Empfohlene Zugreihenfolge basierend auf Spielzeit:

== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
Round 3 will start in about 3.5 days, on 2017-05-31 9:19 AM GMT. One match is still ongoing (Gilafron vs xlnt) and it may be extended by 1 month through a replay on a new map, but all the matches from round 3 except #37 will be generated on the 31st nonetheless.
DreadReapr won his match and Melciar also won his. They haven't reported yet but their opponent in round 3 can anticipate their match against them.

We received about 5 class/race so far (including from the 2 judges involved in the tournament: Marcuspers and I), so @the 11 other players (-2 for the match that may be delayed): please send your class/race to judges as soon as possible so that all round 3 matches can start without delay.

Round 3 will last 3 months to take into account the summer holidays (= there is a 1 month extension).
Reminder: round 3 will be played on the main branch (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=661597466) of the balance mod with v1.21 of the mod. Round 4 will be played with v1.22 of the mod.

== Balance ==
You can find the changelog of v1.22 here: https://docs.google.com/docum... It should be released on the beta branch of the balance mod around the 1st of June.

giving a dread a 3 shot ranged weapon takes away some of the flavor of the class. I just *intentionally* lose my first hero offered to me in combat just so my dread can have a 3 attack range weapon.

@Tass: yes, a 3-shot ranged weapon for Dread will be considered, and same for Warlord. We're probably going to open a broader discussion about heroes soon. Regarding Might Meek, it still work as before through the Theocrat spell of the same name. T1 Halflings get Lesser Mighty Meek which is a weaker version (they actually already have it in v1.21, it's nerfed in v1.22).
@all: you can see some of the possible ideas for heroes here http://aow.triumph.net/forums... and it'd be really great to have more people joining the discussion and brainstorm!

== Balance ==
The following changes are confirmed for v1.22:
GC11a
Units acquired through Ghouling Strike have an upkeep increased by +25% gold/turn

Dr18
Dreadnought heroes can choose Gas Mask at level 7 for 5 points: units in the stack led by this unit get 40% Blight Protection and immune to Choking Fumes, Suffocate and Disgusting Stench. Undead, Elemental, Machines and Incorporeal are not affected.

Dr19
Dreadnought heroes can choose Lava Walking for 4 points at level 9, it also gives them 100% Fire Protection

Dr21
Dreadnought heroes can choose Activate Golem at level 11 for 5 points to deploy and enter a Golem once per battle: until the end of battle, the hero gains Machine, Wall Crushing, Demolisher, Tireless, Reinforced, 40% shock weakness. He loses the bonus from his current mount, the Mounted ability (and associated bonus) and his MP are reduced to 28. He keeps his race’s, items’, etc.’s other abilities and spells. Activate Golem causes the heroes to enter Guard Mode and finishes their turn.
Activate Golem cannot be used while on Water or Lava.

Ha06b
Halfling T1’s Lesser Mighty Meek gives +1 physical damage by tier level difference with the unit attacking them (was +1 strength on all channels per tier difference with the unit they attack)

Ne03a
Dead cities do not have economic bonus any more (was gain +5% to all types of income for every level of Necromancy skill)
Embalmers Guild gives +5 gold and Cathedral of Bones gives +10% to all the incomes of the city. A new building can be built in Ghoul city, requiring Cathedral of Bones, it costs 150 gold and 100 mana and gives +15% to all the incomes of the city.
Cathedral of Bones costs 100 gold and 100 mana (was 150 gold and 100 mana).

Th10
The description of the tech Exalted Martyr does not provide any XP bonus to Martyrs (was saying it gave +50% but was actually not). Martyrs evolve on Champion I (was Elite).

Hiliadan
== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
3 matches still ongoing, 15 days left before end of round.
Please start thinking about your class/race for next turn! You can start sending to judges: Fistandantilus, Marcuspers and me.

== PBEM 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
59 days left before end of round 4.

