So, we missed Month 2 altogether; the venue we played at, The Illuminadi (RIP), was going through a judge change. Our new judge, was a hefty fellow with slightly orangish hair named Mike. He seemed jovial enough. Our Month 3 game was sealed (yay!) but unfortunately, we only had so many War of light Boosters so back to 1 WOL and 1 Legion of Super-Heroes. We had so much of this stuff now it was getting old.

My Legion booster contained a highly sought after Super Rare at the time, Highfather; he works best when you want to neutralize another higher point character. He’s not super good attack wise and in my WOL booster, I pulled that other amazing uncommon, Somdam Yat. So, Highfather wouldn’t really work for my purposes. 400 points, I didn’t have much to work with and underbuilt again (I’d learn one day.) So, I went with a pretty easy point and click team you would probably give to a rookie player, as there isn’t much skill involved but you ran the risk of being outgunned with only 2 characters.

MY TEAM:

Sodam Yat was the other 250 point beatstick included in War of Light that was fairly attainable. I was considering loading up the box with a bunch of utility players but was not sure if I’d get another chance to unleash this monster. His back half is obviously where the power comes in, which is double edged sword because you’re only 3 hits away from KO.

Finishing off the team with what I considered a stronger attacker than Highfather. Hypersonic flyer with a 3 damage and since it’s me, I always use that Perplex on the attack. I mean, his attack numbers are not good so once you take a hit, you’re pretty much relying on good positioning to hit Pulse Waves. Obviously the power of him comes in when he’s KO’d, which is always a tricky proposition.

And to fill out my points….

You had to roll a 5 or 6 to pick this up, so it was a gamble but I didn’t have another lower point character enough to include.

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Game #1: v. Michael – the new Judge

So, good news, he said I automatically got a win but he still wanted to play against me and said whatever points he scored he would get too. Which didn’t sound right to me. He also pulled from Iron Man for some reason and of course, pulled a chase. His team was : Chase Iron Paladin (from Iron Man), Deathstorm, Star Sapphire Guy Gardner, Indigo Tribe Recruit

So, he picks a Space map with everything wide open, so I feel I have a shot to fly around and shoot with Lightray. Now, I have a bad habit in games of not really reading anyone’s powers (even now.) This would have come in handy had I read Iron Paladin’s attack power, which reads:

This really bit me when he pretty much ran up on Sodam Yat and busted me to my stop clicks turn 2. Now, I got to just go hog wild on him after that, Ko’ing both his recruit and Guy Gardner, but as I did, they had many more turns to shred Lightray (who spent several tries on picking up the ring) and Yat. I never picked up the ring and I hit no one when Lightray blew up. Firestorm also caused me fits as I thought he and Guy were who I had to worry about flying around , like me shooting up the team. He Ko’d Lightray and got to use Perplex and Prob until his next turn. This was a very disappointing performance.

Lost My Whole team and got 143 points.

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Game 2: v. DC

His Team: Bizarro @ 225 points, Munk, Soranik Natu



I actually don’t remember much about this game. DC was a cool cat. I played his younger brother a few weeks before and had not gotten to play him yet. They weren’t local guys but DC was a school teacher and just a really friendly guy who loved comics and was very much a casual player like Chris and myself.

He pretty much gave me his strategy: Play Bizarro at 225, which gave him 8 tokens people had to get rid of him to eliminate him. It was really sound strategy. I tried to stay competitive and did manage to KO Natu & Munk, but Bizarro was the star and eradicated my team by himself.

Lost my whole points (382) and got 155 points.

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Final Game v. Chris

His Team: Bleez, Laira (Red Lantern), Indigo Tribe Recruit, Black Lantern Reanimate & Black Lantern Ring, Cosmic Boy

Chris was having a better night than I was; he was 1-1 and also fell to DC earlier. He pretty much went the opposite of my strategy and put together a larger team of smaller point pieces. He also didn’t pull anything great (a theme for us during War of Light.)

This was a tough game. I, again, don’t remember much about it but Chris was pretty good at using Black Lanterns so he was excited to use a bit of that squad. With nothing to lose, I pretty much focused on Bleez, his highest point character who was an up close combater. Luckily I had range. I took care of her first then felt like a total dingus as Chris still had a bit of a chance to place better than me.

But, when the chips are down, Chris can be a focused player unlike any other. If he loses an important piece in a game, chances are you will lose a piece the very next turn. And I did. He obliterated Lightray right after, but , being casual players, he made the same error I did and didn’t read Lightray’s trait. It actually worked this time and I hit everyone he had on the map (including myself, but I hit my STOP click.) It depleted his forces of much of their life and Sodam Yat just cleaned up after that.

I won taking his whole team and losing 125 points.

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So, even though I didn’t win, I was still very pumped as during War of Light, there were prize figures, of course, but also, participation figures in this set. And Month 3’s was my favorite GL, John Stewart!

This was a sniper figure to be sure; I believe he also came with the Green Construct Sniper Rifle (may be wrong.) I’m pretty sure I used him in another tournament, so I’ll save my thoughts on him for later.

If I was to rank these pieces I used, based off my experience, I would go average on both. I think Lightray played below average, but he was a target as I only had 2 characters and most people didn’t just knock Sodam on his monster clicks right away.

Here’s a preview of my next game: