Twin Troopers Podcast: Bossk
Nice! You guys keep hitting the topics I want to listen to... gotta find time!
I didn't listen too too closely as the GF kept noising around, but I think you undervalued cards like Grissly Content and Parting Blow with Bossk, who's ability negates the downside. If Bossk can hug someone on his turn while firing at someone else - they can't leave him without getting hammered. Or if you activate him too late for that, you can move in and Grissly the figure - immediately recovering the lost damage. Could maybe do well with the Stimpack too. But I think you're right, that he works best skirting the main battle.
His primary downside imo, is his lack of range. Getting more than three range is very uncertain and you don't want to lose Bossk' powerful attack on insufficient range. Setting him up with Hera could do wonders, as he can then fire 5 spaces into the crowd on the first round while closing in, I also like using Deadeye in my deck when running Bossk. Allows you to try that 4 range shot with a safety backup.
Maybe I missed this, but I didn't hear you guys mention the command card Face-to-Face. It is *really* good for all Brawlers, but for Bossk it opens up some movement points for him to get away from his target. Also, if Bossk is already close to a target, you can use Face-to-Face AND Indiscriminate Fire.
Looking For A Fight is also good with Bossk to give him an extra movement point and a DMG TOKEN.
Sorry guys, you can't spend movement points after you use To the Limit. Yes you can take a Move action, but then you immediately become stunned before you can spend the movement points. It's still a good card with him, but you'll want to be using it to use Indiscriminate Fire and then attack.
On 10/31/2017 at 8:44 AM, cnemmick said:Maybe I missed this, but I didn't hear you guys mention the command card Face-to-Face. It is *really* good for all Brawlers, but for Bossk it opens up some movement points for him to get away from his target. Also, if Bossk is already close to a target, you can use Face-to-Face AND Indiscriminate Fire.
But it doesn't really allow him to get away because those 2 movement (which are not movement points, so they are not banked) must be used to move next to the target, the attack has to target and adjacent figure. Which means it's not helping you use Indiscriminate Fire either when you couldn't already use it and attack.
Edited by Tvboy7 minutes ago, Tvboy said:But it doesn't really allow him to get away because those 2 movement (which are not movement points, so they are not banked) must be used to move next to the target, the attack has to target and adjacent figure. Which means it's not helping you use Indiscriminate Fire either when you couldn't already use it and attack.
The scenario I was envisioning where Face-to-Face would be awesome for Bossk:
- Bossk performs a move, gets 4 movement points
- Bossk spends 1-2 movement points, then plays Face-to-Face to move 2 spaces and attack an adjacent figure.
- Since it's still Bossk's activation, his remaining movement points are not negated. Bossk spends the remaining movement points to get to cover.
It's a limited scenario, but if you're running Bossk with some other Brawlers, it can still be a useful card for Bossk.
Also: the only way you could use To The Limit to move with that 3rd action would be to use Urgency or another card that uses "Move X Spaces" terminology. I believe the ruling is that the effects of that third action are resolved before the Stunned kicks in. It doesn't work with the standard Move action because a Move action's sole purpose is to grant movement points, not actually MOVE your figure.
Was just thinking this week how I'd love to bring back Bossk into my lists. His healing ability is so good and added +2 damage.
2 hours ago, Tvboy said:Sorry guys, you can't spend movement points after you use To the Limit. Yes you can take a Move action, but then you immediately become stunned before you can spend the movement points.
Is there a ruling on this somewhere? That seems counter intuitive compared to the purpose of the card.
"Use after you resolve a (special action) during your activation to perform 1 additional action. Then you become Stunned. "
5 minutes ago, Fightwookies said:Is there a ruling on this somewhere? That seems counter intuitive compared to the purpose of the card.
"Use after you resolve a (special action) during your activation to perform 1 additional action. Then you become Stunned. "
That is the correct ruling. It's a poorly worded card because it's from the Core set before Skirmish was more thought-out.
It would be nicer if it was worded "Use after you resolve a => during your activation to perform 1 additional action. At the end of your activation, you become Stunned."
/me hopes a Skirmish-friendly FAQ comes out soon.
2 hours ago, cnemmick said:The scenario I was envisioning where Face-to-Face would be awesome for Bossk:
- Bossk performs a move, gets 4 movement points
- Bossk spends 1-2 movement points, then plays Face-to-Face to move 2 spaces and attack an adjacent figure.
- Since it's still Bossk's activation, his remaining movement points are not negated. Bossk spends the remaining movement points to get to cover.
The problem here is that Bossk doesn't need to be range 1 to attack someone normally, his minimum range is 3 thanks to the +2 accuracy, so moving 2 spaces isn't helping when you're already in attack range. You're actually making it harder for Bossk to retreat by moving him unnecessarily closer to the target if his desired hiding space is behind him, you now have to use 2 of your movement points to undo the 2 spaces you moved up with F2F.
Yeah, Looking For A Fight though, that seems like a solid Bossk card!