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Black Legion Assault Robot Type IV

Real Name: None

Origin and Background: When Motivator founded the Black Legion she decided they needed robots and lots of them. The crowning achievement to date is the Mark IV. They only have a few working models, and these are being used to steal money and equipment for the Black Legion.

It will be a Mark IV that the player characters encolunter in the opening segments of the Black Legion adventure.

The robot uses extremely advanced materials in its construction, including ablative armor plates over heavy ceramic armor, concealed rockets and turbo-fans, folding wings, stealth technology and a huge array of weapons.

MechVIPER Robot Copyright Hero Games. All rights reserved.

This image and this robot adapted from the VIPER MechVIPER robot found in the VIPER sourcebook published by Hero Games. This is an excellent sourcebook for any superhero RPG and would make an excellent reference point for how to develop Intercrime in a V&V campaign setting.

Combat Tactics/M.O.: The neural net computer brain of the Mark IV is highly sophisticated but not an artificial intelligence. Therefore the robots tend to a straight-forward combat style of using the first effective weapon and attacking one target until that target is defeated or no longer available (e.g. flies away, turns invisible, etc.). It is capable of doing threat analysis, and may change targets if it determines that one foe is more dangerous than another. It favors the missile launcher and grenade launcher against clusters of targets, then switches to the heavy machine gun, mostly due to the large ammo supply. Highly mobile or hard to hit targets will get the Blaster (with laser sight).

Personality/Character Traits: It has none. It is a heartless machine.

Notes: This robot is designed to be tough, but not unstoppable. A group of four or five typical heroes (e.g. the Crusaders) should be able to take it down after a reasonably tough fight. If, however, your campaign PCs are substantially tougher, the GM should consider making the robot tougher also. One good way is to give it an extra Heightened characteristic, like Endurance or Agility. Increasing the Endurance will substantially boost it's Hit Points simply because of its weight, and increasing the Agility will make it more deadly offensively.

Villains & Vigilantes

NAME: Black Legion Assault Robot Type IV	AGE: n/a	SEX: n/a	RACE: robot
IDENTITY: Black Legion Assault Robot Type IV	EXPERIENCE LEVEL: 4	AFFILIATION: Black Legion

POWERS, SKILLS & WEAKNESSES:

Armor B: ADR 80. Technological; can be repaired normally.
Invulnerability: +12. The robot has heavy armor plating. Invulnerability is applied before calculating damage to the ADR.
Robot: +15 Strength, ×5 weight, 0% human. The nerual net brain gives it a bonus of +10 to all INT saves.
Force Field: Personal shield only, will absorb a total of 40 points before collapsing. It requires an action to activate or deactivate the force field. Unless collapsed by damage, the shield "repairs" one point per minute while deactivated. If collapsed the Force Field device burns out and must be repaired.
Wings: Wings and rockets permit flight at 300mph, PR=1 per hour. The wings are considered external equipment, but are armored and can take 20 points of damage before becoming disabled, 60 points to destroy. The wings are retracted into the robot's body when not in use.
Invisibility: Stealth material construction and chameleon surface give it invisibility to normal sight, IR and radar. PR=1 per hour. This power is lost if the Armor ADR is reduced to zero.
Heightened Senses: The robot has IR sight and 360-degree Radar.
Body Power (Heightened Initiative): The neural net computer brain is fast, giving the robot a bonus of +15 to initiative rolls.
Weapon Systems: The robot has sophisticated targeting systems, and the bonuses have been included below.
- Missile Launcher: Mounted in the left shoulder, it has six guided missiles, each does 1d20 with a 3" blast radius and it can fire any number in one volley. This weapon attacks as HTH + 8 "to hit" and has a range of 1000", with a speed per turn of 250". The object struck by the missile suffers an additional 1d20 damage due to the speed of impact of the missile.
- Heavy Machine Gun: Mounted in the torso, this weapon does 1d12 damage, uses the autofire rules, has a range of 100" and 250 rounds of ammo. This weapon attacks as HTH + 6 "to hit".
- Autocannon: Mounted in the torso, this weapon does 2d8 damage, uses the autofire rules, has a range of 130" and 30 rounds of ammo. This weapon attacks as HTH + 5 "to hit".
- Grenade Launcher: Mounted in the left arm, this weapon fires standard grenades to a range of 50". It can carry a total of 16 grenades. This weapon attacks as HTH + 5 "to hit".
- Laser: Mounted in the left arm, this weapon has 12 shots, attacks as Light Control and does 2d8 to a range of 20".
- Medium Blaster: Mounted in the left arm, this Power Blast device has 12 shots, and does 1d20 to a range of 18".
- Targeting Laser: Mounted in the left arm, this laser adds +4 "to hit" for any weapon in the arm to a range of 20". This bonus is in addition to that provided by the robot's other targeting systems.
- Combat Claw: The clawed right hand is a Natural Weaponry device for +3 "to hit" and +6 damage.
Physical Handicaps: The robot has only one manipulative limb, and thus cannot perform tasks which require two hands or delicate manipulation. The robot is 8' tall, and this limits the places it can travel. The robot has no sense of smell or taste. It has no sense of touch, except in the claw. The claw (and only the claw) has rudimentary pressure and texture sensors approximating human touch.

