Time to get this blog back active. And what’s better than Batman?

A: Not much.

Batman [Trinity War 051] 150
Vampire Batman 147
Gaslight Batman 75
Earth-2 Batman 60
Red Son Batman 55

A nice highlander-rule-friendly force of all-Batman for a 500-point Modern Age game. Let’s see how it did:

FIRST, I faced Bill and his Monster team of zombie Magneto, Lydea Mallor, Lyssa Drak and vampires Jubilee and Batman on my Legion of Doom map.

Despite never finishing off v-Bats, I KO’d Jubes and Magneto for the margin of victory.

NEXT, I’d have to deal with Paul and his so-called Amazon team of Red Son Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (Superman/Wonder Woman 033) and a generic Amazon. I say “so-called” because the theme was polluted by non-thematic elements Eclipso, Ion and the Green Lantern power battery in place of, say, a second Amazon generic and the Amazon ATA. Booooo, Paul!

With the TK and HSS advantage, Paul was able to get several attack shots on me before I could retaliate. Only a serious of improbably low rolls kept me even minimally in the game.

This was the first rodeo for a number of these Bat-figs. By piece:

One of our top picks for 2015, is not surprising that TW Batman was a leading piece.

On the other hand, Red Rain Bats was a disappointment. Lack of Willpower is fatal at his price point unless he has weaklings to feed his KO-activated healing.

Gaslight Batman has some potential to be a game changer, effectively working as Outsiders TA and Guardians of the Galaxy ATA writ wide. He’s also a good melee secondary with Indom. Key in tonight’s game.

Earth-2 Batman is a bit of a mess. The Miraclo pump is fun for the two actual turns you get to use it offensively, but lacking Charge to start makes the Super Strength hard to employ before it wears off.

Finally, Red Son Bats remains F.U.N. but a bit frustrating sure to his low offense stats.

 

NEXT WEEK: Heroclixin’s webmaster tried to have some F.U.N. at a ROC. Did he win at all in that high-stakes tourney setting, much less place? We’ll see…