Game go impossible after migrating from first island!

[Ahmadi]

Originally Posted by travelingoz

After you get to the Scarlet island do what you can there, dodge the enemy patrols and pick up all the leadership flags. Also visit the small shop on the right of the castle. The quest from there will give you a map to find 2 chests. You can get these without fighting if you're fast.

I did it but also i need more stronge because enemies are stronger!

[foolstone]

sneak& pick the maps, go to other island and pick up more powerful creatures, buy more powerful items.

[DGDobrev]

I wonder how do you manage to pick the maps. Since patch 1.1 all the map guardians are immobile, and if they move by chance, they stop after a few squares and quickly return to their starting position.

EDIT: Interesting. I just managed to kite away the army guarding the Verona map on the Scarlet Wind island. One doesn't really need to kite them far - just a little, in order to sneak beside them and take the map. Weird. This is the only map guard enemy that allowed me to kite them. Bug?! Intentional, so that the player can get the map through skill and stealth?

In addition to that, on impossible, one must save money like crazy in the beginning and spend it only on the most important items - items that he/she will use for quite a while. There is no point in spending 10k on a +1def/+200 leadership helm if you're going to drop it after a few levels because you found a better one.

I strongly suggest tricking the Gromozeka, taking the amulet and going back to Debir. Doing that has a chance of spawning Paladins in the Mage tower. I know what you're going through, cause I have the same problem. I've cleaned up most of the starting islands by the beginning of day 2 and all I see now is overpowering and impossible enemies on Rusty Anchor island, because I can't get an army of the units I prefer and I'm forced to play with incomplete stacks. But there is always a way The most important thing is to keep a cool head and do not give up.

[BB Shockwave]

Even guardians who move 1 space can be lured away. They will move towards you, if you are always no more then 1 space away from them! Not all enemies do that, but for example the dwarf guarding the map on Tekron is like this.

[DGDobrev]

I'll have to try that out. Kiting away map guards is very tricky, and requires a good save and a nice mouse

On a side note, Verona was full of stipud units too (very few horsemen, tons of imps, peasants, bears, archers, priests, assassins, swordsmen, guardsmen, etc. - no knights, no paladins, no emerald dragons, no nothing), but I did find archmagi and druids, and then more Royal Thorns when I beat up the wife of the barbarian (her army is stronger and her flame arrow is weaker, so more XP this way). Now with Paladins, Druids, Royal Thorns, Inquisitors and Archmagi things look a lot different. Besides, with 54 total battles, all of them without losses, a nice heap of cash is forming.

So it's all the matter of not giving up and finding ways to do it.

[BB Shockwave]

Emerald Dragons in Verona? Where?

There is 1 dragon you can get for sure on the Rusty Anchor island in the Orc Cave. You can get there without a fight even, just lure the Orc shaman hero away.

In my game, there are only human units in Verona, with a few places that sell Assassins and Royal Griffins. I think the Mage tower where you have to pay a 200 gold admission fee at every visit is a good place to look for Paladins, though.

[DGDobrev]

Well, I've found 7+ Emerald green dragons in the Mage's tower (Facing demenion's castle, it's to the right, past the graveyard and the bridge - the same tower you're talking about) 3 times out of my 5 playthroughs. In other occasions I found Paladins and Archmagi. In this playthorugh I found 9 horsemen there and about 300 Wood Fairies (Sprites) in the building nearby, but I cannot use them because I lack numerous spells (although I have the skills).

The thing is, that in impossible, since you'll be facing strong armies, you need to plan your units carefully, especially because it is very important to do the first 100 or so battles without any losses - this will ensure enough money to re-vamp the army, buy the expensive items, etc. You need something to take the extra hits (summoned units) while you babysit your tanks and summoners. To be honest, this is my plight right now with the Paladin, since he has much less leadership than the Warrior, and it's much harder to balance power and functionality to get no-loss victories. For example, in 12 levels, I bought only 3 items - the marshal's batton, the mana belt and the gladiator sword (the one with 10 might runes), and sold all of my wanderers' spells (7 total, I was lucky with the chests in battle, especially because I chose the green dragon and had it right away), and even with the 60 no-loss battles, I was struggling to find the money for these 3 items.

This goes to show how hard impossible really is - especially in the beginning of the game. In KBTL I could get 70k gold really easy, by stealing gold, items and flags. In KBAP this is no more. Each step of the way is hard.