@ Vilk, killing mobs with less than max units in your army makes them a higher difficulty and also give more xp. Maybe thats a trick we dont use and can explain higher level. My top level was level 9 barely before going to islands and that is with no tactics treatise and max level learning ASAP. I also saw in his save that he cleared out griffon islands and actually killed all mobs in Old/Abandoned Castle, two things I usually dont. Especially the castle with all the paintings give nice xp. Also, he upgraded all items he could and he stated in another thread that his tactics treatise had to be surpressed when he was almost done with the startings areas. Again more xp. And doing turtle at level 2 gives more xp than doing it at level 5. Doing turtle ASAP is best, see his thorn hunter tactic for killing turtle easy.
@ Calinda: thank you for sharing your savegames. They have proven to be very insightful. Some differences between your game and mine: you have higher leadership when you arrive on the islands making the mobs lower difficulty for you. For me all mobs are stronger. Also your skill trees are different than mine. I maxed out distortion and order magic and so I had little runes left to go to chaos. You also go for leadership reducing talents, I see those are your goal in the might and magic trees. Seeing as how I arrived on the islands and how you arrived clearly shows me I made some big errors in developing my game. The main idea is the same, my execution just left me in a much worse position. I also had less luck than you, I had no sacrifice up until the islands and I also could only buy 24 inquisitors total. I didnt have tactics treatise although I figure that one is just added bonus and not necessary.
Your highscore is still the highest, but what I found most impressive was that in your end stats you had so little losses of units. That was what puzzled me the most. Several people came close to your score, but with heavy losses and I couldnt see how you did it with so few losses. So thanks again for the insight, it was really helpful!
