The Book of Superman Action Figure

[Tornado]

Yea

[Soundwarp SG-1]

yea

[tcglkn]

This passes

[IAmBatman]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM
NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: SUPERMAN ACTION FIGURE
VERSION TESTED

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = SUPERMAN ACTION FIGURE

SPECIES = ANDROID
UNIQUENESS = COMMON HERO
CLASS = TOY
PERSONALITY = AGGRESSIVE

SIZE/HEIGHT = SMALL 2

LIFE = 1

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 30

OPTICAL LASERS
Instead of attacking, you may choose a figure within 3 clear sight spaces. Roll the 20-sided die, adding 3 to your roll if Superman Action Figure has clear sight on a non-adjacent figure's Target Point. If you roll 17 or higher, inflict 1 wound on the chosen figure.

FLYING

Army Test
Map: UNDERGROUND CATACOMBS
Units: Toyman (135), Gundam RX (300), Superman Action Figure (x8.) (240), RC Car (x5) (25) (700) vs TMNT (700)

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Round 1: Initiative Toyman. He flies forward with the Gundam and moves up two Superman Action Figures.
Mikey advances.
Toyman creeps forward and then moves up three more Action Figures.
Turtle Power! Leo, Donnie, and Raph advance.
Gundam, two RC Cars, and an Action Figure advance.

Round 2: Initiative Toyman. Gundam advances and blasts Donnie for a wound. His Gauntlet goes flying. Two Action Figures advance and both fail to burn Donnie’s retinas.
Mikey leaps forward and takes out an Action Figure.
Gundam blasts Mikey for two wounds, then two Action Figures go and they burn Mikey to KO him.
Turtle Power! Leo double slashes Gundam for two wounds. Donnie takes a swipe from an Action Figure, Staff Vaults, and fails to hit the Gundam on a double attack. Mikey had the X.
Gundam attacks Leo for two wounds. Two Action Figures advance and one zaps Leo for a third wound.

Round 3: Initiative Turtles. Leo double slashes the Gundam for three wounds, then goes Turtle Power! Raph advances and destroys an Action Figure. Donnie Staff Vaults and puts the last two wounds on the Gundam.
Toyman can’t hit Leo from range, but moves two Action Figures and one puts a fourth wound on Leo with its Optic Lasers.
Raph takes two attacks, but KO’s an Action Figure.
Toyman Toy Soldier Stomps Raph for one wound, then has two Action Figures advance and they finish Leo with their Optic Lasers.
Raph burned OM3 for Turtle Power.
Toyman fails to hit Raph with Toy Soldier Stomp and two Action Figures move, but only one is in range to attempt Optic Lasers and it fails.

Round 4: Initiative Turtles. Raph leaps back to even height and smashes one Superman Action Figure.
Toyman can’t hit Donnie, but one of three Action Figures does hit him for a wound.
Donnie can’t hit a Superman Action Figure.
Toyman and two Action Figures can’t do anything.
Raph KO’s one Action Figure.
Toyman and two Action Figures can’t do anything.

Round 5: Initiative Toyman. He can’t do anything, but Optic Lasers finally finish Donnie.
Raph can’t hit an Action Figure in two tries.
Toyman can’t hit Raph and Action Figures hit one of three.
Raph is hated on by the dice and does nothing.
Toyman catches Raph whiffing and Action Figures go one for two.
Raph finally destroys an Action Figure.

Round 6: Initiative Raph. He KO’s the second to last Action Figure.
Toyman can’t hit Raph. Nor can the last Action Figure. Two RC Cars advance.
Raph destroys the last Action Figure, but can’t hit Toyman.
An RC Car collides into Raph to finish him.

Unit Summary: The combination was feeling really fierce until Optical Lasers went cold in Round 4. At that point things started to drag, as Raphael held on defensively, but couldn’t take out Action Figures very fast. In the end, the toys just had too many chances and wore the TMNT down.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Never used.
• OPTICAL LASERS: Rolled (25) times and put (10) wounds on (Michelangelo (2), Leonardo (4), Donatello (2), Raphael (2))

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Toyman with Full Life and all 5 RC Cars win.

