Re: MEPBM Dealing with Dragons

From: Pete Brown <Pete@fludge.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4ffqri$rrh@wagner.convex.com>, Patrick F <?@?> writes
>
>I was wondering how others have dealt with Dark Servant armies that have
>dragons.  It gets tedious to keep recruiting enough troops to eliminate
>the armies (generally requiring three times as many troops as in the DS
>army).
>
>I know that artifact powerful nations can sometimes build a challenge
>character into the 200+ range and sometimes succeed in with a direct
>challenge.
>
>Any other ideas?
>Has anyone succeeded at doubling a dragon?
>Has anyone tried to assassinate a dragon?
>
>- Patrick McGehearty
>  patrick@convex.com

My word...a bunch of hopeful ideas there.... I doubt you can double
agent a dragon since I've only ever heard of them being Lord Marshalls
or Archmages (ie commanders or mages) & only agents or emissaries can be
affected. I've no idea whether an assassination would work but I doubt
it (still I've been surprised before...)

I personally use either a curses squad (no use at all on the dragon
since they have over 100 health (I've tried and it was still there!) but
if you can remove the army commander and there's no backups then you're
removing the army AND to dragon. The other main way is to send in a
small army which is of sufficient size to destroy the opposing army.
Don't worry about your defense since the dragon will wipe it out, just
get a good offensive force since you will be attacking the army not the
dragon (it just gives a good bonus to their attack but gives no
defensive additions).
The other option is, as you said, to get a bloody high level character
and give him loads of high artifacts to get a very high challenge rank
and then offer personal challenge to the dragon. But you'll need at
least 200+ challenge and there haven't been many declared winnings this
way to say what level you need to be. I'm in the process of trying to
find a dragon to challenge with a char of challenge 258 to find out
what'll happen...

--
Pete Brown              Pete@Fludge.demon.co.uk

"Life is like a bowl of bananas" but do you know why...?

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MEPBM Dealing with Dragons
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM>
Fri, 09 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000