From Panel to Play: Skurge

CP102 Skurge

True love can take all kinds of different forms. Sometimes it means doing nice things for your partner. Or, if you’re like the subject of today’s article, it means hefting a double-bladed axe and wading into combat against all who would stand in their way.

This time on From Panel to Play, we’re looking at Amora the Enchantress’s right-hand man with an oversized enchanted axe… we’re talking about the one and only Skurge!

Skurge the Executioner is a half-giant Asgardian warrior who rose to prominence during one of the many wars between Asgard and Jotunheim. Despite his prowess in battle and acceptance by the Asgardians, Skurge saw himself as an outsider and lived a solitary life.

He eventually fell in love with Amora the Enchantress, who used the skilled warrior as a plaything in her many schemes. Wielding an enchanted axe with the ability to rend dimensions, he has been a catspaw in the schemes Enchantress and Loki across the centuries, fighting against Thor and other Asgardians in countless different ploys.

Skurge, the Executioner is a straightforward character on the tabletop. While his allies use clever misdirection, he moves into the thick of battle, laying waste with his oversized axe. He has above-average Physical defense and decent Vitality, as it befits a giant-slaying warrior, and a slightly below average Mystic defense—after all, being manipulated by Enchantress is a core part of his identity.

The half-giant plays the role of warrior and bodyguard. His attacks are simple but brutally effective. The basic Battle-Axe attack hits at Strength 6 and can inflict the bleed condition on his target. He can follow it up with the even more powerful The Executioner, a Strength 8 attack that can inflict bleed, and if it is used on a bleeding target, Skurge can reroll up to 2 dice in the attack!

Like most Asgardians, Skurge can pick up and hurl bits of the battlefield at his opponents thanks to Storm Giant Strength, which lets him grab terrain of Size 3 or less and use it as a thrown weapon.

Skurge’s primary objective is to protect his beloved Enchantress when he isn’t hewing through foes with his axe. In-game, he does so with the Right-Hand Man reactive superpower. With it, when an allied character within Range 2 is targeted, he can spend 2 Power to make himself the target of the attack instead. When combined with his Aggressive innate superpower, which allows him to advance a short distance toward an attacker each time he takes damage, this Asgardian can shield his allies from harm while closing the gap between himself and the next target of his enchanted blade!

That’s all for our first look at the man with the axe! Be sure to check back for yet another installment of From Panel to Play, the series where we give you your first look at how your favorite characters transition to the tabletop in Marvel: Crisis Protocol. Pre-order your own copy of the Heimdall & Skurge Character Pack at your local game store or through our webstore today.

Until then, Atomic Mass Transmissions, signing off!