Here it is... the Teana Open!

[Metathron]

The giant is immune to halve?

Anyway, it's looking more and more (to me at least) that the archdemons are overpowered this time around taking into consideration their characteristics relative to the amount of leadership/gold they require.

[Lord Ludwig]

Originally Posted by Metathron

The giant is immune to halve?

Anyway, it's looking more and more (to me at least) that the archdemons are overpowered this time around taking into consideration their characteristics relative to the amount of leadership/gold they require.

Halve only works on stacks with lower leadership. Since in this tournament every units competes on its own, the 5 units with higher or equal leadership than the archdemon (the 3 dragons, the t-rex, the giant) become immune.

I don't think an archdemon is overpowered. Actually I think, to keep close to how a true archdemon should be, he should also get the summoning ability of the demon. It seems more appropriate to me that an archdemon calls in lesser demons.

[Zechnophobe]

Looks like I called it! (From other thread
"3) Tirex looks like it should easily kill an Archdemon in a fight. SO I think our little tournament would depend on fight order. If Black, Red, or Green Dragon takes out the tirex first, archdemon wins. If tirex takes out Archdemon first..."

Tirex kills Archie, Black Dragon wins!

[Lord Ludwig]

And at last, the final:


Black Dragon (1) 3

T-Rex (2) 0

We have nr. 1 and 2 in the final, and still there's some surprise, as many would have expected the green dragon and the archdemon to be protagonists of the final fight. Alas, the final is not up to the tournament and offers little leeway for surprises. The Black Dragon has overall better stats, only health and initiative being equal. Actually the BD, being faster and immune to primal fear, could just finish off the T-rex with RoF keeping distance, but even if they just slug it out, considering the BD has 20% resistance to physical damage whereas the T has 10% vulnerability to fire, the result is quite settled. On average the T does from 84 to 126 points of damage with a critical of 189, but the BD ranges from 154 to 182, critical 273. So in a slugfest it's likely the T goes down in the fifth round. The t-rex could try just defending to raise his DE and count on retaliation but it's extremely unlikely that would change anything - and there's still RoF to take in account.

So that was it, we have a winner, many thanks to anyone who read and/or commented on this little experiment, should anybody wish to pick up the idea and write down the hypothetical results of a round robin tournament, a tournament based on leadership rather than single units, a "double", whatever, I would follow it with curiosity