The Book of Condiment King

[Karat]

He squirts it on the tiles and slides on in.

[japes]

If you want to go with the squirt it on the floor..

Before moving a figure within 6 spaces of Condiment King, you may remove the Ketchup Marker from this card to subtract 3 from that figures move.

Still works with the pun...they are chasing him and he's yelling come on Ketchup...gives a fragile figure some protection since they won't be able to get to him this turn. And thematically a slippery floor will slow you down.

[tcglkn]

Works against the goal of one big turn though, right now you can use all the markers to give him his one big turn and try to get his points worth before he gets taken out with 0 defense.

[Ronin]

Ketchup tracks for me, because it's essentially telling me the that he could catch up at any time of his choosing, but he's choosing to do it while blasting ketchup everywhere and making a stupid pun.

That sounds perfectly on brand for bargain basement Batman villainy.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I think that tracks for me. Thanks for putting it into clearer words, Ronin!

The plan is to set this one up today and run it Monday/Tuesday.

[IAmBatman]

C3G INITIAL ARMY PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: CONDIMENT KING
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = CONDIMENT KING
SECRET IDENTITY = MITCHELL MAYO

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = MISFIT
PERSONALITY = UNFORTUNATE
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 3
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 2
POINTS = 55

SAUCE GUN
Start the game with a white Mayo, a red Ketchup, and a yellow Spicy Mustard Marker on this card.
• After moving another figure you control, you may remove the Ketchup Marker from this card to move Condiment King up to 4 spaces.
• Before moving Condiment King, you may remove the Mayo Marker from this card. If you do, Condiment King will not take leaving engagement attacks this turn.
• Before attacking, you may remove the Spicy Mustard Marker from this card to add one automatic skull to each of Condiment King’s attacks this turn.

RELISH THE DAY
Once per game, when another Misfit or Criminal you control is destroyed, you may move any of your unrevealed Order Markers to this card. If you do, for the rest of the round add 2 to Condiment King’s Attack number, subtract 2 from his Defense number, and when he attacks, he may attack one additional time.

Army Test
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Joker (IV) (245), Killer Moth (65), Condiment King (55), Crazy Quilt (55), Harley Quinn (I) (130), Clayface (Preston Payne (130), Joker Goons (120) (800) vs Black Canary (190), Oracle (110), Green Arrow (Oliver) (150), Batman (II) (250), Robin (Dick Grayson) (100) (800)

Spoiler Alert!

Killer Moth chooses Condiment King.
Round 1: Initiative Birds of Prey. Green Arrow advances.
Joker Goons and Crazy Quilt advance.
Black Canary and Robin advance.
Joker Goons and Joker advance.
Black Canary advances. Robin follows the Secret Attack Plan and KO’s a Joker Goon.
Joker Goons put one wound on Black Canary and Clayface advances.

Round 2: Initiative Birds of Prey. Green Arrow snipes a Joker Goon.
The last Joker Goon stays put and has Clayface advance. Clayface hits Robin for two wounds with Toxic Touch (hits a 19).
Black Canary hits Joker for four wounds and Robin follows the Secret Attack Plan and hits Clayface for four.
Joker Goon fails an attack on Black Canary, then has Clayface go. Clayface KO’s Robin and heals. Then the Joker Goon has Clayface go again (one wound on Black Canary and a heal) and then destroys itself.
Black Canary fails an attack on Joker.
Crazy Quilt and Harley both fail to hit Black Canary.
Clayface’s Unstable Body takes an additional wound.

Round 3: Initiative Misfits. Clayface heals by putting one wound on Black Canary. Harley Quinn fails to finish Canary off.
Green Arrow targets Harley with an explosive arrow, which misses her, but KO’s Black Canary, puts two wounds on Clayface, puts two wounds on Crazy Quilt, and puts one wound on Joker.
Clayface tries Toxic Touch on Green Arrow. It misses, but Pernicious Prankster still wounds Green Arrow. Harley circles, looking for an opening.
Green Arrow follows the Secret Attack Plan and punches out Clayface. Joker sheds a marker to advance with Harley, himself, and Condiment King. Condiment King uses Ketchup during Harley’s move to advance a bit further, and triggers Relish the Day to take Clayface’s OM3.
Condiment King goes. It takes both of his attacks and his Spicy Mustard, but he puts three wounds on Green Arrow to KO him.
Batman advances.

