HeroClix the 29th of September, the battle for the Baxter Building and the final blade

(More Pictures, Dials and Links coming soon when I get my laptop back which I am currently waiting for) Welcome to another week of HeroClix and I am back on the tablet again, hippy. First off I found out just after posting last week's post that there was more Lord of the Rings dial being preview on the main HeroClix site. They also had the new rules like Epic Action and Horde Token. I will list the ones I have missed with this week's previews. Here is the artical of the new rules. The previews for were Superman Beyond from the Superman set; Skaar (the son of the Hulk) from the Incredible Hulk set; Witch-King of Angmar, Olog-Hai, Strider, Esquire of Rohan, Guard of Citadel, Captain Lurtz, Haldirs Archers token, Riders of Rohan token Orcs token and Uruk Hai token form the Lord of the Rings; and three more Toys'R'Us Giant-Size X-Men giants. Also a poster listing 21 out of the 46 characters Incredible Hulk image to the postage is on the right. For Hulk fans this will be a good set. On and both Superman and Halo should be out now.

This week's game was the fourth and final week of the In the Honour of events. This time it is in the Honour of Darren. 400 points. Four characters, no more, no less. All characters must be vilians. No Feats. Basicly in Darren's words, what if the the Fantastic Four were vilians. This will be a four way battle in the Baxter Building maps. I first looked and a Frightful Four team, however I found that most of the good ones are figures I do not have and I had a filling that Darren will usinguse them. So I decided to build a random team based around Mister Hyde. The team ended up being:

Mister Hyde (Captain America) 81
Living Laser (Avengers) 91
Grim Reaper (Avengers) 121
Ultron-13
=387 points and four re-rolls.

Darren's team was, guess what, a Frightful Four team who were:

Klaw (Captain America) 127
Deadpool (Web of Spider-Man) 158
Wizard (Sinister) 74
Paste Pot Pete (Sinister) 36
=395 points and no re-rolls.

Adrian's team was a non theme Marvel team who were:

Moonstone (Hammer of Thor) 76
Doom (Secret Invasion) 249
Scarlet Witch (Fantastic Forces) 35
Mystique (Universe) 34
=394 points and no re-rolls.

Michael's team was a non themed DC team who were:

Two-Face (Arkham Asylum) 75
Edward Nigma (Arkham Asylum) 60
Darkseid (Crisis) 210
Jinx (Rookie, Legacy) 44
=389 points and no re-rolls.

The maps we were playing on were were four out of the the fan made Baxter Building maps. We do not use the bottom two floors due to space. We all randomly determined what level we were on. Adrian was on the third floor, while everyone else was on the first floor. To begin with it was a heavy battle between me, Darren and Michael as Adrian was hiding and bidding him time. But he did finally joined the action. Michael was the first to fall, then it was Adrian and lastly it was me. Sadly I do not know the points, but Darren did win. That Deadpool was a real pain. He kept on reducing the damage down to one and then he regenerates back up. He is a real pain, but his trait could have easily turned things the other way.

Next week will be Dynamic Duo. 500 points. No Feats and Additional Team Abilities. Two of the character must know each other quite well. Examples of this are: romanticlly (Cyclops and Jean Grey), hero & sidekick (Batman and Robin), family (Sue Storm and Franklin Richards) and ache rivals (Superman and Lex Luther). The two characters can not be a duo figure.

Now for DreamClix. This week will be a Blade anime special. I will be doing the final six dial ideas and four dial designs. First the dial designs are Vampire Hunter/Human Servent, Detective Mizu, Tanaka and his Vampire Cats. I would like to make a note that I have done a major change here. I decided to change the Makoto's Father to a generic Vampire Hunter and drop the vampire side. Then I decided alter the Human Servant dial and join the two dials into one split dial called Vampire Hunter/Slave.

Next we have the dial idea for Razor. Razor is the dog companian to Blade and Noah Van Helsing. He normally does not like people the first time he meets them, but him like Makoto the first time he meet her. This was the reason why Noah lent him to Blade and Makoto. Razor has silver covered teeth (or silver artifile teech) to combat vampires. He should have Charge, Fangs, Toughness, Combat Reflexes and Exploit Weakness. He should have about five clicks of health and starting values of Movement 10, Attack 10, Defence 18, Damage 3 and Range 0. He should not have a TA and his keywords should be Vampire Hunter and Animal.

Next is Noah Van Helsing. Noah is one in a long line of Vampire Hunters. (The name Van Helsing should have given it away). He was the one who trained Blade how to fight vampires. His failed atemps to cure the vampire dieses proved useful as a drug to hold off Blades hunger. Noah should have Energy Explosion, Outwit and a special called "Aged Vampire Hunter".

Aged Vampire Hunter: Noah can use Perplex. If he targets a character with the Monster or Vampire Hunter keyword, he modifies their value by +/-2 instead of +/-1.

He should have about five clicks of health and starting values of Movement 7, Attack 9, Defense 17, Damage 2 and Range 6. He should not have a TA and his keyword should be Vampire Hunter.

