how do you dealing with black dragons as a mage ?

[Gatts]

Well I usually pasted the trap just in front of my unit where I expected enemy to walk to hit me hand-to-hand... there is not so much variation when AI is deciding whom and how to hit... but well... I remember many lost traps in battles un-triggered... I just hope I won't walking there again...

[Stepsongrapes]

Originally Posted by Lestas

there are lots of ways to OHKO dragons in most cases
* Skeleton archers (or elves) + Dragon Arrows
* Faeries (with the ring)

Physical damage archers + Dragon Arrows is definitely my favorite way of taking out dragons, especially black dragons. A fair-sized stack of hunters can take down 10 or more blacks in one shot.

Take away their defense and what you have left is a lizard with generally poor hit points for its leadership value that goes down easy.

[Gatts]

Well, there are sure many ways of taking down dragons, and I use many of them... but my favorite is:

Plague (-30% to all stats) + Ancient Vampires (bats) (if enemy is too strong, I use phantom/ necro call to give my real units some time to "recover" using hit'n'run tactic) But what I like is not the effectiveness, but the REAL BLOOD hand-to-hand battle mode... FACE to FACE battle with dragons... AWESOME IMHO

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Gatts

but the REAL BLOOD hand-to-hand battle mode... FACE to FACE battle with dragons... AWESOME IMHO

Amen to that.....and then some mana farming and resurrect everyone

[stpkg]

ArchDemon
Dragon Sword
Black Hole

[Hento]

Archdemons are like made to kill all kinds of dragons-fire immunity, deal high physical damage, high initiative, highest speed and high health.

[Darmani]

I used the artifact that gives -1 speed to enemy flying (can't remember what it's called). Makes it so enemy blackies don't quite have enough speed to attack me, but the dumb AI still moves as far as it can, leaving them vulnerable to Royal Snakes+Dragon Slayer. I also did a lot of using my own blackies to absorb retaliation.

[Metroplex]

Get another Blackie in your army, I find that MY blackie is tronger then THEIR blackie!

[Dabrinko]

Can you use sacrifice to get more blackies?

[Gatts]

Fighting black dragon with another dragon (red/black) is not as useful IMHO (Emerald one is OK - he is dealing PHYSICAL damage)

Against black/red dragons? -> Archdemons 85% Fire resistance, what is handy against fire attacks for these nasty dragons, teleport (can flee in the most away corner, or attack the best hidden enemy) Each start in the round they dispell all negaive spells, but still can bear positive spells... AND there is nice mod that makes them even more HANDY.

On maxed level sacrifice works for archdemons (not to mention you can have demons in your army, one of best middle level TANKs if not best, who can summon demonic army, good source of sacrifice)...