The Book of Sersi

[TrollBrute]

Just a heads up, haven't forgotten about this, just been busy this week. Now that King Shark's Initial is done, she's my top priority. I plan to run a couple games tomorrow or next week. I'll try her at 7 on Life and Matter Manip.

[johnny139]

Cool. No big deal if you can't get to it; I'll be able to run a few more games with her next weekend myself.

[TrollBrute]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Sersi

Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Sersi (450), Magneto (I, 310), Blob (165), Jubilee (60) (985) VS Professor Xavier (220), Blink (145), Jean Grey (180), Dazzler (100), Gambit (210), Spider-Girl (140) (995)
Unit Summary:
Damage w/normal: 3 wounds to Jean, 3 to Blink, 4 to Xavier, 4 to Gambit, 4 to Spider-Girl.
Matter Manipulation 7: 2 times used; 1 blank, 1 inflicted (1 to Dazzler), 0 healed.
Telekinetic Toss 8: 1 out of 1 roll; 1 wound (Blink).
Eternal Regeneration: 0 times used; 0 out of 0 shields.

Spoiler Alert!

Round One: teams move forward, with Sersi's team taking the height first. Magneto takes a wound from Spider-Girl.

Round Two: Spider-Girl moves adjacent to Blob and Magneto, but fails her first roll. Mags throws Jean, Gambit, and later Dazzler adjacent to Blob, but not before he takes two more wound from Dazzler. Xavier moves under the bridge. Blink then moved out and finished off Magneto, thanks to the -2 from Dazzler's markers. Sersi uses MM, one blank used to take down Dazzler.

Round Three: The X-Men are unable to do anything. Sersi throws Blink next to Blob, deals two to Jean with her normal attack.

Round Four: Sersi kills Jean and Blink. Blob takes a wound.

Round Five: Gambit puts two more wound on Blob. Sersi KOs Xavier in one hit, then does the same to Gambit.

Round Six: S-G does a wound to Blob, gets killed by Sersi.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes).R6T3: Sersi and Jubilee unwounded, Blob with 4/6 wounds.

Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: Sersi (450), Magneto (I, 310), Blob (165), Jubilee (60) (985) VS Professor Xavier (220), Blink (145), Jean Grey (180), Dazzler (100), Cyclops (190), Spider-Girl (140) (975)
Unit Summary:
Damage w/normal: 2 wounds to Dazzler,
Matter Manipulation 7: 1 time used; 2 blanks, 2 inflicted (1 each to Dazzler and Cyclops), 0 healed.
Telekinetic Toss 8: 0 out of 1 roll; 0 wounds.
Eternal Regeneration: 2 times used; 7 out of 17 shields.

Spoiler Alert!

This time, the X-Men just rolled right over Sersi's team. Spider-Girl engaged Xavier early and she down three consecutive turns, allowing Dazzler to weaken Bob and for Jean and Cyclops to take the big guy down, though Jean took two wounds from Cykes' Blast in the process. Dazzler then weakened Magneto and, even though he was able to kill S-G, he fell to Cyclops. Jubilee took down Jean and beat up Dazzler, but that was all for her.

Sersi then got all the OMs, but she was starting wounded and weakened by Dazzler. She did finish off Dazz, and went up against Cyclops, but she couldn't take the double turns from the X-Men. [I should note that I slightly misplayed this one, forgetting that Sersi could throw and attack on the same turn.]

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes).R6T2: Cyclops with 1/4 wounds, Xavier and Blink unwounded.

Army Test
Map: Swamp Lab
Units: Sersi (450), Star-Lord (250), Blob (165), Atom (50) (915) VS Thunderers of Qward x4 (520), Shadow Demons x3 (390) (910)
Unit Summary:
Damage w/normal: 4 Thunderers destroyed, 3 wounds to Shadow Demon A,
Matter Manipulation 7: 1 time used; 2 blanks, 1 inflicted (1 Thunderer), 1 healed (Star-Lord).
Telekinetic Toss 8: 5 out of 7 rolls; 2 wounds out of 4 (2 Thunderers).
Eternal Regeneration: 1 time used; 3 out of 6 shields.

Spoiler Alert!

This was an interesting one, as both teams were big threats to each other. Sersi got the bulk of the turns for Army One, especially once Star-Lord was in place. She threw Blob up, Star-Lord moved him into place, and then Sersi started blasting away. She got full use of all of her powers here. Matter Manipulation was only used once, but it healed Star-Lord and kept him alive for an extra turn.

Star-Lord went down pretty quickly. A Qwardian grabbed height on him and had the boost from a Shadow Demon. Blob kept the Shadow Demons from doing much early, by tying down two of them. Sersi was tearing through the Thunderers quickly, but her defense couldn’t hold against their attacks, once Star-Lord was down. She fell, leaving thrice-wounded Blob and Atom against two Shadow Demons and a Thunderer. Before Blob could take a turn, a Shadow Demon rolled a 20 on his Death Touch, killing Blob. Atom put up a good fight, sticking around for a couple rounds and killing a Demon, but he was too far behind.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes).R7T1: Shadow Demon C unwounded, 1 Thunderer remaining.

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THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: I was really worried after the first game, but the second two assuaged those worries some. Her+Blob+Magneto is a nasty combo, but Blob+Magneto is a nasty combo in its own right. Sersi has some serious potential, but it’s swingy with all those rolls, and her Defense of 4 won’t keep her around forever against higher attacks. I feel like 450 works, but I could easily see her coming up or going down based on more results.

GENERAL THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT: She has a lot she can do, and a lot of options, so that’s pretty neat. I didn’t feel that Matter Manipulation was super useful, but she usually had better choices in healing or attacking. Pretty fun design overall.

[johnny139]

Awesome. Thanks! She's definitely swingy and but I'm glad to see she feels accurate in general.

So, I PROPOSE WE MOVE TO PLAYTESTING!

[Viegon]

Yea

[A3n]

Yea

[Karat]

Yea

[quozl]

I'm just sad there's no pig transformations. Maybe in the DC version....

Yea

[TrollBrute]

Yea

[A3n]

Originally Posted by quozl

I'm just sad there's no pig transformations. Maybe in the DC version....

Yea

That was the plan...

[johnny139]

A bit late, but THIS PASSED! Sending out now...

[Viegon]

The SP still has Matter Manipulation 5, but we bumped it to 7 dice, didn't we? I'm going to try to knock out some games today, and unless someone tells me otherwise I'll play it at 7 dice.