impy, the game can give you Ancient Amulet right from the start. I found it at the university at Debir in my current game. Also found Gladiator Sword in Bolo. That's 10 extra might and magic runes :-)

The randomness of the game makes every run-through different, sometimes very different. My impossible warrior has just passed 100 battles and just recently found the Trap spell. I have already maxed Guardian Angle and are 2 Battle Cry's away from maxing Iron Knight. I find killing the units with traps are much harder this late in the game. Since my warrior has only 9 Intellect the traps spell does only 295-440 damage on level 2. It can be a little hard to kill enemies with this damage when they tend to start with a health between 10 and 20 000 at the moment. Also, when I attack a stack I normally do 2000 in damage. My pet dragon kicks for ca 900 so by combining troop attacks and dragon kick (I am not aiming for the ultimate challange, just a no loss on impossible with warrior.) I should be able to get the remaining health below 300... In all the other games I have played, Trap was available very early in the game. This game has so far been quite different since I have had no pre-set traps waiting for an unlucky enemy...

hello ivra, good luck with your warrior.
I was talking about free laying or digged out treasure, which i seriously doubt can be very high level in first few islands. Anybody found any high level spell there? best i ever found was fire rain on Bolo i think.shops & castles are a different story, i myself said i had been offered this game level 5 dragon - 20 % leadership requirement. I read somewhere comment from Dobrev,it also depends on your level. if for example you completely ignore debir, and then come back level 30 and start killing, free laying treasures will take that in consideration and may give you better things.
I would not worry too much about trap damage, as long as it slows down the enemy. My prelaid traps do about 2000dmg, spell about 4000,and as you said, opponents have 20000+ hit points. Simple burning fire arrow for 5 mana will do more overal damage in 3 turns.

Aha, I see. Nope, I have not found any high level items in free laying treasures in the low level islands.

When it comes to the Trap damage, it is not about winning the fights, just getting the Trapper medals. This is much harder now late in the game where I must get the 20k health down to 300 before I place a trap that kills the enemy when he walks onto it...

Good luck to you as well. Sounds like you are well under way doing it without the pet dragon! That's impressive.