The Book of Tar Pit

[Arch-vile]

The Book of Tar Pit

C3G DC WAVE 38
FLASH FORWARD


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the The Flash set.
Its model number and name are #028 / Tar Pit.

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Character Bio - The younger brother of drug lord Jack "The Candyman" Monteleone, Joey spurned the family business for petty crime. Imprisoned in Iron Heights for fifteen years for armed robbery, he discovered that he could astrally project himself into inanimate objects and animate them. He took several objects for joyrides before projecting himself into asphalt and becoming stuck. His real body remained in Iron Heights in a coma.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Metahuman, Tar Pit has these Metahuman Synergies.
• As a Rogue, Tar Pit has these Rogue Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Tar Pit is a lockdown unit - get him adjacent to the enemy so Stuck locks them down, then attack the helpless figure with your more powerful attackers. Tar Pit's sturdy defense can tank a few attacks. But don't underestimate the power of Flaming Tar Throw Special Attack - when combined with The Top's Making The World Spin, if you roll a blank, it counts as a skull and reduces the opponent's defense by one! It's a useful combo in a pinch.
• Rogues faction strategy

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Arch-vile
• Second playtest: Zakizzryn, additional test
• Third playtest: FreshFoods
• Fourth playtest: AlexH12
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by Arkham
• Tar Pit was created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins for The Flash vol. 2 #174 (July 2001)

[Arch-vile]

NAME = TAR PIT
SECRET IDENTITY = JOEY MONTELEONE

SPECIES = METAHUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = ROGUE
PERSONALITY = IMPULSIVE

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

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

POINTS = 150

FLAMING TAR THROW SPECIAL ATTACK
Range 3. Attack 4.
Choose a non-adjacent figure to attack. If the chosen figure does not have the Lava Resistant special power, you may count one blank rolled as an additional hit.

STUCK
All small or medium opponent's figures that enter or occupy a space adjacent to Tar Pit may not move. Figures affected by Stuck cannot be moved by any special power on an Army Card.

LAVA RESISTANT
Tar Pit never rolls for molten lava damage or lava field damage and does not have to stop in molten lava spaces.

SUPER STRENGTH

[Arch-vile]

Comic Art:

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Mini Pics:

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(from Ronin)

Background:

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Ideas: an alley, a prison, a hockey rink, in front of a city building. Or a real life tar pit.

[Arch-vile]

Skipped the last chance thread here, but this design isn't anything funky and it got good reception in my personal thread.

[tcglkn]

Hate Stuck as a power but it seems appropriate here. No complaints.

[IAmBatman]

Cool. Mostly reuses. Seems pretty cool. Should be a nice lockdown piece for the faction.

[MrNobody]

Cool mini, cool design.

[Lord Pyre]

No issues here. Simple and solid.

[johnny139]

It feels a little weird to me that someone Stuck inside a giant dude made of burning tar is not only, like, melting, he's actually LESS likely to be burned, since he can't use his SA against that person.

But I've never heard of this guy, so I dunno. Seems like a solid Rogue piece to add to the mix. Waller will probably find a fun way to use/abuse him too.

[japes]

Dang...Arkham already snuck in and snagged this one. Very high on my list of really cool minis I have without a card...easily top three.

[Arch-vile]

The cool mini is half the reason I’m designing this one. The other half is the utility Stuck will provide the faction.

Tar Pit never really makes sense in the comics either. You’d think getting stuck in flaming tar would burn Flash but it just makes him stuck. Then Tar Pit throws a small piece of his body and it hits Flash and burns that part of his suit.

Glad people are liking this one.

[Yodaking]

Seems like a Scooby Doo monster, so I'll have to use him when testing those designs.