== Balance ==
The changelog of v1.22 will be finalized this Friday, so please provide feedback now if you think some changes are good, or bad!

The following changes will be confirmed for v1.22 if there is no new feedback is provided by the community:
GC11a
Units acquired through Ghouling Strike have an upkeep increased by +25% gold/turn

Dr18
Dreadnought heroes can choose Gas Mask at level 7 for 5 points: units in the stack led by this unit get 40% Blight Protection and immune to Choking Fumes, Suffocate and Disgusting Stench. Undead, Elemental, Machines and Incorporeal are not affected.

Dr19
Dreadnought heroes can choose Lava Walking for 4 points at level 9, it also gives them 100% Fire Protection

Dr21
Dreadnought heroes can choose Activate Golem at level 11 for 5 points to deploy and enter a Golem once per battle: until the end of battle, the hero gains Machine, Wall Crushing, Demolisher, Tireless, Reinforced, 40% shock weakness. He loses the bonus from his current mount, the Mounted ability (and associated bonus) and his MP are reduced to 28. He keeps his race’s, items’, etc.’s other abilities and spells. Activate Golem causes the heroes to enter Guard Mode and finishes their turn.
Activate Golem cannot be used while on Water or Lava.

Ha06b
Halfling T1’s Lesser Mighty Meek gives +1 physical damage by tier level difference with the unit attacking them (was +1 strength on all channels per tier difference with the unit they attack)

Ne03a
Dead cities do not have economic bonus any more (was gain +5% to all types of income for every level of Necromancy skill)
Embalmers Guild gives +5 gold and Cathedral of Bones gives +10% to all the incomes of the city. A new building can be built in Ghoul city, requiring Cathedral of Bones, it costs 150 gold and 100 mana and gives +15% to all the incomes of the city.
Cathedral of Bones costs 100 gold and 100 mana (was 150 gold and 100 mana).

Th10
The description of the tech Exalted Martyr does not provide any XP bonus to Martyrs (was saying it gave +50% but was actually not). Martyrs evolve on Champion I (was Elite).

Fi04
Tropical Empire gives Inflict Immolation to allied units in your domain.

You can see the full changelog of v1.22 in these 3 posts:
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-252994
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-253264
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-253347

@Tass: yes, a 3-shot ranged weapon for Dread will be considered, and same for Warlord. We're probably going to open a broader discussion about heroes soon. Regarding Might Meek, it still work as before through the Theocrat spell of the same name. T1 Halflings get Lesser Mighty Meek which is a weaker version (they actually already have it in v1.21, it's nerfed in v1.22).
@all: you can see some of the possible ideas for heroes here http://aow.triumph.net/forums... and it'd be really great to have more people joining the discussion and brainstorm!

== Balance ==
The following changes are confirmed for v1.22:
GC11a
Units acquired through Ghouling Strike have an upkeep increased by +25% gold/turn

Dr18
Dreadnought heroes can choose Gas Mask at level 7 for 5 points: units in the stack led by this unit get 40% Blight Protection and immune to Choking Fumes, Suffocate and Disgusting Stench. Undead, Elemental, Machines and Incorporeal are not affected.

Dr19
Dreadnought heroes can choose Lava Walking for 4 points at level 9, it also gives them 100% Fire Protection

Dr21
Dreadnought heroes can choose Activate Golem at level 11 for 5 points to deploy and enter a Golem once per battle: until the end of battle, the hero gains Machine, Wall Crushing, Demolisher, Tireless, Reinforced, 40% shock weakness. He loses the bonus from his current mount, the Mounted ability (and associated bonus) and his MP are reduced to 28. He keeps his race’s, items’, etc.’s other abilities and spells. Activate Golem causes the heroes to enter Guard Mode and finishes their turn.
Activate Golem cannot be used while on Water or Lava.

