The Book of League Assassin - Public Playtesting

[IAmBatman]

The Book of League Assassin

C3G DC
(RELEASE SET)


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the DC: Batman The Animated Series set.
Its model number and name are #010/Ninja.

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Character Bio - Loyal to their leader Ra's al Ghul to the death, members of the League of Assassins will literally kill for the chance to rise through the ranks and become elite!
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As an Assassin, League Assassin has these Assassin Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: (IAmBatman)
• Second playtest: (Ericth74)
• Third playtest: (Insert link here)
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by ***

[IAmBatman]

NAME = LEAGUE ASSASSIN

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = COMMON HERO
CLASS = ASSASSIN
PERSONALITY = DEVOUT
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 4/5?

LIFE = 1
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 3
POINTS = 50

THE DEMON'S HANDS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card or the card of a Diabolical Mastermind you control and taking a turn, you may take a turn with up to three League Assassins you control that you haven't moved or attacked with this turn. You may not take any additional turns with any other figures you control.

PHANTOM WALK
League Assassin can move through all figures and is never attacked when leaving an engagement.

TRIAL BY BLOOD
If this League Assassin destroys an enemy figure with its normal attack, you may immediately replace it on the battlefield with a previously destroyed Elite League Assassin figure in your Army. If you do, remove this figure from the game.

[IAmBatman]

Mini Pics:




Background ideas

[Ericth74]

This is such a neat idea.

[IAmBatman]

I'm looking forward to trying them out for sure! And digging the idea of being able to run a League of Assassins swarm army that doesn't depend on Hand Ninja.

[IAmBatman]

I'll either need to buy some minis here or get someone who has the mini to take pictures.

[Skinderella]

Not sure if it's at all an issue, but that comic art was used for the Elite League Assassins.

Really neat design, I really want to make assassin teams more and always struggle building them. They look like a fairly big boon to X-23 to help with her positioning.

Would they benefit too much from having something extra if you choose another League Assassin for their Assassin Swarm, like say you can take a turn with two additional League Assassins instead of one? Might also help with them turning into ELAs.

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Skinderella

Not sure if it's at all an issue, but that comic art was used for the Elite League Assassins.

Good catch! I'll see if I can find other options.

Originally Posted by Skinderella

Really neat design, I really want to make assassin teams more and always struggle building them. They look like a fairly big boon to X-23 to help with her positioning.

Would they benefit too much from having something extra if you choose another League Assassin for their Assassin Swarm, like say you can take a turn with two additional League Assassins instead of one? Might also help with them turning into ELAs.

Hmm, I could see doing something like this:

ASSASSIN SWARM
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with this League Assassin, you may either take a turn with up to three other common Assassin figures you control or one Unique Assassin Hero you control.

That'd probably do more to encourage mixing and matching with Elite League Assassins and running these guys in bunches.

[Skinderella]

That looks good! I'd change the last part to Unique Assassin card if you wanted them to bond with the ELAs.

How would the bonding interaction work if the League Assassin destroyed a figure and gets replaced with an ELA? As written currently would the bonding still work since that figure is removed from the game?

[IAmBatman]

Yeah, I realized in the shower that I screwed that up. I'm actually thinking the first part could be common or squad figure so they can bring things together when you have like one Manbat Assassin and one Elite League Assassin left.

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by Skinderella

How would the bonding interaction work if the League Assassin destroyed a figure and gets replaced with an ELA? As written currently would the bonding still work since that figure is removed from the game?

I think since the figure is removed from the game but not their card, the power would still work fine. But rules lawyery people can feel free to tell me if I'm wrong!

[IAmBatman]

So I'm thinking this:

ASSASSIN SWARM
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with this League Assassin, you may either take a turn with up to three other common or squad Assassin figures you control or one Unique Assassin Hero you control.