The Book of Captain America (Isaiah Bradley)

[Ronin]

yea

[Arch-vile]

yea

[MrNobody]

Yea

Man, y’all are killing me - no brakes on the public nomination train! Back in my day, we argued for 20 pages before moving to Initials, and we liked it.

[Lord Pyre]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

Man, y’all are killing me - no brakes on the public nomination train! Back in my day, we argued for 20 pages before moving to Initials, and we liked it.

20 pages to decide on Spoiler's class before picking something that pretty much nobody was real happy with.

Yea

[FreshFoods]

This passes!

[Tornado]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Captain America (Isaiah Bradley)

Army Test
Map: City Park
Units: Captain America, Isaiah(200), Sgt. Rock(175), Cap(240), Bucky(60), Oracle(110) vs. Judge Dredd(210), Judge Anderson(190), Judge Hershey(600), Brit-Cit x3(165), Skrull Infiltrator x2(20) [785]

Spoiler Alert!

R1: Bucky and Cap move. Judges move. Rock and Isaiah move. Judges move. Bucky moves, misses, Isaiah moves, (Into the Breach) Bucky misses, Cap moves, Rock engages, but fails to wound Dredd, Isaiah attacks Anderson(4/7skulls +1SAP) but is stopped by Pre-Cog Flash. Anderson wounds Isaiah(2/6shields) with Armour Piercing SA.
R2: Bucky misses, Into the Breach! Bucky and Cap miss, Rock wounds Dredd, Isaiah(1/6skulls) misses Anderson from low ground. Brit moves on to the fountain, 3wounds Rock. Bucky misses, ItB!, Bucky wounds a Brit, Cap and Rock miss, Isaiah (5/6skulls +1SAP) is stopped by PCF. Dredd wounds Rock. Bucky wounds a Brit, ItB!, Cap misses but Bucky KOs a Brit, Rock wounds Dredd. Brit KOs Rock.
R3: Bucky misses, ItB! Cap misses, Bucky moves, wounds Anderson, Isaiah(2/6skulls) misses Anderson. Brit moves, misses Isaiah(3/5shields). Bucky moves, KOs a Skrull, Cap misses Anderson(not a good game for popular Captain America). Anderson 2wounds Isaiah(2/6shields). Bucky misses Anderson, Cap is stopped by PCF. Dredd moves, wounds Isaiah(2/6shields, KOs a Brit, misses Isaiah(3/6shields)
R4: Bucky misses, Cap is stopped, PCF. Dredd misses Isaiah twice(3,3/6shields). Bucky misses, ItB!, Bucky and Cap miss, Isaiah (5/6skulls +1SAP) KOs Anderson. Dredd(normal attack, high ground) KOs Isaiah but Living Legend(9) kicks in, Bucky and Cap move. Bucky KOs a Skrull, Cap KOs Dredd.
R5: Brit KOs Isaiah(2/5shields). Bucky misses, Cap KOs Brit, misses Hershey who moves, 2wounds Bucky, misses Cap. Bucky 2wounds Hershey, Cap misses. Hershey KOs Bucky. Cap KOs Hershey.


Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): 4 wounds to KO Anderson in 1 attack, juiced with Cap and Secret Attack Plan bonus. A couple of nice attacks were blocked by Pre-Cog Flash.
• Living Legend: Rolled a 9. Ignored 1 wound from Dredd, moved Cap and Bucky out of engagement to set up range attacks.
• Into the Breach: used 5 times. Rolled 13 unblockables. Dealt 5 damage total.

The Judges struggled to inflict damage in this one. Their lack of bonding does not allow for much margin of error and a few bad rolls sank them. The Soldiers worked well together, moving in sync and unleashing solid attacks and unblockables.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Captain America(240) and Oracle: Full

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Army Test
Map: City Park
Units: Captain America, Isaiah(200), Sgt. Rock(175), Hulkbuster Soldiers x3(375), Thaddeus Ross (160), Bucky(60), Skrull Infiltratator x3(30) vs. F4

Spoiler Alert!

