Hello, to all my fellow Splinterlands players I know it has been a little while. I ended my strategy series a few weeks back. I have been working on another kind of post I can do to still engage some of you and advertise the game. While also giving people a chance to win some Dark Energy Crystals. I like to give back to the other players that are willing to spend a bit of time on my blog. I came up with the idea of going over one or two battles that I play and break down my plans and show you how it worked. This is a bit like the battle challenge but to start these battles I have all options. So you can see how I win or lose? Once again I am looking for some feedback to be entered to win the DEC. It can be about one of the battles I show or just the overall look and idea of this post. You can win 1000 DEC for doing that. I am going to get started now and hope you will give me some time. I am trying this not in a video format as I am not sure many really want to watch a video but let me know if you would prefer that.
This the first battle I am going to go over with you. If you prefer to just watch it go here That will show you the fight a bit faster. Now to go over the rules for this fight. I am in Champion three right now so we have max level cards possible. It is no magic and back to basic. Now in general most people like magic in back to basic but now we need a team with no magic mobs. So we need a ranged team. Some of you might go with the life team right away knowing that armor is good when a lot of ranged monsters are going to be in the fight. I have started to use Earth a lot more in Back to Basics. The higher HP of the monsters seems to make up for the lack of armor. They also have a better set of ranged monsters imo. Now if you look at the line ups for sure my higher-level cards might have won me the fight. yet he made two mistakes and I made one. Do you see them?
This guy can't be on the board in position 2. That is the first mistake my opponent made and it was a bad one. Putting a card on the board that can't attack the first turn is risky. Also, he is much lower than the cards so that is a bad pick. Then we both made a positioning mistake. He should have swapped the Highland Archer and the Centaur. I should have swapped my last two and put the higher life Mitica before the low life Child. The reason I feel this way is that you want your first guys that fall into the first position to have enough life to take some hits. That is how I set them up. I like fast guys with lower hp last and slower guys with a lower attack first. My mistake didn't matter as he didn't kill enough of my guys but still it was a mistake. Let me know if you agree.
Now you can see that while I did lose a bit attack to the one armor that his giant that my lived through the first round and his didn't It was key that I had still 4 life left on him as you can see that Air Elemental is about to hit him for 3 but he will take one more hit before going down. But the reason I am ahead is his life left in the next two monsters is only 10 with two attack lost to armor due to my first attacker having 4 enough to clear his armor in that one attack. While I have 10 life in the first tow but another 8 for 18 in the same number of mobs. So the end has started for this battle.
Round 3 started with my guy at 2 life that is why this shot got him at zero as he went down to Air Elemental. But now when my Earth elemental moves up I have 8 life to his guy with 1 armor and 3 life. My two 5 speed guys are going to kill him before the Centaur gets to attack so he only gets two attacks this turn. So I take over in this round.
Here is round 4 and you see that my guys are going to win this fight just because I have one more and a lot more life. It works out that way and it is an easy win for me. That is the last shot I have for you but if you watched the battle you watched me mop those last guys left. So did I break this down correctly.
I am thinking in the next post maybe just one battle but for this first one, I am going to try two. So now let's take a look at this one it turned out to be a battle of dragon summoners but with no dragons.
So you can all laugh at me for a second as I forgot it was reverse speed when I used my last mana. I could have used Albatross and bee way better off and won this a lot easier. I also had a major advantage on the summoners. I got extra ranged damage he got no bonus and didn't play dragons. I am not sure why this was used unless it was the only high-level summoner this player has. This fight was also Close Ranged. That is why I set up my line up as I did. I am okay with both of these line ups but let me know if you would move anyone around. As to my tank. As much as I would like to use some of the other cards good old Lord A is hard to beat at reverse speed. I help him attack first but by round 2 I am looking good.
As you can see the half attack on the golem was a good hit and his armor is gone. So while it might look like he is ahead I am about this flip this. He can only do two damage with his attackers now so I am going to get the heal in before his bigger attack. So my Lord A is going to live this round. I have Seven damage to hit the Golem so he is going to live also so let's jump ahead.
Sorry I got this shot after his golem attacked. I will work on that next time. But as you can see after the thorns he is at 1 and my Lord A is still at 1 life. So he is going to get killed this round but I am going to kill more of his people. This is where the 8 cost golem hurts his team as it is a lot smaller than mine.
Here is where you see that at the start of round four he is down to these 3 while I still have 4 on the board. It is a lot closer for sure than the last match. But now that I am not helping him by slowing them down. It still might look even but I take advantage here. I hit the Medusa for 2 right away and while she kills my halfling he has redemption and takes her out while dropping an armor off the others. He can't get through my armor on the King so after this round we are like this.
I win the speed game on this round and when I attack first it is over. Once again maybe one mistake I was made was putting my healer here but I did that because I wanted headwinds on the board for as long as possible. Overall if you watched the replay it was a nice win and I am on to the next game. Let me know what you think of my plays.
I hope that if you checked this out you enjoyed watching me win. I am open to some ideas to make this better. Would you like to see me lose some fights also? Let me know if you want the DEC on Hive or Steem as I will be taking entries on both. I will do the pull for the next post in a week. I will use a random name picker. Take care all. Oh and start playing if you're not sign up here