Well, I finally suppressed that item long and hard enough to get that level 31 on impossible
The suppressions were easy and quick, because I had my powerpuff girl party waiting in greenwort.
So who says going to lvl 31 on impossible is unreasonable?
I'll add screenshots of this feat to the post. It took exactly 1831 or 1832 suppressions to get to that elusive lvl 31. You will see a ton of 1623 scores in that screenshot... Please ignore them. Those were my tests to analyze what impacts the score and how.
Now I can happily remove win XP and go vista. I got my 4GBs of RAM (my XP doesn't support 4 gigs and uses only 2 of them) today as well as Armored princess demo in russian, which is pretty fluent. So far KB: AP looks great.
For those who hadn't had a glimpse of AP, I'll use my own thread to go off-topic and give you some impressions. I can also make a few screenshots if you want. I just don't know if it's appropriate to make a thread in the KBTL forums about KBAP
The plot is that Baal's demons invade greenwort and king mark sends Amelie through a portal to save her. Although everyone shows confidence that the battle will be won, it actually looks hopeless.
Amelie can once again play 3 classes:
Warrior - a kinda dark red haired girl in a girlishly tough red armor
Paladin - a blonde girl with an elegant blue armor with holy crosses
Mage - a sexy skimpy dressed brunette girl
Some of the artifacts are the same as KB: TL. Other just have the same picture with different properties. There are also new ones added. My favorite banner of true faith for example now gives 20% crit to the paladins (a variation of the knights in KBTL, although the knights are still there) as well as some other bonuses, but still gives 10 mind runes after 60 victories.
Attributes now have bigger impact on the game. Intellect for example improves the spell damage by 5% per point of intellect. Every 7 points additionally improve the spell damage by 15% and every 20 improve the spell duration by 1 turn. Rejoice mages
Levelups are faster and provide more runes, since there is a ton of new skills. Also there is only 1 class-specific skill now. Warriors retain rage with anger as usual, mages have higher magic and paladins get the crappy Resurrection skill which brings to life 60-80% of the losses of a random troop in battle. Once again the paladins get the worst skill there is
Spirits of rage are replaced by a dragon that has unique abilities, some close to that of the spirits of rage: like putting up a wall, chargers for mana (it has a different name), it can attack monsters and such. Just like KBTL there is a skill that makes the little dragon get levels much more quickly and uses rage for its skills. The dragon levels up to 60 just like amelie.
There are some new monsters and some of the old ones have new portraits. Not big of a deal here. Traveling between islands, continents and such is governed by a special time system (3 hrs, 6 hrs, etc) and doesn't take a full day nor can be exploited like in KBTL where you could travel in 6:55AM and end up on the same day in 7AM.
In order to open up new lands, you usually have to fight some monster that holds the map or you can kite it away from it and go steal it.
Another new thing is that this game has different badges, medals and such. For example, if you manage to get 10 victories without a single loss, you get +200 Leadership. If you pop up a certain amount of chests on the battlefield, you will get more +3% more XP per battle. All those medals and badges and such can be upgraded and you can get more leadership, more XP per battle and such.
So lets hope the English version of the game will hit the shelves soon. The demo has some bugs which for all I see are fixed. For example, 3 archers attack my thorns with fire arrow and inflict 12 damage and burn them. Suddenly the thorns lose like 40 HP's from the burning. For some reason burning and poisoning were bugged but they are fixed now.
To conclude, I can only say that KB: AP will be even better than expected and with better replayability due to the different kinds of builds and different skill setups one can get.