R1: Thing is Priority Objective. Bucky, Rock and Isaiah move. Thing and Reed move. Bucky moves, misses, Rock moves, misses Thing, Hulkbusters move. Torch moves, wounds Bucky. Bucky moves, Rock moves, is wounded by RWD, Hulkbusters move and unleash three attacks of 6 for two wounds on Thing. Reed quite bitter(FL4 rolls of 5,4 and 1) moves, wounds Rock.
R2: F4 retaliate, Sue moves, misses, Thing wounds Rock, Torch moves, misses, Reed misses. Bucky moves, misses, Isaiah moves, ITB!, Bucky engages Sue, wounds, Rock disengages with Thing and engages Reed, misses, Hulkbuster moves, wounds Torch, Hulkbuster moves, misses, Isaiah(1/6skulls) misses Thing who 4wounds Isaiah(1/5shields), Reed moves, KOs Isaiah but Living Legend(6) saves him. Bucky 2wounds Sue, ITB! Thing and Torch are misses, Sue and Reed take a wound, Isaiah(2/6skulls) misses Thing. Thing KOs Isaiah(1/5shields), Reed wounds Rock. Hulkbusters wound Thing, one is KO'd by RWD.
R3: Thing KOs a Hulkbuster, Reed misses Rock. Hulkbusters miss Sue, miss Torch who takes a swipe, KOs Rock and a Hulkbuster, Thing KOs Bucky, Reed moves. Hulkbusters move, 2wound Thing. Torch and Thing KO a HB, Reed misses. Ross calls in an Airstrike, misses Thing, wounds Reed and Torch.
R4: Hulkbusters move, KO Thing, wound Torch. Sue moves, KOs a HB, Reed moves. Hulkbusters move, miss Torch who KOs a HB, Reed moves KOs a HB. Last Hulkbuster wounds Reed. Sue moves, KOs last HB, Torch moves, wounds Ross, Reed moves.
R5: Ross wounds Reed. F4 2wound Ross who blanks out. Torch KOs Ross.


Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): None bad rolls versus high defense.
• Living Legend: Rolled a 6. Ignored 1 wound from Reed.
• Into the Breach: used 2 times. Rolled 8 unblockables. Dealt 4 wounds.

Despite terrible activation rolls the F4 pulled this one out but it was really close, an extra wound or two could have swung this one to the Soldiers. Ross is really nice for getting Soldiers into position for Into the Breach and the static Attack boost is nice. I think one squad of Hulkbuster Soldiers would have been plenty to get a few ITB rolls before Isaiah dies.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Mister Fantastic 4/5wounds, Human Torch 4/5wounds, Invisible Woman 3/5wounds

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THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Great addition to the expanding Soldier faction. Feels good cost wise. I think I preferred the first build a little better even though it only had three figures available for Into the Breach. The group could move quickly to set up ITB and had the staying power to get in a few attempts while allowing Isaiah to throw 7 Attack dice +1 for SAP, adding in Ross could add another attack die.
Ross was really nice in the second build boosting Move and Attack. The Rock and Ross combo can really juice the whole group allowing Isaiah to shine.

[FreshFoods]

Nice, thanks for the tests Tornado! Glad you enjoyed him

[FreshFoods]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT : Captain America (Isaiah Bradley)

VERSION PLAYTESTED :

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = CAPTAIN AMERICA
SECRET IDENTITY = ISAIAH BRADLEY

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = SOLDIER
PERSONALITY = PATRIOTIC

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 200

LIVING LEGEND
Once per game, if Captain America would be destroyed by receiving wounds, you may ignore those wounds and roll the 20-sided die.
• If you roll 9 or higher, you may move up to 4 figures you control up to 4 spaces each and
• If you roll 17 or higher, you may also roll two unblockable attack dice against a figure engaged with Captain America.
Figures moved by this special power do not take leaving engagement attacks.


