Draconian Wars: Step-by-Step Guide to Challenge 1-4

Summary/Hint: Debuff the enemy ground units’ defenses so you can deal overflow damage.

Steps:

1. Use Henri Giffard’s ability to move to the central air area.
2. Play Steam Powered.
3. Play Protective Fire on The Glorious Death.
4. Skip to the combat phase.
5. Attack the central ground area.
6. Play Entrench on Pathfinder.
7. Play Fast Reaction on the Mining Automaton in the right-side area.
8. Use both Mining Automatons’ abilities (on Ancient One Rider and Fire Salamander).

Note: Credit to Elegant Caveman at https://steamcommunity.com/app/296590/discussions/0/35222218683360638/. Read their post for a detailed guide to the strategy.

Summary/Hint: Use Consuming The Flesh to gain enough resources and Revenge to force enough discards.

Steps:

1. Play Farmer, Human Hunter and Albino Sorcerer (Make sure you choose Flood as the second card).
2. Play Consuming The Flesh on Albino Sorcerer.
3. Attack.
4. Use Human Hunter’s ability.
5. Use Consuming The Flesh’s ability on Farmer.
6. Distribute damage to Albino Sorcerer.
7. Play Revenge.

Summary/Hint: Use two Rain of Bullets to force enough discards by ground then air combat.

Steps:

1. Play Zapper on Armored Hang Glider.
2. Play Gauss Rifle on Jargen “The Eagle-Eye”.
3. Play Rain of Bullets and Reconnaissance Flight.
4. Skip to the combat phase.
5. Attack the ground area.
6. Play Brilliant Plan.
7. Skip to the next combat step.
8. Distribute damage to both units.
9. Use Gauss Rifle’s ability on the undamaged enemy unit.
10. Use both Rain of Bullets’ abilities.
11. Use Cyrus McCormick’s second ability on Fast Reaction.
12. Skip to the next combat step.
13. Discard any except for cards in your hand and resource pile.
14. Skip to finish ground combat.
15. Attack the air area.
16. Play We Are The Future (choose Finley Brothers).
17. Skip to the next combat step.
18. Distribute damage to any unit.
19. Use Zapper’s ability on any undamaged enemy unit.
20. Use both Rain of Bullets’ abilities.

Summary/Hint: Win by activating Lizard Swarm and Viper Warriors’ abilities. You need to get rid of Dinamo Automaton’s stat boost.

Steps:

1. Play Viper Warriors, Human Hunter, and Raekar Offspring.
2. Attack the center ground area.
3. Play Winged Help (choose Raekar Offspring).
4. Use Human Hunter’s ability.
5. Use Fire Salamander’s ability on Dinamo Automaton (Discard any except Fighting Fire With Fire).
6. Play Fighting Fire With Fire on Dinamo Automaton (sacrifice Lizard Swarm).
7. Use Viper Warriors’ ability.

Written by Seranth