Powder Eater/Gooba Medals

[NecroCepter]

The two "fill the board with creatures" medals continue to elude me. I get the gist of what I have to accomplish, and I understand there needs to be some swapping of your own creatures, but I can never accomplish the task.

Any scenario/deck suggestions?

[OWell]

NecroCepter said:

The two "fill the board with creatures" medals continue to elude me. I get the gist of what I have to accomplish, and I understand there needs to be some swapping of your own creatures, but I can never accomplish the task.

Any scenario/deck suggestions?

The following is almost required.
"Simulacrum"or"Peace".

There should just be the following.
"Telegnosis"or"Revelasion".
"Silence","Teleport"," Despair","Old Willow","Marker Flag","Senility","Holy Word X","Mutation".

What is necessary will be to set that Mach person to "Zagol" and just to fight him in Dunnan, Battle1, or Roca.

However, I have won neither of the medals.

[BlueTorch]

Isn't Zagol pretty offensive? Computer Zagol tends to attack frequently, even if he can't win. I don't like the life expectancy of your goobas or powders in that case.

I think Mullyn is probably the way to go, since he very rarely invades. However, I haven't gotten this medal yet either ^^;

[NecroCepter]

Thanks for the suggestions. Any other tips?

[Ben-Ra]

I agree that Mullyn is the easiest opponent for these medals (along with a lot of others). The Powder Eater one is a lot easier, in my experience, since you don't have to do any creature-swapping.

The cards I'd recommend for PE (assuming you're fighting Mullyn) are:

Fire Explosion
Evil Blast
Magic Bolt
Powder Eater
Prophecy (essentially the same as drawing a PE)
Spirit Walk
Telegnosis
Wind Shield
(more card drawing)

The idea is just get down some PE, move em around as fast as possible, and if Mullyn gets some creatures down, kill them. For a while we thought that Cratos 2 (the grid) was the best map because you could move past your PEs and move them quickly, but I did it later on Dunnan and that seemed even faster/easier, simply because you lap so fast in any case, and there are so few spaces to fill. I'm probably forgetting some cards (and obviously what I listed isn't enough to fill a deck), but you probably get the general idea.

[NecroCepter]

Thanks professor, I will give it a shot with your suggestions in mind.

[diaspora]

I mainly used a lot of roll 6 and 10 spells too, to get out of the way. The other essential thing I had in my deck was chariot and prophecy. I only had 1 powder eater in my deck, so that's where prophecy is essential if you don't want to run around waiting for the card to show up. chariot is useful too as I could make my powder eater multiply and go past castles/forts/temples/etc.

I also played Zagol on Cratos 2 map, simply becasue its the best map to use if you want to do a lot of evasion - Zagol levels up rather heftily!

Another spell I feel is essential is reinforce, that way you can use powder eater to invade with ease, as long as Zagol doesn't use the hand, 1st attack sword or creatures with 1st attack like master monk etc. One more would be spell that changes your land to yellow and the influence spell.

As for Gooba. Having exile is essential. That way you can return a Gooba with status effect (poison after using mutation or simulacra) to your hand. Then swap the gooba in your hand with the gooba queen that's on the board. After that, RUN for the castle! I set a limit of 50,000G but that wasn't enough - I had to stay clear of the castle so I could keep filling up the map with Gooba.

Another thing for the gooba medal is that gooba queen has land requirement of 2 green lands, so I needed another 2 green creatures (without land requirement of course!). For that I used gnome and leshy, mainly defence and money making creatures.

One last thing to note is that goobas CANNOT use swords, shields and scrolls, so your items have to be mostly amulets. I had 2 green shields for my gooba queen, gnome and leshy to share. The rest were amulets. Gem of life, green amulet, petrify stone, gaseous form, counter amulet and dynamite. You get the idea.

I played Cratos 2 map for both my powder eater and gooba medals. 1 attempt only for each!

[NecroCepter]

Wow, impressive!

I really appreciate the specific card suggestions, because I still can't seem to accomplish this one. Hopefully I will have a bit more luck now.

[chanky2]

Powder Eater only has 1 hp make it very easy to die.
So i use Temperance to pop its hp up to 30 and then fully cure it, and start to multipy it all over the land.
For more protection, i use Domovikha's ability "Land Protection" on every one of the them and upgrade land to level 5. Also always keep 1 or 2 Wind Shield in your hand or Water Shield when against Mullyn.
Also since new powder eater only has 1 hp, and the one on board has 30, i also use Land Transfer to abandon my territory with other curetures (like Domovikha and old willow).
For the map, Dunnan seems a lot easier but it takes a few tries and Cratos 2 will take alot more time but 1 try(because i complete the medal the first time i try) as long as you don't go in the wrong direction toward the castle and finish the game before filling the map.

[OldTin]

I heard that u not really have to fill up the map to achieve this medal, only a big portion of the land filled with PE or Gooba will do, is it real??? Can somebody try it out???

I only got 19 medals now... still a long long way to go... @_@...

[Lord Blade]

I earned mine for the Powder Eaters with about 12 or so as I recall. On the one tournament map with all the intersections (it was easy to circle around and move them that way).
Though I do know one guy who had to fill the map (he kept trying on the Dunnan map).

[BahamutXero]

Let me get this straight. You don't have to completely fill a board with Powder Eaters/Goobas, only a majority of it? Somebody please confirm this.

[Lord Blade]

Myself and some of friends have been able to do it without filling the whole level.
But some people DO have to fill the board.
So try both ways.

[ExMortis]

If you don't want to chance wasting your time, just fill the whole board. If you fill a majority of the board chances are you can just as easily finish off the last few squares, especially against Mullyn (as always).

[Lord Blade]

The dead-man has a point.