Hello, everyone, today I will make a post about Community Engagement Challenge: Tips How to Battle with Melee Unit Only, especially in low to middle mana battle using Dumacke Orc unit as a tanker in front.

This tips may only suitable for someone with limited resources, can't rent or buy expensive / strong card. Cause in my scholar account I only have standard card, cheap to rent or buy.

Best Ruleset for Dumacke Orc

Ruleset	Description
	Up Close & Personal, only melee unit can be used in this battle
	Up to Elevenall unit have Amplify ability.
	Equalizer,all unit have same health with the highest health uniton either team.

• Up Close & Personal ruleset we need this ruleset to use Dumacke Orc as a tanker because Dumacke Orc only have 1 health if hit by magic damage will die. This unit is weak against summoners/units who has Shatter ability (destroy all armor in 1 hit), and who has Poison ability.
  The infamous melee unit who has Shatter ability with dual type attack melee and range Drybone Raider :
  
  Yes I know to that some melee unit have magic attack or rather dual type of attack like Igor Longtail (Dragon element) and Quora Towershead (Earth element) who have melee and magic damage.
  
  Drybone Raider, Agor and Quora have high mana cost, so in the low and middle mana battle the probability the enemy player will use it is decreasing. In this battle I only mention Igor Longtail just in case some player not aware yet, but we can't use Dragon element in this battle. Quora need summoner who can use Gladiator Card / Conscript ability like Lobb Lowland.

• Up to Eleven ruleset, Dumacke Orc Thorns damage will increase by 1 with this ability.

• Equalizer ruleset, the Dumacke Orc weakness is only have 1 HP with this ruleset the HP will be same with any other unit in the battle. With this ruleset we can use this as a tanker in other ruleset when magic and range can be used

Battle Example using Dumacke Orc

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• This battle has 2 rulesets that favor Dumacke Orc : Up Close & Personal, and Up to Eleven rulesets.
• FabFour, up to four units can be used in this battle.
• mana cap.
• can use all elements except Dragon element.

My Lineup and strategy

In this battle using melee units, we rely on the defense and attack capabilities of Dumacke Orc assisted by Junker who can repair armor and Curse Windeku which can reduce the speed of enemy units, the ability to avoid melee attacks from Dumacke Orc is increased by our summoner Astral Entity who can provide Dodge ability which provides additional ability to avoid melee attacks and range by 25%, so if the enemy brings Drybone Raider it will be difficult to hit our unit and destroy its armor.

My lineup for this battle :

Summoner or monster	Abilities	Description
	Astral Entity, Summoner. Can decrease the enemy armor by -2, Give Dodge the ability to ally monsters, and have Resurrect ability.	We used this Death summoner because can give Dodge (increase chance to evade the enemy melee and range attack by 25%), this ability will help Dumacke Orc to evade the attack if the enemy bring unit with Shatter ability. With Resurrect ability (bring back one friendly monsters who die) we hope when Dumacke Orc die will resurrect again with full armor and can do more damage against melee enemy. The decrease in the enemy armor will make the enemy easier to kill .
	Dumacke Orc, 1st position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Shield, Retaliate, and Thorns.	I put this monster in first position hoping it can give damage to many enemy with the Thorns ability (give 2 damage back everytime it attack by melee unit) and Retaliate ability has 50% chance to activate. It will make Dumacke Orc attack back the melee attacker. The Shield ability decreases melee and range damage by 50%.
	Junker, 2nd position, attacker, support and 2nd defender. Has the ability Reach, and Repair	We put this melee monster in the 2nd position because it can attack from this position with the Reach ability and the Repair ability gives armor to the unit whose armor has taken the most damage. Hope it can restore Bear armor in the first position .
	Curse Windeku, 3rd position, attacker. Has the ability Thorns, Heal, and Slow.	This unit can't attack from this position it need to move to the first position to attack, but it will help Dumacke Orc to have higher chance to evading the melee attacker by decreasing the enemy unit speed by -1 using Slow ability. Every round can restore some health because has Heal ability. Have same abiliiy like Dumacke Orc Thorns ability.
	Ever-Hungry Skull, 4th position, attacker and tanker. Has the ability Flying, Thorns, and Return Fire.	I put here in case the enemy bring unit with the Sneak ability (attacking unit in the last position from any position). Flying ability is the same as the Dodge ability with these 2 buff this monster already have a chance to evade the enemy melee and ranged attack by 50%. Thorn and Return Fire ability will give damage back to the enemy who attack this monster with melee or range attack. The speed is not bad but not good either with the ability of this monster and the summoner we hope that this monster can evade many attacks. The stats almost like Dumacke Orc but this unit survive by evading the enemy attack.

Our Formation is finished and we are ready to battle :

Conclusion

As you can see in this battle Dumacke Orc kill 2 enemy unit and damaging 2 other unit with Thorns and Retaliate ability. Although the enemy unit can kill it twice (it resurrect by the summoner Astral Entity) the enemy already suffer many damage make it easier to our next attacker Junker in 2nd position to defeat the remaining enemies.

In summary the best ruleset for using Dumacke Orc is Up Close & Personal, Up to Eleven, and Equalizer. I think battle in 25 or below mana cap so the enemy can't use high mana cost unit with dual type of attack. Better if can't use Earth element (because of gladiator card Quora and Immortalist summoner which give Shatter ability to all enemy unit).

Once again this tips only suitable for low resources player and may not suitable for player with strong / completed card.

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to review my battle report. I appreciate your efforts and would be grateful if you could provide me with feedback on any mistakes you find by leaving a comment.

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Credit

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