Balastor & the Trollkin

From: Tim Ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:02:59 -0000


Let's see if I've got this straight...

Balastor has a CC of 10w3
10 Trollkin Warriors with CC of 5W

Assume a Maximum of 6 Trollkin can get to hit Balastor at once, with the other 4 pressing in from behind - They can Augment the Front Rank, and for Maximum Efficiency, all augment the last Trollkin to strike for +3 each

Trollkin 1 - 5W vs 10w3
Trollkin 2 - 5W vs 7w3
Trollkin 3 - 5W vs 4w3
Trollkin 4 - 5W vs 1W3
Trollkin 5 - 5W vs 18W2
Trollkin 6 - 17W vs 15W2 - about 21% chance of victory

Balastor strikes back. He can choose to concentrate on a single Trollkin (10W3 vs 5W) a 94% chance of Victory, and usually a transfer
(2 Mastery advantage bumps failure to Critical) - but he can't
transfer more than 25 AP - or he could attack more than one Trollkin -  Let's say he takes on the 6 that struck at him this round. He rolls once, and each Trollkin rolls once Balastors roll is compared against a different TN for each Trollkin, and the Narrator takes the worst result for Balastor and takes this as the overall result

vs Trollkin 1 - 10w3 vs 5W
   Trollkin 2 - 7w3 vs 5W
   Trollkin 3 - 4w3 vs 5W
   Trollkin 4 - 1w3 vs 5W
   Trollkin 5 - 18W2 vs 5W
   Trollkin 6 - 15W2 vs 5W

Lets assume he criticals on all 6 rolls (more than 20 on the first 4 and <18 and 15 on the next 2 due mastery advantage) and the Trollkin roll over 5 each time (crit vs failure) - Note it doesn't matter if he "Bumps down" some rolls unless he does so to all of them - He transfers 2x bid. Say he bid 50AP, that means he transfers 100AP - He can split that between the 6 opponents as he likes - so he could take 4 Trollkin down to 0AP, or take 5 of them down by 20 AP each
(given that they will almost certainly have lost a few AP attacking
him earlier...), Or he could reduce one down to Dying and another to Injured and just get the ~50 AP from their positive totals.

On the Other hand, if he rolls > 15 on the 6th roll (failure bumped to success) and Trollkin 6 rolls a 1 (Critical!) he will transfer 50AP to the Trollkin. I assume in this case the Trollkin can choose to share these AP out amongst themselves...

Of course the Narrator has a number of options how to divide the Trollkin up - rather than 10 individuals they could be a leader and 9 followers - 6 augment the leader and 3 give AP's giving him 3w2 and 118 AP's. Fighting against a lone Hero like Balastor they won't get the advantage of the Multiple Opponents (because they are now only rolling one dice), but if they are attacked by 5 lesser Heroes then the Trollkin will roll at "full strength" as the followers cancel out any Multiple Opponent penalty

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