White Knight Star Wars--Battle Report Jedi vs Team Vydar

[White Knight]

STAR WARS

We ordered a lot of Star Wars figures for Christmas, and my boys wanted cards to go with them. Some of the ideas are from other cards around this forum; most are original.

Hopefully my sons and I can start playtesting some of these--right now points are just estimates.

JEDI AND SITH

KAI WINDJAY

BEREN KRANE

KEEGAN TERN

JAKK KESTRIL

TREMOR FINCH

BATT OWLAR

DARTH NEJAR

DARTH ZEEKO

BOUNTY HUNTERS

BEEDOLA

CHI'LEK

DURGAN

G'DURLAK

GLIZ'KHAN

ZAN DAROMIDA

MURPOM ROOD

NARBU

NIKA STOSS

STAMM TEEGO

VUUM

CONFEDERACY DROIDS

Battle Droids

Droid Commander

Heavy Gunner
(Note: The X order marker can be revealed to activate Heavy Cannon Special Attack)

Rocket Droid

Super Battle Droids

Grevious Bodyguard

GALACTIC REPUBLIC

Commander Garen Ponds

Clone Troopers

Clone Medics

Captain Lock

Captain Jade

Bo Darr

ARF Troopers

ARF Elite Troopers

Advanced Guard

501st Legion

2nd Airborne Company

Coruscant Guard

EMPIRE

Stormtroopers

Airborne Troop

Heavy Stormtrooper

Imperial Bodyguard

Imperial Pilot

Shock Troopers

Snow Troopers

Stormtrooper Captain

FRINGE

Tuskin Raider

Grishuk

Talz Warriors

Kintan Strider

K'lor'slug

Mantellian Savrip

REBELS

Wookie Scout

Powaroo

Wookie Fighters

YUUZHAN VONG

Nondaga

Chiquota

MANDALORIANS

Ebor Shoon

Neo-Crusaders

Tarro

That's it for now. I hope these add positively to the Star Wars Heroscape universe. My youngest son wants Ewoks, so maybe more will be coming after his birthday.

 

[mac122]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs

Nice job, White Knight and White Squires! Welcome to the Dark Side!
I haven't had time to look through them all in detail, but I like the variety of specials and the common thread of "Bounty Hunter".

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs

Nice job, White Knight and White Squires! Welcome to the Dark Side!
I haven't had time to look through them all in detail, but I like the variety of specials and the common thread of "Bounty Hunter".

Thanks. I wanted to be able to field a Bounty Hunter army of unique heroes without it being too weak to squads.

Tonight Jedi Marcus fielded an army of Clones and Jedi against my Droid army. He beat me, but not before I took out out both of his Jedi.

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs

CONFEDERACY DROIDS (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

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GALACTIC REPUBLIC (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

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JEDI and SITH (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

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BOUNTY HUNTERS (Added to first post)


CONFEDERACY DROIDS (Added to first post)


GALACTIC REPUBLIC (Added to first post)


JEDI and SITH (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

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EMPIRE (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

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FRINGE (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs--Empire, Fringe, Rebels

REBELS (Added to first post)

YUUZHAN VONG (Added to first post)


MANDALORIANS (Added to first post)

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs--Empire, Fringe, Rebels

Playtest Results Summaries #1

I ran some 400 point army playtests last night--Bounty Hunters versus Battle Droids.

All battles were played on White Knight's Glacier Creek battlefield:

Army #1--Bounty Hunters
Beedola 70pts
Chi'lek 100pts
Nika Stoss 100pts
Stamm Teego 100pts

Army #2--Droids
Battle Droids (4x) (60x4=240 pts)
Droid Commander (80 pts)
Heavy Gunner (80 pts)

Note on Beedola: For Opportunistic Strike, you must remove an UNREVEALED order marker.

Battle #1
This battle doesn't count, since I made all sorts of mistakes with the special abilities.

Battle #2
Droids won by a landslide.

The Bounty Hunters led onto the bridge with Nika Stoss and Beedola. The droids refused to attack Beedola (because of his Opportunistic Strike) unless there was no way for Beedola to get adjacent to the attacking figure. They relied upon the Heavy Gunner (guarded behind a wall of Battle Droids) to take out the heroes.

Chi'lek came in late and assassinated the Commander Droid, but the Battle Droids had height on him and quickly took him down. Stamm Teego never got out of the start zone.

Battle #3
Bounty Hunters win--only Nika Stoss survived (with 2 wounds).