Ha06b
Halfling T1’s Lesser Mighty Meek gives +1 physical damage by tier level difference with the unit attacking them (was +1 strength on all channels per tier difference with the unit they attack)

Ne03a
Dead cities do not have economic bonus any more (was gain +5% to all types of income for every level of Necromancy skill)
Embalmers Guild gives +5 gold and Cathedral of Bones gives +10% to all the incomes of the city. A new building can be built in Ghoul city, requiring Cathedral of Bones, it costs 150 gold and 100 mana and gives +15% to all the incomes of the city.
Cathedral of Bones costs 100 gold and 100 mana (was 150 gold and 100 mana).

Th10
The description of the tech Exalted Martyr does not provide any XP bonus to Martyrs (was saying it gave +50% but was actually not). Martyrs evolve on Champion I (was Elite).

Hiliadan
== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
3 matches still ongoing, 15 days left before end of round.
Please start thinking about your class/race for next turn! You can start sending to judges: Fistandantilus, Marcuspers and me.

== PBEM 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
59 days left before end of round 4.

== Balance ==
The changelog of v1.22 will be finalized this Friday, so please provide feedback now if you think some changes are good, or bad!

The following changes will be confirmed for v1.22 if there is no new feedback is provided by the community:
GC11a
Units acquired through Ghouling Strike have an upkeep increased by +25% gold/turn

Dr18
Dreadnought heroes can choose Gas Mask at level 7 for 5 points: units in the stack led by this unit get 40% Blight Protection and immune to Choking Fumes, Suffocate and Disgusting Stench. Undead, Elemental, Machines and Incorporeal are not affected.

Dr19
Dreadnought heroes can choose Lava Walking for 4 points at level 9, it also gives them 100% Fire Protection

Dr21
Dreadnought heroes can choose Activate Golem at level 11 for 5 points to deploy and enter a Golem once per battle: until the end of battle, the hero gains Machine, Wall Crushing, Demolisher, Tireless, Reinforced, 40% shock weakness. He loses the bonus from his current mount, the Mounted ability (and associated bonus) and his MP are reduced to 28. He keeps his race’s, items’, etc.’s other abilities and spells. Activate Golem causes the heroes to enter Guard Mode and finishes their turn.
Activate Golem cannot be used while on Water or Lava.

Ha06b
Halfling T1’s Lesser Mighty Meek gives +1 physical damage by tier level difference with the unit attacking them (was +1 strength on all channels per tier difference with the unit they attack)

Ne03a
Dead cities do not have economic bonus any more (was gain +5% to all types of income for every level of Necromancy skill)
Embalmers Guild gives +5 gold and Cathedral of Bones gives +10% to all the incomes of the city. A new building can be built in Ghoul city, requiring Cathedral of Bones, it costs 150 gold and 100 mana and gives +15% to all the incomes of the city.
Cathedral of Bones costs 100 gold and 100 mana (was 150 gold and 100 mana).

Th10
The description of the tech Exalted Martyr does not provide any XP bonus to Martyrs (was saying it gave +50% but was actually not). Martyrs evolve on Champion I (was Elite).

Fi04
Tropical Empire gives Inflict Immolation to allied units in your domain.

You can see the full changelog of v1.22 in these 3 posts:
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-252994
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-253264
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/page/7/#post-253347

So MM come into play only when a little halfling is attacked !?

PS: Give to Dread heros a weapon that shoots 3 times, plz! 

== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
3 matches still ongoing, 15 days left before end of round.
Please start thinking about your class/race for next turn! You can start sending to judges: Fistandantilus, Marcuspers and me.

== PBEM 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
59 days left before end of round 4.

== Balance ==
The changelog of v1.22 will be finalized this Friday, so please provide feedback now if you think some changes are good, or bad!

The following changes will be confirmed for v1.22 if there is no new feedback is provided by the community:
GC11a
Units acquired through Ghouling Strike have an upkeep increased by +25% gold/turn

Dr18
Dreadnought heroes can choose Gas Mask at level 7 for 5 points: units in the stack led by this unit get 40% Blight Protection and immune to Choking Fumes, Suffocate and Disgusting Stench. Undead, Elemental, Machines and Incorporeal are not affected.

