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Originally Posted by impy
all the best to all kbap gamers, but BB Shockwave, i have to disagree with some of your comments. First, hard and impossible difficulty are different and that extra difficulty will put those easy peasy strategies to shame. You say you got Reha scroll on hard at 21 level. The easiest Reha scroll is in my opinion at Elon between the two castles, and I don't remember to get it on impossible no loss until 25 level if lucky, more like 30 level.. Halving ability of archdemons is great, but in most of the battles you face huge threating stacks with much higher leadership than you have = no halving until later. I do not find Cerberi useful. Their damage output is low, and they die quickly. True, you can time back them or heavily ressurect them, but there are better strategies. Dangerous enemy range attackers can be always tricked with target or blind, sheep, fear. And inability to control the summoned demons is a hindrance? How? You do not care if they die, the only bad things I can think of are stepping on your own traps, attacking blinded unit, but again, positives of meat shield far outweigh the negatives.
As for the progress, I left the demon line-up at around level 30, since I become so powerful, that middle game became too easy for my liking. I intended to get back to it, but lost the save file  . Then I was playing with single red dragon, got stuck at k'tahu fight, now playing no loss impossible mage, no kitting, no wanderer scrolls, no direct damage spells, no creature summons, no hero summons, no hero phantoms apart from paladin phantom purely for ressurection purposes.Quite interesting |
I see your point, keep in mind I went with a Warrior, not a mage, so I had larger armies to help me get the guardians. Also, I played with the first russian version, where you could often 'kite' (is that the word?) away the guardians in some cases from the maps. I'm aware that in the english version this is not possible...
Some of your "challange" games sound incredibly hard, I salute you!
Me, I just want to re-play the game while trying out different armies and how they work. Usually I start the game with the idea in mind on which units I want to use, and won't rest until I get them, that's why I want to try an all-demon army. I never use the "killer stack" strategies like Anga's ruby and all female units, because frankly that sounds boringly simple. All units have some worth, and I want to try them all - when playing all-undead, I kept using Zombies for a long time until I got Black Knights, and found them to be quite usefull, even if not superior to the knights.