User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(CB1) Hannibal, the Dread Vanguard/@comment-25235491-20150504212947/@comment-1330314-20150505125127

I intended for Execution Mandate to activate its own damage, so there wouldn't be some awkward damage gap just for laying it down. The damage looks low, but ramps up to triple the listed amount, which I should also indicate. His War Engine passive is intentionally very strong because it's meant to be a lesser equivalent to a tank ultimate: while he himself lacks the initiation power of most other tanks, he has some of the best follow-up around. I also specifically gave no damage to Strife so that her all-ins wouldn't be overpowered, as the sum of her abilities and his at level 1 would be, at most, no stronger than a.