Wave 11 Boosters

[Classicsmiley]

Great work, guys! These all look really good!

I'm a little curious why the Wyvern's Talon Grab and the Drow Chainfighter's Chain Grab both specify that the unit to be moved must be an opponent's unit. Neither of the abilities inflict damage, and it seems like they could be useful in getting your own units out of (or into, if you want) trouble. Was it a cost issue, or an issue with the powers becoming to wordy and/or complex?

[A_Train]

Originally Posted by Matthias Maccabeus

Man, if I'm understanding the air elemental's powers. It's really going to cramp my melee style. Get a few of these guys set up in front of your ranged pod and my knights will just fall by the bucketloads as they try to swarm the ranged pod. The air elemental(s) will slow them down majorly!

Edit -

For all you Marvel lovers - you can use the Earth Elemental as the Thing!

Theoretically, if someone were to field an entire army of Air Elementals, a melee army could do nothing about that. (Also theoretically, if they played an army of 6 or so Air Elementals, they could set up the wall to protect a ranged pod, like you said).

It'll definitely hurt melee.

[nyys]

What about a figure that has disengage (or one that wants to pass and risk the leaving engagement strike) moving past the Air Elemental?

It's stopped initially, but on the next turn can it walk past the Air Elemental or is is stopped after moving just one (becoming adjacent) and then stopped again when moving away since it would still be within 2 spaces?

[Strack9]

Originally Posted by nyys

It's stopped initially, but on the next turn can it . . . is is stopped after moving just one (becoming adjacent) and then stopped again when moving away since it would still be within 2 spaces

this one

[Taeblewalker]

Originally Posted by quozl

You might need to switch to Minions or Sentinels.

Who lose a Defense die. Lose-lose!

Originally Posted by Tai-Pan

Also, I love the Wyvern. The snatch power and being a spider-bonding predator is absolutely amazing. I had always had a problem using spider-bonding because either the spiders died quickly or Sujoah did, and now the spiders have a common predator to bond with. 4x Spiders, Sujoah, and 2-3 Wyverns sounds like a blast to me!

The Wyvern can place a figure among your spiders, who can then steal an order marker from him.

[LilNewbie]

Originally Posted by Classicsmiley

Great work, guys! These all look really good!

I'm a little curious why the Wyvern's Talon Grab and the Drow Chainfighter's Chain Grab both specify that the unit to be moved must be an opponent's unit. Neither of the abilities inflict damage, and it seems like they could be useful in getting your own units out of (or into, if you want) trouble. Was it a cost issue, or an issue with the powers becoming to wordy and/or complex?

My guess is game balance more than anything since I can see a whole bunch of abusive game issues if they could move friendlies with these powers especially since there is no roll to activate those powers (at least for the Wyvern).


Newb.

[Grungebob]

Originally Posted by Classicsmiley

Great work, guys! These all look really good!

I'm a little curious why the Wyvern's Talon Grab and the Drow Chainfighter's Chain Grab both specify that the unit to be moved must be an opponent's unit. Neither of the abilities inflict damage, and it seems like they could be useful in getting your own units out of (or into, if you want) trouble. Was it a cost issue, or an issue with the powers becoming to wordy and/or complex?

In D&D these units do not move their own guys around. That is just a theme break.

[Robotech Master]

Originally Posted by Matthias Maccabeus

Man, if I'm understanding the air elemental's powers. It's really going to cramp my melee style. Get a few of these guys set up in front of your ranged pod and my knights will just fall by the bucketloads as they try to swarm the ranged pod. The air elemental(s) will slow them down majorly!

Edit -

For all you Marvel lovers - you can use the Earth Elemental as the Thing!

You can use Gilbert, if you roll enough to move knights or whatever within 2 spaces of it, you can then use the Knights actual turn to complete the adjacency.

I also think the existence of the Air Elemental in the draft, especially once the Elementalist gets released, will improve the desirability of large melee figures. The Air Elemental can't do anything about Templar, Deathstalkers, Brunak, etc.

[wriggz]

Originally Posted by LilNewbie

My guess is game balance more than anything since I can see a whole bunch of abusive game issues if they could move friendlies with these powers especially since there is no roll to activate those powers (at least for the Wyvern).


Newb.

Yes a power where you can carry a friendly figure without a d20 would be broken, especailly with flying.

[A_Train]

Is it accepted that flying figures are not affected by Swirling Vortex?

[Jexik]

Originally Posted by A_Train

Is it accepted that flying figures are not affected by Swirling Vortex?

Yes. TheGuru wrote the preview.

[LilNewbie]

Originally Posted by wriggz

Yes a power where you can carry a friendly figure without a d20 would be broken, especailly with flying.

A friendly figure that was engaged by enemies would be (Theracus has limitations which the Wyvern doesn't).

Newb.