trap medal

[jake21]

Oh. In my current paladin game on impossible I picked up the skill really early; not sure how early but it was before the first dozen fights (the spell was like the first treasure found). I thought you all were claiming to have the third medal by that fight.

Originally Posted by TemjinGold

Yep, Meta got it. I meant the fight count was 23 counting the 2 fights in training.

[impy]

jake, we are talking trap medal III = 100 trapped troops in minimum fights, not trap medal I.

[TemjinGold]

Yep. Not hard really. Just loot the first few islands (up to Bolo or Rusty), then pick fights with armies that have 5 walker stacks first. With enough patience and proper use of dragon, you can easily rack up 5 per fight. I messed one up, hence my battle count went to 23.

impy: No need for map kiting. You only need 25 mana to trap 5 stacks. The idea is to soften stacks with units/dragon before the trap lands the final blow. With early game fights, your spell doesn't need to do much damage.

[Starranger]

An other trick is to use stacks of 1 inquisitor. Make a trap in front of him, step forward (Kill and count) and resurrect it with other inquisitors or resurrection spell.

[Petwin]

You can also use the pet dragon ability Crushing Blow to move the enemy stacks onto the trap. Just be sure the pet dragon doesn't kill the stack.

I reached trap medal level III in 33 fights, including the training. I only kited Debir to acquire the Trap scroll and the map to Scarlet to get the Archmagi. I didn't use the (very clever) "Kill and ressurect your own Inquisitors"-technique that DGDobrev came up with.

With 3 stacks of 1 Inquisitor and 5 enemy stacks you can kill 8 stacks a fight, which makes it 13 fights (excluding training) to get to level III.

[Petwin]

Theoretically, you can acquire Trap level III in just 1 fight:

- Skip the training.
- Kite yourself to a decent level (you need a LOT of mana).
- Get and learn Trap and Phantom.
- Get 5 Inquisitors.
- Start a fight and kill off all enemies save one.
- Trap and kill you own stacks.
- Resurrect your stacks, and phantom to get extra resurrecting capability.

You need a LOT of mana:
- To kill 100 stacks you'll need 100 traps, that's 500 mana,
- 5 enemy stacks and 5 Inquisitor stacks times 2 makes 15 kills, so you need 85 phantoms times 15 mana is 1.275 mana.

So there you have it: with only a measly 1.775 mana you can get to Trap level III in just one fight.

[TemjinGold]

Summons don't count.