i thought a picture's worth 1000 words...

That's good, but now it will take some time drop the turtle down if you're on impossible... Those 4x1 archmagi will take quite some time to do it, unless you can back them up with spells and magic spring to replenish mana :)

Still, this is imaginative. Good work.

EDIT: As for the royal thorns tactic, it works if you have a decent spell arsenal and magic spring to replenish mana. Get Hagrid (heals/resurrects thorns - his description is misleading), get royal thorns, keep the royals defending with magic spring on and just bash the spider with spells. I did that with a Paladin + Magic Pole Axe (took ages!), so a mage would have much easier time.

impossible/warrior

Royal Thorns (47) vs K'tahu (fight ended on round 56)

K'tahu and all lizards killed on round 42 (left 1 minor stack brontors),but i waited to resurrect my royal thorns to improve no loss conditon.Hagrid randomly ressc/heal allied plants..

During the fight i used 2 or 3 times "stone skin" spell thats all,mostly haste + convert rage to mana unintentionally ;)




http://yfrog.com/0skthauj


Royal Thorns vs spider

http://yfrog.com/ndspidernj

How did you get so many royal thorns at this point? max is 4 in dwarven lands, Spider is 2nd battle, so elven lands are not open yet. I haven't seen thorns appearing in human lands, and as a warrior, you don't have a decent sacrifice to create royals from other high-hp level 5 units yet.

Unless Lew Klisan was selling a crapload of royal thorns (which makes this playthrough a snap), I don't see how you could have gotten so many. The school of gloom requires at least 4 arena wins without joining a guild to provide better troops and items.

If Lew is selling royal thorns, then doing the Gloom's task is as easy as it gets. I have never seen the bounty guild to sell royal thorns (just cyclops).

here is where i get...

http://yfrog.com/myprofgpj

http://yfrog.com/mgimpwarj

http://yfrog.com/2msceneyj

Amazing :) I would really want to find thorns there as well - if you get any, you will easily do all tasks, including the school of gloom's task, because thorns own any boss up until the Driller and Gremlion. I have a feeling that thorns + stone skin + magic spring + adrenaline + occasional haste spell will actually kill the driller easily as well.

Great setup - that troop setup makes for even easier win that I wrote.

i m going to raise the level , i will try "Royal thorn vs champ of the arena"
(i know its crazy):grin:

Keep us posted, that would be fun to know if it works :)

imp/warrior "0 loss"
Royal Thorns(stone skin + magic spring +bloodlust skill+single stack+10% res. from warrior skill + 3% res. from awards+10% res. from hagrid)vs Driller

http://yfrog.com/3udrill5j

http://yfrog.com/61drill4j

http://yfrog.com/5xdrill3j

http://yfrog.com/nfdrill2j

http://yfrog.com/jcdrill1hj

Edit:With some phys. res. stuffs you will get better result...

Royal Thorns vs Gremlion

http://yfrog.com/jqscreen100924024j

http://yfrog.com/m9screen100924025j

Hero screen

http://yfrog.com/3rheroscreenj

i guess this shows that king thorns are really overpowered in this expansion with that particular companion.