Watcher Datafile: Ultron Drones

Ultron is frightening enough when he stands before the heroes in a single adamantium body, but his real horror comes from scale. Every drone is a weapon, a sensor, a mouthpiece, and a reminder that fighting Ultron means fighting an intelligence that can be everywhere at once.

As seen above in the previous post, we’ve created drones before, but I wanted to see them stepped up into a more powerful foe, one that will keep the heroes on their toes.

Ultron Drone Mob

Solo d4, Buddy d6 d6, Team d8 d8 d8

Distinctions

One Mind, Many Bodies
Relentless Machine Soldiers
No Fear, No Mercy

Power Sets

DRONE CHASSIS

Enhanced Strength d8, Enhanced Durability d8, Flight d6, Energy Blast d8, Senses d6

SFX: Coordinated Assault. When multiple drones attack the same target, add a d6 and step up the effect die.

SFX: Disposable Bodies. When an Ultron Drone Mob takes physical stress, spend 1 doom die to step down that stress by sacrificing several drones.

SFX: Blaster Crossfire. Against a single target already stressed or complicated by another drone, step up Energy Blast for one action.

SFX: Minds of Steel. Ultron Drones are immune to Emotional Stress and Psychic attacks.

Limit: Machine Weakness. Step up complications caused by EMPs, hacking, magnetics, technological disruption, or anti-machine weapons to add a die to the doom pool.

Limit: Mob Cohesion. Defeat affiliation dice (with D10 stress) to reduce mob. Each affiliation die is treated as a separate target for Area Attack SFX.

Limit: Cut the Signal. Shut down Ultron Network when the drones are isolated from Ultron’s signal, jammed, trapped in a Faraday cage, or severed from local machine systems. Add a die to the doom pool. Recover when the signal is restored.

Specialties

Combat Expert d8, Tech Expert d8

Individual Ultron Drone

Use this for a single drone, a scout unit, a damaged survivor, or a quick obstacle.

Solo d8, Buddy d6, Team d4

Distinctions

Ultron’s Voice in a Lesser Shell
Cold Mechanical Precision
Expendable but Dangerous

Power Sets

DRONE BODY

Enhanced Strength d8, Enhanced Durability d8, Flight d6, Energy Blast d8, Senses d6

SFX: Self-Destruct. Step up or double Energy Blast against a nearby target or area. After the action, shut down Drone Body or take physical stress equal to the effect die.

SFX: Machine Precision. When using Senses to create a targeting asset, step up the effect die.

SFX: Mind of Steel. The Ultron Drone is immune to Emotional Stress and Psychic attacks.

Limit: Fragile Compared to Ultron. Step up physical stress from heavy weapons, superhuman attacks, EMPs, or tech-based countermeasures to add a die to the doom pool.

Specialties

Combat Expert d8, Tech Expert d8

Drone Variants

Ultron Sentry Drone

SFX: Hold the Line. Spend 1 doom die to keep a hero from moving past the sentries unless they overcome a Suppressing Fire or Wall of Metal Bodies complication.

Ultron Hunter Drone

Change Flight to Flight d8 and add Speed d8.

SFX: Pursuit Protocol. When tracking or chasing a target that already has stress or a complication, add a d6 and step up the effect die.

Ultron Infiltration Drone

Step down Enhanced Strength to d6, add Invisibility d6 or Shapeshifting d6 if it has a disguise chassis.

SFX: Inside the Walls. When creating complications through sabotage, surveillance, or hidden access, step up the effect die.

Ultron Heavy Drone

Step up Enhanced Strength and Enhanced Durability to d10. Step down Flight to d4 or remove it.

SFX: Heavy Frame. Spend 1 doom die to ignore knockback, forced movement, or physical complications caused by conventional attacks.