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The Book of Mera

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The Book of Mera

C3G DC PUBLIC EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION 13
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The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Justice League: Trinity War set.
Its model number and name are #028 / Mera.

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the Justice League: Trinity War Gravity Feed set.
Its model number and name are #202 / Mera.​

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Character Bio - Mera was a princess of Xebel who was sent through space-time by her father to kill the king of Atlantis, known to surface-dwellers as the hero Aquaman. However, that plan backfired when Mera fell in love with and eventually married the man she was supposed to kill. As Queen of Atlantis, Mera has ruled and fought by her husband's side, leaving her past with Xebel behind.

Mera has the unique ability to form "hard water" objects via aquakinesis. She has been shown to be powerful enough to control, albeit briefly, huge amounts of water, enough to pull an entire army out to sea. Due to her intended role as an infiltrator and a killer, Mera received extensive training in Xebel, becoming a formidable warrior. During the events of the Blackest Night, Mera briefly became a member of the Red Lantern Corps.
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-Rulings and Clarifications-
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-Combinations and Synergies-

Incoming Synergy:Outgoing Synergy:
  • If Aquaman is in your army, Mera may boost either the attack or defense of Atlanteans you control.
  • As an Atlantean Queen, Mera can allow the Atlantean Palace Guards to move with their Loyal to the Throne special power.
Immunities, Benefits, and Weaknesses-
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-Strategy, Tactics and Tips-
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-Heroscapers Community Contributions-
 
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NAME = MERA

SPECIES = ATLANTEAN
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE HERO
CLASS = QUEEN
PERSONALITY = DEVOTED

SIZE/HEIGHT = MEDIUM 5

LIFE = 5
MOVE = 5
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 4
DEFENSE = 4

POINTS = 210

WATER AFFINITY
Mera does not stop her movement when entering water spaces. Add 2 dice to Mera's attack while she is within 2 spaces of a water space.

LOVE OF ATLANTIS
If you control Aquaman, add 1 to the Defense numbers of Mera and all Atlanteans you control within 4 clear sight spaces of Mera. If Aquaman is in your army and he is destroyed, add 1 to the Attack numbers of Mera and all Atlanteans you control within 4 clear sight spaces of Mera.

AQUAKINESIS
After moving and instead of attacking with Mera, if she is within 2 spaces of a water space, you may choose up to 4 figures within 4 spaces of Mera. One at a time, roll the 20-sided die once for each chosen figure. If you roll 14 or higher, you may either inflict one unblockable wound on that chosen figure, or place that chosen figure on any empty space within 4 spaces of its original placement. Figures moved by Aquakinesis will not take any leaving engagement attacks.





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Aquaman is one of my favorite C3G designs, so I'm excited to see him get some support! Great design.
 
Re: The Book of Mera (Design Phase)

The figure used for this unit is a Heroclix figure from the DC 75th Anniversary set.
Its model number and name are #028 / Mera.
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I have this mini ordered and on the way. Since it's highly likely I'll be doing the card I can get Photos so don't worry about trying to get those. If one of the others are chosen someone will need to take the pictures unless someone wants to send me the figure...
 
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Is such low survivability really accurate here? I mean in Blackest Night she went toe to toe with Black Lantern Wonderwoman for awhile (while nowhere near water, and while Aquaman was a zombie), but 3 defense 4 life is like D-list Batman villain level.
 
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Soundwarp SG-1 said:
Is such low survivability really accurate here? I mean in Blackest Night she went toe to toe with Black Lantern Wonderwoman for awhile (while nowhere near water, and while Aquaman was a zombie), but 3 defense 4 life is like D-list Batman villain level.
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I thought that was after she got a red ring? Or was that before? I apparently need to reread that comic again.
 
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Heroscaper Guy said:
Soundwarp SG-1 said:
Is such low survivability really accurate here? I mean in Blackest Night she went toe to toe with Black Lantern Wonderwoman for awhile (while nowhere near water, and while Aquaman was a zombie), but 3 defense 4 life is like D-list Batman villain level.
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I thought that was after she got a red ring? Or was that before? I apparently need to retread that comic again.
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Non-Lantern Mera is fighting Black Lantern Wonderwoman, then they are temporarily deputized into Red and Violet respectively (severing Necron's hold on Wondie in the process). At no point does Red Lantern Mera fight Black Lantern Wonderwoman, she sort of stands beside her while the rings fight for control, but that's it.
 
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Yeah, I'd like to look at increasing Mera's base stats. Mera can fight, and takes on some strong opponents in both Brightest Day and Blackest Night. 5 life and 4 defense would be more thematic, in my opinion.

HGuy- Red Lantern Mera fights Star Sapphire Wonder Woman for a while; maybe that's what you're thinking of.
 
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Yeah I'd be happy to see her almost equivalent to Aquaman.
 
