The Book of Brit-Cit Judge

[Tornado]

Yes, he should be able to Judge on his wounds.

[Yodaking]

That is what I thought and how I played it. Here are some test results, seem pretty good at 60 points to me. Several showings where their 5 def. really held up well for a while, dished out some wounds, and even executed two guys. The -1 def. certainly helped them or their allies a few times. Only thing I would note is the need to track the different Judgement Markers in play when using multiple copies of the uncommon card as when one copy was KO'ed I removed the Judgement Marker that figure had placed as a result. For the most part you can just replace the removed Judgement Marker with one from another Brit-Cit Judge, but on occasion it does matter like when all 3 were out in play during the final Mutant hunt.

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT (Brit-Cit Judge)
Tests
- Does it pass, Yes or No? yes/no
- What should be the unit's point value? 60 seems pretty fair as they went 5-6 overall in these 11 matches where several outcomes easily could have gone the other way. Seem to do better when run in multiples.
- Give a brief preview. Instead of big team tests I just wanted to run a series of smaller more focused tests featuring the Brit-Cit Judge and one ally that would benefit from the class change to criminal. I’ll try them out with 3 different allies and in different numbers of Brit-Cit Judges in play. Foes will range in power level and numbers as well.
Map: Once in a Blue Lagoon

Spoiler Alert!

