The Book of Mister Freeze

[Griffin]

The Book of Mister Freeze

C3G DC WAVE 12
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT

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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Legacy set.
Its model number and name are #037-039 / Mr. Freeze.
Its model number and name are #201 / Victor Fries.

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Batman: Alpha set.
Its model number and name are #023 / Mr. Freeze.

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Character Bio - Dr. Victor Fries is an expert molecular biologist. As a child, he was fascinated by freezing animals. His parents, horrified by his "hobby", sent him to a strict boarding school, where he was miserable, and felt detached from humanity. In college, he meets a woman named Nora, whom he falls in love with and ultimately marries. A year and a half after Bruce Wayne becomes the Batman, Nora has acquired a disease, while Fries works on a freeze ray. Fries' boss decides to tell the mob about the gun, leading Batman to create a team of specialists to help him do his job better. Fries decides to use the device on Nora, to put her in cryo-stasis, but due to tampering from his boss, Nora is frozen and shattered and Fries becomes insane. Targeting those responsible for the death of his wife (whom he talks to often), Fries takes up his freeze ray gun and creates a cryogenic suit to keep himself eternally cold, and now becomes Mister Freeze, Batman's first super villain. Freeze's crimes tend to involve freezing everyone and everything he runs into so he hardly ever forges alliances with the other criminals in Gotham, preferring to work alone.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Human, Mister Freeze has these Human Synergies.
• As a Genius, Mister Freeze has these Genius Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

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-Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-

Immunities:

• As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Mister Freeze cannot be affected by aspects of certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Super Strength special power.
• As a figure with the Ice Resistance special power, Mister Freeze cannot be affected by aspects of certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Ice Resistance special power.

Benefits:

• As a Human, Mister Freeze interacts differently with certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with Humans.
• As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Mister Freeze interacts differently with certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Super Strength special power.
• As a figure with the Ice Resistance special power, Mister Freeze interacts differently with certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with the Ice Resistance special power.

Weaknesses:

• As a figure with a Special Attack, Mister Freeze can be affected by aspects of certain special powers. Current Special Powers that Interact Differently with Special Attacks.
• Figures with the Ice Resistance special power are not affected by Mister Freeze's Freeze Ray Gun Special Attack. Current figures with the Ice Resistance special power.
• As a figure with the Fire Weakness special power, Mister Freeze rolls 1 fewer defense die when attacked by Pyro's Living Flame Special Attack.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• As a figure with the Ice Resistance special power, Mister Freeze may benefit from Ice Rock's, Ice Hill's, and Ice Glacier's Glacial Healing special power and Ice Mountain's Glacial Mountain Healing special power.

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Griffin
• Second playtest: Flame Gryphon
• Third playtest: Lord Pyre
• Art by A3n

Card Updates:
7 March 2021 - Class changed to Genius

[Griffin]

NAME = MISTER FREEZE
SECRET IDENTITY = VICTOR FRIES

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = GENIUS
PERSONALITY = OBSESSIVE

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 4
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 6

POINTS = 190

FREEZE RAY GUN SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 4. Attack 3.
Start the game with 4 blue Ice Markers on this card. When a Unique or Event Hero receives one or more wounds from this special attack, you may place an Ice Marker from this card onto the defending figure's card. Subtract 1 from a figure's Move and Defense numbers, to a minimum of 1, for each Ice Marker on its card. If that figure moves onto a lava field or molten lava space, remove all Ice Markers on its card from the game. Figures with the Ice Resistance special power are not affected by this special attack.

ICE RESISTANCE
Slippery Ice and Heavy Snow only count as 1 space when moving. Add 1 die to Mister Freeze's defense while on an ice or snow space.

FIRE WEAKNESS
If Mister Freeze is on a lava field space, he rolls 2 fewer defense dice and 2 fewer attack dice.

SUPER STRENGTH

[tcglkn]

Originally Posted by Griffin

ICE RESISTANCE
Slippery Ice and Heavy Snow only count as 1 space when moving. Add 1 die to Mister Freeze's defense while on an ice or snow space.

