Winona Vampire's Customs Updated 1/3/11!

[winonavampire]

Gorak The Jungle Swog Rider

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Well, Since Wave 10 came out, I gained a Swog Rider (he was a repaint Nerak, but now I have a "real" Nerak)

Anyway, I decided to repaint him again and come up with a custom card. Let me know what you think!

Thanks!




Updates:
Changed Life from 1 to 3 (original typo)
Changed from Orc Champion to Beast in order to bond with Arrow Gruts

Vampire the Masquerade Sabbat Pack

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My friends and I play in a weekly Vampire: The Masquerade table top role playing game. I have had ideas about turning our pack into Heroscape characters.

The first character is Jonathon, the pack leader. He is a 6th Generation Lasambra. (for those who don't know genre, Lasombra manipulate shadows from the Abyss, kinda like a demonic world)




Jonathon has the ability to summon demonic shadowy tentacle like arms that can be used to attack and defend against his enemies.




Fang is the pack priest. He is also the front line combatant of the pack. He is a 7th Generation Gargoyle.



There are two other pack members. I will be working on converting their characters in to heroscape mechanics. Please let me know what you think of these customs. Thanks!

7/23/10 Magic the Gathering Plainswalkers

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I have been a Magic player for far longer then Heroscape. With the D&D crossover, I am always thinking what Wizards could do next, Magic, being their biggest line is a consideration.

I felt Legends and Plainswalkers were the best candidates for Heroscape Army Cards. Here is my interpertation of Plainswalkers in Vahalla.

The powers were all modeled after existing powers. The only exception is the "Loyalty" power. In Magic, the Plainswalkers are given loyalty to use their powers, showing loyalty of the player to the Plainswalker. After spending lots of thought on a system of loyalty counters, I decided to use a system all ready in place to show loyalty, Order Markers. My idea is the more Order Markers you invest into the Plainswalker, the more powerful they are.

The points are all guesses really, and honestly, I feel like they are a bit undercosted. However, that is what you great people are for.

So, with out further adieu, please enjoy the customs I have come up with and please give me your feedback. Positive or negative.

8/2/10 Movie Theme Characters

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I am a huge movie fan, so I will be adding movie themed cards to this section.



Robocop is going to act like a mini Q9, but hopefully the smaller special attack, lower defense (albeit with Titanium) and Directive 4 he won't be nearly as crazy.



This was my idea of using up all the extra KMA we have laying around. Agent Smith is a little but more survivable then the KMA, but he gets one less attack. I liked the idea of having an army of 10 Agent Smiths, it sounded like it would be fun.



After making the Robocop, I felt I needed a Terminator custom as well. I have a skeleton mini from D&D that I am going to be painting silver, adding a weapon, ta-da, a T-800.

The Tenacious 11 power is supposed to represent the T-800 getting "knocked out" (as well as a machine can get knocked out) but being able to re-wire/re-rout etc to get itself back on line. The removing of an order marker is to represent the time it takes to get systems back online.



Here is my attempt at a high powered, high costed figure. Riddick may still be a little undercosted. He does feel like a force to be reckoned with though. I don't feel like he needs the special attack as a unit, but it is a power of Riddick, so for the sake of completeness, he got it.

*NEW* Resident Evil- 1/3/11- Nemesis Project Added!

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Since Resident Evil: Afterlife was released on DVD today, I thought I would commemorate the release with the Project Alice idea I have had. I will show you the card and then talk about my ideas on her.



If you haven't seen the Resident Evil movies, Alice is the badass zombie/mutant hunter that has been "infected" and experimented on with the "T-Virus". She is kinda "super hero-ish" with her powers.

STATS:
The fours down the board were not intentional. 4A/4D/4L seems to be the base line for the around 100 point hero, so that is where I started. I really wanted her to be a close up fighter, but she has some ranged attacks with her guns so I set her range pretty low. It isn't unreasonable since she is using small shotguns. You get a short range but with a nice beefy attack. I will talk about the move of 4 in the T-Agility discussion.

