Unfortunately our store had no maps and no prize support. We used Arena maps from the Mutations and Monsters campaign, which for whatever reason we had a million copies of. And the prize tonight was an IOU from WizKids. Anyway, here's what we played.
I drew Black Adam and not a lot else, so I had to play him. The rest of the team was Robin and Geriatric Lois Lane, but it's basically Black Adam and Friends. I don't like playing this kind of tentpole team because I only have one attacker and I don't have the die rolls to balance out a run of bad luck. I always feel like I'm in situations where I don't have any strategic options that can improve my performance; all I can do is stay the course and hope for good dice.
Jeff played Supernova, Batgirl, and Green Arrow. That's a pretty good team, with Green Arrow consistently awesome, and Batgirl has this incredible click she falls on middial: Jeff's performance seemed to swing around whether or not she hit that point or not.
Ferru pulled Sinestro, and pretty much had to play him. He also used Harbinger, Kid Flash, and Speedy. None of us were playing in the Kingdom Come days, so Harbinger was our first chance to play with the Hypertime team ability... it was a constant annoyance throughout the games. I think Kid Flash did okay but would have done better on the intended map (and will shine once we're playing indoors)... but we played outdoors on an open field.
Bill played Nightwing, Rip Hunter, Hawk & Dove, and Mercury. Hmm, the picture shows Karate Kid instead of Mercury... Bill fielded his team, then realized it was over 300 points, and made a substitution. In his defense, we had been drinking before gametime. Nightwing is a beast, but I wouldn't say he overperformed. Rip Hunter, on the other hand, was amazing. He had the only probability control on the board, and when you try to shut it down, the defense spikes. But Rip is awesome, I just got some of his old Time Master books, and I'm happy to see him get a good piece.
In the first game, I played Jeff, and Ferru played Bill. In my game, Black Adam got to his Hypersonic Speed and hid among the elevated terrain of the corners to whipe everyone out.
Bill KOed all of Ferru's forces, using Rip Hunter's Probability Control one million times.
In the second game, I played Bill while Ferru and Jeff battled. My Black Adam strategy was going well until a critical miss knocked him off his best click. Then, Mercury, his damage perplexed up to 3, got a critical hit... that's a 25 point piece doing serious damage to something costing almost ten-fold.
Jeff and Ferru played a pretty even match, with Ferru coming out on top. Fear Sinestro's might!
In the final game, I played Ferru, with Bill going up against Jeff. The highlight of my match was Geriatric Lois Lane, who dodged two, maybe three hits from the various Titans and finally was brought down by Sinestro. But Black Adam, despite fours, fives, and a critical miss, kept his luck for Impervious rolls and got the opponent down to where they couldn't break his armor without boxcars.
Bill reported for his game that the lack of anything in the arena made things kind of boring for both players. He was also using the Skyscrapers Battlefield Condition, so it really was just a field with two rocks. Regardless, Nightwing, Rip and friends won the day. And Bill won the night, with 200 more than anyone else. His prize is forthcoming, but we're supposed to be compensated for the delay with Double Prize Support. So everybody wins!
So it was a decent night of play, and I was happy to pull Black Adam, even if I was unhappy to put him with only 300 points. And as always, I was unhappy when Bill won. He gets these dead black shark eyes when he's winning. The color of an Outwit dial.
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