Taking down SCs

[GameExtremist]

Spamming Terror and frighten are good if you can force his chariots to take morale checks.

Does he use the chariots in one large unit? or lots of smaller units? (like my last opponent did - thus making it easier to route them).

[chrispedersen]

Actually under cbm firebonds are very strong.. firebonds if they don't do MR + frighten for the win...

but your rate of putting on the firebonds >> his rate of getting out.. especially as you willfatigue and he won't ..

[Warhammer]

He uses one large unit. The thing I don't get, they have a unit vastly better than any elephant/mammoth unit (and does the same thing), and it costs significantly less?

[rdonj]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

He uses one large unit. The thing I don't get, they have a unit vastly better than any elephant/mammoth unit (and does the same thing), and it costs significantly less?

It's not as healthy as mammoths/elephants, and is smaller, so it's not quite vastly better. They also cost many more resources than eles/mammoths. Bigger tramplers do much more damage when they trample. They do have a lot more protection though. When you get to stellar cascades try spamming that with 4+ mages and aim a bunch of slingers or something at them. They'll take a lot of extra damage as the fatigue mounts, and you'll eventually be able to take them down probably without too many losses at that point. You could also try fire bolas.

Curses are very good against SCs, if you can give a melqart a chest wound it is going to die eventually regardless of how good of a bless it has.