Hey again, some of you might remember me from when I did this in TL as I had a decent thread going.
I noticed The Rider's post a few weeks back and I decided to give imp mage no loss a go again myself.
It is just insane. Im having a way harder time in AP then I had in TL. Its at the point where I just travel all over the place to see if I can score a kill on anything. Ive reached Verona and Ive cleared out the first 3 islands and most of rusty except 4-5 mobs/heroes.
My army consists of Arch mages, Inqs, Royal snakes, Trolls and Royal Griffins. My general tactic is to crowd control stuff for as long as I can while I tank stuff with my Trolls. I havent gotten resurrection or any half decent damage spell yet so it hurts.
Just like when I did this on TL I only made 1 game and never prescouted nor will I use the savegame editor. Not because I see it as cheating, I just like to play with what I get and make the best out of it.
But it seems a lot harder then it did in TL. Im not saying thats a bad thing, but I dident expect it to be so hard.
What normally ruins my day is ranged units. They tend to swap around and shot at random things in my army. The second my royal snakes and my inqs have taken a loss in the same fight its time to hit that good old f8 key.
At level 14 I have 14 intellect and 8 defense. Ive also gotten higher learning rank 1 so I can drop two rank 1 traps in the start to stop melee runners.
I spent 5 hours playing the game last night and I killed a total of 4 armys in Verona.
Btw, I HATE to kite the mapscroll guardians, its beyond tedious.
Anyone have any insight as Im actually considdering just making a warrior and be done with it. Right now Im playing close to exactly how I would play a warrior due to lack of decent spells. Except that with a warrior I would have more troops and my pet would do more damage.
Any input is welcome.
(love the AP so far in general)