Perhaps I spoke too soon, or I didn't want to deal with the drudgery of Baal with an Impossible Mage. I might actually need that splinter, or go with the old fashioned army build for Baal. (or learn his behavior a bit better)
Perhaps getting that Necro wand and bone dragons would have been feasible.
I think I would have to go with a full army against Baal, but alas, I hate long battles.
I revived my old Mega Orc Warrior game, which was Level 37 at the time.
I was using
Orc Veterans
Orcs
Paladins
Goblins
Orc Trackers
My melee centric build that didn't really pan out too well.
I rotated the units out (this is why I absolutely HATE destroying items, I routinely switch up my armies, so sometimes I end up destroying something nifty).
That said, I'm getting better at keeping the "maybe" items.
I basically mirrored what one guy did here with Archers, then impy did his version, then unicornxp did the Orc version.
I basically replicated unicornxp's style, but I'm not quite sure how he managed to make the Goblin Shaman the mass damage dealers.
Goblins were always the king for me. Go go Zeroing In!
Goblins
Goblin Shaman
Catapult
Paladin
Royal Griffins
Took out Ktahu in 6 rounds!
Baal went down in 15, but mostly because I had to wait for him to summon an imp stack and Sir Gilbert's army had to be weakened enough.
I got too bored with grinding through, so I basically skipped a large number of quests. I also wanted to make sure I could do it (beat the game) without wasting time "preparing" for it and/or if I had to switch things up.
I definitely did NOT optimize on travel time, but I might be able to do it again. I think I will take a big break for now.
