Splinterlands Battle Mage Secrets Weekly Challenge - Close Range

_{Image from @splinterlands}

Hello everyone, this is my entry to the splinterlands battle mage secrets challenge for this week. I will be describing one of my battles. For this battle, I used my account @yahuzah which is my spl account for all battles.

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Battle Ruleset

Ruleset Icon	Description
	Close Range : Range attacks may be used in the first position of battles
	Noxiuos fumes: All monsters start the battle poisoned

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My enemy's Lineup

Summoner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th

Summoner chosen

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For this battle, I chose the Qid Yuff summoner to grant all my monsters the piercing battle. I anticipated my enemy would bring monsters with shield so I wanted to use this summoner to inflict more damage.

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Battle Tactics

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Looking back now, I realize how much I overthought in this battle. I ended up choosing a very wrong lineup for the battle and paid a price.

In first position, I selected Venari Markstrat because his death would give my second monster +1 stats. Also, the close ranged ruleset would allow it to attack

_{Venari Markstrat in first position}

I selected Grum Flameblade in second position. Aside its very low speed of 1, Grum Flameblade is a very powerful monster to use in battle. Its high melee coupled with the piercing from the summoner seemed like a good pick.

_{Grum Fameblade in the second position}

For the third position in my team, I selected Firecaller who has the matyr ability

_{Firecaller in third position}

For the fourth position, I selected Tenyii Striker which has the sneak ability.

_{Tenyii Striker in fourth position}

In fifth position, I selected Halfling Alchemist which has the halving ability.

_{Halfling Alchemist in fifth position}

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Battle Details

Summoner and unit buffs took effect and the battle began.

At the start of the first round, my enemy's fourth monster, Peacebringer killed my first monster and gave my second monster +1 stats. The third monster, Djinn Renova attacked my first and the last monster attacked as well.

My last monster attacked my enemy's last monster reducing its health to 2 and my enemy's fifth monster attacked my first monster twice taking my health to 8.

What I didn't want happened at the end of round 1 when my first monster, Grum Flameblade missed its attack. My last and second monsters attacked to end the first round

In round 2, the poison took effect killing my last monster and my enemy's first. Attacks from my enemy's monsters killed my Grum Flameblade and just looking at the remaining teams, I knew I had lost.

My enemy's last monster killed my monster leaving only Tenyii Striker.

Further attacks from my enemy's monsters killed my last monster resulting in me losing the battle.

Here is my battle link. Watch here how I took my enemy to battle and lost.

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All images used are from splinterlands.com and splintertools.