Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge: Taking sides rule set

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beaker0072.7 K2 months agoPeakD5 min read

Introduction

This week a post about the rule set Taking Sides. Very straight forward rules, just unable to select neutral units. It is still possible to select neutral summoners 😍

Ruleset

Simple: No neutral units may be used.

Official ruleset information from splinterlands: List-of-In-Game-Rulesets

Abilities Synergies / Strategies

There are no abilities that have special bonus or debuffs on neutral units.
Therefor this chapter can remain empty
Their is one big advantage Lux can still be used 😍.

my most selected summoners with this rule set:

My most selected units:

Avoid

Same a for avoid their are no special abilities units that thrive with the absence of neutral units.

Example battle

Strategy

High mana battle with 3 rule sets. One of them of course taking sides, no neutral units allowed.
Aimless with Explosive Weaponry is always fun. Unpredictable and you needs to think about brining some protection against the blast. With for example Reflection Shield. Or reduce damage with shield.

Rulesets

Aimless:
All unit will gain the scattershot ability. Meaning all ranged and magic attack will be random.

Taking Sides:
This week secret. Simply no neutral units are allowed.

Explosive Weaponry:
All unit will gain the blast ability. Meaning every unit will do extra damage to adjacent units with blast damage. Try to pick unit that will attack in the middle like units with opportunity or snipe.

The Lineup

Summoner

Card	Reason
	Of Course there she is again and again... Still wandering why she is so cheap at the moment. Even with Taking side this can be selected in do that often.

Units Lineup

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6

Bera Dallin (lvl 2)
One of my rebellion legendary not maxed but the massive health in the selecting factor here. Normally also the taunt to control where the blast damage is going towards but in this case with Aimless this is a bit useless.

Corsair Bosun (lvl 6)
Strong second position with the reflection shield and reach so it can attack from the second position

Djinn Renova (lvl 6)
The triage is highly beneficial with the blast and scattershot. So it can heal many unit because not only the front will be attacked in this match.

Adelade Brightwing (lvl 4)
It made the team for the resurrect and repair. So it can resurrect one unit and repair the front armor.

Venari Crystalsmith (lvl 8)
Almost in every life lineup i need this unit for the healing ability.

Time Mage (lvl 8)
The slow in combination with Adelade Brightwing its swiftness i need to improve my speed a bit because i want to attack first. Note that most of my units do not have that high of speed so that can be a risk.

The Battle

Reference

Link to the battle:
Link to battle

Rounds

Start :

My opponent has also got a nice strong lineup. Especially the Kulu Mastermind in the second position boosting the Baakjira is strong. While i have lots of magic unit that will do not much damage against Baakjira. Luckily the scattershot will make me target also other units. Else it would have been a lost in first glance.

Round 1:

Nice to see that because my opponent has chosen some melee unit that ignore the scattershot so they will attack the taunt unit that is a huge benefit. Its Deeplurker is almost dead so that is a good start.
Overal the Baakjira will be the hardest to kill imo.
And two lucky strikes that both landed on my Adelade Brightwing what are the odds

Round 2:

Lucky this time Nerissa Tridawn hit the front and did not target any of my weaker units.
The Kulu mastermind is dead and my Bera Dallin is still alive looking good.

Round 3:

Again a bit of luck where Nerissa Tridawn, this time the last unit so only one unit got blast damage.
Now i just need to hit that Nerissa Tridawn, then the match should be over as i do much more damage it (Baakjira) can heal

Round 4:

One more round to go. Do not see any trouble anymore.

Round 5:

Victory!!
The scattershot made it a fun match to watch

Conclusion

There you have it another battlemage secret. Taking side is not a complicated rule set and you probably have enough unit left to choose from. Where it becomes more difficult when there are 3 restrictive rule set in the mix. For me it was especially a fun match because of the lucky scattershot 🤣. Sometimes in your favor sometimes not.

That's all for this week hope you enjoyed reading this ruleset strategy/analysis. See you all on the battlefield.