Post: #1

Ok, since it seemed quite popular in the OOC thread here is where the characters stand compared to each other.

Please note this is only based on what I've read and can be changed.

Fighters: Based on skill not magic items etc.
1) Vekarin - Immensely old, taught by Abhorash, has spent years perfecting his abilities
2) Drakki - Created by Necrach's to be powerful however loses ground to Vekarin as he slept for the last millennia instead of training
3) (Joint) Valda - Ancient Lord with exceptional combat skills
3) (Joint) Mircea - Has devoted his life to Martial superiority and is known to be a excellent Melee fighter
4) Graveclaw - what he lacks in finesse he makes up for in strength, resilience and speed.
5) Fighters of comparable power:
Simon - Excellent skills at distraction and feints
Magneqrox - Not as skilled but makes up for with physical power and speed and fiery breath
Milosh - Excellent melee and tactical fighting
Rask - Poor strength / resilience but more than makes up with his blinding speed and pin-point accuracy.
Katrina - Blood Dragon training but has lost ground due to concentration on her magical skills
6) (Joint) V'azrin - As a necrach little aptitude for combat although still has vampiric speed and strength
6) (Joint) Lesa - Has not focused on her fighting skills as has always been able to fight with her magic.

Post: #2

Only one thing, Magneqrox makes up for it with strength, speed, determinance and his fiery breath

Post: #3

Ok next one (and one that is probably going to cause the most disagreements)

Casters (no item assistance /possession etc)

1) Lesa - Born with innate magic before she was turned, the Blood Kiss then magnified the ability, She has spent all her life increasing her powers and has obtained knowledge from Drachenfels, Dwarfs (dispelling), high elves and from deep in the chaos wastes. Her forced infusion of warpstone has solidified her power
2) V'azrin - Get of W'soran, has taught under the Great Necromancer and spent his many vast years expanding his powers. Is looking to knock Lesa off the top spot.....
*Ethereal Cyn does not count as an item enhances her powers or she would be here*
3) A few comparable casters:
Katrina - Looking to break out of the stereotypical mould of the Blood Dragons she has studied hard as excels in necromancy.
Simon - Has expanded his magical knowledge buy hunting for artifacts far and wide although this lost him ground in fighting ability compared to his brother Mircea
Milosh - Starting off as a necromancer he was sired by Vashanesh and gained a lust to increase his power which culminated in an experiment that gave him the extra power and ability but lost him his corporeal body.
Rask - His vampire body giving him more resistance has enabled Rask to increase his magic power through continual consumption of warpstone. Loves to cast skitterleap.
4) Mircea (Joint) - Has focused on more martial abilities and thuus loses ground in magic compared to his brother Simon
4) Cyn (Joint) - Whilst skilled for her two years she cannot compare to the vampire lords who have studied for centuries
4) Magneqrox (Joint) - Again prefer to uses his other abilities but can use magic quite well when required.
5) Vekarin (Joint)- Whilst low in magic can use it adequately to heal and raise his troops
5) Valda (Joint) - Similar to Vekarin
6) Graveclaw - Again next to no magic showed though may still be some there
7) Drakki - He himself confirmed that the males of the Gladius have no magical aptitude

Post: #4

Military Assets

1) Simon - Simon just pops in at the top as he has more troops than Vekarin plus a mixture a alive and undead each making up for the weakness of the other strengthens the army. Additions of mercenaries in form of ogres give a excellent hard punch.
2) Vekarin - Whilst he has less troops he does an an extremely hard Knightly order made up of Black Knights and vampires. The Violet Citadel is a well protected fortress that is extremely difficult to overcome
3) Valda - Similar to Vekarin although on a slightly smaller scale he possess excellent shock troops plus a well defended base of operations.
4) Rask - Whilst they he his minions may not be as good as the other lords he makes up with that in the amount he has at his disposal as well as some more unusual mutated creations
5) Mircea - Whilst his armies don't match the other lords it is still as large force and his well kept keep makes difficult to assault place of retreat.
6) Count Flendehaus - A small fortification and standing army puts the count into this spot.
7) Magneqox / Finelle - Have been put up a place as whilst they may not possess them anymore, they did have very hard chaos vampires in a well protected keep however Milosh & co soon put a stop to that.
8) These vampires have no standing army or castle of notable standing:
Katrina
Milosh & Lesa
Graveclaw
V'azrin
Drakki & Cyn

Post: #5

Nemesis:
This list shows who would be the most dangerous to a certain character, this includes any powers, weapons etc.

Vekarin's nemesis is Lesa and visa versa: These characters approach each other from the opposite end of the spectrum and have the ability to maximise on the others weaknesses. Lesa has the necessary power to negate Vekarins items and crush him magically whilst Vekarin easily out matches Lesa in combat ability. The only advantage will go to the one one who acts first, will Vekarin manage to strike or Lesa melt his items and blast him apart?

