With the finalization of the MKII rules eminent and the fact that MKI will most likely never ever be played in our LGS again it is time to retire my MKI numbers and start up some MKII stats. The MKII stats will be more inclusive, there will be a column just for me but I will be collecting stats from around ten other Troll players as well. It is sad to step away from this being a personal thing, but in the future the blog will be better for all the Troll players not just me. It appears the broken imbalances will be erased in MKII, but for now we will have to wait and see.
So here they are in all their glory... the numbers!
The first set of numbers is my overall win/loss percentages with each Troll Caster since the first day I picked up the Troll battlebox. In the first months of playing, my poor Trolls almost never ever won, unless you count 8 tough rolls in a row against rKaya on my third or fourth game when my Impaler then moved in and one shot her. Since that time the numbers have been better putting most my averages at almost 70% win. Here is the list.
| Army | W | L | D | PCT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cygnar | 19 | 8 | 0 | 70.370 |
| Cryx | 10 | 19 | 0 | 34.483 |
| Khador | 14 | 3 | 0 | 82.353 |
| Protectorate of Menoth | 13 | 3 | 0 | 81.250 |
| Mercenaries | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.000 |
| Skorne | 15 | 9 | 1 | 60.000 |
| Trollbloods | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.714 |
| Circle of Orboros | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.286 |
| Legion of Everblight | 14 | 4 | 0 | 77.778 |
| Warmachine | 60 | 33 | 0 | 64.516 |
| Hordes | 44 | 19 | 1 | 68.750 |
| Totals | 101 | 51 | 1 | 66.013 |
| STRK | W7 | |||
As you can see I struggled against Cryx ALOT, but there at the end my winning streak of 7 was the second longest streak of my MKI career, then best streak I had was with Grissel, Horthol and Longriders with 11 in a row.
The next set of numbers I started collecting was killing blows. This stat was to keep track of which one of my models ended up with the caster kill. I started collecting them about the time of the release of the Hero and you don't caster kill every win so the numbers are smaller. Here are my results.
Warcaster/Warlock Killing Blows (top 10)
* Trollkin Hero - 10
* Earthborn Dire Troll - 9
* Borka Kegslayer - 7
* Grim Angus - 6
* Troll Impaler - 5
* Trollkin Champions - 4
* Madrak Ironhide - 4
* Grissel Bloodsong - 3
* Dire Troll Mauler - 3
* Mulg The Ancient - 2
As you can see, the Hero took some names. His MKI incarnation was downright brutal the turn after I sacrificed a few Champs to get the Hero into position. My Earthborn also seemed to always get a caster dead or get him close enough for a few Champs or Grim to pick it off afterword. MKII has killed the Heroes assassination capabilities making him more of an infantry killer but the Earthborn and nowadays probably Mulg will gladly fill those shoes.
My last stat was the caster win stats, mainly because I wanted to see how my goto casters did AND because I can't help myself.
| Caster | W | L | D | PCT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borka Kegslayer | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.81 |
| Calandra Truthsayer | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.55 |
| Grim Angus | 29 | 12 | 0 | 70.73 |
| Grissel Bloodsong | 19 | 7 | 0 | 73.08 |
| Hoarluk Doomshaper | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.00 |
| Hoarluk Doomshaper, Rage of Dhunia | 3 | 5 | 1 | 33.33 |
| Madrak Ironhide | 26 | 10 | 0 | 72.22 |
| Madrak Ironhide, World Ender | 5 | 2 | 0 | 71.43 |
While Borka owns the best percentage, by and large my favorite two casters to play were rMadrak and Grim. These two presented each end of the spectrum for Troll playstyle in MKI and were usually the best options to keep my opponents on their toes. If they planned for a Brick they had to hope they didn't see Grim. Grissel needs mention as I won a lot with her and she and Borka are my only two first place tourney finishes.
The new numbers should be bigger, better and more inclusive. Some won't be on the blog for a bit, but they will get there. We will have what was there before, but this time we will include not only each caster's win percentage, but their percentages against each faction.
On a side note I am looking for a way to setup on online form where those giving me numbers can input them on their own instead of sending them to me, then I can just open the inputs and update the blog. If anyone has that expertise they are willing to lend it would be fantastic.
Also I would like to welcome a few new authors to the Scrum. The ever popular and insightful Sevwall is a very experienced Troll player and is quite active on the PP forums. Kaptain Von is a newer Troll player than spends much of his time on the dark side of the game over in Cryx land and will provide an excellent point of view about Trolls. I have always thought Cryx to be the army that is most like Trolls, though many will say it is Menoth or Khador. And finally Josh Gardner a.k.a General Nemo from the PP forums, he has typically been what I would refer to as 'The Voice of Reason' on the forums. I am still looking for a couple more to contribute here if anyone wants a place to post Troll musings AND announce upcoming events in their local LGS.
I think your Cygnar numbers are a little off. Unless you are counting the really horrible noobs you beat up on.
ReplyDeleteYeah you're not the only Cygnar player. My record against you is just under 50%
ReplyDeleteCryx rule!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could say it was because of the player and not the army, but it seemed I couldn't win against any Cryx player regardless of their skill.
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