Late, but I’m glad I saw this. I know many people have done HoG with a level 100 hoard with potions, was trying to figure out what I would need to do it without potions. Looks like at least 141 
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It might be different now, in that at hoard 100 you can survive 1 shotters without potions. At hoard 100, one of the rooms with Ancient Golem in is/was capable of 1 shotting troops before we got additional kingdom bonus and hoard stats etc. Also iirc Lady Ironbeard can do 110 -115 x 3 damage. Even with 25% reduction on all troops, it would probably hit for 240-250 and take out anything. Same with Lord Ironbeard on Gargoyle.
For this reason originally I made hoard something like 106 to survive Ancient Golem’s 1 shot strike. The other issue is there’s no second path to the boss room. We get a couple of seemingly easy rooms, such as Dragon Hatchery, which can be a pain as the baby dragons have Alert, but if you can kill the initial copies, you can stall the AI when they summon chaffe baby dragons and build up your team.
Heals can then keep sentinel alive while you build up spread attack (if you’ve not got it on Sentinel). Also, the weaker attack on summoned baby dragon’s is no issue if TDS creates skull matches on exploding. With Venbarak there, you have a troop that really hits hard to all.
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Yeah the Fell Nest is a nasty upgrade. TDS has a chance to rez spawn something else, Venbarak just kills your whole team in two or three hits instead. Ah, and is 0% mana blocked as opposed to TDS being blocked in red.