Thread:Stray Bird/@comment-28818979-20161217150031/@comment-28209103-20170703055216

Considering how OP Vlad is, I guess more sensible master will pick famous local heroes instead, just look at Vlad, he's started as probably one of the weakest servant to someone who can rival Karna, one of the strongest Heroic spirit ever existed. Now for example Yoshitsune are already deified by the Japanese, or Raikou who are half-deity with the power of Indra at her behest, let's say that those two are considered above average by Heroic spirit standard, just imagine what kind of power buff they'll receive in home advantage IF they got similar level of buff as Vlad. In fact even Sakaki Kojirou barely have any fame boost, while arguably he's not as famous and celebrated as Musashi, he's still not a no-namer but there's no mention of him having stat boosted by home advantage.

AFAIK no master know what kind of power their servant will wield, there's no such thing as depiction of Gil throwing bunch of sword like missile, or Arthur using sword beam, or which assassin have which power, or what kind of power will Vlad stake maifest. Exaclty because the fame boost are that significant that unless it's really old or famous servant, all master should take the homeground advantage if they're aiming to win. What I'm saying is that the homeground advantage being that OP making the decision of the master from 4th or 5th holy grail war to look dumb, for example that Caster master of 5th war could just pick Abe no Seimei for homeground advantage, Zouken can just pick someone like Benkei or Raikou or even Sun Wukong which influence are spread across all buddhist nation for 4th or 5th war. Again considering how powerful Vlad is, there's a lot of reason to bank on local heroes fame boost to win the war. As you said it yourself on previous work older servant with more powerful NP are more relieable that betting on fame boost.. not so for Apocrypha it seems.

I respect the author policy and liberty, but whether I like it or not is different matter. power buff is fine but the fact that it boost the not-so-powerful into all-powerful servant is no small matter, when it's treated as standalone work like strange fake, it's fine but once it become canon for the universe that had root on previous work..suddenly it become a conflict with previous work or simply making things more confusing and raised a lot of question.