

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 8
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = ~240

VISIONARY THEORETICIAN
Start the game with up to 4 Invention Equipment Glyphs of different types in a Glyph Pool, power-side up. After winning initiative, you may choose a glyph from Reed Richard's Glyph Pool and place it onto the card of a Visionary you control, or onto the card of a friendly adjacent Unique Hero.

ELONGATION
Before moving Reed Richards normally, you may subtract up to 8 from his Move number to add that to his Range number for this turn. If you subtract at least 4, he also gains the Flying special power during that movement. Reed never takes any leaving engagement attacks and may attack non-adjacent figures even while he is engaged.

FANTASTIC CONTINGENCY
When Reed Richards or an Army Card you control has all of its figures destroyed, before removing that figure from the battlefield or a glyph from its card, you may:
• move any Order Markers from that card to any other card you control; and
• choose a figure equipped with, occupying, or within 1 space of a glyph placed by Reed’s Visionary Theoretician special power and roll an unblockable attack die against it.

SUPER STRENGTH

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units:
Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Doctor Strange (320), Hawkeye (220),10pts of Spells (1000 points)
Android 16 (250), Android 17 (280), Android 18 (270), Grid (200) (1,000)
RESULTS:
Went into this game with a tweaked wording on Fantastic Contingency to match the intent.
The Androids were able to barrage through Magical Defense and Vibranium, while the Illuminati worked hard to dent the Androids. The 3 DBZ Androids took a beating, but none were destroyed. Solid win for the Androids.
Reed moved quickly to try tying up the Androids and take the heat off of a near-death Strange, but Reed fell R3T1. When Reed died, Strange’s Teleportation Belt landed an unblockable on Android 18, which was nice. Reed's lack of Inventions and contingency afterward were sorely missed in R4.
Not much information on him from this test other than that despite his defense, he is best saved for last, which should be obvious.

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:
Glyphs are the Anti-Kryptonite Suit, Shrink Ray, Shield Belt and Teleportation Belt
Android 18 is Grid’s Study.
Grid chooses Strange and Android 16 moves out
Initiative: Karat
R1T1(Player): A18 and A17 move out.
R1T1(Player): Strange moves sideways.
R1T2(Player): A16 and A17 move out.
R1T2(Player): Strange moves sideways. Hawkeye lands 1 wound on A16.
R1T3(Player): A16 hugs Strange, takes a wound from Fending Daggers and wounds Strange. Strange blocks A17.
R1T3(Player): A16 blocks Lightning Bolt

Grid chooses Strange and moves up A18.
Initiative: Toy. Teleportation Glyph on Strange.
R2T1(Player): A16 blocks Strange. Black Panther engages A16, Hawkeye fails to wound A16.
R2T1(Player): A16 takes no LEA from BP. 1 wound on Strange. A17 Photon blasts a Palm, no wound on Panther.
R2T2(Player): Strange fails to wound A16. BP Engages A16, Hawkeye fails to wound A16.
R2T2(Player): Hell Flash fails on Strange. Tree blocks Photon Flash.
R2T3(Player): Strange Dimension Shifts A16 away from BP and Strange for 1 LEA, and moves A18 off of height and away from bush. Attacks A16 for no wound. Reed engages 17 and 18, Hawkeye fails to wound A18.
R2T3(Player): BP takes 2 wounds from Infinity Bullets. A17 puts 3 wounds on Reed.

Grid chooses Reed and moves A16.
Initiative: Arcane Avenger heals Reed and BP, Anti-Kryptonite Suit placed on Reed.
R3T1(Player): Reed puts 3 wounds on A17. Strange engages A18. Fails to Lightning bolt.
R3T1(Player): Reed takes a wound from Hell Flash. A17 puts enough wounds on Reed to destroy the Anti-Kryptonite Suit, and destroy him, A18 takes a wound from Strange’s Teleportation Belt.
R3T2(Player): Strange puts 3 wounds on A18. BP is blocked by A17.
R3T2(Player): Strange takes a wound from A18 and gets his arm broken. BP blocks A17.
R3T3(Player): Strange teleports to A17 and attacks for 1 wound. BP is blocked.
R3T3(Player): Strange is brought to 1 life.