INTO THE BREACH
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and ending Captain America’s movement engaged, you may choose up to four unegaged figures you control that are Soldiers or Scouts within 8 clear sight spaces of Captain America. Move the chosen figures up to 4 spaces each. You may choose one enemy figure adjacent to each figure moved by this power. Roll an unblockable attack die against the chosen figures.

Army Test
Map : Island Plane Crash (No Glyphs)
Units : Bradley (200)
Sgt. Rock (175)
Bucky (60)
Guile (130)
US Agent (230)
= 795

VS.

Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) (140)
Patriot (140)
Speed (160)
Stature (160)
Vision (Jonas) (190)
= 790

Spoiler Alert!

Pre-Game Thoughts/Preview :
Pretty standard ~800 point game. Young Avengers have some solid damage output, while the Soldiers have solid defense.

Damage Done (Normal Attack) : Attacked Patriot 1 time, 1 wound. Attacked Vision 2 times, 4 wounds. Attacked Hawkeye 1 time, 3 wounds.
Living Legend : Rolled a 5.
Into the Breach : Used 3 times. Rolled 3 die. Inflicted 2 wound.

ROUND 1 : Rookie initiative.
Turn 1 : Patriot runs forward while carrying the tiny Stature.
Bucky, Rock, and U.S. Agent move up.

Turn 2 : Hawkeye runs forward, barely getting a bead on Rock, and fires at him. She deals a total of 3 wounds with her Double Shot.
Bucky moves fires at Patriot with his Machine Gun. 1 wound. Rock throws a grenade at Patriot and Stature, 1 wound to each of them. Bradley moves forward.

Turn 3 : Vision flies forward, in front of Hawkeye.
Bucky uses Machine Gun on Patriot again, no wounds. Rock gets adjacent to Stature and attacks her, no wounds. Bradley moves up.

ROUND 2: Young Avengers win initiative.
Turn 1 : Hawkeye fires at U.S. Agent, trying to neutralize him before he gets into melee. No wounds.
Bucky deals 1 wound to Patriot, Rock fails to wound Stature, and Agent fails to wound Hawkeye with Shield Ricochet.

Turn 2 : Stature grows to her huge size, and attacks the adjacent Rock. No wounds. Hawkeye also failed to wound Agent with Not Your Sidekick.
Bucky failed to wound Patriot. Bradley charges in, activating Into the Breach on Agent and Bucky. 1 wound to Patriot. Bradley deals 1 wound to Patriot, finishing him off. Vision moves Speed with Fail Safe Planning.

Turn 3 : Hawkeye fails to wound Agent. Vision flies forward, and tries to fry Agent and Bradley with his Twin Solar Beams. 2 wounds on Agent, 3 wounds of Bradley.
Bucky deals 1 wound to the adjacent Stature. Agent moves adjacent to Vision and attacks. 1 wound.

ROUND 3 : YA initiative.
Turn 1 : Hawkeye deals 1 wound to Rock. Stature attacks him, no wounds.
A combined assault from Bucky and Rock topples Stature. Vision retreats to his allies with Fail Safe Planning. Guile starts to move.

Turn 2 : Hawkeye fails to wound Guile. Vision flies down to Guile and takes him out in one attack with 4 wounds.
Bradley and Bucky move up the flank, trying to pincer the remaining the Young Avengers.

Turn 3 : Hawkeye deals 2 wounds to Bucky. Speed rushes across the map, dealing 1 wound to Rock.
OM 3 was Guile.

ROUND 4 : Soldier initiative.
Turn 1 : Speed failed to wound Rock.
Bucky attacks Hawkeye, no wound. Rock fights the adjacent Speed, a massive 6 skull attack roll kills Speed in one attack. Bradley moves towards Hawkeye.

Turn 2 : Hawkeye attacks Bradley, no wounds. Vision flies adjacent to Bucky and attacks, but fails to wound.
Bucky attacks the adjacent Vision, no wounds. Bradley moves adjacent to Vision, proccing Into the Breach and moving Rock/Agent. 1 wound to Vision from Agent. Bradley attacks Vision, 1 wound.

