Dragon Warrior

Dragon Warrior
Unit Statistics
Tier	2
Rice Cost	60 (30+30)
Water Cost	60 (30+30)
Training Time	55 (25+30)
Hitpoints	340 / 408
Base Damage	17 / 5 / 20
Melee	Cutting / Fire
Missile	Magic
Strengths	Fire (-75%), Magic (-75%), Blunt (-50%)
Weaknesses	Cutting (+25%)
Prerequisite	Dragon Peasant trains at the Dojo and the Target Range.
Innate Ability	Inspiration: The Dragon Warrior has a chance when attacking to inspire his allies to deal more damage. This effect cannot be stacked.

The Dragon lives in me, teeth and claw and bone. Dare you then, to wake a Dragon?

— Dragon Warrior

The Dragon Warrior is a unit of the Dragon Clan.

Overview

The Dragon Warrior is the purest incarnation of the Dragon's ferocious spirit. Disdaining armor, he fights bare-chested without fear, protected only by his lightning reflexes and the silver arm-guards that represent his pride and honor. His sword slices through the air and his enemies without hesitation, its tempered steel matching the steel within. Even his allies taste the courage of the Dragon and fight more fiercely when he leaps into action.

So complete is this fighter's embodiment of rage that he can project it through his blade, striking enemies from afar. Still, he prefers to defeat opponents up close. It is simply his way.

Usage

The Dragon Warrior is a front-line melee unit with good damage output and can support other friendly melee units by inspiring them. When they have full access to the Dragon's Fire and the Tempered Steel techniques, and adding to their passive ability to increase the damage of nearby units in battle, they can be an unstoppable force while being supported by other units. They can be highly effective against a Lotus Clan army, especially when they are using a mass number of Unclean Ones, who deal magical damage which the Dragon Warriors strongly resist, or even Warlocks, if the Dragon Warriors survive the Warlock's explosive missile and get close.

Their battle gear set is also effective; a few Dragon Warriors with Flame Swords can easily set an unguarded village on fire as long as it's not raining, one single Dragon Warrior with Flame Sword will easily burn down Watchtowers, which are more flammable than other buildings. Chi Shield can be used as a good distraction against the enemy unit. It should be noted that his innate ability does not work on himself or other Dragon Warriors, but it will work on other types of melee units (e.g. Kabuki Warriors, Samurais, etc).

Their weakness against cutting attacks is a major problem, as most melee units have cutting damage for their main weapon. This means that for a Dragon Warrior to survive long enough in the frontlines, he needs to be supported by healers, a horse mount, and optionally his Chi Shield Battle Gear.

The other less obvious weakness is his relatively slow stamina recovery (1.87 vs the standard 2.5), which generally means that he is less mobile and cannot withstand an extended engagement.

Battle Gear

	Chi Shield	Stamina: Drains Stamina		Flame Sword	Stamina: Drains 5% to activate and costs 5% per attack on enemy units
Requirements: Shrine			Requirements: Fireworks Factory
By meditating at his patron's shrine, the Dragon Warrior learns to balance his anger with inner peace, thus attaining the Dragon's invulnerability to harm - for as long as he can focus on peaceful thoughts, and resist the urge to attack. Continually drains stamina when activated.			The masters of Fireworks can imbue the Dragon Warrior's sword with an affinity for searing flames. In battle, his inner fire does the rest.

Notes

• The Dragon Warrior's energy projectiles are able to set buildings on fire.
• The Dragon Warrior will inspire his allies after he successfully performs this attack animation: first, he pauses to gather magic into his sword, then forcefully slashes the sword downwards.
  • Due to a coding error, the Dragon Warrior's Inspiration does not work on himself and other Dragon Warriors.
  • This coding error can be fixed:
    • First, access Battle Realms.dat's Data_Abilities tab,
    • Then find the ability no. 32 (AbilityType_DragonWarrior_Inspiration)
    • Find this parameters MaxAccumulatedEffects, then change its value from "1" to "0."
  • Nevertheless, on horseback the Dragon Warriors can inspire each other if they perform the appropriate attack animation.
• Flame Sword changes the Dragon Warrior's weapon from Two Handed Sword (17 cutting damage) to Dragon Fire (20 fire damage).
• In the demo and other versions before BattlePack 3 (BR 1.50g; WotW 1.50q), Dragon Warrior's Chi Shield did not restore the Dragon Warrior's health. However, after BattlePack3 (BR 1.50g; WotW 1.50q), Chi Shield drains less stamina (pre-BP3: 6; post-BP3: 5) and drains minus 5 health for its duration, effectively restoring plus 5 health to the Dragon Warrior for its duration, as stated in a BP3's patch note: "Increased the duration of the Dragon Warrior's Chi Shield, added health regeneration." 
• Chi Shield grants the Dragon Warrior the Invulnerability status, allowing him to survive the Swordsman's Glass Sword which otherwise kills all normal units, including a Last Standing Guardian.
  • However, Invulnerability status does not work on the Last Standing guardian, making him still killable by Glass Sword and poisoned weapons (like Shinja's snake blades or the serpent technique Poisoned Weapons)

Trivia

• The Dragon Warrior is perhaps the most iconic of all the different units in the Battle Realms Universe, due to his appearance on the game cover, not to mention his many appearances in official wallpapers and backgrounds.
• It could be argued that the Dragon Warrior's weapon is part-flamberge and part-keris, rather than a true flamberge. This is because unlike most flamberge, the weapon has no secondary handle beyond the guard, and that the undulations are relatively large to its length, similar to a keris and unlike the flamberge.

Gallery

Dragon Warrior Concept Art

Battle Realms Cover Art

Quotes (Move)

• "Forward!"
• "I follow your lead!"
• "I follow the Dragon!"
• "Lead, and I'll follow"
• "Onward!"
• "I walk your path"

Quotes (Attack)

• "The Dragon's revenge!"
• "Run them through!"
• "The animals will pay!"
• "Honor through victory!"
• "Blood shall flow!"
• "Heads will roll!"
• "Honor for the Dragon!"

Quotes (Kills)

• "Enjoy your last breath"
• "Beg for forgiveness"
• "Pray to your god"
• "Your soul is mine!"

Quotes (Heal)

• "The winds follow you"
• "My heart to yours"

Quotes (Death)

• "For the... Dragon..."