Missed this.

[Viegon]

Personally, I think this would be the clearest:

FREEZE RAY GUN SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 4. Attack 3.
Start the game with 4 blue Ice Markers on this card. When a Unique or Event Hero receives one or more wounds from this special attack, you may place an Ice Marker from this card onto the defending figure's card. For the entire game, all figures except Mister Freeze subtract 1 from their Move and Defense numbers, to a minimum of 1, for each Ice Marker on their card. If that figure moves onto a lava field or molten lava space, remove all Ice Markers on its card from the game. Figures with the Ice Resistance special power are not affected by this special attack.

[IAmBatman]

Looks good. I wonder if his normal attack shouldn't be a 5? Both because the suit greatly enhances his strength and to make it more of an option compared to the special attack.

[Griffin]

C3G INITIAL PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT Mister Freeze

- THEME TEST/ Check to see if there are any powers or stats on the test unit card that does not accurately reflect the theme or likeness of what the character would and could do. Also consider destructible objects, and whether or not this characters powers should affect them.
Pass

- MIRROR TEST/ Check to see if the unit were played against itself, if there would be any loops that would upset the balance of the Game.
Pass

- BONDING TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing Bonding abilities to make sure there are no continual Bonding possibilities that do not stop appropriately or do not stop at all. This is to prevent loops in Bonding.
Pass

- SYNERGIES TEST/ Compare the unit card with all possible currently existing synergies to make sure there are no factors that could break the game by making any unit too powerful or too weak.
Pass

- POWER CHECK/ Consider the test unit and all existing units and all glyphs to compare to and check for any powers that could be over amplified and break the game. Each power must define when it takes place, who or what it affects, and What are the stipulations on the power if there are any.
Pass

- FUN TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play.
Pass

- FUN COMPETITIVE TEST/ Consider whether or not the design was fun to play against.
Pass

- DRAFTING TEST/ Consider whether or not this design is worth drafting.
Pass

- USAGE TEST/ Consider whether or not all of the powers on this card were used or at least usable.
Pass

- STRATEGY TEST/ Consider whether or not the design offers any real strategy or interesting tactics to the overall game.
Pass

Heavy Hitter or Mid-Level Hero Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes.
- What should be the unit's point value? 200.
- Give a brief overview. He is balanced at 190 I think, but his marker affects linger all game even after he dies, so that bumps his cost a bit IMO.

Spoiler Alert!

TEST 1
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Batman.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Batman wins with 3 wounds and 2 Ice markers.

TEST 2
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Batman.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Batman wins with 1 wound and 1 Ice Marker.

TEST 3
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Batman.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Mister Freeze wins with 3 wounds and 1 Ice Marker on Batman.

TEST 4
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Killer Croc.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Mister Freeze wins with 3 wounds.

TEST 5
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Killer Croc.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Killer Croc wins with 3 wounds.

TEST 6
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Killer Croc.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Killer Croc wins with 4 wounds.

TEST 7
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Gambit.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Gambit wins with 3 wounds.

TEST 8
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Gambit.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Gambit wins with 3 wounds and 2 Ice Markers.

TEST 9
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Sandman.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Sandman wins with 4 wounds and 2 Ice Markers.

TEST 10
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Sandman.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Mister Freeze wins with 3 wounds and 2 Ice Markers on Sandman.

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Squad Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes.
- What should be the unit's point value? 200 is probably still fine, he just got squad scaped.
- Give a brief overview. Freeze's single attack VS Hawks double attack was the chilling sound of his doom.
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Hawkmen of Thanagar x2.

Spoiler Alert!

Hawkmen surrounded Freeze and he struggled with his single attack against their double.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Hawkmen win with 2 left.

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Squad Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes.
- What should be the unit's point value? 200.
- Give a brief overview. He was a monster this game, and it was fun knocking thugs around.
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze - VS - Street Thugs x3.

Spoiler Alert!