Turn 3 : Hawkeye attacks Bradley, no wounds.
Bradley attacks Vision, no wounds. Rock moves with Into the Breach.

ROUND 5 : Young Avenger initiative.
Turn 1 : Hawkeye and Vision focus Bradley, activating Living Legend. He rolls a 5.
Bucky deals 1 wound to Vision. Rock throws a grenade at Hawkeye, 1 wound. Bradley attacks Vision, dealing 3 wounds and killing him.

Turn 2 : Was Vision.
Bradley moves adjacent to Hawkeye, and moves Rock, Bucky, and Agent with Into the Breach. None are close enough for unblockables. Bradley attacks, 2 wounds.

Turn 3 : Hawkeye attaacks the adjacent Bradley, no wounds.
Bucky fails to wound Hawkeye with Machine Gun. With Into the Breach, Bradley's 3 allies move up and attack, finishing Hawkeye. Soldiers win!

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Sgt. Rock 1/5 Life, Bucky 2/4 Life, U.S. Agent 3/5 Life, Isaiah Bradley 1/5 Life

Post-Game Thoughts: A closer game then the end makes it seem, the Young Avengers just couldn't finish units off at crucial times, particularly Rock. Bradley's movement from Into the Breach was really useful for his team this game.

Army Test
Map : Island Plane Crash (No Glyphs)

Bradley (200)
War Machine (270)
General Ross (160)
Hulkbuster Soldiers x3 (375)
= 1005
Vs.

Invincible (360)
Green Arrow 2 (210)
Red Arrow (150)
Flash *Wally* (280)
= 1000

Spoiler Alert!

Pre-Game Thoughts/Preview :
Not much to say about this one, the blue team has potential to do a lot of damage in one turn, but Flash and Invincible have to be wary of War Machine.

Damage Done (Normal Attack) : Attacked Red Arrow 3 times. 1 wounds.
Living Legend :
Into the Breach : Used 3 times. Rolled 3 die. Inflicted 3 wounds.

Green Arrow is chosen for Ross' Priority Objective.

ROUND 1: Soldier initiative.
Turn 1 : War Machine flies forward and towards the center of the map.
Invincible flies onto the height in the center as well, but out of range of Auto Chain Gun.

Turn 2 : Captain America moves up.
Red Arrow moves forward and fires at War Machine. No wounds.

Turn 3 : 3 Hulkbuster Soldiers move forward and open fire on Invincible. Each soldier rolls 3 skulls, dealing a total of 3 wounds to Invincible.
Green Arrow moves adjacent to Red Arrow and attacks a Hulkbuster. No wounds.

ROUND 2 : Soldier initiative.
Turn 1 : 3 Soldiers move up, 2 attack Invincible. No wounds.
Pretty beat up, Invincible retreats.

Turn 2 : The last 3 Hulkbusters move towards the center.
Green Arrow moves up and, from the trees, takes out 3 Hulkbusters.

Turn 3 : Bradley moves up, just out of engagement from Green Arrow.
Green Arrow tumbles down from his height, dealing 1 wound to Bradley.

ROUND 3 : Soldier initiative.
Turn 1 : Bradley moves adjacent to Red Arrow, Into the Breach brings War Machine and 3 Hulkbusters forward. Bradley attacks Red, no wounds.
Green Arrow moves towards the rear of the plane, attacking Bradley and dealing 1 wound.

Turn 2 : 3 Hulkbusters take the center height and fire down on Green Arrow. Rough rolls lead to Green Arrow going down in a hail of gunfire.
Seeing his ally go down, Flash runs forward and tries to whittle away at the opposition. His unblockable fails to wound Bradley. Auto Chain Gun deals 0 wounds to Flash.

Turn 3 : War Machine flies across the gap and rains havoc with his Armor Piercing Rocket Launcher. 2 wounds to Flash.
OM 3 was Green Arrow.