Dr19
Dreadnought heroes can choose Lava Walking for 4 points at level 9, it also gives them 100% Fire Protection

Dr21
Dreadnought heroes can choose Activate Golem at level 11 for 5 points to deploy and enter a Golem once per battle: until the end of battle, the hero gains Machine, Wall Crushing, Demolisher, Tireless, Reinforced, 40% shock weakness. He loses the bonus from his current mount, the Mounted ability (and associated bonus) and his MP are reduced to 28. He keeps his race’s, items’, etc.’s other abilities and spells. Activate Golem causes the heroes to enter Guard Mode and finishes their turn.
Activate Golem cannot be used while on Water or Lava.

Ha06b
Halfling T1’s Lesser Mighty Meek gives +1 physical damage by tier level difference with the unit attacking them (was +1 strength on all channels per tier difference with the unit they attack)

Ne03a
Dead cities do not have economic bonus any more (was gain +5% to all types of income for every level of Necromancy skill)
Embalmers Guild gives +5 gold and Cathedral of Bones gives +10% to all the incomes of the city. A new building can be built in Ghoul city, requiring Cathedral of Bones, it costs 150 gold and 100 mana and gives +15% to all the incomes of the city.
Cathedral of Bones costs 100 gold and 100 mana (was 150 gold and 100 mana).

Th10
The description of the tech Exalted Martyr does not provide any XP bonus to Martyrs (was saying it gave +50% but was actually not). Martyrs evolve on Champion I (was Elite).

These two need more discussion to choose one:
Fi04
Tropical Empire gives Inflict Immolation to allied units in your domain.

Fi04a
Tropical Empire gives Inflict Scorched Heat to allied units in your domain.

Confirmed for v1.22:
GC02a
Maximum XP interactions (XP counters) for each tier are 6/8/9/10 for tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, tier 4 respectively (was 6/8/10/12)

GC39
Migration takes a minimum of 2 turns (was 1 turn) + 1 turn every 15 hexes (as before)

== Balance ==
@Imperium: it is difficult to satisfy everyone all the time. People do not want to constantly receive messages about balance so I try to limit my posts here to 1 per week more or less, and I do my best to keep them short, so I don't post walls of texts explaining the rationale of the changes. The rationale of the changes is available through different channels that I'm going to remind as probably many people do not know about it or forgot it:

• as stated in the description of the mod on Steam: "You can report any bugs on the discussion about the mod on Triumph's official forum (it is also enough to report it here on the Steam Workshop): http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/pbem-balance-mod/ You can participate to the balance discussion here: http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/balance-based-on-hard-data-from-the-pbem-tournament-continued/". So that's the two official channels.


• as 95% of people are not motivated (any more) to read and post on the forum, other channels are used, to maximize participation from the community:




• core group for balance discussion: gladis, Hellbrick, Jean de Metz, marcuspers and I discuss all changes by PM and filter the best ones


• extended group for balance discussion: about 10 players receive the filtered changes by PM and provide feedback


• then I post them on this PBEM Tournament Player Pool to give opportunities to everyone to give feedback and weed out bad changes that may have gone through the first filters


• I also post on the BF's chat changes that are hotly debated (+ one to one discussions on Steam with some players)




• to prepare the changes, anyone can open a topic on the Steam forum or the official forum (the latter is more serious and better quality) about a specific topic. So we have opened many topics in recent weeks/months to design changes on:




• Balancing sites


• Balancing specialisations and Brainstorming to improve some unloved specialisations


• Improving Secret Spells


• Unifier victory needs a boost?


• Correcting incorrect or imprecise descriptions of abilities, spells, etc.


