Death Match Competition

[MaxWilson]

Immortality is thematic for the "death match" champion, and is still valuable in the late game. It's not readily abusable because it's restricted to your own dominion (and also makes you lose all your items), but it does confer the ability to heal afflictions and that's useful everywhere.

I do wonder: in the game right now, if the "arena" site is somewhere within your dominion and you send an immortal unit to the fight, does he come back to life when killed?

-Max

[JimMorrison]

Actually, so far as I've seen, based on dominion specific modifiers on prophets and such, it seems to treat each combatant as if they had never left the province they are in before the fight. I want to say that I saw an immortal unit survive a loss in the arena, but it was some months back when I actually paid any attention to the death matches. But I do recall very clearly seeing pretenders and prophets with boosted HP, as if they were still in their own dominion. Small chance that I happened to only look at the ones whose dominion actually housed the arena for that match, but that seems highly unlikely to me.

[MaxWilson]

You always keep the boosted HP until the "heal" phase of the turn, which is after combat. Click on HP to see "maximum HP", which is what dominion affects. (Regen is also dependent upon maximum HP.)

-Max