The Book of Leatherhead

[Lazy Orang]

The Book of Leatherhead

C3G IDW WAVE 29
CHRISTMAS IN JULY


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Gravity Feed set.
Its model number and name are #017 / Leatherhead.

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Character Bio - Exposed to the same type of Mutagen that created Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo and their master, Splinter, Leatherhead, once an ordinary alligator, mutated into a hulking, anthropomorphic creature. Combining a brilliant and scientific mind with a deep-seated, almost uncontrollable anger derived from both his animal instincts and severe PTSD, Leatherhead has been both a savage opponent and stalwart ally of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• Base Clarification: Leatherhead is a single-spaced figure.

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Creature, Leatherhead has these Creature Synergies.
• As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Leatherhead has these Super Strength Synergies.
• As a figure with a special power benefitting from water tiles, Leatherhead can benefit from water tiles being placed by one of these figures.

Outgoing Synergy:

• N/A

Immunities, Benefits and Weaknesses:

• As a Creature, Leatherhead interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Brilliant personality, Leatherhead adds 4 when rolling the 20-sided die for the Glyph of Replicator.
• As a large figure, Leatherhead interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Super Strength special power, Leatherhead interacts differently with these special powers.
• Tiny, large, and huge figures are not affected by Leatherhead's Lockdown special power.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Lazy Orang
• Second playtest: shaolin
• Third playtest: Ronin
• Fourth playtest: Scapemage
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by Arkham
• Leatherhead created by Ryan Brown
• Comic art by Michael Dialynas

[Lazy Orang]

NAME = LEATHERHEAD

SPECIES = ALLIGATOR
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CREATURE
PERSONALITY = BRILLIANT
SIZE/HEIGHT = LARGE 6

LIFE = 7
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 6
DEFENCE = 5

220 POINTS


ESCALATING RAGE
Whenever Leatherhead or a friendly figure within 3 clear sight spaces receives a wound, you must place a red Rage Marker on this card, to a maximum of two Rage Markers. Leatherhead cannot move if he is engaged and there are two Rage Markers on this card. After attacking, if the number of Rage Markers on this card is exactly:

• One and Leatherhead has only attacked once this turn, he may attack again.
• Two and Leatherhead is adjacent to at least one figure he has not attacked this turn, he must attack again, targeting a figure he has not yet attacked this turn.

At the end of each round and after taking a turn with Leatherhead, remove a Rage Marker from this card.

LOCKDOWN
If Leatherhead is engaged with only one enemy figure and that figure is small or medium, that figure cannot move or be moved by any special power on an Army Card or Glyph.

SWAMP CREATURE
Leatherhead does not have to stop his movement when entering a water space. If Leatherhead ends his normal movement on a water space, you may place him on any same-level water space within 5 spaces. Leatherhead never takes leaving engagement attacks while on a water space.


SUPERSTRENGTH

[Lazy Orang]

Comic

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Background

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If there were a way to cut the chap out, this'd be ideal - that film has to be good for something, right?

Figure

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Pending

[johnny139]

As in the prep thread - looks good. Might go with something like "ESCALATING RAGE" or "BLINDING RAGE" for the first power but the current name works fine.

[quozl]

I like Escalating.

[Lazy Orang]

I can run with Escalating - fits the mechanics well. Blinding Rage feels a bit too close to Blind Rage off Mister Hyde.

[japes]

Escalating sounds good and fits here.

[Lazy Orang]

CRB callout - @dok , @Dysole , @Soundwarp SG-1 , @weebaer , thoughts?

[Scapemage]

No design comments at this time, but I got curious and went browsing for comic art options.

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First, a larger version of the one in the OP



This next one I really like, but the image is a little small.

[johnny139]

I like the second art there, where he's looking up from the sewer... he's forlorn. Almost cute. For a gator-man.

[dok]

Shouldn't he be large? It seems more thematic and the mini, while not super-big, is big enough to justify it IMO.

Anyway, interesting design. That's a lot of beef; he's likely to end up in the 200s. If that's the intention it should be fine. The rage mechanic is interesting since you want to spend a lot of time at 1 marker but it's obviously difficult to control (both for you and for your opponent).

[Lazy Orang]

I'm a fan of either the first or second images for the comic picture - thanks, @Scapemage !
As for @dok 's comments, yeah definitely aiming for low-to-mid 200s here. He's probably most comparable with Lizard and Killer Croc, but according to @IAmBatman Killer Croc's on the low end of what's justifiable, as is, IMO, Lizard, and Lizard is really good for his price anyway - I could see him at 230 without blinking, honestly. And yeah, the rage mechanic should hopefully be interesting.
As far as size goes... I'm kind of hesitant about going up to Large in Superscape. When Hulk isn't Large, it feels like that's a fairly high bar for that, which I'm not certain Leatherhead clears. That being said, I'll go with the consensus on this one, I have no strong feelings either way.