vegie's C3V/SoV Power Rankings

[Dad_Scaper]

Well, even if I'd rushed them out, I wouldn't have gotten height over Q9. As on most modern maps, the best I could have hoped for was even ground, from one hill to the other. Q9's advantage - as I see it, the major will wear them down more effectively than they will get lucky against his big defense - in a head-to-head matchup is worth noting in the comparison.

Clearly I should not have led with Cal. But, again, it's worth noting how limited my options were. Lead with the Ants, which would have given board control, but the Queglix Gun would have annihilated them, or with the Borgs themselves, who would not have prevented Q9 from getting to equal height, as he did.

In other words, my army was (as I see it) ill-equipped for a matchup against Major Q9, I paid the price (as I often do, when I pick armies the way I pick them), and that's how a unit gets graded as an A/A+. Which is not to say that I'm much good at Heroscape, compared to you guys, but I don't think that I'm wrong in my own thoughts here.

[OrcElfArmyOne]

I'm not saying Heavies should move down, but I'm pretty sure I'm bringing Dwarves over Heavies every time in a VC meta. Grimnak is too much of a liability. I think Dwarves deserve an A, and Heavies and Grimnak should probably be dropped to A-. Having Heavies rated higher than Dwarves doesn't make much sense to me; Dwarves should at least be rated the same as them.

[vegietarian18]

I think Dwarves to A Heavies to A- makes a lot of sense. Dwarves have received some very interesting tools in Beorn and Ulfrid; it's still to see if they replace Darrak or Mogrimm but at the very least they open up point total variety. Again I'm just hesitant on it since we don't have a lot of results indicative one way or another.

Mimring may deserve a move up from B after his finals appearance; it's pretty hard for a B figure to centerpiece in a Cheese event. I've always been a fan of him, took him to the 2014 Gencon Main Event Top 4. What he's really great at is punishing slow armies, which heroscaper2010 did very well to win against three traditional powerhouses of Cathar 10th and Rats. Mimring can just start blasting the startzone turn one. Other figures can do that (Syvarris) but the Arrow Gruts unboosted give him some safety, and with 3 defense 5 life he's a little sturdier than Syv.

[Dysole]

If I had to rank the dwarf heroes, here's how I'd do it.

Darrak
Mogrimm
Ulfrid
Beorn
Migol

Beorn doesn't really do anything special for the dwarves but him being cheaper than Migol is why I slot him in ahead. They're all really solid figures though.

~Dysole, thinking the gradient is pretty close

[vegietarian18]

I think Beorn has some Cheese potential because Dwarves have some natural desire to work with Soulborgs and he kind of bridges that. Zetacron in particular is so good with Beorn. Beorn also gives Dwarves a nice boost in the Gladblast and Rat matchups.

[dok]

Mimring definitely deserves to go up. Every time I actually play him I'm reminded how awesome Fire Line is. Even though it can be played around to some extent, it's extremely disruptive to do so. He's not even bad with Greenscales, although naked AGs is better.