Round 4: Initiative Birds of Prey. Batman advances and hits Harley with a Bolas, but fails three Shuriken throws on her, even with the Secret Attack Plan.
Killer Moth advances.
Batman misses a Bolas throw on Joker and he would KO Joker, but Joker cheats death.
Crazy Quilt hits Batman for a wound and Harley can’t move.
Batman takes three Shuriken attempts, but KO’s Joker.
Crazy Quilt hits Batman for a wound. Harley throws her Smilex Bomb and KO’s Condiment King and Batman.

Round 5: Initiative Birds of Prey. Harley advances.
Crazy Quilt advances.
Oracle advances.
Crazy Quilt hits Oracle for a wound.
Oracle targets Crazy Quilt, but Reactive Mind Control stops her.
Killer Moth advances.

Round 6: Initiative Oracle. She follows the Secret Attack Plan and KO’s Crazy Quilt.
Crazy Quilt had OM1.
Oracle advances.
Crazy Quilt had OM2.
Oracle hits Killer Moth for a wound from height.
Killer Moth hits Oracle back for two wounds.

Round 7: Initiative Misfits. Killer Moth KO’s Oracle.

Unit Summary: This one felt pretty close throughout, with the D20 rolls and other dice slightly favoring the Misfits. The map was in their favor as well, with Green Arrow really being unable to maximize his range in the sewer. Condiment King had his one big moment with Relish. If he’s starting to feel too powerful, I’ll probably drop his attack by one, but I like him so far, and he does not feel too crazy at all yet.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted (3) wounds on (Green Arrow (3)).
• SAUCE GUN: (Ketchup: Used Round 3 to advance after Joker’s bonus move.), (Mayo: Unused), (Spicy Mustard: Used on his relish turn.)
• RELISH THE DAY: Used Round 3 to save an Order Marker that was on Clayface when he fell. He got one turn and two attacks on Green Arrow.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Killer Moth with 3/4 Life and Harley Quinn with Full Life win.

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VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = CONDIMENT KING
SECRET IDENTITY = MITCHELL MAYO

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = MISFIT
PERSONALITY = UNFORTUNATE
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 3
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 2
POINTS = 55

SAUCE GUN
Start the game with a white Mayo, a red Ketchup, and a yellow Spicy Mustard Marker on this card.
• After moving another figure you control, you may remove the Ketchup Marker from this card to move Condiment King up to 4 spaces.
• Before moving Condiment King, you may remove the Mayo Marker from this card. If you do, Condiment King will not take leaving engagement attacks this turn.
• Before attacking, you may remove the Spicy Mustard Marker from this card to add one automatic skull to each of Condiment King’s attacks this turn.

RELISH THE DAY
Once per game, when another Misfit or Criminal you control is destroyed, you may move any of your unrevealed Order Markers to this card. If you do, for the rest of the round add 1 to Condiment King’s Attack number, subtract 1 from his Defense number, and when he attacks, he may attack one additional time.

Army Test
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Duploids (100), Electro (135), Parasite (240), Clock King (90), Condiment King (55) (620) vs Starfire (210), Raven (190), Nightwing (I) (200) (600)

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Initiative Criminals. Clock King advances.
Raven advances.
Elektro advances, followed by the Duploids.
Starfire advances.
Parasite advances, followed by the Duploids.
Titans Go! Starfire advances and hits Electro for two wounds. Raven advances and hits Electro for a wound. Nightwing advances, but isn’t in range.

Round 2: Initiative Criminals. Duploids hit Starfire for two wounds, then Electro hits Starfire and Raven each for wounds with his special attack. Condiment King plays Ketchup.
Titans Go! Starfire fails to hit Duploids twice. Raven takes three wounds from Starfire and transfers one of them to Electro to finish him. Nightwing uses his Escrima to KO two Duploids.
When Electro is taken down, it triggers Relish the Day. Initially I played it as is and Condiment King took out Starfire in one attack, and I realized that one big turn is just making him too powerful. So I’m retconning it to be +1/-1 attack/defense instead of +2/-2 and playing that version instead in this game. With the auto-skull and the +2 attack, he was just coming in too strong.
With this retcon, Condiment King still takes out Starfire on his turn.
Starfire had OM2.
Condiment King put two wounds on Raven and KO’ed her.
Starfire had OM3.

