Questing Knight One Shot Spotlight

One Shot is the callsign for Jessi Bancroft, who began her career as a gunnery sergeant on one of Alliance Security’s enormous Goliath siege walkers. She was well respected for her uncanny accuracy and well liked for her up-beat attitude. Everyone we talked to said that she took to military life like a mytra weasel to methane. She seemed to have a promising, if undistinguished, career ahead of her— and that suited her just fine. She’s a bit of a shrinking violet in a confidant sort of way. She’s charming and friendly but lets others run the room.

Then her cypher manifested. What started as a small hit-and-run raid on the terraformed moon Findor Major turned into an epic-scale Hell storm when Alliance Security captured Anphis Rah, warlord of the Sacred Wrath. The Noh swarmed, the Alliance sent more troops, and everything spiraled out of control almost overnight. Jessi arrived with the 2871st mechanized siege brigade as part of the first wave of Alliance reinforcements. Like a lot of us, Jessi’s got a personal grudge against the Noh. Some of them—Dragon Fleet Har, we think—razed her home colony while she was at the Alliance Military Academy, and she settled into the fighting with a genuine will.

In the last two weeks of the war, Jessi’s position at Abercraft Crossing was overrun and her Goliath destroyed. Yeah, that Abercraft Crossing. Renders cut her machine into scrap, and six of its eight crewmen died as it crashed down. Jessi says that, as she pulled herself from what remained of the gunnery compartment, the smoke and fumes around her swirled and formed into the little jerk calling itself Fritz. With cool professionalism, Fritz directed her to retreat to cover.

 Jessi, who claims she barely understood what was happening, refused and started trying to free her crew, taking potshots at the Noh with her sidearm. Fritz apparently tried to convince her to run several times before he gave up and pointed her to a section of wreckage half buried by the Goliath’s fall. We made her tell us exactly what happened next as a condition of signing on—supposedly she got a bonus just for the story...

Another exciting release is coming, and another Ignition Core Games re-sculpt comes with it. Some of you may remember 'Pin-up One Shot' releasing some time ago without rules or a cypher. Ignition Core Games is proud to bring you 'Questing Knight One Shot' with a re-sculpt of her cypher, Fritz. These are beautiful and detailed miniatures on their own, but let's see what tactical impact Questing Knight One Shot and Fritz bring to your game table.

The first thing I love about Questing Knight One Shot is that her Sniper Shot ability feels thematic in a game where shooting attacks don't have ranges. With a two blue press it jumps from Damage 6 to Damage 9 (provided the target is more than 12 inches away), and the option to give it Piercing 4 makes her a formidable choice for piercing through the high defenses of any Shattered Sword units she may find herself up against.

Battlefield Control is especially useful for repositioning up to two friendly and/or enemy units. You could potentially move an enemy unit away from an objective marker (throwing it into a wall for bonus collateral damage if you so choose) while moving in a friendly unit to immediately capture that objective in the next activation.

Speaking of activations, One Shot's Elite Leadership Cadre Ability allows you to perform a full activation on a unit that has an activation token already. How do you get power tokens on a unit that already has an activation token?

Questing Knight One Shot's cypher, Fritz hands out power tokens like candy with his Advanced Intel ability. Not only that, but his AoE is a very potent debuff. If you're about to line up a perfect Sniper Shot with Questing Knight One Shot, you should carefully consider marking that target first, with Fritz's No Man's Land AoE. This turns off the target's ability to use defense actions right before One Shot tags them for up to Damage9 and Piercing4. This is ideal for when a particular target absolutely must be brought down.

Not only is Questing Knight One Shot a great option for leading the units in the Black Diamond Battle Box. She also has a lot of combo potential with the Python squad we covered earlier this week. She can effectively lead the Void units in the Radiant vs Void Two Player Starter Set too.

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Shattered Sword got a Relic Knight in their launch lineup, so it's only right that Black Diamond gets the same treatment. More on that next week! Stay tuned...