Grid chooses BP and A16 readjusts.
Initiative: Karat wins.
R4T1(Player): BP blocks Infinity Bullet.
R4T1(Player): A17 blocks BP
R4T2(Player): A18 destroys BP and Strange. Teleportation Belt goes flying. A17 Picks up belt, and attacks Hawkeye with Photon. Hawkeye takes 1 wound and moves back.
R4T2(Player): OM2 BP
R4T3(Player): A16 Engages Hawkeye and attacks for 1 wound.
R4T3(Player): OM3 BP

Grid chooses Hawkeye and nothing happens.
Initiative: Karat
R5T1(Player): A16 attacks Hawkeye for 1 wound. Hawkeye blocks A17.
R5T1(Player): A16 blocks Hawkeye.
R5T2(Player): Hawkeye blocks A16 and A17.
R5T2(Player): 1 wound on A16.
R5T3(Player): Hawkeye blocks A18. A17 destroys Hawkeye.
Who won?
Android 18 (4 of 6 wounds), Android 17 (4 of 6 wounds), Android 16 (4 of 5 wounds), Grid unwounded.

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units:
Reed Richards (240), Black Panther (210), Iron Man (270), Beast (200), Rick Jones (80) (1000)
Zatara (230), Zatanna (III) (250), Dr Strange (Secret Defenders) (280), Jinx (190), 50 points of Spells (Temporal Inversion, Condemn, Final Ruin, Lightning Bolt x2, Mystic Flames x2) (1,000)
RESULTS:
Solid win for the Illuminati. The Magical Defense team was not the most competitive build. Rick Jones turned out especially great for the Illuminati, as his defense subtraction pairs nicely with their modest attack numbers.
The Inventions were key in this match. The Teleportation Belt moved Iron Man out of a pickle, since he couldn’t afford to take a LEA from Jinx (or generally). Once he was free, he landed a bunch of unblockables on Jinx and Zatara with his explosion attacks against bushes. Before that, Zatanna and Jinx were basically untouchable.
 Beast’s Agility makes him good for swapping and passing. The Shield Belt kept Beast alive for a little bit longer.
The Contingency unblockable landed when Beast died. Not when Iron Man died, but it preserved his order markers.

Spoiler Alert!

Game Summary:
Glyphs are the Anti-Kryptonite Suit, Shrink Ray, Shield Belt and Teleportation Belt.
Zatanna picks 15 for her number.
Initiative: Astute Avenger adds +1. +5 from IM brings my 1 to a 7. Beats Karat’s 5. Anti-Kryptonite Suit goes on Iron Man.
R1T1(Player): Iron Man and Beast move up.
R1T1(Player): Zatanna moves up, whiffs a Mystic Flame.
R1T2(Player): Iron Man fails to wound Zatanna, Beast wounds Zatanna.
R1T2(Player): Jinx moves up, Mystic Flames fails and Beast moves back.
R1T3(Player): Danger into Doves + Pick a Number inflicts a wound on Panther, and Zatanna blocks Iron man. Jinx blocks Iron Man. Beast is blocked by Zatanna.
R1T3(Player): Iron Man blocks Jinx. Beast takes 2 wounds from Zatanna.
Rick Jones moves up.

Initiative: Beast chooses Zatara for +2. 11+7, Beast gets Shield Belt.
R2T1(Player): Iron Man and Beast fail to wound because of Danger into Doves.
R2T1(Player): Shield Belt ignores Zatanna’s attack.
R2T2(Player): Iron Man and Beast fail to wound because of Danger into Doves.
R2T2(Player): Zatara fails to Lightning Bolt a Palm.
R2T3(Player): IM gives Jinx a wound. Beast fails to wound because of Danger into Doves.
R2T3(Player): Jinx’s attack destroys my Shield Belt. The 2 from Shield Belt triggers Condemn to wound Beast. Beast blocks. Lightning Bolt fails to wound tree.
Rick moves up.

Initiative: Beast chooses Zatara for +2. 18+7, Beast is given the Teleportation Belt.
R3T1(Player): Beast swaps with Iron Man for the Anti-Kryptonite Suit. Beast fails to wound because of Danger into Doves. BP fails to wound Zatanna.
R3T1(Player): Zatara takes a turn with Jinx. Beast Blocks. Moves back. Blocks Zatanna, moves back.
R3T2(Player): IM Teleports back, attacks bush with explosion, Bush blocks, unblocks hit both Jinx and Zatanna. Beast fails to wound because of Danger into Doves.
R3T2(Player): Jinx puts 1 wound on Beast, Final Ruin destroys Beast. Unblockable from Anti-Kryptonite Suit hits Zatanna. Suit goes flying. Zatanna puts 1 wound on IM.
R3T3(Player): IM’s Explosion is blocked by Bush, but unblockables hit Zatanna and Jinx. Zatanna is destroyed. Black Panther destroys Jinx.
R3T3(Player): BP blocks Zatara.

