…but I didn’t realize the 1200-point event I picked to run it in was designed for colossals. Uh-oh.

FIRST:

I faced Justin’s Ultimates:

Thor (Ultimates), Hulk (Ultimates), Iron Man (Avengers), Iron Widow, Giant-Man (Ultimates), V Captain America (Ultimates), LE Clint Barton (Ultimates), Quicksilver (Avengers #025), Nick Fury (Sinister), V Scarlet Witch (Fantastic Forces) and Wasp (Avengers #028). He picked the wide-open Arena map, to my dismay and detriment. Worse, I:

• landed virtually no attacks
• got no luck on my Kinetic Accelerator rolls
• got my few successful hits Impervious’d or Super Sensed into nothingness.

Worst yet, I continually screwed up my positioning so I couldn’t re-roll with Prob Control. Fortunately, the Ultimates didn’t get any lethal attacks off either, leading to a would-be draw at game’s end if not for this TURNING POINT:

…I tried to score a KO in the last seconds using my Yellow Lantern. I didn’t knock Wasp out and thus gave my opponent the 5 points for the object…and the win.

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NEXT

Stephen brought the first colossal I’d face: Anti-Monitor: Annihilator and his little pals Mysterio (Web of Spider-Man), Ahab, Roulette, and R Kree Warrior (Supernova).

He picked the Bridge, darn it. I HATE that shooting gallery. I still got a solid initial hit on Anti-Monitor with the 248-point WW. But it all went downhill from there, battling as I was against A-M’s super-Quake SP, two PCers and Ahab’s ability to shoot from behind. I KO’d Ahab but even failed to take out Roulette (and even lost my attacker to her — HER! — thanks to a user error of not Perplexing down her damage). About the only true success of the whole game was AE Diana Prince surviving to the final seconds of the game to switch to Wonder Woman.

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FINALLY, being on the losers’ end of the scale, I faced another of the un-colossaled teams, James’ Green Lantern Corps:

This one was another steamroll…only this time for the Wonder Women and not against! My opponent didn’t leverage his range advantage properly, putting his softest fighters Kyle and then Tomar too close to my TK-ready Amazons. Though I wound up losing a few pieces, I wiped out his entire team, even getting to swap in AE Wonder Woman.

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Anemic 1-2 record notwithstanding, I had a blast playing this team, in which each incarnation of WW had her role:

• AE Diana was the healer.
• LE Diana was the Perplexer.
• LE WW carried the Yellow Lantern where DC75 WW could best benefit. She functioned as a meat shield, too.
• Speaking of “I’m On A Horse” WW, she was a great first-striker (after the first round, anyhow) and her JSA TA aided her harder-shelled teammate…
• Legacy WW, being the easier yet juicier target, drew fire from most of her sisters (thus building up tons of Sisterhood tokens through the ATA);
• WL WW was the TK. Perhaps I should have had her closer to the action, as she also bears ranged ability and is a heck of a fighter, too;
• KC WW was key for her Defend, helping especially the JSA figs, and was also a heck of a fighter;
• Violet Lantern WW was the PC and the range, and again, a heck of a fighter;
• and finally, “Brickhouse” WW was the main hitter thanks to that TK. Perplex, too.

As the introduction to this 2-parter suggests, I cannot WAIT to try out a Modern Age version of this build idea once I have the new WW in my hands:

SR Wonder Woman (DC 75th Anniversary #051) 100
Wonder Woman (The Brave and the Bold) 108
Wonder Woman (DC 75th Anniversary #031)
Wonder Woman (DC 75th Anniversary #W-8) 172
Wonder Woman (Convention Exclusive) 190
Wonder Woman (Blackest Night) 215
Wonder Woman (Arkham Asylum) 248
+ Yellow Lantern 5
+ Crimson Gem of Cytorrak 5
= 1198 points.