While Freeze was slowly clunking his way over, the thugs were huddling on a hill and making a bottle neck for Freeze to go through. Freeze went in and what he found was that the Super Strength upgrade to his suit really helped him as he was punching and killing thugs each turn, but every once in a while when they would actually block him, he was able to knock them back into each other.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Street Thugs win with 2 men left.

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Army Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes.
- What should be the unit's point value? 200.
- Give a brief overview. He was great early on for being a defensive unit (his stats) and then mid game with his softening ice then big punch finisher, then end game after he died he was still affecting Huntress.
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze, Catwoman, Ventriloquist, Killer Penguins, and Black Mask - VS - Oracle, Huntress, Black Canary, and Batgirl.

Spoiler Alert!

Black Canary quickly advanced to the other side with Batgirl keeping up half way, BC took a LEA just to scream at the pod of unsuspecting villains and killed two Penguins, wounded BM, Ventriloquist, and Catwoman. Ice Man started freezing BC then was in combat with Huntress after Ventriloquist finished BC off. Ice Man turned his focus on Batgirl who had a sick defense power that needed nerfing, and he froze her up some. MF killed the weakened Batgirl, then Huntress killed Mister Freeze and Black Mask with her crossbow. The last penguin was killed, but Catwoman dodged Huntress' arrows and headed towards Oracle. Catwoman finally made it to Oracle and snuffed her quickly with whips, and Huntress got all of the Order Markers. Huntress finished the wounded Catwoman off, then her and Ventriloquist met in the swampy patch in the middle with Ventriloquist getting the first attack from height disadvantage and he wounded Huntress, then Huntress killed him.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Huntress wins with 2 wounds and 1 Ice Marker.

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Army Test
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes.
- What should be the unit's point value? 200 points.
- Give a brief overview. He really gives the entire length of a game value with those Ice Markers.
Map: Custom.
Units: Mister Freeze, Invisible Woman, Iceman, and Avalanche - VS - Magma, Human Torch I, Human Torch II, Pyro, and Fire Ants x5.

Spoiler Alert!

Epic. Fire VS Ice.

Invisible Woman was key for team ice. The ants and the lava that Magma threw all over the place helped Invisible Woman box herself in from melee attacks with Iceman's help. Pyro terrorized Mr Freeze because of his fire weakness, but once Pyro had some of Freeze's ice on him, Avalanche came in and took Pyro down while clearing a bunch of ants. This opened IW up, so she had to move some. Magma chuncked lava at Avalanch and killed him while Mister Freeze was desperately trying to crack Magma's defense with his ice gun so that she could fall later in the game more easily. Finally Magma took some ice, and MF engaged her and knocked her out of the game. Human Torch (android) was working on a fire ball combo to hit Iceman and Hopefully reach IW, but to no avail. While Human Torch was flanking Iceman and IW, Mister Freeze had finally clunked his slow bulky a$$ up hill. IW fled Human Torch and Iceman and landed near Freeze to protect him. Human Torch (Johnny) engaged them both and was about to flame on next turn, but settled for a smack in IW's face this turn. Well Freeze freaked out and had a flash back of his wife or something and so from height advantage, crushed Human Torch with one big hit. Human Torch (android) sorta "picked up the torch" from there , and engaged Invisible Woman and killed her. Mister Freeze put some hurt on HT Android, but Mister Freeze fell to a big melee attack. Iceman then sealed the deal.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Iceman wins with 2 wounds.

[Griffin]

Yeah, I definitely support attack 5 since I took away his normal ranged attack.

[A3n]

Looks good & I support a 5 norm attack also. Been waiting for Mr Freeze to make it to the battlefield.

[Hahma]

Looks good, normal attack of 5 sounds good too.

[SirGalahad]

[Good Pig]

Yes! Been waiting for this guy!

Design looks great. Agree with attack 5. Also, think perhaps his life should be 4 and his defense 6. He seems to be more reliant on the suit than his own constitution, similar to Iron Man. Wouldn't be terribly upset if his SA had a range of 5 either.

Small tweak on the personality. Should be Obsessive instead of Obsessed like everywhere else it's been used.

Great job!

[tcglkn]

So moving onto Lava is the only way to get rid of an Ice Marker?