Burning Ballista, Swooping Dragon
Dungeons & Dragons Attack Wing Tools and Info
That Teri Girl is back again, with another preview of another Organized Play prize:
Here are the cards (and, oh look, they’re in the Legion Builder already!):
Wave OP4 – Hieracosphinx:
Seti-Ram and the Hieracosphinx Mauler plus these Upgrades have been added:
Teri, where is the OP3 prize video?
The folks over at ICv2 have some nice close-up pics on their web page. Give them some traffic love for sharing. Thanks to Raviv for pointing these out to us!
New D&D Elemental Evil minis (note that any of these could end up being figures used for Attack Wing)
More new D&D Elemental Evil minis (note that any of these could end up being figures used for Attack Wing)
Some of the figures recently revealed by Tom Vassel:
Our first returning figure, from the look of it:
White Dragon – note that he is not labeled an Ancient White Dragon though … (now this actually correctly points at the white dragon …)
and some new figures for Attack Wing:
Shield Dwarf Fighter – why does he fight shields? Did one kill his father?
I think the Young Blue is still my personal favorite.
Over on a German forum for DNDAW, “Dragon’s Hollow” (apologies to my German friends if I’ve butchered that), a retailer has revealed that an upcoming chapter of Organized Play is titled “Elemental Evil.”
Hmm …
Wizards of the Coast recently updated their Elemental Evil webpage, but it does not yet contain any hints as to what might be joining the Attack Wing universe on the page. It does have a link to the WizKids minis page, that so far, there’s been no official notice of EE tie-ins yet.
Of course, sharp-eyed fans have spotted some interesting figures in the wild:
Yet more figures from Waves 4-7 of Dungeons & Dragons: Attack Wing (@WizKidsGames) —WEM pic.twitter.com/q1kkxYfDJj
— BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) February 15, 2015
Zoom in on that image and it looks like there’s a “Water Cult Warrior” in the upper left and some sort of “Dwarf Fighter” on the bottom left, plus a good look at the Pegasus and a wee little Blue Dragon!
“Enhance!” (/mad typing on keyboard) “Zoom in a little more?” (/really hammering on keyboard)
(Drat. Our crack engineering team tells me just yelling enhance and typing doesn’t magically enlarge and sharpen pictures …)
What kind of Dwarf Fighter is that? Someone guessed Gold. Runed maybe?
What’s your favorite of the newly discovered critters?
I like the tiny blue dragon, myself. I will name him George and I will love him and hug him …
Shh … the DungeonMaster has gone to sleep! Don’t wake her!
All the Wave 4 and Wave 5 Creatures have been added to the Legion Builder.
Here we go … (/takes a deep breath)
Malebolge and the Gargoyle Guardian plus these Upgrades have been added:
Pacatus and the Gold Dragon plus these Upgrades have been added:
Ancoram and the Stone Giant Hurler plus these Upgrades have been added:
Drizzt Do’Urden (squeee!) and the Underdark Ranger plus these Upgrades have been added:
Maurghoros and the Red Dracolich plus these Upgrades have been added:
Eyruaad and the Bronze Dragon plus these Upgrades have been added:
Good luck theory-crafting!
(/passes out)
Wave 4 consists of Gargoyle, Gold Dragon, and a Stone Giant. Wave 5 consists of the Drow Elf Ranger, Red Dracolich, and Young Bronze Dragon.
Wait a minute! Drow Elf Ranger. You know what that means!
Tom also did reviews for Waves 2 and 3:
Wow! This will be the third Brass Dragon figure announced by Wiz Kids.
The first was Sivart, the prize for the second Organized Play event (everyone went out and won one, right?).
The second is a details-not-yet-revealed unit from Wave 8. Here he is from the solicitation sheet:
And now they’ve announced a new Premium version:
Source: http://heroclix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/71987-DD-Attack-Wing-Premium-Brass-Dragon-Figure.pdf
It’s going to bring a whole new meaning to the expression, “That guy’s got a lot of brass!”
This is the third huge figure announced by Wiz Kids, following the previously announced Tiamat and Bahamut figures.
The idea of Vakka having a bigger brother or sister (or parent) is a little scary! No indication if this is another Ancient Silver like Vakka yet.
The expected release is listed for June 2015!
http://heroclix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/71986-DD-Attack-Wing-Premium-Silver-Dragon-Figure.pdf
Dragonfly finished casting his Control Weather spell and a small look of satisfaction slid across his face as the attackers, a pair of small Black Shadow Dragon siblings, were forced to the ground. His own allies, a Harpy Archer and Angelic Paladin (he shook his head, still unsure that anyone would believe the story of how he became allied with such creatures*) were safely behind him and the force of the storm.
“Ready yourselves,” he called to his allies, “they won’t be able to take off again until they leave the storm or it ends.”
The angel nodded sagely and the harpy screeched in what Dragonfly could only assume was agreement.
The larger of the two black shadow dragons hissed at the storm, flapping in a vain attempt to lift off once again.
Its smaller sister prepared to turn and walk out of the storm’s reach, using a wing to keep the wind and rain out of her eyes. “Stop that, idiot! We need to move before that druid uses Call Lightning.”