Round 3: Initiative Criminals. The last Duploid can’t hit Nightwing. Parasite advances.
Nightwing’s Escrima takes out the last Duploid.
Parasite hits Nightwing for an auto wound.
Nightwing attacks Parasite, but can’t hit.
Parasite hits Nightwing for an auto wound.
Nightwing dodges away and hits Condiment King for a wound.

Round 4: Initiative Criminals. Parasite fails to hit Nightwing for a wound.
Nightwing’s Escrima can’t touch Parasite, but do KO Condiment King.
Parasite hits Nightwing for a wound.
Nightwing can’t hit Parasite.
Parasite finishes Nightwing.

Unit Summary: Condiment King’s dice were juiced on his Relish the Day activation here and it proved too much, even with a reduction to +1 attack. Per usual, he did nothing else. After that swung the game, Nightwing’s nightmare match up with Parasite was too much. I’m mostly going to blame swingy dice here, but will bump his cost a bit if he is as successful next game as well. I also screwed up and accidentally put Electro in this one instead of the planned Black Mask + Bodyguard, so I was playing Condiment King 20 points undercosted. I think this would’ve been a decent margin anyway, due to his big attacks (all skulls versus a whiff by Starfire on one attack) but that 20 points isn’t nothing.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted (7) wounds on Starfire (5) and Raven (2).
• SAUCE GUN: (Ketchup: Used to get into position for a Relish the Day activation), (Mayo: Unused), (Spicy Mustard: Used during his first Relish the Day activation, in which he took down Starfire)
• RELISH THE DAY: He took two Order Markers and got in four big attacks, all with good rolls, and did his damage.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): [COLOR=red]Clock King with Full Life and Parasite with Full Life win./COLOR]

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VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = CONDIMENT KING
SECRET IDENTITY = MITCHELL MAYO

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = MISFIT
PERSONALITY = UNFORTUNATE
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 3
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 3
ATTACK = 2
DEFENSE = 2
POINTS = 55

SAUCE GUN
Start the game with a white Mayo, a red Ketchup, and a yellow Spicy Mustard Marker on this card.
• After moving another figure you control, you may remove the Ketchup Marker from this card to move Condiment King up to 4 spaces.
• Before moving Condiment King, you may remove the Mayo Marker from this card. If you do, Condiment King will not take leaving engagement attacks this turn.
• Before attacking, you may remove the Spicy Mustard Marker from this card to add one automatic skull to each of Condiment King’s attacks this turn.

RELISH THE DAY
Once per game, when another Misfit or Criminal you control is destroyed, you may move any of your unrevealed Order Markers to this card. If you do, for the rest of the round add 1 to Condiment King’s Attack number, subtract 1 from his Defense number, and when he attacks, he may attack one additional time.

Army Test
Map: Sewer Labyrinth
Units: Robot (210), Star-Lord (250), Condiment King (55), Nebula (240), Electro (135), Kid Flash (110) (1,000) vs Black Lantern (William Hand) (475), Black Lantern (Uncommon) (x3) (525) (1,000)

Spoiler Alert!

Round 1: Initiative Guardians. Robot carries up Star-Lord, Condiment King works to Ketchup, and Kid Flash trails behind him.
The Uncommon Black Lanterns advance.
Robot has Nebula and Electro advance.
Black Hand advances.
Robot has Nebula and Condiment King advance. Kid Flash tails along.
Black Hand inflicts and auto-wound on Star-Lord, but can’t hit with his attack.