Next is the Daywalker vampire monster Deacon Frost made. Deacon Frost used the the enraged blood of Blade to to create a group of day walking monster vampires. They look heavy like the mass product Evas use in the Evangelion movie, The End of Evangelion. The Daywalker vampires had two forms, the first form is a wingless from that can climb walls. After being taken out by Blade the first time they changed into a red more powerful form that had wings to fly. To do this I will split the dial into three parts. The first and final parts will be four clicks long for the first and second forms while the middle part will be just one click with a special called "Rebirth" and Shape Change for while it was seeming dead.

Rebirth: Daywalker can use Toughness. When Daywalker's combat dial, stop turning the dial when Rebirth appears in the stat slot. If was due to healing, deal one click of unavailable damage to Daywalker.

It's values in this form should Movement 0, Attack 0, Defense 15 and Damage 0. The first part should have a special called "Wall Crawler", Blades and Toughness.
Wall Crawler: Daywalker has Earth Bound and Leap Climb.
The starting values for this form should be Movement 8, Attack 9, Defense 17 and Damage 2. The final part should have Charge, Blades, Steel Energy, Invulnerability and Close Combat Expert. The starting values for this form should be Movement 10, Attack 11, Defense 17 and Damage 3. The whole thing should have the Wing symbol, Indomitable, a Trait called "Blade's Blood" and a Range value of 0.
Blade's Blood: Exploit Weakness does not work on Daywalker.
They should not a TA and their keywords should be Existence and Monster.

Next is the main villain, Deacon Frost. Before he became a vampire he was a scientists in the field of genetics, but then one his son was killed by a vampire. Because of this he wanted to rid the world of vampires. But over time this changed to a hatred to the Purebloods. He experimented on vampires of different types to type to create a ultramate vampire army to battle the Purebloods with. He even experimented on his his, reason he is a four fang vampire. He seem to attach vampires to help him in his goal, but will use them and throw them away once he is done with them. He should be done in two halves, first half should be his standard vampire side and his second half should be after he became a Daywalker. Overall he should have Perplex, Toughness, Invulnerability, Close Combat Expert and three specials called "Leader of Existence", "Rebirth" and "Daywalker".
Leader of Existence: Deacon Frost cab use Leadership and Outwit.

Rebirth: Deacon Frost can use Invulnerability. When Deacon Frost's combat dial, stop turning the dial when Rebirth appears in the stat slot. If was due to healing, deal one click of unavailable damage to Daywalker.

Daywalker: Deacon Frost can use Super Strength and Exploit Weakness does not work on him.

He should have about eight or nine clicks of health and starting values of Movement 8, Attack 10, Defense 18, Damage 2 and Range 0.

Next is Blade. The origins of Blade's powers are based on the movies and live action TV show than the comic book version. In the comics being half blood only ment that he was a human who is immune to a vampires bit. He did not gain his vampire/daywalker powers until Morbius (a Spider-Man character) bit him. Blade should have a Trait called "The Daywalker, all three moon sword specials, Charge, Battle Fury and Indomitable.
The Daywalker: Blade can use Stealth. He can also use Exploit Weakness and Psychic Blast, but only on characters with the Monster keyword.
The First Blade, Savage Moon: Blade can use Super Senses. One per turn if he makes a successful Super Senses roll, remove one action token from him.
The Second Blade, Phantom Moon: Blade can use Flurry. If he attacks someone with the flight ability, he gains a +1 to his attack value.
The Third Blade, Chaotic Moon: Blade ignores othe character's Combat Reflexes. Give Blade a power action, he can make a close Combat attack as a free action. His damage value gains a +1 for each action token on the target of this action.
He should have about seven clicks of health and starting values of Movement 10, Attack 10 (but will go up to 11 or 12), Defense 18, Damage 3 and Range 4 with one target. He should not have a TA and his keywords should be Vampire Hunter, Marvel Knights and Martial Artist.

Lastly we have "The Mutant and the Daywalker" duo aka Wolverine and Blade. On the episode of the same name Blade and Makoto travels to Madripool when they heated that Deacon Frost had some dealings there. They run into Wolverine there who was on a revenge run on A.I.M. for the death of Mariko. Both Blade and Wolverine know each other and it was not because of Mirage as never know the other know him. Like with most of the cross overs I decided to do a duo of them. They should have the Duo symbol, a Trait called "Blades and Claws", Charge, Leap Climb, Stealth, a mid click or two of Super Strength, Incapacitate, Toughness, Super Senses, Combat Reflexes, Regeneration, Exploit Weakness, Outwit and Probability Control.
Blades and Claws: The Mutant and the Daywalker can use Blades. Blades can be use in a Duo attack but only on the first attack. Incapacitate, if showing, can be use in a Duo attack but only on the second attack.
They have about seven clicks of health and starting values of Movement 9, Attack 11, Defense 18, Damage 2 and Range 4 with one target. Their TA should been the Spider-Man one and their keywords should be Marvel Knights and Martial Artist.

Well this is it for this week. Next week DreamClix will be back to normal, but instead of two Marvel anime dial ideas as there are not more, I well will be doing two Halloween theme ideas or dial designs. Until next time, have fun.