Hello guys!

Yeeeeey I'm back again with my Splinterlands post. This is my second post to follow the Battle Mage Secrets Going the Distance. If my first post is a battle between Quix The Devous and Conqueror Jacek, this time I will use Summoner Conqueror Jacek in the Going the Distance rulesets.

Well, I'm neither a proplayer nor a tournament hero. I just enjoys sharing strategy and battles that I find interesting in my own view. I played on modern Diamond leagues using my scholar account with IGN BLTZR-WIZARD-700, and maybe the battle strategies I'd share weren't suitable to apply in other leagues because the differences in ability that open up are different from each league. The cards I use are also very limited, only Chaos Legion edition and some low-level reward cards.

BATTLE PREPARATION

Challenge Rules

RULESET: Going the Distance

Description:
Only units with ranged attacks may be used.

Consider including units with the Close Range and Return Fire abilities in your lineup.

Battle Rulesets

The rulesets in this battle are:

• Going the Distance (Only Monsters with Ranged attack may be used in battles)
• Unprotected (Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from abilities or Summoner Buffs)
• Fire and Regret (*All Monsters have the Return Fire ability *)
• Mana Capacity 49
• Active Element Fire, Earth, Life.

Line Up and Strategy

The rulesets of this battle are quite difficult, where only range monsters can be used but every attack from the range monster will also get a counterattack due to Return Fire. To be honest, I only rely on my luck in this battle, because after all, it went awry. Want to attack is like suicide, wanting to just stay silent is also the same as waiting to die. My consideration is only looking for elements that have the most Close Range monsters, and from the active elements above, choosing the Fire element is the best because I have Lava Launcher and Molten Ash Golem.

I have Summoner Tarsa and Conqueror Jacek on this element, and since Tarsa provides buffs to increase Melee damage while melee battles only use Range, Tarsa is not very useful. So I chose to use Conqueror Jacek with the order of monsters which I will explain in the table below:

Monster	Position	Abilities	Strategy
Conqueror Jacek	Summoner	+2 Speed, Scattershot, Piercing	Conqueror Jacek provides buffs that are more useful than Tarsa. The speed increase of +2 will give my monster the opportunity to attack earlier than the opponent, and also the Scattershot ability will produce unexpected results because we will not know the target of each non-melee monster. It could be that the core monster of the opponent's formation will even get an attack even though it has been hidden in the middle of the formation.
Lava Launcher	First	Close Range	Even though the Lava Launcher that I have is still low level, I chose this monster in the first position because it has a close range ability, so it can still attack even though it is in the first position. Although there are Unprotected rulesets that make this monster have no armor, the Health points owned by this monster are quite decent, at least they will die only in 1 opponent's attack. The damage is also quite decent.
Firecellar	Second	Martyr, Fury	Firecellar which has the Martyr ability I retained in second place between Lava Launcher and Molten Ash Golem, where both of these monsters have the Close Range ability. I hope that if this monster dies then the active Martyr will increase the stats of the Molten Ash Golem. This Monster also has pretty good damage and also has a Fury ability that will deal double damage if his attack is hit by a Taunt monster.
Molten Ash Golem	Third	Close Range, Weaken, Demoralize	Molten Ash Golem, in my strategy plan, monsters are the core of this formation, because they have Close Range abilities, have large Health points, have Weaken abilities that educate the health points of all enemy monsters, and have good damage. Especially if this monster gets an increase in stats if Martyr from Firecellar is active, then the stats of this monster will be even better.
Supply Runner	Fourth	Swiftness, Strengthen	Supply Runner has Swiftness buffs that increase the speed of all friendly monsters and has Strengthen, so all teammates' health points get an increase.
Gem Meteor	Fifth	Scattershot, Piercing	Although the ability of the Meteor Gem is not because it is the same as the buff from the Summoner, but because this monster has a very high speed and large damage, I chose this monster as an attacker.
Lava Spider	Last	Snipe, Snare, Poison	Even though it doesn't have a lot of damage, but the spider law has an active poison if it infects the law, it will lose 2hp/round

You can see the line-up of the two teams in the picture below. The opponent uses Summoner General Sloan which increases the damage range attack.

BATTLEFIELD ARENA

I've also included a youtube video of this battle that you can play right away.

STRATEGY DISCUSSION

Although it was not effective, the strategy I applied worked well. I was able to win this battle in the third round. Molten Ash Golem can still survive without dying until the battle ends, and the strategy of activating Martyr to increase Molten Ash Golem's stat is also successful. I think in the next battle, if I find the Going the Distance rulesets, I will consider using a strategy like this again. Another alternative is to combine Fire monsters with Dragons with Summoner Quix the Devious which reduces damage range attacks.

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