I don't see how that implies they could be used for the Sentinels deck, sorry. It's a reach to conclude that. They'd be designed around having their own character cards and decks, rather than designed around being used in the Sentinels deck. They'd have too much health, for one thing, and their powers wouldn't be designed around the Sentinels deck. I just don't see it.
I didn't think that they would but I also didn't expect that they keep the same hero names.
In my head I've been calling them "Void Guard Dr Medico", "Void Guard Idealist", etc., because mixing them with their former selves didn't make sense to me. Plus, keeping the same names seems like it would cause trouble no matter how they were intended to be played. So I justput a wall up between SW Sentinels and Void Guard.
That being said, I'm still planning the inevitable 5 player game with them all. :)
Yeah I'm pretty curious how that one plays out.
Probably fine.
The Sentinels is already possibly the best damage-dealer in the game, with decent tanking/healing. And we can be pretty certain that Medico and Mainstay as solo heroes will just pile on more healing and tanking (respectively), whilst virtually every hero brings some damage with them. So the only real question is, is either Writhe or the Idealist good at Ongoing/Environment destruction? If so, you're set. If not, you get the same issues as any team which lacks that capability.
Not really what I meant. Since they are supposed to be keeping the same hero names I'm wondering what unique interactions they will have.
I expect their official names will have something added to make it not work.
I hope so but that wasn't the indication given during the livestream.
I didn't get an impression of the interactions one way or the other. However, I imagine the sentinels decks to only be referring to its own heroes. I don't see it working well for if "writhe is active" to include the stand alone writhe. It wouldn't balance properly. Guess I might have t ask that Wednesday if Christopher is there and willing to answer it
the five player game of using the four individual heroes and the team, would that work within the story? Would it represent the overlap of past, present and other realities?
EDIT: after looking back over the cards it does seem like as long as any hero named writhe or etc. is active the effect would happen… Strange. May ask Christopher and see if he'll answer, but we'll probably have to wait I imagine
THE NEW IDENTITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST SENTINELS!
- Dr. Spanish!
- Ship-Rope!
- Thought-Haver!
- and... The Creepy One!
Definitely real canon.
From the 2/12 chat
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sonvar: @gtgchristopher Will the new Void Guard Sentinels have new hero names?
GTGChristopher: @Sonvar No. They will be Doctor Medico, Mainstay, The Idealist, and Writhe
nosirragessej: How are the Void Guard characters going to effect being on a team with The Sentinels? Are they getting new names to avoid weird interactions with each others' decks?
GTGChristopher: @Nosirragessej There will be rules included in the Void Guard box explaining how to deal with precisely that!
So there are some issues he expects that he will have to address with their hero pack.
that makes sense. If I had to guess, it'd be something along the lines of the team sentinels is separate from the individual heroes even though they share the names. But at least we know that much. Can't wait to find out more.