How do I defeat drakes?

[kzar]

Hi, I've been playing my sister at this game and she keeps beating me! She always uses drakes and I switch about with the different races. The main problem is I can rarely can controll enough houses. In one game I managed to with vampire bats but usualy they get killed by her drakes really easily and soon enough I cant afford to buy more bats I am doomed.

Hope you can help anyway because the scores at the moment are somthing like 4 - 2 to her

Thanks

[Elvish_Pillager]

Spearmen are great against Drakes. Dark Adepts deal out powerful cold damage.

[aelius]

Elves in forests are great too. Anything with a damage type of "Pierce" will make short work of Drakes.

Rebels/Elves -> Elvish Archers, Fighters, Scouts, Mermen
Loyalists/Humans -> Spearmen, Horsemen and Bowmen
Chaotic Humans -> Poachers
Dwarves -> Dwarvish Guardsmen, Dwarvish Thunderer
Undead -> Skeleton Archer, Dark Adept
Northerners -> Orcish Bowman, Goblin Spearmen

- b.

[kzar]

great thanks for the tips maybe I'l hold my own now

[Shade]

As a footnote, the best way of countering 'People with pointy things' is Saurians, Saurian, Saurians... The skirmisher is the best choice (As I might mention on devel that the Shaman probably shouldn't have skirmish... Which was something I was on the fence about when I was whipping up the unit.)

edit: The Clasher is pierce neutral- so they will fare OK as well...

[Elvish_Pillager]

As a footnote, the best way of countering 'People with pointy things' is Saurians, Saurian, Saurians... The skirmisher is the best choice (As I might mention on devel that the Shaman probably shouldn't have skirmish... Which was something I was on the fence about when I was whipping up the unit.)

First there were Drakes, and that was bad, but now it's the Saurian faction and it's worse.

Even the basic Saurian is overpowered at present.

[Shade]

Even the basic Saurian is overpowered at present.

I didn't touch the stats on that The Saurian Tribalist should probably lose the skirmish- Since the 'new Drakes' went in I've been slowly incresing their power (starting with them being slightly weak), to try to get the too tough / too weak volume level just about right... More sweeping adjustment aren't going to happen- but any individual concerns I have (Those will likely be the concerns that get mentioned here) will get forwarded to the developer mailing list... Well when I get back anyway (Still on my holiday)...

[scott]

Then again, drakes used to suck donkey nads before they got saurians. You might try seeing if raising the saurian skirmisher cost by 1 and removing skirmisher from tribalists does the trick. Let's not be hasty here.

[angel.white]

yeah, drakes used to be a pain in the ass, fortunately i found a way around it

[Elvish_Pillager]

Well, here's "not proof" of the fact that Saurians are overpowered.

[angel.white]

Well, here's "not proof" of the fact that Saurians are overpowered.

yes, the part where you won that had me shaking my head >.<

2 of em killed my king t.t

(btw, is there a way to view the entire game up to that point? or do i just get to see the static situation on that that last turn?)

[Elvish_Pillager]

Well, here's "not proof" of the fact that Saurians are overpowered.

yes, the part where you won that had me shaking my head >.<

2 of em killed my king t.t

Yeah, they're good at that, especially at night against al low-hp 'king' (It's generally called a 'leader')

(btw, is there a way to view the entire game up to that point? or do i just get to see the static situation on that that last turn?)

yes, just check 'show replay' in the load menu

[angel.white]

'king' (It's generally called a 'leader')

didnt know that

yes, just check 'show replay' in the load menu

ty

[MadMax]

2 of em killed my king t.t

Give them backstab to make them really evil!