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Army Test
Map: MARTIAN WARZONE
Units: Toyman (135), Gundam RX (300), Superman Action Figure (x8.) (240), RC Car (x5) (25) (700) vs Superman (II) (450), Batman (II) (250) (700)

Spoiler Alert!

Batman brings Bolas, Shuriken, and the Bat Grapple.
Round 1: Initiative Toyman. Gundam and two RC Cars advance.
Batman advances.
Gundam zaps Batman for two quick wounds. The rest of the RC Cars advance.
Superman zooms forward and bashes the Gundam for three wounds.
Gundam can’t hit Superman from height. Three Action Figures advance and all miss Optic Lasers attempts on Superman.
Superman flies off lava field and fails to hit Gundam with his Heat Vision.
Gundam isn’t hurt by lava field.

Round 2: Initiative Toyman. Gundam rolls all skulls on the special and hits Superman for two wounds. Three Action Figures swarm Superman and hit two of three Optic Lasers rolls.
Superman uses his Super Breath to pull Gundam closer to him and send two Action Figures into molten lava death.
Gundam can’t hit Superman and neither can two Action Figures, but they continue to swarm him.
Superman uses his Super Breath again but the only Action Figure he can actually get into molten lava this way hits a 20.
Gundam puts Superman down to 2 life and one of three Optic Lasers rolls hit to bring Superman down to a single life.
Superman smashes one Action Figure to bits from height.
Lava Field claims two more Action Figures and puts one wound on the Gundam.

Round 3: Initiative Toyman but the Gundam and three Action Figures all fail to put Superman down.
Superman smashes another Action Figure.
Gundam finishes Superman. Two Action Figures advance and fail Optic Lasers on Batman. An RC Car advances.
Superman had OM2.
Gundam can’t hit Batman. One of two Optic Lasers tries does.
Batman destroys an Action Figure with his Bolas.
Gundam takes another lava field wound and an RC Car melts.

Round 4: Initiative Toyman. Gundam finishes Batman.

Unit Summary: The Gundam was rolling hot here and Batman couldn’t hit a Shadow Strike. The Superman Action Figures complement the Gundam very well in that they give it a cheap defensive screen that’s hard to break free from without risking a ton of leaving engagement attacks. It was tough sledding for Superman and Batman. Lava did a lot of work for the World’s Finest here to make it look closer than it probably was.

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): Inflicted (X) wounds on (X)
• OPTICAL LASERS: Rolled (1 times and put (4) wounds on (Superman (3), Batman (1))

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Toyman with Full Life, Gundam RX with 2/7 Life, 1 of 8 Superman Action Figures, and 4 of 5 RC Cars win.

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UNIT SUMMARY: Mechanically I’m really liking them and the combination with Toyman. 30 points feels a bit too cheap, though, since, unlike the RC Cars, they can look you into engagements and make it tough to get to Toyman and any offensive pairing he has (like the Gundam in these tests). 14+ isn’t hard to hit for auto wounds given tons of chances either.

[Soundwarp SG-1]

How does one draft a cool guy smiley face's worth of action figures?

[IAmBatman]

You have to be extra cool. Like cool x8.

[tcglkn]

You thinking 35 or 40 points?

[IAmBatman]

Honestly felt like 40-50 but that might've been the dice too. I'd probably start at 40 and see how that feels.

[tcglkn]

Sounds good, I had them at 35 and wasn't that impressed by them so I definitely don't think they're worth 50 points.

[IAmBatman]

Looks like I got a ton more utility out of the Optic Lasers. I wonder what accounts for that?

[tcglkn]

Were you using it while you were engaged? You only get the boost to the roll if you target a non-adjacent figure.

[IAmBatman]

Ah, yeah, I missed that. I did use it with figures that weren't engaged a lot of the time, but I also had plenty of uses when engaged that wouldn't have hit. So that probably would lower the hit percentage by a bit.