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When on water spaces, the two Aquamans are 5L/5M/3R/8A/7D and 5L/5M/1R/6A/6D (with a ranged SA and Submerge 11). I think 5 Life and 4 base Defense here would be justifiable.

Hard Water is pretty good, as long as she's on a map with water. I could see tweaking the rolls or range if testing shows it too powerful. Otherwise, she looks good to me.
 
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Remember, we're trying to go with the iconic version, not the version in that one comic where she totally chumped that one superhero.
 
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I'd be fine with upping her stats if, like quozl said, it's thematic overall for her.
 
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TrollBrute said:
When on water spaces, the two Aquamans are 5L/5M/3R/8A/7D and 5L/5M/1R/6A/6D (with a ranged SA and Submerge 11). I think 5 Life and 4 base Defense here would be justifiable.

Hard Water is pretty good, as long as she's on a map with water. I could see tweaking the rolls or range if testing shows it too powerful. Otherwise, she looks good to me.
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If someone takes her on a map with no water that's there deal. Personally if you are testing this on a map without water she should seem under powered.
 
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Karat said:
I'd be fine with upping her stats if, like quozl said, it's thematic overall for her.
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In the Geoff Johns works featuring Mera, she is shown to be quite the capable fighter, fighting side-by-side with Aquaman on multiple occasions. I'm not sure if the more iconic version version of the character is less of a fighter, as I haven't read any of the earlier stuff. I also haven't touched any New 52 Aquaman, but Mera's bio on comic vine & wikipedia doesn't look very different from the character that I'm familiar with.

japes said:
TrollBrute said:
When on water spaces, the two Aquamans are 5L/5M/3R/8A/7D and 5L/5M/1R/6A/6D (with a ranged SA and Submerge 11). I think 5 Life and 4 base Defense here would be justifiable.

Hard Water is pretty good, as long as she's on a map with water. I could see tweaking the rolls or range if testing shows it too powerful. Otherwise, she looks good to me.
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If someone takes her on a map with no water that's there deal. Personally if you are testing this on a map without water she should seem under powered.
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Very true. Also, some figures have ways to place extra water tiles on the map. Tempest can place water tiles, and if you draft non-Atlanteans, Hydro-Man can also place water tiles. So even on a dry map Mera & Aquaman could do pretty well if they're in the right army.
 
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Mera is sort of interesting power-wise because, for a long time, she was sort of "Aquaman's girlfriend" and not much more. But in the past decade or so she's been getting a big push and I'd put them on equal footing. So you could really go either way - I'd say that the more recent version is more popular and getting to be the iconic one, though.

She'll need to be tested with Tempest 99% of the time, and I suspect as a result Hard Water's roll is going to go up... but I'm mostly cool with her as-is. :up:

One exception - and this is sort of a weird precedent, I admit :p - but historically, our "love" powers have A) had no range limit and B) been character-specific. On top of that, it's a bit weird to me that she only feels love when within 6 spaces of her husband... I'd kind of like the power to be active as long as you control Aquaman. It seems strange to me to have her be "in love" with Namor or Orm or whatever.

Unless we rename it to Atlantean Consort or something which implies more politics than emotion.
 
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The SotM Raelin power is fine. But when paired with Hydro-Man or Tempest, she becomes extremely powerful. 6 defense (7 with height) in a strategic spot, and the ability to autowound everything within 4(!) spaces every turn.

(As with my CRB reviews, I am giving my first impression of the OP without reading earlier commentary. I hope this is considered useful.)
 
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dok said:
the ability to autowound everything within 4(!) spaces every turn.
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Yeah, I'd like to make the autowound easier to avoid.

How about this?

HARD WATER 11
Instead of attacking, if Mera is within 2 spaces of a water space, you may roll the 20-sided die for all opponents' figures adjacent to that water space, one at a time. If you roll 11 or higher, the figure receives one wound.
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johnny139 said:
Mera is sort of interesting power-wise because, for a long time, she was sort of "Aquaman's girlfriend" and not much more. But in the past decade or so she's been getting a big push and I'd put them on equal footing. So you could really go either way - I'd say that the more recent version is more popular and getting to be the iconic one, though.
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Definitley sounds more interesting (and less 1940s :)) to me.
johnny139 said:
One exception - and this is sort of a weird precedent, I admit :razz: - but historically, our "love" powers have A) had no range limit and B) been character-specific. On top of that, it's a bit weird to me that she only feels love when within 6 spaces of her husband... I'd kind of like the power to be active as long as you control Aquaman. It seems strange to me to have her be "in love" with Namor or Orm or whatever.
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Hmmm... another interesting thing about doing it like that is that Atlantean King gives synergy with Aquaman vI and Namor, whereas tying it to the name Aquaman gives her synergy with Aquaman vI and vII - probably more thematic, and arguably more useful (and I wouldn't be surprised to see an Atlantean King synergy for Aquaman vI and Namor down the line anyway.)
 
