Run Over by Supply Runner

This is my entry to the Splinterlands Share Your Battle featuring the SUPPLY RUNNER. If you want to join in this challenge, you can check this link. Alright, let's start first with the monster's lore, then deep dive into its compatible summoners, monster's stats & abilities, and the highlighted battle.

SUPPLY RUNNER

"Every army should have them, every artisan should hire them, and every noble should own one. If you need absolutely anything, then a supply runner will get it for you. For their size they can carry vast amounts, they’re incredibly fast and they’ll even defend your deliveries with exuberant relish. Not only that but their expertise with the catapult they carry is renowned across the land. Countless confrontations have been recorded in the history books of these hired hands coming to the aid of convoys beset by bandits or roaming patrols attacked by the enemy. They have swarmed the foe, firing their shot down upon them and running havoc amongst their ranks with their incredible speed. Most of these forays have ended with the enemy fleeing, but those that did remain and fight didn’t last for long.

Gnomes have lived throughout Praetoria ever since the land was inhabited and are stalwart characters indeed. It is unsure as to whether they are native to this continent or not, but what is clear is that they didn’t originate or come from any of the other known Splinters. Talon and Gorst are the agency that hire them out and this organisation has always been crystal clear in the first and most important clause of their contracts, ‘These creatures are not to leave the shores of Praetoria, ever!’ Whether they are simply unwilling to share these efficient people with the rest of the world or there is some darker more sinister note that prevents them travelling is unknown, but the Praetorians don’t really care seeing as they have the exclusivity rights.

Usually, Gnomes have a natural resistance to magic, but the creeping plague seems to have afflicted some of them in a most curious way. You may get lucky and find one that has picked up the odd abilities that are incredibly useful when working with others, but on the other hand, some side effects have led to manic behaviour, an affinity to ale, mischievous use of their catapults, and downright murderous conduct. Needless to say, reliability can now be a bit hit and miss. You are strongly advised to read your contract of employment carefully, or you may find yourself in an unpleasant situation."

- from official Splinterlands monster lore

SUPPLY RUNNER is one of my favorite neutral monster from the Chaos Legion edition. This monster is very versatile and can fit a lot of line-up combinations. As a proof of this, I am 16 over 38 BCX in maxing out gold foil SUPPLY RUNNER

STATS and ABILITIES

At its initial level, it has a 2 melee attack, 3 speed, and 4 HP with no ability.
It gains its first ability SWIFTNESS at level 5.

At level 10, it gains another ability, STRENGTHEN. This provides additional Health to all friendly monsters. Its max stats are 3 Ranged damage, 5 Speed and 5 Health.

Abilities:

SUMMONER COMPATIBILITY

SUMMONER TO COUNTER SUPPLY RUNNER

There are other Summoners that can counter Supply Runner in terms of reducing the damage from Ranged Monsters, or even returning damage from Ranged monsters.

FEATURED BATTLE

https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_55a4b6cd0c91d128dcbfa43093516e75&ref=jpleron

MY LINE-UP

ROUND 1

At the end of round 1, we were able to eliminate two monsters from enemy side, Failed Summoner and Khmer Princess, and dealt a lot of damage to Unicorn Mustang and Goblin Thief. On the otherhand, our Supply Runner was also eliminated by the Snipe attacks from both enemy's Mantoid and Centaur.

ROUND 2

At the end of round 2, we eliminated Unicorn Mustang, Goblin Thief and Mantoid. We even managed to end this round, unfortunately Pelacor Arbalest missed its second attack against enemy Centaur.

ROUND 3

This was the end of the matched. Centaur cannot survived the barage of ranged attacks from our monsters.

Check this link to watch the full battle replay:
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_55a4b6cd0c91d128dcbfa43093516e75&ref=jpleron

SUMMARY

Did your strategy work?

• YES!!! With only 3 splinter to choose from (Fire, Life and Earth), I decided to go with Life Splinter with a combination of Melee and Ranged Monsters. Both Fire Splinter's Melee lineup and Earth Splinter's Magic lineup has the weakness of having low speed (most but not all as some has high speed like Regal Peryton from Earth. I used the Speed buff from Supply Runner to gain advantage in terms of attack order while focusing my attacks to enemy frontline.

What will you try differently next time?

• Given the same battle ruleset, I will replace Chaos Knight (6 mana) and Luminous Eagle (6 mana) with Shieldbearer (8 mana) and Venari Crystalsmith (4 mana). This will protect our backline monsters from being attack since Shieldbearer has the Taunt ability. Then Venari Wavesmith will be the one to support our main tank by healing its HP.

VERDICT | Is SUPPLY RUNNER a good card?

• SUPERB!!! SUPPLY RUNNER is one of my favorite monsters from Neutral. It can fit perfectly in any line-up and in any Splinter as well. The Speed and Health buff are very helpful in most scenario.

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