The Book of King of Spades

[Lord Pyre]

Sorry just got caught up here. Looks good though! Yea

[Yodaking]

I must have missed the link for this thread. Didn't realize it had been started until seeing a post on Discord about it.

yea

[tcglkn]

Cool, I'm gonna start at 240 and see how that goes.

[tcglkn]

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: King of Spades

Army Test
Map: X Marks the Spot
Units: King (240), Ace (250), Wizard, Nitro (800) VS Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Casey Jones (800)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Done: 2 wounds on Luke Cage and 2 on Iron Fist

Enhanced Charisma: Removed one OM from Luke Cage

Explosive Cards SA: Dealt the two wounds to Luke

Royal Flush: Activated Ace four times

Ace's Ace Up the Sleeve: Used twice before King fell.

This was pretty fun, the movement boost from Wizard was useful and Nitro was very good. Sent Nitro up first to try and get as much damage in as he could and then followed up with King/Ace while he reassembled. Didn't end up using Wizard but Ace and Nitro did a majority of the damage.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Nitro with 3 wounds, Wizard full health

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Army Test
Map: X Marks the Spot
Units: King (240), Star-Lord, Judge Fear, Beast and Meteorite (1000) VS Doc Ock II, Kraven, Sandman, Electro, Mysterio, Vulture (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Done: Killed Mysterio and dealt 2 wounds to Vulture and 2 LEA wounds to Doc Ock.

Enhanced Charisma: Didn't remove any OMs from Doc Ock, but it did motivate him to leave engagement a couple times to avoid it.

Explosive Cards SA: Used for most of his attacks once he got into the action.

Royal Flush: NA

Kraven was hunting Star-Lord.

Doc Ock did not roll well on his Swat this game but was able to avoid losing any OMs to King. Star-Lord fell pretty early to Kraven though and the rest of the OM Removal squad just wasn't able to do enough to stop Sandman and Electro.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Sandman 2 wounds, Electro 3 wounds

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Army Test
Map: X Marks the Spot
Units: King (240), Ace (250), Duploids, Wizard, Penguin (II), Hired Guns (1000) VS Fantastic Four (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Done: 2 wounds to Mister Fantastic

Enhanced Charisma: Didn't get the chance to remove any OMs.

Explosive Cards SA: Used for most attacks while he was in the action, couldn't really break through IW's defensive boost though.

Royal Flush: Provided 3 turns to Ace.

Ace's Ace Up the Sleeve: Used twice.

Fantastic Four did Fantastic Four things and rolled hot on the leadership power early in round one and into round 2. (first two turns were 18 and 19) So they were able to get into position before the villains and while the Hired Guns were able to take down Torch by round 3, it was still hard for the bad guys here. Thing cleaned up in the end after getting a big Clobbering Time attack on King in the midgame.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Thing with 4 wounds.

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: He was a ton of fun, he still felt slightly over costed so I could see 230 being right for him in the end, but also lean towards him being priced a tad high right now since there are more Royal Flush Gang members still to come.

[tcglkn]

Planning to start on this later tonight. Any feedback on the armies @LordVenoc or anyone else who might be smarter than me? Was surprised that we really do not have as many criminals as I thought.

[Ronin]

Dang, you musta thought we had an absolute crapload of Criminals.

[tcglkn]

Yea I guess I just thought more of the Crime Lords, Thieves and similar stuff were Criminals. There wasn't as much of a spread on points for Criminals as I would have thought.

[IAmBatman]

As far as classes go, Criminals having 33 is pretty high.

[LordVenoc]

Let's see, some random thoughts:

1) Penguin II could be a good one to help leverage enhanced Charisma, and helps add some auto wounds to the team.

2) A crime fighter pair up with Songbird could be interesting, as she will help give King some staying power, and be a bonding partner if Ace goes down. Probably won't want to run more than one of these, as it will become less viable as the team grows, but I think this guy has some solid merit on his own as a faction jumper.

3) Your army three seems a bit all over the place? Its kind of disruptiony, kind of synergy focused, and against the rock army that is the guardians may have some trouble. Mother Russia especially almost feels like a waste there as she seems focused on trying to get lots of kills in a row (like fighting squads) but the Guardians are gonna be quite tough for her to crack. swapping her and the Mysterio stuff more toward autowounding potential or movement potential may suit you better.

I'll try and have some more thoughts later.

[IAmBatman]

Might be worth trying an Order Marker removal/turn denial generalist build with Star-Lord, Judge Fear, Beast, Meteorite, and King at 1,000.

[tcglkn]

Cool, updated with Bat's build for Army test 2 and tweaked the third build to get Penguin and the Hired Guns in there. I'll let someone else test the Songbird build, I do think that's a good idea though.

[tcglkn]

Finished and filled out the sheet here.