Tiger Squad membership and stats

[grandmastergm]

Hello everyone,

 

Is there a reference for the various Tiger Squad membership and their stats?  I know Volume 2, Villain Teams has them in there- but there are only 5 listed.  

 

Please post them here.

[steriaca]

Most of the membership exist only as names and a generic power set. More information can be found in the 5th edition book Champions Worldwide.

[Lord Liaden]

Unfortunately, the five in CV 2 are the only official Tiger Squad members to have been given 5E or 6E Hero System game stats. However, Champions Universe p. 49 lists twenty-eight Squad members, by code-name and very brief description. That includes the aforementioned five. The other twenty-three are:

 

Boxer (martial artist)*

Daughter of the Moon (energy projector/mentalist)

Dragonfly (winged martial artist)

Earthquake Fist (vibratory powers)

Eight-Ways Lightning (energy projector/martial artist)*

Gossamer Storm (mystic)

Heart of the People (martial artist, "patriot" archetype)

Immensely Strong One (brick)

Immortal Philosopher (martial artist/mystic)*

Iron Horse (powered armor)

Lady of a Thousand Fires (energy projector)*

Leafmaster (plant manipulator)*

Mighty Hammer (brick/weapon master)

Peach Blossom Spirit (mystic)*

Phantom Soldier (weapon master)

Phoenix (martial artist)

Quicksilver (chemical powers)

Revolutionary III (martial artist)

Shaolin Five (duplicating metamorph)

Shining Dawn (energy projector)*

Soothing Touch (disease controller, healer)*

Steel-Shattering Fist (martial artist)

Swarmlord (insect controller)

 

* denotes pro-democracy, although they prefer to promote change from within the system.

 

See also below.

 

Four other Squad members were fully written up for 4E Hero in the book, Watchers of the Dragon. Two of them match the names and descriptions in the list above, Gossamer Storm and Earthquake Fist. However, that book was for an earlier incarnation of the official setting, so whether those write-ups could still be considered "official" is debatable. The other two characters are Luan (translation not given, and I couldn't find it online), and Quicksilver (but presented there as having super speed rather than chemical powers as on the list above).

[Lord Liaden]

43 minutes ago, steriaca said:

Most of the membership exist only as names and a generic power set. More information can be found in the 5th edition book Champions Worldwide.

 

Besides describing the general state of super-affairs in East Asia, p. 72 of that book lists and describes five more Tiger Squad members in the manner presented above, but also giving their Chinese names (which I won't reproduce here due to lack of appropriate keyboard characters). They include:

 

Micron (shrinker)

Meteor (flying energy projector)

Tigerfist (martial artist)

Irresistible Burden (density manipulator)

 

The commander of the Tiger Squad is called Lightning, described as "an electricity projector/manipulator of immense power."

 

(Thanks to steriaca for reminding me to check Champions Worldwide.)

 

[DShomshak]

Given the fairly generic nature of the powersets -- unavoidable, given the brevity of descriptions -- one could probably reskin other puvlished characters to represent Tiger Squad members. Like, take any powered armor character, cross out the name and write in "Iron Horse." Or if you don't want to rename a fire controller as Lady of a Thousand Fires -- too easy! -- taker some other energy projector and change the power FX to fire. Still easy-peasy.

 

Dean Shomshak

 

[steriaca]

It should be noted that the Tiger Squad is an incredibly large organization. Any superbeing who is Chinese and does not want there government to hunt them down and imprison or outright kill them must either join them, find an out of the way place to hide, or somehow find another country willing to take them in.

 

If Trump has problems letting Mesoamericans into the country, imagine his outrage over ten minor Chinese supers looking for protection from the Tiger Squad? Supers with names like Thousand Cranes (animates paper folded into cranes), Lady Of Numbers (Lighting Calculator and an amazing memory), and Magnificat Orb Floater (Telekinitic, but only with one glass orb).

[Lord Liaden]

Tiger Squad membership is stated to be around fifty. Of those, we have thirty-three named and at least described. 66% is more than most campaigns would have use for, unless they spend a lot of time around China.

 

I would expect that most Chinese superhumans, as on Champions Earth generally, don't have the type or magnitude of powers suiting them to a combat role.

[massey]

I always figured the Tiger Squad would be sort of like the All-Star Squadron.  You've got everybody from 250 characters like the Red Bee (a minor martial artist with a small multipower of "trained bee" tricks), to 1000+ pt monstrosities like Superman and Dr Fate.  Many heroes would probably be on the lower end, specialist heroes that hit for 8 to 10 dice and have one cool trick.  And then you'd have a bunch more that are probably around 350 and are just a palette swap version of an existing hero or villain.  Then you could have a handful of big guys who can be a serious problem for a hero team.