Colonel Atticus Blackwood is one of the six Heroes in the Chronicke X Core Box. His Hero Profile board contains the following information:
Equipment icons: WEAPON, ARMOUR.
Level 0 ability: Feel Lucky, Punk?: You may reroll BLANK dice when making a Shoot Attack.
Level 1 ability: Blackwood's Bluff: If a Blip Token is revealed by this model then the Alien Behaviour is not activated.
Level 2 ability: Psychic Targeting: make a Shoot Attack on a target, do not apply any damage, instead add an equal amount of Marker Tokens to target. Allies get +1 Combat Value when attacking, remove one Marker Token for each Attack. This ability does not require Line of Sight.
Core Box Heroes
The Chronicle X Core Box contained six Hero Models with their related Hero Profile Boards and Hero Dials Board:
- Captain Jordan 'Intersect' Bryce. Geared towards Melee attacks. Design probably inspired by actor Jean Claude van Damme.
- Chief Petty Office Jack Clemson. Geared towards Shoot attacks. Design probably inspired by actor Chuck Norris.
- Macon 'Mudslide' Grizzler. A tank-type character in a big armour. Design probably inspired by wrestler Terry "Hulk" Hogan.
- Minerva Watts. Special abilities relating to interaction, movement and evasion. Design probably inspired by Cleopatra Jones and other blaxploitation heroine characters.
- Colonel Atticus Blackwood. Special abilities relating to gaining tactical advantages. Design probably inspired by actor Clint Eastwood.
- Dr Yukari Fujikawa. Special abilities relating to healing and recovery. Design probably inspired by various doctor-type characters in science fiction movies.