Finally won a tournament

[Janus]

Pretty happy with myself, the last fight was actualy easier than the second, which was vs 10 mercs (final fight was 4 gladiators plus a named gladiator). What was your experience with the arena and what did you get (padded norse helm for me).

[turtle225]

Congrats.

Only done one tournament. Don't remember the exact numbers anymore but I got Outlaws -> Outlaws + Dancer -> Raiders + Hedge + Swordmaster.

Nets and Fearsome put in work.

Don't remember my reward. It was a poorly rolled 1Hander iirc. Might have been an Axe.

I think that the tournaments in general are too high risk for ironman. They are fun for the challenge they provide which I like, but the risk/reward matrix is highly unfavorable. You blindly gamble your best 5 bros for a random famed item. Just about every other means of getting famed items is less risky, so the mindset changes to something akin to a legendary location which you do more for the fun/challenge rather than for the reward.

I wish the game would tell you what you are facing next round before you commit given the high amount of variance in what you could be fighting. I don't like blind gambling in a setting I cannot retreat from. I can beat Swordmasters but probably not Champion Swordmasters, but you have no idea what you are fighting. From a realistic standpoint, there is no reason my team wouldn't know who their next opponent is before deciding to commit or bail out.

[Janus]

I agree on the reward being too low, if you at least got the money for the early stages i would be more inclined to go for tournaments (only had 2 happen in 500 days so its rare enough as it is). But i do like the expanded format with 5 bros instead of 3.It does seem a bit weird to go blind into the fights, although savescumming in arena is fairly easy since you can just reroll to before the fight and drop out. All in all i would say its a bit messy, but the high stakes of fighting 3 fights back to back with no rest is pretty attractive to me.

[domuka]

congrats! all i won was some named throwing axes...

probably lost more money on repairs than what i gained

[Nasarog]

I had a nasty run in with a swordmaster, master archer and a named gladiator... it was EPIC. I also ended up promoting three new guys to fill the holes that were left by the senseless deaths of my people. I think I scratched one of my one guy.

[A5G_Reaper]

Got six unhold. Second fight was like a dozen ifrit. First was nine hyenas.

I brought bros to fight humans, not beasts. Smh. The famed dagger was terrible too.

[Janus]

Originally posted by Nasarog:

I had a nasty run in with a swordmaster, master archer and a named gladiator... it was EPIC. I also ended up promoting three new guys to fill the holes that were left by the senseless deaths of my people. I think I scratched one of my one guy.

Oh jeez, i didnt even encounter archers in the arena so far and you cant do arena fights at night i think, good fun tho.

[Janus]

Originally posted by A5G_Reaper:

Got six unhold. Second fight was like a dozen ifrit. First was nine hyenas.

I brought bros to fight humans, not beasts. Smh. The famed dagger was terrible too.

I feel like either i didnt do enough high level arena fights or tournament throws stuff against you that you wont find in regular arena, i fought a single lindwurm in regular arena before and i assume it would be more in tournament.

[Santo]

I feel bad after reading your stories -- last time I won a cool named 2H mace and I honestly don't remember what fights I had, but they weren't particularly difficult. I got there with a full 11lvl roster though. A dedicated taunt shield tank, a nimble duelist with nets and a BF 2H damage-dealer did the trick for me.

[Saint Scylla]

• First round: twenty or so webknechts. Sure.
  
• Second round: six size-2 ifrits. Easy to cheese.
  
• Third round: oh oh, ten mercenaries including a swordmaster? Quite a challenge. One of my top bros went down and I had to use the Water Skin to clean his broken knee.
  
• Prize: Sir Robert's Maimer... I expected a 2-handed cleaver, which would have been perfect for my nimble cleaver-user with huge and iron lungs, but instead it was a 2-handed flail with mild rolls. Bah.

[Nasarog]

Originally posted by Saint Scylla:

• First round: twenty or so webknechts. Sure.
  
• Second round: six size-2 ifrits. Easy to cheese.
  
• Third round: oh oh, ten mercenaries including a swordmaster? Quite a challenge. One of my top bros went down and I had to use the Water Skin to clean his broken knee.
  
• Prize: Sir Robert's Maimer... I expected a 2-handed cleaver, which would have been perfect for my nimble cleaver-user with huge and iron lungs, but instead it was a 2-handed flail with mild rolls. Bah.

Sir Robert sure maimed your expectations...

/drum roll

[NM9G]

Pre-day 40 I got a first round 7 nomads (pretty sure it was outlaws), a second round 6 nomad outlaws and a blade dancer, which were easy enough, until a rough round 3 involving 4 unholds.

[flameDjinn]

Participated in two tournaments.
In first tournament i remember only third round - champion swordmaster + 5-7 mercenaries. I realize that something going wrong, when he leaves an injury to my 90+ hp bro with 300 helm at full durability with just 1h sword. My 90+ two handers have 30% hit chance to hit him, when he is under net, lol (120 mdef + dodge not a joke). But thanks to mercenaries overhelm my guys have 10-20% hit chance, lvl 9 archer with 85 ratk misses a couple of shots, while this swordmaster just shred my veterans. I tried this battle few times and decided to take money and leave alive :D

Second tournament:
In first round, got ~6-8 frenzied hyenas
In second round got blade dancer and ~5-7 nomads
In third round got swordmaster, blade dancer and ~5-7 nomads
At tournament i took this guy
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2307052143

Now he shred nomads and swordmaster at final round. Also qatal duelist with overhelm helps a lot against blade dancers. Win a padded norse helm.

Overall it would be cool to know who you face in the next stage. If i knew that there is a champion swordmaster in next round, i will just leave this tournament :D

[turtle225]

Originally posted by felix:

Now he shred nomads and swordmaster at final round. Also qatal duelist with overhelm helps a lot against blade dancers. Win a padded norse helm.

Qatal Duelist is awesome in the arena in my experience.

Originally posted by felix:

Overall it would be cool to know who you face in the next stage. If i knew that there is a champion swordmaster in next round, i will just leave this tournament :D

Agreed. This is my only gripe with the tournaments. I like challenges, but I don't like blind risk. Given how Champion Swordmaster is a god among men, I'd rather not gamble my team into the possibility of feeding his ego.

Why wouldn't my team know who they are fighting? Are they too busy drinking in the tavern between rounds and not watching the other fights? Are my bros too dumb to even look at the participant list? It isn't realistic, and it isn't good from a gameplay standpoint either imo. It is too risky for ironman.