• Suggestion: Conversion limit


• Balancing the costs of hero upgrades


• Boosting Dreadnought heroes


• Making currently rarely used units more useful


• Making currently rarely used DWELLING units more useful


• Increasing the interest of multi-races strategies


• Balancing strong abilities in the Arcane Item Forge


• Fixing the "no city" economy


• Necromancer's ways of acquiring units too strong (in PBEM at least)? (+ another topic I can't find right now)


• Reclassifying items' rarity




• for changes where the rationale is not clear, comments are displayed in the GoogleDoc summarizing all the discussed changes in the "Comments" column: https://docs.google.com/docum... />

Usually, when a discussion is ongoing somewhere, I announce it here and gives link, and then in following weeks, you see changes related to that discussion appear here. So basically, you can find the rationale in the link.

One last important thing... The priorities right now are those defined by the community during the poll on "the directions of the balance mod". Please check the results in the picture below:


Regarding paper/scissors/rock, it's already the case at the unit levels but doing it for classes would be both very resource-intensive (in terms of time needed for design, approval by the community, tests) and dangerous.


The following changes will be confirmed for v1.22 if there is no new feedback is provided by the community:
GC02a
Maximum XP interactions (XP counters) for each tier are 6/8/9/10 for tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, tier 4 respectively (was 6/8/10/12)

GC39
Migration takes a minimum of 2 turns (was 1 turn) + 1 turn every 15 hexes (as before)

Hiliadan, regarding the proposed mod changes I still feel too inexperienced to figure if a change would be good or not, all the more since the rationale for the changes are missing : what would, in my opinion, help to get feedback would be to explain the reason for the change, possibly among all the objectives of the PBEM mod version (e.g. nerf Necro, etc.).

By the way I wonder if introducing some kind of rock/paper/scissors balacing to the game could be done ? This way it would maybe not matter so much if a given class is strong against a class, provided it is similarly weak against another class.

== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
It is likely that the round will last until the deadline as several matches started late and are moving slowly.
Reminder: round 3 will be played with v1.21 of the balance mod (and round 4 probably with v1.22).

== Misc ==
A new article has been published: First video of the community-made Shadow Realm expansion, check it out and your comments directly on the article or the video are welcome!

For those interested in the videos of the game of rickyroo and me vs rrrrookie and Jonny Thunder in round 3 of the PBEM 2vs2 Team Tournament (playlist of the game on YouTube), here are some highlights you can watch:
- rush of rrrrookie on turn 19 and how we responded to it, check out the turns 19 to 23 (follow the link to turn 19)
- 2nd wave of attack from rrrrookie from turn 28 to 32

== Balance ==
The following changes need more feedback from the community!
GC02a
Maximum XP interactions (XP counters) for each tier are 6/8/9/10 for tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, tier 4 respectively (was 6/8/10/12)

GC39
Migration takes a minimum of 2 turns (was 1 turn) + 1 turn every 15 hexes (as before)

GC40
Spell upgrades for heroes cost 4 (was 5), except:
– Chain Lightning (stay at 5)
– Last Stand (stay at 5)
– Slayer’s Doubt (stay at 5)
– Stiffen Limbs (stay at 5)
– Repair Fortification: costs 3
CP upgrade costs for heroes are reduced to 4+4+5+5+5+5+5 = 33 in total to get to 85 CP (was 5+5+7+7+7+9+9 = 49)

GC41b
Break Control costs 3 UP (was 2)
Inflict Severely Poisoned costs 4 UP (was 5)
Stunning Touch costs 3 UP (was 2)
True Sight costs 4 UP (was 3)
Phase costs 3 UP (was 4)
Projectile Reflection costs 3 UP (was 5)
Rapid Reload costs 2 UP (was 3)
Guardian Flame costs 4 UP (was 5)
Martial Art costs 3 UP (was 2)
Tireless costs 7 UP (was 6)
One with the Tree costs 5 UP (was 6)
Life Steal costs 3 UP (was 2)
Energy Drain costs 5 UP (was 4)

