So early this summer, I got the latest Falcon pieces and built this force:
Falcon [Sinister 055] 30
Falcon [Sinister 056] 46
Falcon [WizKids M17-007] 50
The Hydra (Falcon) [Earth X 026] 50
Sam Wilson [Sinister 207] 53
Falcon [Sinister 057] 57
Snap Wilson [Sinister 219] 60
Falcon [Avengers Black Panther Illuminati] 60
Falcon [Civil War Storyline 023] 70
Falcon [Avengers Black Panther Illuminati] 75
Falcon [Avengers 036] 75
Falcon [Avengers Assemble 017] 75
Falcon [Captain America Winter Soldier 103] 75
Falcon [Captain America 030] 79
Falcon [Captain America Civil War 008] 85 + I’m With Cap 5
Falcon [Captain America Civil War 004] 95 + I’m With Cap 5
Falcon [Captain America Winter Soldier 006] 105
Captain America [Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 049] 130
=1280 points of every single Samuel Wilson/Falcon in HeroClix. Needed something suitable to face it with. Hey, look what added up to just about the same points?
Archangel [Critical Mass 042] 68
Warren Worthington III [Critical Mass 214] 71
Angel [Danger Room 003] 50
Archangel [Mutations and Monsters 034] 95
Archangel [Giant-Size X-Men 104] 86
Archangel [Giant-Size X-Men 049] 99
Angel [Giant-Size X-Men 031] 50
Archangel [Wolverine and the X-Men 067] 99
Angel [Days of Future Past 005] 74
Dark Angel [Uncanny X-Men 049] 200
Angel [Uncanny X-Men 035] 75
Angel [Uncanny X-Men Fast Forces 003] 50
Angel [Xavier’s School 061] 60
Angel [Xavier’s School 051] 60
Angel [WizKids M-019] 65
Angel [X-Men Regenesis 015] 70
Angel ID card [Xavier’s School XID-016] 5
=1277 points of (nearly) every Warren Worthington III in HeroClix circa July 2019.
Played on the ROC Ziplines map.
Angels made the first move, having the range advantage. GSX Angel’s full Charge with a light object nailed 105-point WS Falcon despite his being almost on the back row, costing his ability to give himself and Cap Sidestep or Enhancement or Empower, which would have been a problem against Dark Angel:
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: Opposing characters of 75 points or less modify their attack and damage values by -1 when attacking Dark Angel.
And Dark Angel was the next big attack to come, especially after the advance Falcons (Civil War and prime) AND one of Redwings UTTERLY failed against GSX SR Archangel due to dice and Shape Change.
Dark Angel landed another hit on WS Falcon to remove him from the board and Regenesis Angel Charged deep into the midst of the shooting Falcons to prevent them from ganging up on the elevated Dark Angel — bashing LE Falcon (and costing the team one of its Leaderships) in the process.
The Falcons now needed to either break away from or KO these two Angels (Regenesis and GSX) to try to deal with Dark Angel. But first things first: Civil War Falcon used his auto breakaway Charge to Quake SR Archangel and a corps of other Angels centered around the XXS SR for a massive critical hit! That would free up prime Falcon to try against Dark Angel after the big guy hopefully got softened up by Captain America and the ranged Falcons over 75 points.
Unfortunately, out of five separate attacks, only one range and one close attack each against Dark Angel succeeded and he was left on his deadly Hypersonic Flurry Blades clicks with two of the Falcon squad ripe for the wings of death, no breakaway even needed.
TURNING POINT
Dark Angel missed both attacks, one critically.
That sent him running (and willingly pushing) to a far corner to eventually heal with his SP Regen. But without that massive threat on the Angels’ side (and him being harrassed and forced to rely on his heals rather than fighting in earnest), eventually the Falcons were able to overwhelm the mutants, despite a valiant stand.
I am going to replay this match next year (with build total boosted to 1400, likely) when the new Captain America-centric set is released, as another version of Falcon as Cap will be available. Then I can add in both the Regenesis LE prize Archangel and the new Dark Phoenix set SR (and maybe one of the old Critical Mass figs that were relegated to ID Card duty this go-round) and see if the mutants will be ascendant this time…!