Doing the dragon statue quest with my army full of custom designed "Dragon Slayer" units to level them up before the grand finale, took detour north to kill Vetrar while at it, my champion Craul Gravehands hits level 19 and can easily solo enemy armies (not really that hard because stupid AI) and scores "
Deadly" threat rating alone. His army got "
Epic" when I first assembled it and has only gotten stronger since then, weakest units were level 8. I reach the final statue and trade some gear between my sovereign and Craul and move on the statue to start the fight...
...and notice that instead of Craul and his Dragon Slayers I had moved my sovereign, who only had two groups of (mostly) ceremonial bodyguards with him. Against three dragons, Clambercoil, Fell and Ashwake.
Fuck.
Fear and Contagion spells hit all my units and I lose action for first turn, second is repeat of the first and I'm taking damage each turn from contagion. I manage to avoid melee for few more turns because mounted units fuck yeah, but I know that my guards don't stand a chance against three dragons at once and that my sovereign would be OHK, and then the Ashwake, strongest of the dragons, starts casting something.
That was where I won the game.
See, my sovereign was Magnar of the Quendar and I had made him into a dedicated mage, glass cannon to the extreme, and that overgrown worm tried to start magic duel with him. Thing with magic is that most powerfull spells take two turns to cast, and you can easily prevent enemy from casting anything with a counterspell, assuming you have two of them since they can't be casted twice in a row. And I did, Feedback even does damage to target based on number of fire shards (of which I had many), and it was casted by high level mage with several traits that improve damage from spells. Silly little worm.
So while Ashwake was stubbornly trying to cast it's spell and taking damage every second turn, I maneuvered two other dragons into positions. Dragons got this thing where they try to breath flames turn before closing in on melee, so all I had to do was flank them and attack from the side, take the hit from one dragon while other was spitting fire and get out. Rinse and repeat. Magnar casted spell every now and then to help when he had spare time (high initiative FTW). I mentioned how my bodyguards were mostly intended to be ceremonial before, well, part of their ceremonial gear was dragon hide cloak which gives +50% fire resistance. And they were Quendar, that's another +50% fire res. there.
After I got that Ashwake to stay still rest of the fight pretty much won itself for me. I didn't even lose either guard unit.
Reward for this quest? My very own pet Ashwake. He's going on strict diet of darklings and ice elementals till he can roast me a few kindoms...
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress
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