The Book of Green Lantern (Uncommon)

[johnny139]

I think they need to be named "Green Lantern" anyways if we want them to be work correctly, right? I think that does make the potential multiple recharges make more sense. don't mind a low point cost. Green Lanterns are like ninjas - one is a major threat, an army is just cannon fodder.

Oh, and species here should probably be Banyam, as the miniature represents Medphyll and we usually match the generic Lanterns to their mini species (YL = Korugaran, Star Sapphire = Zamaron, etc).

[tcglkn]

I’m fine with that species. I looked up Medphyll and couldn’t find a species so I thought we might do like the Indigo uncommon and go with Unknown.

[tcglkn]

COMPETITIVE REVIEW BOARD CHECKLIST

Spoiler Alert!

Efficiency- Check to see if your design is providing armies with turns/moves/etc. to a degree that would make it difficult or impossible for an opponent to keep up with your output.

1. Does your design allow itself or figures to move/attack/take a turn/etc. instead of/in addition to your normal turn for revealing an Order Marker? Is it granting these benefits to too broad a range of units? Does it combine with other powers to create overly long or powerful chains of actions?
Limited bonding, shouldn’t be an issue.

2. Does your design allow you to take actions during an opponent's turn? Can it combine with other powers to create tediously long reactions to enemy actions or a restrictive environment?
Lets you add autoshields, not a concern.

3. Does your design allow you to rearrange your Order Markers or otherwise bypass the costs of Order Marker requirements on the special powers of other figures?
No

4. Is your design doing anything outside of a player's turn, at the start or end of the round? Is the effect too powerful by itself or when combined with other powers?
No

5. Does your design have any powers that trigger anytime it moves as opposed to only when it moves normally on its turn? Will it be too efficient when combined with figures that grant extra moves to figures?
No

6. Is your design adding or subtracting from initiative rolls? Will it pair too easily with other figures that alter initiative or have powers triggering on the results of initiative rolls?
No


Potency- Check to see if your design is wounding/removing/etc. enemy figures, increasing the chances of other figures in your army doing so, or otherwise directly effecting the number of figures available to players to a degree that would make it difficult or impossible for an opponent to recover from.

1. Does your design have a chance to inflict wounds or destroy figures? Is it getting these chances too frequently or having to high a chance of success? Is the power balanced against expensive targets that can cause a massive swing in the game when destroyed?
No

2. Is your design adding to the stats or 20-sided die rolls of other figures in your army? Is it a boosting a broad enough range of units effectively enough to become a 'mandatory' draft or inhibit future design space? Can it be combined with other boosts too easily?
Can add autoshields for adjacent figures at the cost of a Marker. Should be fine.

3. Will your design benefit from stat boosts or other enhancement to an overpowering degree? Will it restrict future growth within its faction or point cost by limiting available boosts to others?
Not really

4. Does your design take control of enemy figures permanently or temporarily? Is it too difficult to for your opponent to regain control of their figure or recover from the losing the figure? Does the method of taking control expose the enemy figure to the powers of other figures in your army that can easily destroy it?
No

5. Can your design heal itself or others or revive itself or others? Is it doing so in a way that an opponent cannot hope to overcome in certain scenarios?
No

6. Does your design place enemy figures on its card or otherwise have an unconventional method of temporarily removing enemy figures from play? Will it guarantee your victory against a single remaining enemy figure?
No


Chicanery- Check to see if your design is preventing your opponent from taking actions with too much ease or is otherwise causing negative play experience through tactics that make your opponent feel you're 'not playing fair'

1. Does your design restrict the movement of enemy figures, or allow you to move enemy figures? Can it do so in a way that results in an unwinnable scenario for your opponent if they are down to one figure, posses only figures with a range of 1, etc.? Can your design easily combine with other figures to greatly impede enemy figures or otherwise gain an excessive advantage?
No

2. Does your design effect/change the placement of an enemy's Order Markers, or remove their Order Markers entirely? Can it force Order Markers to go onto cards that have no figures on the battlefield? Can your design easily combine with other figures to completely dictate the placement of an enemy's Order Markers or remove all of their Order Markers?
No

3. Does your design inhibit your opponent from attacking your figures or make attacking a losing proposition? Are there scenarios or combinations that make your opponent totally unable to harm your figures through attacking?
No

4. Does your design directly negate the powers of enemy figures or otherwise ignore them in a way that can completely disrupt the opponent's strategy or leave them feeling like they are stuck playing figures without special powers?
No

5. Does your design become overly powerful in a podded group of figures, or provide significant benefit to your army without leaving your Start Zone?
No, they want to stick with the “main” Green Lanterns but not really a traditional Pod.

