chrassos said:

im still waitin for someone who has the courage to make some sugesstions about the ranks of Military and Power???

hey comon guys dont leave me like this

chrassos said:

No offense here, but I don't think your lack of answers has anything to do with a lack of courage. It has to do with a lack of interest. The questions is not particularly compelling, useful or even answerable.

When you say "rank by strength," what do you mean? Which House has the most characters with the printed icon? Which House has the characters with the printed icon that have the highest average STR or lowest cost-to-STR ratio? Which House has the greatest access to Responses based on the challenge type? If those are the bases for comparison, it's a database search, not a discussion.

Or do you mean "which House has the easiest time winning that type of challenge?" If so, on attack or defense? Melee or Joust? Are they sacrificing other challenges types to do so? Are we considering other cards, effects and means of character control as part of that (for example, Greyjoy may not have a TON of characters with an intrigue icon, but so many of them have Stealth)? I mean, I can build a deck in any House that never loses a military challenge to a Stark player, or a Stark deck that never loses an intrigue challenge - if that is the only thing I care about the deck doing. The game is too rich and too many other factors are brought into the challenge phase for simple "strength" to be a reasonable ranking tool.

Ultimately, if the question is simply "let's rank the Houses by the size of their beat-stick in each challenge type," I disagree that it is an interesting or cool question to begin with. The point is to find a balance in each House for all three challenge types, so this kind of ranking does not interest me, nor do I find it particularly useful.