SC Arena Competition Over! Results on page 9

Cor2 · #1 December 17th, 2007, 06:29 PM

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LoloMo said:
I thought my ettin mandragora was the perfect build, but he ran away after a couple of rounds, the coward!

You were fighting my Unfettered with a fear of +10. Anybody with a mind would have run.

Cor2 · #2 December 17th, 2007, 06:41 PM

a few more things:

Thanks bunches potatoman, this was awesome!

saw a bunch of the builds I was toying with, the erinya, the djinn and the ettin mandragora. Alas i was unique!

of course I had to fight a death 12 lich my first round, disentegrating for 180, ouch!

Why do morale 30 units run away so quickly? I could understand if it were the battle turn limit, but its not. This is how I lost as well as a few others. I would not have won, so I am not upset. Is there a special set of rules in teh arena?

quantum_mechani · #3 December 17th, 2007, 07:06 PM

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Cor2 said:

Why do morale 30 units run away so quickly? I could understand if it were the battle turn limit, but its not. This is how I lost as well as a few others. I would not have won, so I am not upset. Is there a special set of rules in teh arena?

In any battle, if a non-mindless SC gets under 75% HP, they run.

Rytek · #4 December 17th, 2007, 07:13 PM

im at work and cant download,who won the tournament?

Jazzepi · #5 December 17th, 2007, 06:46 PM

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Cor2 said:

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LoloMo said:
I thought my ettin mandragora was the perfect build, but he ran away after a couple of rounds, the coward!

You were fighting my Unfettered with a fear of +10. Anybody with a mind would have run.

What the heck was that thing? I thought there were no doom horrors allowed, I guess it's some weird national summon or something?

I wanted to say that at one point during the arena fight with that doom horror, I noticed that it had -329 or so hitpoints. Thought that was pretty funny.

Jazzepi

Cor2 · #6 December 17th, 2007, 08:11 PM

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Jazzepi said:

What the heck was that thing? I thought there were no doom horrors allowed, I guess it's some weird national summon or something?

I wanted to say that at one point during the arena fight with that doom horror, I noticed that it had -329 or so hitpoints. Thought that was pretty funny.

Jazzepi

It was the Eater of the Dead after it breaks away hence the name "unfettered". Its not a horror, just and undead. I think the negative hp came from Pheonix Pyre though I did not notice it going that low.

I am proud of it as a combatant. Everyone says eater of the dead is worthless, but with a GOR it becames a very good SC and by the time it goes unfettered its deep in enemy territory.

I didn't know that rule about running with 75% damage, anyway i wrongly assumed that the eater was mindless.

Taqwus · #7 December 17th, 2007, 08:17 PM

Sounds entertaining. Haven't had a chance to see yet, maybe tonight. Anybody use an Devourer of Souls? Thought about that one, but figured most SCs would have too high DEF to give the poor two-slot fellow that much of a chance, and the no-unique-stuff rule prevented a Kurgified Devourer.

(Eater of Souls with Gift of Kurgi and, say, either anti-magic, lifelong protection, or if we're feeling really wacky, the Horror Harmonica.)

Another 'joke build' I thought of was a Gifts-from-Heaven specialist...

vfb · #8 December 17th, 2007, 08:38 PM

Well, my dude was killed by a high-aim GFH specialist (PyroStock's Precision-25 Djinn). Ha ha.

PyroStock · #9 December 17th, 2007, 08:45 PM

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Taqwus said:
Another 'joke build' I thought of was a Gifts-from-Heaven specialist...

That's brilliant... it worked once.

Even with 25Precision (25-3GFH=22) the meteors didn't seem to immediately target the highest hit point unit as I expected.

I also read that even if petrify fails it does 7AN, which I interpretted as 7 turn stun and that clearly wasn't the case.

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saw a bunch of the builds I was toying with, the erinya, the djinn and the ettin mandragora.

I was toying with QM's Fetish, but didn't see the thunderstrikes doing enough damage against the big guys & it seemed even more vulnerable to the monster spammers like Rytek.

Micah · #10 December 17th, 2007, 09:06 PM

Pyro: Read the section on paralyze damage regarding petrification. IIRC the target's size is subtracted from the damage, and then halved, so that's only about a turn on average...luck and random rolls mean that only about a third of failed petrifiction spells will paralyze at all (more if luck doesn't apply, but still, not 100%).

I was really sad to see my guy run away unscathed due to a minor fear effect though, especially since he (she?) was actually working like I had hoped before bailing out.