The Book of Outer Space Terrain Rules

[IAmBatman]

Sweet! Sounds like you ended up at the same point as I did: really enjoying where these rules ended up! I feel like they both have a huge and thematic impact on the game without feeling overpowering, confusing, or gamebreaking. I'm really happy with how they felt in gameplay and seems like your results reflect mine!

Thanks for the tests. I look forward to seeing some of the creative map builds and uses folks come up with for this stuff.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Oh yeah!! The gameplay was super fun and simple. I can't wait to see where this goes with the possibility of Meteors and all kinds of stuff.

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, trying to stay as elegant with those is going to be a challenge.

[Yodaking]

Did either of you play with the knock back rules? I don't usually use them, but reading that report made me think they might be more significant in outer space.

[IAmBatman]

Being able to knock someone into space (or throw them with whatever powers) does seem significant, yeah.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, might try some throwers out like Jean Grey or Magneto. Haven't settled on the armies yet for my second game. First one is going to be Annihilus + Invaders vs. GotG. Or maybe I should try out a game with the Cosmic Cube floating around since it can wound someone on one turn, then move them into space on the next one.

[Dr. Jekyll]

Yeah, I used the knockback rules for my test. It was awesome.

[Yodaking]

Alright, cool. Glad that got covered then.

[IAmBatman]

That's a cool idea, YK.

[IAmBatman]

Thanks for the tests!

Originally Posted by redstang

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Outer Space Terrain

Army Test
Map: Outer Space Mat
Units: Team A: Ronan, Noh-Varr, Kree Soldier x4, Kree Scout x4 – 900 Points
Team B: General Zod, Ursa, Kryptonian Infiltrator x2 – 900 Points

Battle Summary
There was a definite disadvantage here for the Kree as the Scouts and Soldiers weren’t able to fly, thus were limited in their movement. It was obvious that going against an army of Kryptonians in Space is going to be a bad idea for other teams, as they all have Super Strength and Flying.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes):
Kryptonians win with Zod unharmed and Ursa with one wound.

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Army Test
Map: Outer Space Mat
Units: Team A: Spider Man 250, Spider Girl, Scarlet Spider 190, Scarlet Spider 245, Spider Man 170 – 995 points
Team B: Star-Lord, Gamora (II), Rocket Racoon (I), Groot (I) – 1000 points

Battle Summary
Spider-Man 250 played surprisingly well in Space. And the Swingers in general had the movement advantage as they were able to splice their movement into smaller chunks (2-3 Spaces) and change direction more easily. Star-Lord is benefited by Space as well as there is a lot of clear sight which he likes. His distracting fire special attack is also well suited for Space to help with short movement like the spiders. Unlike the first game where I ran the Kryptonian team with little difference in movement ability, this Guardian team required more thought and strategy prior to moving. Gamora’s Flanking Strike was mostly useless because of Space and I quickly realized that Drax would have been a more suitable selection. Notable deaths from exposure were Rocket Raccoon. Gamora took one wound form exposure.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes):
Guardians of the Galaxy win with Groot having 0 wounds (although he had 3 wounds at one time) he was immune to Spider-Man’s web sling special attack and so he was able to maintain his height advantage.

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Playing in Space is a fun change of pace. Rules were easy to understand and implement and adds a different level of strategy. In a competitive setting though, I don’t see anyone drafting a team to go into Space without all figures having Super Strength and Flying.

GENERAL THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT:
The one thing that might be missing is some kind of drift rule for in between rounds to randomly displace figures. Also could maybe bump other figures if you end your movement next to them with additional movement left over. Say if you move Gamora, but she ends her movement at 4 because she runs into Star-Lord, you could bump Star-Lord 2 spaces if possible because she didn’t use her full 6. Could call it Inertia or something like that.

[IAmBatman]

I think any sort of drift thing is complex enough that it should be in the realm of scenario/map rule add on. I'm liking the rules as nice and easy to understand and implement, which is how terrain rules usually are (water, lava, heavy snow, slippery ice, shadow, etc. are all very streamlined rules sets).

Holding on Yodaking's tests, then hopefully we will be good to move forward here!

[Tornado]

If only there was some kind of drift compass.