Bleed + Deathlock will be very effective. Force Crush is another 2 damage per round, and will keep him away from your conjuration. Use an Intercept creature to defend it against ranged attacks.

And in ANY books, 3-4 Dispels, 3-4 Dissolves, 2-4 Teleports. There is no excuse to not take at least that.

You'll want 3-4 Dissolve and 3-4 Acid Balls depending on your mage. 3 Acid Balls should reduce a 6 armour creature down to 1 (negating the Veteran's Belt). As soon as any Wands of Healing come out you need to Dissolve them quickly.

Direct Damage is also an option; Force Crush, Magebane, Burn Tokens, and Bleed Tokens are all effective against a Necromancer (possibly include Deathlock to prevent the Necromancer healing). You don't actually need to inflict damage to cause Bleed tokens for example, the d12 just needs to roll high enough...

Force Push/Teleporting him out of range of the Battle Forge and then restraining him is also an option for dealing with it, though it can be hard to pull off.

Quote from: silverclawgrizzly on May 23, 2014, 01:59:53 AM

It's good that you're not getting discouraged. The Druid is a very tricky mage to get down and Force Masters take a lot of getting use to in order to defend against. What was your tree that you bonded to? A Vine Tree can put out enough Vine Markers to slow a Force Master down sometimes. Also liberal use of Tangle Vine and Surging Wave can cause them fits.

I did have the Vine Tree (tree bonded) out the first game against the Beast Master.  He flew over the vine markers with Makunda.  The second game he had an elemental wand with hurl boulder, so I didn't have time to set up.  I moved in to dissolve the wand and he double struck me with his weapon, and followed up with another hurl boulder spell.

One of the major things I consistently forget to do is use guards.  I could have saved my mage a lot of grief simply by using guards.

Dispel (on the Eagle Wings) would have also helped a lot in that first game.

Tarok and Galador also should have places in most Druid books (my opinion), either of those would have helped with the flying kitty.

@Aylin: 20 rounds means probably that both mage were turtling or attacking creatures instead of mages. Because 20 rounds means you have an average output damage under 2 per round while it should be around 3-4.

Wildhorn, not everyone plays hyper-aggressive all of the time. One person playing a Control book well will drag a game out as well.

A game last between 7 rounds (an experienced player destroying a new player) and 13 rounds (epic fight between players of equal skills). This means a game will last around 10 rounds (players of equal skills but one will make a mistake that cost him the game).
The only exception to that is if a Necromancer successfully set up an Altar of Skulls, then the game will most likely last 8 + opponent hp rounds (long and most likely boring game).

Plan according to that. The action (stuff bashing other stuff) usually happens on round 3 or 4. If you are still in your "setup" by then, you already lost.

I've played several 15-20 round games. I've also played several 4-6 round games. Giving a range of 7-13 seems a little off to me.

Only 1 Forcefield? Seems a tad light.

Hellfire Trap is a decent method of accessing a Fire attack outside of the Fire school.