DOUBLE ATTACK:
I wanted Alice to be a good aggressive unit. Double attack is a good way to do that with out giving her the big 5 and 6 dice attacks. Question, what is more powerful? A range of 1 with a double attack special power or a normal double attack? With a normal attack attack, you can add height, but the special attack lets you ignore alot of defenses, so that is why I didn't give her a range of 1 with a Special Range Attack.

T-AGILITY:
This power I believe has a good advantage with a good drawback. This menas in the early game, while she is moving into position, she will essentially have a move of 8. Once the fighting starts though, her threat range has been brought back down to a reasonable 9 (instead of 13). With the lack of flying and disengage, I don't believe T-Agility is too powerful, but a very useful and dynamic power. [edit] Whoops, I forgot I did give her Disengage, thoughts?

T-IMMUNITY:
From the movies, Alice is immune to all the abilities from the zombies/infected. It seems the three big powers D20 Alice is immune to is: Chilling Touch, Stare of Stone and Soul Devour. I don't believe those immunities are huge, due to there all ready being immunities to Chilling Touch and the other two are too rare to be a factor really. Finally, the "counting as undead against other undead" was my really awkward and clumsy way of saying Alice can't be affected by Zombies Rise Again. I didn't want her rising as a zombie, just doesn't fit with the theme of the character.

POINTS:
I compared her to Kaemon Awa and I feel she is pretty comparable to him and set her points right at the 120. Any thoughts here?


Well, there is Project Alice in all of her awesomeness! Please, as usual, let me know your feedback and if you haven't seen the movies, check them out!

*NEW* 1/3/10 Nemesis Project


This guy is a main antagonist in one of the movies (also in the video games, but, I don't play the video games, so I am just using the movie reference.) If you like looking for the blue card for the blue door, only to find that you need the red card for the red door, then the Resident Evil games are perfect for you! Any way, I digress.

You will find the Nemesis Project is a mini Q10. His specials have been cut in half, but still do a good job representing the weapons Project Nemesis beings to the table. The T-Virus Infection is both thematic and a neat way to give the zombies of Morindan a neat little synergy.

[VIRTU]

Great! I like your paint job, the abilities work well. Is he meant to be listed as Champion or Beast?

[winonavampire]

Originally Posted by VIRTU

Great! I like your paint job, the abilities work well. Is he meant to be listed as Champion or Beast?

Currently, Champion. To me, he feels a little stronger then Nerak, so, to keep him at the same price, I thought his bonding should be a little weaker.

With that, I know it is a little weird for his aura to affect a different squad then the the squad that bonds with him.

Thoughts?

[Darkmage7a]

Nice blend of abilities, flavor, and nuance. He really keeps the style of Nerak intact while making it his own.
He should probably be a beast since he already favors working with the arrow gruts. The melee orcs already have enough champs anyway. They wouldn't know what to do with this guy.

[winonavampire]

Any more ideas on this unit? Would you all consider him to be complete and balanced? Would you play him over another beast? Is he better/worse then Nerak?

Just curious if the consensus is he is done, needs work, or scrap the idea.

Thanks for your input!

[yamissflash]

Originally Posted by winonavampire

Any more ideas on this unit? Would you all consider him to be complete and balanced? Would you play him over another beast? Is he better/worse then Nerak?

Just curious if the consensus is he is done, needs work, or scrap the idea.

Thanks for your input!

He seems like he is a jungle version of nerak..... Although he is amazing
also he seems balanced...... though I would say I like nerak better
(I'm an ice fan!)

[Vilsara]

I'm liking this- it gives us an "alternate" to Nerak, giving the Orc army versatility in any terrain. With Gorak, Archers, now have... 11 range? in the heat of a jungle board, that can be a killer. Disengage looks to keep him alive should the enemies approach him, which will be an asset in any house game. Plus, painting him with a tiger is completely sweet.

EDIT: To answer a few quesitons.

-The unit itself seems fine, can't really add any creative ideas off the top of my head.

-He looks pretty balanced- 50 points for a 3 Life/Defense unit that's more support than blitz.

