| Supply: | 4 |
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| Cost: | 12 
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| Build time: |  1
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| Health: |  4
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| Position: | Middle Far Right |
A Drake
Drake is a Blue unit. It's an attacker that threatens high damage.
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Strategy
Providing each turn and having the potential to grant an additional by sacrificing a Blastforge makes Drake one of the most powerful attacking blue units. While clicking them is often not a good idea, opponents vulnerable to being breached are forced to defend as though you will do it, causing them to spend more resources on defending themselves which in turn leaves them less able to build attacking units of their own. With 5, they are also very difficult to kill.
Builds involving Drake
The second player has the option of playing as follows:
1. ... DD
2. ... DDE
3. ... DDD
4. ... BBBD
Following this, they are able to build a Drake each turn for up to 4 turns, which can catch unprepared opponents by surprise and lead to fast victories should they fail to react accordingly. Going ADD after the second or third drake for lategame presence is often good, but against weak or unprepared opponents, continuing with a fourth Drake right away is a powerful option. If so, the triple Blastforge sacrifice is usually enough to end the game; even if it is not buying another Blastforge for up to 20 on the next turn often is.
Note: The patch cost increase to 16BBB renders this specific build unusable. You can't get the drone on T4 (leaving you with 14 drones and 17, 15 G, meaning you can't play a second drake immediately.)
Change log
- December 17th, 2014
- Cost increased from 15
to 16.
- Cost increased from 15
- October 11th, 2014
- Cost increased from 14 to 15.
- Cost increased from 14
External Links
- Primata Game Analysis #7: Countering Drakes, a video by Argeiphontes. (December 30th, 2014)
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