Batman Miniature Game Bane Sidekick Bird.

Reinforcements have finally arrived for beloved Bane crew. There are several Bane Leaders for the crew but sadly no sidekicks have been available since release to take with him. Back in March/April last year when the Flash and Arrow book came out a sidekick release was hinted at in the equipment list as there was a piece available called Venom Factory for Sidekicks or Free Agents to take .  However its taken until Decembers for one to be released by Knight models. I was expecting one to come as a single miniature but a second crew pack has been released coming with 3 more merc filling in some tactical gaps and of course the sidekick known as Bird.

This version of Bird I understand is from the Arkham game and is not in the traditional style of the 3 sidekicks Bane has in the comics was are Bird, Zombie and Trogg.  In the Crew he fulfills a support role for the Bane crew. Equipped with a combat machete doing single blood/stun damage and a smoke bomb. The only odd item he has is a climbing rope which counts as a batcape meaning he can jump of buildings spend a special counter and doesn't suffer any falling damage. Which is fine if you deploy somewhere high but he doesn't have any other way of getting up high.

Know is support role is pretty cool there are some cool combo's you can pull. He has a Special Trait called Military Tradition which when activated allows him to move henchmen within 20cm and who have the veteran trait 5cm for free. Doesn't sound a lot but it allows you to break combat forcing your opponent to move back in wasting there own movement in doing so. Also your henchmen ROF is not affected for this move either.

The other cool ability he has is 'One of the boys' which lets him use the 'Lets Go' ability counting as a henchmen for this purpose which if successful (you have to roll 4+) means you can activate your models without letting you opponent getting to activate. Being a sidekick your models within 20cm can also reroll lets go rolls if the fail. So you can see there can be a lot of flexibility given.

I had a game the other night using him against the Watchmen and I found Bird quite useful though I kept forgetting to put counters in special for my henchmen to make full use of the lets go trait. I had planned to deploy him on a building use a sewer to get to another building in my opponents deployment zone using his rope to jump off. Only I forgot this plan during deployment.....and deployed him on the ground with all the sewer access points being positioned on top of buildings....whoops lol.

 

The three other henchmen who come in the crew pack are being worked on. Two more are done which i'll get posted up this week and the third is not far from being completed either.