The Book of Kool-Aid Man

[Yodaking]

Okay, I'll try a JL build. I believe Cyborg works with Scientist and I wanted to use KMA to heal Superman, maybe Flash too. Then maybe run him with a range heavy team so he doesn't need to get too close to the enemy to do his thing.

[Tornado]

Sounds good. His big drawback is usually requiring an OK to go out and heal or you have to attack him yourself.

[Tornado]

Here are the first couple mock ups. Figures are Fireball and Stompa.
I think Fireball's legs and Stompa's arms may be the ticket.
I need to pick up a fine tip Sharpie and practice drawing the face. Going to try filling it with actual Kool-Aid for the pic. Will try to paint a pitcher as well.
@Arkham I can send you a few if you are willing to try a mod.

[Ronin]

Quick double-check (apologies if this was already covered): should he be able to heal even if it destroys him?

[Yodaking]

I believe that was the intent, it was at least how I thought the power worked.

[Arkham]

I can try the mod. I think what you have looks good though. Just needs the limbs painted, the juice inside, and the face, but the overall looks is there.

[Tornado]

EDIT: Thanks Arkham. I guess I will see how it goes, I have the time and the pitchers to experiment with.



Yes, that is the intent. I brought it up earlier. Not sure if we need to clarify.

[Ronin]

Might need a little clarification. Didn't come up in game one, though!

[Spidey'tilIDie]

@Tornado I agree that Stompa's arms with Fireball's legs would look the best. Did you use something to temporarily stick them on? Perhaps try painting the face before applying the arms and legs.

[Arkham]

I'm not sure which is which, but the left arms and the right legs are a good pair.

[Ronin]

Second clarification (again, sorry for my memory not coming through here): is it intentional that his first power can heal enemies?

[Ronin]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Kool-Aid Man @100 points

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units: Fantastic Four, Kool-Aid Man (1100) vs Original X-Men, Armor (1100)

Spoiler Alert!

Jean's d20 was on fire here, so she managed to bust up Reed's pod pretty handily and get him taken out early on, leading to a big win for the X-Men.

Kool-Aid got one chance to do some healing, and took a wound off Sue and Johnny. He wasn't efficient enough to get fed any more OMs, though. The FF really didn't want to take a lot of OMs off Ben and miss opportunities for Clobbering Time. Jean didn't want to venture outside of Charles' protection, so she picked him off from range instead of trying to drink the Kool-Aid herself.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): not used
• Hey, Kool-Aid Man!: used 1 time to heal Sue and Johnny
• Oh, Yeah!: not used
• Everyone Loves Kool-Aid!: not used - only damaged by non-adjacent attacks
• Damage Taken: 3 wounds from Cyclops in 1 special attack, 2 wounds from Hey Kool Aid, 3 wounds from Jean in 3 attacks (destroyed)

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Professor X unwounded, Cyclops unwounded, Angel unwounded, Armor with 2 wounds, Jean with 1 wound

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Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl (with a couple extra trees on it for color and Oh, Yeah! relevance)
Units: Kool-Aid Man, Star-Lord, Nebula, Oracle (700) vs TMNT (700)

Spoiler Alert!

Kool-Aid Man got moved up a little bit early on so that he could be in position to heal later on. Unfortunately he moved up maybe a little too far, and got ambushed by the TMNT on a big Turtle Power turn, where they did a bunch of damage to him and Mikey drank some Kool-Aid to heal up.

At the end of the second round, Kool-Aid Man used Hey Kool-Aid Man and Oh Yeah to drop a tree on Mikey and heal Star-Lord for a wound, sacrificing himself in the process.

I wasn't sure, at this point, whether or not Hey, Kool-Aid Man should be healing Michelangelo, who was also adjacent to Kool-Aid Man at the end of his Hey, Kool-Aid Man! movement. It didn't make much of a difference in the long run, because Mikey was attacked and destroyed before he could be activated again. He took enough wounds to be destroyed either way (either just enough if he was healed by HKAM or 1 excess if he was not).

The wound gave Star-Lord some extra legs and let him hang with Leo a turn longer than he would have in the endgame. Unfortunately, Quill couldn't crack Leo's defense in that time, and the Guardians ended up going down.

Unit Summary:

• Damage Done (Normal Attack): not used
• Hey, Kool-Aid Man!: used one time. Sacrificed himself to heal Star-Lord for a wound and, coincidentally, Mikey for a wound
• Oh, Yeah!: dropped a tree on Mikey for a wound
• Everyone Loves Kool-Aid!: healed Mikey 1 wound
• Damage Taken: 2 wounds from Donatello in 2 attacks, 4 wounds from Michelangelo in 2 attacks, 2 wounds from Hey Kool-Aid Man (destroyed)

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Leonardo unwounded

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Fun, and interesting as a super open-ended healer with some built-in downsides.

Running him with the FF didn't feel way better than generalist stuff to me - Invisible Woman definitely gives him a lot more ability to hang on the front line after he rushes in for that initial heal, but his need for an OM keeps him from being too easy to work into the FF (and Hey, Kool-Aid demanding he move up to an engaged figure makes it harder for him to heal Sue, who you really want to keep out of engagements as much as possible).

I think his cost could probably come down a little? I'd like to play it a little safe because of his open-endedness and inclusion in the Scientist synergy, but I don't think he'd be juice(d) with a slightly lower price tag.