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Originally posted by warchanter

Fought two battles yesterday evening. GBD won both. The first one lasted two rounds (I managed to deal 110 hp to the monster), the second three (sligtly more damage, but nothing to write home about - 160).
These were my two warbands:

1) Drizzt, Epic tordek, Guenwyvar, Meepo, Eberk, Ragnara, Lidda adventurer, Ulmo (bad setup, lost init. and EVERYONE failed the save against breath weapon on the dragon second activation)

2) Epic Marut, Epic Slaughterstone eviscerator, artificec, eberk, Couatl, Meph. Pyromancer, aramil (split up the forces on start areas A, but Marut lasted only until the beginning of second round)

GBD is a monster!!!!

You MUST have energy immunity ACID and lots of HP or you've already lost. High AC is irrelevant, high saves are mandatory (but expect to fail on a 50/50 basis) Ironically, Sorcerer on black dragon could be the nemesis of GBD.

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Originally posted by stonefro2000

We played the GBD today, I was the first up at bat and took it down in 5 rounds.

Aspect of Bhamut
Elminster
Nebin
Elf pyromancer
Corw shaman
Wild elf raider

imune enrgy saved Bhamut as did the blur, and snakes swiftness were the key. doing an almost garenteed 140 pt of damge around, throw in a couple of crits, and you got your self one nice wall hanging.

The GHD is tough as nails but all you got to do is bring the right hammer.

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Originally posted by stonefro2000

We played the GBD today, I was the first up at bat and took it down in 5 rounds.

Aspect of Bhamut
Elminster
Nebin
Elf pyromancer
Corw shaman
Wild elf raider

imune enrgy saved Bhamut as did the blur, and snakes swiftness were the key. doing an almost garenteed 140 pt of damge around, throw in a couple of crits, and you got your self one nice wall hanging.

The GHD is tough as nails but all you got to do is bring the right hammer.

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Originally posted by Richard II

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Originally posted by stonefro2000

We played the GBD today, I was the first up at bat and took it down in 5 rounds.

Aspect of Bhamut
Elminster
Nebin
Elf pyromancer
Corw shaman
Wild elf raider

imune enrgy saved Bhamut as did the blur, and snakes swiftness were the key. doing an almost garenteed 140 pt of damge around, throw in a couple of crits, and you got your self one nice wall hanging.

The GHD is tough as nails but all you got to do is bring the right hammer.

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Who played the Gargantuan Black Dragon? You really shouldn't be getting very many full attacks, and the Snake Swiftness Casters shouldn't last long enough to get more than one or two of them cast.

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• Stun and such knock out a single activation.


• Enfeeble effects are not important; it has too many abilities that don't require attack rolls


• Titan builds will almost definately fail to Crush, since a DC 28 for 45 damage and stun.


• It can only move during "move", "move and claw", and "move and crush". We were reading that the only time it can double move is "move", but we weren't really sure.


• Remember, it does start in a wall. It can be attacked, but it has cover. It will move slowly out of its throne

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Originally posted by Drago F

The only viable option is to keep the dragon at bay. The only piece that can move it at the other end of the table is Epic Elmister.

Epic Elminster is the only hope. BUT what to do with 231 points?
Ghaele Eladrin
Archmage
Forget activations and go for ranged damage, a gaze attack and baleful transportation and do it one more time before getting basted
There is healing for Elminster and if Mystra's curse gets pulled off the odds start to fall away from the GBD.

Another fun one is using Warduke ability to make it rout 1 in 4 games hehe

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Originally posted by warchanter

If the player that plays the dragon uses the Crush ability wisely, victory is almost sure.

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Originally posted by visage

Played it myself last night twice using the band I posted before. Split the games down the middle, first game I setup in what I thought was the wrong starting area, did 250 damage to it before it got to move, then it came over and lined breathed the two hunters and MEF also getting one of the Storm Archers. Then it clawed one hunter to death. (Couldn't tail sweep effectively because I placed an Elf Warrior in a good way where it was the closest and no way of putting the cone would let it hit anything else. Next round win Init then used the last hunter (who neither of the hunters ever hit) Letting the Storm archers drop it another 50 damage then with tactics they unload on it doing another 150 total getting the dragon down to 150, then a snake swiftness gets it down to 125, the MELF charged it and now it is at 115. Dragon's turn, it breaths again to hit he taking out the MEF and seriously wounding the other SA, then it crushes the crow shaman to pin the SA's in. No room to even sidestep and shoot (I screwed placing). Next round, win init barely, healthiest SA takes AoO to move away (making the morale save it is forced to) and hits the dragon knocking it down to 90, and then the other SA only melee's it once taking it down to 75. Dragon then claws the other SA killing it and moves to base the SA. It wins next init and bites the SA and removes it. So Game one to GBD (barely).

Second game, set the team up in farthest start area B from the throne (which wasn't too much better because it can use the pools which I forgot.) But I spread the team out more and fixed it where no more than three figs could get hit with a line at one time. SO opening volley win the init and this time manage 280 points of damage with the SA's, Net hunters (who missed both attacks each time) the snake swiftness and one of the Elf warriors actually doing 5 damage because it critted. Then the dragon moves to line a net hunter, the crow shaman, and storm archers (made a mistake and it got both of them). Bye bye crow shaman, net hunter down to 10 and miraculously the SA's made their saves. Win init the next round. Only take it down 150 points this time because made a lot of bad rolls. So it uses second line on Other net hunter (killing the Crow Shaman made it closer) one SA and the MELF, net hunter nat 20'ed to make the save, but MEF didn't and neither did SA (but both made morale) but the whole group was coned up good so tail sweep took out one net hunter, MEF, the other made it's more to stick around, and both SA's took full damage. Next round dragon wins init. First Activation it tail swept to take out the hunter but could not take out both SA's no matter what it could do, (could take out one but not both unless it critted. So it used it's last activation to warp across the board and no SA could get to it to hit it that round (mushroom forest blocked line of site) so they full moved to see the dragon then it came down to the last init. SA's win the init by one (rolled 5 and dragon rolled 4) first one missed its first two shots and hit with its third Dragon down to 50 all rested on the second archer. Made its first shot, missed its second, but the last die roll critted doing a little overkill to drop the GBD letting the Storm archers pick up their dead and move on.

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Originally posted by maineman

Using CRUSH, does the GBD hurt every figure in the way, or only one?

Thanks,
Maineman

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Originally posted by Toxic_Rat

Perhaps if you were to weight the Dragons die to roll 1's....

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