GC42
Dirty Half Dozen costs 3 upgrade points (UP) (was 4)
Infiltration Squad gives Improved Wall Climbing (was Wall Climbing)
Chaplain costs 4 UP (was 3)
Pest Control Squad costs 4 UP (was 5)
Charge Command costs 4 UP (was 5)
Fleet Command gives Fast Embark and Mariner (was Mariner)
Holy Champion costs 4 UP (was 5)
Nature’s Resistance costs 4 UP (was 3)

Both the main branch and the beta branch of the balance mod have been updated by Zaskow to be compatible with v1.8 POSEIDON from Triumph. So now all tournament games should be able to continue. Sorry for the trouble, but we need to update the mod manually each time Triumph releases a new official patch.

It's the last 3 days to vote for the poll What are your difficulties when playing Necromancer? so please have a look at it and cast your vote, so that we can fine-tune Necro based on the difficulties or absence of difficulties of the community.

With the old games not playable after recent game update. I think we need to update the PBEM and PBEM beta mods to current version of the game.

@Imperium: finally the players who were not responsive managed to start their game so there will be no replacement (for now at least).

@all: a quick update to say that Triumph released v1.8 officially so now all tournament games need to be played on v1.8. It has been released on Steam and GoG (though the GoG patch seems weird to me but maybe they'll improve it tomorrow, I haven't installed it yet).

== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
About 28.5 days left before round 3.

@Hiliadan : Having already lost my 2 matches, I am available for a replacement if need be ! Maybe other players who have also already been eliminated are also available ?

== Tournaments ==
For both 2vs2 Team Tournament and Duel Tournament, a few rules have been updated to clarify certain stuff and take into account recent developments.
Rule 1 is now worded: "The team with the highest cumulated score for non-eliminated players (dead players have 0 point) then wins the match. If scores are very close, the judges can decide that it is a draw and decide a replay the game with a shorter deadline (for instance 1 month), an extension or another solution (including awarding victory to one team), based on the circumstances of the march and the tournament."
This has been added to rule 3: "If a player skips his turn because of the timer, it is not allowed to revert the turn: the host should remove the turn timer and players should notify judges and wait for their indications on how to continue."
This has been added to rule 7: "When the rules are imprecise or do not cover a case, Judges have flexibility to take the most appropriate decisions."

== 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament ==
2 matches still not started. Replacements are considered so that the match can eventually proceed.
 
== Balance ==
Confirmed for v1.22:
GC38a
Spiders spawned by the battle enchantment of Shrine to the Queen of Spiders (Arachnide Hordes) do not provide XP when hit or killed
[to solve an XP exploit]

Cr04
Temperate Empire gives +1 defense and +1 resistance to allied units in your domain.

Dr08a
Musketeers do 11 melee damage (was 10) and gets +1 melee damage at Veteran and Elite

== All tournaments ==
Please note that turn reverts are forbidden in tournaments. If someone skips his turn and a revert is necessary, please notify judges and remove turn timer before continuing the game.

== 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
Match #20 from round 3 reached turn 72 by the deadline of the end of the round but no team was defeated. Judges are currently discussing to confirm the initial conclusion that the match should continue for 2 weeks as the scores of the 2 teams were very close. As soon as the judges agree on something, we should see clearer what happens to match #20.
The round 4 game between Bastards of the North and Zia was allowed to start nonetheless.
Round 5 will start in about 11 weeks (probably more).

== Misc ==
Check out the latest interview of players who reached the final phase of the 2015 PBEM Duel Tournament: Interview of gabthegab - winner of the 2015 PBEM Duel Tournament

== Balance ==
The following changes will be confirmed for v1.22 if there is no new feedback is provided by the community:
GC38a
Spiders spawned by the battle enchantment of Shrine to the Queen of Spiders (Arachnide Hordes) do not provide XP when hit or killed
[to solve an XP exploit]

Cr04
Temperate Empire gives +1 defense and +1 resistance to allied units in your domain.

