Battle Dragons

[Docc Sampson]

I'm attacking Camps looking for all the dragon armor. A chunk of my army is made up of Conscripts, just as canon fodder. Yet, somehow, I lose as many Battle Dragons as Conscripts, and I don't lose any Minos at all. How is that possible?

[Xcalibre]

R U Timing u're battle dragons or sending all u're troops at one time? The timing is extremely important. I'm no where near the expert, but I've found out that if I send my battle dragons at the same time as my troops, the BD's are the first ones on the scene and take the majority of the hits. Just a thought! Like I said, I'm no where near the expert. I just try and help where I can and learn as well.

Blessings,

X

[Xcalibre]

Also! Use more BD's for larger camps. You can take a level 1 camp easy with 400 BD's and a level 2 camp with 450 BD's with only one loss. You could probably send spies in there to hit right before u're BD's and lose nothing. I've heard, which I am not that far yet, that you can send 6000 spies into a level 10 camp and then have 8000 BD's hit it right after and lose nothing as well. Just throwing things out there for ya Hope it helps. I just know the timing has to be right in some cases.

Blessings,

X

[Kenny Bowyer]

Docc, ignore the false information in those replies. Do a search for "dragons of atlantis wiki" there's a page I've written on the camps. Have a look and you'll learn a lot.

[Xcalibre]

Kenny, you can't say that ALL my information was 'false information.' From my own experience, what I said was accurate except for the 6000 spies into a level 10 camp. I saw another advanced member quote that. So don't make me sound like some evil person trying to give false information. Hmmm...don't see an emoticon for a devil LOL!

Anyway, send 400 BD's into a level 1 camp and see for u'reself what I said is accurate. Likewise, 450 into a level 2 camp. I appreciate your attempt at correction, but not needed this time. I admit I'm not the most experienced player, but I'm a tryin And whether it's 6000 spies or 12000 spies, it's good to send a spy wave first, before u're main troops hit. Selah!

Blessings,

X

P.S. Not everyone will play the same way you play, nor have the same strategy or helpful information you have.

[Dreddnawt Mettlehead]

I'm attacking Camps looking for all the dragon armor. A chunk of my army is made up of Conscripts, just as canon fodder. Yet, somehow, I lose as many Battle Dragons as Conscripts, and I don't lose any Minos at all. How is that possible?

How about we take a minute to actually address the OP question. How are your BDs dieing before your Cons and Minos?

Well Docc, the answer lies in a couple different places:
Firstly is the most obvious, Speed. Your Dragons move much faster across the battle field so they reach the enemy melee troops before your ground troops do. That means enemy troops are attacking only your BDs because they are the ones in range. By time your fodder units get to fight the battle is mostly done.

Secondly, BDs would be targeted first by any enemy troops with an option of which troop type to attack because BDs are the higher value target. Your dragons are the biggest threat so are targeted before the others.

[Kenny Bowyer]

Xcalibre, the numbers you gave even with 12000 spies and 8000 bd's would take a lvl 10 WILD (before they weakened the spies today), but you'd lose all those troops on a lvl 10 Camp, a lvl 10 camp has over 1.6 million troops the person quoting must have confused the two. 12k spies cannot take out the 120k stench, I was trying to prevent people from just suiciding their spies and BD's by trying to follow that advice.

[Xcalibre]

Xcalibre, the numbers you gave even with 12000 spies and 8000 bd's would take a lvl 10 WILD (before they weakened the spies today), but you'd lose all those troops on a lvl 10 Camp, a lvl 10 camp has over 1.6 million troops the person quoting must have confused the two. 12k spies cannot take out the 120k stench, I was trying to prevent people from just suiciding their spies and BD's by trying to follow that advice.

As you should...We are here to help one another, not send mass suicides ~ As I said though, the 6000 Spies were the only thing I hadn't verified basically, as I got the information from someone else. But the other information was trial and error. Thanks for making it much more clearer concerning the spies though!

[Jack Vellum]

...Secondly, BDs would be targeted first by any enemy troops with an option of which troop type to attack because BDs are the higher value target. Your dragons are the biggest threat so are targeted before the others.

Is it because they are higher value when in the general scrum or because they have a higher speed?

...What I will answer:
~ Battles start at the farthest range of any attacking or defending troop.
~ Combat is based on Rounds.
~ Attackers always go first to start the round.
~ Damage is applied at the end of each round, casualties are tallied and defeated troops are removed from following rounds.
~ Troops move their Speed until they are within range to attack any enemy troops.
~ Priority of targeting goes: Melee targets Speed, Speed targets Range, Range targets Melee.
~ Troop stats such as Attack and Defense are described in my Guide at the top of this forum.
~ Combat continues until one side is completely defeated.

Here you suggest that the Melee troops will target speed so would that mean sending in a huge number of spies (enough to last until the BD's get to the fight) would take the heat of the dragons? I assume in this case BD would be considered both speed as the are faster than conscripts and Melee as the are stronger (what exactly ranks melee? Attack strength with no range?) So would the only thing to draw Bows off BD's be Giants?

[Erik Carlson]

Swift Dragons are faster and probably there as a shield for your Battle Dragons, just how Halberdmen are faster than Minotaurs to shield them. Also the wave thing wouldnt work since you would get seperate battle reports, technically you could send your 1000 Conscripts first and sacrifice them so when the main force hits they will be weaker, but it wouldnt overall benefit you in any way.