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The Book of Braxas

On Braxas, her low defense is her Achilles heel. The key to defeating her is taking her down quickly with multiple attacks. There for any large or huge figure that can attack her multiple times would be a good option for you. The higher the attack the better. Q9 & Q10 both have multiple attacks that can chip her down fairly fast.
 
Large squads such as Marden Hounds or Templars can also be effective against her. Both sport a good way to unleash damage. A master of the Hunt can also humble her, if you feel like trying him out.
 
Given Braxas's high life number, big single attacks are as effective as multiple attacks (four attacks of 2 is about equivalent to a single attack of 5 in average damage dealt; three attacks of 3 is somewhere between 6 and 7).

The issue is getting those attacks (either sort) in before Braxas's own big attack takes you out. So large squads are best, as several have noted already---Braxas can take at most one out per turn. Q9 and Q10 are only especially good, I think, to the extent that they can use their range, possibly with the help of a screen, to get more attacks in before Braxas takes them down.

In my experience, most large and huge heroes stack up OK head-to-head (once points are taken into consideration; I'm not claiming Dumutef vs. Braxas is a fair fight). As against all "shark" figures the trick is to not let her waltz through your army picking targets without having your best firepower trained on her. Easier said than done sometimes and you'll probably always sustain some casualties unless you can get in first with an assassination-tye unit.
 
Some numbers, using the Match-up Calculator. Win percentages against Braxas in a head-to-head melee fight:

Jotun (220): 88.6%
Charos (210): 86.7%
Hydra (120): 72.0%
Major Q9 (180): 70.0%
Nilfheim (185): 59.0%
Major Q10, Wrist Rocket (150): 50.3%
Ogre Warhulk (150): 50.0%
Feral Troll (90): 49.2%
Major Q10, Machine Pistol (150): 30.8%
Zelrig (185): 21.8%
Dund (110): 19.8%
Grimnak (120): 0.2%
Hive: 0.0%
 
I was gonna mention ol' 4-head.

ollie, did you leave Krug off because the results were too ugly for Braxas's book? ;)
 
Heh. My rigourous selection process was to scroll up and down haphazardly on the drop-down menu and click on anything that I thought would be especially good, especially bad, or about which I wasn't sure.

Krug comes in at 90.9%.
 
Braxas is the reason I don't like investing more than 140 points on medium heroes. She can pay for her point value surprisingly easily if not handled correctly. Use big guys or dirt-cheap squads.

P.S. Jotun costs 225 points (sorry for nitpicking!)
 
I recebtly added Braxis to my collection and broke her out this weekend in a 3way free for all, 500pts a piece. And let me say, she has quickly became one of my favorite figures with the best outing I've ever seen from a dragon. I'll list her damage:

4 Minions of Utgar- ~155
3 werewolves- 75
4 Aruban Archers- ~90
2 Marro warriors -25
And Solen with her regular attack- 160

In all, that was around 490pts worth of damage....it was amazing!!! She was eventually brought down, but I had Fen Hydra in reserve for clean up and won easily. I know it's my first outing with her and I shouldn't expect that each time, but WOW what a first impression!
 
Braxas
C3V and SoV Custom Synergies
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Braxas is my favorite heroscape character! I usually use her with Sgt. Drake, raelin (both sotm), kelda, cyprien, sonya, and theracus. Braxas, Drake, and Cyprien spread out. Braxas cleans out the squads, Drake heads for the long range attackers and Cyprien covers him with chilling touch. Braxas remains in Raelins aura. When any get too low of health, theracus flies kelda to them to heal if she can't reach them herself in time. Also Finn and thorgrim are good to place on Braxas to give her an attack of 6 and defense of 4. With raelin u got a defense of either 5 or 6 depending on which raelin u use. I love my Braxas of evil! :)
 
I was thinking about this today and as it has not been mentioned I thought it was worth while to note that braxas has the ability to (what I believe) take out more points in a single order marker than any other figure to date. Discluding marvel-Braxas has the potential to take down 550 points In a single order marker!! That's right one order marker. How? That is by targeting Spartacus[200], Taelord[180], and Srgt Drake (SOTM)[170]. I believe that these are the highest priced small/medium figures to date, again excluding marvel. No other figure in the game has the potential to deal this amount of damage in a single order marker. Now there are several units that can attack multiple times per order marker, let's take Nilfhiem for instance. However, these units are limited to the amount of wounds they can cause per turn. For example, He can attack three times potentially devastating 3 heros as well, but is limited by the life points of the unit being attacked. I believe the highest cost 4 life heros are Q9[180], Q10[150], and there are several others at 120, fen hydra, Kaemon. However the point cost is no where near what braxas can deliver, and I'd like to believe that rolling 4 skulls on 3 separate attacks, at the same time these for the most part high defense heros whiff is considerably less likely than 3 rolls of a 17 or higher. As a result I am inclined to say that Braxas has the potential to be the most devastating unit in all of heroscape.

