YagyuNinja's Custom Units - Achilles

[Skeletor]

Re: YagyuNinja's Custom Units

I need some advice on a custom I'm working on for my nephew. He loves the Obsidian Guards and asked if I could make this figure into a leader for them.

Wording or points suggestions? I'll check his height later. He essentially can be a mobile lava throw base for guards, and a bit of a brute himself if you need, or if the guards are dead. Maybe he should go up to 160? I like him about as much as Subakna...

I like it and I have that figure so I'll give it a try.

Love the bonding

The rolling 16 or higher might be a little to powerful though that is 3 tries of 16+ to basically kill a guy. I would bump that to 20 that way it is a similar to Runas death mask power. Still allowing the opposing player to have a chance to roll that saving 20 them selves from the lava. Maybe make it so he has to be standing in lava as well??

I would lower his attack to 4 and lower his point total a little too.

Just my 2 cents

I made a lava Slamander I made but haven't posted him I'll try and remember too when I get a chance. I used this figure from Monsterpocalyse

 

[yagyuninja]

Achilles!

Thanks Skeletor! I decided to use my nephew as a play tester and just gave him the figure and prototype card (with a preliminary 160 points). We'll see what point total he and his dad think is appropriate.

I've also had some ideas kicking around in my head for an Achilles custom; here's the result.

The figure is a Parmenio mod by Justjohn from this thread. I wanted a hero for the Greeks and I wanted to do Achilles, partially because I was just reading something about him and partially because I loved Brad Pitt's action scenes in Troy.

At 3/3 and 4 life, he'll fall quickly if near the front lines, so he's very sharky. I think it would be fun to balance your order markers though to bring forward your army with him a bit at a time, hoping he can survive with 5 or 6 defense.

At first, I wanted him to have some sort of phantom walk (or at least include it in the special attack) so he could get behind enemy lines to attack leaders. I think the special attack as it is works better thematically though, since he is NOT a ninja, just an awesome warrior. According to the matchup calculator, he falls about half the time to 2 squads of knights. So you don't want him completely swarmed, not even with 4 order markers on him.

The most brutal situation with him is probably 1 order marker on greeks, 3 on him. It's similar in sheer dice tossed to greenscales + Nilf. I'm not sure if that one scenario suggests a point increase though. I think I would pay 200 for him if he had 5 life, especially considering his near immunity to range.

Thoughts? This one isn't being built until I get another parmenio to mod, which might be a while...