I also used Phoenix just like you do, Sensemaker. It was great for blocking ranged enemies. But I switched over to using phantom more. After a certain point, the phoenix just died too easily, usually in one hit. Sure, you can revive it, but if it dies right away from a faster melee troop, it's not blocking the ranged troops. With phantom, it scales with your army, so at this point it has significantly more hitpoints. If I need to block ranged troops, I usually move some royal snakes forward a few spaces, summon a phantom, then move that to block. With phantom, I'm getting over 20 royal snakes at this point, which has over 5 times the hitpoints of the young phoenix. Plus, the no retal of the snakes lets it hit without fear of dying from retal. The icing on the cake is that phantom costs less, and I always find myself in short mana supply when using this strategy repeatedly.
Right now, I'm working on building up a griffin stack (with sacrifice) to do the same thing. The multiple retal should be nice. Griffins also have more hp than leadership, (royal snakes do not), which should translate to more mileage.
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01-27-2009, 04:10 PM
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