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deccan said:
Seems to me that the obvious thing to do is to test how well a fully equipped bane lord with either a flambeau or a herald lance + shield would do against a fully equipped ice devil. Pity I'm at work at the moment.
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Since no one took me up on my suggestion, I performed the tests myself.
I used Gandalf's minimap for testing and basically altered the map to let one player start with a banelord and the other to start with an ice devil (I picked Mr. Cimejes since Boron recently used him to wipe out my whole army single-handedly). I had the two SCs move simultaneously into the neutral ground between the two capitals.
I ran three sets of ten battles each. The bane lord always had this: herald lance, lucky coin, jade armor, starshine skullcap, winged shoes, burning pearl, antimagic amulet.
For the first two sets, I gave the ice devil this: blood thorn, lucky coin, starshine skullcap, copper plate, winged shoes, burning pearl, antimagic amulet.
The bane lord was always given orders to be placed as far back as possible and attack rearmost immediately.
For the first set of 10 battles, the ice devil was given orders to be placed as far back as possible, cast quickness, breath of winter and attack rearmost. I did this to simulate an ice devil being "surprised" by a bane lord.
Out of 10 battles, the Bane Lord killed the ice devil in the first turn in 6 battles. In the other 4 battles, he took two turns to kill the ice devil.
For the next set of 10 battles, I had the ice devil cast quickness, then attack rearmost. In 6 battles, the Bane Lord killed the ice devil in the first turn, in 3 battles he took 2 turns to kill the ice devil and in one battle, he took 3 turns to kill the ice devil.
For the Last set of 10 battles, I gave the ice devil a jade armor in place of the copper plate and had him attack rearmost immediately.
The results were:
1) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (14 hp left)
2) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (30 hp left)
3) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (14 hp left)
4) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (41 hp left)
5) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (41 hp left)
6) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (37 hp left)
7) Ice Devil kills Bane Lord (35 hp left)
8) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (34 hp left)
9) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (30 hp left)
10) Bane Lord kills Ice Devil (18 hp left)
So the Bane Lord wins 9 battles and the Ice Devil wins 1.
However, I encountered an anomaly. Although both were equipped with winged shoes, it was always the Bane Lord who flew over to whack the Ice Devil. I never once saw the Ice Devil fly over to whack the Bane Lord.
Thinking that perhaps certain nations always move first before some other nations, I did some tests. In a Tien Chi vs Vanheim match-up, I managed to get a game where Tien Chi got the bane lord and Vanheim got the ice devil, as well as a game with the reverse. I found that regardless of who got what, it was always the bane lord who flew over to whack the ice devil.
I have no idea why this is so.