The Book of Bud and Lou

[Arkham]

The Book of Bud and Lou

C3G DC WAVE 31
YEAR OF THE VILLAIN


Comic PDF


Mini PDF

The figures used for this unit are Heroclix figures from the Harley Quinn and the Gotham Girls set.
Their model numbers and names are #019a / Bud and #019b / Lou.

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Character Bio - When Harley Quinn wanted to go solo and formed her gang, their first mission was to free Bud and Lou from the Gotham City Zoo. Bud & Lou, whose names are references to the comedy duo Abbott and Costello, are now loyal pets to Harley Quinn.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As Companions, Bud and Lou have these Companion Synergies.
• As a Wild Squad, Bud and Lou can take a turn with Beast Man's Beast Mastery special power.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Bud and Lou's Harley's Babies special power lets them bond with Harleen Quinzels.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• N/A

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• N/A.

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial Playtest: Arkham
• Second playtest: Ronin
• Third playtest: L0B5T3R
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Art by Arkham
• Bud & Lou were created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.

[Arkham]

NAME = BUD AND LOU

SPECIES = HYENA
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE SQUAD (2)
CLASS = COMPANIONS
PERSONALITY = WILD

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 3

LIFE = 1

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 3
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 70

HARLEY'S BABIES
After revealing an Order Marker on Harleen Quinzel's Army Card and before taking a turn with Harleen Quinzel, you may take a turn with Bud and Lou. You may not take any additional turns with any figures you control other than Harleen Quinzel.

PACK TACTICS
When a figure engaged with both Bud and Lou rolls defense dice, you may subtract 1 shield from whatever is rolled.

AGILE CLIMBING
Bud and Lou can move through all figures and are never attacked when leaving an engagement. When moving normally up levels of height to move onto a space with Bud or Lou, do not count a space for the first level. You may ignore Bud and Lou's height of 3 when climbing. Bud and Lou never take falling damage or major falling damage.

[Arkham]

Comic:

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Figure:

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Background:

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[Arkham]

@dok @Dysole

Any thoughts or concerns?

[Yodaking]

Pretty straight forward design, they should sail though pretty quickly I would think.

[johnny139]

For anyone interested, from what I can tell, the figures for Bud and Lou are pretty much identical.



Lou seems slightly cheaper, but both are in the ~$5 range. There's a ton of D&D/Pathfinder/Reaper hyena figures out there though.

Looks good to me. Any reason you went with Medium over Small?

[Arkham]

No real reason. I'd be fine with Small.

[Yodaking]

That is an interesting question, how do we differentiate between small and medium in C3G? They are short yes, but long and they may weigh as much as some of the teenage sidekicks we have. I could see either designation working here.

[Arkham]

That was my thought process. Spotted Hyenas are on average 98-140 lbs.

[IAmBatman]

I'd say 100ish pounds is right around the small/medium line. But that's conjecture and not backed up by any precedent, necessarily.

Is it completely thematic for them to avoid major falling damage? How high does something have to be to be major falling and not extreme?

[Lazy Orang]

I'm not a massive fan of keying purely into a specific character when it can be avoided - I feel better about it here as we at least have two versions of Harley to choose between, but still, when the Joker Goons work with any Insane person, the Killer Penguins work with any Crime Lord and the Animated Vines work with any Plant Animator, this feels weird. Even the other 'pets' have broader options, Lockheed pairing with any Mutant Protector, Zabu with any Human Hunter and Old Lace with any Runaway (though admittedly she's at her best when paired with Gert). Since they were Joker's but Harley took better care of them, what if they could bond with any Insane figure but got some bonus when within X spaces of Harley/any (Insane) Misfit or Outlaw?

[IAmBatman]

I'm usually against it as well, but it has precedent (like Cupid's Arrow in the World's Finest set, for instance). In this case they're really just her pets, so I can see the justification. I think our specific character call outs must still exist in fewer than 1% of our designs overall.