Qymaen jai Sheelal, Grievous

Qymaen jai Sheelal, Grievous 54

Hit Points:	100
Defense:	20
Attack:	11
Damage:	20

Rarity: Very Rare
Base: Medium
Gender: Male
Creator: pegolego
Created: 8/1/2013
Updated: 8/18/2014
Sets: Presence of the Force

Special Abilities

Unique
Assassin (+4 Attack and +10 Damage against living enemies)
Impulsive Furious Assault (If a Unique allied character is defeated, for the remainder of the skirmish this character has Furious Assault)
Jedi Hatred +10 (+10 Damage against enemies with Force ratings)
Overwhelming Power (Damage from this character's attacks cannot be prevented or redirected)
Single-Shot Blaster (This character cannot gain Twin Attack)
Sniper (Other characters do not provide cover against this character's attack)
Tactician +4 (Add +4 to the initiative roll except on a roll of 1)

Commander Effect

Allied Izvoshra gain Assassin and Jedi Hatred +10

"Our appeals have been ignored. It is now apparent that the Republic and the Jedi favor our enemies. General, You are our last hope against the Huk in this war." ―The Kaleesh Holy Man, to Qymaen jai Sheelal

pegolego
10/22/2013 11:41:24 PM (Updated: 10/23/2013 1:09:54 AM)

Accurate represents his talent with his Slug rifle, as a Marksman. Furious Assault represents him taking matters into his own hands and wiping out the Huk who threatened his kind. IOF would represent him after his loss of Ronderu lij Kummar (also a nod to Slug bullets). Jedi Hatred represents how the Republic sided with the Huk, and thus he despised them. Tact 4 as he was a feared warlord and tactician. The CE (useless atm) represents him leading his 'Elite'. As this represents many fazes of Grievous, the name is simply (and powerfully), his name, and the name he adopted.

harryg
10/23/2013 12:12:01 AM

Why IOF? There's no force.

Lord_Ball
10/23/2013 12:47:53 AM

You want [Overwhelming Power] not force.

pegolego
10/23/2013 12:52:26 AM

^Excellent point guys. Thanks lol

pegolego
10/23/2013 12:53:45 AM (Updated: 10/23/2013 12:54:20 AM)

In other news, how is his cost? Cheap enough that you could get him with the Wheelbike's 'Vehicle' ability (I also made sure he was a Commander, so no Whorm).

SignerJ
10/23/2013 1:03:18 AM (Updated: 10/23/2013 1:04:04 AM)

So this guy will be running around the board attacking all Jedi within line of sight for an unstoppable 50 damage? Good thing his Attack is a bit low-ish. (I do like the design, I'm just worried about how strong he is in gameplay.)

pegolego
10/23/2013 1:14:46 AM

Thanks for commenting! A sound concern, believe me. I specifically went with Hatred over Hunter, to go with his low-ish attack to prevent him from having very many easy hits. I thought about Sniper over Accurate, but didn't want it to have much the same as the original Grievous. With Accurate, he will (in theory) have many targets, but if they are in cover, even if living, if they have just 20 defense, he'll need 11. 50 is a hefty number though. I'll go ahead and lower the damage to 20.

pegolego
10/23/2013 1:31:44 AM

I put the damage back to 30. I compared him to Cad Bane, BH. Both have a CE (Cad's is a bit more useful generally), so not subject to CE's; bane has 80 HP, but has a defensive ability. Grievous here does not, but has 20 more HP (20 higher cost too though). Cad has Sniper, this guy has Accurate. Higher base damage for Grievous, Twin Attack for Cad bane. Even fringe, with no defense, you won't get more than 1 or 2 solid Furious runs, so I think with the new changes he should be good. Anyone else agree?

harryg
10/23/2013 3:02:30 AM

Yes I think he's balanced well.

pegolego
10/23/2013 3:12:59 PM

Thanks harryg!

pegolego
10/23/2013 3:13:35 PM

Added Single-Shot Blaster, just in case. Twin (if a way to get it comes out; easier, being fringe) would BREAK this piece.

corranhorn
10/26/2013 1:23:33 PM

Really great Fringe Grievous. So glad our resident Grievy expert finally dropped one!

pegolego
10/26/2013 5:55:48 PM (Updated: 10/26/2013 5:56:17 PM)

Thanks corranhorn! Since he didn't win my Final Piece of FoC (pego's half) poll, I decided just to keep waiting until I could pick him for the CCC contest (then hopefully LOTS of people would make Fringe Grievous'! :D ). Technically though, General Grievous (the BM user) would be the resident Grievy expert, imo ;)

pegolego
12/15/2013 8:07:52 PM

Lowered base damage to 20, but now he can get Jolt, so the cost didn't go down too much.

pegolego
8/18/2014 3:04:43 PM

Considering removing Accurate (possibly for Sniper). Replaced Impulsive OwP with Impulsive FA, and then replaced FA with OwP. So now, to start with he can put 20-30 unavoidable damage on a target within his los pretty easily, and has a pretty good CE for Izvoshra. If a Unique dies, he can do it to anyone in sight, but has no defense, can't gain Twin, and can't attack a given target more than once. I think that Cad, BH is a better Furious piece overall, but this IS Fringe, so perhaps Accurate is simply too much, and a drop to Sniper is in order, despite his drawbacks?

pegolego
8/18/2014 3:09:42 PM (Updated: 8/18/2014 3:10:33 PM)

I think perhaps the most dangerous combination to worry about here would be people using him instead of Arica in a squad with Thrawn; more reliable 'barrages' with Furious (sure, someone has to die first, but still...), getting +4/10 regardless of acting first or last, but also having the Opportunist option available, making him that much more dangerous... Then swap in and out to help with fragility and positioning. ANOTHER damage boost for the Izvoshra may not be a good thing either... Thrawn makes designing stuff hard lol. I think I'll change Accurate for Sniper.

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