How do you use Dragon Breath Attacks Effectively?

[enricofermi2]

When I'm using a war hydra (Dark Elf Unit) Breath attack, it's relativly easy to get it to hit lots of units. You just have to line the breath attacks up with the units you want to hit.

But with dragon units, they are flying most of the time, and their angle of attack is very steep. This means breath attacks go straight into the ground minimizing the amount of units hit. If will often just hit the center of the blob, kill the center, and leave everything else alive.

Is there some way you are supposed to control dragon units to maxamize the amount of units you can hit. Or is it just a limitation of the unit.

[cb4n28]

Best use ime is to try to line up multiple infantry units and then target the farthest one from you to maximize the chances of it traveling through one unit and into the next. You shoot it into the side of the units though. I tend to use it most towards the beginning of battle before I've disrupted the enemy lines. You want the dragon to take the shot from relatively far away to account for the angle of attack. There's a video somewhere on YouTube comparing the various dragon breaths that discusses targeting a bit that helped me figure it

Eta: particularly devastating during siege attacks against the enemies on the wall as they aren't going anywhere and tend to be lined up and waiting for you

[RecalledDread]

Move them to the sides of the enemy, and fire from there? Can use the Hydra's the same way too.

[enricofermi2]

Originally posted by RecalledDread:

Move them to the sides of the enemy, and fire from there? Can use the Hydra's the same way too.

Even from the side it doesn't seem to make much difference. Like a dead on dragon shot will kill like 1/3 to 2/5 of a stack. While a lined up hydra shot can pretty much solo kill a unit, and hit another.

[Wyvern]

You want your dragon as far away from a unit and attacking from the side. That way the projectile hits as much as possible. Bonus points if the unit is on elevation/slope and you have the dragon hovering off to the side of that, since it will often get a flatter attack angle.

[Humble]

I think it's depend on units, weaker and more number of units, more chance damage it, smaller, more heavy armors, higher level tie, harder to get damage, often sometime little to no damages.