So there was an event where no figure could be over 120 points. After writing the Retiring Figures articles, I threw away the team of black Avengers I’d built around Black Panther [Avengers Vs. X-Men 007] for the event and instead surrounded him with a number of pieces I’d never be able to play in Modern again:

 

 

Skitter [Teen Titans] 104
Storm [10th Anniversary 020] 98
The Question [Streets of Gotham] 55
Extremis Soldier [Iron Man 3] 30
and The Penguin resource [No Man’s Land] 10

= 397 points with BP. It ran in a battle royale on two Odym maps against:
David’s Spider-Man [Wizkids M15-008]+Black Hand, Loki [Avengers Assemble], 65-point Harley Quinn [Flash], Crimson Cowl and Blue Battery

Ed’s Whizzer [Deadpool], Red Wolf, Copycat, STAR Labs Technician and Despotellis, all with the full Phoenix Force

and Brian’s President Lex Luthor, Roy Harper [Trinity War], 85-point Batman [Trinity War], 65-point Harley Quinn [Flash] and autopilot Batcycle.

It was doomed from the start, when Copycat swapped with Storm. Losing my only taxi was a grievous blow to me on a map of mostly water and elevations. Worse, she was intended to work with Panther, getting Willpower and a DV boost from him. As it was, the other players were good and engaged before I even got into attack range. Poor Question took about 7 rounds to get close enough to use Probability Control on allies who WEREN’T attacking.

Still, the team made a decent showing:

• Skitter’s ability to run over hills and foes gave her KOs of Crimson Cowl — one-shot — and Loki. She also held down Whizzer with her super-Plasticity until Ed decided to quit running and just kill her with the Phoenix Force at full power.
• Extremis Soldier made a couple of shots. But lack of cover cost him.
• Panther was mostly just in a support role for much of the game. But he worked well with Copycat and scored a late-game one-shot KO blow of his own against Brian’s Harley Quinn.
• Speaking of Copycat, she succeeded at every single Shape Change roll I made except the last one, denying me the use of Storm, who was long gone before that happened. And that one missed roll got Copycat one-shotted by Dave’s fully-Battery-empowered Spider-Man.
• Question Prob-Controlled a failed Regen by Skitter into a MAX Regen, got the Batcycle and was my last piece standing against eventual winner David’s last man.
• The Penguin was clutch without being overpowered like every other resource in this game (for it was truly the other resources that made it unwinnable instead of merely difficult for me in the end). He gave Skitter a crucial couple of rounds of ESD to bolster her 18 DV while on her Cocoon clicks, allowed Copycat to easily shoot Luthor with +2 attack and knock him back from his Mastermind fodder, granted Outwit to help stall Whizzer, loaned Toughness to survive Phoenix Force Poison, and healed Copycat when I finally rolled a 1 on Penguin.

 

Still so sad about Storm. In retrospect, during that one turn that Ed let me run his team, I should not have been as nice as I was. I should’ve TKed Storm as close to my team as possible, then tied her up with Copycat on my next turn. Then maybe, just MAYBE, Black Panther gets his queen back.

It’s got me wanting more than ever to run this Avengers team in Golden Age:

Black Panther [Age of Ultron] 140 + Newer Fantastic Four 1
Storm [Wolverine And The X-Men] 107
Black Panther [Captain America] 128 + Newer Fantastic Four 1
Storm [10th Anniversary 020] 98 + Newer Fantastic Four 1
Black Panther [Avengers] 92 + Newer Fantastic Four 1
Black Panther [AvX] 100
Black Panther [Infinity Challenge] 27
=696 points