The Book of Flash (Barry Allen) (Justice League)

[Ronin]

The Book of Flash (Barry Allen) (Justice League)

C3G DC WAVE 39
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED

Comic PDF

Mini PDF

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Rebirth set.
Its model number and name are #047 / The Flash.

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Rebirth Fast Forces set.
Its model number and name are #003 / The Flash.​

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Character Bio -
"I wish I'd never gone into my lab
To experiment that night
Before lightning flashed around me
And time changed speed
Now I gotta try to be so patient until calamity will strike
Because when things change in an instant
It's almost fast enough for me" - The Ballad of Barry Allen, lyrics by Jim Infantino
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-Rulings and Clarifications-

• N/A

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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:

• As a Flash, Flash has these Flash Synergies.
• As a figure with a secret identity, Flash has these Secret Identity Synergies.
• As a Metahuman, Flash has these Metahuman Synergies.
• As a Champion, Flash has these Champion Synergies.
• As a figure with the Superspeed special power, Flash has these Superspeed Synergies.

Outgoing Synergy:

• Flash's Swift Justice special power allows him to gain Justice League Markers for Unique Heroes you control that are Champions, Investigators, or Officers.

Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses:

• As a figure with a secret identity, Flash interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a Champion, Flash interacts differently with these special powers.
• As a figure with the Superspeed special power, Flash interacts differently with these special powers.

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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-

• Justice League Faction Strategy

-Heroscapers Community Contributions-

• Initial playtest: Ronin
• Second playtest: Arch-vile
• Third playtest: Arkham
• Fourth playtest: IAmBatman
• Art: Comic, Figure, Background
• Card Art by Arkham

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

NAME = FLASH
SECRET IDENTITY = BARRY ALLEN

SPECIES = METAHUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = CHAMPION
PERSONALITY = BOLD

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 12
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 5
DEFENSE = 7

POINTS = 270

SWIFT JUSTICE
At the start of the game, place 1 blue Justice League Marker on this card for each Unique Hero you control with the class of Champion, Investigator, or Officer, to a maximum of 3. After rolling for initiative, you may remove a Justice League Marker from this card to add 8 to your roll.

FASTEST MAN ALIVE
At the start of your player turn, do up to X of the following, where X is the number of Justice League Markers on this card:
• place Flash on any empty space on the battlefield.
• choose an adjacent destructible object Flash has not yet chosen this round. Place or remove 1 Wound Marker from its card.
• move an adjacent figure 1 space, or up to 4 spaces if it is a friendly figure, during which it gains the Superspeed special power.
• place a glyph within 2 spaces of Flash on an empty space within 2 spaces of Flash.

SUPERSPEED
Flash may move through all figures, never takes leaving engagement attacks, and does not have to stop his movement when entering water spaces. After taking a turn with Flash, if he did not use his Fastest Man Alive special power this turn, he may move up to an additional 4 spaces.

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Comic:

Spoiler Alert!

Mini:

Spoiler Alert!

 

[tcglkn]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

FASTEST MAN ALIVE
At the start of your turn, do one of these for each Justice League Markers on this card:

This seems shorter and sounds better to me.

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Yeah, that's a good edit. Might still retain "the following" vs "these", but definitely like trimming out the "X" stuff.

 

[Arch-vile]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

I agree with that edit. Otherwise looks pretty good, he looks fun. I dig the N52/Rebirth art options, I really like that style for Barry. And you've got the Ballad of Barry Allen! This design has earned you an Archie favor.

 

[IAmBatman]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Very neat. I think my favorite interaction is the idea of him pushing weather fronts around in the form of Weather Glyphs. Should definitely try him with Red Tornado at least.

I'd project him at the 260-280 range.

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Yeah I like him doing the arm-woosh thing to move weather around! 260-280 feels about right to me.

I agree with that edit. Otherwise looks pretty good, he looks fun. I dig the N52/Rebirth art options, I really like that style for Barry. And you've got the Ballad of Barry Allen! This design has earned you an Archie favor.

I'm actually not huge on the modern Barry look (depending on who's drawing it), but it's a look we don't have carded yet, and I felt like it fit with the design.

