This week's Battle Mage rule set challenge was Aimless in which every monster gains the scattershot ability.

Aimless general strategy....

I think the best strategy with Scattershot is to play defensively rather than offensively. If you use your mana to focus on attack you run the risk of watering things down too much. If your opponent plays a decent defence full of repair, triage and self-heal, you may end up doing insufficient damage to get through the repairs and heals every round, if your attacks are split.

So I prefer to have fewer attack monsters with higher damage.

I also like BLAST given that a lot of mid-field monsters are going to be hit.

Defence is what I tend to emphasise, with plenty of triage and repairs going on!

I'm not so sure TAUNT is an option as I don't think scattershot is an advantage, the randomness of attack is just as likely to work for you as against you, so there's not point neutralising this with taunt!

Aimless battle exemplar

The battle below shows a battle featuring the Water splinter in a comprehensive victory!

Mana and rulesets:

• Mana 25
• Only scattershot

**Summoner - Lilly Shieldpaw, mainly for triage, but also plus one!

• Kelp initiate - a good, high speed tank.
• StoneFish - tank 2
• Scavo Hireling - for repair
• Venari Wavesmith - Shields!
• Ruler of the Seas - main attack card and BLAST!
• Archer - attack 2 with BLAST!

The battle...

• round 1 - My blast attacks takes down my opponent's StoneFish, good start!
• round 2 - I blast down the Archer and the Oooze, NICE! NB my repairs are working REALLY well!
• round 3 - I take out the Mershalli Guardian, farewell healing!
• round 4 - I lose my Kelp
• round 5 - I take out the DeepLurker, that's a score, but lose my Stonefish
• rounds 6-9 - it takes me a while to ground down Osheanus, but it's all over by round nine!

Final battle analysis

My low attack strategy worked well, BLAST was essential, taking down two of my opponent's cards early on.

My opponent lost this by using the standard, and very dull Osheanus strategy!

Aimless final thoughts...

BLAST! Works well!