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Ahh, thanks, that makes a lot of sense.

I do feel like they ramped up the difficulty on this one then. I had been playing very casually, not worrying about a lot of details. I think I had underestimated the use of the achievements too.

Thanks for the reply.

-- Oh, one additional note.... I played a little more on my new game, and I have to say -- though I AM being more careful now (for example I don't usually try to play the whole game with no losses, as that really seems like an OCD nightmare to me, but I am now trying to get enough no-loss battles to score the achievement -- I am finding that my luck is 1000% better this game. Already at Level 2 I have several key spells that I never got the previous game, and the equipment showing up in the first few buildings is tons more useful. I think I got a spectacularly bad random draw the first time.

Thanks again