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Originally Posted by Foodstamp
The dragon form has stealth in CBM as well?
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It doesnt. But here is a tactic to consider
NOTE: This is for Green Dragon with the CBM mod only
Both forms have a leadership of 80. If its used with a nation that has stealth units then a new tactic comes into play. Give it some decent support units that are stealthy. Move it past the front lines of your enemy, or just skip the hard independent provinces for ones farther out. Then change from Druid form to Dragon form. You dont need to do anything else. Combat will occur the next turn and the dragon will have the support of all who followed him.
Or you can use the attack province command if you want the Druid to cast a couple of buffs before changing form. But I have found that the lag before the dragon can get into the fight can hurt you bad.
Setting the Dragon in the back gives the forward units a chance to draw the attacks of lances and archers. Setting the dragon to attack once then fire (breath) or attack rearmost or attack archers can be quite effective to getting it deep into the enemy.
Remember that taking high dominion can be a big help here. Domkill ability, more HP, more protection against enemy dominion, and it gives the dragon AWE.
WARNING: the obvious thought is to make use of the Dragons major HP with godly boost to its HP. But do not wander too far outside of your dominion with the Druid. His move drops to 2 in that form and he only starts with 10 HP. If you dont watch closely you can let his HP drop dangerously low. But if you move priests behind his advance to build up dominion then you can always fly him back to his own dominion for a power-up. Bringing along a stealth prophet can help.
Added Note: Dont bother using this with Pangaea. It might seem logical but it works just as well with their national pretender of Carrion Dragon which carries other benefits including a more robust alternate form. The Carrion Dragon can can also use this tactic in the vanilla game. Great support stealth armies, a dragon with fear +10, but no flight. Also the flying scouts of Pangaea help. You can quickly locate enemy capitals and might manage to take one or two during the early setup stage of the game when they are caught unprepared since you wont have to fight the whole way to reach them.