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Lazy Orang said:
johnny139 said:
Mera is sort of interesting power-wise because, for a long time, she was sort of "Aquaman's girlfriend" and not much more. But in the past decade or so she's been getting a big push and I'd put them on equal footing. So you could really go either way - I'd say that the more recent version is more popular and getting to be the iconic one, though.
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Definitley sounds more interesting (and less 1940s :)) to me.
johnny139 said:
One exception - and this is sort of a weird precedent, I admit :razz: - but historically, our "love" powers have A) had no range limit and B) been character-specific. On top of that, it's a bit weird to me that she only feels love when within 6 spaces of her husband... I'd kind of like the power to be active as long as you control Aquaman. It seems strange to me to have her be "in love" with Namor or Orm or whatever.
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Hmmm... another interesting thing about doing it like that is that Atlantean King gives synergy with Aquaman vI and Namor, whereas tying it to the name Aquaman gives her synergy with Aquaman vI and vII - probably more thematic, and arguably more useful (and I wouldn't be surprised to see an Atlantean King synergy for Aquaman vI and Namor down the line anyway.)
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Too late: Aqualad
 
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Heroscaper Guy said:
Lazy Orang said:
johnny139 said:
Mera is sort of interesting power-wise because, for a long time, she was sort of "Aquaman's girlfriend" and not much more. But in the past decade or so she's been getting a big push and I'd put them on equal footing. So you could really go either way - I'd say that the more recent version is more popular and getting to be the iconic one, though.
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Definitley sounds more interesting (and less 1940s :)) to me.
johnny139 said:
One exception - and this is sort of a weird precedent, I admit :razz: - but historically, our "love" powers have A) had no range limit and B) been character-specific. On top of that, it's a bit weird to me that she only feels love when within 6 spaces of her husband... I'd kind of like the power to be active as long as you control Aquaman. It seems strange to me to have her be "in love" with Namor or Orm or whatever.
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Hmmm... another interesting thing about doing it like that is that Atlantean King gives synergy with Aquaman vI and Namor, whereas tying it to the name Aquaman gives her synergy with Aquaman vI and vII - probably more thematic, and arguably more useful (and I wouldn't be surprised to see an Atlantean King synergy for Aquaman vI and Namor down the line anyway.)
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Too late: Aqualad
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Atlantean Hero =/= Atlantean King. :) I was thinking more specific.
 
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Loving the direction! My thoughts:
1) Yeah, her current stats are too low. Bringing her life up to 5 and her defense up to 4 sounds like a good start. I could even see her attack being bumped to 5.
2) I agree with johnny that specifically naming Aquaman for Love of Atlantis makes more sense than Atlantean King.
3) I also agree that Hard Water as-is is really powerful, but I'm not a fan of quozl's suggested tweak (she needs to have water around to use, but her Hard Water abilities aren't restricted by the water's location). Personally, I'd just bump the roll on it up to 14 or 15, but otherwise leave it as-is.

My :2cents:.
 
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Hmmm.... I'm wondering, Love of Atlantis being just a conditional defence aura for Atlanteans seems a little dull to me, and while it might fit as a 'love' power, it doesn't really feel particularly vivid as one to me. I'm wondering if something along these lines would work:

LOVE OF ATLANTIS
If you control Aquaman and he is not destroyed, add one to the Defense of Mera and all Atlanteans you control within 6 clear sight spaces of Mera. If Aquaman is in your army and he is destroyed, add one to the Attack of Mera and all Atlanteans you control within 6 clear sight spaces of Mera.

The idea here is that, when Aquaman is alive, her calming influence improves your Atlanteans' defence, but if he's dead, she's so angry that her influence improves their attack instead (which doesn't seem unthematic, seeing as she was angry enough to be a Red Lantern for a time). I know an Attack aura is powerful, but you're likely to be pretty badly damaged by the time it hits anyway, and your guys won't be able to take the same kind of punishment anymore. Thoughts?
 
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Lazy Orang said:
...her calming influence improves...

Thoughts?
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That's the part here that I really don't buy with this design. Mera is easily one of the most aggressive characters in all of the DC universe (I would say she is the most aggressive female). The defensive power, coupled with how Hard Water works right now just seems all defense to me. The Mera I know from the comics is usually getting talked down into a more peaceful approach by her husband, not the other way around.

Also, she's done a lot of things with her Hard Water abilities, including basic strikes (what is represented here) defensive shields, sort of "animated" constructs, a water vacuum to launch Aquaman, and draining moisture from people. I'm not saying all these should be in here, but I'd love to see it feel more like she can move as opposed to just stand there and help defend her fellow Atlanteans (even though range on her water and aura really overlap).
 
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