Legions of Darkness - Tips & Strategies

When you draw an advance for the gate track, if the two armies are in the same space, they both advance, but if they’re in different spaces, only the rear one advances.

Whenever the two armies are on the same space, make sure to immediately attack one of them to separate them; a single victory effectively halts both armies for another tick. Once you do, don’t attack the other army unless you think you can win a third fight that turn to separate them again.

Once the armies are on different spaces, you can’t attack the rear one, but you can still target it with a Slow spell if you want to keep it back even longer.

The bloody battle marker causes you to lose a defender each turn you attack the army that has it. That can chew through your defenders quite fast if you’re not careful, but with some planning, you usually won’t need to lose any defenders at all:

1) When you draw a card that moves the bloody battle marker, it’s the last thing that happens on that turn, so you get a little warning. After dealing with any imminent threats that turn, use your remaining actions to push the army that’s about to get the marker as far away as possible, to maximize the time before you need to fight it again.

2) Save an attack spell or two in case that army gets too close; you don’t lose defenders for magical attacks.

If you’re careful, then most of the time the bloody battle marker will move on to some place else before you need to attack that army again.

If you’re forced to charge into the bloody battle anyway, try to make lots of attacks against that army in a single turn; only the first attack each turn causes a casualty.

The Fortune spell hardly ever gets used at a cost of 4 arcane energy. A cost of 1 energy makes it much more tempting.