Horray!

Actually, that's my general strategy to beat my enemies (with logical adaptations according to circumstances, like having a decent tank Champion). Works quite well. Included the part that you ignored in which I said about "Also too: don't get near mauler in the strategic map." and that I follow until my army is ready. But in general, my basic layer of strategy remains the same for most of the combats no matter the enemy. That's not very good for a strategy game... and I'm a "casual" (but appareantly not as casual as "casually casual") and bad player. Imagine if I were good!   I blame Frogboy and his still youngling AI... and maybe some hundreds of hours of WoM.

I didn't say that Maul didn't need tweaking but what's wrong with having to use the brain to beat certain types of encounters*? Must all of them be just like the bandits? Yes, Maul needs tweaking (I repeat it because apparently, I must have been saying "Please, increase Maul's power" lately). 

Nevermind.

* well, at least until you figure it out

I would personally rather see a -25% modifier or -33% to accuracy each time it hits. -4 is too static. What about monsters that level up and gain extra accuracy? What about modders who want to use it?

The solution is obvious when you think about it.  Leave maul as it is but add in Chuck Norris...

Even a percentage cut would be silly. You are pretty much always guarenteed 2 hits, which is better than double attack without having to expend any level up points on it. The weapon damage can be tweaked around all over the place but it still runs the risk of being abused by super strength champions. The 'maul' effect is the problem, not the weapon that it is attached too. Fix maul to be balanced with other specials and feel free to add it to any weapon you can think of.

There is also the secondary issue that with maul the way it is currently there is no way to tell your champions are at risk. It's not like there is a big glowing neon sign above the enemy champion that says "Attacks may be more damaging than they appear" like there is when you run into a champion/unit with 40+attack.

still not enough, the thread started made a wrong argument, i never EVER lost a hero against a bear

 the problem is on weapons

since heroes has a LOT of accuracy the penalty doesnt quite cover the op of the weapon bonus

its basically like a triple attack on EACH attack

but most of all with a lucky streak its like a 1 shot to ANYONE, its just too op, why there should be a weapon so strong?

if you really want to keep a infinite lucky loop weapon (and you shouldnt ) make a malus to  accuracy AND dmg, each next successful attacfk should deal 20 % less dmg

even this way it sounds too OP, why there should be a weapon that with a lucky roll does 100+80+60+40+20=300% dmg (even if it averages a bit lower than that) ?

for monster i think its balanced, players have much more dodge and can kite, cast spells etc etc

its right for a bear to have some good skill since its the only thing they have

With the next patch, the world shall be filled with the lamentations of a million bears.

R.I.P. Niobhe, your death will be avenged... Soon.

I can't join a group who's acronym is named after a cooking spray.

listen, bears are dangerous...  go punch one and see what happens

I saw the double nerf (to the weapons and the skill) and thought "this is nice, but clearly not enough".

At the very least the negative to accuracy needs to be percentage based, and something more like -50% cumulative (-50%, -75%, -112% aka no chance). All the laughable -3 accuracy and lower damage do is make it so I have to go and make a sandwich while my sov hits nonstop low damage against something until it dies. Instead of making it annoying to use but still overpowered it should be fun to use and not overpowered.

I like the idea of Maul I, Maul II, Maul III. Maul I starts out to where every instance of Maul is -6 accuracy at 50% damage. Maul II is -4 Accuracy at 75% damage, and Maul III is -3 Accuracy at 100% Damage. Each reoccurence of the Maul effect gets the Accuracy penalty added to the previous one as is currently designed.

Which would be about 5-ish hits on average. Which is still NUTS.