Larian Studios Forums Dragon Commander Dragon Commander - General How to counter Dragons? (specially mountains)

I keep getting squashed by dragons. I cant counter them in my own dragons since i cant seem to hit them when i am one and no matter how many Grenadines or anti-air turrets i throw at them doesn't seem to matter... I can honestly say im more of a pure RTS player than a dragon player...

What am i doing wrong?! Maybe try to get Imp fighters early on?

Fighters are good, but early game I've found the best option is to go hunters with the bird in the hand upgrade, around mid game about three or four fighters will kill a dragon pretty quickly, and if there's water around the ships with aa (forgot the name) three of those will be pretty much impossible for a dragon do counter. Grenadines currently suck at anti air but are great vs ground armored units and anti-air turrets are worthless by themselves vs a dragon. That being said if you don't use dragon mode your probably going to lose, if you suck at dragon vs dragon combat, just don't target dragons go for buildings, small number of units, and cast buffs for your units especially healing/armor spells. Oh and when your getting hit spam that right click like your life depends on it, because losing your dragon is a big hit to your eco especially early game

Ironclads.

From my minimal PvP experience, Dragon vs dragon is very.... meh. It really isn't worth it. You both just jetback around like ninnies and get nothing done. You are way to agile to make a 'dogfight' a practical endeavor. Maaaaaybe you or he dies and lose the minimal 20 resources and instantly repawn. Or, with the same effort, beat down their army and take their base. If you die, you still instantly re-spawn, but it's all about protecting your armies and dismantling theirs. And chasing around a dragon than can morph in and out instantly and anywhere (the 'enemies' nearby restriction is such a narrow little range that it takes effort to not be able to morph back.) and instantly respawn with 0 cooldown is silly. Die protecting your assets, respawn, protect your assests.

I find it infinitely more useful to just attack units and spastistically/randomly strafe jetpacking and another dragon can't hurt you and you never run out of jetpack fuel. And use unit buff roars and enemy unit paralysis/sabotage roars. It's generally easier to just heal your units and yourself as enemy dragons can't really hurt you nor your units that you are babysitting. If they are built to kill dragons like the mountain, laugh. You are expendable. Your units are not.