“Why?” asked the brother.
“Because the lightning will be stronger under this weather spell.”
“Oh,” said her brother, “how long does it last?”
“I don’t know!” she yelled, “Ask the druid!”
He did. The druid looked surprised, but not as surprised as his two allies as he started to answer the dragon. “It gets two duration tokens!” he called out.
The bigger black shadow dragon turned back to his sister, “Three turns!”
His sister shook her head, “It’s only two turns, doofus. The rest of this turn, and all of next turn.”
“But he just cast the spell!” called her brother.
The smaller black shadow dragon sighed, her brother was always embarrassing her, “It works just like Shadow Breath!”
“No, that gets three tokens!” he yelled back.
She face-winged and called to the druid, “Maybe you can explain it? He won’t listen to me.”
The druid took a step forward but was interrupted by the angel’s shout of protest, “You’re kidding?! You’re going to explain yourself to him?”
The druid stepped forward and began drawing a few large rectangles in the dirt in front of him, “Of course. I’m neutral!”
The harpy shook her head, and may have face-palmed if not for her claws.
“Listen carefully,” the druid called out, “When you use your Shadow Breath, you place 3 Duration Tokens on it, correct?” He drew three hourglass figures on one of the rectangles and glanced up.
The large dragon nodded; of course he knew that, it took three turns before it was ready again, everyone knew that!
“Well,” continued Dragonfly, “When I cast Control Weather, I place 2 Duration Tokens on it,” he drew two hourglasses on the next rectangle, “See?”
He looked up again as the dragon answered, “Yes …”
“They work the same,” his sister said impatiently, “like I’ve told you before.”
Her brother shook his head, “No, I put my tokens down ‘Afterwards.'”
She sighed, and looked around, hoping no other dragons could see them.
“Your sister is right,” called out the druid, “In both cases, we place our Duration Tokens down as we use the Upgrade.”
“But …” the larger dragon started, “your spell has a Continuous Effect!”
“All that means is that my Upgrade keeps doing something while the Duration Tokens are on it. The spell keeps working. Your Breath Weapon is only different in that it does not keep doing something. In both cases, we remove one Duration Token at the end of the turn, from each Upgrade card that has Duration Tokens.”
The angel had to admit he was impressed by how patient the druid was. He prepared to charge the dragon.
The dragon slowly nodded at the druid, “Ok, ok. But not on your first turn.”
“So close…” said his sister.
The druid looked thoughtful for a moment, “Why do you think that would be true?” he asked.
“You had to disable it,” the dragon declared.
“… and yet so far,” his sister muttered, she considered using her Shadow Breath on both of them, but she was sure the Druid was out of range.
“I think I see the confusion,” said the druid, “Disabling the Upgrade is irrelevant. It just means I would have to spend an extra action to prepare to use the spell again, which would be silly in this case, since the Upgrade goes away when the Continuous Effect ends! Which is what happens when the last Duration Token is removed. During the End Phase, you remove 1 Duration Token from each Upgrade Card.”
The dragon seemed to think it over, “So, you will remove one Duration Token from it at the end of this turn, then the last one from it at the end of next turn, and then the spell ends AND the Upgrade goes away.”
His sister gasped, “You’ve got it! And it doesn’t matter when you put the Duration Tokens on the Upgrade Card, you always remove one from each Upgrade Card during the End Phase!”
The Druid smiled. He’d always quite enjoyed teaching, “Well done. Keep in mind that I could have, if I wanted, used my Staff of the Woodlands to add an extra Duration Token to the card.”
His sister rolled her eyes, “Don’t confuse him more!”
“No, I get it!” the larger Dragon exclaimed, “You would have Disabled the Staff and gotten to put 3 Duration Tokens on the Control Weather Upgrade card instead of 2! It just would have lasted 1 extra turn! If I used my breath on you right now, and you used the staff, we would both put three Duration Tokens down and both remove one at the end of this turn!”
“Why didn’t you?” asked the sister.
The angel turned to the druid, “That’s a good question. You won’t get to recast it since it goes away when the Effect ends.”
The druid looked a little embarrassed, “I forgot I could, actually.”
The harpy snorted.
“It’s been a long day …” Dragonfly grumbled.
The harpy nodded in agreement. It had been a long day**.
The two dragons put their heads together and whispered to each other, the brother slowly nodding at the sister.
The brother turned suddenly back towards the druid, drawing in a deep breath. The druid braced for the necrotic energy of a Shadow Breath.
“We concede.” the larger shadow dragon said.
“You … concede?” stammered the druid.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been trying to explain this. THANK you” his sister responded, “Let’s go, Reggie.”
Both dragons turned and quickly moved across the battle area.
“What just happened?” asked the Angel, “Where are you going?”
The brother leaped into the air and shouted back, “We saw some bird people!”
His sister followed, but hesitated to call back to them, “He means the Aarakocra. I’m going to try to explain how Area Effects work with Troops!”
The strange allies watched the Black Shadow Dragon siblings fly off, quickly losing them against the night sky.
