Tooth and Tail News

Horus takes on Epicosity for the bronze and Kerpa takes on Tatanka for the gold in the TnT Championship Intermediate Division. See you there!

The new season of the 21 Duels is here! Prepare for 3 weeks of Tooth and Tail madness, starting from the second week of March onwards!
7 bosses are waiting for the reckless challengers who would dare face them with the craziest decks!
Sign up now, and take up this first challenge of the 2021 Duels, in March!
Score a lot of points over this season and/or the next ones, and you might even qualify for an epic final event coming up in late November!

Everything is explained here: https://21duels.delamarche.com/ (yes, the 21 duels have their own website now!)
Join the 21 duels discord if you want to signup: https://discord.gg/qcTe3Xx (everyone is welcome!)
Signups will close after the coming weekend.


Meanwhile the Tooth and Tail Championship 2021 is about to come to an end: the quarter-finals are almost finished, and semi-final matches will probably start being streamed this week. These players are currently qualified for the semi-finals:
Melvinfro, Meek, The Gentleman, Tiki Gray (Premier)
Epicosity, Horus The Holy, Kerpa, Tatanka (Intermediate)
Cavernus, Leon sderfw, Snake, Tandordraco (Beginner)

If you want even more: The first TnT Clan Wars are nearly finished, too, with semi-finals scheduled for 7th March and finals for 14th March. Yes, we got clans now: Badger Missionaries, Fox Babies, Lizard Wizard Magic, Pboop, Toad Road Gang, Formless Bearsloths (though I hear they come from another world)... all of them wonderful creatures.


By the way, if you recently had issues playing Tooth and Tail online, getting an error message like "Log into Steam and restart the game" whenever you tried: That issue should be fixed, now! If you still get that message (even after making sure you are logged in and restarted Steam), please let me know!

Today a new tournament series starts:

There are quite a few competitions going on for TNT right now, so the purpose of these tournaments will be to provide a periodic single day event that is slightly different from the Pocketbot Cup (an automated tournament happening each Monday).

Trumpet is kicking off the series today with the 1st Furball Cup: Saturday Open on his Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/trumpetsc2

The first open tournament starts now, at 1pm Eastern time. It is a double elimination bracket. To prevent the tournament running too long, not all games will be casted, instead the games will run in parallel.

The sign up, details, and rules are here:
https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/kfQro4mZfX#/signup/peyrgsmkqe8
and this discord can help you find your opponents https://discord.gg/VeUj34eaKy if you didn't already join too many Discord servers!

Sunday will mark the next season of the...

We've got 48 players in 3 divisions (beginner, intermediate, and premium). Seeds will be determined this Sunday and the first matches will probably get streamed later next week.
For more information on the schedule etc., visit the Championship's Discord server: https://discord.gg/4y9mQdXqg6

This patch comes with three new languages (Ukrainian, Esperanto, and Dutch) as well as a couple of balance tweaks to make certain playstyles a bit more risky. Most importantly: Barbed Wire no longer heals and Mole Warrens even deteriorate, so they keep most of their strength, but you better make it count!
See all the details about this and some other, small improvements below.

• Pig: 18 HP (from 20 HP).
  
• Toad: moves at the speed of regular units on roads (x1.3), on all terrain types.
  
• Mole: Warren to 18 HP (from 25 HP), and the Warren loses 3 HP whenever a Mole spawns from it.
  
• Chameleon: can attack immediately after uncloaking (from 0.25s delay).
  
• Barbed Wire: 14 HP (from 16 HP), start building with 1 HP (from 2.5 HP).
  
• Barbed Wire, Landmine, and Mole Warren: never regenerate HP.
  
• All Structures: cure poison on themselves even outside territory (poison used to get cured only in territory).
  
• Stealth Reveal: Commander needs to stand still for 2s (from 1.2s). Changed visualization and audio. Enemy commanders will not see the highlighted tiles or hear the sound effect.
  

• Shared replays now also work if they have been played on Workshop Maps.
  
• Mice no longer regenerate HP while being attacked (which was particularly bad in Story Mode missions where water heals, e.g. Sage Marro Speaks).
  
• Increased the impact of the difficulty slider for Awash in Solawa (Food gain per kill now depends on difficulty) and Vacancee Downfall (enemy has more/less resources depending on difficulty).
  
• Fixed the localization of summoned unit names in Story Mode.
  

The game can now also be played in Ukrainian, Esperanto,* and Dutch!
Many thanks to Anastasiia Vestel, Daria Titarova, Dina Dusha, Faina Zholobak, Lesia Ivashkevych, Maksym Zholobak, Roman Hardashuk, Tetiana Nepypenko, Viktoriia Farenyk, Vladyslava Niroda, Yaroslav Strigun (Ukrainian), and Vincent "Babelismoj" Oostelbos (Esperanto and Dutch).

*) Unfortunately, Steam's language selection does not support Esperanto. So for now the easiest way to switch to Esperanto is opening the Options.xml (in %appdata%\ToothAndTail on Windows or in ~/.config/ToothAndTail on Linux/Mac) with a simple text editor, and changing the line "" to "esperanto", restart and play. Revert that change if you want to play in any other language! (I'll try to find a more comfortable solution.)


End of July, the Tooth and Tail Championship 2020.2 started with almost 60 players.
It ended in September with these winners:
Premier division: Arilou (1st), The Gentleman (2nd), mocaccino (3rd)
Intermediate division: Sulomon (1st), Trumpet (2nd), Satoros (3rd)
Beginner division: elverdulerojorge (1st), Kin_Replica (2nd), Horus The Holy (3rd)

Shortly after that, The Magnificent 21 started: a team-based tournament with a lot of flavor, deck restrictions, and advantages for less experienced players.
See The Magnificent Gazette for weekly reports on the tournament!
In the end, the Badger Brothers barely defeated the Kasha Agency in the Grand Finals!

Mocaccino, the main organizer of the Championship, recently started a Pre-Season Cup, and more events are planned, e.g. another Boss Rush tournament (like 21 Duels), more seasons and spinoffs of the Championship as well as another 2v2 tournament early next year.
Jump into the Discord server to stay updated about these events!

Enjoy!
EELuminatus

In "The Magnificent 21" five factions of mixed skill levels will fight each other.
The first Episode of the community event goes live now, at 6pm EDT/ midnight CEST on ToothAndTailTV:
https://www.twitch.tv/toothandtailtv