Horde Power
Horde Power (軍パワー "Army Level" or 軍力 "Military Strength"), previously referred to as Battle Level and known as Horde Strength (JP: 魔王軍) in No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!, is a metric used to gauge the strength of Badman's army. It's represented by a myriad of symbols across the series.
In What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? and related games, Horde Power is a number on-screen that increases by a given number as monsters are spawned in the dungeon. For example, in What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? 2, a Slimemoss will raise the number by 1, but a Mara will increase it by 1280.
Horde Power has an influence on some EX Stages in No Heroes Allowed!, with the EX versions of 1-4, 2-3, 3-3, and 3-5 all requiring certain thresholds to be met for the stages to manifest.
In No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!
Horde Strength is used to show the cumulative calculated ATK stat of the player's party, visible in Badman's Lair. The maximum possible is 409, using a max level Big Psycho, Leviathomnom, Chaste Chest, Supremanoid, and a Hydra. However, it may not be strictly optimal, as it ignores the existence of special effects. The minimum possible is 5, using a set of five Pure Breeds.
In No Heroes Allowed! VR
In No Heroes Allowed! VR, instead of simply being a notation for how strong an army is, Horde Power is used to determine what runeborn monsters or Mimic family members can be spawned after sucking the monsters up. For example, a total of 50 will make a Wookiemon. Horde Power, in this case, can be seen as exchanging monsters of a given power level for a single monster of a comparable power level. In doing this, further investments can be made to eventually make a Mara, the strongest monster in the game.
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Battle Level as seen in What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? 2
The icon representing Horde Power in No Heroes Allowed!
