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[darnock]

(((((sorry if this is a double post, i don't think it post...)))))


not kill him in real life, relax, but to destory his army!!!!! roarrr

okay, my uncle has about a 10,000 dollar collection of dragon dice, he has everything but treefolk, he lets me use his dice so its really nice.

my uncle plays pretty much the same type of army everytime. He uses 3point mages, with a mix of calvary. He uses lava elves and dwarfs, and doubles saves and movements at his home. 9 poitns of dwarf mages, 9 points of lava elf mages

we mostly play 36 point games, he'll start with 18 points of magic in home, 1 point in the middle, and 17 at my home of calvary to try pick the center terrain dice.

on his turn he will move his horde and campign army to reserves and then on his next turn, move everything to his home or the middle, depending no which terrain dice is closer to 8 or so he can cast magic

I will then try to move up both free terrains to 8 face so that i can win,, however he will just start destorying me with black spells and use dancing lights to half my missle and magic.

and if i do get to do some dmg to him, he then rolls his whole army, which then he always saves the dmg, and most the time he gets about 8 points of magic from cantrips, so he'll then finger of death me 2 times, or send a dragon at my door step.

I can pretty much make any army you can suggest, so pleasee, tell me whats the best thign to counter this with

[chuckpint]

Bring an army heavy with Smites and the like. Get your army to the terrain he's at just as he gets it to melee. Then attack. You'll destroy his army. So don't run off to other terrains and let him get the 8th first. If he can't cast magic, he can't hurt you.
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[darnock]

i never really use smite at all, i'll give that a try, we are going to play all this weekend, looking forward to winning for a change

[piMaster]

Try Scalders. Put a Will o Wisps in with your mages (Dispel Magic can protect you from Dancing Lights/Dragons). Your own mages can cast Dancing Lights on him. The rest of your units should be heavy and cavalry troops, plus a Charkin.

You also might want to try a Gold Medallion or Dragonslayer/hunter.

[cliffwiggs]

Having played the exact army your uncle does, I have to agree with Chuck.

The answer is in your description of how he wins. You let him get the 8th face and he destroys you in magic. so stop him from getting the 8th face or kill him in melee before he gets the 8th face.

The only thing you have to beware of is his lavaelf rare mage rolling cantrip.

You should also try for the other victory condition. You don't have to win by two 8th faces. If he captures the 8th face, get your entire 36 health army there and just melee him. Yes he might get double saves, but the smite's get around that.

It sounds like you would do well with the fireshadow/troll army as well. then while you are melee-ing him you can be regenerating units with the trolls as well.
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[DEEPBLUEB2]

Well you want to win...
perhaps you could get lucky with Plague.

You'll need to do this before any earthen armor gets into play.


While you are using Undead...
Nightmoves from the reserves should help turn those unopposed terrains...

Fade works until the end of your next turn...
can be cast from the reserves...
so this will protect a unit from dragons while you turn up those unopposed terrains.

Another approach would be swampstalkers to make use of mutation and mire.

personally I would go for the minor death...
you might get lucky!