LBS: 700     BASIC HITS: 14   CARRY CAP.: 5819 lbs.
STR: 25      BASIC HTH DAMAGE: 2d8
END: 10      HEALING RATE: n/a
AGL: 10      ACCURACY:  0
INT: 10      DAMAGE:  0
CHR: 10      

HIT MOD:(2.0)(1.0)(1.0)(1.0)= 2.0

HITS(28):__________ POWER(55):____________________________

MOVEMENT RATES: 45" ground

 LEGAL STATUS:  cannot be legally sold or reproduced in any nation because it uses 
 classified military technology stolen from China, France, Russia and the USA.

Hero System

STR 39, DEX 15, CON 18, BOD 20, INT 10, EGO 10, PRE 20, COM 6, PD 12, ED 12, SPD 5, REC 10, END 40, STN 50

Exoskeleton Armor: Armor (18,18), Act. 14-; Personal Force Field: Force Field (10, 10), 0 END, Ablative; Ceramic Plating: Damage Resistance (12, 12); Great Size: Growth +1, 0 END, Persistant, Always On; Density Increase +1, 0 END, Persistant, Always On; Wings: Flight 20", ×8 NCM, OAF; Chameleon Systems: Invisiblity to Normal and IR sight, Radar, 0 END; Sensory Suite: IR Sight; Radar, 360-degree; Weaponry: Multipower: u Missile Launcher: 3d6+1 physical RKA, Explosion, Autofire-6 [6c], Increased Range, No Range Modifier; u Heavy Machine Gun: 3d6-1 physical RKA, Autofire-10, [250c]; u Autocannon: 3d6 AP physical RKA, Autofire-5, [30c]; u Grenade Launcher: (High Explosive) 2d6 physical RKA, Explosion, [6c], or (Hot Smoke) Darkness, 3" r. to Normal and IR sight, [4c] each lasts 1 minute, or (Concussion) 6d6 physical EB, Explosion, [6c]; u Laser: 8d6 EB, [12c]; u Medium Blaster: 10d6 EB, Reduced By Range, [12c]; Combat Claw: 2d6 HKA (4d6 w/STR); Targeting Laser: +3 OCV with Laser, Blaster and Grenade Launcher.

+2 OCV with Combat Claw

Psych. Lim.: Completely obedient to the Black Legion; Distinctive Features; Physical Limitation: No sense of smell or taste, limited sense of touch.

Copyright © 1999 by Morpheus Unbound. All rights reserved.
V&V transliteration to Hero System performed using conversion notes presented in a number of V&V products.
Last updated 17 July 1999 by Patric L. Rogers
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