The Book of Scarlet Witch (II)

[Arkham]

Thank you sir.

This passes.

[L0B5T3R]

Stinkin Ark flying in here with the coolest v2s! How does he do it?!

[Tornado]

Consistency. He has perhaps the most impressive LD list.

[Yodaking]

yea, like the changes.

[tcglkn]

Anything you want me to focus on in my testing tonight?

[Arkham]

Nothing comes to mind, whatever you feel has yet to be explored.

[tcglkn]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Scarlet Witch (II)

Army Test
Map: Custom (with 2 Small Houses in the middle)
Units: Scarlet Witch (II) (255), Blink, Sabretooth (II), Wild Child, Shadowcat (II) (1000) VS X-Men (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Sabretooth and Wild Child adv first and Blink and Scarlet Witch follow. Scarlet Witch is able to put a couple of Hex Markers on Jean and one on Iceman before she gets taken out (Sabretooth does take a couple wounds for Scarlet Witch but then Jean throws him to the other side of the house and he can't see Wanda anymore). When she died, she whiffed on all 3 of her unblockable dice which hurt her army. Sabretooth and Wild Child did a pretty solid job of taking card of the X-Men but Shadowcat also fell pretty quickly to Beast when she joined the battle and it went downhill from there.

Houses were certainly good LoS blockers, 4 move to get through them was worth it a couple of times for Sabretooth and Wild Child. I liked having them on the battlefield. Kinda felt like a neighborhood mutant battlefield from the X-Men movies.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Professor X and Beast with 1 wound each, Angel full health

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Army Test
Map: Custom (with 2 Small Houses in the middle)
Units: Scarlet Witch (II) (255), Vision, Captain America and Hawkeye (III) (1000) VS Fantastic 4

Spoiler Alert!

Scarlet really performed well. She piled a few early Hex Markers on Mister Fantastic and tried to stay out of the fight and she made him reroll a couple of 18+ rolls. One of which turned into a 3 which was brutal for the Fan 4 as the Avengers were able to take down Invisible Woman at that critical juncture.

Houses were certainly more of a nusance this game for Hawkeye as it made it hard for him to get his early attacks in while the other Avengers advanced.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Scarlet Witch with 3 wounds and 1 Hex Marker left and Vision with 1 wound

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Really like how this Scarlet Witch plays. The option to remove the Hex Markers to reroll dice is a really tough choice to make at times because the threat of unblockables when she dies is really nice. I'm not sure how many attack or defense rolls I would want to reroll, they'd have to be big hits on important figures but making Mister Fantastic reroll high Leadership rolls is important enough to justify burning the markers.

[Arkham]

You’re much more likely to get more wounds by forcing the defending figure to re-roll shields than you are with some unblockables upon death. Odds of them re-rolling a shield is lower than you rolling a skull on an unblockable. Plus, you’re forcing multiple shields re-rolled per marker. So I wouldn’t be going in with unblockables as the best approach, they’re more of an insurance policy if Scarlet goes down before it can be used, IMO.

Thanks for the tests! Looking good.

[tcglkn]

I mean it depends on the attacks you are rolling and how they are rolling on defense too, I guess. I'm not sure it's a clean cut better option one way or the other. Could have been more clear there.

[Yodaking]

Just so we are all on the same page, the intent is you can choose how many dice are re-rolled?

HEX PHENOMENA 6
Start the game with 6 red Hex Markers on this card. After moving and before attacking, you may choose a figure within 6 clear sight spaces of Scarlet Witch. Place a red Hex Marker from this card onto the chosen figure's card. After any attack dice, defense dice, or the 20-sided die is rolled for a figure with a red Hex Marker on its card, you may immediately remove a red Hex Marker from its card to re-roll any dice once.

So I hex the opponents Thor, Thor att. my Hulk, rolls 8 dice and gets 6 skulls & 2 shields, I remove the Hex Marker and make Thor re-roll the 6 skulls but not the 2 shields, Thor gets 3 skulls on the 6 re-rolled dice for an attack result of 3 hits.

[tcglkn]

I read that as any number of dice yes. Wording could probably be more clear.

[Arkham]

Yep. It’d say re-roll “all dice” for all, “any dice” for specific ones you choose.