V'azrin's nemesis would be Lesa: Due to her power she effectively negates his magic leaving him quite vulnerable, her Lahmian speed and enhanced withe the Master Sword gives her the edge in combat.

Simon nemesis would be Katrina: Her skill in necromancy would match and negate Simon's whilst her Blood Dragon training in combat couple with her armour would make her formidable compared to Simon

Magneqrox's nemesis would be Vekarin: Vekarin's superiority in combat coupled with his magic amour makes it difficult for Magneqrox to hurt him with little magic power, coupled with Magneqrox's lack of armour would mean just a slight nick from the Dark Blade would be something to worry about.

Graveclaw's nemesis would be Milosh: As he has no magical attacks to speak of Graveclaw would be unable to hurt the ethereal Milosh who would deal great damage in return with the Banishment Blade.

Rasks nemesis would be Lesa: Her Lahmian speed would be the only possible thing to keep up with the skavens incredible agility whilst she would be able to magically over power him and with the master sword match him in combat.

There's a few, I need to think more on the others............

Post: #6

hmm, i think you should also do the first two with item enhancements, i want to see how the cyntwins shape up

Post: #7

There will be another list shortly with item enhancements added in although it would help if more was posted in character bio's, there is not much to go on from the cyntwins.

Post: #8

Strategist / Commanders

1) Mircea - Renowned as one of the old world's best military commanders Mircea always uses the best tactics and terrain to his advantage, knows when to strike and is also wise enough to know when to retreat.
2) Vekarin - Another great commander only falls short of Mircea as the Blood Dragon in him seeks him to look for greater challenges and danger rather than possible tactically withdrawing
3) Drakki - With the Blood Dragon bloodline and a good tactical sense makes an excellent commander however the vast gap in knowledge of up to date weaponry and tactics means he is not joint with Vekarin.
4) Valda - Another excellent tactician held back somewhat by the presence of Nagash forcing him into tactical errors.
5) Magneqrox - Has shown aptitude in being able to fight where it is advantageous to him although let himself down with the defence of his keep.
6) Simon (joint) - A good understanding of tactics enables Simon to be a good commander although tactics can be thrown of the window if gets angry.
6) Milosh (Joint) - Sames as Simon
6) Lesa (Joint)- Same as Simon
7) Rask (Joint) -Only falls to this point as does not really use tactics or leads his troops (as is the skaven way) instead prefers to overwhelm his enemy with a tide of furry troops but is not able to react well if the tide starts turning.
7) V'azrin (Joint) - Has been known from historical records to sometimes lead minions of Nagash is battle
8) Katrina (joint) - Has not shown any tactical knowledge as of yet though this may change in the future.
8) Flendenhous (Joint)- Same as Katrina
9) Graveclaw - Does not use tactics other than knowing when it is a bad time to attack or not.
10) Cyn - Has no tactical knowledge as leaves command up to her father.

Post: #9

Small quarrel about Katrina: As a Blood Dragon she has a bit more military training than say Rask (correct me if I'm wrong) and has a fairly powerful base of operations in the form of Castle Moulan, yet I don't know what her forces look like (Katrina, feel free to step in here).

Post: #10

Katrinas army is all infantry so it couldn't make it to most of these battles in time but if we were closer to Draconia. (thats what Katrinas kingdom is called) her army would take part in most of these fights she has a fully mobilized army just siting in her parade grounds doing nothing Krug is her general.

Post: #11

i seem to be rated around 4-5 almost universally (except for Command, where im 7 :lol
and Rask still hasnt shown off his tactical ability, the time zone thing combined with the fact that the only point of that battle was to return Lesa (plus, he'd left his ratling guns at home, what did you expect him to do about 300 vampires charging at him?) meant i really didnt put a lot of effort into that battle. just give me a chance to go one on one against someone... :grin:
find it interesting that he's 3rd at magic (along with some others)

Post: #12

Yep, the time zones really deserve a kick in the balls.

Post: #13

yeh i know. like i said before... stupid world :grin:

Post: #14

Drakki does have an army, hell, he spent about 7 chapters fighting off a chaos siege while you lot were mucking about. but theres a mountain range inbetween him and his armies at the moment.

theres also the hinted-at-but-yet-to-be-revealed Revenant Omnis

Post: #15

The current list is based on what has currently been posted / seen, this lists will be updated as the story goes on so someone proving to command an attack very well may well go up the list or a bad defeat makes you go down....

Post: #16

I've just noticed that in the Magic section you have placed Magneqrox below Vekarin and Valda when in fact he is a level 3 wizard and they are level 1

Post: #17

Well yeah, he doesn't rely on magic because he prefers relying on himself, but he's an ok wizard

Post: #18

Hokay cokay, amended.

Post: #19

I think there should be a list on who has the most brute streangth

Post: #20

Hmm, well i think Katie will need to go at, lets see, umm, oh i know, the very bottom of all of them

Her only assets are well, ill leave that one up to you :P