ROUND 4 : Blue team initiative.
Turn 1 : Flash taps into the Speed Force, and goes after Bradley and 2 Hulkbusters. 1 wound to Bradley.
The 3 Hulkbusters adjacent to Flash open fire on him. Their combined assault takes Flash out.

Turn 2 : Was Flash.
War Machine opens up with his Armor Piercing Rocket Launcher again, 1 wound to Red Arrow.

Turn 3 : Seeing his allies get gunned down, Invincible uses the rest of his strength to drop a Super Punch on a clustered group of Hulkbusters. A massive attack roll turns 3 Hulkbusters into paste.
Bradley's Into the Breach moves War Machine adjacent to Red Arrow, and a Hulkbuster adjacent to Invincible. 1 wound to each. Bradley attacks Red Arrow, no wounds.

ROUND 5 : Blue team initiative. Invincible heals 1 wound.
Turn 1 : Invincible fails to kill an adjacent Hulkbuster.
The remaining 3 Hulkbusters get on equal ground to Invincible, and fire at him. Invincible takes 2 wounds.

Turn 2 : Invincible takes out a Hulkbuster.
Ross calls down his Air Strike, taking Invincible out.

Turn 3 : Was Invincible.
Bradley deals 1 wound to Red Arrow.

ROUND 6 : Soldier initiative.
Turn 1 : Bradley moves two Hulkbusters with Into the Breach, and they take Red Arrow out. Soldiers win!

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): War Machine 4/4 Life, Hulkbuster Soldiers 3/9 Survive, Isaiah Bradley 2/5 Life, Thaddeus Ross 4/4 Life

Post-Game Thoughts: Good god were the Hulkbusters hot this game. They were rolling 3 skulls pretty often, and just turned their enemies into swiss cheese. Bradley clogged up the center against Red Arrow, and was able to provide pretty constant movement to his allies as it was needed. I also think this was a game that could have been turned around with a little more luck on the blue teams side, but overall a pretty comfortable victory for the soldiers.

Thoughts on the Tested Unit's Cost, Balance, and Draftability : I'm happy with Bradley's cost. I was worried he was going to feel a little eh at 200, but I think he's really reliant on the right team composition. Bradley should be a pretty consistent pick for Soldiers at the moment, constant movement and being a solid beater makes him appealing.

General Thoughts on the Tested Unit : I'm happy with how he's turned out. He has a clear, strong synergy with Sgt. Rock, but you're not pigeonholed into running them together. Neither army felt particularly overpowered, just overall solid armies. One close-ish victory and one big victory has me feeling good moving forward.

[Arkham]

Cool design. Digging the Soldier synergy.

Looking over the tests, he went 3-4, no crazy standout games on his behalf. 200-210 looks good to me if you want to try and call it. Make sure to link all the tests in the OP.

Into the Breach should probably be listed first. Here's some wording fixes:

INTO THE BREACH
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and moving normally with Captain America, if he ends this movement engaged, you may move up to 4 unengaged Scout or Soldier figures you control within 8 clear sight spaces of Captain America up to 4 spaces each. After each Scout or Soldier is moved, you may roll an unblockable attack die against one figure engaged with that Scout or Soldier.

LIVING LEGEND
Once per game, if Captain America would be destroyed by receiving wounds, he instead takes no damage and you may roll the 20-sided die. If you roll 9 or higher, move up to 4 figures you control up to 4 spaces each. If you roll 17 or higher, you may also roll two unblockable attack dice against a figure engaged with Captain America. Figures moved with this special power do not take leaving engagement attacks.

[FreshFoods]

Appreciate it Arkham. I do think he's ready roll, linked the tests and updated the wording.

Is it ok to move on with the just initial and two other tests?

[tcglkn]

Yep, 2 tests is the minimum and we move a lot of designs forward with that if they are good.

[FreshFoods]

Ok, awesome. I think he's good to move on, nothing from his tests was too wild.

I propose we move to Final Editing at 200 points.