What is better in a 1 unit army - 1 red or black dragon

[travelingoz]

It's easy to do the mana regen thing with one BD. I'm also up to level 43 and have been using similar tactics as DGD.
However, at the start of a battle, i usually cast Demon Portal, then when they emerge, cast Stone Skin and Mana Spring on them. Then i let them take a beating. If there are lots of ranged units or Shamans, then a level 3 Target on them also helps.
So while they're getting the crap beaten out of them, your BD is free to soar around and open chests etc. Towards the end of the battle, you can use the BD's Fire Breath on the stacks around the demon to get your range back up if you have the Paladin's Holy skill maxed.

[McSwan]

Arg, just realised, Is it necessary to get the pet dragon that gives you +1 initative to dragons? I got The +1 int pet dragon. Is there an item that gives you +1 init for flying creatures?

[travelingoz]

If you're going for the one dragon strategy then it certainly can't hurt!

[Zechnophobe]

Just get Adrenaline instead, and choose the dragon that gives +crit chance.

[N3MES1S]

Red dragons always. They can be resurrected and can be improved by spells. Besides, red dragon are good against black dragon, but black dragons are not than good against red dragons (RD Are fire inmune). And, the red dragon special hability is more useful than the black dragon (almost for me). Maybe i always use red dragons cuz i have paladins and inquisit, but i really found em more useful than black dragons. I just changed royal griffins for assasins, and i almost never used the tank units lol, i only summon the avenging guards and let em to do the work. But god, i run out of royal griffins but assasins are amazing -.-. I love red dragons, but i dont use em too much, only to block enemy's way or for using the RD Hability.

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by N3MES1S

Red dragons always. They can be resurrected and can be improved by spells. Besides, red dragon are good against black dragon, but black dragons are not than good against red dragons (RD Are fire inmune). And, the red dragon special hability is more useful than the black dragon (almost for me). Maybe i always use red dragons cuz i have paladins and inquisit, but i really found em more useful than black dragons. I just changed royal griffins for assasins, and i almost never used the tank units lol, i only summon the avenging guards and let em to do the work. But god, i run out of royal griffins but assasins are amazing -.-. I love red dragons, but i dont use em too much, only to block enemy's way or for using the RD Hability.

I disagree. For a one stack army, the blacks are superior in my mind, especially against enemy heroes. Otherwise I prefer the reds mostly.

And how the heck are red dragons better against black dragons than the other way around? They both have fire resistance, I believe the blacks' is even higher though. Not that it matters, using blacks/reds to fight the same is nonsense in the first place.

[Zechnophobe]

Player controlled red dragons are a lot strong vs ai controlled black dragons than vice versa. This is simply because red dragons per leadership do more damage, and have just as much fire resistance (80%). Also it is slightly easier to do extra damage with red dragon special ability than black dragons.

Honestly though, both are awesome, and you should use them each!

[N3MES1S]

Originally Posted by Metathron

I disagree. For a one stack army, the blacks are superior in my mind, especially against enemy heroes. Otherwise I prefer the reds mostly.

And how the heck are red dragons better against black dragons than the other way around? They both have fire resistance, I believe the blacks' is even higher though. Not that it matters, using blacks/reds to fight the same is nonsense in the first place.

Not. While red dragons has fire inmunnity as special skill, black dragon hasnt But i proved a lot of times how 1 red dragon can do more than 50 dmg to another black dragon, and black dragon cant even do more than 15-20 dmg to the red dragon. Yes, dragons are fire resistance, but red dragons are the most fire resistance creatures on the game. As the mate said on the previous post, red dragons do more dmg per stack, and u can heal em and res em, and that is a good reason for using red dragons instead black ones. But depends on your style fight, i use to abuse of heal/resurrection spell, cuz my red dragons stack is limited to 18 over 19, and i cant find more red dragons. I only found 10 on reha, and thats all, the rest of the troop is filled with red dragon eggs lol. On the other hand, i have 60 black dragons on reha and 42 on nameless island.. a bit unbalanced.