# Effective AOE teams **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [December 11, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842 "2015-12-11T19:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@Elendil52](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Elendil52)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/1 "2015-12-11T19:17:48Z")
Anybody got a really good team focused on AoE spells? They don’t seem as useful after 1.0.7 due to all the bonus stats, but I recently put one together that’s not entirely horrible: Hero (w/ Sun & Moon)/Alchemist/Atlanta/Giant Spider. Kinda speaks for itself. Three troops do AoE damage, two troops power the other two, and the Hero ups the damage of the heavy hitters. I tried to find a way to make a good true damage AoE team work with the Crimson Bat, but that’s hard to pull off based on my initial attempts… ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/2 "2015-12-11T19:24:18Z")
Behemoth, Terraxis, Atlanta, Hero w/ War & Peace All AOE, Terraxis charges two of them. Behemoth, Terraxis, Soothsayer, Hero w/ Sun & Moon Only _mostly_ AOE, Terraxis still charges two of them, two sources of magic gain. ---
**Author:** ![Jainus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jainus/32/34949_2.png) [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/3 "2015-12-11T19:24:33Z")
Try Soothsayer/Soothsayer/Herdmaster/CrimsonBat for a surprisingly effective true damage team - doesn’t take long to get the Bat up to 10 AoE true damage…! Sun&Moon/Ragnagord/Hobgoblin/Behemoth is a proven fast team with a fair amount of AoE… Hydra/Sunweaver/Herdmaster/Ragnagord is my take on a Hydra AoE team that is fun to play and can dish out mega AoE… or go horribly wrong 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@Elendil52](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Elendil52)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/4 "2015-12-11T19:29:21Z")
> [@Jainus](#): > > Try > > Soothsayer/Soothsayer/Herdmaster/CrimsonBat for a surprisingly effective true damage team - doesn’t take long to get the Bat up to 10 AoE true damage…! > > Sun&Moon/Ragnagord/Hobgoblin/Behemoth is a proven fast team with a fair amount of AoE… > > Hydra/Sunweaver/Herdmaster/Ragnagord is my take on a Hydra AoE team that is fun to play and can dish out mega AoE… or go horribly wrong 😄 Ooh, that IS an interesting Crimson Bat team. I’ll have to try that out. As for your Hydra setup, I’m not too fond of randomly split damage since it can mess you up big time if the wrong enemy gets the damage… But the Hydra’s ability to get really big damage I guess would overcome that. @Shimrra: How did I forget Terraxis was an AoE troop?? 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Jainus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jainus/32/34949_2.png) [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/5 "2015-12-11T19:30:41Z")
> [@Elendil52](#): > > I’m not too fond of randomly split damage It does have the massive advantage of stacking up as enemies die… normal AoE is far less effective in the late game… > [@Elendil52](#): > > Hydra’s ability to get really big damage My record is 90+ damage from one Hydra cast… and it did one-shot the entire enemy team… wish I’d taken a screenshot… the aim is let Hydra get hit, then reapply Life and Armour with Sunweaver… the life gain doesn’t count as healing, so doesn’t reduce the Hydra’s damage… and repeating that gives Hydra a huge life ‘pool’ to lose… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@Elendil52](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Elendil52)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/6 "2015-12-11T19:33:12Z")
@Jainus Fair point. I think I just have a bad taste in my mouth from the days when the biggest random-split troops were the Blade Dancer and Shadow Hunter, whose effectiveness decreased with time. ---
**Author:** ![MaHo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@MaHo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MaHo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/7 "2015-12-11T19:43:01Z")
I play with crimson bat, venoxia, crimson bat, gorgotha. Almost never loose. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@Elendil52](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Elendil52)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/8 "2015-12-11T19:45:53Z")
^^That is one mana-costly team. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DonBoba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/donboba/32/25457_2.png) [@DonBoba](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DonBoba)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/9 "2015-12-11T19:50:21Z")
Mine is Sun&moon Jarl Orion Sun weaver. Hero does all the AoE, weaver charges his mana and tanks him up, Jarl also fills him and fills himself and all others, Orion is there to take care of those who are bigger in hp/shield size. ---
