Surviving on Impossible

[Zhuangzi]

Shd, Demonesses get insane bonuses from Anga's Ring, like any other female fighter. I think it is +3 attack, defense, morale, initiative and movement. That's 9 initiative and 5 movement, plus 3 special abilities. One of the best and most versatile units in the game, IMO.

[kennec]

my paladin is lvl 17 now on impossible.

finaly i have found a tactic that works and picked skills and monsters that works well with it.

important skills
order magic 3 : to rez lvl 4 mobs
tactic2 : to be able to attack first round

mobs
griffins : best unit. unlimited retaliations togheter with psycial resist buffs

royal snakes: with frog wife and snake boots they do very good damage are hard to kill and have long movement

orc shamans : perfect to use totems to make enemy waste attacks and have an usefull range attack sometimes

archmagis : have one good skill : shield, perfectt boost up griffins

cannoners : range unit. can be replaced by any ranged units. i prefer evil beholders under ground elfs over ground and cannoners upgrading stuff.

i have also found jade belt witch increase damage for spiders with 50% and thorn crown wich do the same for thorns. mayby i will change range unit for royal thorns or fire spiders later on if i can find them in masses.

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[Zhuangzi]

kennec, I am level 17 as well so we are at the same stage. I am currently clearing out Ardan's Peaks and Taron Mines. It's funny how we all play differently. I never used Resurrect at all, and yet you seem to be using it extensively. I suppose this is because Paladin starts with this spell? Also, I don't like Order spells, even though there are a few I would get.

But we agree on units it would seem. I have finally settled on 5 units that do the job together very well:

Griffins
Royal Snakes
Orc Shamans
Demonesses (with Anga's Ring equipped)
Royal Thorns

This team is good because you have a lot of speed and versatility, and plenty of scope for spawning stuff and generally controlling the enemy. Basically I use the spawned Thorns and totems as the bait and the Griffins and Snakes as the stick. There are also no human units here, which is good because they would have terrible morale as I don't have Tolerance to undead/demon creatures. This is not really needed anyway - later I prefer an entirely demonic army.

The only two spells I am really using is Ice Snake (3000 damage to central hex) and Sacrifice. The way I am using Sacrifice is by buying a big stack of 500 Miners (which is only 20,000 gold) and cycling my 5 real units through the reserve system. The Miners will get terrible morale from the Demonesses but I don't really care - they are just in the fight to be sacrificed anyway (and absorb some hits if necessary). After you complete Tom Digor's quest he has a horde of these for sale, and they are so cheap. This way I am able to replenish my stacks of hard to find creatures, especially the Thorns. In fact I am loathe to go back to Darion just to top up on Griffins/Royal Snakes so I am using Sacrifice for them as well.

EDIT: looking at your screenshot there I am interested to see you putting a lot of runes into the Might school. I think I only have about the first 3 or 4 things (but I am a Mage, I know). You will need to save some more money though, 93k is not much for this stage (although I see you have the bag of coins worth 80k to sell). At the same stage I have over 800k.

[Calinda]

Just finished on impossible, 27 days, and could have spared a couple of flights. Attaching a screenshot

[kennec]

zhuan i am doing same as u. clearing out dwarfen underground. i have spiderboss left to kill to.

paladin start with rez spell. i use mass bless , lvl 2 and 3 rezes and sometimes stoneskin. the other spell i use rarely altough i plan to make my dragon slayer to lvl 3 for mass effect in endgame.

about my money : yes its very hard with money on paladin. i havent invested in the mind thread at all and traded for magic and might runes one time. i have alot of units in stock though. like 300 griffins and 300 royal snakes 100 shamans 200 evil beholders and a few more units.i also have like 20 artifacts i dont need but i save couse they are part of a set or give specific bonus for monsters wich mayby will come in handy later on.

when i find units i wanna use buy all of them and transport em to a friendly castle preferbly human or dwarf main towns. so i save time running around look for replacments.also i can change my stack to priests and inqvisators if undeads guard an area.

royal snakes are pretty much awesome with frogwife and snake boots

my next plan in game is to upgrade the evil necro head, i read on the forum it gives +5attack and +5int.

[kennec]

Originally Posted by Calinda

Just finished on impossible, 27 days, and could have spared a couple of flights. Attaching a screenshot

nice. my score will not be close that one. i am flying and using boats all the time.

i am at 66 days already at lvl 17

[Kings Bounty Hunter]

Originally Posted by Calinda

Just finished on impossible, 27 days, and could have spared a couple of flights. Attaching a screenshot

How did you manage that with a poxy Warrior!

You and I need to talk

[Sandsai]

Originally Posted by Kings Bounty Hunter

How did you manage that with a poxy Warrior!

You and I need to talk

Cause wars are actually pretty good and are not that dependent on getting lucky with spells early on? I am currently playing a mage and having issues due to lack of available offensive spells in the game. I am still primarily relying on fireball and my secondary nuke is magic missile. That's sad considering I am about to rap up Freedom Islands. My war did not have that many problems, I mean you do have to sneak around mobs and explore before you kill stuff but I would think you do the same with any character. The only spells a war really needs early on and mid game are arguably slow and berserk. Other spells are nice but I managed very well without other spells.

[milo]

Something I found yesterday, the map of endoria obtained from the oblelisk quest, can also be turned in at the magic academy in verlon forest for a wide range of spells, I have not tested whether spells are random but it appeared the spells I was given were all spells I did not presently have.

[Zhuangzi]

@ Calinda, that's super impressive. You finished Impossible on day 27 as a Warrior with 1.7 million gold in the bank? Respect.

I think I will finish in about 30-35 days, so my score might be near this but perhaps only 1200-1300. I don't like to use dirigibles etc except when I have to. Do you think you could explain how you managed to win the Impossible Warrior challenge so easily? A lot of us here are of the opinion that playing as a Mage is a fair bit easier than as a Warrior. Therefore I have come to the opinion that Impossible Warrior is the hardest actual game. So how did you do it?

@ kennec, yes I find Trading and Trophies to be very useful for obtaining money (obviously). I like to 'upgrade and trade' items I don't need for profit. I've got two Officer's Batons which are perfect for this. Looks like you will do fine if you have all of those units stashed away.

@ Sandsai, you need Ice Snake, which is an awesome spell for Freedom Isles. Bit like I know. In this game the king of Freedom Isles had it for sale straight away. Chaos 3 plus Ice Snake at level 9 meant I smashed everything in Freedom Isles without much difficulty.