Workbook of Cave Troll of Moria - Playtesting (Fellowship B)

[Shiftrex]

Ok, with those suggested changes and the touch up on wording. Looks like we have a pretty good set up for this guy

[caps]

OP updated, and I ninja'd in "adjacent figure" to Cave Dweller, because we want that there for the archers:

Spoiler Alert!

Originally Posted by capsocrates

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NAME = CAVE TROLL OF MORIA
GENERAL = UTGAR
SPECIES = TROLL
UNIQUENESS = UNCOMMON HERO
CLASS = BRUTE
PERSONALITY = FEROCIOUS
SIZE/HEIGHT = LARGE/7?

LIFE = 6
MOVE = 4
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 2
POINTS = 90

CAVE DWELLER 2
If this Moria Cave Troll moves over at least three contiguous dungeon or shadow spaces, you may add an additional 1 space to his move. This Moria Cave Troll rolls 2 additional attack dice when attacking an adjacent figure or destructible object on at least one dungeon or shadow space.

TOUGH
When rolling defense dice against a normal attack, this Moria Cave Troll always adds 1 automatic shield to whatever is rolled.



Character Bio: (taken from Tolkien Gateway)

". . . For the moment they are hanging back, but there is something else there. A great cave-troll, I think, or more than one. There is no hope of escape that way."

― Gandalf, The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

A race of monstrous creatures found in caverns and dark places.The Cave-trolls are known from an encounter with the Fellowship of the Ring as they passed through Moria, but were evidently found elsewhere in Middle-earth, too. These trolls, along with Orcs and perhaps other creatures, were originally sent to inhabit Moria by Sauron some five hundred years before the War of the Ring.

The cave-trolls of Moria were of huge size with a skin of dark green scales, and flat, toeless feet. The fact that Gandalf was able to recognise the creature he encountered in Moria specifically as a cave-troll strongly suggests that this appearance was shared by others of the kind.


-RULINGS and CLARIFICATIONS-
N/A

-COMBINATIONS and SYNERGIES-

Synergy Benefits Received
Ornak - Red Flag of Fury

Synergy Benefits Offered
N/A

I propose we move the Cave Troll of Moria into review
@Shiftrex @Chris Perkins

[Shiftrex]

Agreed, on board with current draft.

[Chris Perkins]

Also agreed on requesting a review

[White Knight]

Should state in the OP that this is a double space figure.

I'm good with the trool moving to playtesting

[Shiftrex]

Ok, the review has been opened since June 25th. 8 days now, shall we get back to work and move into some testing or where are we at? Haven't seen much activity recently.

@Chris Perkins
@capsocrates

[Chris Perkins]

Sorry, I've been out of town this week and pretty inactive.

I think the troll is ready for play testing though

[caps]

I updated the OP to say it is double-spaced.

Yes, we are ready to start playtesting. I will update the thread title.

[Splash]

Sweet, I'm ready to sign up, do we have a custom HoME playtesting form anywhere? Also what should we run armies at 500, 1000? I've heard the test card should be 20/25% of the army.

[Chris Perkins]

Playtesting should probably be in the 400-600 point range weighted towards the 500 point mark. Probably somewhere in the 24 hex and/or 20-24 figure range also.

Gencon has been tending to run events in the lower figure range in recent years (16-18 figure maxes, especially for the main event) but I think we should strive to balance mostly with larger figure limits nearer towards the 24 figure mark to make sure we are relatively balanced with classic squad 'scape.

[Splash]

C3V competitive maps probably?

[caps]

Originally Posted by Splash

C3V competitive maps probably?

I don't think C3V has any maps? But in general with playtesting it is always good to pick competitive maps like you might see at GenCon or one of the online Heroscape events.

It can also be useful to see one or two scenarios show up in playtests.