Posted: 29 May 2004 at 6:18am | IP Logged

Well for any dragon deck you of course want the D10 dragon king and D10 dragon queen, this way all your dragons deal double physical and double breath weapon damage. Also Moltings help a lot, the D1 Scintalating dragon (i think it is), is a good one sense it cant be hurt by weapons fire and it has a breath weapon just pump it up with a good molting and its super deadly(provided you get it more breath weapons).

Those are just some of the things my friends dragon deck has and its really good.

Posted: 07 June 2004 at 5:54am | IP Logged

Gekos also don't have shields, and they are one of the strongest empires.

Dragons have some advantages that other empires do not have. Immunity to Occurance Cards,not being able to play some defensive cards (Phaser Malfunction, etc.) against them.

Personally, I don't think hiding behind a Scintillating Dragoness is worth it. They do not have enough firepower to do much harm to anyone.

Posted: 10 June 2004 at 12:43pm | IP Logged

Geko's right, don't hide behind Scintillating Dragons. They are good but one hazard can kill them easilly.  Their are many huge and scarey dragons out their taht half all sorts of terrifying abilities.

I'll see if I can get a friend of mine to post some of them.

Posted: 11 June 2004 at 7:01pm | IP Logged

no you need the 1,2,3,... etc D's. ships wont fill the slots for D'2 as a major or minor.

to the best of my knowledge any way

Posted: 22 June 2004 at 6:00am | IP Logged

According to the rulebook Dragons are a subset of Ships. That means you can use D cards as S cards (not vice versa). This text is untrue, see my comment below.

The rules state: For each card type in the deck there must be at least 1 card of each strength up to the highest strength card of that type in the deck.

Although we NEVER played it this way, nor was it ever done.

Posted: 25 June 2004 at 5:35am | IP Logged

I take back what I said earlier about D cards being able to be used as S cards.

According to the rules: For each card type (D is a different card type than S) in the deck there must be at least 1 card of each strength up to the highest strength card of that type in the deck.

Posted: 20 July 2004 at 5:56am | IP Logged

why not hide behind an occumbus?...for one thing you cant shoot the opponent, for another it lasts for one turn, and another cant you kill monsters either thru research or weapons fire, kill ithem then still no protection.  Besides, tho this is still  true with the scint dragon... when someone hides behind occombi I use my weapons and blow out the terrain so next turn they cant engage, at least the scint still protects the HQ.

Posted: 20 July 2004 at 6:29am | IP Logged

You would shoot your opponent BEFORE you play the Occumbus? Occumbus (or Occumbi depending on which you prefer) cannot be killed with weapons fire or research.

If you use bases they can't shoot at your terrain.

Posted: 21 July 2004 at 5:57am | IP Logged

OK, but you can kill a SD with a mine card or time phasers or distortion cannons, none are considered weapons fire... If u say no to the distortion and phasers  no prob , but the mine cards can right?

Posted: 21 July 2004 at 9:40am | IP Logged

Distortion cannon and time phasers won't work. They are still considered weapons fire even though they are handled differrently then normal phasers.

You need something that does damage outside the weapons fire phase. Hazards and Monsters work best.

Posted: 02 December 2004 at 12:50pm | IP Logged

Hide behind the SDs...BUT you need some teeth.  That is where the dragons that are immune to phasers are worse then the SD.

Put the D9 Ether Dragoness on a T7 Dragon Nest and now you need 16 Heavy hits to hurt them.  Not many fleets can muster that.

Trying to rely though on a single SD on the board to hide behind normally gets me killed within a turn or two.  What happens is every dragon I put down gets immediately killed as Geko said.  BUT 90+% of the time I can keep one of the phaser immune dragons alive for 1 turn.  And that is all that it normally takes to get going.

Posted: 02 December 2004 at 12:53pm | IP Logged

Oh and believe Geko when he says that when the SD is gone so are you. 

When I played my Dragon deck most of the time I was either the first one our or I won.  Luckily I won more times then not but...the only deck that makes worries people more then a dragon deck is a Psy deck.  And I think that is just because there is more work and understanding required to play them because of the different abilities they have.