I'll be sure to cash in that Archie favor someday.

 

[japes]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Last power still has the Flash time callout.

Everything else looks good to me.

 

[IAmBatman]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

Actually seems like one of the least terrible New 52 outfits to me. My daughter has a "5 Minute Stories" book for Wonder Woman and the New 52 Superman outfit in there makes him look like a blue M&M with that candy-coated sheen. Blah.

Great title choice with Fastest Man Alive, btw! Can't believe we haven't used that yet. Though my Wally fanship hurts that it's going on Barry.

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Design)

For a long time he was the Fastest Man Dead, yeah.

Updated the SP - gonna run the Demogorgon first, but may as well propose we send this guy to initial.

 

[Lord Pyre]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

Cool design! His. Options aren’t too powerful, but then activating literally every turn is pretty potent. His teleport is sick! Do we have enough card space here?

Yea

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

Do we have enough card space here?

That was a main concern in workshopping. Think we ought to be just this side of okay.

 

[tcglkn]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

Yea

 

[Arch-vile]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

yea

 

[IAmBatman]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

yea. Will be interesting to see if you can think of any neat tricks to pull with Glyph-bringing partners.

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Initial)

This passes

Thanks folks!

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Waiting for Initial)

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Flash (JL) @270 points

Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Flash (JL) @270, Red Tornado (JL), Atom (JL), Batman (JL II) (880) vs Crime-Master, Doppelganger, Demogoblin, Venom (II), Bodyguard x2 (880)

Spoiler Alert!

Summary: The JL team opened up a pretty big gap early here - Flash helped set Batman and Tornado up really early and they dropped Doppelganger and Crime-Master fast. Demogoblin and Venom picked up the slack pretty well, though - Venom in particular was resistant to their shenanigans and almost won the match in the endgame, but Red Tornado eked it out.

Notes: Used every FMA effect at least once, besides the DO wounding - no DOs on the field. Burned a marker for an init boost twice - once won anyway, once won due to the marker burn. Took 2 wounds from Demogoblin in 2 attacks, 2 wounds from Venom in 3 attacks (destroyed), dealt 0 wounds to Demogoblin in 1 attack.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes):
Red Tornado with 1 Life

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Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Flash (JL) @270, Wonder Woman (JL), Green Arrow (JL), Green Lantern (Simon) (1050) vs Citizen V, Meteorite, Atlas, MACH-I, Songbird (1050)

Spoiler Alert!

Summary: Kind of a crazy match where both teams blitzed each other early - the Justice League dropped Songbird and Citizen V by the start of the second round, but around that time Meteorite Manipulated an OM off Flash and took down Green Arrow.

Flash helped Wondy polish off Meteorite, and the match ended up coming down to Atlas/MACH-I vs Wonder Woman/Flash. Atlas was able to brute force his way to victory, thanks to a few big d20 rolls - twice he would have taken 3 wounds from an attack but no-sold it with a 17+ for Ionic Imbalance.

Notes: just used first two FMA effects; no glyphs or DOs in play. Took 1 wound from lava field, 2 wounds from Atlas in 3 attacks. Burned marker for an init boost 3 times. Didn't affect the outcome the first two times, but won init for him and Diana once in the endgame. Had a clutch moment where he pushed Karla down so Diana could beat her up. Got destroyed by Ionic Imbalance.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes):
Atlas with 2 Life, MACH-I with 3 Life

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lowered Flash's marker cap to 3

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Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Flash (JL) @270, Flash (Wally), Black Canary (JL), Supergirl (II) (1100) vs Star-Lord, Gamora (II), Rocket Raccoon (II), Groot (Baby), Spider-Man (1100)

Spoiler Alert!

Summary: The Guardians caught some bad breaks early, and Rocket got blown away. The JL team didn't feel like the most effective JL thing I've done, but Kara was enough of a tank to muscle through the match, especially with Barry on support. Came down to a Spidey vs Kara endgame that could have gone either way.

