Moveability - All three versions have almost
identical move capabilities. All three start with a
Speed of 9 with Stealth followed by Charge with a
Speed of 8 (1 click for the Rookie, 2 for the
Experienced and Veteran) and then followed by
several more clicks of Stealth. Stealth is handy to
start with, but it’s difficult to get this figure
set to use Charge when needed.
Attackability – All three have no Range and an
Attack value that goes up and then back down. The
Rookie starts at 7 goes up to 9 on the third click
and then back down to 7. The Experienced and Veteran
both start at 8 and then up to 10 before going down
to 7. The only difference the Veteran has is that it
has 2 clicks with an Attack of 10 instead of 1. With
the weak Attack to start you should have no quarrels
Pushing Wildchild, especially if you want to get to
that Charge click.
Damage – While the Attack goes up and then back down
the Damage starts at 2 for the Rookie and 3 for the
Experienced and Veteran and drops from there. I
don’t like this because the best Attack dial does
not correlate with the best Damage dial so you
either have a good chance of hitting and doing
little damage, or missing an attack that would do
more damage
Defendability – Wildchild has a good Defense
starting at 16 for the Rookie and Experienced and 17
for the Veteran. All three start with Combat
Reflexes, which isn’t bad, but really is only useful
if Wildchild is in a fight he can’t win against a
more expensive figure and needs to breakaway to
flee. Without a ranged attack he has to be next to a
figure to deal damage. A couple of clicks of
Toughness in the middle is nice and the 2 clicks of
Regeneration (1 for the Rookie) is very useful for
Wildchild. This means he has a good chance of
getting back onto his best Attack clicks and land
some more hits.
Miscellaneous – The Rookie is not affiliated with
any team, while the Experienced is a member of
Avengers, and the Veteran a member of the X-Men. The
X-Men team ability could be useful on this figure so
you can manipulate his dial with other X-Men to get
on the stats and powers you want. His sculpt is
good, but nothing special.
Playability – Wildchild is definitely an interesting
figure to use. I think the Rookie’s dial is just not
filled out enough to make him effective. The
Experienced and Veteran are better and can be
useful, but it’s hard to get him onto Charge without
leaving him open for ranged attacks. His 3 Damage
never matches up with a click with Charge and a good
Attack so he never seems to get the most out of his
dial, but for the point cost he will make a decent
support figure.
