First Thoughts on Lily
First thing to note is that Lily is a really beautiful and impressive sculpt on the tabletop! Once we’re done admiring her, we can appreciate that her stats are pretty reasonable, she has good attack power and range and the rest of her stats are pretty standard for a magic user (which alone makes her a valuable choice).
Then we look to her skills! So initially I saw Silence and I thought (with my JRPG head on) “nice, she’s going to nullify the opponent’s magic users for me”. Then I looked at her passive skill and she becomes one big defensive buff for your heroes! BUT…She’s so much cooler than that!!! You see if you’re familiar with the Crystal Collapse rules, you’ll realise that Silence has NOTHING to do with magic users!! we’ll look at this in more depth shortly!
Profile Analysis
So I said she has a standard mage profile for the most part. 3 Life Points, 4 movement, 2 Attack Dice and 0/0 armour. Her attack value of 6>4 makes her a very versatile long range attacker for your team, so as an offensive magic user she’s usually going to be my first choice!
Silence
As I said earlier, the Silence ability places a silence token on an enemy hero which lasts until the end of the hero’s next activation. Whilst the token is in play, the target hero CANNOT USE FATE CARDS! Not at all! So much more powerful than just crippling a magic user! Enemy has the high ground? Who cares! Attacking them front on? No worries! Pincer attack? What Pincer attack! All of those manoeuvre effects that grant a fate card to that hero are temporarily rendered redundant. God Cards that grant a fate card are wasted too! This is a skill worth saving your jokers for if you don’t have any sacrificial heart cards! I’d even be tempted to use a god card to get this one cast it’s so good!!
“It’s hard to hit when you’re seeing double isn’t it?!”
Lily is a mage from the school of Illusion, and her passive skill is really awesome! A magical distortion fills the air within A2 of Lily and creates an echo of the heroes. Any successful attacks made against friendly heroes within A2 of Lily (Lily included), MUST BE RE-ROLLED! she may have no armour and only 3 Life Points, but Lily is REALLY hard to kill! I feel like I’m using capital letters a lot for dramatic exaggeration, but I also feel its warranted! I can’t understate what an awesome character she is!
Effective Pairings
Pair her with Lisara and not only are enemies re-rolling successful hits, but you’re getting a fate card added to your armour rolls, and with her standing armour value of 3, Lisara is now virtually invincible too!
Keep Roland in her area of effect and not only does he get the “re-roll successful hits” boon, he also has the chance to remove 2 attack dice from the attacker (when using a protection token) which means if the enemy actually manages to scrape through with an attack at all, its chances of hurting him are minimal!
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