Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-5320677-20130821140541/@comment-5569775-20130821173848

A Vampire Lord can hover over water. A Werewolf can't and would be unable to attack while swimming in the water. The Vampire Lord can use Vampiric Grip to drag & throw the Werewolf into the middle of Lake Ilinalta and proceed to attack with Drain Life. If you swim down out of visual sight, the vampire can use Detect All Life in combination with Drain Life or Vampiric Grip to drag you back up. The only way to avoid this is to stay on land and behind cover, preferably back far enough the Vampire Lord would to come off the lake to be able to fight. However, the Vampire Lord would stay on the lake while trying to hit you with the blast radius of Drain Life. Only other thing would be a stalemate with the Werewolf hiding behind stuff and the Vampire Lord hovering out of reach.

You could bring up that you wouldn't let the Vampire Lord get out to such a favorable position, but the Vampire Lord could summon 1(2 with Amulet of Gargoyle) Gargoyle(s) to act as a distraction for your werewolves. The Gargoyles are Tanky enough to distract them long enough for the Vampire Lord to get to the water, assuming the VL started closer to the water than the Werewolf; if it did you would have to either stop to help your werewolves kill the Gargoyles, or go around them which might take more time depending on any trees or rocks in the way. Despite the speed of the Werewolf while sprinting, it doesn't turn real well. So while stoping and resprinting to get around things, you'd give the vampire the time to get to the lake.

If you are positioned between the VL and the lake, the VL simply needs to use Mist Form at first to avoid damage while making it's way to the lake. Switching to using Bats to jump forward afterwards(twice if needed) and even back to Mist Form after that. Another option would be to have the effects of Amulet of Bats and just use Bats right at you and any summons, the stun from that along with the use of become Etheral can keep them safe until they reach the lake. If starting out standing across from each other and parallel to the lake, the VL could easily make it out of the way of a sprint attack and onto the lake, or use Supernatural Reflexes. If you go straight to summoning your werewolves and the VL use Vampiric drain at the same time, your werewolves won't be in the way to block it and the VL could toss the Werewolf into the lake the go out out it. Of course the werewolves would get in some attacks unless Supernatural Reflexes was used.