Alzorath's Eradication Guide - Revision history

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Alzorath: /* Eradication Units */

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‎Eradication Units

Alzorath: /* Closing Notes */

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‎Closing Notes

Alzorath: /* Spells and Items */

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‎Spells and Items

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‎Spells and Items

Alzorath: done.

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Alzorath: /* Eradication Units */

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‎Eradication Units

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		+	'''This Guide is no longer being updated due to my official retirement from the game. - Signed, Alzorath.'''
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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
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−	~~'''This Guide is no longer being updated due to my official retirement from the game. - Signed, Alzorath.'''~~

	This Guide is based around the same format as my Phantasm Guide - it is an introduction for the beginner or intermediate player and will not guarantee you a hall, but will guarantee you a solid ability to work with red in most common situations. I am not including links except where I feel they are necessary, and I am not going to go into red Rushing strategy in this guide (nor research strategy), if I ever do write guides for those, they will be in seperate guides. This guide is for the "Standard Red" player, not specialist tactics.		This Guide is based around the same format as my Phantasm Guide - it is an introduction for the beginner or intermediate player and will not guarantee you a hall, but will guarantee you a solid ability to work with red in most common situations. I am not including links except where I feel they are necessary, and I am not going to go into red Rushing strategy in this guide (nor research strategy), if I ever do write guides for those, they will be in seperate guides. This guide is for the "Standard Red" player, not specialist tactics.

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 ==Introduction==
 This Guide is based around the same format as my Phantasm Guide - it is an introduction for the beginner or intermediate player and will not guarantee you a hall, but will guarantee you a solid ability to work with red in most common situations. I am not including links except where I feel they are necessary, and I am not going to go into red Rushing strategy in this guide (nor research strategy), if I ever do write guides for those, they will be in seperate guides. This guide is for the "Standard Red" player, not specialist tactics.
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 '''Note 4''' I can't reitterate it enough - the stack I gave is not the only red stack by far, there are many varied red strategies, some better than others, some easier than others, some harder than others, some just plain confusing, and some as blunt as a hammer. 'how can I do enough damage', 'how can I keep from taking more damage', 'how can I take max land', 'what can I do to compensate for weaknesses if anything', and finally 'what items and spells will work best with this?' Should be considered, but this is by far not an all-inclusive statement, but these will cover most your bases except for the metagame (look at those around you, what do you think they're stacking, would you win if they got their ideal spell and item through on you? - would you win if they blocked both your spell and item?). In this Eradication Guide I also introduced the "Hunting" consideration of where you can setup to hunt a specific color, and still be effective in general.
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 [[Red Dragon]]: Red Dragons are easily the most powerful units in the game, that doesn't make them unbeatable or even 100% necessary for a red mage, but they are helpful. Red Dragons are mediocre when it comes to offense, often not doing enough damage by themselves without the help of items or spells, but due to their high resists to spells and many different attack types, not to mention their assortment of abilities, they are very durable. Their major weaknesses are cold damage, lightning damage, and 'fixed unit kills' spells/items (Gaze of Death, Disintegrate, and Head of Medusa). Due to their high resists to spells though, they need not worry about Gaze or Disintegrate too much, however the threat of Head of Medusa Remains - by going heavy dragons you accept this risk and the fact that it will cost you battles. Now onto lightning and cold damage, They are actually more threatened by the Lightning Units ([[Djinni]] and [[Air Elemental]]) than they are by the cold units ([[Lich]] and [[Ice Elemental]]). This is because Red Dragons can usually outdamage or soak enough of the cold damage and deal enough back to at least break even unless stack power differences are extremely different, with Lightning damage though the units are much better set up to deal with red dragons, being able to soak RD damage, and deal more back - in other words, you have to hide the cold units, thus limiting their total power, while the lightning units can easily match toe-to-toe letting them have equal or greater power in the lightning units than the cold (oddly enough - the colors that use these untis are the same - Blue and black). This description was long, but I felt it important for one of the most powerful units in the game.
-[[Fire Elemental]]: These are powerful ground units, that can actually do decent damage, the problem is they do have some major weaknesses in magic and psychic, and Liches and Unicorns will rip these to pieces. My recommendation is to hide these in your ground stacks if you use them - do not put them on the top of your ground stacks unless you're very sure why you put them there. Fire Elementals are also the only red unit that can go toe-to-toe against the same power in treants and win, due to their high melee resists and good Verdant Resists.
+[[Fire Elemental]]: These are powerful ground units, that can actually do decent damage, the problem is they do have some major weaknesses in magic and psychic, and Liches and Unicorns will rip these to pieces. My recommendation is to hide these in your ground stacks if you use them - do not put them on the top of your ground stacks unless you're very sure why you put them there. Fire Elementals are also the only red unit that can really be expected to be put toe to toe with treants of the same power (although note: many greens will keep a LOT of power in Treants, so chances are FE are facing a larger enemy stack).
 [[Chimera]]: These are massively heavy hitters WITH a good attack type. Chimera Fire Breath is massive compared to all other units with any type of breath attack. They will outdamage many things - even those that usually hunt them if you use the right assignment. Chimera do have a downside though, they are glass - they die in droves to many things (even though they kill it immensely in return). A bad roll on the 'random' multiplier will spell doom for these units, so minimize the effect of that by hiding them behind something solid unless you're mono-stacked chims. Also help minimize the effect of it by either stacking a LOT of chimera as red, or none at all (other colors can get away with less for various reasons, due to stacking issues it's harder for reds to get away with it).
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 [[Hydra]]: Nice ground units, good for hitting Mind Rippers, even though they're outclassed by Horned Demons in that respect. These are all around very, well, average complex units. They don't do massive damage, but they don't take massive losses unless put in a very bad pairing. A ground based red will frequently want to use these to push down other stacks, but don't rely on them to be the battle winner.
-[[Efreeti]]: One of the most loved units in the game, because they're strong defensively, fast, and fairly powerful. They aren't the most offensive unit in the game, but with that 4 init primary almost guaranteeing a first hit that also fatigues, they are nothing to be scoffed at. Like all red units, they'll summon fairly slow, but if you're using a ground stack these are going to be a staple unit in it.
+[[Efreeti]]: One of the most loved units in the game, because they're strong defensively, fast, and fairly powerful. They aren't the most offensive unit in the game, but with that 4 init primary almost guaranteeing a first hit that also fatigues, they are nothing to be scoffed at.
 [[Salamander]]: 1 init, but massive primary attack. These die pretty bad, but will kill massively if they get to put in a solid hit. On a ground stack that relies on these, you will usually want to consider Ash to give them that first hit, although personally I prefer hiding them in the lower ranks where they only get a mild hit, and then can bash whatever they match with.
-[[Hell Hound]]: The offensive power of RD, the defensive power of chimera, and they don't have flying, honestly I avoid these like the plague, they're not even as good as sirenes or Astral Magicians, athough I suppose you could use them for taking out some weaker fodder...
+[[Hell Hound]]: The offensive power of RD, the defensive power of chimera, and they don't have flying, honestly I avoid these unless necessary to deepen my stack...
 [[Wyvern]]: Not great, not completely horrible. These are red flying fodder, personally I prefer pegasi or wraiths - wyverns just don't do it for me, although they can do some damage with flameblade, they don't survive well even with scales.