Dr08a
Musketeers do 11 melee damage (was 10) and gets +1 melee damage at Veteran and Elite

Confirmed for v1.22:
Wa05
Researching Death March allows to cast Death March for 60 CP and Individual Death March for 20 CP, which has a similar effect. Individual Death March can only target 1 stack of 1 T1 Irregular (and units can only be targetted once by Death March or Individual Death March).

GC37
Effigy of the Lich King gives Healing Undead and Undying (was Healing Undead and Necromantic Aura)

Bishmanrock quitted!

== 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
Round 3 ends today but xlnt is away so the start of round 4 may be delayed a bit, we'll see.
In any case, we need the class/race of:
- Olop
- AlX
- Ezekiel
And also as soon as the current ongoing match is finished:
- rrrrookie
- Jonny Thunder
- the 2 winners of the match

The winner bracket does NOT play now, they play again in round 5. Round 4 will last 11 weeks, as round 3 and as future rounds.

== Balance ==
v1.21 will be released on the main branch tomorrow if we manage to end the ongoing match of round 3 of the 2vs2 Team Tournament, otherwise it will probably be Monday.
Work for v1.22 is moving, not as fast as I'd like, but we're making good progress. We'll probably deal with many small issues and one big new topic, heroes' abilities balancing. The topic of "rarely used units" will probably be pushed to v1.23 as we lack sufficient feedback to validate changes that have already been proposed for other topics and I prefer to focus energy on getting the backlog of priority changes cleared first.
v1.22 should be used for round 4 (and not 3) of the Duel Tournament and 5 of the 2vs2 Team Tournament. It will NOT be ready for round 3 of the Duel Tournament as far as I can see.

== Misc ==
Please vote on the latest poll: What are your difficulties when playing Necromancer?

mauvebutterfly quitted!

Moridin joined !!

== 2017 Duel Tournament ==
All games started but three:
- Jundland vs Ezekiel: Jundland needs to host and posts the screenshots of the settings
- natnat vs DreadReapr: same but with natnat as host (+ natnat needs to send class/race to judges)
- Blackcat vs Melciar: Blackcat needs to send class/race to judges, Melciar needs to host and post the screenshots of the settings

A few games already finished.

== 2vs2 Team Tournament ==
Only 2 games still ongoing (including 1 which I think is finished?). An extension of 2 days has been asked to the judges as a big bug on a tactical battle seems to have been discovered (the result is different from what is displayed on the replay + some units acted very strangely, suiciding themselves by taking attacks of opportunities instead of finishing units with 1 or 6 HP left) and the devs may be able to investigate it.
The judges will decide soon if this extension is given or not.
Without extension, the round ends in 7 days and 15 hours.

== Misc ==
Please vote to help balance Necro: What are your difficulties when playing Necromancer?
Following the interview of Fistandantilus, please find here the interview of Skuns who was finalist of the 2015 PBEM Duel Tournament against gabthegab:Interview of Skuns453Lirik902 - finalist of the 2015 PBEM Duel Tournament (with hindsights on best combos, best units, ...).

== Balance ==
The following will be confirmed for v1.22 if there are no further comments on them:
Wa05
Researching Death March allows to cast Death March for 60 CP and Individual Death March for 20 CP, which has a similar effect. Individual Death March can only target 1 stack of 1 T1 Irregular (and units can only be targetted once by Death March or Individual Death March).

GC37
Effigy of the Lich King gives Healing Undead and Undying (was Healing Undead and Necromantic Aura)

Confirmed for v1.22
Ha09i
Brew Brothers cost 75 gold and 20 mana (was 70 gold and 20 mana)

Ne15
Undeads that attack a unit with Necromantic Aura get “Immune to Necromantic Aura” (cannot be dispelled) if the Aura fails its 7 spirit attack check on them. Units with “Immune to Necromantic Aura” cannot be affected by it. 

Th05
Divine Justicars costs 12 points (was 10)