Staying Armored Up

Alternative Armored-Up Strategy

If the Water splinter should be unavailable or I have a different focus, I sometimes use these two summoners to make life harder for my enemy while still being armored up myself.

Both Wizard Of Eastwood and Eternan Brune will take away the 2 armor points and if the opponent is counting on the ruleset provided amount they'll quickly find themselves quite naked.

This would be a great time for an aggressive melee or ranged offensive. For example, Double Striking Grund or a monster with Trample are good choices in my opinion.

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Entering The Arena

In this week's example, we seem to have a lovely 99-mana Armored Up battle and I think I'm going to try something a bit different.

All splinters except Earth are in use but it looks like my opponent seems to favor the Fire splinter with already armored-up units. There's no need to bang my head against the wall, let them do it. I'll go with an all-magic team!

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My Magic/Ranged Squad

I swear, one day I'm going to upgrade ALRIC STORMBRINGER to level two so I'll be able to use higher-level monsters without reduced stats with this great summoner.

Costing only 3 mana, Alric has only one buff but in my opinion, that's more than enough. He will boost the attack of magic monsters such as my tank unit, DJINN OSHANNUS here.

As the ruleset provides +2 armor and a very healthy(10) Oshannus also has the Void ability, I would say this guy well protected against all sorts of threats. Besides that, Oshannus is also very fast(5) so there's a good chance he will dodge an attack or two.

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The next two in line are also very powerful magic units.

NERISSA TRIDAWN has a base magic attack of 3 and with Alrics buff she can do some serious damage ignoring armors and shields. With a health of 9, she can also absorb possible Blast shrapnels or work as a substitute tank if something bad should happen to Oshannus.

RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN was the main character in my previous post and really has been a go-to guy ever since. His Blast ability is really awesome! Armored or not, those standing next to his target will also suffer their fair share.

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Key Monsters

Since this is a 99-mana battle it let me get creative and really think this through and the next two monsters I chose will form the backbone of my strategy.

The first one is SWAMP SPITTER, a monster looking like a former Turtles member gone rogue. This Soulbound ranged unit is quite costly but has an excellent ability - Repair. This means he will be restoring some of the armor of the unit whose armor has taken the most damage.

So, if there aren't any debuffs my whole team will have armor and I prefer things to stay that way. Swamp Spitter will be there to help make that happen.

If one of my monsters should die despite Swamp Spitters' efforts, I have a cunning plan for that scenario too...

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Death is not the end. There is some nice synergy between Swamp Spitter and RIVER HELLONDALE.

This Legendary water magic monster will Resurrect the first friendly unit who is defeated. Because of the ruleset, that monster is born again with the armor but will unfortunately have only one health point.

In the best scenario, the born-again monster will be able to stop the first attack with armor, and hopefully, before the second one, our Swamp Spitter will restore it back!

Such a great duo working for the best of the whole team.

And last but not least I have a COASTAL NYMPH as the last position monster with 2 + 2 armor to counter those Sneak attacks.

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Opponent Team

As I suspected, my opponent chose the Fire splinter with an emphasis on well-armored melee units.

• Their tank is TUSK THE WIDE with Void ability so my magic will deal reduced damage to him.

• Kinda like a secondary tank, there seems to be LIVING LAVA in the second spot.

• DISINTEGRATOR won't pose a major threat with its Demoralize ability since I don't have any melee units in my team.

• SAND WORM whose melee attack is buffed to 6 could on the other hand be very lethal if one of my monsters should lose the armor.

• Just like Sand Worm, TENYII STRIKER also has a Sneak ability making them target the Coastal Nymph in the last spot.

• Well protected LAVA LAUNCHER will be able to operate in the first spot thanks to Close Range.

All but one monster have a boosted melee attack provided by their summoner - TARSA. In addition to that, she will also increase their health by one.

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The Battle

This is it! Interesting to see how my repair/resurrect -strategy will work with the Armored Up -ruleset.

You can watch the battle below or by clicking this link or/and continue to read the highlights.

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