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CCC Week 92 - Reserves! Options
General_Grievous
Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:15:17 PM
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Alright time to go into another one of my favorite play-styles. They've been in the spotlight lately with some rather interesting and passionate viewpoints on both sides. Yet they have quietly existed for almost a decade without ever making a remotely competitive splash (barring that Pong guy that started all the craziness). But for most reserve pieces it's a simple costly investment that may or may not pay off if the odds are in your favor.

So this week's challenge is to design a piece that has any type of reserves, non-unique or unique doesn't matter. And ideally the reserves portion should be central to their character not a random staple-on afterthought (see original Daala) but go crazy and have fun and try to get this guy/girl/alien/robot to bring in some friends!


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CorranHornsux123
Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:53:20 PM
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Hes an older one i made but he still checks out ;) lol

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/15694/jabba-the-hutt--zann-consortium-enemy
NewGuy117
Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 7:03:40 PM
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Will need some tweaking but here is a rough draft!

www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30759/revan--crusade-caller
shmi15
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:21:50 AM
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Game plan this week, stay on task!
surf_rider56
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:33:42 AM
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Life Happens .... moving on ....

So, GG, I never liked Reserves. With Reinforcements, you've got that "after seeing your opponent's squad" bit where at the beginning you can add to your squad whatever counter your opponent has that you didn't plan for; occasionally useful but not cheap.

But Reserves? I think in 12 years I've gotten lucky 3-4 times with rolling a Reserve. Just doesn't happen, and what can you even do with them? Add Uggies or mice to out-activate someone? Pick up maybe one useful piece and filler?

Still ... you want Reserves, so here's my pick.


Korriban Academy Headmaster I've worked on and off on many sub-faction ideas and the Korriban Academy is one of them. The idea here is that the Headmaster could call upon acolytes/recruits/students when needed. Rapport knocks the Recruits price down to 4pts, which means you can get 5 at a time. They're not necessarily much more useful than a Felucian, even with the extra force point and Force Blast I give them, but, hey, a lot of reserves are just fodder anyway and Blast Does hit for 20; if you're lucky, you might even get to use both force points and Blast twice.







Cheers,

surf








General_Grievous
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:16:44 AM
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Haha that's what I mean Surf, terribly weak unreliable play-style. But very fun if you like chance and luck. I like your headmaster! Only question I have is why those numbers specifically? Did you want to create new ones for the Sith faction or have them stack with Lobot's?
surf_rider56
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 9:52:52 AM
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General_Grievous wrote:
Haha that's what I mean Surf, terribly weak unreliable play-style. But very fun if you like chance and luck. I like your headmaster! Only question I have is why those numbers specifically? Did you want to create new ones for the Sith faction or have them stack with Lobot's?


Why 2, 7, and 11? No reason, although 7 and 11 seem to be the ones that pop up most often on 6 sided dice, even if We use 20d.
jen'ari
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shmi15
Posted: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:03:25 PM
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Ok, I know I want few things to be different, Especially base stats... But... Here is the idea


http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30765/first-chancellor-mon-mothma


Intervention on Scariff is my way to make Reserves more playable!
Lord_Ball
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2018 4:57:37 AM
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I don't think I could get more "central to the character" with this one :)

MTT (Multi-Troop Transport)

I wanted to go DR 20, but thought that might be a bit much (unless I also added weak spot, which wouldn't be very true to the character, but would be more balanced).
General_Grievous
Posted: Thursday, February 15, 2018 6:51:06 AM
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We are getting such a good spread of factions and with LB making such a strong Sep, I'm strongly debating going with either Vong, Imperial or NR....
spryguy1981
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AlexTheGreat
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 5:11:23 AM
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Sooo once again I go with Maris! Last time I entered with her, some had pointed out that she costed low enough. This time I raised her points from 34 to 39. Any suggestions??
http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/29671/maris-brood--dark-jedi
AlexTheGreat
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 5:14:35 AM
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surf_rider56 wrote:
Life Happens .... moving on ....

So, GG, I never liked Reserves. With Reinforcements, you've got that "after seeing your opponent's squad" bit where at the beginning you can add to your squad whatever counter your opponent has that you didn't plan for; occasionally useful but not cheap.