Thanks, thought it was worth noting.
 
JNellZ22 said:
I was thinking about this today and as it has not been mentioned I thought it was worth while to note that braxas has the ability to (what I believe) take out more points in a single order marker than any other figure to date. Discluding marvel-Braxas has the potential to take down 550 points In a single order marker!! That's right one order marker. How? That is by targeting Spartacus[200], Taelord[180], and Srgt Drake (SOTM)[170]. I believe that these are the highest priced small/medium figures to date, again excluding marvel. No other figure in the game has the potential to deal this amount of damage in a single order marker. Now there are several units that can attack multiple times per order marker, let's take Nilfhiem for instance. However, these units are limited to the amount of wounds they can cause per turn. For example, He can attack three times potentially devastating 3 heros as well, but is limited by the life points of the unit being attacked. I believe the highest cost 4 life heros are Q9[180], Q10[150], and there are several others at 120, fen hydra, Kaemon. However the point cost is no where near what braxas can deliver, and I'd like to believe that rolling 4 skulls on 3 separate attacks, at the same time these for the most part high defense heros whiff is considerably less likely than 3 rolls of a 17 or higher. As a result I am inclined to say that Braxas has the potential to be the most devastating unit in all of heroscape.

Thanks, thought it was worth noting.
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Actually, DW8000 is the king of potential destruction. It can take out as many vipers as you can put on ladders within range, which is theoretically infinite.
 
Braxas could actually kill 600 points in one OM against Kato, Sparticus, and Ashara Goshiri (all 200 respectively), but yeah DW8000.

~TAF
 
wriggz said:
JNellZ22 said:
I was thinking about this today and as it has not been mentioned I thought it was worth while to note that braxas has the ability to (what I believe) take out more points in a single order marker than any other figure to date. Discluding marvel-Braxas has the potential to take down 550 points In a single order marker!! That's right one order marker. How? That is by targeting Spartacus[200], Taelord[180], and Srgt Drake (SOTM)[170]. I believe that these are the highest priced small/medium figures to date, again excluding marvel. No other figure in the game has the potential to deal this amount of damage in a single order marker. Now there are several units that can attack multiple times per order marker, let's take Nilfhiem for instance. However, these units are limited to the amount of wounds they can cause per turn. For example, He can attack three times potentially devastating 3 heros as well, but is limited by the life points of the unit being attacked. I believe the highest cost 4 life heros are Q9[180], Q10[150], and there are several others at 120, fen hydra, Kaemon. However the point cost is no where near what braxas can deliver, and I'd like to believe that rolling 4 skulls on 3 separate attacks, at the same time these for the most part high defense heros whiff is considerably less likely than 3 rolls of a 17 or higher. As a result I am inclined to say that Braxas has the potential to be the most devastating unit in all of heroscape.

Thanks, thought it was worth noting.
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Actually, DW8000 is the king of potential destruction. It can take out as many vipers as you can put on ladders within range, which is theoretically infinite.
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But is limited to your starting hexes. 13 squads of vipers occupies 39 hexes and is still only 520 points.
 
Wow I totally forgot the point values of Kato and Ashara. 600 points unbelievable. my mistake it must have slipped my mind. But yes standard play includes a hex starting limit..
 
JNellZ22 said:
But is limited to your starting hexes. 13 squads of vipers occupies 39 hexes and is still only 520 points.
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Well, Vipers are the easiest targets, but DW8000 can technically kill anyone as long as he keeps inflicting wounds, so he could also kill Kato/Sparti/Goshiri and more in a single turn, with enough luck.

(although don't get me wrong, Braxas is way better than DW regardless)

~TAF
 
What about Runa and her Helm of Mitonsul? There's no size limitation to that, right? How hard is it to roll a 20 anyway..? :roll:
 
Well noted.

