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The Book of Lieutenant Stone

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The Book of Lieutenant Stone
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The figure used for this unit is a HeroClix figure from the Web of Spider-Man set.
Its model number and name are #021 / Lt. Marcus Stone.​
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Character Bio - Feeling that conventional police tactics and SWAT teams were ineffective against some super powered criminals, Lieutenant Stone proposed a program to train and equip dedicated police officers to specifically deal with those types of menaces. Dubbed Code: Blue, their first assignment was to take down the Wrecking Crew. Surrounded by police while holding a hostage, the Wrecker attempted to use his newfound skill with Asgardian magic to find the rock troll Ulik, but his inexperience gave Code: Blue enough time to secure positions around the building and attack. The organized strike enabled the officers to free the hostage while slowing the Wrecking Crew down. Eventually, the Wrecker used his crowbar to teleport his allies away leaving Code: Blue to score their first mission as a win. - Wikipedia
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-Rulings and Clarifications-
  • N/A
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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:Outgoing Synergy:
  • Lieutenant Stone may activate a Code: Blue Officer with his Lieutenant's Orders special power.
  • Lieutenant Stone can move Uncommon and Common Lawmen you control with his Coordinated Efforts special power. Current Uncommon and Common Lawmen.
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-Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-

Immunities
  • N/A
Benefits
  • Criminals, Crime Lords, and Vigilantes roll fewer defense dice when attacked by Lieutenant Stone due to his Preserving the Law special power. Current Criminals, Crime Lords, and Vigilantes.
Weaknesses
  • N/A
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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-
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-Heroscapers Community Contributions-
 
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Re: The Book of Lieutenant Stone - Design phase

NAME = LIEUTENANT STONE
SECRET IDENTITY = MARCUS STONE

SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LAWMAN
PERSONALITY = DEDICATED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4

MOVE = 5
RANGE = 6
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 5

POINTS = 140

LIEUTENANT'S ORDERS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card, instead of taking a turn with Lieutenant Stone, you may take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer you control.

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lieutenant Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 3 spaces each.

PRESERVING THE LAW
When defending against Lieutenant Stone's normal attack, Criminal, Crime Lord and Vigilante figures roll 1 fewer defense die if they are Human, or 2 fewer defense dice if they are not Human.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Very interesting. Obviously Coordinated Efforts is the new power here and the one that will require the most thinking! You probably want to wait until the SWAT Assaulter is wrapped up before you do the initial on this guy, because they should really be tested together!
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I might drop the Rocket, since he has a lot going on as-is and the sculpt just has an assault rifle. Unless he's really well known for rockets in the comics?

Wording feels weird on Coordinated Efforts as well. And "Elite" doesn't really feel like a personality.

And since Code: Blue was a group designed to take on super-criminals, not run-of-the-mill baddies... Criminal Intimidation feels like an odd choice to me. Any way we could change that to something like this?

CODE: BLUE TRAINING
Criminal figures roll 1 less defense against Lt. Stone's normal attack, or 2 less defense if they are not Human.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Coordinated Efforts reads/feels a bit clunky. I get what you are wanting to do & fully support it, but I am not sure that wording will be perfected in a single power & may need to be broken up to 2 separate powers.

I agree with Johnny about Elite not feeling like a personality.

I don't know the character, but if Johnny is correct about them being trained to take down Supers then I support his suggested power also.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Good suggestions fellas. The original write-up is from quite a while ago and the Rocket Launcher was suggested by someone, but I can't remember who.

Anyway, I came up with something based on the recommendations. I did more research and found that Stone doesn't like Vigilantes much either as he doesn't put up with any law-breaking. So that's why I modified Johnny's suggestion and changed the title as it may be better at showing his determination to preserve justice and the law, as well as maybe having access to modified weapons to do his job.

I also just raised his normal attack to 4, considering a lot of units with rifles and even some with pistols have attack of 4. Considering he doesn't have multiple attacks with his weapon, this seems doable and at least makes him more usable when not facing Vigilantes/Criminals.

I got rid of the Rocket Launcher and per A3n's suggestion, split up the first power.