“Well,” said Dragonfly, “that was … odd. Shall we build a campfire?”
The angel sighed and hung his Holy Warhammer from his belt, “Druid,” he began, “How did you know the second one was female?”
Dragonfly turned to look at the angel, “I’m a druid.”
* a story for another time.
** another story for another time.
The last of Wave 3, the Silver Dragon Expansion, has now been seen in the wild!
Beating out Lord Maximillian for title of the most expensive, as well as becoming the highest level Creature so far, is Vakka, the Ancient Silver Dragon. Vakka is a team player, with a special ability that really helps out, but at 57 points, there’s not a lot of room for the rest of the team!
Here is her unique ability:
After Vakka moves, she may choose 1 friendly Creature within Range 1 – 2. That Creature may immediately perform an Action on its Action Bar as a free Action.
At level 17, she’ll be one of the last to move each turn (if not the last), then she can let a friendly Creature perform a bonus Action from their Action Bar (though, remember it cannot be one they already used this turn).
This big lady doesn’t just help lead the team though, she is full on ready to anchor it with her PMV of 5! She can take the hits too, with 9 Health and 3 Armor. She might not notice you’re even in combat with her for a few rounds.
Hey, what’s that on her back? A Human Paladin? Hmm, she looks like she’s going to sneeze. Oh, it wasn’t a sneeze, it was Cold Breath! And the Human Paladin is right there two, ready to wipe your nose (off your face)!
Vakka is fun at parties too, with a bunch of party tricks!
Look at that grin! Vakka loves parties!
Now you see her, now you don’t!
You still don’t!
You still don’t!
She’s over there now! Wow! And her breath weapon is ready again. Ow! So cold! You can’t move! Wait, not cold, you’re suffering from Paralysis, the effect of a Silver Dragon’s Paralyzing Breath! I hope you weren’t flying because you’re about to come tumbling down (and rolling two attack dice that ignore both defense dice and Armor!)
She’s gone again! She’s over there, just behind you! First there was Time Stop and now a Dimension Door! Amazing!
Her kid brother, a Level 7 Ancient Silver Dragon at “only” 37 points, has a trick or two himself! You think you’ve sneaked up along side of him (we’ve got our eye on you Umberlis), but his Wing Attack allows him to strike out to the left or right without warning! While not as impressive as his big sister, he’s no slouch either, with 7 Health and 2 Armor of his own!
Looks like the Silvers have one more trick up their sleeve. With a wink and the Monocle of the Twitching Tail (that is, by the way, the largest monocle I have ever seen), they can prevent flying creatures from making hard turns while in the air or making any Tail attacks.
… and now I know why the Harpy came with a poop token.
(links and Legion Builder will be active as soon as possible)
Wiz Kids continues releasing more information, for the Harpy this time, only short days after giving us the Wyvern’s cards. Again, no Ground Maneuver card (probably because it is on the backside of the Flight Maneuver card).
Sycorax is her name, and multi-claw attacks are her game.
If Sycorax inflicts at least 1 damage against a Creature with her first Claw attack, she may immediately make a second Claw attack against the same Creature.
We can also talk about some of the very interesting Upgrades that come with the Harpy expansion, like:
Action: Place 1 DT on this Upgrade.
Continuous Effect: You cannot make any attacks except the attacks that are triggered by this Effect. Whenever any non-Harpy Creature declares an attack within Range 1 – 2 of you in any direction (ground and air), use your Primary Weapon Value to make an immediate Ranged Thunder attack against that Creature. This attack penetrates armor. If you inflict at least 1 damage against the Creature, it sustains no damage but cannot attack this round. When this Effect ends for any reason, discard this card.
Must be a Harpy to equip.
So, a Harpy can take an action that lets her make an attempt to shutdown all attempts to attack, except from other Harpy Creatures withing 6 inches of her in all directions. That’s more than 12 inches in diameter, or more than a third of the playing area! That’s a pretty sweet deal.
Action: Disable this Upgrade and then place 1 DT on it to force 1 Creature at Range 1 – 2 in your forward arc to receive the Continuous Effect below.
Continuous Effect: The affected Creature cannot roll more than 3 dice each time that it attacks or defends. This does not affect the number of dice that the Creature can re-roll.
Must be a Harpy to equip
Ok, these harpies are pretty impressive. She stares you down and you just don’t get to roll more than 3 dice. Sorry Lord Maximillian, you only get three defense dice. Sorry Balagos, I know you’re angry, but Harpy’s just not impressed.
Harpy hears you. Harpy doesn’t care.
There’s more, but again, discovery is fun, so I leave it up to you. Here are the rest of the cards:
… but what I really want to know is what is in the scenario that comes with the Harpy Expansion:
… what has Manny O’Donnell cooked up that requires this:
Mr. O’Donnell, why is there a pooping token?
I’m tempted to ask the audience to come up with their best guesses, but perhaps we should just wait for an official answer this time.
Instead, let’s talk about which of the cards above is the most exciting. For me, it has to be Wicked Tongue. It can change the entire way the game is being played and shut down a one-hit-wonder style Legion.
What are you looking forward to in this expansion?
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