FAO DGDobrev

I noticed your army had no sprites and fairies? Also, your tirexes were your best fighters yet were not in your army? Is that cause you got them very late in the game? they killed 22% of your enemies:confused:

I haven't come across any good dinosaurs yet, only the flying units

I did a stealing spree all the way to Reha in the beginning, So I came out of there with 19 Tirex eggs and started using them since battle 1. Free units for the win :)

Sprites and Fairies can ruin a no-loss game, especially as a Mage. In fact any unit that is low on HP can do that.

What was fun about that playthrough, was that I had to utilize every single bit of knowledge about this game in order to pull out a no-loss victory :) The Mage hero is really hard, so a lot of intellect and unusual cunning are called for :)

That's amazing. You didn't have a single fight for ages yet you got to Reha lol I can't seem to get the troops guarding the nav maps out of the way, most of them anyway.... so how are you able to?

Using the pause trick. Run at a 90 degrees at them (not directly at them, or they'll kill you), and if they move out of their place while you're getting away, hit space to pause. Quicksave while paused. Prepare to move just an inch and pause again. If it happens successfully, pause and quicksave again. If not, restore the old game. You have the advantage of the paused game to try the same.

This way you can kite any map guard who is not in a really tight spot. The ones in tight spots... You can't, unless you get lucky, and to get lucky it takes a ton of attempts.

Oh, and it needs a lot of practice. So practice, guys :)

Or you could just edit the save game to unlock all the maps, right? I guess either way you don't get the 'cheater' comment on your final save.

He could have. But his posts are very detailed and a good contribution to the forum, he doesn't strike me as a cheat. I personally wouldn't mess with the game files and just play it "as is"

I was insinuating that using a quick space-save trick in order to get stationary style guards to move away from a nav map is borderline exploiting anyway. Dunno why, that tactic just rubs me the wrong way.

Well, there russian guide says that any cheating is recorded in the save game, because it records any change in your character's runes, items, money, troops all the time. I don't really know how to open that save game, edit it and discover if someone had cheated, but I'm sure the developers can. This is why it is prudent to provide a save game to show the developers (if not the other players) that you did it without using improper means - like cheats :)

Just finished my first game, on normal playing as warrior. Amelie was level 54, the pet dragon 49.

My stats were:

Attack 37
Defense 28
Intellect 25
Rage 110
Mana 55
Leadership 42,878

My most effective troops:

(SURPRISE SURPRISE) Royal Snakes - 30,9%
Black dragons - 24,9%
Red dragons - 21,7%
Paladins - 6,6%
Shamans - 6,3%
Inquisitors - 4,0%
Evil beholders - 2,4%

I believe the blacks were more effective only because I found the reds quite a bit later.

I completed 83 quests, I don't know which I could've missed, though I did fail one for sure.

All in all, a very enjoyable game! :D Next up, mage on hard!

Grats :)