TEST 1
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Roschach vs. Black Panther (200)
Black Panther and Roschach go right at each other, Black Panther engages first and deals 3W with his first attack, earning the Judgement marker. Roschach deals 1W in return, Black Panther removes X for Shakedown. Black Panther rolls just 1 skull on 6 dice, but Roschach rolls all skulls on def. and falls. Judge takes HG, att. Black Panther next to Jungle Bush, Black Panther rolls all skulls on def. now, but his 1 auto shield blocks the Judges 1 skull anyway. Black Panther wins initiative and engages, dealing 1W to the Judge. Judge rolls 3 skulls on attack and deals 1W to BP. BP deals 1W to Judge again. Judge and BP both have next 2 att. blocked (BP won initiative again). Judge rolls 3 skulls on att. again to deal 1W, Treis to execute BP for the win and rolls a skull!
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Brit-Cit Judge w/2W won with an Execution!
TEST 2
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Roschach vs. Kraven (200)
Roschach is Kraven’s prey. Birt-Cit draws first blood (1W) with the opening attack of the game. Kraven engages and deals 2W right back to him. Roschach engages and misses even with the -1 def. help, Kraven removes X to avoid shake down. Kraven att. Roschach twice, dealing 1W each time and taking away OM3. Kraven wins initiative and KO’s Roschach with one punch, taking OM1 with him. Brit-Cit Judge blocks, then deals 1W to Kraven. Kraven KO’s the judge.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Kraven w/2W won rather easily.
TEST 3
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Roschach vs. Capt. Cold, Heat Wave (200)
Judge att. Capt. Cold blocked. Capt. Cold move up and att. Roschach who is next to Jungel Bush, rolls 3 skulls to reduce Roschach’s def. by 3, which produces no shields and he takes 3W, Capt. Cold is judged, triggering Heat Wave to move up & att. an adj. Roschach, blocked. Roschach att. Heat Wave for 1W, X removed for Shakedown. Capt. Cold wins initiative and kills Roschach, Heat Wave engages Judge and deals 2W. Judge att. Heat Wave and rolls 3 skulls, but Heat Wave rolls 2 shields so only 1W is dealt. Heat Wave deals another 2W to the Judge to end this one.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Heat Wave w/2W & Capt. Cold @full health won in an avalanche.
TEST 4
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Roschach vs. Echo, Robin (Jason Todd) (200)
Echo & Robin move up, Judge att. Echo from HG and misses. Echo engages Judge, mirrors his def., gets blocked, Jason moves & att. Judge, miss. Judge att. adj. Echo, both roll 2 skulls/shields for a mirrored counterstrike W to the Judge, Echo gets judged as a result. Echo att. Judge, blocked, Jason engages Judge and his 3 skull att. is also blocked. Judge opts to att. Jason instead of Echo, blocked. Roschach wins initiative, engages with both, att. Echo, hits for 1W, removed X for Shakedown. Echo att. Roschach, rolls 4 skulls and deals 2W’s, Jason att. Roschach and misses. Roschach att. Echo and rolls 4 skulls as well, also dealing 2W, removes OM3 to avoid potentially getting KO’ed and losing both OM2 & OM3. Echo att. Roschach, rolls 4 skulls again, dealing 3W to take down Roschach, Jason att. Judge, blocked. Judge had last OM, att. Echo, rolls 2 skulls to 1 shield, Echo goes down, Judgement Marker returned to Judge. Judge wins initiative, deals 1W to Jason. Jason gets blocked. Judge deals 1W. Jason gets blocked again, Judge misses, Jason deals 2W to Judge when the Judge whiffs on def. and the game ends.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Robin w/2W (ie. 1 life remaining) won.
TEST 5
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Judge Dredd vs. Red Tornado (300)
Tornado moves up, Dredd moves up & att. Tornado (next to bush) w/2 HE rounds, 1W & 1W (7 total skulls rolled on those 8 dice)! Tornado moves Dredd down to LG, att. from HG, 1W, Tornado gets judged. Dredd moves back up to even ground, att. w/normal att., blocked. Tornado moves both Judges this time, Dredd moved to OL while Brit-Cit moved away from Jungle Tree, att. Dredd from HG, rolls 5 skulls to Dredd’s 1 shield, 4W = TKO, OM3 lost. Brit-Cit wins initiative, moves adj. on even ground and scores 2W with a 2 skull att. roll! Tornado moves Judge to LG & att., blocked. Judge moves back up to even ground, another 2 skulls att. roll results in 1W this time, Judge tries to Execute Tornado, and rolls a skull!!!
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Brit-Cit Judge @full health executed Red Tornado for the win!
TEST 6
Units: Brit-Cit Judge, Judge Dredd vs. Rocket Red x2 (300)
Rocket A moves and att. Dredd by Bush, blocked. Dredd uses HE round to att. Rocket A by bush, 3W, again, 4W (Rocket A rolled 0 shields on 8 def. dice), dead, OM2 & OM3 lost. Dredd moves up and must use Incendiary rounds (7 range) by Rocket B next to Jungle Tree, 3 skull att. roll results in 1W +1W, 2 skull rolls results in 1W+0W. Dredd wins initiative, moves up and uses HE round again, blocked, 1W, game over.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Brit-Cit Judge (unused) & Judge Dredd@full life dominated this one.
TEST 7A
Units:Brit-Cit Judge, Judge Dredd vs. Green Arrow, Red Arrow (300)
Red Arrow moves up, Dredd moves up, Green Arrow moves up, Red Arrow att. Dredd by Bush from HG, blocked, Green Arrow att. Dredd by Bush from HG, 1W, Green Arrow gets Judged. Dredd mvoes up to even ground, uses Ricochet round on Green Arrow first, blocked, again, blocked. Red Arrow att. Dredd by Bush, blocked, Green Arrow rolls a 20, att. Dredd, 2W. Dredd engages both Arrows, att. Green Arrow w/Incendiary rounds, 1W+0W, blocked. Dredd wins initiative, tries Incendiary rounds again, blocked, 1W+0W. Red Arrow att. adj. Dredd, blocked, blocked, whiff on def. for 2W = TKO, OM2 lost. Red Arrow att. Brit-Cit by Jungle Tree from HG, blocked. Brit-Cit moves up & att. Red Arrow by Bush from even ground, blocked. Red Arrow att. Judge by Bush, 1W. Judge wins initiative, moves up & att. Green Arrow, blocked. Red Arrow att. Judge by Bush, 2W, game over.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Red Arrow @ full life and Green Arrow w/2W won.