Initiative: Karat
R4T1(Player): Zatara takes a Fending Dagger, and is knocked back by Vibranium.
R4T1(Player): IM puts 1 wound on Zatara.
R4T2(Player): Zatara takes a Fending Dagger and whiffs on Rick.
R4T2(Player): IM wounds Strange.
R4T3(Player): Rick blocks Zatara.
R4T3(Player): IM wounds Strange.
Rick moves.

Initiative: Toy. BP gets Shrink Ray.
R5T1(Player): IM inflicts a wound on Strange. BP wounds Strange and shrinks him.
R5T1(Player): Zatara engages IM, destroys him, Unblockable fails, Belt goes flying. Order Markers go to Reed. Rick blocks Strange.
R5T2(Player): BP fails to wound Zatara. Shrinks Zatara. Reed moves up.
R5T2(Player): Strange engages BP, and fails to wound.
R5T3(Player): BP inflicts a wound on Strange. Reed destroys Strange.
R5T3(Player): OM3 Strange.
Rick moves

Initiative: Karat. Temporal Inversion.
R6T1(Player): Giovanni falls to Fending Daggers.

Who won?
Reed unwounded, Black Panther (1 of 4 wounds), Rick Jones unwounded.

Toyhandle's THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY:
Two solid losses and one solid win, but against a non-competitive team. Draftwise, I was able to come up with quite a few armies with him prior to testing. Obviously great in Illuminati builds, but also really loved how he played with Spider-Man (Avengers). In terms of Cost, he’s probably right where he needs to be. Possibly could go down to 230, but would need to see more testing. I was worried the glyphs could be over powered, but that wasn’t the case at all, they were a ton of fun. Very fun and themey.

Player 2's THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Reed brings a lot of new strategy to this build but is a large target because of his OM saving nature plus the fact that destroying anyone leads to unblockables. Something to watch with this faction is the unfun factor which I feel is potentially high because they have a solid offensive and defensive wall with Black Panther already offering a wounding chance deterring engagements and then if you destroy someone there is now another chance for a wound you cannot stop. Does it make it unwinable? No. Is it broken? Also no. My worry is more the fun factor in facing these kinds of armies that just pile things on. They have a lot of good answers and Reed feels like a good addition to them. Just something I'd like watched closely as this faction develops.

My personal quibbles aside, cost feels good for what Reed is bringing and he is definitely useful and draftable. All 3 powers got used at some point in all 3 games so overall the design itself gets a from me.

[toyhandle]

I propose a vote to move to Public Playtesting.

[Tornado]

Yea

[Arkham]

Not sure what all changed with wording since it was originally proposed, but now it's being pushed too small. So I'd want to see where we can refine.

I don't think you need to mention Reed in the first bit of the last power, if the power is taking place before they are removed from the battlefield, it would already include him.

[Arkham]

This would get us there:

VISIONARY THEORETICIAN
Start the game with up to 4 Invention Equipment Glyphs of different types in a Glyph Pool, power-side up. After winning initiative, you may choose a glyph from Reed Richard's Glyph Pool and place it onto the card of a Visionary you control, or onto the card of a friendly adjacent Unique Hero.

ELONGATION
Before moving Reed Richards normally, you may subtract up to 8 from his Move number to add that to his Range number for this turn. If you subtract at least 4, he also gains the Flying special power during that movement. Reed never takes any leaving engagement attacks and may attack non-adjacent figures even while he is engaged.

FANTASTIC CONTINGENCY
When Reed Richards or an Army Card you control has all of its figures destroyed, before removing that figure from the battlefield or a glyph from its card, you may:
• move any Order Markers from that card to any other card you control; and
• choose a figure equipped with, occupying, or within 1 space of a glyph placed by Reed’s Visionary Theoretician special power and roll an unblockable attack die against it.

[toyhandle]

Updated, along with getting rid of "Reed Richards".

[IAmBatman]

yea

[Arkham]

yea