[4e] Monster Mash! 4e MvM tournament (Closed)

[Evilhalfling]

Okay no halfling team. I ran the numbers, and halflings beat kobolds unless the kobolds win intiative and use a tactic to reduce second chances.
Halflings get slaughtered by generic monsters R us (2 artillery with Area burst 1 at will, and 3 generic soldiers w/o any multiple attacks, built from DMG) - they kill the artillery, but barely scratch the soldiers.

 

[Oni]

Heh! I though about something similar too... with undeads though... maybe next time

I'm very curious to see how the other participants will balance the levels of their monsters. Like, if anyone will try a solo, or try two elites, or a number of mid-level monsters... I'm looking forward to this very much.

I'd thought about a dragon or bloodkiss beholder until I saw the mine and tunnels map. I don't think that would be a good fit.

 

[renau1g]

Same thoughts as you Oni, I was about to submit the beholder when I had second thoughts as 1 bad roll would pretty much end the fight.

 

[Atanatotatos]

Aside from level and elite/standard, party composition offers many possibilities too. One could throw in a team much like a pc party (like, one soldier, one lurker, one controller, onre artillery and one (leader) ). Or not: like, four or five soldiers would be quite low in the dmg department, but I guess they'd be really tough to take down. Or maybe a team composed of flying skirmishers and artilleries for max mobility.... uhmmm
This is very interesting...

 

[renau1g]

High mobility until you ended up in the tunnel map

 

[Atanatotatos]

Yeah...till there
But seriously, in one of the open field maps flying creatures will have a big advantage I suppose...

 

[Lord Sessadore]

Something like a bulette would be fantastic in the tunnel map - their mobility is by burrowing. Pretty useless on the ship, though. Also, dragons are far from worthless without flight.

 

[covaithe]

Okay, I've got teams in from Ata, renau1g, Sessadore, and Oni. Assuming I get at least one more in the next day or two, I'll go for an 8 team tournament. Here are 3 filler teams:

1: adult white dragon
2: Immolith plus two skull lords dropped to level 9
3: 16 Elf Archers.

I'm going to go ahead and say that Tuesday night at 10:00 p.m. GMT (5 p.m. EST) is my deadline for new teams and/or changes. I'll publish all the teams and start the games then. If I don't get a fifth team, it will just be a four team tournament and the filler teams will be left out. If I get more than five teams, I'll drop filler teams as needed.

Pairings will be random, with the exception that I'll reroll pairings that match two filler teams against each other.

 

[Evilhalfling]

submitted my team.
hmm, not sure they could take the dragon in an open field. It would be a long fight.

 

[Atanatotatos]

UHm. I'd say those "filler" actually have a really good chance to the end
The undead combination is very good and fun too. And those pesky archers would be a nightmare in the tunnels. I'd say the dragon is not the worst one...but those 400+ hps do look a bit much...

Covaithe, I wanted to ask, will a monster respawn if it is killed but the team advances to the next match? I guess so...