The Bounty Hunters led onto the bridge with Beedola as a shield for Stamm Teego (with his double attack). Instead of attacking the droids, Stamm took out the Commander Droid to remove the +3 defense against non-adjacent figures. The droids used the Heavy Gunner to take out both Beedola and Stamm.

Chi'lek dropped in and took out the Heavy Gunner--but fell right afterwards to the Battle Droids. That left Nika Stamm (in the start zone) versus about 8 Battle Droids.

The Droids hurried over the bridge to attack Nika, but the Bounty Hunter's defense held and he gunned them down (usually) 2 at a time (with Flurry Attack). Slowly Nika gained the bridge and then took out the remaining droids. An awesome battle!


COMMENTS
The Droid army is really fun to play. The Droid Commander is like Raelin with his Droid Defense Shield. The Droid Heavy Gunner is necessary for taking out heroes. They all work great together and can be extremely effective.

I had trouble in the beginning remembering to roll for the bounty hunters Bounty Hunter ability. I did much better the second and third battles. Nika Stoss was definitely the most fun of all the Bounty Hunters. Beedola was fun also--and he forced the Droids to think on every move. The battlefield wasn't really useful for Chi'lek to use his Dark Movement, but he WAS able to gain height right away and attack the opponent's heroes.

It was fun to finally be able to play with some of the cards I made!

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs--Empire, Fringe, Rebels

Playtest Results Summaries #2--ORDER 66

I ran some more 400 point army playtests this past weekend.

Scenario
Order 66--Jedi and Wookies versus Clones.


All battles were played on White Knight's Glacier Creek battlefield:

Army #1--Jedi
Kai Winjay (140pts)
Beren Krane (140pts)
Batt Owlar (20pts)
Wookie Fighters (x2) (50x2=100pts)

Army #2--Clones
Commander Garen Ponds (100pts)
Captain Lock (80pts)
Clone Troopers (x4) (50x4=200pts)

Battles #1 and #2
The Jedi sent Beren Krane to hold the bridge and use Jedi Mind Trick 15 while the Wookies came up behind him to take out the Clones.

Unfortunately, the Clones used Commander Garen Ponds to take out the Jedi--his high attack was able to overcome the Jedi's Lightsaber Deflection.

Battle 1--Clones win (7 Clones destroyed)
Battle 2--Clones win (5 Clones destroyed)

Changes
At this point, I decided that the Jedi were too weak:

Beren Krane
I changed Jedi Mind Trick to 13 instead of 15.
I increased his Attack from 4 to 6. (I felt that a Jedi should be able to take out a clone per turn most of the time. It didn't feel right for a Jedi to attack a Clone squad member and not do any damage.)

Kai Windjay
I increased Kai's defense from 3 to 4 to help him survive a little longer. I also changed Lightsaber Block 14 to Lightsaber Block 7.

Battle #3
This battle was much closer. Besides the changes above, the Jedi changed their tactics. They still sent Beren to hold the bridge (and Jedi Mind Trick came into affect several times), but they had the Wookies take out Commander Garen Ponds instead of attacking the Clones.

Beren suffered 5 wounds, and the Wookies were destroyed, but Kai Windjay was able to take out Captain Lock and the rest of the Clone Troopers with only suffering 3 wounds.

Jedi win--with Batt, Beren (1/6 life left), and Kai (3/6 life left).

I'm hoping I didn't make the Jedi too powerful now, but I don't think I did. On a more open battlefield, more clones would have been able to get adjacent to Beren and attack him. And special attacks can get by the Jedi Lightsaber defenses.


COMMENTS
Commander Garen Ponds works great with the Clone Troopers. The first two battles really felt like Order 66. Captain Lock had a harder time making a difference. He only used his Thermal Detonator SA once, and the only figure he wounded was himself.

The Wookies are a nice hard-hitting squad and were fun to play. The Jedi's were kind of wimpy in the beginning, but with my changes they are much more powerful--especially against squads. Jedi Mind Trick was good to stop the clones from attacking about once a round, and the clones just wouldn't attack Beren unless they were adjacent. Kai Windjay also offered a dilemma for the Clones--to get past his Lightsaber Block they needed to get adjacent, but that left them vulnerable to his Whirlwind Assault.

Again, it was fun to finally be able to play with some of the cards I made!

 

[White Knight]

Re: White Knight's Star Wars Customs--Empire, Fringe, Rebels

Playtest Results Summary #3--Jedi versus Vydar
I ran two more 400 point army playtests this past weekend.

