Dignfight Strategies

Thank you to all of the handful of users who posted a comment! I hope you had fun trying to figure out our first DignFight Puzzle.

The problem with this attacker is creature types. All of his creatures are leveled-up (lvl 10-13), but his lone Dark Elf is the only battle supporter and his 2 Salamanders are the only flankers.

My 12 Dark Elves have the following target priority: sprinter, battle supporter, blocker, flanker. There aren't any sprinters in the attacking group, so my Dark Elves go after the battle supporter first (the lone Dark Elf). In this screenshot, the attacking Dark Elf gets killed, then the rest of my damage goes to the next target priority: blockers. Black riders, trolls, and devilers are all blockers, so my remaining 40 points of damage is split between 9 creatures (only 3 creatures get hit though).

If I was defending with Devilers, both of his level 13 Salamanders would have died. 39k gold and 26 days of training for each one.

I don't care that he won the battle and stole 434 gold, my Imps can dig more than that in 10 minutes. Losing 1 level 12 Dark Elf just cost him 15 days of training time and possibly as much as 45,000 gold! Even if he used the Home Training Made Easy premium, it would still cost 31,500 gold to train a level 12 Dark Elf. Who do you think really won that battle? On top of that, there's still the 2000 gold to recruit the Dark Elf.

Lessons learned:

• Attack with appropriate level creatures
• Do NOT mix creature types when you attack
• Take care of your high-level creatures, you spent a lot of time getting them there

Explanations:
Attack with appropriate level creatures. If your creatures are too low, they will die. That should be obvious.

Do NOT mix creature types when you attack. It is perfectly alright to mix creatures. My attacker would have been fine if he used ONLY Devilers, Trolls, and Black Riders. When you have 1 or 2 of a creature type in your attack group, they often become the first target for the defenders.

Take care of your high-level creatures. Do you want to recover 15 days of training time and dig up 31,500 gold? I didn't think so.