Master of Blocked Potential

[LordB]

building out a cannon chain is expensive GFM!! I am below 100k granite for the first time in years so farming is delicious!

Start running some 800 gc RB specials!!

[Schnurrburt]

his garrison looks super cool though

Yes - This is the one quality he seems to have! His garrison is the best looking one of the lot.

[Schnurrburt]

So...a month has passed and still no official BB statement on what was the intention when creating this general. Just FYI I bought the second one...and just use it on blocks in outlaws, but even that doesn't justify it's ridiculous cost. It has some success on a few small/medium camps...but fails miserably in comparison to a regular gen at blocking hard camps...incompetency is the word that comes to mind when looking at this whole thing.

Huh? You expected a BB representative to actually address this? Not likely, unfortunately. I know, you were thinking of real world customer support.

[Raubhautz]

I didn't buy the MOD (even though I could). I am not going to buy product that I can't figure a reason to be in game at all (few traps in a couple adventures is not a good reason). I asked devs to answer this general use (as intended). Didn't get an answer. So, I am not going to buy him "just in case..." I am not a child and I expect to be treated like a customer when I am one.

Let me know if you EVER get a response. lol (I won't be holding my breath)

[Raubhautz]

Could not agree more Ceruhe. Done a lot of crunching with this guy and I can get some camps where he has up to 36 rounds of blocking (18 wino general rounds); the caveat always being the combat (in sim) has a very low low threshold (8 rounds - or 4 wino rounds). That kind of risk when using expensive troops is not worth it in most cases.

One of both would make MoD actually useful beyond what we already have:

• Give the MoD damage range of 125-200.
• Let the Mod fight 'slow' as the wino generals do. (Already mentioned, I know)

Let's face it folks, BB knew what they were doing when they put this disaster out there (Though I do love his garrison), ergo the lack of response by BB and the failure of anyone to find significant use for him by now. They just gave us a super-expensive general with chrome siding. Kind of like how they made the 'Invasion of the Nords' Adventure... for a whopping price, you too can get another Horseman Statue.

[Ceruhe]

'Invasion of the Nords' Adventure... for a whopping price, you too can get another Horseman Statue.

The 33% chance before the loot revamp wasn't too shabby....but now, yea...someone needs to get hit on the head with a rock again.

Making the MoD slow is the most preferrable fix that would make him worth his money instantly and it still won't be a game changer like the MMA turned out to be.

I need to learn how to sim with him though.

[Perwyn]

I've found this sim to be the most useful for the MoD. https://546e810ba39faf8b8d5e4e7971e6...dfb3BfRUtxZTg/

The graph that's available is quite interesting. (You access the graph by clicking on the results bar near the top. A small white hand appears when you've hovered over the right place to click.) You'll note that the minimum rounds on the results bar is 9, yet when you look at the graph, the likelihood of 9 rounds is .07% and if you add the percentages of 9 thru 12 rounds, anything below 13 rounds has a 1.85% chance of happening. So yes, there's still a chance of failure, but the graph puts it in perspective and it's easier to assess the risk involved. This particular block is one I use for Bandit Nest. It's held for 14 runs so far. Note: Be sure to include the camp option when simming. There's a no camp option and the results will be completely different when using it. Note2: The MoD is under LEG in this sim, his original name of Legendary Veteran.

[Jani321]

I fail to understand what is the advantage of this block versus 44S 67E with reg general. Care to explain?

It took a while for me to notice that this simulator also includes victory destruction time. So in the graph both lose and victory of 14 rounds take the same total time. Nice.

[Perwyn]

I fail to understand what is the advantage of this block versus 44S 67E with reg general. Care to explain?

It took a while for me to notice that this simulator also includes victory destruction time. So in the graph both lose and victory of 14 rounds take the same total time. Nice.

In response to

I need to learn how to sim with him though.

I posted what I've figured out in an attempt to be helpful. Never claimed there was an advantage.

The following graph is the one I did without the camp included. I didn't include it in my 1st post as it didn't seem relevant to my response to Ceruhe. Notice that there's virtually no difference on the defeat rounds between the run with camp and the one without. What does change are the victory rounds which include camp destruction time when the camp option is included in the sim. Both runs are 50,000 iterations.

[LordB]

The advantage is pretty much any important LS adventure can now be run without ever having to wait for a tavern general to get there....
If the advantage of that is lost on anyone...........