They have advantages, to be sure, but so does everybody else. And even then dreadnought is nowhere near the strongest class in the game.

Origineel geplaatst door Iguana-on-a-stick:The game is pretty well balanced. What this army consists of is still important, but secondary. What matters is having a bigger army than the enemy, and using it better. Victory in this game depends more on who builds the strongest army, strongest economy, best leveled heroes, and best skill in tactical battles. * But most of all, it is likely that your friend is winning because he's practiced with the dreadnought a lot, and you've tried all other things. A good tactic would be to pressure them in the early game, with a class that can summon aid. * In general, Dreadnoughts are strong in the late game, thanks to their strong economy and ability to mass-produce machines. Degenerate (wild magic adept) can also help, but perhaps best of all is Cardinal Culling (Grey Guard Master.) as makes all units of type X more vulnerable to physical damage. * Rot (water adept) does help against machines, but won't win the game by itself. Dreadnoughts also get it, funnily enough. * The Sabotage ability and the Demolisher skills help against machines. * Sorcerer deals a ton of shock damage and can stun things.

They have a special anti machine spell, plus shamans to entangle them, and serpents/horned gods that deal shock damage. Plus machines are immune to all their curses) against them. * So do NOT play a Theocrat (relies on holy damage) or a Necromancer (relies on blight and some spirit damage, as well as cold. They're vulnerable against shock damage, but invulnerable against spirit/holy and poison/blight attacks. * But machines are not vulnerable to physical attacks. hit them in the face and they won't get up, unless they get lucky.

* Halflings are vulnerable to physical damage. Halflings like fertile grasslands, they hate. So if he's winning he gets luckier.) and most of all fight in terrain they hate. * To drop morale, use spells, win battles (Winning battles = +Morale for you, -Morale for the enemy. But if their morale drops to under 0, luck has a 0% chance of working. If the halfings have max morale, there's a 25% chance ANY attack will fail. (Unless they drove through a lucky clover field or something, but that's temporary and you can do it too.) Engineers and Musketeers get luck, flame tanks do not.

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