The Book of Terminator (Guardian)

[MrNobody]

Yea

[Tornado]

Yea

[Yodaking]

This passes, I'll post it up.

[Yodaking]

First set of results in here from Jekyll.

Originally Posted by Dr. Jekyll

PLAYTEST UNIT: Terminator

Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units: Terminator(210), Blink, Punisher, Robin(Tim Drake), Marrow, Madripoor Mercenaries (1000) VS Professor X, Cyclops(I), Jean Grey, Angel, Beast, Iceman (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Normal Attack Damage:
No damage dealt
Protection Programming:
Terminator chooses Blink as his Charge. Blink just carried him around the whole game, it was nifty.
Combat Shotgun:
Dealt 3 damage to Angel
Unstoppable Resilience:
Nice touch, made it a lot harder to kill him. Saved him at least 3 times during the course of the game.
Notes:
Cyclops hits Terminator with a snipe shot for first blood. Punisher takes a hit from Cyclops as well. Punisher takes out Cyclops with his assault rifle and Robin starts in on Beast. Beast attacks Punisher and is met with some resistance from Marrow. Punisher turns his attention to Iceman and Iceman takes him out. Jean Grey slaps Robin for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Iceman and Jean Grey team up on Terminator making it hard to gain any ground. Iceman finally takes down the Terminator and Jean handles Robin. Iceman puts Blink and Marrow on ice. Jean takes out the rest of the Madripoor Mercenaries for the win
Winning Team: Professor X with 0 wounds, Jean Grey with 2 wound, Iceman with 3 wounds, and Angel with 3 wounds.

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Army Test
Map: Conflict Chernobyl
Units: Terminator, Captain Britain, Angel(Liam), Nightcrawler(II), Mastermind (1000) VS Star-Lord, Gamora(II), Groot, Rocket Raccoon(I)(1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Normal Attack Damage:
Dealt 3 damage to Groot, then 1 damage to Groot again.
Protection Programming:
Terminator chooses Angel as his Charge.
Combat Shotgun:
Dealt 4 damage to Rocket Raccoon.
Dealt 1 damage to Gamora.
Unstoppable Resilience:
Didn’t really get hit because of this.
Notes:
Nightcrawler hits the BAMF! and strikes Star-Lord for first contact. Terminator shotguns Rocket down quick. Gamora moves in to protect Star-Lord and lands a hit on Captain Britain. Captain Britain and Angel do a little double team on Star-Lord and he’s on his last leg now. Terminator decides to pick up the teams six and hits Groot with a normal attack. After Star-Lord made his retreat, Nightcrawler followed and ended him with good slash. Groot moves in and bonks Angel on the head. Gamora surrounded, but just where she wants to be lands a hit on Angel and Captain Britain. Groot smashes Angel into the ground, he’s not getting up. Captain Britain lands a good hit on Gamora and Nightcrawler hits Groot with a scratch. Terminator hits Gamora with a pellet from his shotgun and she falls. Captain Britain and Nightcrawler smoke Groot for the victory
Winning Team: Terminator with 0 wound, Captain Britain with 4 wounds, Mastermind with 1 wound, and Nightcrawler with 0 wounds

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: This was a fun couple of matches. The first game against the X-Men was going well up until Jean and Prof. X moved in and kinda put everyone on lock down. The second game was nuts with Nightcrawler all over the map and Cap and Gamora just throwing hands. I love the design you have here. The one thing I would say is I wish he had some sort of repercussion for attacking his Charge. He can take a turn if his Charge does not attack and that’s cool, but what if he could use his Shotgun if his Charge took a wound or two? I feel like if would make the opponent think twice about attacking the Charge. As far as the class of Guardian, I would have thought it would Protector seeing as the first power is Protection Programming and that is his duty. I’m sure there is a good reason for all this, you know much more of what you are doing than I do. Thanks for the opportunity here, he is cool man. If there is anything I am missing or something else you need, let me know.

[IAmBatman]

Is it clear in the first power that he cannot attack his own charge?

[Lazy Orang]

Guardian instead of Protector was to keep him out of Cyborg (vII) and Captain Britain synergy.
Personally, I think the idea of a heroic Terminator teaming up with Cyborg's Justice League is super cool and I'm down for going with Protector here, 100%.

[Yodaking]

I had to read his comment a second time, he wasn't talking about attacking the figure you assigned the Terminator to protect (although if you want to cut that out it's fine with me). He was saying the Terminator should have a power similar to what we gave Winter Solder II where if you attack and wound the Charge, he gets a free attack on that figure to discourage attacking the Charge first. I'm open to that concept if we can work it in cleanly somewhere, I did end up going after Forge instead of the Terminator in my last game after seeing Forge repair the Terminator. I just don't want to over haul things here at this point.

[Yodaking]

PROTECTION PROGRAMMING
At the start of the game, you must choose a Medium or Small Unique Hero without the Super Strength or Flying Special Powers you control to be the Terminator's Charge. After a numbered Order Marker is revealed on the Charge's card, instead of attacking with his Charge, you may take a turn with Terminator. If its Charge is on the battlefield, the Terminator may only attack figures within 6 spaces of its Charge. Figures engaged with the Terminator may not make Leaving Engagement Attacks.

I never used this last line in my tests so we could cut it for a line about defending the Charge.

PROTECTION PROGRAMMING
At the start of the game, you must choose a Medium or Small Unique Hero without the Super Strength or Flying Special Powers you control to be the Terminator's Charge. After a numbered Order Marker is revealed on the Charge's card, instead of attacking with his Charge, you may take a turn with Terminator. If its Charge is on the battlefield, the Terminator may only attack figures within 6 spaces of its Charge. After the Charge receives one or more wounds, if the figure that dealt those wound is within 4 clear sight spaces of the Terminator, roll an unblockable attack die against that figure.

[IAmBatman]

Eh. I think you protect the charge by focusing on killing people near them on your turn.

[Yodaking]

Yeah, I don't have to have something like that on the card. Just entertaining the idea if other feel it's missing.

[IAmBatman]

I guess my only theoryscape concern is that he's not particularly incentivized to keep his Charge alive right now and if his Charge is cheap enough, you could probably end up wanting to use them as a center point for more effective shotgun blasts. But I'm not sure if he's felt that way in testing or not.

[Yodaking]

No center point explosion on this Shotgun, he's using slugs instead of buckshot.