onehoopyfrood wrote:1. How hard is the horn? Will one well-placed bullet or grenade shatter it?
2. If the horn IS cut off, or Unicorpse is decapitated, will it's body re-form around the horn, leaving the original corpse behind on the terrain? If that's the case, and if this fight lasts long enough, Velasquez could probably cook up some kind of interesting strategy involving heaps of dead unicorns.
Since it isn't explicit on the card, consider this 'interpretation' and not the strictest reality. Norm/Luke/Kendall's word on the subject would weigh as much as mine. Or anyone else who has a rationale and illuminating take.
In reverse order:
2) The horn has to be broken or destroyed. So if Velasquez played marksmen and hit Unicorpse with a sniper's shot from the trees, blowing his head off, if the top fragment of his skull flies off with that horn still attached, a new Unicorpse would form from that segment on down. The leftovers of that first Unicorpse would still be around, though limp and 'dead.' Also it'd smell terrible.
Unicorpse is corrupted magic, not a zombie, not a vampire (more a
lich than anything else). Blow up his head, cut off his head, stake his heart, shoot him with silver bullets, he'll be back. Just like the cat, the very next day.
1) It's a tough horn, but it could be shattered. Tougher than a bull's horn, but not diamond tough.
normsherman wrote:(Gargantula) can easily lop off the zombie unicorn's horn.
A key factor in all of this: neither Velasquez nor Gargantula immediately recognize the horn as the center of Unicorpse's strength. He is a baffling enemy. So no 'Velasquez unsheathes his bowie knife and Danny Trejo's it through Unicorpse's horn' at the very start of the round, no '
Fire Down Below Howie Long leaping ax thrust' from Gargantula.
Gargantula faces an uphill battle against Unicorpse, but he isn't impotent - he has stomach acids and dissolving enzymes like any other spider.
strawman wrote:How can we possibly not vote for the guy who, in the meta round, could be named Painguin?
I can't argue that. The current voting results don't seem to either.
zZzacha wrote:I've seen March of the Penguins and those penguins weren't really marching for anything, it's all just pretend. I bet if anyone just steals his (tiny!) smokes, he will probably cry like a female penguin.
That was actually a long string of Velasquez's prisoners marching at gun point. They're not migrating, they're being corralled for bounty collection. You are right though, he'd be super grumpy without his smokes.
