How do you fit black knights into a full army?

[john_crapper]

Originally Posted by loreangelicus

Or you could go with the team that I used for my impossible warrior high score run in KBAP: bone dragons, black knights, guard droids, repair droids (split into 2 stacks); a killer full 5 slots army, I'm sure you've heard about it since you made a comment regarding my post in the KBAP thread.

I did indeed, but droids are too unappealing for me to use. My decision may have been made for me, since the item i got from the champion of teana was one I've never seen before - Dragon heart or something, Grants 1 morale to all dragons as well as -10% leadership. Im thinking of getting voice of the dragon and have max morale dragons in the army, and have reds tank for me, since the immense bonus to their defense would help. Also I may at one point start hoarding runes for Rune Mages as, they are capable of resurrecting even the black dragons.

When you play The droid tactic, do you use any specific items items/sets that work in conjunction with droids? Because from what i've seen as stats they are not impressive, and I dont see why you bother wasting 3 slots on healers + guard droid, when your target unit is the black knight? I suppose the fact that your whole army is immune to mind spells is a bonus, but I really cant place the droids strategically - their damage is mediocre and apart from being self-sustaining I fail to recognize their utility.

One thing i forgot to consider are royal snakes. In KBTL they were ridiculously powerful, because of the early 100% attack to snake wife and their no retaliation ability keeps them from painful retaliations while everything goes nuts on your "target"-ed unit. Assassins mirror the snake abilities very closely, but the damage-to-leadership math leans toward snakes. Although the one-time backstab is crippling, On Impossible boss battles require a more consistent source of damage. Plus, they cant be buffed.

Although I strive to play without any losses, I wont ever play a full no-loss game where I have to reload endlessly, or drag the battle 100 rounds to resurrect every unit. I once read somewhere that a guy went to 250 rounds with the spider boss or ktahu.

P.S and on that note I just had my most taxing battle so far: I attacked Demenion (46 lvl Impossible) with a 34 level warrior. All in All, I lost about a quarter of my army ( he had 5 stacks of 5 level units that couldnt be tanked with Target), but gained 29,968XP from the fight (20% talent+ 10% items and +50% ancient knowledge)


EDIT: What exactly does the warrior crossworlds skill "counter strike" do? More retaliations?