How many cats are needed to defeat a tiger?

I think the question should be how many Tigers can a house cat kill?
Answer: Probably 1-2 per day. My 15 lbs. cat would love a few tiger kittens (2 lbs. I think) as playmates. I think he would get bored after 1-2 per day.
Steve

Ceiling Cat could do it.

As far as i can recall, a successful attack in Dungeons and Dragon always does a minimum of one damage. Excluding Damage Reduction, i think.

Well, if you assume that a tiger (CR4) is 1,350 XP to a single level 1 enemy, the equivalent Challenge Rating would be 18 cats (each CR¼).

I think the tiger would have a hard time dispatching a lot of cats without opposable thumbs; they’ll be all over him, slowing flaying him alive, and he’ll have to expend a lot of energy to shake them loose and get in position to kill them with his claws or fangs. So I don’t think you need a lot of replacement cats, and 60-90 should do the job without too much trouble.
Anyway, it’s an interesting question, but not as good as “How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?” (I know I started a copycat thread here (in, I guess, IMHO), but it’s apparently been eaten. Why the hell is it necessary for this board to delete content?)

Ok, maybe I didn’t start that thread here. Found this, which includes my own answer to the question.

I could have sworn I was the one to start that thread. God, memory is so unreliable.

Encore, Encore
So I think we are assuming some force is controlling an unlimited number of healthy normal cats to attack and kill a normal healthy tiger is a largish arena from which the tiger cannot escape.

If we have 10,000 cats it is obvious that the cat would wear down the tiger, so now we simply must determine how few it would take. The tiger will kill dozens of cats in short order, but occasionally the cats will get stuck on its claws, slowing it down. The claws themselves will be wearing down.

In the meantime they will be doing some actually damage to exposed ears, nose, genital areas and especially the eyes. The blow will start flowing. Tiger hide is tougher than human, but nothing compared to elephant. I doubt the army of cats will be ineffective against inflicting scratches on the tiger that bleed.

In the end I would think it would only take a 300-500 cats to wear the tiger down.

Jim

:: yanks away RCC ::

How many times must I tell you to STAY OUT OF MY THINGS!!

The Relativistic Cat Cannon is for murdering Namor, the Sub-Mariner. It is not a toy.

In an attempt to get my name submitted for the SDSAB, I am have started an experiment to determine the average number of cats needed. In my basement, I have a sealed box with one tiger in it. Inside the box, are glass capsules that each contains one cat (think Bonsai Kitten). At random intervals, one of the capsules will break open, releasing the voraciously hungry cat (the tiger is well fed, so the only fighting instinct will be that of survival). It’s also set up so that for any given time period, exactly half the remaining capsules will break open.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a beat down, but the people doing the beat down often hit each other a fair proportion of the punches they throw. When you have a lot against one, the lot tend to get in one another’s way. The tiger’s attacks need not be precise, for instance, the tiger could kill the cats by simply rolling around on the ground.

What was that cannon the Brits borrowed to shoot chickens (cadavers, cadavers!) at aircraft windows to test breakage? The manufacturer had to reply to their problems with the words, “first thaw out the chickens”. Just sub “cat”.
As for attacking; get the tiger to swallow a battery powered speaker with the sound of a can opener pre-recorded on it.

Just one.

His name is “Garfield” and he is cunning

Off to MPSIMS.

Unfortunately for Garfield… the tiger’s name is “Hobbes.” And he plays by Calvinball rules.

*"–and Hobbes has Garfield in a Flying Tyrannosaur hold… OW! That’s got to hurt. Garfield appears dazed; he’s moving toward the ropes, but Hobbes meets him halfway with a barrage of water balloons… What’s this? It looks like Hobbes is lining Garfield up for his signature move… I think… yes! YES! It’s the ‘Gooey Kablooey!’ Followed up by a beautifully executed ‘Noodle Incident!’ AND GARFIELD IS DOWN! He’s down! It’s all over, friends and neighbors!

“And as usual, Hobbes’ coach, Calvin, is entering the ring to urinate on the loser.”*

Could you even get that many cats to attack a tiger? I mean, it’d be like… well, herding cats.

Ahem.

P.S. Bravo, Terrifel!

Well as long as we have been shuttled off to MPSIMS, perhaps the attack is directed by Tevildo?

This sounds like a job for Super Kitty!

Props to Terrifel!

Anwer: Just One. and then the Tiger would asplode.

Wait!
Are any of the cats ShapeShifters?

I’d say maybe 250 or so. They would have to swarm the tiger and bite and hold like little pit bulls. If say 50 were able to hold on at any one time, the tiger would certainly be able to kill quite a few of them but if each has 4 brothers waiting to take his place, that continued trauma would take its toll and the tiger would run out of endurance. Once you get past ten minutes of continuous exertion and fighting, I don’t think the tiger would have enough fight to keep going.