In this week’s Battle Mage Secrets, we look at the Going the Distance ruleset and see what strategy works when only Range units can be used in the battle. This is a good opportunity to use the Close Range ability and Return Fire ability. It's a good opportunity to use the Headwind and Shield abilities.
For this battle, General Sloan is my summoner as I want to boost my Range attacks by 1.
1st position - Anachron Bolter - Headwinds ability reduces my opponent's attacks by 1 and can also attack from the front with its dual magic attack.
2nd position - Halving Alchemist - Able to halve the opponent's attack in case he uses a strong tank at the front.
3rd position - Ajax Lightfoot - A strong 3 range attack and also bloodlust to increase the attack as the battle goes on. Only problem is that this is a reverse speed battle as well.
4th position - Pelacor Arbalest - Double strike to do lots of damage to my opponent every round and perhaps even multiple opponents.
The big challenge in a Range only battle is that once a Range unit goes up front, it becomes immobile and unable to attack. A sitting duck. So it's important to be able to either put one that has a lot of life, with the Close Range ability or dual attack up front.
The battle wasn't going according to plan early on with the Anachron Bolter dying a little too early. This meant not having a unit that can attack from the front and I regretted not including one of the usual dual attack cards like the War Elephant in the line up.
Big gulp... not looking good and I was in danger of having my last unit up front and not able to attack. Especially with my opponent having a Divine Shield, it makes my first attack useless.
But that's where the Arbelest shines especially with a +1 attack boost, allowing it to take out a weak opponent unit in one round. So I was able to turn the tables and make it such that my opponent's last unit was brought to the front and made useless in battle.
Eventually, I won the battle since my opponent had no attack left. You can catch a replay of the entire battle here: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_9f4ae2f3dd1324e901eaa3b252657687&ref=charcoalbuffet
Hope you enjoyed this Going the Distance battle. See you in the next Battle Mage Secrets.
It felt like a game you'd actually lose in the beginning, big ups to the halving and the card with the magic and range attack have you some leverage before it was taken out..
I definitely thought I was going to lose that one. The doublestrike came to the rescue.
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