crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
I can’t speak for Sir Squirrel, but I’m going to get my crayons. Be careful what you ask for! Yay, arts and crafts project!
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Raccon
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I'll make popcorn
Raccon
Well-Known Member
Agreed, one can get away with auto fight in early provinces. I go up to 16 with auto fight if the enemy lineup isn't too forbidding above10th province, like mages and heavies, mages and LM's etc.. which can be dealt with one troop type on my side. In the spier some times I can get away with mostly auto fight, but most of the time I have to swich to manual for obvious reasons.
crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
Perhaps the obvious answer here is you forgot to bring a Buddy to battle. She is very nice and forgiving. I mean…
Enevhar Aldarion
Oh Wise One
Speaking of broad brush strokes, almost everyone in every combat discussion also acts like the fighting is the same for everyone, regardless of chapter, which we know is not true, unless everyone in the conversation is at the end of chapter 15 and has all troops at 3 stars. Aside from that, all 15 troops are not even researched at even 1 star until early chapter 11 when the Frogs are finally unlocked.
Enevhar Aldarion
Oh Wise One
Raccon
Well-Known Member
Not when you include a squad of LRs in your troop lineup. Mist walkers in particular are attractted to LR's like honey attracts flies.Or a dead one full of arrows or Cerberus bite marks.
Raccon
Well-Known Member
Buddy dosen't hangout in human cities. Her priest grandpa is all I've got!
Darielle
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, and Buddy Fan Club Member
Now I never would have dreamed of matching a blossom against a light melee. That's wild. But I guess with a mage multiplier and the other fire power, anything is possible. That's a creative thought process to come up with that one. The thieves say they are four stars against mages. I guess it depends upon which mages. I'll have to try that sometime.
crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
*puts down crayons*
Blossom is effective against the Thief, even in late provinces. This is because the Thief only has 3 movement, but Blossom's range is 5. Thief can't reach Blossom if Blossom keeps retreating and then firing, well at least for a bunch of shots. So Blossom can potentially kill a Thief without taking damage. The Ancient Orc and Hellhounds are different. They both have a lot of movement and can reach Blossom on their opening rounds. Ancient Orc can reach her in his 1st move if she moves forward with her 2 movement and Hellhound can reach her whether or not she moves generally. Hellhound is trickiest because it has a 70% defense bonus against mages to boot. So however many Blossoms it takes to kill one Ancient Orc, you're likely going to need at least another shot on the Hellhound. I have a lvl 10 Fire Phoenix and lvl 26 Dragon Abbey, but after the first few provinces, I'm still going to need more than one to take down an Ancient Orc or Hellhound. If Hellhound is in Positions I, IV, and V, then you have a shot to kill it since he's shifted up in short position so he is within range of multiple Blossoms. A Hellhound in Positions II and III can only be reached by one Blossom on opening round and you prob won't kill it with only one shot. Therefore, unless you pair Blossom with a frog, that Hellhound will get at least one bite in on your mages (this is what I mean by initiative and movement dictating things). From my observations, they target Blossoms first out of all your mages too. I think it was @samidodamage who used the term "squishy" to describe Blossom's soft defensive nature. Buddy can survive one bite, but Blossom might not.
crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
For your contributions and courage in promoting an unpopular opinion about Bud Sorceress on the forum, I, crackie, Self-Appointed President of the Bud Sorceress Fan Club, hereby declare you a Friend of the Bud Sorceress as well.
That color crayon is called "Grape" in case you're redecorating.
That color crayon is called "Grape" in case you're redecorating.
Darielle
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, and Buddy Fan Club Member
Does the AI really know to make the blossom retreat and then fire? Since I only autofight, does this really work with that?
ajqtrz
Chef - loquacious one
This is didn't know. Now I have a good idea of why I get surprised when I auto fight with 3, 4, or even 5 types of troops. I'll have to cut back on that and keep it to 2 types almost all the time. Thanks for mentioning it.
AJ
DeletedUser27062
Guest
Someone in one of my other fs has 470 pet food! I have 9...And here I thought I had a "big" horde of 48 pet food and 100 plus squads of each, lol. I bow to your numbers.
Then again, I always lose troops at higher rates than you did because I've never manual fought, always auto. But I get by, and I love my blossoms. They usually are the last to die in any fight where they're used to advantage. A combo of blossoms and frogs can destroy heavy and light melee without a single loss. But I don't have that combo too often, so yeah, autofight does lose a lot of troops.
crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
Yes. Again, you’d have to pay heed to where you are in the provinces and how many other light melee there are. If there are more than 2, I don’t recommend using Blossoms as there are more efficient solutions. Even with a pretty high Dragon Abbey and Fire Phoenix, it will take at least 2 Blossoms to kill one light melee by prob province 8-10. If you only have 5 units to work with and 4 of them are on 2 light melee, that leaves one unit to do something to the remaining 3 enemies in the first round. If they are fast moving units with lots of movement, you will take heavy hits. But if there’s only one light melee and it’s the thief, then yes, Blossom is pretty effective against her even if on paper, the advantage is for thief. Same thing with the Knight. Blossom is only unit for elf players to be able to kill him while staying out of his range (frogs don’t work well on him).
While we are on the topic of unpopular opinions, I do feel like there is a surge in pet food of late. My stash is growing even though I am using 4-5 a week. Not enough for me to spend it on Twilight Phoenix willy nilly though.
DeletedUser27062
Guest
There's a player on Arendyll with 9 or 10 fully evolved twilight phoenix - that's a lot of pet food!
crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
The #1 tourney player of AR on EN server has I think 13 fully evolved Red Pandas. I guess that might pay for itself if you win diamonds cycling through Mystery Object chests to pay to cycle for more Pet Food? Still excessive, but you can’t Twilight your way to 10 more Pet Food after you’ve fed them. I don’t see how sustainable it is. I guess there are a lot of incredibly well prepared players out there! I rely on Buddy to keep my troops alive!
BrinDarby
Well-Known Member
what do they do, drop $1000.00 on 1 freak'n event ???