Your Dom2 quiz question for today

[magnate]

In the red corner - 70 vans with F4W4S4N4D4B4 blessing

In the blue corner - 50 white centaurs with E9N9 blessing

... so, which side wins?

If that's too easy, by what ratio does the winning side win? ie. how many troops does the enemy lose per loss by the winning side?

I'm asking because the result absolutely flabbergasted me, it was twice as bad as I expected ...

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[Alneyan]

I am putting my money on the Centaurs, given that their blessing is a lot more effective, and they should deal a lot more damage than the Vans (no Flaming Weapon hurts them). So... 20 centaurs killed, to pull a number out of my hat.

[GriffinOfBuerrig]

That gay white centaurs have not enough attack skill(not even with berseker rage, i think) so i put my money on the vans.

[GriffinOfBuerrig]

I forgot that the centaurs already start with +3 Berserker Rage: So i think they will win with 5 dead centaurs after the fight(protection 23, if i am right) and that the white centaurs win.

[Turin]

The centaurs will absolutely dominate the vans.
They won´t tire and a van hoof attack will only do about 5 damage to a centaur, the spear attack has no chance of going through the armor.The centaur almost regenerates that amount.

Eventually the vans will succumb to fatigue.

So maybe 10 dead white centaurs.

[Alneyan]

Yeah, I just tried it out, and the Centaurs ended up with exactly *two* losses... and I thought 20 losses was already pretty optimistic.

[GrayZ]

Hi,

I'd like to introduce myself as the 'blue corner' The actual losses were 18 centaurs, and 72 vans... However, watching the battle, most of the centaurs died from his Arch Devil SC.

This being my 3rd Dominions 2 game, I am pretty proud in my centaurs doing so well in my first battle against Magnate...

Now does anyone have any tips on fighting his Ice Devils & Arch Devils? Are Bane lords comparible SCs to fight with?

GrayZ

(Sorry for highjacking your thread a bit Magnate...)

[PDF]

Centaurs vs Vans : both beasties look relatively alike, in this setup I suppose the centaur domination was mainly due to the much better centaurs'Bless effect.
I've found E9 blessed Vans to be pretty good, and can't see another reason to their utter defeat..

As for fighting SC AD/ID, best bet is to either have some yourself, or some Elem Queenie. BL are clearly inferior, but maybe with top equipment and superior number they can kill one AD/ID.

[archaeolept]

hey, if we're doing a fair fight, give the vans F9W9

[shovah]

for a sc killed try something with winged shoes + gate cleaver+(if it can regenerate ) lycan amulet and if it cant then just boost its def and if needed attack and if his troops have low morale you could add a horror helmet or something like that