World War II - The Vanguard Issue #1 (Crossover Stormwarden, Putty, Frostbite)

Ok here is my picture of Joe after training but without many of his powers, hence he now carries a gun as a back up for his energy attack and I'd like to suggest some smoke, flash or hand grenades?

What do you think:



Sj

Ready when you are.
Anyman

I also stuck my idea of a group uniform over in the OOC section. It's more of a 60s paramilitary/spy organization uniform.

I could make the costume but when I tried saving it as a JPG, it wouldn't load. Nor could I get a screen capture. Hopefully you have better luck than I did.

Unfortunately, out of the five or so Heromaker choices you can try building from, its the only one with the beret. I really really like the idea of us having berets!

I was so disappointed that both Heromaker Zombies and Heromaker Pin Up Girl didn't have berets.

Ok I did this for Lionheart



or this



And now alternate Frostbite in keeping with more ww2 theme :


But I can go with what you want. I am using the newer version of HM3 its only in alpha but the images are so much better, but the choices are somewhat limited. I was going for the idea that Joe at least is aware of his family so wanted to distance himself from them by wearing more of a mask.

Also Frostbite owes a lot of his appearance to his chestplate and frosted skin, so at present without a costume he doesn't look all that different. So us being symbols and all that I wanted to go for something flashy. Lionheart more so than even Frostbite. But hey you can change it if you like.

For Lionheart I wanted tight so he could do his acrobatics, speed etc and not have stuff getting in the way. But yeah I go with leathers and stuff - a la Xmen movie, except brown. But I can't get HM3 to do stuff like that.

And besides who says nothings skin tight - both Batman and Superman had skin tight costumes and this was before WW2!

I'm not planning on going back to change these (takes too long) so lets just say it looks like these.

Sj

[quote="Admin"]OOC I love the first costume - conjures up images of 'golden age' bright flashy superheroes. He'll stick out like a sore thumb on a brown battlefield but he was never the shrinking violet type anyway The last one of Frostbite has the feel of a British superhero from the 70s - Leopard of Lime Street and so on.

Great stuff, glad this time I had the time to get these turned out as it gave me the chance to get to grips with HM3 which I've needed to do for a while as it is a great prog just needs more work and more choices but the art is great as are the effects it can pull off now.

Anyway will keep an eye out for the solo threads.

Sj

Once I can suss out what Anyman looks like I'll knock the sheet out for him,

Anyman looks just like my brand new head bandaged avatar.

TDM7 wrote:OOC: To be fair, most of these skills will reflect her background knowledge rather than her quick military training.
-Languages: English, German (2) They came to her pretty easily tapping into Kylie's knowledge set
-First Aid (1) Since she had nursing training
-Mechanical Repair (1) Could be from the military, could be from assisting with repairing the machinery in her late husband's shoe factory
-Rifles (1) Because she has to get something out of her military training and wants to keep up with the guys.

Feel free to pick another language than English - though Dutch would be Joannas native tongue, English would be a close second due to the presence of Kylie inside her and learning it at school as a youngster, along with living in England.

Note for Kendal/Stormwarden

General Wynn is a unique case - viewed as being 'too old' for active service he is nonetheless free to offer his services anyway for field work or for behind the scenes planning and recruitment. About that - with his age being so much more than the others he can gain his full repertoire of powers but using the Dark Power is a no-no. His body would explode (whether that would actually be fatal is another question entirely. Nowhere Man has seemingly returned from the afterlife in a different body a number of times. Up to you if you want to try that, mind!) However, he has a unique ability to make up for it. He can give out portions of his dark power to others. To him, he views potential candidates as jigsaws, and simply fills in the gaps with his dark power. In actual fact he joins genetic strands and grants superhuman powers in a mysterious way. At any point, he can remove those powers or interact with the user, through a limited form of telepathy, no maximum range. In some cases he can try to wrest control of that person too, with an Ego vs Ego battle (Wynns ego is 14, he's a tough old coot, mentally. His other stats are 11 Str, 9 Dex and 12 vigour). If he does that it uses ALL of Wynns frames. If he does anything else, he loses control.

At the moment Captain Emma Steed is the only recipient of Wynns powers. She has Precision, Mass Variation:Other and Vigour. Her ego is 10, as are her other stats. (Vigour is 20 including the upgrade)

To see if someone is suitable, the target number is their age+vigour (or ego, whichever is higher) or more on 1D20 + Wynns ego. If Wynn rolls a 20 or matches his ego score, he rolls again and adds the next roll to the total (and same again, 20 or roll 14, adds a die and rolls again). If Wynn equals or exceeds the target number, he can roll three powers for the recipient. So long as they aren't too crazy (cybernetics would be dropped) and can be reasonably rationalised, they can be kept but odd powers should be dropped otherwise. If Wynn doubles the target number the target gets 6 power rolls. If he triples it, they get 9 and so on. I can't see that happening but you never know - the dice are odd beasts sometimes.

Note that it would be easy to hand powers to young, growing children. The ethics and right/wrongs of doing so (not to mention their low stats) would make that a dangerous practise though, especially as the Dark power is fickle. It may (every now and again) attempt to wrest control of the empowered individual. In other words, Ms Steed, watch out...

Admin wrote:

TDM7 wrote:OOC: To be fair, most of these skills will reflect her background knowledge rather than her quick military training.
-Languages: English, German (2) They came to her pretty easily tapping into Kylie's knowledge set
-First Aid (1) Since she had nursing training
-Mechanical Repair (1) Could be from the military, could be from assisting with repairing the machinery in her late husband's shoe factory
-Rifles (1) Because she has to get something out of her military training and wants to keep up with the guys.

Feel free to pick another language than English - though Dutch would be Joannas native tongue, English would be a close second due to the presence of Kylie inside her and learning it at school as a youngster, along with living in England.

Instead of another language, how about making this Land Vehicle Driving instead? I don't think anybody else from the group took the skill so it might help balance things out if we're put in a situation where it is needed.

No problem with that - may well come in handy over the course of the war. Also handy for piloting giant nazi robots.

Not that I'm saying there *will* be giant Nazi robots, but y'know...

Ok, there *will* be giant Nazi robots. Darn, you forced it out of me...

Why am I thinking Gigantor with a swatiska on his chest? And maybe a little mustache?

Darn. Foiled again. Nothing gets past you lot when it comes to giant robots with moustaches...

with that carrot like long nose, the little mustache would look just perfect on such a robot!