How do you beat the Lotus Clan in Mission 8 as Dragon?

[Sternutation]

I basically cannot make any progress in this mission. It's a huge map, and while I figured out that the North West part of the map is a good place to expand, I cannot do much more than protect that base.

The moment that I get new units to replace my old ones, they die. I have literally gone into two bases of the enemy and had my army wiped each time without killing off the base successfully so I make no progress at all.

So I must ask this question - what is a good build order as Dragon vs Lotus and what unit composition should I be looking to have when maxed out on 30 population?

So far I have been trying -

A mix of Dragon Warriors and Kabuki + Geisha and two Powder Keg along with Zen Masters

Kabuki + Samurai + Archers + few Geisha for healing and two Powder Keg canonners

Dragon Warriors, Archers, Samurai, Geisha, Kabuki, Powder Keg

A mix of all of the above

My Geishas just evaporate to those stealth cutting Lotus units, and everything else will survive like one fight but not destroy an enemy base fast enough to prevent reinforcements from killing them.

I decided to play without Geishas but that didnt help either.

[Razuberi]

You can look at my playthrough of it on Youtube, i dont know which mission you mean, but if its the last one then look this: https://youtu.be/gWGkxUszAJM

I hope it can help a bit. Using Geisha as Dragon is very important always

[Schraube]

I did a different mission, but found similar problem with the 2nd mission after that.

I like to make hotkey groups - ctrl+number creates one, shift+number adds units to one. I put all ranged units into one hotkey group, all melee ones in the other, and let the melee one protect (G button) a ranged unit. Then I just use my ranged units to target down buildings, microing them away from and focus firing any reinforcements that come. This keeps all the melee guys from running off into the base by themselves. I don't like how slow the powder kegs are, so I use archers and chemists in a 50/50 split. The battlegear for the chemists from the fireworks factory sets a building on severe fire immediately, so I set a couple buildings ablaze and while the fire does its work I shoot at the others.

The geisha thing is quite annoying, I agree. I usually put them on horses if I can and micro them around in a seperate control group.