Something for true warriors..

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The introduction of runemage, which, without any saved runes, is more of overpowered level 4 unit rather than 5, got me thinking. With how many unused runes is one actually capable of finishing the game? This question can be transferred into - what is the lowest number of skills (=skill points) one must invest into in order to finish the game?

And the new challenge was born..
Conditions:
1) Impossible difficulty
2) No loss
3) No kiting
4) No level 5 units apart from runemage
5) No pet dragon digging - in order not to abusively raise number of gained runes
6) Finish the game with highest number of unused runes

Once again, choice is yours, but i will personally not use any of the known overpowered combos - droids, necro+elwin, 100%crit shooters etc. etc., i mentioned it all before in paladin ultimate thread.

The number of runes generated in the beggining of each playthrough & runes found in chests on battlefields may vary and therefore can affect the final figure,but I think it should not make much of difference, it will more about how many runes you spent on skills.
The character level will give extra runes, so it may be worth pursuing +%experience. Investing in Learning may not be the best, Learning 1 requires 23 runes to start. I have not done the precise calculations whether gain of extra runes through extra levels is worth it though, i leave it to the others. Also, no pet dragon digging should put a stop to abusive digging of +experience wanderer scrolls. That's fair.

I am currently level 21, see screenshot, with 278 unused runes. I only invested in Distorsion 1, and Linguistics 1 as a prerequisite, and Scouting 1, hoping to get as far as possible.
Warrior character is an obvious choice - with no benefits coming from skills, only warrior provides leadership advantage as he (she) levels up.
Things are quite tough actually, it reminds me of my first kings bounty playthrough - running around to see what i can actually kill
Thanks for over 1000 views on paladin ultimate thread, hopefully this one will attract some fruitful discussion too.