please help friends I can`t beat undead

[dukenukem]

hi everbody.King`s bounty the legend amazing game i have seen since many years.

Last day i started to play on impossible with mage.When i came to necro castle undead general was level 25 at-20,de-25,int-15 and his army strenght 130 knights,150 necros,2000 skeleton war.,1000 skeleton arc.,100+ vamphirs,150+ ghost.

My leadership was 16000,level 22 at-12,de-22,int-27 and my army 80 horseman,80 knights from demonis,700 dryads,80 shamans,70 arc mages.

may be i tried with 10 different army kind.But i could not accomplish this duty.

and my higher magic,magic power,chaos vs. was full.

Please give me some tactics to beat undead general...

[Nike-it]

Try to look in this thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=4342

[Zonc]

My squad against Karador was:
1) snakes
2) royal snakes
both boosted with "royal snake ring" which gives +3 dmg, royals have no retaliation
3) dryads
boosted with "Anga's Ruby", no retaliation
4) pirates
Their "sweeping strike" is very useful in "crowded" areas
5) black unicorns
Holy strike +30% dmg to undead

I do not recommend inquisitors/priests since they're very poor in hand-to-hand combat. To be precise, any shooting unit will be useless.
As a mage i used Fire Rain, Phantom, maybe Blind on skeleton archers
Royal Snakes turned out to be most damaging unit, when unicorns were killed in a middle of the fight (could used ancient ents instead)

Good Luck

[megajon]

regular old swamp snakes? I currently have 2 snake rings and wouldn't use em. I would opt for orc vets, black knights, griffins, or ceribi (I totally agree with your choice of sea dogs for the same reason)

[maltz]

(1) Come back later, when you are about level 26 (two more leadership boosts). Clean the enemies in all other places.

(2) Bring higher level melee units to outlast your enemy.
- Emerald dragon - awesome for mana recharge
- Horsemen
- Griffin
- Black unicorn
- Royal snakes (if you use frog wife)

(3) In my game, my phantom units were hyptonized immediately, so it didn't work.

(4) My dryads were casted "fear" and rendered useless - no good.

(5) Don't worry about losses - you can buy most of these units in unlimited quantities anyway.

[dukenukem]

hi everbody.I hope 1cpublishing will contunie to product K.Bounty series.Because, as for me, this game is best strategy-rpg game for all times.

thanks maltz and other friends for your informations.

But I think to beat necro general these tactics is not enough.I need more improved tactics and informations.For example may be firstly i have to destroy cyristal but how.If i concentrate the cyristal enemy strenght very powerful.What is the cyristal effect on the creatures.If it is possible can you write turn to turn informations.So for first turn what will i do,for second vs.
Otherwise very hard to beat.thanks.

[maltz]

Destroying the crystal is quite a slow process.
I think you should just focus on fighting the stacks.

Good combos are:

(1) Take heavy loss + Time Back. This is probably the best rage spell on higher difficulties.

(2) Mass Magic Shackle (lv 3 distortion). This stops the necromancers from reviving other units. Very useful.

(3) Glot's armor / Wall / Ice thorns. They are barriers to buy you a turn or two. The most basic armor and wall are the best - as they are the cheapest.

(4) Resurrect troops back. If you have emerald dragons you can easily recharge mana. Mana is the key in such a long fight.

Then it is the optimization of artifacts and units.

For example, if you get the Ring of Snake (King after upgrade), you can use Frog wife + 2 snake stacks. (Get the plain snake, not the swamp. They are poison based and don't work well on undead). The frog wife is really good as you can carry a lot of +mana artifacts. What special artifacts do you use?

I think your leadership and stats are better than my mage on impossible at this particular point in the game. So it shouldn't be a problem.

[dukenukem]

hi everbody especially maltz...As i stated already i gave up to play with mage,and i started with paladin.As i guessed holy anger ability really really deathly for demons and necros.Yesterday i closed demonis gate.

But i realized necro castle army is random.In my old game with mage there were 150 necromances but with paladin there were 54 necros.But in first there were 1000 archers,in second there were 2000 archers.Maybe army random but total army health is always same.

I mean with paladin i have 17 att.(actually 17att.+15 h.a.a=32 att.),30 def.,11 int.,Althought i tried to fight in night time for night operations ability (+6 att. and def.) i missed the night.But Really easly i won the fight my leadership between 17k-18k.And army 101-Cannoners(99 survived),800+ dryads(600+ survived),2000+lake fries(700+ survived),250+king snakes(all died),250+elf archers(all died)...

I have to advice cannoners.They are really really very overpowering unit.Especially for buildings they are fatal especially after you get artifact that is incearing 100% archer attacks.

Now i understand in the game in impossible best hero character is paladin.
Yesterday i remember my total gold more than 3M.I used very easy tactic.
Dryad,snake king and archers with cannoners.So, as you know dryad is making sleepy level 1-3 enemies.And with soul stealing every turn 30% i dont have any casualties. When sleppy units wake up their counts are only a few pieces.And i beated demon princess and baal very very easly.Holy anger ability realy best ability in the game for impossible game.

Thanks to everbody...