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Originally Posted by atlatea
Infernal dragon currently is worthless, ancient phoenix is way better, like 2 times the infernal dragon with almost half mana required.
Scrounger fight is not hard to win, but it's hard to win for no loss fight.
To win initiative againts scrounger, bring black dragon (also rune mage for no loss fight, why? i guarantee you'll lose some of your black dragons) and blue dragon pet. To super win initiative, beside BD+ blue pet, you must have warrior caution 3 (+3 initiative at turn 1), enough to beat all scrounger units initiative except her ogres (only black dragon and posibly unicorn/red dragon can beat ogres initiative).
For non mage, to make your rune mage 100% survive astral attack at round 1 (even with 70% astral resistance, her goblin shamans can kill 14 rune mage with 3x astral attack), cast target to your stack. Well, you have another astral attack from orc shaman (luckily this one is much much weaker). For mage, since mage can double cast, why not target then sheep her orc shaman. You can also phantom, though it's a gamble, because it's not guaranteed that those shamans will attack the phantom.
Note that astral attack from orc shaman is much much weaker than goblin shaman, so you can ignore them, though in prolonged battle these orc shamans can make your no loss fight to become loss fight.
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Good point on the subtle detail that to make it a no loss battle is more difficult.
I think the +3 initiative in first round ability is Onslaught, not Caution.
Yes, Phantom is indeed a bit of a gamble, but it "usually" goes for the phantom. In some attempts, they would wipe the phantom out in round 1, and proceed to chew my rune mages for Orc Breakfast (tm).
Yeah, Infernal is so bad. I don't know how they designed something so poorly. It is almost like they assumed all new spells would be overpowered, so they made their requirements sky high.
The crystal requirements for all new spells are ridiculously high for what SOME of them do. (10 crystals for poison spit levl 1? really? how much is plague or poison skull?)
@saiko Oh yeah, I forgot about the "astral weakness." Sheesh. They already die in one round, now let them die in one hit. Haha.
@jake21: I'm not sure how you did not get first move. You probably don't have onslaught and/or after round one, scrounger out initiative you since you might not have the blue dragon (+1 initiative for dragons).
Black dragons lower the enemy initiative IF they are level 4 or below. That's why they are usually the weapon of choice as the Interceptor/Interdictor of most armies.
However, that means you are still toe to toe against level 5s who have fast initiative. Your classic mortal enemy would be the Archdemon. I wouldn't be surprised if scounger gave a +1 init to the level 5s... which means Ogres and Orc Chieftains... which means Draining fun.