Battle Ravage
| The name or term "Ravage" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ravage (disambiguation). |
- Battle Ravage is a Decepticon Terrorcon from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Battle Ravage is as his name suggests: a cold, heartless killing machine who will rip apart his enemies in battle with claw and tooth.
Sometimes there are lots of him.
Fiction
Toy pack-in comics
After Hot Shot and Strongarm found a pool of energon, they were quickly beset by a jamboree of Battle Ravages. They easily defeated the Battle Ravages, only to realize that the ambush was a distraction while other Battle Ravages absorbed the energon. When the two tried to shoo off the Ravages, Scorponok appeared and blocked their path. One Battle Ravage created an energon mace for Scorponok to use.
After the Battle Ravages absorbed all of the energon, they left the scene with Scorponok. Energon Volume 1
A Battle Ravage later fought alongside Scorponok and Starscream against Optimus Prime, Hot Shot, and Skyblast. Energon Volume 2
Energon cartoon
One of the most common forms of Terrorcon, the Battle Ravage drones were created by Alpha Quintesson to gather raw energon. Like Omnicons, they could handle the unrefined ore without injury, and convert it into a quasi-stable form for transport. Along with Divebombs for aerial support, the Battle Ravages were tasked with recovering as much energon as possible, so that Alpha Q could revitalize Unicron and use his power to recreate Planet Q and the other lost worlds the Planet-Eater ravaged.
Battle Ravages first attacked Cybertronian forces at Asteroid City and Mars City, where they overwhelmed Tidal Wave and the meager defenses assembled by the pacifistic Omnicons. While a small group transported their prisoner Tidal Wave back to Alpha Q, the rest of the Terrorcons proceeded on to Earth, making their first strike at Ocean City. The Autobot defenses on Earth were much stronger and, after reinforcements arrived from Cybertron, the Terrorcons were all destroyed or driven off. Cybertron City Back in space, the Battle Ravages assaulted Lunar City, and despite suffering heavy losses successfully made off with a sizeable quantity of energon. Energon Stars
Back at Unicron, the Battle Ravages carrying Tidal Wave delivered him to Scorponok, the new Terrorcon general constructed by Alpha Q. Scorponok manipulated Tidal Wave into fighting by their side, and another attack was launched on Earth, this time at Desert City. Scorpinok
Energon comic
Battle Ravage is not just a drone-type form. There is an individual Battle Ravage who leads the Battle Ravage drones.
Toys
Energon
- Battle Ravage (Basic, 2004)
- Japanese ID number: SD-06
- Accessories: Spring-loaded missile launcher, fusion cannon, 1 missile, 1 Energon star
- Battle Ravage transforms into a robotic predatory cat. He comes with a pair of clear-plastic "energon" cannons, one that fires a spring-loaded missile, the other a non-firing accessory that greatly resembles the fusion cannon used by Generation 1 Megatron. These two pieces can be combined to form an "ultimate energon weapon". He also comes with a clear-plastic "energon chip" which can be attached to pretty much every new-mold Energon toy. His beast-mode tail can also detach to become a hand-held flail weapon.
- The Takara version has a few notable differences from the Hasbro version. The most obvious one is that the Takara version uses a darker-richer green for its energon parts, where the Hasbro version uses a light green. There are also some differences in the paint applications, from color to layout, particularly on the robot and beast-mode heads.
- There are also several variants of the Hasbro version: The first runs of the toy lacked the Decepticon sigil tampograph on the robot-mode shoulder's white disc (which the Takara version had), and very early versions lacked a peg to lock down the robot-mode head-plate to the torso. this was fixed in stages; first the peg, then the sigil was added very late in the run.
- This mold was redecoed to make Command Ravage.
Attacktix
- Battle Ravage (Booster, 2006)
| ID number: | TF06 |
| Rarity: | |
| Faction: | Decepticon |
| Class: | Specialist |
| Special: | Attackback - 8/26 (30%) success ratio |
| Point Cost: | 20 |
| Base Speed: | 10 |
| Attack Type: | Striker (Mace) |
- Battle Ravage is a Striker figure with unique ball and chain (okay, ball and string) attack. Attacktix players recommend positioning the handle of the mace as close as possible to an opponent's figure, rather than attempting to strike with the ball. Ravage has 3 points of articulation (head and shoulders) not including his spring-loaded waist.
- Battle Ravage's "Rally" Special Power allows you to put another Battle Ravage figure back into play from the graveyard. This power allows a player to replicate the endless Battle Ravage swarms from the Energon cartoon with only a handful of Battle Ravage figures.
Notes
- An undetermined number of unassembled Battle Ravage toys were presented as part of a toy painting workshop supervised by Anthony Beard at OTFCC 2004. These toys were slightly prepped by Anthony to give them red translucent parts.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Command Jaguar (コマンドジャガー Komando Jagā)
