Unit Debate #59 -- Othkurik vs. Moltenclaw

[MegaSilver]

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This Unit Debate was selected by ZBeeblebrox.

1. Stats/Special Powers

2. Playability

3. Overall Usefulness

4. Who Would Win Head-To-Head

5. Army Builds

6. Best Strategic Use

7. Best in Dungeon Crawl

[kolakoski]

Well met!

No contest.

[Kaemon Awa 123]

While I do prefer Othkurik in RoV games because of your ability to pair him with 2 squads of Greenscales, overally Moltenclaw wins, hands down.

[nate the dawg]

1. Stats/Special Powers - While Moltenclaw wins out on stats, I believe their special attacks are even. Moltenclaw's has the versatility of selecting from many targets on the battlefield, whereas Othkurik's is a splash attack that can avoid hitting your own guys. That said, I'll go with Moltenclaw.

2. Playability - Moltenclaw's sculpt isn't as cumbersome as Othkurik's, largely due to being upright (and single-spaced). On the other hand, Othkurik is thirty points cheaper to draft, and he works well against squads and heroes (with the right map). Othkurik by a nose.

3. Overall Usefulness - Tie. They fill a very similar role.

4. Who Would Win Head-To-Head - One extra life, one extra attack...unless the fight were on a swamp/dungeon map, Moltenclaw should win this one. In fact, Othkurik's one big attack from favorable terrain isn't really enough to sway me. Moltenclaw wins head-to-head.

5. Army Builds - I imagine the only discernable difference here is that Othkurik can synergize with powers requiring a tricky personality. Other than that, they both can fit well into whatever army you choose (and it need not always contain Greenscales!). Tie.

6. Best Strategic Use - Othkurik wants to hunt, maneuvering around the battlefield engaging in guerrilla tactics. He is much more an opportunist than Moltenclaw, who prefers to remain active once battle has been joined. Of course, he has to stay pretty close to the enemy to be effective.

Also, each is filling a different role, in my experience. Moltenclaw is adept at doling out wounds to multiple figures each time he is activated. In fact, he does quite well focusing on just that. Othkurik, while capable of wreaking a comparable amount of havok in such a manner, also boasts the ability to make that single big blow against an opponent's hero. Othkurik.

7. Best in Dungeon Crawl - I wouldn't want my adventuring party to go up against either of them! The official dungeon-crawls lean toward smaller maps (duh, they use BftU!), so I feel Moltenclaw has an edge here.

Moltenclaw wins, 3-2.

[habs1009]

Hey Othkurik can still come back!

[Su-Bak-Na]

I'm a bit late to this thread but I hadn't owned either dragon until recently. After playing with both of them a few times, I'd have to say that Moltenclaw will earn (or surpass) his amount in points more often than Othkurik. To be fair to the balck dragon, he was attacked by 3 Einar Emperium with height one of those times. But still, Moltenclaw wins. :P

[Shockma Ranyk]

I recently played a few games against my dad preparing for this tournament. He played a build with Greenscales x2 and Moltenclaw both times, but in the first game he had Cyprien and Sonya also, and in the second game he had Death Knights x2 and Dumutefs x3. Both games, Moltenclaw dominated my army, and I only won the first game because Braxas got lucky and killed him with a Belt of Giant Strength, and rolled a 20 on Cyprien. Of course, it might've helped that he could get to my start zone before anything moved out, because first game I was playing hounds who rolled a 1 on WPM about half the time, and the second game I played Ashigaru with Kato who died before Round 2. Yeah, I'm still working on what I'm going to take to that tournament...