TEST 7B
Units:Brit-Cit Judge x2, Daredevil vs. Green Arrow, Red Arrow (300)
Red Arrow att. Daredevil, who leaps out of the way, Green Arrow att. Daredevil who is now on HG next to Jungle Bush, blocked. Daredevil engaged Red Arrow, blocked. Green Arrow att. Daredevil, who evades. DD att. adj. Red Arrow, blocked. Red Arrow wins initiative, att. DD, evaded. DD att. adj. Green Arrow, 2W. Green Arrow att. adj. DD, 1W, gets Judged. DD att. adj. Green Arrow, 2W = TKO, Judgement Marker returned. OM3 lost. DD att. adj. Red Arrow, 1W. DD wins initiative, att. adj. Red Arrow, 2W. Red Arrow att. DD, blocked, evaded. DD engages and att., 3W for the win.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? DD w/1W & both Brit-Cit Judges still in SZ at full health won pretty easily.
TEST 8
Units: Brit-Cit Judge x2, Daredevil vs. Mocking Bird, Black Widow (300)
DD moves up, Mocking Bird vaults out and att. DD at range, who evades. DD att. Mocking Bird by Bush from 4 spaces away, blocked. Mocking Bird engages DD, who evades again. DD att. from 4 spaces away again, blocked. Mocking Bird att. DD, blocked. DD wins initiative and att. adj. Mocking Bird after being Mocked, 1W. Mocking Bird att. DD, rolls 4 skulls, DD evades. DD att. Mocking Bird by Bush from 4 spaces away, blocked. MB engages & att., blocked. DD is mocked again, att. adj. MB for 2W. MB finally lands a W on DD, gets Judged. Black Widow wins initiative, att. DD by Bush from 3 spaces away, blocked. DD gets mocked, att. adj. MB, 2W for a KO. Black Widow att. DD, who evades. DD att. adj. BW, 1W. Widow att., evaded again. DD att. adj. Widow for another 1W. Widow wins initiative, att. adj. DD, 2W, gets Judged. DD att. adj. Widow for 2W. Widow takes down an adj. DD with a 2W hit, OM2 & OM3 are lost. Widow moves up and att. Judge by Tree from HG and 3 spaces away, 2W, Widows Bite for a 3rd W (the Judge she just killed was the one who had Judged her earlier, so that Judgement Marker was removed when he died, but then the other Judge judged her at that moment and she received the other Judgement Marker). Last Judge wins initiative, moves up to even ground and att. Widow by Bush at range, 2W for the win.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Brit-Cit Judge @ full life won.
TEST 9
Units: Brit-Cit Judge x3, Judge Dredd vs. GL Kyle, Green Construct Mech (420)
Judge A moves up. GL moves up & att. Judge A for 1W, gets judged. Judge A engages GL & att., blocked. GL att. Judge A, blocked. Judge A att. GL, 1W. GL att. Judge A, blocked again. Judge A att. GL, blocked. GL wins initiative, att. Judge A, 1W. Judge A att., miss. GL att. Judge A, blocked. Judge B moves up & att. GL by Bush, blocked. GL blocked again. Dredd moves up & att. GL by Bush with Incendiary Round, 1W+1W, again, blocked. GL wins initiative, summons Mech Warrior adj. to him on LG, att. Judge A, blocked again. Dredd moves adj. to Mech and att. from HG, rolls 5 skulls, GL removes 1 battery. GL finally KO’s Judge A with a 2W attack. Dredd att. Mech from HG, rolls 3 skulls, 1 battery removed. GL & Mech move adj. to Judges on even ground, Mech att. Dredd twice, 1W, 1W, Mech is Judged. Dredd att. Mech, 3 skulls rolled, battery removed. Dredd wins initiative, att. Mech with 2 skulls, blocked. Mech att. Dredd twice, blocked, 2W. Dredd att. Mech, 2 skulls rolled, 1W. Mech att. Dredd, 1W = KO, att. Judge B, blocked. Judge C moves up adj. to both figures on even ground, att. Mech, miss. Mech att. Judge B twice, 2W, blocked. GL wins initiative, Mech att. Judge B, 2W = KO, att. Judge C, 1W. Judge C att. Mech, blocked. Mech att. Judge C twice, 1W, 3W ends it.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? GL w/1 battery & 1 life left, Mech w/1 life left had a comeback victory.
TEST 10
Units: Brit-Cit Judge x3, Judge Dredd vs. Nightcrawler, Pyro, Jubilee (420)
Judge A moves up, Nightcrawler & Jubilee move up, Judge A moves up and att. Jubilee by Bush, 1W. Pyro moves up & att. Judge A by Bush w/SA, 1W, Pyro gets Judged, Jubilee att. Judge A by Bush, blocked. Dredd moves up & fires Incendiary Rounds at Pyro, 3W (all skulls on all dice) + 0W, blocked. Nightcrawler att. Judge A w/SA, blocked, Dredd, 2W, Judge A again, 1W, gets Judged, Jubilee att. Judge A by Bush w/SA, 2W, KO, gets Judged, Judgement Marker on Pyro from Judge A removed from play. Dredd wins initiative, moves up & uses HE round on Pyro & Jubilee (by Bush), Jubilee takes 1W, att. again, Jubilee takes another 1W, Pyro takes 1W gets KO’ed with OM1. Dredd uses an HE round on Jubilee again, 1W = KO, then att. Nightcrawler, who evaded. Nightcrawler att. Dredd w/SA, miss, miss, blocked. Judge C moves up to even ground and att. Nightcrawler, 1W. Nightcrawler att. Dredd w/SA, blocked, blocked, miss. Nightcrawler wins initiative and hits Dredd with a 3 skulls SA while Dredd whiffs on def. to go down w/OM1 & OM2 on his card, att. Judge C, miss, again, 1W. Nightcrawler att. Judge C, miss, 2W = KO, att. Judge B, blocked. Nightcrawler att. Judge B w/SA, blocked, 2W, blocked. Judge B att. Nightcrawler, 2W, attempts to Execute Nightcrawler but fails. Judge B wins initiative, att. Nightcralwer who evades. Nightcrawler att. w/SA, miss, 1W = KO.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Nightcrawler w/3W won after a lucky break takes out Dredd w/2OM on his card and avoids being executed.

