Tomb of the Dragon King.

[Clickshe]

I am really out of ideas how to beat this.

[Reality]

I haven't played it normally in a while, but

If you play around with the starting buildings you have you'll notice - the Temple of Krypta's skeletons have an 88% evasion against Dragons - just one Temple's worth of skeletons will not be enough to protect the kingdom, but if you build a 2nd one when you get to Palace level 2 (3rd is excessive) the majority of the Dragon's that attack you will almost always hit a road block

This won't help actually killing the Dragon's lair though, since they work pretty BADLY when away from home - For that the "path of least resistance" is to just build a fairgrounds and then get a really leveled up squad of a hero like the Tenple of Helia Solari - with the skeletons on stalling duty, you have the time.

If you want to fight the Dragon's at low level instead - Solari can win against a (wither spelled) dragon, and Barbarians can as well (you can't build them. only find the free ones out in the wilderness).

I dislike playing defensive but a couple bonus things - Guardhouses are useless - Dragon's outrange them - Dwarven Ballista work well but you'll be attacked before they're available - Wizard's Tower's work great but ONLY in pairs (2) OR if you use Gnomes as your non-human race so that the will be healed "mid fight" with the dragons. --- I like to play this scenario without any of these buildings at all, just focusing on my krytpa > krypta 2 > Helia thing (there is plenty of room to express yourself using other stuff thouugh)

[Sungod]

I just played it, for the 20th time in last two decades XD

Dont make Gnomes
Dont destroy any castles till you find KROM
Make Lunord and Not Helia

Move ranger tower near palace and recruit few so that they can dicover that single trade guild so that you will get 9000 goal as tax.
Market place nearest to gate of Palace
and Also Blacksmith near palace
We need to protect these two

Destroy the ranger guild once you get this guild money.
This is very important so that they dont discover KROM prematurely otherwise we cannot protect KROM and its a waste.

Dont bother with gaurd towers.

Make kryptas as skeleton can 1 vs 1 dragons.

Make level 2 wizard guild and place 2/3 wizard towers at three sides of the castle
Market place nearest to gate of Palace

Enchant guild tower to help with dragons if needed.

Keep of upgrading black smith and level 2 palce to get the Dwarfs.
You need it for their towers.

No need to make too many towers but make another Krypta.

* kryptas will have lot of skeletons .

DOnt waste too much on wizards.

Then develop a lot and make faregrounds etc.
Make Lunord and Not Helia
make huge money and then use dwarfs to explore to find the Krom

Immediately cover krom with dwarf towers and at least save one of the Krom temple

Use krom power to kill dragons .

now game is basically have money explore and kill the three castles to get to hidden tomb

[Rodrik Forrester]

You will need to restart a lot. It's an absolutely brutal quest.

My advice is to stack up on Priestesses right away (for their minions' dragon-killing power) and power level a blacksmith so you can get Ballista Towers. Once you've reached critical mass and surrounded your settlement with a protective ring of turrets, you can breathe a lot easier.

[mafilux]

I played it recently and just rushed Blacksmith and ballista towers. It makes it a lot easier. As Rodrik mentioned Priestesses work great because skeletons have high dodge, and if you can bank gold you can spawn an army of skeletons to help deal with waves.

There is a trading post pretty close to your starting location that has 9000 gold in it as well. If you can get a tax collector there and back it allows you to get everything you need very quickly.

I believe I also went for Wizards guild, dragons are weak to magic (so wizards can do okay) and the level 3 wizard nuke is very effective against them. If you can get a bazaar up the shapeshifting potions help wizards survive quite a bit. I'd skip warriors of Discord as they're just terrible, but Fervus cultists should work alright with their high dodge as well.

[Gibbles]

the wizards guild is mostly for casting invisibility on your heroes, but you have to really keep an eye on them for it to work. Keeps them alive and the higher level the priestess the more skeletons she has.

[Dracoceros]

Originally posted by mafilux:

If you can get a bazaar up the shapeshifting potions help wizards survive quite a bit.

You can't use bazaars in non-MX quests without mods.

[Marc Dorcel]

The simplest restraint is to build the Temple of Krypta and use the priestess to summon a large number of skeletons. The dragon in this level is a long-range ballistic attack, and the skeletons summoned by the priestess have a very good long-range shield. It is difficult to be killed by a dragon. Generally, 5-6 skeletons can kill a dragon. Use the summoned skeleton as MT, and damage with ranged heroes. At the beginning, move the ranger camp back to the palace, build two rangers and use the flags to explore the fog of war near the palace. There is a rich exchange near the palace. Build the priestess and call the skeletons to defend the first wave of attacks by the dragon, build two markets and upgrade the trading day to spend money, the second-level palace builds wizards, elves, and priestess. After having a large number of skeletons, this level is very simple.

[kenny_brooks]

I cannot remember what you start with, but you should get the blacksmith upgraded to level 4, Krypta with 4 priestess, marketplace with at least healing potions and castle to level two. Ignore the Wizard's guild. Build the dwarven settlement. Put one trading post somewhere just in range of the marketplace. You will easily survive the first attack by one dragon with this and it can be done before the dragon arrives. You will need to upgrade your marketplace (to get better return from the trading merchants) and get at least 3 ballistas protecting your dwarven settlement (4 if you can). Use wither on dragons that you can to allow the ballistas and skeletons to survive the second wave of multiple (6?) dragons. There will most likely be damage, but if you get lucky your minions will find the nearby settlements that you can protect with a ballista (and build another Krypta temple behind the settlement). The next attack of one dragon will be easy, the one with multiple dragons will be tough, but doable at the mini-settlement if yoiu can get additional ballistas built before they arrive. After you are able to do this, you can basically choose how you wish to play from here on out.