Larian Studios Forums Dragon Commander Dragon Commander - Beta What tactics have people discovered? [Theorycraft]

id realy like to tell you i got any specific tactic but just rushing hunters is the easiest way to win in the campaign mode...

If a Shaman has Charmed one of your units, try having a Warlock use "Meet the Beetles" to polymorph it, so your own units will be less likely to target it.

Shamans being able to cross water lets them heal naval units, making Juggernauts even more intimidating.

Warlocks out-range Devastators even in siege mode, making their "Meet the Beetles" or "Death From Above" good ways to remove pesky Devastators from a fight.

The increased Cloak duration and spellcasting range makes Warlocks suitable for a strike team. Their ability to hover over water allows them to approach from different angles. Warlocks can also attack Ironclads without fear of retaliation, being too high for Torpedos, and too low for anti-air.

Cloaks

- Warlocks and units cloaked by the Zeppelin can now attack without decloaking. It's only using abilities that decloaks them.
- This only applies to abilities that you activate while the cloak is active, so you can activate the kamikazi "For the Empire" ability, and then cloak and you are invisible.
- The Grenadier's Chemical Warfare, even if activated while cloaked, does not break cloak until the shot is fired.
- A Devastator can also enter siege mode and fire while remaining cloaked.


The Dragon's Chameleon Scale

This is also a type of cloak, but obviously it works differently and attacking still breaks it. Nonetheless, there are some clever uses for this for a more passive Dragon:

- Stack on auras like "Restoration" and "Annihilation" and hover over your own army while cloaked, buffing them and directing them while remaining undetected.
- Use the "Aura of Frailty" aura and invisibly hover over the ENEMY army to reduce their range. The other commander won't know what the hell is going on!


Fire on the Move

4 Hunters are 36 support, as are 2 Devastators. When you have 2 Devastators side-by side, they can do heavy damage to the Hunters (and even kill them if they are in siege mode). But Devastators fire very slowly. If you have the Hunters constantly moving around the Devastators, the Hunters can beat the Devastators easily and take almost no damage.


- No Recruits left on the map? destroy the Recruitment Centers anyway in PvP. You need at least 1 Recruitment Center to spawn your Dragon, so if you take out the enemy ones, or he sells his, then he can't spawn as a Dragon