-Over another beast? Dunno. Gorak definitely fits in an Orc army, that much is obvious. He's not very usable if your army isn't primarily Orc, though, so it really depends on what kind of army I'm drafting.

-Jungle is used more than ice IIRC, so Gorak has more use than Nerak. Range is also a huge benefit to archers, and can keep enemies at bay it you draft Taelord/Orc Archers (x2, maybe), Swog and Gorak. Dunno how many points that is, but... on a Jungle Board with Archers, Gorak becomes the very apex of your army instead of a defensive buffer on ice, so Gorak > Nerak, IMO.

And now I want one of these...

[winonavampire]

Originally Posted by Vilsara

I'm liking this- it gives us an "alternate" to Nerak, giving the Orc army versatility in any terrain. With Gorak, Archers, now have... 11 range? in the heat of a jungle board, that can be a killer. Disengage looks to keep him alive should the enemies approach him, which will be an asset in any house game. Plus, painting him with a tiger is completely sweet.

EDIT: To answer a few quesitons.

-The unit itself seems fine, can't really add any creative ideas off the top of my head.

-He looks pretty balanced- 50 points for a 3 Life/Defense unit that's more support than blitz.

-Over another beast? Dunno. Gorak definitely fits in an Orc army, that much is obvious. He's not very usable if your army isn't primarily Orc, though, so it really depends on what kind of army I'm drafting.

-Jungle is used more than ice IIRC, so Gorak has more use than Nerak. Range is also a huge benefit to archers, and can keep enemies at bay it you draft Taelord/Orc Archers (x2, maybe), Swog and Gorak. Dunno how many points that is, but... on a Jungle Board with Archers, Gorak becomes the very apex of your army instead of a defensive buffer on ice, so Gorak > Nerak, IMO.

And now I want one of these...

Hmmm, I think the archers should only have a range of 7 (unless you have the range glyph, then yeah, it would be 11)

As for getting one of him, he was really easy to make. Just grab a Swog, put a base coat of white on the cat part, then paint orange over the top half once the white is dry. Then add some black stripes and you now have a tiger. I painted the armor on the orc green to more match the jungle theme.

I also did some touch up on the tigers face (yellow eyes, cleaned up the teeth a bit, painted the collar black with silver studs)

That was all I did for the paint job, really, only about a day total (with drying in the middle)

As for the jungle being more common, that is why I made the jungle theme. (Technically, I wanted a tiger first and thought the jungle would fit the tiger well. Plus, the jungle is more common, so, bonus!)

[Church Monroe]

Great job, I really like him.

I would bump his points up to 60 because of the Jungle Camo, but since noone else has said that, you don' have to.

I would completely and totally draft that guy, but I'd have to paint hisskin red first. (My entire Orc army is red.)

I love the abilities, and the card looks great.

[Darkmage7a]

I don't think you have to change him at all now. Jungle camouflage is a stronger defensive ability that Nerak lacks, but Nerak also gives a defense bonus instead. Defense is definitely more important than range. Just look at how successful all the knight armies are in tournaments. Actually if anything you might want to have him grant a +2 range bonus instead of +1. Or even leave it the way it is and make him 40-45pts. But those are just suggestions, really leaving him as he is right now is fine.

[winonavampire]

I have added 3 new customs to the first post in this thread. Please tell me what you think!

[Vilsara]

I will trade a review of your new customs for a review of my new custom :P

Anyway, I like the Abyss Lord/Minion idea- being able to revive your bonding options is always nice, especially since your can remove a token, revive a tentacle, take a turn, then take a turn with the extra squad member.

I assume the power's name is "constriction..." with an s, correct?

The Black Steels are pretty awesome either way- bonding AND a lockdown power. But wait, they also increase their master's defense- very nice, very nice. This would be quite a tricky pair to face.

I'd find a way to make Fang cost less, though- 240 is a pretty high cost for any game, so it'd behoove you to lower his cost to prevent overcentralization and the like.

Great customs overall, though