But Reserves? I think in 12 years I've gotten lucky 3-4 times with rolling a Reserve. Just doesn't happen, and what can you even do with them? Add Uggies or mice to out-activate someone? Pick up maybe one useful piece and filler?

Still ... you want Reserves, so here's my pick.


Korriban Academy Headmaster I've worked on and off on many sub-faction ideas and the Korriban Academy is one of them. The idea here is that the Headmaster could call upon acolytes/recruits/students when needed. Rapport knocks the Recruits price down to 4pts, which means you can get 5 at a time. They're not necessarily much more useful than a Felucian, even with the extra force point and Force Blast I give them, but, hey, a lot of reserves are just fodder anyway and Blast Does hit for 20; if you're lucky, you might even get to use both force points and Blast twice.







Cheers,

surf










Nice work surf, I really like it!
jak
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 7:30:19 AM
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General_Grievous
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 2:40:43 PM
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Alright I went with a New Republic/Mandos mix, let me know what you think!

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30770/natasi-daala--chief-of-state
blemelisk
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:47:05 PM
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Yoda did say he has good relations with the Wookies....

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/30771/yoda-of-kashyyyk
swinefeld
Posted: Friday, February 16, 2018 7:25:49 PM
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Busy week for me, so I last-minute dug up an old custom that was never really even close to finished, then tried to remember where I was going with it... stats/cost etc needs help, but a fairly simple idea in general.

http://www.bloomilk.com/Custom/5266/kaskutal

Was part of a project to build out the entire hierarchy of the Rangers
(so yes, there will be more to come, whenever the topic meshes) BigGrin
shmi15
Posted: Saturday, February 17, 2018 4:34:42 PM
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surf_rider56 wrote:
Life Happens .... moving on ....

So, GG, I never liked Reserves. With Reinforcements, you've got that "after seeing your opponent's squad" bit where at the beginning you can add to your squad whatever counter your opponent has that you didn't plan for; occasionally useful but not cheap.

But Reserves? I think in 12 years I've gotten lucky 3-4 times with rolling a Reserve. Just doesn't happen, and what can you even do with them? Add Uggies or mice to out-activate someone? Pick up maybe one useful piece and filler?

Still ... you want Reserves, so here's my pick.


Korriban Academy Headmaster I've worked on and off on many sub-faction ideas and the Korriban Academy is one of them. The idea here is that the Headmaster could call upon acolytes/recruits/students when needed. Rapport knocks the Recruits price down to 4pts, which means you can get 5 at a time. They're not necessarily much more useful than a Felucian, even with the extra force point and Force Blast I give them, but, hey, a lot of reserves are just fodder anyway and Blast Does hit for 20; if you're lucky, you might even get to use both force points and Blast twice.







Cheers,

surf









Interesting...
surf_rider56
Posted: Sunday, February 18, 2018 11:57:46 AM
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shmi15 wrote:
surf_rider56 wrote:
Life Happens .... moving on ....

So, GG, I never liked Reserves. With Reinforcements, you've got that "after seeing your opponent's squad" bit where at the beginning you can add to your squad whatever counter your opponent has that you didn't plan for; occasionally useful but not cheap.

But Reserves? I think in 12 years I've gotten lucky 3-4 times with rolling a Reserve. Just doesn't happen, and what can you even do with them? Add Uggies or mice to out-activate someone? Pick up maybe one useful piece and filler?

Still ... you want Reserves, so here's my pick.


Korriban Academy Headmaster I've worked on and off on many sub-faction ideas and the Korriban Academy is one of them. The idea here is that the Headmaster could call upon acolytes/recruits/students when needed. Rapport knocks the Recruits price down to 4pts, which means you can get 5 at a time. They're not necessarily much more useful than a Felucian, even with the extra force point and Force Blast I give them, but, hey, a lot of reserves are just fodder anyway and Blast Does hit for 20; if you're lucky, you might even get to use both force points and Blast twice.







Cheers,

surf



Interesting...



Hmmmm in four days I got 2 "likes" and an "interesting." Not sure what to make of the heavy duty commentary/critique I'm getting .....
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