Notes: took 2 wounds from Rocket in 3 attacks, 0 wounds from Gamora in 1 attack, 2 wounds from Spider-Man in 2 attacks. Was moving around and moving other figures throughout. Burned 1 marker to boost init, but lost anyway. Dealt 3 wounds to Groot (destroying him) in 1 attack.

Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes):
Supergirl with 2 Life

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: Barry is a pretty effective support piece - definitely feels like he's all over the place doing a bit of everything, which is the main thing I was after. Stats could maybe come down a hair, but I had a hard time gauging that because he tends to be a passive participant.

 

[IAmBatman]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Waiting for Initial)

Looking good. Pre-yea for public testing.

 

[Arch-vile]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Waiting for Initial)

pre-yea

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Waiting for Initial)

Very well, let's send him to public testing.

 

[Soundwarp SG-1]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Public Testing)

that's a yea from me dawg

 

[tcglkn]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Public Testing)

Yea

 

[Ronin]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (VOTE Public Testing)

This passes

Thanks folks!

 

[Arch-vile]

Re: The Book of Flash (JL) (Public Testing)

C3G STANDARD PLAYTEST FEEDBACK FORM

NAME OF THE PLAYTEST UNIT: Flash

Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Flash (270), Thor (I), RX-78-2 Gundam (1000) VS Lex Luthor (185), Gorilla Grodd (285), Reverse-Flash (295), Giganta (235) (1000)

Spoiler Alert!

Thor leads off to soften up the Injustice League while Flash and Gundam just chill in the start zone. Thor ultimately does very little, however - only inflicting 2 wounds each on Giganta and Reverse-Flash before falling, though Thor eats up most of the injustice Markers.

Then Flash with the Gundam enters the fight. Flash only has 1 JL Marker, so he has to choose between moving the Gundam 4 spaces or healing a wound at the start of his turn. The Gundam gets hit pretty hard, and so gets a lot of wound quickly. Gundam takes out Giganta, then fails to kill Reverse-Flash, and Reverse-Flash destroys the Gundam.

Flash kills Reverse-Flash, then he takes out Lex. Gorilla Grodd proves a bit too much to handle though, and the primate takes out Flash.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Gorilla Grodd (1 wound) wins.

The Gundam combo is certainly good, but like any healer, it’s an all-or-nothing thing. Had the Injustice League not killed the Gundam when they did, Flash could have killed Reverse-Flash next turn and just ran away and healed all his wounds. So it’s a combo to watch but it’s certainly beatable.

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Army Test
Map: Custom
Units: Flash (270), Iris West, Flash Barry (Team Flash), Elongated Man, Impulse (900) VS Captain Cold, Plunder, Girder, Rainbow Raider, Abra Kadabra, Golden Glider (900)

Spoiler Alert!

Team Flash absolutely wrecks the Rogues early on, with Impulse and JL Flash taking out Abra Kadabra in a single turn. JL Flash moves a few allies for free, and breaks down a tree to wound Girder. JL Flash also gets to move out of dodge when things get hairy, since he can just teleport back to the action when he wants to take a turn.

Team Flash Barry takes out Girder. The Rogues continue to struggle to damage the speedsters, though they manage to use Rainbow Raider to remove OM2 from Team Flash. The Speedsters take out Plunder. Golden Glider finally kills JL Flash and Rainbow Raider kills Impulse. Team Flash takes out Rainbow Raider and Golden Glider, then Cold finishes off Team Flash Barry. Iris and Elongated Man are left against a healthy Captain Cold. Cold takes out Elongated Man then easily kills Iris.


Who won? List figures remaining in the winning army (include life remaining for heroes): Captain Cold (2 wounds) wins.

Really felt like this one was going to be a speedster victory, and JL Flash felt high-impact. But the speedsters have a lot of fragility, which balances them when the dice luck inevitably turns the other way.

THOUGHTS ON THE TESTED UNIT'S COST, BALANCE, & DRAFTABILITY: He’s a lot of fun, since you always have something to do. Moving enemies and tearing down trees with Fastest Man Alive can increase your offensive output quite a bit, and it’s handy to move allies up or teleport wherever. Two lost games, but both felt close, so I think Flash is reasonably balanced. Also, Flash felt very impactful each game - he really opens new strategies.