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 Examples of Good Complimentary-Goal Combinations:<br>
 Battle Lust + Ash of Invisibility: Battle Lust improves the offensive power of your units while lowering their life, Ash lets you utilize your attacks as if all units have 6 initiative - hitting first they will take less damage by killing more.<br>
-Flame Blade + Candle of Sleeping: Improve your melee units' accuracies, reduce the enemy resistances, add fire to your units, and reduce enemy efficiency. Focuses on lowering damage on you and raising damage you deal immensely.
+Flame Blade + Candle of Sleeping: Improve your melee units' accuracies, reduce the enemy resistances, add fire to your units, and reduce enemy efficiency. Focuses on lowering damage on you and raising damage you deal immensely.<br>
 Giant Strength + Candle of Sleeping: Similar to Flameblade+Candle, except it punches up the primary damage of all units, and doesn't add accuracy. (works on non-melee though).
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 Examples of Bad Multi-Goal Combinations (opposing/interfering goals):<br>
-Flameblade+Strange Metallic Can: either focus on damage, or focus on preventing damage, this is just wasting your resources, red is a color of damage, and doesn't have much in the way of healing - aim to do more damage or prevent it, not heal it, as red.
+Flameblade+Strange Metallic Can: either focus on damage, or focus on preventing damage, this is just wasting your resources, red is a color of damage, and doesn't have much in the way of healing - aim to do more damage or prevent it, not heal it, as red.<br>
 Flameblade+Satchel of Mist: Same as above, Stun+Satchel is a mediocre assignment worked to reduce damage taken, but this is just contradictory - you want more damage, don't bother with satchel.
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 Examples of Good One-Goal Combinations:<br>
-Stun + Oil: Focused strictly on lowering resistances, in-particular fire - good for fire heavy stacks.
+Stun + Oil: Focused strictly on lowering resistances, in-particular fire - good for fire heavy stacks.<br>
-Stun + Candle: Double up on the same effect, this will kill enemy efficiency AND resists if stun pasts resists.
+Stun + Candle: Double up on the same effect, this will kill enemy efficiency AND resists if stun pasts resists.<br>
 Gravity Pull + Missile Shield: This focuses on knocking down enemy fliers, while keeping yours airborn, making only ranged units able to attack provided enemy units don't resist Gravity Pull - missile shield helps reduce the damage from the ranged attackers.
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 Volcano Eruption: This spell increases in damage the closer you are to the person you're casting it on. It is a deadly spell that destroys darn near everything if it passes barriers. It's the only spell that can destroy forts without the target taking turns.
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-Taking a break, next edit will be when it's finished.
+In this stacking guide I will take you through the thought process behind the most common red stacking - all-flying. It is important to realize that red can stack much more than simple all-flying, it just requires more than the mere basics of thought on stacking. If I write a more advanced follow-up to this guide I will likely include some pointers for more advanced red stacking knowledge.