Getting my ass whipped

[Metroplex]

I am playing as a Paladin level 23 but whenever I want to upgrade this particular item, I think its the Wizard's staff to level 3, I lose!
Part of the reason is because of these stupid griffins keep on reproducing themselves and even if i kill the they get reborn also the bad guys keep on turning my troops into dumb sheep's!
Plus there are about 10 wizards, inquisitors and priests each so i can't defeat them, the spirits of rage are nowhere to be seen and only come very late to make any difference, i want to post a video or screen so that you may advise me on this so how do i do this, help!:evil:

[Metroplex]

Nevermind, I beat the keepers of the item!

[Gatts]

Well, I try following strategy:

1.) remove mad gremlin towers for all costs (even if this would mean to rush in the middle of enemy ranks... mostly in this item battle it is not that bad - as there are mostly only shooters near the towers - two wins for me)

2.) then the "good" gremlin tower, speed/slow and god armor are nasty... down with em!

3.) Griffins...

4.) If I still live and have some mana -> ressurect (if having living army) or corner shooters to "suck" my lost units back (ghosts/ vamp... of course ghosts tend to die quite fast - as they have little HP and get hit by Lightning/ magical attack very often)

But more I would be interested how did you beat them, what difficulty you played on? (I assume Impossible) -> even ingame video (you can convert it to 300x200 -> we would know :) ) ... please, Metroplex...:o

[YENKO]

the 'good' gremlins are awesome, they keep spawning stacks and buffing/debuffing, they never cast offensive spells. So, one can safely build up rage/mana and proceed to resurrect every single killed units, train the Spirits of Rage, collect huge amounts of money (robers+gift!)and/or pump up the most valuable units with sacrifice/resurrect.
I did buy a half dozen otherwise useless items just for that purpose, to have the most possible 'upgrade' keeper fights!!Very usable units for keeper battles IMO: Inquisitors and Shamans (totems!!). At your level, you should have Dryads too. It shouldn't be hard to cast a couple phantoms on the dryads and put everyone to sleep.Can the Inquisitors and Archmages be put at sleep?

[Gatts]

Letting good gremlins live to stock up your lost unit? GREAT IDEA! Well, no wonder that I am stuck with nickname "Gatts" - [name of one berserker]... I just always want to kill my enemy ASAP and also humiliate them as much as possible... trickery and planning is not my part of strategy (0-loss? never ever could work for me :) )

[YENKO]

Letting good gremlins live to stock up your lost unit? GREAT IDEA! Well, no wonder that I am stuck with nickname "Gatts" - [name of one berserker]... I just always want to kill my enemy ASAP and also humiliate them as much as possible... trickery and planning is not my part of strategy (0-loss? never ever could work for me :) )


Yes, since the 'friendly' gremlins never attacks you (they may/will use some useless debuff like pygmy or slow for example), it's easy to manipulate them. They will always respawn a certain unit on the predefined spot. If you park a good melee unit next to the spawning spot, that new stack will be unable to perform any ranged attack, so all your other units are perfectly safe. Put a Totem of Life nearby, and there you go: a neverending closed loop. Every x turns cast Lina's Chargers, have one fast unit collect the rage/mana, have the Inquisitors cast Holy Anger every second turn, have Reaper cast Rage drain every xx turns, there you go: neverending supply of mana/rage. I must admit that the idea is not mine, I just jumped in to..reap the fun and rewards :D
I still have tons of un-upgraded items in my inventory, since I consider the upgrade fights to be too valuable and rare to 'waste' them just like that. If I can upgrade the item, and at the same time 'gain' a couple hundreds of my most valuable/rare units like Inquisitors etc, why not wai a bit with the upgrading? :P

[Metroplex]

I took some screenshots with FRAPS and tried to upload them but it was taking too long so I gave up and deleted them, I got some warriors and horsemen to help me defeat te keepers but in the end it was all for nothing as I sold the item as I didn't see it as helping me.
The reason the spitits don't show up is because I'm playing as a Paladin and I don't have much rage.

[Ish]

I took some screenshots with FRAPS and tried to upload them but it was taking too long so I gave up and deleted them, I got some warriors and horsemen to help me defeat te keepers but in the end it was all for nothing as I sold the item as I didn't see it as helping me.
The reason the spitits don't show up is because I'm playing as a Paladin and I don't have much rage.

Metroxplex, if you anticipate a hard fight, always use a rage potion or a 'use' from a rage giving item etc.

I reccomend killing the enemy armies first, as with 11-13k health the towers take a while to kill unless you are using something like canoneers which do double damage to gremlin towers.