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EldritchSoul
Warrior
324 Posts
    
 | | 01/13/2007 10:17 AM |
| passion, finally.
preview is here:
http://ww2.wizards.com/Dreamblade/Articles.aspx?Doc=20070112a
the figures:
Borg Penitent
4PP
1
1/2
1Y (1 spawn point while in a scoring cell) : Provoke - at the beginning
of the opponent's first action phase, if there are local enemies, the
opponent must strike during that action phase
Hungry Ghost
5P
4
3/4
(1) Bloodlust- If this creature is unengaged, you may move it into and adjacent enemy-occupied cell
Aviax Firebrand
9P
3
7/9
3Y : War Cry - Choose a local or adjacent cell. Move each creature
adjacent to that cell into that cell (you cannot break the stacking
limit with this abiity)
and the results:
While borg penitent's ability looks potentially disruptive, it's not
likely to be used more than once, and while it's possible that once is
all you need, that's rarely true aside from the late game. in sealed in
particular, i will be upset to crack this as my rare.
Hungry Ghost: this is pretty straightforward, it's ability might save
you from shift-striking, allowing a double strike, but it's another
situational ability, not one you'll want to use too often if you lost
initiative. it might be useful to tie down your opponent's key figures
from going gangbusters in a cell, but overall, unless you're playing
pure passion, there are better ways of spending 5 spawn points.
Aviax Firebrand: This ability obviously combos best with dual reaper or
dual bringthammer bands (or as tech against them). however, his cost
combined with an unpassionlike 3 power and only slightly better than
average survivability (for passion), it seems an expensive way to
handle these armies.
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bshugg
Underboss
1787 Posts
| | 01/13/2007 7:41 PM |
| | I see the firebrand as more of a way for fatty temple bands to bust open other bands that are scared to commit or holding back and trying to control the board. You can esentially reach 2 squares ahead and yank things into your threat range when you win init. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 01/13/2007 8:23 PM |
| | I'll give the Aviax a whirl. As for the other two i'm not to impressed. | | | |
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XAos
Underboss
2373 Posts
London
| | 01/14/2007 12:56 PM |
| Posted By EldritchSoul on 01/13/2007 10:17 AM
While borg penitent's ability looks potentially disruptive, it's not likely to be used more than once If it only works when the enemy has a unit local to the Borg, your (mostly) correct.
But if it works when the enemy has an engaged unit in any cell. The your oppoinent won't be able to shift creatures into the borgs cell before strikeing. So baring an effective roll with blade-{skirmish/advance etc} the borg might be 100% safe from attack that turn.
And that ignores tactics like using a pearlthorn castle to move the Borg back out of the enemies reach.
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EldritchSoul
Warrior
324 Posts
| | 01/14/2007 8:29 PM |
| | local enemies... local to the borg seems pretty clear how this works | |
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XAos
Underboss
2373 Posts
London
| | 01/15/2007 2:36 AM |
| "Provoke - at the beginning of the opponent's first action phase, if there are local enemies, the opponent must strike during that action phase"
The sentence describing that ability is all about the opponent, not about the Borg unit itself. So the phrase "local enemies" could mean "local to the opponent" not "local to the borg".
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EldritchSoul
Warrior
324 Posts
| | 01/15/2007 10:58 AM |
| | I'm fairly certain that they'd make it say enganged enemies, not local. local refers to a specific cell in this game. | |
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