The Book of Six-Gun Gorilla

[Karat]

Yea

[Tornado]

Yea
Great pic.

[Yodaking]

yea

[Ronin]

yea

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Yea

[L0B5T3R]

This passes to public play testing, if someone could add him to the op in the playtesting sign up thread, that’d be great!

[Yodaking]

I'm going to run one game with the GCW in tow, but I was thinking I'd run the second game without them to see how he feels on his own. What are the top fire based attacks I could pair him up, with where he serves at the focal point of a fireball AoE attack or something?

[Yodaking]

I checked the spells but it turns out magical fire can't be resisted, same for Etrigan's Hellfire Fireball SA. Pyro's SA is the only I can find that the Poncho would impact, but that's not an AOE attack. So I can put him in the opponents army, but he isn't a good ally. Anyone think of someone I'm missing, either with or against?

[Ronin]

Lava Resistant Interactions

I'd try running him with Captain Britain before leaning too hard into the poncho.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, I was just coming to update that I was going to test the Protector synergy with Capt. Britain instead of trying to utilize the Poncho. Pretty excited about him being a potential Excalibur recruit!

[Lord Pyre]

Should his SI be O'Neil? That's apparently his name in the story that Johnny posted (Of which I read about 3 paragraphs, and the very end )

[Yodaking]

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = SIX-GUN GORILLA

SPECIES = SIMIAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = PROTECTOR
PERSONALITY = ENIGMATIC

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5

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

POINTS = 230

DUAL HAND CANNONS SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 5. Attack 2.
When attacking with this special attack, each skull rolled counts as an additional hit. When Six-Gun Gorilla attacks with Dual Hand Cannons, he may attack one additional time.

LEAP 25
Instead of his normal move, Six-Gun Gorilla may use Leap. Leap has a move of 3. When counting spaces for Leap, ignore elevations. Six-Gun Gorilla may leap over water without stopping, leap over figures without becoming engaged, and leap over obstacles such as ruins. Six-Gun Gorilla may not leap more than 25 levels up or down in a single leap. When using Leap, Six-Gun Gorilla will take any leaving engagement attacks.

HEAT-RESISTANT PONCHO
While defending against an attack, Six-Gun Gorilla is considered to have the Lava Resistant special power.

SUPER STRENGTH

NAME OF THE TEST UNIT (Six-Gun Gorilla)
Army Test 1
- Give a brief preview. 87Kraven convinces Megatron that his Decipticons could rule over Gorilla City and the humans wouldn’t bother them, so Megatron launches an assault with Kraven as their guide. The Gorillas aren’t just going to roll over for the robots though and assemble a team to defend their lands. As Kraven predicted, no humans would come to their aid, but they found a Racoon that’s always eager for a fight. Solovar is Kraven’s Prey.
Map: Tacilla Jungle
Units: Six-Gun Gorilla@230, GCWx3, Gorilla-Man, Solovar, Rocket Racoon I (1200) vs. Megatron, Soundwave, Ravage, Laserbeak, Kraven (1200)

Spoiler Alert!

Dual Hand Cannons SA Usage: 2W to Megatron in 4 att., 2W to Soundwave in 3 att., 3W to Kraven in 1 att.
Leap 25 Usage: Not used.
Heat-Resistant Poncho Usage: Not used.
Normal Damage Dealt: Not used.
Damage Taken: 0W from 1 att. by Soundwave on LG while Inspired (5 att. vs. 7 def.)
Details: R1, Ravage runs out and hits Rocket with a missile for 1W. R2, Gorilla-Man runs out and starts spraying bullets around, hitting Kraven, Ravage, & Soundwave each for 1W! Megatron responds by unloading on Gorilla-Man for 3W. GCW surround Megatron, while Six-Gun nails Megatron for 1W. Ravage & Laserbeak get a turn together, but take out just one GCW. GCW’s engage the tapes, dealing 2W to Laserbeak while also scoring a W on Megatron, Gorilla-Man’s gun jams. Kraven uses Megatron’s Hand Cannon to take out a GCW. R3, Soundwave initiates Operation Disruption. GCW score 2W on Megatron. Soundwave moves up & takes out a GCW. GCW take down Laserbeak. Megatron has the GCW cower before him as he destroys one. Soundwave uses Megatron’s Hand Cannon and takes out Gorilla-Man. R4, Ravage takes out a GCW, Soundwave misses Six-Gun. GCW surround and destroy Ravage, Six-Gun uses his own Hand Cannon on Megatron for 1W. Megatron makes the GCW cower in fear once more, knocking off OM3, while killing one of them. Rage overpowers fear for the GCW though and they surround and take out Megatron! Six-Gun hits Soundwave for 1W. R5, Soundwave shoots first, misses, GCW beat on Soundwave for 3W, Six-Gun finishes him off and scores 3W on Kraven (2 skulls on back to back att.). Kraven can’t take down a GCW, and they finish him off.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? 3 GCW, Six-Gun & Solovar at full health, Rocket w/1W won.

