The Book of Long Ruin

[Red Eyed Jedi]

The Book of Long Ruin

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The object used for this unit is a Heroscape figure from the Rise of the Valkyrie set.
Its name is Long Ruin

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Object Bio - Amidst many civilizations, can be seen ruins from a town long since forgotten. Although no one resides here anymore, everyone can still enjoy the cover they provide, until they are destroyed that is!
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-Type of Destructible Object-

• Destructible Object: A Destructible Object can be targeted, destroyed, and removed from play the same way a figure is. See HERE for additional C3G Destructible Object rules.

-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• An adjacent figure with the Adaptive Camouflage Special Ability, can increase the benefit from the Cover this Ruin provides. Current Figures with Adaptive Camouflage Special Ability includes Shield Spotter, Shield Sniper, and Nick Fury.

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Red Eyed Jedi
• Second playtest: Griffin
• Third playtest: Griffin
• Art: Figure Pics1, Figure Pics2, Backgrounds
• Art by Scapemage, updated by tcglkn

Card Updates:
22 November 2021 - Defense boost reduced to match Short Ruins

[Red Eyed Jedi]

NAME = LONG RUIN


LIFE = 4

DEFENSE = 4

PARTIAL STRUCTURAL COVER
Figures adjacent to this Long Ruin that are not huge add 1 additional die to their defense against non-adjacent attacks.

[tcglkn]

Cool. I like the Super Strength immunity here. A3n recently commented on how annoying it was having all these easy ways to bypass Superman's defense and this definitely keeps the ruins as a light touch on the game which I prefer.

As a note, we'll want to split it into two threads when these objects are done, but I like the condensed thread right now for commenting.

[Margloth]

Look good to go to me!

[johnny139]

Do we want these throwable/movable? I feel like that'd be kinda weird.

[Red Eyed Jedi]

Sounds good to me. I'll make an extra thread for the Short Ruin when we get to that point.

I riffed off the Destructible Wall Section and the Warehouse Ruin for their Defense and Life. In some "fun" games with several Ruins, (4 of each in a maze type set up) they went down kinda fast, I remember reading somewhere that a new write up for the Wall Section and/or Warehouse is in the works. I'd like to increase their life or defense if the new Wall Section or Warehouse write ups has higher life/defense than the previous versions.

[quozl]

Here's a slight rewording. Also, I'd double the Life on both ruins as I think they should stick around for a little while.

DEGRADING COVER
Whenever this Destructible Object receives one or more wounds from a normal or special attack, the player controlling the attacking figure may immediately choose a figure adjacent to this Destructible Object who does not have Super Strength and roll 1 unblockable attack die against the chosen figure.

[Red Eyed Jedi]

Throw able is just so problematic with these, how to replace them on the field, the potential for cutting off parts off the field is just to much for a simple DO. It would be a ton of fun to do, But unless someone has an idea to do it simply, I'd like to leave it off.

EDIT: With a size of Large 6 they would be throwable, I'll need to edit that off, when breathing period is over.

[tcglkn]

I made the Breakable Wall Section easier to destroy in my write up so that it wouldn't be so useless to try and attack it. It just has 4 L and 4 D right now without an automatic shield or anything. I haven't started the thread or even drafted the design but that's my plan right now.

[johnny139]

In that case you'd need to drop the "Large 6."

I could see Life going up a BIT, but I don't want to see it too huge... I have DOs that have a lot of life because frankly I like them to be destructible, and I never bother attacking them otherwise.

[Margloth]

Johnny. Maybe a bump of 1-2 life.

[quozl]

The marvel warehouse ruin as 4 life and 4 defense but cannot receive wounds until the breakable wall is destroyed, which also has 4 life and 4 defense. So, in effect, the warehouse ruin has 8 life and 4 defense.

Perhaps the large ruin should have 7 life and the small one have 5 life?

And I agree about not giving them a size so they can't be thrown.