Lieutenant's Orders is cut and dry and clear. Either Stone or a Code: Blue gets to take a turn.

Coordinated Efforts basically allows 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen to move 2 spaces after Stone takes a turn, or the Code: Blue that was activated by Lieutenant's Orders takes a turn. That way it can clearly only work when Stone is still in play. I thought about not allowing the activated Code:Blue to be one of the 2 Uncommons to be able to move 2 spaces, but it would be clunky. So I figured if that one gets to move an additional 2 spaces after taking it's turn, it wouldn't be a big deal really.



NAME = LT. MARCUS STONE
SECRET IDENTITY = MARCUS STONE
SPECIES = HUMAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = LAWMAN
PERSONALITY = DEDICATED
SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 4
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 6
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 5
POINTS = 100?

LIEUTENANT'S ORDERS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card, instead of taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone, you may take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer you control.

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.

PRESERVING THE LAW
Criminal and Vigilante figures roll 1 fewer defense dice against Lt. Stone's normal attack, or 2 fewer defense dice if they are not Human.
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Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

:up: I like Dedicated as a personality.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I like dedicated too!

Quick wording tweak (and added an OM requirement here too just so you don't pair Stone with someone like Red Skull and still get to move the SWAT guys):

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone, or using Lieutenant's Orders to take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.

Pasteability:

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone, or using Lieutenant's Orders to take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Hmm... maybe, with the Order Marker requirement, we can drop the power name from it?

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.

Or, drawing on Hush...

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I'd be good with either of those. :)
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

IAmBatman said:
I like dedicated too!

Quick wording tweak (and added an OM requirement here too just so you don't pair Stone with someone like Red Skull and still get to move the SWAT guys):

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone, or using Lieutenant's Orders to take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.

Pasteability:

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone, or using Lieutenant's Orders to take a turn with a Code: Blue Officer, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
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Good catch with the OM requirement.:up:

It was there when the two powers were together, but I forgot to add it for CO after splitting the powers.

johnny139 said:
Hmm... maybe, with the Order Marker requirement, we can drop the power name from it?

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.

Or, drawing on Hush...

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
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Even though the second one would be drawing from Hush, the first one seems much cleaner. Is there any situation where you could reveal an OM on Stone's card and take a turn with him and a Code Blue Officer? Like a glyph or something? I prefer the first one because it's super clean as long as there is no possible issue with Stone and CB taking a turn with one OM reveal on Stone's card.

Thanks fellas! :D
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I think we're good without that extra line, but you never know when something really wonky is going to come along. :p
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I updated my holding update post with the second of Johnny's versions, just to cover future wonkiness. :D

COORDINATED EFFORTS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card and taking a turn with Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
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Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Yeah, all the competitive players in our midst lately have me a bit paranoid about this kind of thing. :p
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Make sure we say "fewer" defense dice instead of "less"
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Updated SP and sent to ERB
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

From David:


Lt. Marcus Stone

Let he who is without ERB draft the first Stone. :grin:

Leader of the "Cod: Blue Officers"? He's a fish out of water, eh? Just teasing!

Lieutenant's Orders
The name's Bonding. James Bonding. No issues with this, even after it's shaken and not stirred.

Coordinated Efforts
This provides even more interaction with your Army.

Preserving the Law
Nice variant of Criminal Intimidation.

Final Thoughts
This is definitely a design keyed towards a specific draft, but C3G has now grown to the point where these specialized units are more viable.
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Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I think two powers can be combined.

LIEUTENANT'S ORDERS
After revealing an Order Marker on this card, you may take a turn with either Lt. Marcus Stone or a Code: Blue Officer you control. After taking a turn with Lieutenant's Orders, you may move a total of up to 2 Uncommon or Common Lawmen you control up to 2 spaces each.
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Cool Q that should work. Thanks!
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I like that. :up:
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

Are we just waiting for an initial here?
 
Re: The Book of Lt. Marcus Stone - Design phase

I believe so. Initially, we were waiting for all the SWAT guys to be done, but I believe they are now.
 
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