Scenario
Jedi and Wookies versus Team Vydar

Both battles were played on White Knight's Canyon Road battlefield:

Army #1--Jedi
Kai Winjay (140pts)
Beren Krane (140pts)
Batt Owlar (20pts)
Wookie Fighters (x2) (50x2=100pts)

Army #2--Vydar
Major Q9 (180pts)
Nakita Agents (120pts)
Krav Maga Agents (100pts)

First, I realized that I'd been playing the Wookies with a Range of 6 (instead of 1, like it says on their card). I actually like it better that way, so I changed their Range to 6 and will update the card soon.

Battle #1
The Jedi sent Beren Krane to try to disrupt the enemy's plans with Jedi Mind Trick 15. Team Vydar sent out the Nakita Agents and backed them up with Q9.

(This is a tough matchup for both the Jedi and the Nakita Agents--the Jedi needs to engage--but risks an engagement strike. The Nakita don't want to engage first--but they didn't want to attack with range and risk Lightsaber Deflection).

The Wookies advanced behind Beren Krane, and Q9 advanced. Q9 took out most of the Wookies before the Jedis realized that Beren Krane had to get back into the action. Unfortunately, by that time Q9 was on a roll (rolling 2 or 3 skulls on almost every Quelix gun attack, and rolling 4 or 5 on most defense rolls!) Q9 finished off the Wookies and Beren Krane.

Kai Windjay attacked Q9 and was able to get him up to 3 wounds, but Q9 finally managed to take him down. After that, it was pretty much over.

Team Vydar won with all agents remaining and Q9 at 3 wounds.


Battle #2
The Jedi sent Beren Krane out by himself with the sole purpose of taking out Q9. Q9, rather pleased with himself at how well he did last battle went out to meet Beren Krane 1 on 1.

Several blows were traded, but in the end Beren Krane took out Q9 and only took 2 wounds. The dice failed Q9 this battle.

With 2 order markers left on a destroyed Q9's card, Beren Krane was able to run forward and engage the Nakita agents (taking no wounds). The agents fought back valiantly, (cause 2 more wounds on Beren), but they were forced to engage in melee (rather than attack with range from height) to avoid Lightsaber Deflection.

Jedi win with all figures remaining and Beren with 4 wounds.


COMMENTS
I wanted to playtest the Jedi army against official figures to see if the points were about right. Unfortunately, it's hard to tell much from these two battles. Both were completely lopsided wins--one for Q9, and one for Beren.

Beren Krane is deadly against ranged squads, and he's a pretty good hero-killer, but he only gets one attack per turn. He also needs to be engaged to attack, so some rats can probably tie him up and allow another figure to take him out with a special attack.

The Wookies are a fun, hard hitting squad, but they are so quick that when one goes down it takes a while to bring in reinforcements. They are also a 3 man squad, which reduces their effectiveness.

Overall, I'm very happy with how my customs have performed. The Jedi are very intimidating and powerful, as they should be. The Wookies are fast and hit hard.

 

[White Knight]

I did another playtest yesterday:
Jedis and Wookies versus
Q9, 3x Deathreavers, and 1x Deathstalkers.

The rats were used as a screen to protect Q9 from the Jedi, but Beren Krane ignored the screen (taking 2 wounds because of disengagement) and went straight for Q9. His attack is the same as Carr and Drake's attack (6), but his 5 defense kept him alive long enough to take out the major again. (He had 5 wounds after dropping Q9.)

Unfortunately, the Wookies were way too powerful--with their 4 defense, the Deathreavers came in waves but couldn't even take down a single Wookie. (After a long, boring battle, all the Deathreavers finally went down.)

I updated the Wookie Fighters' card in my first post. 4 Attack/6 Range with 4 Defense was just too much for a 50 point common squad.

I decreased their Defense to 3, and I decreased their ranged attack to 3. Now they have a reason to actually engage opponents.

I'll have to do some 1-on-1 battles against Beren Krane to see if he's undercosted. (He's taken out Q9 on his own twice in a row, but both times Q9 need only one or two more hits to take him down.)

 

[Shadowsun68]

I have a question were do you guys get your minifigures? Because i have a lot of ideas for Star Wars customs and don't have any minis.

 

[White Knight]

I have a question were do you guys get your minifigures? Because i have a lot of ideas for Star Wars customs and don't have any minis.

I get my minis from:

Auggies
http://www.auggiesgamesonline.com/

Miniature Market
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/

Cool Stuff Inc.
http://www.coolstuffinc.com/

Toad and Troll
http://www.trollandtoad.com/

I think all of them have Star Wars singles.