Recap: Rocket did nothing in this game but soak up a few attacks from Ravage, and Solovar only contributed his inspiration (which was pretty significant having that extra move and def. die for the GCW), and it ended up being a pretty big win for the apes. Thought the Decipticons had a good chance mid-game, but they just couldn’t take down the GCW quickly enough. Too many single att. turns for them. Every time Megatron used his Hand Cannon for two att. of 6 & 4, he only managed to get one kill. Soundwave and his tapes didn’t get many turns in together before the tapes were defeated either, the Apes just moved across the board too quickly and threw too many att. dice for their def. to hold up. Six-Gun for his part did a good job dishing out wounds via his SA, while the Decipticons were busy trying to take out the GCW. He also liked being inspired by Solovar and getting the extra def.
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes, no issues I could find here.
- What should be the unit's point value? Hard to say. At first glance he’s just a stat box with a SA, as two of his powers aren’t super significant, but in action he proves to be a really good ranged component to an already strong melee common squad army. Admittedly I believe I rolled at least 1 skull on every use of his SA (maybe one miss?), and rolled 2 skulls on I think 3 of the 8 att., so he was pretty consistent. Also I should have ran an army that had more multiple att. options to deal with the squad scape going on here. Hindsight is 20/20, I’d suggest a few more Simian Army tests where they are facing an army that is better at dealing with squads.
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Army Test 2
- Give a brief preview. After monkeying around in the first game, wanted to see how he felt away from the all Simian army build option so I’m testing out his Protector synergy web. Oddly enough, Gorilla Grodd also fits into the Capt. Britain army as a Telepath so I guess I’m not completely done monkeying around.
Map: Tacilla Sunrise
Units: Six-Gun Gorilla@230, Capt. Britain, Colossus, Gorilla Grodd (1000) vs. Magneto II, Mystique I, Juggernaut, Pyro (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Dual Hand Cannons SA Usage: 2W to Mystique in 2 att.,
Leap 25 Usage: Never used.
Heat-Resistant Poncho Usage: Never came up.
Normal Damage Dealt: 2W (plus 2 extra that were not needed) to Mystique in 1 att., 2W to Jugg’s from HG in 1 att.,
Damage Taken: 3W’s from Magneto’s Throw, 1W from Jugg’s SA in 1 use,
Details: R1, Magneto & Mystique both att. Colossus with a normal att., 1W from Magneto. R2, Pyro hits Capt. Britain for 2W (def. whiff). CB & 6-Gun respond with 3W to Pyro & 2W to Mystique. Magneto has a double fail on his Magnetic Throw! R3, Magneto tosses CB into Mystique for a double hit of 2W’s, then throws 6-Gun into Mystique but only for 1W. CB & 6-Gun team up to take out Mystique. Magneto throws 6-Gun away from him and into engagement with Pyro. CB can’t finish Pyro off, so Colossus steps up and knocks him out. Juggs goes after Colossus, but Steel Skin is strong. Grodd rushes in and blindsides Juggs, who whiffs on def., scoring a quick 3Ws. R4, CB att. Magneto and scores 2Ws! Colossus can’t do the same to Juggs though. Magneto continues to roll low with the d20, only managing to toss Colossus off HG for 1W. Grodd takes HG and hits Juggs for 1W. The poor luck continues for the Outcasts as Juggs has Colossus & CB all lined up for his SA, but he rolls just 1 skull vs. Colossus for a 1 shield block, then rolls 4 skulls vs. CB only to watch CB roll 4 shields on def.! Colossus scores a W on Magneto, Magneto tosses CB twice and takes him down. R5, Juggs wins initiative, Colossus & 6-Gun are all lined up for him, but Colossus again blocks the SA, then 6-Gun only takes 1W (7 att. die vs. 5 def.). 6-Gun takes Hg and hits him back harder, dealing 2W. Magneto tosses both Grodd & Colossus into engagement with Juggs. Juggs is defeated by Grodd. Magneto tries to finish off 6-Gun since he’s got an OM and 2 life left, but only can toss him once for 1W. Turns out that OM was the X and Colossus att. Magneto for 1W. R6, Magneto tosses Colossus far enough away to not worry about him, but can’t do the same to Grodd. Grodd had OM1 and takes out Magneto.
Who won and how many wounds did they have? Colossus w/4Ws, Six-Gun Gorilla w/4Ws, & Gorilla Grodd w/2Ws won.

Recap: Not a great showing for the Outcast here, Magneto rolled low early and often with his d20, the odds might have balanced out some by the end of the game but it put his team in an early hole. Juggs had terrible luck with his SA, and also whiffed on his first def. roll of the game for a quick 3Ws. Overall the 7 def. dice for Juggs & Magneto didn’t fare well here vs. the barrage of 6-7 att. dice, skulls were more consistent for the Gorilla Excalibur team. Capt. Britain for his part never lost any confidence, although he also whiffed on def. to take a quick 2Ws. Overall a fun match, interesting to see I ended up using Six-Gun’s normal att. more in this one than his SA, whereas the opposite occurred in the first game.
- Does it pass, Yes or No? Yes, fun unit!
- What should be the unit's point value? Even with the luck/tactics on his army’s side in both games, after two fairly solid wins I wouldn’t be surprised if additional testing didn’t show he is worth more than 230. He did score W’s with all 3 of his turns in which he rolled att. dice here, and consistent damage output like that is worth something.