just started Scorched Earth - manticore team/strategy

[giorgiobusoni]

What is best to fight the manticore? Will the usual 18 rex + 1 yuty + 1 daed work like for the bosses of the island? Or it's better to tame some local creature?

[giorgiobusoni]

nobody?

[Anubis]

Never kill it in normal ways. But if no one awnser, you can check some videos to see what ppl use to kill it

[giorgiobusoni]

thanks. Only problem is that often videos are outdated, as this game is changing. I'll make a search anyway...

[KDub]

You need Rex's to deal with the rock golems and death worms.
Fire and lighting wyverns help as well.
But guided missiles and sustained weapons fire directed at the mantecore from multiple tribe members is the real key.

[InsidiousUrsine]

Take twenty lightning wyverns with you and you'll beat it no problem.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by KDub:

You need Rex's to deal with the rock golems and death worms.
Fire and lighting wyverns help as well.
But guided missiles and sustained weapons fire directed at the mantecore from multiple tribe members is the real key.

I am single player

Are wyverns better than rexes? From the stats seems yes...

What about rock elementals?

[KitsuneShiro]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Originally posted by KDub:

You need Rex's to deal with the rock golems and death worms.
Fire and lighting wyverns help as well.
But guided missiles and sustained weapons fire directed at the mantecore from multiple tribe members is the real key.

I am single player

Then you can bring 20 dinos with you.

Practice your whistles. Maybe divide you army into 2 or more whistle groups, for flanking purposes.

Don't risk your best dinos, unless you have breeder backups.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

I am single player

Then you can bring 20 dinos with you.

Practice your whistles. Maybe divide you army into 2 or more whistle groups, for flanking purposes.

Don't risk your best dinos, unless you have breeder backups.

I am concerned with the wyvens that I cannot breed. No idea how many shards to clone a lv 32 wyvern for example. But if rexs can defeat it, I'd go with them and not risk the wyvern. I always keep my best 2 rexes for breeding, so it's not problem if I lose a few rexes. Only thing I would prefer not to lose them all, as breeding (and levelling, as they are useless with the wild stats only) 18 rexes takes a while also on SP

[KitsuneShiro]

You could always force a save. Backup that file. Then rollback if you fail. (Like any old-school SP rpg)

[KitsuneShiro]

I haven't done the Scorched manticore. But on Ragnarok, I did the dragon/manticore battles with 19 rexs and 1 horse. Yes I ride the horse for mobility reasons. You could also trying riding a war Pig for healing or yuti for its battle roar.

I used two whistle groups for rexs for flanking.

[MolaLv]

dont use rexes and wyverns together because wyverns can dmg ur rexes when doing special attacks

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by 123:

dont use rexes and wyverns together because wyverns can dmg ur rexes when doing special attacks

ok then I'll try old school rexes without wyverns, starting from gamma to test :)

[DingDongDanger]

I'm not sure if Wyverns are still allowed in the arena but when I fought the Manticore it was... And my 6 Wyverns destroyed it. But my Wyverns were all over lvl 100...

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by DingDongDanger:

I'm not sure if Wyverns are still allowed in the arena but when I fought the Manticore it was... And my 6 Wyverns destroyed it. But my Wyverns were all over lvl 100...

Well hopefully it will scale with difficulty...mine is the default, set at 0.2...highest level wild is 34 I think, for wyvern a little more.

[giorgiobusoni]

OK, so I trie the gamma level. It went down easily. However, after the victory 3 rexes went to sleep :P I guess this could be a problem at higher levels, as if they start sleeping in the middle of the combact it means less rexes able to eat the manticore?