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ok, so here are the final rankings.


The final Rankings:

Ghazskull – 83
Abbadon – 64
Swarmlord – 59
mephiston – 54
kharn – 52
draigo -51
vect – 45
calgar – 42
eldrad – 41
logan grimnar – 40
imotekh – 33
celestine – 29
lysander – 27
sanguinor 26
fateweaver – 25
grimaldus – 23
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old one eye – 22
skarbrand – 21
skulltaker - 21
huron blackheart 21
prince yriel – 20
farsight – 19
dante – 19
the duke – 18
typhus -16
old zogwort 16
njal stormcaller 15
ragnar – 15
straken 13
marbo -13
yarrick – 12
helbrecht – 11
urien – 9
shadowsun – 7
wazdakka – 6
ulric – 6
cato – 4
anvil thwan – 1
ra'lai – 1


it was close for a while, and we BARLEY avoided having to go to a wildcard tiebreaker for the last spot. however, in the end we have a solid top 16. so, starting at the top with ill seed them in alternating pools. from there, we will use NHL playoff format, so 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5 in both pools, and continuing from there.

apologies if your fav character didnt make it in. we had 39 entrants, and 966 votes over the last week. thanks to everyone who nominated and voted!

our pools look like this:
POOL A
1.Ghazskull
2. Swarmlord
3. Kharn
4. vect
5. Eldrad
6. Imotekh
7.Lysander
8. Fateweaver

POOL B
1. Abbadon
2. Mephiston
3. Draigo
4. Calgar
5. Logan Grimnar
6. Celestine
7. Sanguinor
8. Grimaldus

the first round matchups will be:
Ghazzskull v fateweaver, - 66% win
Swarmlord vrs Lysander, 77% win
Kharn v Imotekh, 62% win
Vect v Eldrad, 54% win

Abbadon v Grimaldus, 87% win
Mephiston v Sanguinor, 57% win
Draigo v Celestine, 64% win
Calgar v Logan Grimnar. 62% win


well match one is done, with ghazzy securing his #1 seed with a 66% win over fateweaver.
match 2 sees the swarmlord take down lysander with 77% of the votes.
match 3 sees kharn take the win with 62% of the votes.
match 4, vect takes it by a nose with 54%.
match 5 has Abbadon with a convincing 87% win over grimaldus.
match 6 has been won by the Sanguinor, with 57% of the votes over Mephiston.
match 7 is won by draigo with 64% of the votes.
match 8 has Logan take it, with 62% of the votes.

next up, round 2. the matchups will be:

Ghazskull vrs Vect - 68% win
Swarmlord vrs Kharn
Abbadon vrs Sanguinor
Draigo vrs Logan Grimnar

Ghaz wins the first match of round 2, to advance to the semi finals
swarmlord wins this one with a staggering 82%. he will meet Ghaz in the semis.
Sanguinor takes this matchup in another one sided match, with 81%
Draigo wins this one with 71% of the vote.

so round 2 is done, and all the victors did so in rather grand and decisive fashion. that should make for an interesting semi final!

for ROUND THREE:
Ghazskull vrs the swarmlord 54% win
and
Sanguinor vrs Draigo - 72% win

swarmlord takes this one with 54%. super close matchup all the way through. so swarmlord awaits in the finals.
sanguionor takes this one with a staggering 72% of the vote.

for the final!! - The swarmlord takes this one with 62% of the vote. congrats to the swarmlord for emerging as 40k 5th ed's deadliest special character.



aaannnnndd.... th-th-th-t-t-tthaaats alll folks. - thanks for all the votes and interest for the contests.

1 day left and this one is neck and neck...

the avatar wins the second match. Next up: Space wolf Lord vrs Orc Warboss.

thanks for the votes so far, lets keep em rolling.

the way you have it se tup once you vote on one you can't vote again

add* ie i voted yesterday and now can't vote on this one today

yup fixed it.

SW Lord is very poorly built...

yea thats possible, but that was the entry. im not changing any of the other entrys, only adding new ones, so while it may be a 'poor' net build, there could be others that are also poor.

its all for fun tho.

one day left and the orc warboss leads by a small margin.

Why would you choose an Ethereal for the Tau? That is one of the most worthless and least combat based HQ choices ever invented.

Yeah, why wouldnt the lord take a thunderwolf mount? i definitly would for any one on one fight

As for the archon, i do think he should have a huskblade. agonizer is fine and all but when i build archons for killy death its always the huskblade.