6. You can attack your own figures in Heroscape, does your design have any powers that will trigger off of doing so or otherwise wounding/destroying your own figures? Is this intentional on your part? Will the design be too efficient or potent when doing so?
I don’t think there’s any benefit to doing this here

CONSISTENCY CHECKLIST (SHORT FORM)

Spoiler Alert!

Consistency Concerns
Name and Identity
Verify character is named in a way that is clear, accurate and feels consistent with the way other characters are named.
Yes

Uniqueness and Type
Verify that the power text reflects the listed uniqueness and type, that the uniqueness fits the character, and that squad size is listed for squads.
Yep

Left Box
If the character's species, class or personality is reused, verify that the character feels thematically consistent with other figures that have that species, class or personality. If they are not reused, verify that there is no pre-existing species, class or personality that would make more sense.
New species, accurate according to Johnny but I couldn’t find anything on it.

Size and Height
Verify that the listed size and height are accurate. Standing the mini up next to a stack of tiles, and a few other minis of various sizes, is encouraged.
Yep

Super Strength and Flying
Verify that these special powers are present if they make sense, and not if they don't.
Present and accounted for.

New Powers - Names
Verify that any new powers are not using power names identical to, or very similar to, pre-existing powers. Verify that any new powers are actually new and not old powers with new names.
I dig what we have here

New Powers - Effects
Verify that the effect and timing of all new powers is clear. Verify that any logical immunities, benefits, or weaknesses (whether those be necessary for thematic or mechanical reasons) are implemented: consider whether defensive powers that work against normal attacks should also work against special attacks, whether or not a power has an elemental component that some figures should resist, and whether or not unliving figures (such as Undead and Androids) should be affected.
Should be good here

Reused Powers
Verify that the design is reusing powers in place of creating new ones, where reused powers could implement the same theme and mechanics with no differences or only trivial differences. Verify that any reused powers have the correct text.
No reuses

Power Level
Verify that the character's movement, attack, range, and defense (in conjunction with any special powers that enhance those stats) feel consistent with the capabilities of characters with analogous powers and abilities. Verify that the character falls into a similar point range to characters with comparative powers and abilities.
Yes, all good.

[tcglkn]

I propose we move to initial playtesting here.

[LordVenoc]

If we're wanting to keep em that cheap, I can see possibly needing to drop the max markers to 1 instead of the 2 so its a recharge and not technically a charge up. But playtesting will show that off I'd say.

Yea

[tcglkn]

I don’t think the recharge is going to happen very often as is but I will keep that in mind.

[IAmBatman]

yea. Getting around 140 on the calculator, so I'll be surprised if you can get them down at 100.

[tcglkn]

Not locked on 100 was hoping for the 100-130 points.

[Arch-vile]

Johnny's species detective skills are superior to mine!

yea

[Tornado]

Yea

[tcglkn]

This passes. Plan to hit this after my Hawkgirl test.

[tcglkn]

C3G INITIAL PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Green Lantern (Uncommon)

Version tested:

Spoiler Alert!

NAME = Green Lantern

SPECIES = Banyam
UNIQUENESS = Uncommon Hero
CLASS = Officer
PERSONALITY = Protective

SIZE/HEIGHT = Medium 5

LIFE = 3

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = 130

GREEN LANTERN INSPIRATION
Start the game with one Green Battery Marker on this card. Add 1 to this Green Lantern's Move, Range, Attack, and Defense numbers for each Green Marker on this card. If an adjacent unique Green Lantern you control destroys an opponent's Unique or Event Hero with a normal attack, place a Green Battery Marker on this card, to a maximum of 2 Battery Markers on this card.