**Author:** ![Aelthwyn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/aelthwyn/32/4645_2.png) [@Aelthwyn](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Aelthwyn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/10 "2015-12-11T19:58:11Z")
Hydra / Alastair / Terraxis / War and peace I win very fast with that team. I also use it as my defense team currently and am astonished to see I have more than 50% of victories when I am attacked. ---
**Author:** ![utfanx2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/utfanx2/32/525_2.png) [@utfanx2](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/utfanx2)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/11 "2015-12-11T20:07:49Z")
I am surprised nobody has mentioned staff of madness yet: Green Slime Goblin Shaman Green Seer Hero(Staff of Madness) ---
**Author:** ![kzintiwife](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kzintiwife/32/2350_2.png) [@kzintiwife](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/kzintiwife)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/12 "2015-12-12T00:53:43Z")
I actually use a strange set up… gorgotha, bombardier, herdmaster, and goblin rocket 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sidousai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sidousai/32/604_2.png) [@Sidousai](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sidousai)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/13 "2015-12-12T03:07:45Z")
Carnex, Behemoth, Flame Cannon, Hero with War and Peace Carnex charges everyone, and you can get +2 Armor Adana bonus ---
**Author:** ![Mitheithel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitheithel/32/2352_2.png) [@Mitheithel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mitheithel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/14 "2015-12-12T04:09:35Z")
> [@Shimrra](#): > > Behemoth, Terraxis, Atlanta, Hero w/ War & Peace > All AOE, Terraxis charges two of them I actually used this team quite a lot pre-1.0.7. I’ve been distracted by the newer team building, but I ought to go back and play this team again. I really liked it, I just wonder how well it holds up without any team bonuses. ---
**Author:** ![sarcasmjew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sarcasmjew/32/523_2.png) [@sarcasmjew](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sarcasmjew)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/15 "2015-12-12T04:13:02Z")
Venoxia Venoxia Venoxia Celestasia ---
**Author:** ![Jainus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jainus/32/34949_2.png) [@Jainus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jainus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/16 "2015-12-12T07:19:58Z")
> [@sarcasmjew](#): > > VenoxiaVenoxiaVenoxiaCelestasia That’s hardly AoE… it’ll win by Venoxia getting Attack buffed to 40+ and getting lucky skull drops from all the chains from the gem-spamming… Stick either Emperina (heal and buff that Venoxia after all the hard work of buffing it) or Sheggra ('nuff said) to get full colour mix… admittedly you’d lose the kingdom bonus, but three Venoxias doesn’t feel much fun to use to me… ---
**Author:** ![Machiknight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/machiknight/32/6108_2.png) [@Machiknight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Machiknight)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/17 "2015-12-12T08:33:45Z")
I’ve found on the REALLY good teams, that team bonus isn’t really an issue. My torch, carnex, hobgoblin, behemoth, team regularly beats the most annoying teams out there. (3x venox celest, gobbos, 3x jarl etc). ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/18 "2015-12-12T08:37:41Z")
I just started using a ye-olde legendary team with no bonuses at all and its working _fine_. Even against teams full of Goblins that are literally larger than them. ---
**Author:** ![Machiknight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/machiknight/32/6108_2.png) [@Machiknight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Machiknight)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:39am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/19 "2015-12-12T08:39:21Z")
Yes it’s kinda funny how that works out. The team bonuses worked really well at making lots of types of teams viable, but the oldies are still awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Zelfore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zelfore/32/22295_2.png) [@Zelfore](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zelfore)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842/20 "2015-12-12T09:27:56Z")
> [@Machiknight](#): > > Yes it’s kinda funny how that works out. The team bonuses worked really well at making lots of types of teams viable, but the oldies are still awesome! So glad people are finally starting to realize this. 😌 I have an effective team that rarely loses, it uses both a Hero, and no Legendary or Epic whatsoever. I think I posted it on KAYA43V3R’s topic. But yeah, fun, explosive, and a champ of a team! [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/effective-aoe-teams/1842.md?page=2)