War boss

problem with the huskblade is its str 3.... so wounding on 5+ or even 6+ vrs most targets. not really reliable.

as for the wolf lord... - not my build. it did alright in the live campaign.

ethereal is in because it was a suggestion (jokingly no doubt) and i needed a 20th character, that was not a duplicate, and the tau shas'o already in the list. besides, all 20 cant be WAC perfect builds.
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this match is looking pretty close. so far its DEAD even each side taking 50% right now.

match three has the warboss winning by a nose.

next up the Necron Overlord against the Tau Shas'o

1 day left and the overlord is leading by a ton.

necron overlord takes his first battle without a sweat. next up the lightning claw SM master against the dark eldar archon.

thanks for everyones votes and continued interest. lets keep it rolling! almost halfway through round one.

While I find the concept of Deadliest Warrior: 40k edition, isn't half the point of the show arguing about who gets the edge in certain fields and that scene where the two duke it out (I suppose this could be replaced by neckbeard argument and writing, which I can do.) In any case, I suppose I've set a precedent for debate.

um ok? not what you meant TBH kain... lol. clarify?

DarthSpader wrote:um ok? not what you meant TBH kain... lol. clarify?

I saw the words "deadliest warrior' in the title and thought that this was a reference to the American television show. Which while it does have questionable testing methods, it's still rather entertaining and the third series fixed most of the more gripe worthy issues with the first two. If you haven't watched it, you can see it online on spiketv's website.

ah, yes i caught the first 2 seasons, havent watched much of the third. decent show all things considered.

The American Deadliest warrior is silly. The American wins every fight bar the Spetsnaz.

But I digress. The BT marshal is not effective. Terminator Honours for gaks sake!

I think all the entries are less then "net list optimal" but that just serves as an equalizer, I think. The tv show I do notice the Americans tend to win majority.... That's why I liked the 1st season more. Less "factonal" and more "class" based like the ninja and spartan.

**updated**

round one pool A finished, first match of Pool B - the ethereal vrs the epositilary.

This isn't even a contest, the Libby could probably kill MULTIPLE Ethereals without breaking a sweat. He has the upper hand on virtually every, single, solitary category.

Why would you enter an ethereal instead of O'Shovah?

sorry Ph34r, no special characters this one. next campaign will probally be the special character contest. and yea - the libby probally gonna get the walk here. - hence why its the first of this round. get the gimmie done with and move on.

Huskblade may be str 3, but its also a power weapon, but always causes instant death regardless of toughness, and with combat drugs, the archon could be Str 4, or reroll to wounds, (or weapon skill or +1 attack yadda yadda) but instant death is amazing. (i wont get into having the soul trap to make him Str10 by the end of the match since this is one on one)

But i understand you have them not optimized, which is fine....but i wouldnt call it "net" list optimized, cause some people like to build them with a really good build without ever looking for their build online

So far i do agree with why bring a Etheral? a crisis suit commander would be a bit more "Fair"

Also are these battles essentially just Close combat? or is their shooting taken into account?

the battle is on a 24"x24" table, pretty much a normal 40k game. so shooting, running, charging and so on.

as for the archon, you only have a 1 in 6 chance of getting +1 str, or reroll wounds. and even the reroll wounds is not that amazing when you still need 5+. the agonizer is a power weapon as well, you already have top notch WS, and you dont really "need" the pain token in this kind of fight. if you have 6 attacks, you can probally hit 4-5 of those, and with the agonizer wound a solid 3 times on a decent roll. the huskblade might wound once. even with rerolls. ID may factor in a bit, but chances are youcan just acomplish the same thing by wounding a bunch of times. plus you have a str 8 ap 2 shot going in on the charge - wich should ID most things. (also against t5+ models the agonizer = much more reliable win)

as for the ethereal, there already is a tau shas'o in the fight, and the rules stated no "duplicate" characters. and really, a tau crisis commander is hard to make decent without duplicating. and tbh i needed to fill the numbers out to an even 20 and took suggestions from the previous thread.


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hmm well the poor ethereal is getting absloloutly WRECKED in this one....


anyone object to the ethereal throwing in the towel, and moving on?

Before voting, could someone do me a favour and post up the total points value of each of the combatants.

I'm all for comparison, but a rough reckoning has this last contest 50pts vs what, twice that? more?

Cheers

Andrew

1 day left on this round. and the brother capt leads with 100% (of the 4 votes...)

would like to see more voting on this one before it closes sunday.

and the tyrant takes match 8. only 2 more to go, with the first round. next up is the chaos lord fighting a space marine master in the classic grudge match.

yea i realize diablo is out today... but i hope to see much voting on this one.

once again thanks for all the votes so far.