GREEN LANTERN FORMATION
After revealing an Order Marker on the Army Card of a Unique Green Lantern you control and taking a turn with that figure, you may take an immediate turn with this Green Lantern. During this turn, if you did not reveal an Order Marker on the Army Card of a Drill Instructor or Uncommon Green Lantern, you must remove a Battery Marker from this card to attack with this Green Lantern. You may not take an additional turns with other figures you control.

STRENGTH OF WILL
After this figure or an adjacent figure rolls attack or defense dice, you may remove a Battery Marker from this card to add an automatic skull or shield to the result.

SUPER STRENGTH

FLYING

Army Test
Map: Ivy's Greenhouse
Units: Green Lantern x3 (130 ea.) and Kilowog (700) VS Luke Cage, Iron Man (Mk IV), Iron Fist (700)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Dealt: Killed off Luke Cage and dealt 2 wounds to Iron Fist

Inspiration: Only charged 1 battery marker

Formation: Very useful, always full bonding in this build.

Strength of Will: Used twice, saved a Lantern's life once.

Their bonding is useful, you get two mediocre turns if you're trying to protect Kilowog like I did this game, Luke's bonding just has better targets for full turns. It was hard to keep them all together so the charge ability isn't the easiest to trigger. Only having 3 life and 6 defense (with 1 marker and both Kilowog buffs) means they still fall fairly quick. It is nice that they get to roll defense and then decide if they want to burn their marker for an autoshield. In the end, Iron Man was just a bit too much for them to take down.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Iron Man with 3 wounds.

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Army Test
Map: Ivy's Greenhouse
Units: Green Lantern x3 (130 ea.), Ch'p and Kilowog (900) VS Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon (II), Groot (baby) and Drax (II) (900)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Dealt: Killed Rocket and Groot with 2 wounds on Star-Lord

Inspiration: Charged 3 total markers, one for each.

Formation: Useful with Kilowog, never worth it to burn a marker with Ch'p so it was move only.

Strength of Will: Used 3 times.

This fight was a little better for them as they had more turn efficiency than the Guardians and were able to slowly pick them apart. Ch'p had some nice special attacks that let him take down Drax fairly early (2 charges for the Uncommons thanks to good positioning) which really swung things in the Lantern's favor.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Kilowog with no wounds and 1 Uncommon with 2 wounds

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Army Test
Map: Ivy's Greenhouse
Units: Green Lantern x3 (130 ea.), Hal Jordan and Kilowog (1050) VS Fantastic Four with Stan Lee (1050)

Spoiler Alert!

Damage Dealt: 2 wounds on Human Torch with LEAs, 3 wounds on Thing prevented by Stan Lee

Inspiration: Charged 1 marker when Hal killed HT.

Formation: They had a hard time keeping up with Hal for the chance at a recharge, I have a tweak in mind for that.

Strength of Will: Used 2 times, Human Torch was able to bypass it.

The Fan 4 were on a roll here. Hal lead the charge boosted up by Kilowog but the recruits just couldn't keep up. Human Torch was able to finish off 2 of the Recruits at the same time with Flame On but they both took passes at him and landed. When the last recruit had a good attack on Thing, Stan Lee appeared and distracted the poor recruit.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Mister Fantastic with 4 wounds, Invisible Woman with none, Thing with 3 wounds and Stan Lee full health

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: They felt close at 130, my only complaint is that it's hard to keep up with some of the named Lanterns due to them having more markers and thus more move so I wanna tweak Formation to let them move the same number of spaces as long as they end their move adjacent.

GREEN LANTERN FORMATION
After revealing an Order Marker on the Army Card of a Unique Green Lantern you control and taking a turn with that figure, you may take an immediate turn with this Green Lantern. During this turn, you may move the same number of spaces as that Green Lantern as long as this figure ends its move adjacent to that Green Lantern, and if you did not reveal an Order Marker on the Army Card of a Drill Instructor or Uncommon Green Lantern, you must remove a Battery Marker from this card to attack with this Green Lantern. You may not take an additional turns with other figures you control.