I think Impossible Mage is probably the hardest thing in the game (without giving yourself extra limitations like no Paladins or something), so that'll be a reasonable challenge. From memory you used to get annoyed about people finishing the game in 5 days or whatever it was. They are doing the same with AP now. :rolleyes: But that's no fun to me, trying to plan out every little thing I am going to do in the game to cut down the time. The best I've managed is 28 days and I doubt I can be bothered replaying the game again to cut that down. Happy New Year to you. :)

i replayed my last game and made this

7days +lv59 = 1850
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1261972275

need 16000 EXP to reach lv60(one more ancient knowledge would make it)

Since i didn't use pet dragon to dig for at least 50 fights, it's quiet possible to find the scroll in 150 chests. But i it's impossible to reach lv61 unless got mass(20-30?) ancient knowledge~~~

I just finished my first play through, as a warrior on impossible.

Score: 1,563 and 12 days to complete.

Pretty fun game although I think the difficulty has not been distributed well.

I found Verona/Monteiro to be a reasonable challenge when I first got up to them, but after that everything became an easy landslide - i beat K'tahu in 3 turns with only 2 units attacking him.

On par with the original and gets a thumbs up overall.

ok,

I might have a crack at the record. (+no loss)

I've scanned a lot of save games and got a save game with the scaly set by montero mines and twinkling boots in Elon.

I'll have to check for hand of necropolis too, but I suspect they won't be needing till late game.

Basically I'm not kiting at the start, in case there are scroll guardians I can't beat, plus it's faster to not kite, although I might need to do *some* later on.

Playing Mage so, 1st I'll clear debir, ->
Skills-> get to 350 leadership with the pal skill. -> then get the mana regen for mage, then 30% learning pal skill. This will be hard because I won't have chaos magic for a while, and I hope fire arrow will be enough.

Do you think that the dragon bash should be upgraded at the start to make the first battles easier ? Obviously, it's almost useless later on. Probably have 2 stacks of inquisitors to get rage.

I might get a call of undead wander scroll or call colossus would be nice at this point.

Scarlet - I'll get 3 slots for arch mages to cast magic armour, every round for ten rounds until I get armor ahievement. Might need to change config for the harder battles. I'm not sure if it's possible to clear scarlet at the start but I'll give it whirl.
I know you need to come back to it later on for a annoying quest.

I'll prob skip bolo If i can and hit rusty anchor in search of a green dragon, like what unicornxp does.

I'll need to figure out the "primary key" of the shortest paths to locations that also fulfils every quest. Anyone have that primary key ?

Here you can find info on the shortest routes:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=12249

Mage, Impossible, No unit loss and almost single stack :).

7 days with a score of 1821.

http://img94.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=screen1vs.jpg

Link to the screens. Also added one where I beat Baal with 30 bone dragons in the end.

Grats Chase! Your result is great and you most certainly managed to master the game :)

I find it perplexing that you can finish the game in 7 days with 86 quests completed. Do you clear up each island in one fell swoop and hardly, if ever, return there at all? :confused:

I haven't finished the game, but I am going for a fast run as well. I believe it is actually a requirement to take out all enemies in an island if you can if you don't need to go back there anymore for a related quest. That's what makes a fast run, no-loss game all the more impressive, since you can't skip enemies for later when you are more powerful.

And it is possible, but with great difficulty. Bolo is one such early game island.

Thanks for the answer. I was thinking particularly of quests that require you to travel between islands to complete them.

I will probably never attempt anything like that. I prefer a leisurely playthrough, even slothful at times. Don't mind flicking through newspapers while I'm waiting for that mana to recharge. :grin: Ah well, to each his own.