Alright, so Sentinel's got this going on;

gxG08b R Sentinel Mark II
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 8
Points: 100
Keywords: Robot

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7 8 15 2

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(Special) COORDINATED CAPTURE: When an opposing character with zero action tokens is within 8 squares of Sentinel Mark II and is hit by another friendly character with the Robot keyword, you may place an action token on the opposing character after actions resolve.

(Damage) SECURE AND DESTROY: Sentinel Mark II can use Outwit. When Sentinel Mark II hits an opposing character, increase the damage dealt by +1 for each action token on the hit character.

My question is combining the "Secure and Destroy" damage bump with Quake.

Quake locks the damage value, but "S&D" increases damage dealt. Unless I'm mistaken, the damage "Dealt" increase should work just fine.
In the case of multiple hit characters, I imagine that the damage boost would apply on a per-character basis, where each character is dealt additional damage for the tokens it has. Otherwise it would affect his total damage dealt and the nbe split up among targets as I choose. I'd really appreciate some clarification on that.

In this way, using Quake on two targets, one with two tokens and one with one, Sentinel would deal 4 and 3, respectively.

It sure looks like a waste of a question because its his last click, but there are other ways to give him quake, so I'd like to know. I use this guy and his higher point version as Megatron, so the more fearsome he is, the better. Thanks for any help on this!

Looks like it would work to me!

That's how it reads to me, as well. Subscribing in case a RD decides to blow my mind with how wrong we are.

Another benefit of Damage Dealt bonuses over Damage Value is that DV is restricted by the Rule of Three, DD isn't. So, with enough Enhancement and Perplex, you could bump him to a 6 DV on his first click, hit someone with two tokens and deal 8 damage.
Make sure you have a Prob or two. You wouldn't want a shot like that to miss.

It's the same language used for crits, and you can crit on Quake. Looks good to me.

Yeah, the last time I pulled that one, my opponent went on a long, long crusade with the judge to get the damage bumped down somehow. It didn't quite work out for him.

Still though, with the damage bump working with Quake, there are a few cool things I can think of that work here. A 3-4 damage quake against more than one target is rather devastating.

And fun! Don't forget fun!


Knocking them off of raised terrain for good measure is even better!

Or into blocking terrain. That's a bit easier to do if you've got some kind of barrier around.

Anyway, this'll be good. I've got this "Megatron" to team up with my Optimus Prime... they always did work well together when they decided that it would be better to save Cybertron so that they'd get to fight over it later.

The craziest part IMO (as the result of a deliberate rules change) is that a No Damage Attack can not have its Damage Value modified but it can still have its Damage Dealt modified.

One day I want to basically use Sentinel Mk II with Incap for "stunning blow"-lite. If the target has no action token, he gets one action token and is delat +1 regular damage. If the target has one action token he gets a second action token and is dealt +2 regular damage. If the target already had 2 action tokens he will end up taking 3 Penetrating damage.