Hello again, my coffee loving friends. This week's rule set challenge is called "Going the Distance." In this rule set, you are only allowed to use range units. There are multiple ways to take advantage of this rule set. You can improve your unit's attacks by using summoners like General Sloan or decrease the enemy units attacks with summoners like Contessa L'ament. There are also other summoners that excel with both such as Prophet Rosa, wherein you can either increase your unit's attacks or be defensive by applying Shield to one of your units.
Something exciting that happened as I do this challenge is I notice something strange, something that shouldn't be there. Now, for the record, I am not sure if this is a bug or intended. But if you replay the battle for this one, right at the start, you may notice a word, "Aim True" when Prophet Rosa gives the extra 2 range to my units.
Aim True is a rule set that does not increase the unit's attacks but rather, make their attacks unmissable. Whether that is a bug or just a happy coincidence, gladly, it did not affect anything in that battle and the extra 2 range attacks were granted as normal.
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| Going the Distance: Only units with ranged attacks may be used. |
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I had Prophet Rosa's extra damage to two of my units that would benefit the most from it. The abilities of Drybone Bowdog and Nimbledook Ranger are a perfect example on how you can abuse Prophet Rosa's insane Summoner's Tactics.
Alternative Strategy: If you want to defend instead of attack and slowly wither your enemies, you can use Prophet Rosa's Shield and apply it to Gargoya Devil. He would be able to properly take advantage of Shield along with his Close Range to be that Range tank you can use at the front.
In this battle, I used the summoner, Prophet Rosa and units, Venari Marksrat, Gargoya Devil, Angelic Mandarin, Drybone Bowdog, Nimbledook Ranger .
| Level 1: Rare Summoner. Allows level 1 common, level 1 rare, level 1 epic and level 1 legendary. |
Martyr |
Flying - Close Range |
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| 1. Level 1: Even though he cannot attack while in the front, if killed, the Martyr ability will be very useful for increasing Gargoya Devil's stats. | 2. Level 1: Gargoya Devil is a mandatory unit for Going the Distance. That Close Range ability is a very strong ability since range units cannot attack while at the front, except if they have Close Range. | 3. Level Rare: A very low cost range unit that can double as a tank due to his high health. |
Scattershot - Ambush |
Snipe - Double Strike |
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| 4. Level 1: I added an extra 2 daamge to Drybone Bowdog for the extra damage during Ambush stage. With that, I am already ahead of 3 damage against my enemies. | 5. Level 1: Nimbledook Ranger is usually weak. That's why I have Prophet Rosa's extra 2 range attack to the rescue. With the 2 range attack, combined with Double Strike, he can now inflict 6 damage per round instead of 2. |
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_9a93b47e03a102857d168a64e2838d37
| Turn | Description |
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| 1-3 | Summoners and Units with abilities that can be applied at the start of battle, used their effects to the appropriate targets. |
| 4 | Drybone Bowdog used Ambush! Drybone Bowdog deals 3 damage to ENEMY Gobson Bomber's Health. |
| Turn | Description |
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| 1 | ENEMY Gobson Bomber Recharges. His next attack will deal triple damage. |
| 2 | Nimbledook Ranger used Snipe! Nimbledook Ranger deals 3 damage to ENEMY Venari Marksrat's Health. |
| 3 | Nimbledook Ranger used Snipe! Nimbledook Ranger deals 3 damage to ENEMY Venari Marksrat's Health. |
| 4 | ENEMY Venari Marksrat dies! ENEMY Venari Marksrat is unable to continue! ENEMY Gobson Bomber takes the front! |
| 5 | ENEMY Venari Marksrat's Martyr activates! ENEMY Swamp Spitter has their armor, health, speed and damage increased! |
| 6-7 | ENEMY Venari Marksrat's Martyr activates! ENEMY Gobson Bomber has their armor, health, speed and damage increased! |
| 8 | Drybone Bowdog used Scattershot! Drybone Bowdog deals 3 damage to ENEMY Gobson Bomber's Health. |
| 9 | ENEMY Gobson Bomber dies! ENEMY Gobson Bomber is unable to continue! |
| 10 | Angelic Mandarin attacks! Angelic Mandarin deals 1 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Armor. |
| 11 | Gargoya Devil attacks! Gargoya Devil deals 2 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Armor. |
| Turn | Description |
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| 1 | ENEMY Swamp Spitter used Repair! ENEMY Swamp Spitter repaired ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Armor by 2. Earthquake does 2 damage to Fungus Flinger, Cornealus, Rune Crafter, ENEMY Queen of Crows, ENEMY Drybone Raider, ENEMT Venari Marksrat, ENEMY Lira the Dark and Dhampir Stalker. |
| 2 | Nimbledook Ranger attacks! Nimbledook Ranger deals 3 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Armor. |
| 3 | Nimbledook Ranger attacks! Nimbledook Ranger deals 3 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Health. |
| 4 | Gargoya Devil attacks! Gargoya Devil deals 2 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Health. |
| 5 | Drybone Bowdog attacks! Drybone Bowdog deals 3 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Health. |
| 6 | Angelic Mandarin attacks! Angelic Mandarin deals 1 damage to ENEMY Swamp Spitter's Health. |
| 7 | Swamp Spitter dies! Swamp Spitter is unable to continue! |
| END | ENEMY QECCV have no more Units to play! KPGAMINGCH wins this battle! |
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