Agreed.

Even though he has all those "Bells and Whistles", I think this Iron Man was a missed opportunity.

I would have made him something like this :

gotg055 V Iron Man
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 8
Points: 200
Keywords: Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Pilot, Scientist, Stark Industries

11 11 18 4

11 10 18 3

10 10 17 3

11 10 17 4

10 10 17 3

10 10 16 3

10 9 16 3

8 8 16 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

(Improved) Targeting Computer: Improved Targeting: Ignores Hindering Terrain, Ignores Characters

(Speed) Modular Thrusters: Iron Man can use Running Shot. Give Iron Man a double power action and he can use Hypersonic Speed as a free action, modifying his speed and range values by +2.

(Attack) Last Strike: Iron Man can use Energy Explosion, and Regeneration.
When turning the dial and this click appears, stop turning the dial.
This power cannot be ignored.

(Defense) Force Field: Iron Man can use Energy Shield/Deflection and Toughness.

(Damage) P.E.P.P.E.R. Override: Iron Man can use Outwit. If Iron Man began his turn with two action tokens, he can make a ranged combat attack as a free action.

The Black Order are all SO good and Corvus and Proxima are the two best in my opinion, definitely 4 stars. I think Tyrant could be bumped a star, depending on your play group, just for intimidation factor. Sometimes a power and stats like his can demoralize newer players. I remember in our sealed that o wasn't wanting to face him even though Thanos was probably more of a threat to my team.

According to a few people Tyrant at fullis a B to
Get off
His first click. His def. Power with 19
AND prob. Vicious.
225 is only slightly worse with 18 prob and half ignore half invincible

HA I'll eventually catch up!

Caught up on SRs....Would appreciate any thoughts...

Saturn Flight :

When ya gonna review the Zombies?

I've played against the Beyonder in one sealed game, and with the Beyonder in two more sealed games. My opponent played him at 100 points in a 300-point game, and I played him at 300 points in a 400-point game. In each circumstance the piece ended up dominating.

Obviously at 100 points it was much more of a support figure, but both time it was played the same: keep it away from alpha-strike, and then bring it in to cause a ruckus. In one of my games, he took 7 clicks of damage, but at no point does the dial significantly appear to be "weaker", so it really is a just question of not taking big hits. My most threatening opposing figures always seemed to bring something useful for the Beyonder to use: many had Invincible for defense, and usually some opposing figure was able to use Hypersonic Speed or Running Shot for offense: the starting click in each of my games was #1.

The default and tracks have me slightly non-plussed. I can guess what the design theory is (different attack options on the lower damage values, with an attempt to capitalize on the 10 range) but in practice I didn't see any synergy between the native movement and attack tracks. The choices feel to me like "dial bloat" to get the cost up to 25 points per click.

The Poison supports my "wade in" theory, but in practice many figures have damage reducers that just shrug it off. Precision Strike would have been a better option on each of those clicks.

The Mind Control is particularly bothersome: It works against the three targets (more opportunity to self-inflict damage) and both times it appears it is combined with Poison (see above) so there is this weird choice when faced with an adjacent character. I would have preferred either Sidestep (1st choice, more thematic) or Flurry (2nd choice, more aggressive) on those clicks.

Incapacitate only becomes useful with multi-target range, but two of the three times it appears is with Charge (and Close Combat Expert)! Again... I suppose this is all about options, but this is a figure that won't be able to eliminate opposing figures on its own, especially if it is suffering the -1 stats penalty.

Having now played the figure and having some familiarity with the Secret Wars II comics, I think the main thing missing thematically from the dial is a small set of (movement and targeting), as this figure is too easily swarmed. I'd suggest Ignore Characters for movement and a targeting ability to target adjacent characters with ranged attacks since he doesn't have Flurry, but does have the multi-targets.