Recap: I realize I could have given Roschach & Daredevil a vigilante sidekick to bond with in these tests and they might have done a little better, but they also would have faced more points in opposition so who knows. As for these tests, the one game Roschach won was vs. Black Panther and was nearly a defeat as well, Kraven felt completely out of their weight class, the Rouges I think got a bit lucky so I can’t read too much into that lopsided loss, then they should have beat Echo & Robin but ended up losing a close one. Based on those alone I wouldn’t go above 60 points and would even consider them safe at 55. When Dredd paired up with just 1 Brit-Cit Judge, they swept their two matches. A bit of a surprise win vs. Red Tornado after he suddenly took out Dredd so a nice showing by the Brit-Cit Judge there. Then the two Red Rocket’s were outmatched by Dredd, I didn’t put enough thought into that match up as their Tough power was useless vs. Dredd’s SA’s, plus Dredd rolled a ton of skulls on attack, so I’d honestly just toss out those results. As such I added in another test here to replace that one with Dredd & 1 Brit-Cit Judge going up again the two Arrows, Dredd rolls pretty poorly here on attack after those great att. rolls in the last game and as a result can’t get anything done. It felt like a pretty even match though, the dice rolls just made it look worse that is was. Daredevil had the hot d20 in his match-up with the two Archers and took them down without much of a sweat. The two Brit-Cit Judges only contributed 1 Judgement Marker once for one -1 def. attack on Green Arrow. Daredevil again had the hot d20 early on in the next game and it looked like it would be a blow out win as Mocking Bird couldn’t get an counter strike wounds going either, but then Black Widow took DD out along with 1 Judge. The last Judge won initiative to win the game or it could have been a loss with the way things had turned on them. While it was nice to have DD actually evade a ton of attacks and live for a while for me, as a result his opponents also were not getting Judged. In retrospect, since I had two Judges I should have sent 1 out first to sacrifice and get a Judgement Marker placed before I brought DD out to play. I used that strategy in the next two game where I had 3 Brit-Cit Judges, the Judges almost had the win vs. the GL. Kyle really struggled to take down the first Judge that came his way, getting blocked again and again, that kept him from wanting to summon his Mech because the Mech’s 2 hex base could only fit adj. to him while on LG. Kyle was about to go down as a result and just ended up bringing out the Mech onto LG to use as a shield. Then things started to chance directions as the Mech’s two attacks of 4 proved deadly and once Dredd fell the last two Brit-Cit Judges couldn’t finish off the Mech. In the last game, it looked like it was going to be a route by the Judges, but then Nightcrawler scored a lucky 3W hit on Dredd and took him out of play with the next 2 OM’s on his card. Nightcrawler was then able to attack non-stop and eliminate one of the Brit-Cit Judges. He then managed to avoid being executed by the last Brit-Cit Judge and somehow pulled out a victory. Those results seem to support the 60 point valuation.

[japes]

I wholeheartedly support your testing methodology. Sometimes 1000 point games deflect from the actual unit being tested. These 6 games give us more data than two 1000 point games would have...in probably less time.

[Tornado]

Damn fine work YK!

Are you leaning more towards 55 or 60?
I will take any point reduction I can get with Judges.
@japes could you look over the art in the SP to see if that will work.

I may have to dig up something from my own comics and post it, would be nice if my upload worked.

[japes]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Damn fine work YK!

Are you leaning more towards 55 or 60?
I will take any point reduction I can get with Judges.
@japes could you look over the art in the SP to see if that will work.

I may have to dig up something from my own comics and post it, would be nice if my upload worked.

The SP art probably isn't going to cut it. I can look through some of the stuff you sent me if you have an issue # you want to direct me to.

[Tornado]

Cool. I will do some digging. Heading to Florida Friday so things might be a little hectic for awhile. I will see what I can find tonight.

[Yodaking]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Damn fine work YK!

Are you leaning more towards 55 or 60?
I will take any point reduction I can get with Judges.

I definitely would not go any higher than 60, they didn't seem to hit above that level to me. If you really wanted to push for 55 I would be okay with it. I do feel they are more effective as their numbers rise since their are more markers in play and you are more likely to get one whose 5 defense really holds up for a while. Interestingly enough, the Execution power is capped at one use per non-healing figure your opponent controls so that one power does not scale up though.

While drafting just one, 5 points isn't a huge deal, it is when you have 3-4 of them in play where a 15-20 point difference starts to have more of an impact. I'm not the type of player who would ever draft 10 of them at once, but you have to ask yourself if 10 at 550 points or 600 points is more fair should someone do just that. I have generally been a proponent of going high on common figures to keep the 10x play balanced, but uncommon heroes are a different thing. I'm not sure how often people really spam them. I've run the Frost Giants and Sentinels at x4, but both are pretty expensive so more than that seems too costly to me.

Just looking at how the 5 point different impacts an army build at x4:

Dredd 240, Daredevil 180, Roschach 140, Brit-Cit x4 (@55) 220, Robin (Tim Drake) 120, Robin (Dick Grayson) 100 = 1000 points

Dredd 240, Daredevil 180, Roschach 140, Brit-Cit x4 (@60) 240, Robin (Tim Drake) 120, Robin (Damian Wayne) 80 = 1000 points

So the difference between 55 & 60 for the Judges is the difference between Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne. Maybe run both armies vs. a 1000 point Teen Titans build and see which one feels like the closer match-up?

[Tornado]

Not looking good on the comic art.

From what I can tell most of their appearances are in Dredd MegaZines which I do not have.

[Lazy Orang]

[Tornado]

[quozl]

Is this too small?

[Tornado]