Round 2: Initiative Guardians. Robot fails to hit Black Hand from height. Nebula comes in (Kid Flash follows) and hits Black Hand for one wound. Robot has Electro move up.
Black Hand inflicts one wound on Star-Lord, then punches him for two more.
Robot fails to hit Black Hand. Nebula hits Black Hand for two wounds. Robot has Electro move.
Black Hand fails to inflict a final wound on Star-Lord but then punches him out. Black Hand charges up the Uncommons and zombifies Star-Lord.
Robot hits Zombie Star-Lord for a wound. Electro uses his special attack to force Black Hand to burn a marker and then fails to hit Zombie Star-Lord.
Black Hand, looking for easier pickings, takes a swipe to disengage from Nebula, then fails to inflict a wound on Condiment King, but does land one wound with his attack.

Round 3: Initiative Black Lanterns. Black Hand KO’s Condiment King, recharges everyone, then Zombifies Condiment King.
Robot can’t hit Star-Lord, but Nebula KO’s him. Robot repositions Kid Flash.
Black Hand inflicts a wound on Kid Flash, then whiffs his attack.
Robot KO’s Zombie Condiment Man.
Black Hand fails to inflict an auto-wound on Kid Flash, but does punch him for two.
Robot fails to hit Black Hand, but Nebula makes him clear his last marker.

Round 4: Initiative Black Lanterns. Black Hand KO’s Kid Flash, misses his roll, and can’t zombify.
Robot can’t KO Black Hand, but Nebula does.
Black Hand had OM2.
Robot puts two wounds on Black Lantern blue.
Black Hand had OM3.
Robot forces Black Lantern blue to lose a power battery. Robot has Electro go. Electro uses his special attack and forces Black Lantern blue to drain his last battery, but fails to hit the other two Black Lanterns.

Round 5: Initiative Black Lanterns. They put one wound each on Electro and Robot.
Robot and Electro fail to do any damage.
Black Lanterns go. They put two wounds on Electro.
Robot KO’s Black Lantern blue. Electro can’t get in a hit.
Black Lanterns go. They wound Robot once, but can’t finish Electro.
Robot can’t hit. Electro puts two wounds on Black Lantern yellow.

Round 6: Initiative Guardians. Robot puts three wounds on Black Lantern white. Electro can’t hit.
Black Lanterns go. They destroy Electro, but no Blackest Night, then fail to hit Robot.
Robot forces Black Lantern white to drain a marker.
Black Lanterns go. They destroy Robot and hit Blackest Night. Robot is Zombified. The second Black Lantern advances.
Robot had OM3.
Black Lanterns advance and hit Nebula for two wounds.
Nebula repairs one wound.

Round 7: Initiative Black Lanterns. They hit Nebula for three wounds.
Nebula can’t get anything done.
Black Lanterns KO Nebula.

Unit Summary: This build definitely feels less powerful for Condiment King but also shows what happens if you focus on taking him out before one of his Criminal or Misfit allies – he’s easily dispatched without doing much first. This certainly felt like it could’ve gone either way, but Condiment King was not a big factor.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Never attacked.
• SAUCE GUN: (Ketchup: Used turn one to keep the pod close), (Mayo: Never used.), (Spicy Mustard: Never Used.)
• RELISH THE DAY: Never used.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Black Lantern (Uncommon) with 2/4 Life and 2 Battery Markers, and 1/4 Life and 1 Battery Marker, along with Zombie Robot with 2/5 Life win.

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[IAmBatman]

His getting off his big turn is far from a guarantee, but building around it in the right way does help increase its odds and he partners well with factional pieces, so I want to try bumping him up 10 points and seeing how he does in the public.

[Lord Pyre]

I mean, I personally would rather him trend DOWN than UP, since he's a joke even amongst jokes, but he looks fun!

Pre-Yea

Are you wanting to keep him in-sanctum like the rest of our April Fools/joke characters?

[Karat]

Pre-yea for testing

[IAmBatman]

I'm good with sending him out. I mean, he does have a legit Clix and comic book presence and everything, so maybe not as silly as some stuff?

If he comes in too strong in the next test, I'm cool with lowering his attack to 1. I'm only going to attack with him during the Relish turns anyway.

[IAmBatman]

But with the vodes (and votes) of confidence, I propose moving to Public Testing (once BL Crispus wraps, at least).

[tcglkn]

Looks good to me, Pre-yea at 65.