I mentioned this as I played a game with Braxas recently (admittingly one of my fav characters) against myself (sad I know, as I have no one too play with.) anyway I played a sort of "quest" involving 3 different maps of play. The final portion of the "quest" was for the eleven party consisting of ULGINESH, jordawn, emiroon, arkmer, kyntella, WoA x2 and syvarris totalling 600 points against Braxas, green scales x3 and Rhogar-500 points. The goal was to slay the evil dragon who has been terrorizing the Eleven people for more years than it was worth to count. The dragon team was perched Nicely up on a mountain per say and After theoryscaping for sometime figured that would compensate for the point difference. I had fielded these elves for some time and admittingly was rooting for them to complete the mission so there is a sort of biased there. However the battle did not go as expected. The elves seemed to be doing very well as emiroon landed his teleportation and warped syvarris and 2 WoA into position. The greenies engaged some WoA while Braxas and Rhogar advanced from the rear. Syvarris managed to land some nice hits on Braxas but only to have some of the wounds removed within a few turns. Arkmer and Kyntella were receiving and giving all kinds of defense bonuses however Jordawn was limited as I didn't want to melt my own Warriors. I decided to take the risk and put some wounds on Rhogar and Braxas as well as too greens scales, all at the cost of 1 WoA. And that's when it happened, just when the battle was looking good in two turns Braxas melted away a full health syvarris, jordawn and 3 WoA. Order marker management was now a mess as syvarris had order marker 2 on him so that was forfeited, and three belong to Uglinesh who was now swamped with green scales. It didn't take long from there as Braxas proceeded to melt everything in her path, the two remaining green scales were rolling 4 attack dice and made short work of Uglinesh and Rhogar was fire blasting while healing.

The battle did not go as I intended...it wasn't until the 3rd game the elves were finally victorious, despite having a 100 point advantage.
 
So much pointless technicality...

mtl1998 said:
What about Runa and her Helm of Mitonsul? There's no size limitation to that, right? How hard is it to roll a 20 anyway..? :roll:
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Ah, but that only has a range of 3!

Laglor could also contest for infinite attacks with Range 7 I believe, although he maxes out at 2 skulls per attack, saving one for the blank. ;)

~TAF
 
Re: So much pointless technicality...

TheAverageFan said:
mtl1998 said:
What about Runa and her Helm of Mitonsul? There's no size limitation to that, right? How hard is it to roll a 20 anyway..? :roll:
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Ah, but that only has a range of 3!

Laglor could also contest for infinite attacks with Range 7 I believe, although he maxes out at 2 skulls per attack, saving one for the blank. ;)

~TAF
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If going up against infinite Rats, couldn't Brunak get infinite kills too?

Still, DW8K is king of mowing lawns. Or fields of vipers.
 
Re: So much pointless technicality...

Marro_Warlord said:
TheAverageFan said:
mtl1998 said:
What about Runa and her Helm of Mitonsul? There's no size limitation to that, right? How hard is it to roll a 20 anyway..? :roll:
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Ah, but that only has a range of 3!

Laglor could also contest for infinite attacks with Range 7 I believe, although he maxes out at 2 skulls per attack, saving one for the blank. ;)

~TAF
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If going up against infinite Rats, couldn't Brunak get infinite kills too?

Still, DW8K is king of mowing lawns. Or fields of vipers.
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Brunak could get a lot of kills for sure, but it would be limited to how many Rats you can get adjacent to him due to his Special Attack negating Scatter (which is still a lot).
But if you want to get ridiculous numbers of kills, the best I've read about is a Shaolin Monk against infinite Rats if the Rat-player uses Scatter to keep moving them adjacent. (SotM Raelin works for this too.) That's the only truly indefinite scenario I've seen (assuming you don't have a limit on the number of Rats).

Of course, when it comes to consistently burning through high-point squaddies, Braxas is definitely one of my top picks any day.
 
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JNellZ22 said:
Discluding marvel-Braxas has the potential to take down 550 points In a single order marker!! That's right one order marker. How? That is by targeting Spartacus[200], Taelord[180], and Srgt Drake (SOTM)[170]. I believe that these are the highest priced small/medium figures to date, again excluding marvel. No other figure in the game has the potential to deal this amount of damage in a single order marker.

Thanks, thought it was worth noting.
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As a noob, I dont really understand this. Who is going to put Spartacus, Taelord and Sgt Drake in a Little Group in front of Braxas? So other than just a quiz question of hypothetical situations, what does it matter, its never going to happen in a game?
 
ekoxe1 said:
JNellZ22 said:
Discluding marvel-Braxas has the potential to take down 550 points In a single order marker!! That's right one order marker. How? That is by targeting Spartacus[200], Taelord[180], and Srgt Drake (SOTM)[170]. I believe that these are the highest priced small/medium figures to date, again excluding marvel. No other figure in the game has the potential to deal this amount of damage in a single order marker.

Thanks, thought it was worth noting.
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As a noob, I dont really understand this. Who is going to put Spartacus, Taelord and Sgt Drake in a Little Group in front of Braxas? So other than just a quiz question of hypothetical situations, what does it matter, its never going to happen in a game?
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Nope, basically just that lol
 
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