[jake21]

Not sure why you recommend rune mages; I left mine home for this fight. Did him with a stack of green dragons; black knight and paladin (mage impossible). Fight wasn't that hard but I did suffer the loss of green dragons (could restore the paladins/knight at end). I did not use counter attack on the knights and I suspect some other unit such as regular knights might be just as good (maybe better since I'm summing paladins at the end to restore the stack). The problem I had with rune mages is that the stack is completely wiped out on first move (strangely no matter what I chose; I could never get my initiative high enough to move before all his). I did think about trying arch mages since they tend to be astral resistant. Hum.

Originally Posted by ckdamascus

Right. It does seem all the other abilities are affected so far (I'll keep you guys posted on it, but it does seem that bypassing defense is an exception rather than the norm) I hope this wasn't some latent Porc, I mean Orc, advantage.

Thankfully with the Gift Bag items such as the Crown of Chaos, Shaman were no longer to be feared, even if they did bypass. It was fairly easy to stack close to85%+ magic resistance, or 95% even.

Who would have guessed they would replace the terror with two more units. Haha.

Regarding Paladin, yes, Paladins are EXCELLENT IF you use Paladin and Inquisitor. I do envy Holy Armor a lot too haha.

Yeah, it seems that with the right unit mixture, the Paladin can get around the double-cast issue. However, the Paladin seems forced into a set of units since it synergizes too well with paladins and inquisitors and you will require supplemental units to augment your disabling capabilities.

The Paladin Unit is one of those units I hate/love. They seem to be the only way for me to roll well with a Warrior class, since it is far more efficient to mass resurrect via Turn Back Time + Prayer than Phantom.